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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-5-19, Page 3IIiJT BoelkOltee of the Bush, I wee on some Government duty last year in New Sou* Wales, that took me into the local Post Offieeein the beak parka', at the Quechee° Poct Office, I had ca long chat with the son Oi the Postroistrees ; a fine yonng fellow, vellums a little over thirty. He was manager to a local sheep king, and rejoiced in the ettrions Christian name of Het. The following is his ecount c,sf the ciremestanees that led to hie beirigto reamed: I wits there certainly ; but I don't remem- ber inuch about it, I was told. I can vouela fertile truth a ia for she end him, too, often and often have told it to me, and ahem. They've told it apart, each by their two selyes, and they ofteu tell it together—,. she telling about him, making him out to beam been the hero, and he telling it all so that she was the hero—heroine, I should say. But I expect each of 'ern alwowe told it in a $e wine word, You see it wee th an epo lige, and port of -fixed itself in their enema 'attend whet happened after, fixed it firnie I've been manager on this station, up be- hind here, eight years; and I was "boy " here E pointing with his pipe stem to the ilooll eight years ; it schoolhere in Gun - dare° till I was feurteen ; so 1 euppote it must have been thirty-four years ago—near eneugh. The colony wasut settled near so much AS it is now. The coach from Sydney didn't reach Gundaroo not by throe days' ride; and the mailt3 was carried on horseback, once a week, the rest of the way. After the °oath road, for a bit—saytwerity miles—the track was good enough, and there • were stations' further than that; but by the mid of the first day's ride, you reached the last house or hut you were to see till you sighted Gun- daroo. . The first night the mail earner met up at tar, " Pad.dy'a Shanty," a sort of an inn ow the the young woman opened her eyes and her way, and Standard had to help her•and Wynig lost about as uncomfortably as it is track. The next morning he started—all sighed like ; and he kep' on giving her water steady the poor lass behind with the baby I possible to lie, so as to shelter the child. alone, mind you, with valuable mail bags— and epirit as she could take it till she could in her right arm and her left hand on his I Standard, who noticed everything, made a across as nasty a piece of bush as you'll find eel herself more comfortable. He didn't belt; mad she was looking and looking on I note of this; end thought he'd work on her world. It vas all ti -tree scrub. If You ed all her strength to come round; but he men. Except to beg Standard to stop a two maternal feelings most to get her to go on in the morning. in Australia, and I suppose *at says in the start talking to her then, knowing he want- both sides to see if she could see the know what that is You'll understand, put the baby back in her arms, and the minute and shout once or twice in case her I Never see any '? Oh, well, its scrub, that is mother in her Prompted her like to take husband and his churn were near, she never After he d fed "Lady" about hve o'clock, all little trees, with their leaves all on the a good long pull at the drink in the billy spoke. standard knew it must ao hopeless, he groomed her up in style, for, he used to • se he must have the horse that carried the top. All of 'em alike. Just tee" slender —so as the kid might get some in a while, and the further they got the more honelest ' 3', , . . and weak to beer a man's climbing up one you know. , it must get ; but he was a tender-hearted t 0 - " , "Royal Sheonad" as smart, as possible. to look round ; too far apart for you to After a bit she started to cry in a. low fellow, and he couldn't stand hearing the Later on, when he sew the woman after her swarm up two at once, arms and legs, you. sort of way, and then Standard, he set by -le,00r soul crying in a hopeless sort of way night's -rest in the fresh early.morning and know; and Yet too close for you to see sun her and cheered her up, and told her not to behind him and not do sometlaing to pleases bad got her to eat a bit of breakfast he 'WM or stars, night or day. That sort of scrub take on. He told her she was found; and ' her, But a."11 the way the baby lay there as ' ituoiktedleased to see how much better she is the cruelest ot all. If you know 3 our that all the worst of being lost was done ' peaceful and comfortable as we are now this , way, well and good; but if you once get with, and not to cry and so on. All the minute. 