Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-06-12
REmIx1scexcE OF SID.
NET.

language can convey more than ;
fluent idea of the many excellen
cies Of that paradise for tramps
. Imagine the most salubrious eli.
mate in the world where nearly all
tropical fruits abound, the canine
ordinance is strictly enforced and
the vagrant act unknown. Origin
ally a British penal colony, its
first inhabitants were comprised
chiefly of that class SO graphically
described by one Of their numbers,
who left their country for their
country's good, and the defendants
of those men form, in many in
stances, the monied aristocracy Of
Australia of the present day, and
though wealth and education has
done much towards removing,it has
not been able to entirely eradi-
cate that Omorbid sympathy for
crime, which seems hereditary. In
many parts of those colonies at the
present day the surest passport a
stranger can have to the good will
of the settlers is the antagonism of
the civil authorities, the knowl-
edge that his liberty is endangered
no matter from what cause is Ger
tain to enlist the sympathy and aid
in-his behalf, and though, perhaps,
not actually criminal themselves,
that openhearted hospitality and
the dread Of being stigmatised as
informcrs, imbibed with their
earliest associations, renders them
valuable auxillaries to the outlaw.
An incident which occurred to my
self a few years ago affords strik-
ing example of the state Of society |
in the interior of Australia. I v
cling through sparcely settled POI
ton of Queensland. l called one
evening about shutdown at a
large cattle ranch, the owner Of
which, young widow of superior
education and address, was profuse
in her offers Of hospitality and in
vited me to remain over night, an
invitation which the lateness of the
hour and my ignorance Of the coun-
try rendered doubly acceptable,
and, having put my horses in the
field, l joined my hostess in the
parlor and spent most delightful
evening. Early the next morning
| went to the pasture for my ami
mails and with little difficulty found
my pack-horse. a miserable scrub,
but the more | looked the less | ;
could see Of his companion, valu-
sble English thoroughbred Re
to the house after several
hours fruitless searching / com
my loss to my hostess,
Who appeared greatly annoyed at
he circumntance, and at once dis {
PATCHED several COW boys to search i
or the missing animal. Some !
hing in her manner, though, S
reused my suspicious, and despite b
lcr assurance that the boys would i
Don find him. / started out sec n
nd time. and walking along on the !.
utside Of the fence looking for
racks and soon discovered unmis-
akable evidence that the fence had Y
cen removed and a horse taken y
ut during the night With little a,
if6culty was enabled to follow o,
or about three miles over open r
ountry, and then along a narrow Il
all leading through large belt Il,
scrub, SO thickly interlaced with A
ems as to be impenetrable except IL
4 the trail mentioned, which was re
bout five miles long and te1min- 4,
ed in a lonely prairie containing
'veral hundred acres of rich pas
ire land, completely fenced in by D;
lie surrounding scrub. There, ne
it'll about fifty others all short of
'bbled, was my horse. Catching pa
I'M [ returned to the ranch and f.
saddling up, preparatory
resuming my journey. My host
s and several Of her employees 70
lestioned me closely as to where I bl
und my horse and if I had seen es
~ others, which I of course de- m,
ed, saying 1 had no time to look tn
r any but my own. They re- an
ated their invitation Of the pre-
Gus evening; now [ was CON
need if they were determined to ID
cal my horse they could follow ia
? and take him, so adapting the II
Id policy Of trusting to their gen &C
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