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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
The Cattle King From the Bush
Wants to See What Amer
lea Looks Like

thing, my wife has relatives in Cali4
fornia and | want TO go there and
live for bit. ! want to see thu
cattle ranches and what's best I'd
be done. America must be a won-
derful country, and l can't under
stand why I've never been there
Been too busy, as matter Of fact
Mr.. Kidman was asked what he
thought Of the future Of the cattle
trade between Australia and Amer.
lea. He could not see much pros.
pect of development for several
years.
"Australa is not producing
enough beef to permit of any bust.
ness with America. Europe, now
that the war is over and the indus.
try has been held up for over four
years, will want all the cattle We
can send. England will want meat,
and so will France and Belgium and
the rest. The number of cattle is
not increasing in Australia, and the
droughts have seriously interfered
with production and involved heavy
losses. The march of closer settle.
mcnt has rushed the cattle men
further into the interior. I have
never done any business direct with
America. but 7 have sold extensive+
~ to a company which has wide res
latlons with that country
"You will find it hard to keep
your determination to retire and be
lazy after your fong years in thu
saddle was closing remark to
the owner of the worlds biggest cat
tie ranches. who talks Of few thou.
sand acres as a 'little block" In
South Australia he has one prop
erty which embraces 1923 square
miles and others in Queensland
ranging from 4,oo0-odd up to 5000
or 1000 square miles.
well" remarked Kidman, deci.
sively, 1--WE made up my mind I'd
have a spell, and I'm turning some
Of my stations into companies for
that purposes. They'll run much
easier. The cattle business is dit,
ferent proposition from what it was,
We can sell our beasts every year,
from 100 to 10000 or 10000, to thu
meat works. l think things will be
all right when leave, but I'm go-
ing for this trip to America, any.
how"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
Sidney Kidman Can Only Ap-
proximate His Thousands of
Head of Cattle and Horses

crowded cities into the sleeping re-
sources Of Central Australia. He
reckoned he could conquer the un-
tanned wilderness, and packed up and
went out and tackled it.
| don't believe Kidman went to
school. If he did he was not long
enough there to remember it, and
certainly what he got left him with
no marked educational equipment.
He was fashioned in the rough and
has not had time to sit down and try
TO take the ragged edges off. The
artistic finish of a college or a uni
verslty might even have interfered
with his sound, rugged Judgment.
de is to-day what he is because of
What he has always becn-just a
plain man Of the bush, heroically ad-
venturous, undaunted by obstacles
which have crippled and killed 9TH
ers who have gone out and chal-
lenged adversely in her own domain.
careless in pretty we'll everything
but his business, caring not a flick
OF bullock's tail for style or lam
guage or dress.
A millionaire to-day. Kidman re-
mains the bushman, looks it and
cannot possibly get himself out of
the habit of looking it. He is not the
cattle king when he is in the CITY.
but an impatient, restless citizen
who wants elbow room, the unfenced
country and the clear sky. 1t is out
in the loneliness of Australians spa
cious center, with nothing to shut
off the view and plenty of space to
galop in, where romance mixes with
business. that Sidney Kidman reigns
and understands. His throne is the
saddle, his careless clothes the robes
of Office, and the subjects of his
empire walk on four legs and link
horizon to horizon and sunrise to
sunset.
His life story is a book Of ex-
traordinary achievement. Let him
tell it himself-in part-from the
day he left home and struck north
into q strange land.
His First Job
81 laid out 81 los on a horse
and hit out toward New South
Wales. Ny first job was at the
famous Barrier Broken Hill, of
mining eminence) as cowboy, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