1 lEe d a great work, he said, to make her wrong, Lord help you 1 You're bushed, as timpoor fellow., tleoug.h be didn't hurry 1 When they got to the creek. it was nearly.' go without him, though she wasn't a bit afraid for herself. He had to say he sure as you're alive. Unless you chance on h 'h k he was looms time dreadfully dark and the woman was ;swaying in the , a track, or come across a camp, you may lie shouldn't be so far behind, and swear he down and. give it up. .As long as your water baxrd holds out —so'll you. After that, you may give yourself a day or two to die in ; perhaps another two days, if you're a tough sort. Your bones 'II be there years after. Well, that's what he had to ride through for hours and hours, the second day ; and at night he ought to be about through it, if he kep' the track, and made out to reach the open again. Then the track Oa ElCrOSS a fern gully, with a creek mind you,) they stopped to chauge her on 1 mg straight out of the saddle, rom a g No, he was just said, there they waa in•front of t e , night. " hen he had an eighty -mile ride about a bit to stretch their legs, the two 'thinking of a plan for the next day. When whines and to save bother or to give pleas - saddle, and that she must take 'em straight 1 at the . la ; and there he camped for the to the other horse, and allow 'em to stand and want of fooel and water. * the next 'day, straight through the Blue•gum men. The fools never bitched the horses to they got to the creek he sat the woman to the ofEce and not let any one but the ure the parent yielded and the child scores forest in Gundaroo. anything! All on a sudden a snake slid down, and hobbles "Lady," and gives her I told her about sending the two parties back people of the office touch them. Then he . . . the first opportunity. A Warden m Sing one victory as a preparation for another on was a splendid fellow. Standard his name feet. She screamed out, and that startled last till he could see to her when she was he saw her sitting so easily in the saddle, He said—as Sing sometimes says: "I never hear a son refuse to obey his father or mother, but The chap that rode with the mails then across the track, right 'under tlae woman's mouth a sponge out and a bit of a rub, to 1 to meet him and her 'husband. rooked able to do it. He wanted to give I say in my heart that son is on leis way to purposes. One says one ng d the was. Too heavy edraps for a postman, as the horses. Off they went—bolted clean cool. Then he got some sticks and dry 1 and the baby lying in her lap, tied to her that -work in those 'days. It wanted a fel- they got with them --water, matches, the hot season hereabout) together for a, fire, 1 by her shawl, and. her right arm free for the istol, if need be, his spirit rose a bit—she the State Prison." Then how often father and mother are continually eddying at cross we understand 'em but just the man for into the scrub, carrying every blessed thing grass (no fear of the wood being wet in a I ' b e over it Then he hunted in his kit for a ,..As Mr. Dryden, M.P.P., sal , a 1 low fedi of pluck as strong as a horse, and billy and everything. Her husband and his and as soon as it burns tid puts the billy her his mil ldgbut the says no she other the reverse and in the midst of the ' less confusion the child rules and has near home is preferable to one three thou- sand miles away, but sight meet not be lost eceiple of hours, perhape, when he saw eomething on the track like a dead yerson Or horses.; lie had bie hand. ola hie petal ae he tretted Op to it, he rabid, thinleino of the made when he saw it waen't a horse, or a man, 'but a tall slip of a young woman, dead, or perhaps only dying, laid on the gromed with her back,propped p,geinet a tree, and a poor little babyclinging to her breast. "Lod of all 1" nantt,ered Standerd, as he jumped off Ledy's back and stood over the woman. He raised her as tenderly alined as, she would have done her owu child. The get duiok to Glinderoo, You could tell 'em to send Out a search party; and besides, meant; your little ,ene can't manage another niffht in the bneh.' Sir," she sae's. She was gentlet docile thing, and eee.he waseight; and then she semi to him, helpless and grateful like ; "Could we ride behind yeu, Sir t" Poor Standard 1 Ho felt stumped. He didn't know whet to say. He /oohed at the talt youttg woman and the baby, aad thou at himself and the horeealreedy well 'weight- ed with his camping kit end the maile. It little one, he usedto say, etarmd crying—a wasn'e post:able and he knew M. there kind of wail—and opened its eyes in that was ten miles or so, to be done that