OCR Text |
Show A SAD STORY. General Brisb'm, who visited the i :rasshopper regions of Nebraaka, re- utes heart-rending scenes which he utneseed among the suRering people ifeome localitit s. Some of them wtre ibsolutely in the neighborhood cf .tarvation. Near Lowell General irisbin called to see a poor family. V little girl who was keeping house !d him this story: "My lather ani mother are out hayii'g fur our neighbor. There are livechiklren of us. I am the oldest. We have a little Hour in the barrel. Father hnd a pig but he killed it and we eat it up long ago. Father says when the dour is all tut we will starve, but mother says God will take care of up. Our neighbor Mrs. Winters is as budotl'aa ourselves and Mr. Foster is worse oil". We have no shoes nor stockiogs. We have one dress apiece. Mother Ijns no shoes. Father and mother are out working to get six dollars to pay Mr. Austin. We owe himthnt much and father says it must be paid. We have no sugar, tea or cotlee, nor anything to et but Hour and we are very thankful for that. I know money when I see it. That is money; Billy come here and see- the money. I will take good eare ot it and give it to father w hen he comes home, lie: will bo very glad. I wish I hud: some clothing 1 would like to go to school. 1 went to school last summer sum-mer and learned to read. Ian ten years old. and my name is I.'zz'e Chamberlain.'' |