Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-10-24

don Of propit.ous circumstances. As
matter of mere climatic predilection,
writes II. l.. Oswald In the Globe
Democrat, professional tramps would
probably prefer the almost perpetual
spring of Southern France, but the
thrifty citizens of that truck-farm Eden
have repressed vagrancy by a code of
bylaws that could never be enforced
upon the easy-going natives of repub-
llcan America.
In France, and. indeed, all over Cen
trail and Southern Europe, people live
In towns or villages, and the farm
steads that hear no chickens crow but
their own, as they express 1t In Ten
nessee, are known only In the Austrian
Alps and in the highlands of Norway.
The l0wland roads, from Havre to Mos
COW. are patrolled by gendarmes. or
mounted constables, apt to stop every
suspicious pedestrian and ask more
questions than an American tramp
would have to answer after an attempt
at highway robbery. Even the grum-
bling good wife who contrives to butter
another "handout" after satisfying half
. dozen similar demands In about an
many hours, is not given to cross-ex-
animation. The ups and downs OF her
own ancestors may have something to
do with that tolerance, as well as her
democratic principle of giving a sus-
pect the benefit Of every doubt, and
rather assist twenty fugitives from jus
tice than turn the bulldog upon one de-
serving applicant for charity. The
gold hunters who, a few months ago,
traversed the sandhills Of Western Aus
trai.a, reported that on a journey Of
1900 English miles they found only
three pools of drinkable water, one rain
a year being about the average Of that
disc0uraging climate. Drouths of that
sort are almost unknown on the CONT
nent Of Columbus. In East America.
ut least, perennial springs can be found
in every wooded hollow, and the entire
mountain system of the Allegheuies.
with all their spurs and qualifications,
abOunds In attractive camping grounds.
"Hang OUTS" as the knights Of the pike
call their bivouacs, are found near ev-
cry principal city of the Union-gen-
orally In some shady dell just beyond
he limit Of the corporation lines. Oc-
casional rainy spells do not damp the
spirits of the expert vagrant. He
knows weather sheds and Isolated
harms, and further south hundreds OF
abandoned homesteads, often with
snng, weather-proof buildings and
good orchards. One must have Travelled
In Georgia and the Carolinas to credit
the multitude Of these monuments of
eur North American migration mania.
"Gone West" Moved to the city"
says your guide, as you pass farm after
farm, with the fences down and the
Aower path covered with rank grass.
lots Of good apples In there" he often
adds. "but there Is no sale for them.
and the folks round here have more
than they can use themselves. 1t looks
Nike sin TO let all that fruit spoil"
The commonweaIer's Audacity.
Brother Commonwealth relieves the
community of such scruples. In wet
summers whole gang of his brethren
will establish their headquarters In a
desirable ruin, keeping. the tin can
oNhuS WIN dhe pfouuce VI teNpcnSiFe
raids and fuel from the pile OF moldine
FENCE rails. In stress of circumstances
q belated veteran Of the cold lunch
brigade will not hesitate to avail him
self of the temporary desertion Of q
comfortable dwelling honse, and Ken
lucky grass widow, on her return from
. few days visit to sick sister, was
horriflcd to find a 6-foot tramp in her