night, stort of way that you know it hadn't long before they got to the creels. It was late stopped crying, but just wolce up, and began now, nearly some It wodd be dark as again where it had loft MT. I've two kincle pitch in the scrule before they , go e there, of Ply own now, and I know—not that even if "Lady" could onty all god keg ao they've ever had to lie alongside it IrlOthk far as thet ; but as to carrytug them all as good as dead and try to get fed and to Gundaroo, eighty miles further -on— he warmed at a breast as Sold as that poor knew fobe couldn't do it. Besides, nothing soul's. Thank God, no 1 But for ell that, was allowed to claws the mails. He would well fed kids can cry, and cry pitiful, too; be late as it WAS, for the it o he's made. It SO I know how he silent to say this puttee- must be a couplet best, h 0 days, a es hofore e behind the saddle, and the rest of the tin of lar kid cried. get there, carrying all that extra weight milk and the bread (damper, of coulee, you know), and the tinned meat. W omen needed Standard hadn't no need, to tether Lady So Standard stood for a me/nate or two t k h r to aloe. ;side the wee swat a and thoueht it ail over, while he watched a deal of feeding, esPeoiallY when theY'd a baby to feed too he thought. And she Are he etretelied hinseelf oo"Wroseuesisseseeesesemototesselattt Wed ; mot I wee aeleep, with his bead on the man bags, ono vece..e tee ea am now by' title Are. eut whet he'd dcetded to do. The women e Weight op to the Post 'Office, and child intuit get to Ciumlaroo, veld before sod otte he chaps lifts her down ; aesi heS the next night, too ; most the addle, wouldn't ett one on 'em touth aid weal ba, "Lady" equal carry them well enoegh, but but amp thent off herself, mad KIM steed - elle couldn't carry Idea as well. Very well ; ing on the dooretep with tee ie her arme, then he'd stay behind and wallt. "Lady" and tine mails at her feet; "If you pleacie, would go along the track through the forest gentlemen, I've broeght in the maile. The alone, he knew, and if only the girl would gentleman lent me he; home. I was have the pluck to trust herself to the mare and will you send a horse to meet him. Be's mid just sit still and hold the mints they'd walkino froin the fern gully, .And 'Lady' all get to caunda,roo safe v.a a church. She is to be Been to, please," And then she eould then deliver up the bags at the Poet drops 'down on the seeps pretty well eigh Office and tell them to send out a search done. party to look after her huthand and his The olzape set to and cheered her—cheer churn and it horse to meet him, after cheer, till mother was drawn in out of He knew he was Ferro to get into trouble the noise by the Postmaster's wife, who with the authorities for riskiug it, especial- told'em they ought to know better than make ty if it failed; and he knew, too, that it was e lady eo ehemed-facted, to tired as she wee, no furs to be left to walk theought the foreet too, The ola lady was cmite cm astonished in riding boots and breeches and with noth as any of them, for all she said to the ehalw ing but a few biscuite and a pistol. The water to hold their noise awl quite proud to Lave barr'l he meant to fill and fix in its place the first hearing of it all from mother, as she put her and me to bed in her own room. Well, the end of it was, Sea,ndard he was met right enceigh ond brought in the next afternoon. But they never found my poor father and his ebum—not till months atter, and then it was bones they found. Mother, the staid on and helped the Postmistress ae Gundaroo, who was getting duds. So theta how it woman brought her Ma- jesty's loath into Gundaroo, and that's why I'm celled Het. Don't see why?. Oh 1 I forgot to say that wheu I was christened, a month or so after, neotheitcalle'd me after Standard, as he had saved us both. Didn't I tell you his name was Hector ?---Het, for short. Ret Standard he was --1'm Ret Bannerman; but mother, she is Mrs. Het Standard new, Postmistrees of undue°. I dessay you guessed as much. reasonable beast ; but he put her }italic the girl (for she was no more) straighten over a tree branch, for all that. Certainty herself and the child and struggle to stand. is worth a deal of faith, when it's about Seeing her stagger a bit called him to him - being left aloe° in a tatree scrub, without self, and. he thinks az he gave her his hand ed to like to leave him behind, and yet he your home and kit. to steady her, " Hang her Majesty's mail knew it couldn't be done under a couple of Tben he laid the little one on its. mother's regulations 1 take her somehow 1" days, or more likely four if they tried to go shawl and. set to work to bring the mother So he gets his blanket out of his kit and altogether. Though he said, Hang her tow He'd seen men exhausted, and laid straps it behind the saddle, veld then he Majesty's mails 1" be daren't delay 'ern so down to die from thirst and fatigue conie took and laid the baby on the tree root, long, for ell thee. " Hanging" wouldn't round, but he wasn't sure, he said, if a while he swung the woman on the blanket , hurt 'em, or hira either; but delaying 'ern woman had to be done for the same as it man behind the saddle. Then he handed her hp would be the very devil for them, and him, —he was a single chap then. But he set to the child and got carefully into the saddle too 1 . and got a little Water first, and then water himself, leaving them all the room he could, I As soon as it was light he set to work sop - with a dash of braudY in it, betteeen her she used to say. " Lady " looked round arating the things he was going to keep from blue lips, and rubbed her forehead and hands bit doubtful of the extra weight and the those he was itoing to send on with the well, and laid her SO as the biood---once the dangling petticoats on one side, but started I "Rowel She -mail," as hel called her in joke spirit had started it again—could flow a bit right enough when Standard told her it had teatime:a He looked at the two sleeping quicker to her brain. A bushman has to be got tO be done. the other side of the fire under the open mabit of a doctor, you kuosv. Then the baby Thete wasn t much said on the ride. It sky. The kid was comfortable enough, d h 1 b givinga loud shriek and was roimh stepping, and "Lady" 'd to pick cradled in soft arms; but the mother was must take one of the pieta's. Ilia chief fear wee she'd be too soft -heart. Reoiproeity in Fern Produce. Canada's agricultural interests are fitSD And No sane roan will dispute the fact that feremoet, end yet they are by no ineene first in the councils of the country. Looking et • our representativee it would rather seem that we were a eatioa of profeeelenal men. We, therefore, rejoice at any movement hav- ieg for it e ebjecte the edvancerneet of the welfare of our farming commueity. Such, we take it, is the ergettization of the Cen- tral Farmers' Institute in Termite lo,et week, 'Pie gatherino, while large and iaduential, was ecarcely so thoroughly repreSelitatiVe aS it might have beeta hed fa:tiler notice been given of its holding. However, Mr. Valancey It, Fuller, of Oalelancits Stook Farm, who was at the head, of the agar, reelly did weeders in a sheet thee. ln there days little or nothing can be done without orgemzetion. At ORS time it ap- peared as if the (rangers Were going to prove very beneficial, but just tee SOOU a8 they went into trading their usefulness began to decline. Their interests ceme into conflict with others which, while not so large as those of the farmers, yet have to be consider- ed. ft is the one great fault of all men that they are apt to think their own particular coucerns are the beginning and end of every - thine. Whatever steps a large and power- ful dims like the farmers take should always be well weighed. The lumbering, mining, man- ufacturing, commercial, end trading interests are all parts of the body politic and mint be considered in any action that is calculated to benefit the country. Just as the stoinach and the head can no more live and thrive without each other, so can the farmer no more make headway without the aid of the other great intereste that add to the wealth and iudustry of the country. Mr. Fuller f3aid it Was felt that the markets of the world which the farmer had had in the past for his cereals were diminishing, • and that if the farrnere. did. not desire to retrograde it was necessary for them to change their mode of farming, and thus increase the production from a perticulat area of soil, produce abet- ter article and obtain a higher price. We are not going to dispute Mr. Fuller's posi- tion, but still we think if he had said the MeanS of supply were increasing instead of the markets diminishing he would have been nearer the mark. The mallets are larger than ever they were, but there are more producing channels. Each new section. of country that is opened up teems a greater wheat area, and the competition becomes> keener. The question there involved is how can - we best put our farmers on a level with those of other communities and secure 1 or- ethem a remunerative market for their pro- ducts. Would a commercial union with the and would hardly make the creek to camp 1, saddle, though she'd sat straight enough at could walk pretty nearly as fast as . United States effect this? It would un - by before nightfall. Thinking of that he first. Noticing this, Standard says, sudden "Lady" 'd go, mid so on. He showed her I these youthfulreprobates show in their every doubtedly throw open markets to our suddenly remembered the woman had got !ler : " MiSSUB, have you ever rode alone?" 4 how to fire the pistol, and told her -to let . people that they do not now enjoy, to go too, or be left to die where she was. I She gives it sort of start, and sits up and "Lady" choose the way if she felt doubtful aot and confess in thew every word that the het could we successfully compete Standard -was wondering whet the deuce he says t " Oh, yes I've rode a great dealspit of obedience to Parental authority is with those that now supply them! would do with her, when she started and 'when I was a gall; but I'm that tired now about the track among the gum trees. entirely wanting in them. And who ifi Possibly we could, but other intereste would told him how she came there. It seemed 1 and so weak that I can't sit up." She Of course, he cheered her up all he could, .chielly to blame for such it state of things? have to be sacrificed, and would then the she was the wife of the storekeeper, Banner- , thought he was wondering at her leaning bthaobuygghof eaelloinneg ablladthauttlwetatiny.g aywooutnsaeen,atnhdert The father or the in niany so-called respectable homes is there other or both. In how country at large be benefitted thereby? man, that the boas "Paddy's Shanty" had 1 against him so heavy. But that 'wasn't were bushrangers to be feared then. if, not the first effort made to enforce obedience This is a great point to be considered. We spoken of, and she says, when they had got awhat Standard was thinking. He knew was afraid to say much abeut taking care of upon the children. The father or mother confess at the outset that the bogey of dis- art waythrough the scrub (two days before ' himself wb,at it was to sway, nearly to fall- loyalty that some people appear disposed to Where Criminals Come From. Isn't it often said that an ounce of ,preven- tion is better than a pound of cure? Nothing could be More in accordance with fact. The misery is that the ounce of prevention is often forgotten or neglected and the pound of cure has consequently to be applied. As tar as crime is concerned this is specially true. In trying to cure the crime men too often don't go to the root and consequently but very poorly succeed in their effort. Where iscrime very, generally beginning? hi the family and before thelittle one is out of the nurse's arms. The Secretary of the Prison Association of New York in a late pap r emphasizes this strongly, an says that all his experience with young criminals leads him to the conclusion that the chief source of crime is bed family discipline. The eland is not trained up in the way he ehould go and the consequences are de- plorable. A gteat many crithinals come frona what are called the better classes, and • the mails for fear of frightening her. He orders, the child remonstrates, Oh, Pa 1 set up has no terror for vs. We are Cana - Oh Ma! And then there tere tears or dians first, last, and all the time, and what- ever couree will benefit our country we are prepared to advocate, irrespective of its ef- fect outside. We are disposed to think with Mr. Coeh- rs.ne, of Kilsyth, that if Great Britain would give us commercial union in food sup- plies there would. be no trouble with the manufacturer ; for our exports to Great Britain exceed those to the United States. veith all his wits about him. Besides the chum tore at -mer em, dangers of the track, and creeks to ford, and stop where shelves. She sat there all tin of milk he'd got—not to put into his . and the heat, and the snakes at night, there alone, and there she'd set 1 First, wait- tea, but to use for butter! He thought it was the loneliness. That one fellow, all ing patient, and then a little frightened and would be just the thing for the woman see - alone ' that great wild district, riding nervous es the time went on. Then when ing she'd to nurse the child. She h'ad a through et hours in the perfect stillness it ot dark and into the night, ae:11 they whole pannikin full of warm railk—did. her iiallii, under th sky. No chance of seeing a soul, and probably not wanting to neither, as things was then. If anyone did just happen to come across the mail carriers in those slays, it wasn't generally for no good. He used to say : "When a man's got her Majesty's ptedoes mail bags, with her oevn red seals on 'em, in front of the saddle, and only the usual number of hands for pistols, and reins, and all, he don't care much if he don't see no one all the ride through." Ho wasn't one to boast, wasn't Standard; but he had once to defend the mails, with three to 01113 against him, and tried for man- slaughter, too, for the way he done it, and acquitted, and carried out of the court on the chaps' shoulders. They tell that tale geidttiere in Gundaroo. The time I'm telling you. of was in the hot season. The ground was all cracked and dry. There hadn't been a drop of rain for months and months, and lots of the creeks were empty. At Gundaroo it had been very bad, and the district round was terrible in want of water. Un the Saturday after New Year's day, when Standard left "Paddy's Shanty," it was a hot wind, awful to ride in. They thought rain was coming, though. The hoes of the shanty told Standard, as he fixed np his water band behind him on He didn't quite see what she meant. But all its own way. Wherever there is not of the fact that the United States itself has wouldn't home it. She'd be safer without. when it was all over— but there, if I tell instant enquestioning obedience on the part a surplus of products to dispose of, while you the story that way you'll know how it of childrea then there are being sown WI ft ..Ireat Britain cannot grow enough to meet ended tooeeds of crune and heart -break to be reape her own requirements. However, any con - didn't come back; and she tells how she a power of good; and e got her 50 , , some day. cession in this direction from Great Britain couldn't speak, and they never come. By feel better for washing her face and hands track into Gundaroo. Ah 11 see child was crying for drink alujeshe'd nothing went off to see to "Lady," and before he was; and I'm the baby for it. Then she walked on, hoping to get went he put his comb and a bit of latticing She said why she wouldn't to see over the trees, and shouting till she tea, he gave her a towel and told her she'd and by she got thirsty and faint, and the and that the creek was safe to do it in. He You now Yes, it was inY stood there, not daring to move, but trying eat a bit of sopped bread, and bail his own some water; and then she said, the trees glass lie.carried where she could see 'em and badge was for the same teemed as she bun . seemed all to wave about and dosein on her take them if she liked. He was always a her shawl over the mail bags as sIT all. Mother, she rode straight long the Well, there ain't much mote to tell after mother; at 00 she ton ui those families only which are called ! wear the ingepretty near home?, fneoataMn.yesooffotuhrerfeadolloTintgeersciription as coin. of this New York official s valuable paper. ing of crime beginnings and crime It would be worth while to give the whole "I have been speak. eign nations do not possess. We must, proportions: any of the wedded to they extreme free trade -views to raven. 11 therefore, look out and clothe beat we can. If give any advantage to her colonies that for is out of the queation. Her people are too Great Britain cannot or will not help us we must help ourselves. h ted and must bit of a dandy. But he didn't say nothing was net of Standard's sight. o one, she -n as t" respectable. A very large under ln order that our readers may the better thought, would think a woman and child embezzlers, come ota fr such families. There is a ers, forgers and many of our thieves , we army.' quo eresolution. h th te the adopted stead the view of last week's meeting s the saddle, that e. storekeeper and his wife B have been ina sort of sleep or swoon, rnixed, to her about the comb and glass because, U1 Standard found her. being a bachelor, ot course he felt delicate worth robbing. • er portion from this class that Dement what That in the element of this institute a re - She says to Standard "They must be about suggesting as her hair was hanging ' She left hint just at the beginning of the are knosvn as crimes of pession. For these, , move,' of all restrictions on trade between "Poor fellows," said Standard. Ile knew Standard used to say it was prettiest so, to bit to see how she carried her, and then he too, there is great blame to be put upon the 1 the Dominion. of Canada and the United killed," and cries awfully. all down er back in two long, fair plaits. forest. he says he vealked by the horse a . parents than often is put there. Many a States is desirable either by reciprocity treaty that being "killed" would be pleasant to i his mind, but he thought she'd feel vexed if let her start off at a gentle canter. He used passionate child rules the household. The or otherwise assmay be agreed upon bythe dying of thirst, as they most likely would she kxiew ba noticed. So bit just put the te say he never felt so dead lonely as when little baby on its mother's kuee goes into a 1 do once they got lost there. But he tried bit of glass handy and took himself off. the brave young creature turned round and passion beca,use its dinner m withheld from Governments of the respective countries ; to comfort her, and to please her lie shouts When he comeback, he says, he found the waved her hand and says, "Good-bye, and him or some toy denied Ifirn. 1Ie sffrieles that the offieers end Executive f again. Though, as he said, after two days, baby asleep, and smoothed and tidied some. God bless you for saving his life 1"—meaning and strikes his poor mother, and the the institute are hereby authorized to take and. she and the baby shouting all they ,how, and the woman as neat as a pin— me in her arms—and then was hid from him mother says: 'Poor little boy, poor little such action la the piPinises as shall beet•pro- could most of the time, and they not come women are so clever at straightening them- in e . Robbie, he has such a pasnonate mature— imnettebetehvoeoubtjoecf tfaoifrthriseeirpers000liattyiob%balgiolutnhaatt. back it weren't likely they were within hail selves—and the pannikin and that washed Well, to Out a long story short, mother he can't be crossed,' and yields to him. She 1 tamable, this institute memorialize the Do- noW j He made her understand this at last. up, and the fite raked thgetber. The woman and me rode into Gundereo at 9 o'eleek— I ought to spank him, spank him hard, for minion Government to suggestto the Govern - 1 1 W to comfort her, you understand. Then he she had it in a pocket, she says—sewing up place turns out to see who it was. A woman his passion has cooled. The child, though Says he, "Very likely they's got to camp," sat there with herneedle book on her knee— two and a half hours after time. All the i being in it passion and give him nothing till mmat of Great Britain the expedience of en - started to say how was they and the baby a tear in her frock, where it had caught in riding along with a baby! They were alt' he be so young that he cannot !yeah, if he totorloinngiesinintoreags,cr°dIntmeefloseoidal supplyawnicitiolf him"- to get out of this? She didn't want to move one of the saddle buckles. Standard didn't so took up with the young woman (my be old enough to lift his fist and strike a , posing it protective tariff against all foreign from where she was, poor woman in oase say nothing much that night, but he had mother was a very personable -young womanA couuti ies. her husband should come back, bu't Stand- made up his mind, and. after making a shel- they never noticed. she waa on c Lad ' ------Y, a lesson of repression taught it The mother 1 There is nothing very terrible or 1 coda - blow, deserves punishment, needs to have and baby laicl down under it one side of the Standard's mare u -ell enough. ard says to her: "You ean't do your hus- though there must have been lots as knew wlw negleets this inereases the chances of tionary iu the resolution. We had recipro- tor of branches and fern and seen the mother band no good by stooping here, and if you iS older, there are better disciplinary 1 should not have it again, but we corde.ss we her son going to the gallows. When the city before and there is no .reason why we and child, and his chum, had started the day -- before for a station where they'd got a berth. They had to follow the Gundaroo track a bit, and then strike across the bush to the station. "it isn't far they've to go," he said, but th're new chnins, and the woman looked a bit delicate, as well as having a young baby to carry." " They've only two horses then," says Standard, looking along the track, "unless the third horse flew." "No," says the boss; "the woman rode behind one of the men, turn and turn about. A fine young woman she was, too." "It's to be hoped the chaps hadn't much else ta, carry, then," saws Standard. "1 Ildn't carry another couple of pounds— Iee,s lek alone it woman and baby—on 'Lady,' wit Out knocklug her up." a Well, you ain't got to," says the boss; and laughs as he watches Standard put " Lady " into a steady canter along the track, whore the tvvo sets of hoof marks showed in the sand. "Lady" was a fine blaok mote. Very swift, but just a, thought too light for Standard and the bags, some said. He Wouldn't allow it, He said: "She reach- es, Gundaroo ast froth as need be on Monday night, and by the time she has to start on Thursday, shots wild to be on the road." Ile only traveled once a fortnight on her. The other week he road a roma a bigger brute, but not half so sensible and ltindlike fa as " Lady.", She wag at horn lady—Stand- ard used to say. Her mothev was "Dude caw," whereas the roan was the see of Milk- maid, although he was called Emperor. She could have gone the whole weer alone, if need be, he said ; she was so trustworthy. Well, he used to tell it how he rode through that Satre day in the ti -tree scrub, thinking of the pi, by, on in front, in wheee traeks ho was galloping. It was just near the end of the scrub, he noticed, where they left off, and started an a scarcely vhi- ble track to the station away to the lefts fifty mike or so. Ile need to say he muot have ridden A rihit,or frotn, the eitv (mho has been mieting gazte aCt the morning); Pi6p?tstati ilast "Yon' neve, A cow rt T1111 NEXT VIELD, 00111,1.31 n01SS." " Dru rtrr A NYT1111,10 T1TAT Tlinn ?" Tics owakruu eobrixo IrItIS WAY C 1T11 A ptuaithments than spanking; butwhen a child r aches such an age that they are use- ful it may be too late ; his temper may bave grovvn into a dominating force in his char- acter that cannot be eradicated. Mothers • have no bopes of Its immechaie attammen on an equitable basis. The United States were never known to give anything away and if the people of that country once bee come possessed of the idea that reciprocity temper and shrieks a great deal, that it I annexation time will be small chalice of se - sometimes say, when a cluld shows a Vilit . is going th benefit Canada without hastening ef our farmers are to benefit by would endanger his life to punish him ; per- li owing it. gaining an entrance into their markete it fhuatpusresoif, ybuottt ledoonnesttiplluimiisoiriebferondanmgearnyhias • stands to reason some of their ownprodnooro [ must suffer, for if one meets the demand there gallows tragedy has had its beginning on the mother's lap." All which is very true and 1 can be no room for the other except by dis- thousands, t It might be mentioned that at a largely placing. the first. very much needing to be considered by attend.ed meeting of manufacturers on Wed - Well last, reeolutions were carried oppos- Well Able to Hump Itself-.ing commercial union, reciprocity or the re - About thirty years ago the United States rnoval of the duty on American manufao- Congress appropriated 130,000 far the pur- I tures coming into Canada. It was argued pose of experimenting upon the introduction that the throwing open of a market admit - of the catnel into this...country as a beast of :, ting fifty or sixty million more consumers `harden. Without wishing to appear unduly i would be like a, two-eged FAword and cut both hasty in willing attention to this matter, we ways. Iu other words, that while it brought must say that it does seem as if sufficient , in consumers it would also bring in pro- tium had elapsed to justify an inquiry 1 &leers and °competitors who would swamp whether or not the committee charged with Cenadien industriea.—Boreed and Pnein, the eependiture of that money is ready to re - 1 port. It must be obvious th everybody that for the Church of the experimenn t has not been A large tract of land has been secured fairly tried. If ,e, A m. the camel werebrought to America end given II n'lleangriaZt on:deOneileadajeanuiand society, and a art equal chance with other quadri-mods its • • large party of emigrants are now on the way from Eriglanct to settle there. One a th6 most important requisites of — home -life, and one perhaps moat frequently overlooked, is the intimacy that should exist between the pm ent end the child. This is indeed the foundation on svhich all good iu- A Clog° Student. fhtences may be most securely laid. The Little Det---" What does Mr. Nicefeliew eontrol which is obtained through fear, or to go yonr house so often for I" Intuit4 or bore authority, lam not abiding in Little Dick—"Fie events to marry Nell." it. As soon as the fear is oor ritgrown the or"Is they engaged ?" force removed, its power will pass away. Brit the inthienee which le at work where No. "Dia he may he wanted to marry her 1" real sympathy and friendship emit between parents and children will abide long atter "then floW do yen know he deer! r, the reletion itself is severed, and will water " Oh 1 Ile acts so like a fool." as it powerful fattier into the whole life. patiece n, docility and proverlawl iflisposition to hump itself when it has it job of work on Weld would soon make it a popular domestic animal,—Chieago Tribune,