sit at your table. like one Of your
children?"
These words astonishcd the blond
Lady. She answered.:
"All the little children Of this I'M
happy country are my children"
The little boy looked at her, al
ways with the same piercing eyes.
why are you so sad, madame?"
Because I am thinking Of all the
little children who have persisted in
the war, of those whose mothers
have been massacred, Of those whose
fathers will never come back from
the battles along the User"
Don't talk to me like that,
madame said the child. "You will
make me cry"
The blond Lady looked off into the
distance.
"If | could help it not u e.lgle
child in this country would ever cry
And I do all that CANAL that |
can
who are you, then, madame?"
Z My little boy, I am simply d lady
who loves the poor and the unfortu
nate and who suffers at seeing them
suffer"
The child raised his little finger
and said, with a mysterious air:
so was right in coming to your
house. But aren't you something
else besides what you say you are"
I'm the bottom of my heart | am
nothing else" answered the blond
Lady.
"Then," said the child, fixing on
her his wide-open eyes, which seemed
to read the universe, "why do the
officers downstairs, all covered with
stars, call you 'Majesty'?'
The blond Lady blushed and said,
With gentle smile:
TO the little children of my king
dom | wish to be only mother. To-
morrow they will take you to a
warm house where I care for them
as if they were my own"
"To-morrow, said the boy, 81
shall not be here. | shall go back
tc the place l came from"
The blond Lady trembled a little.
She felt some influence at work In
her presence which she couldn't un-
derstand. The child got up from the
table. His shabby clothes had turned
to silk and gold. His lips uttered
phrases which she didn't compre-
bend. She caught only the single
word "peace."
"What are you saying, little boy?"
she asked, apdously.
"I was repeating" he answered,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

must be told here. The great silver
mines Of Broken Hill were "berin-
ming to move along" as the cattle
king puts it, when he was travelling
cattle around those wide, drought
held areas. Soon after the seasons
began to improve Sidney Kidman
went to one station and bought 900
cows and bullocks, all the owners
could muster out of former 10000
head. He met man who was sink
ing tank at spot close to where
the famous Barrier is now located,
Kidman told the sequel:
~ gave Jim Poole ten Of the culls
of my mob for a fourteenth share
in Broken Hill Those culls were
worth about SO shillings. Later on.
when I was going to Broken Hill in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
4 Rough Road to Riches

THAT was bit Of money for me
in those days" he said, rehectively
Il went on buying horses and sell
ing them. But that business came
to a stop eventually, and when
found there was nothing doing in
dealing in horses I got mail con-
tracts. Before I put my team in
the coach, however. fellow agreed
to take over my contract and give
me $500. l took it. The firm that
got the job made $4,000 year. /
went cattle dealing again, lost 800
on mob, had another try and lost
500 more.
Things we're getting pretty Sc
rlous. There was drought out in
the northwestern country at this
time, and I got hold of fifty tons
of chaff at $40 a ton. I held it. !
was away for about three months,
and when l returned again I sold it
for $50 ton. made good deal
in oats, too, SO I was getting back
some of my cattle losses"
What Mr.. Kidman calls now a
little romance" but at the time
was a tragic bit of bad Judgment,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

7 WASN'T the chime Of the
church bells, ringing for mid
night mass, which they heard
that evening in the Plain of
Flanders. 1t was the humming OF /
. an unknown airplane.
The blond Lady, dwelling in a
white farmhouse in the midst Of the
plain, was disquieted and said to the
Great Soldier, her husband:
Listen. Isn't that an enemy
MOTOR"
Il don't recognize that motor"
answered the Great Soldier.
Then it seemed as if the machine
landed somewhere in the fields.
There was silence again, broken at
intervals by the booming Of cannon,
muffled in the fog But presently
they heard voices below. The officers
on duty were talking and laughing.
The blond Lady listened. Then she
murmured:
II hear a child"
She was curious to know what
was going on. An officer of the guard
appeared and bowed before the
blond Lady. He explained that they
had below q pretty little Flemish
boy, dressed in rags, who kept re-
peating:
II want to see the Lady I want
10 see the Lady,"
II want to see him, too" the
blond Lady cried.
She gave orders to send the boy
upstairs. He entered the room. His
little feet showed through his torn
and muddy shoes. He wore pima
fore. with blue squares, such as
French and Flemish peasant women
Put on their children.
He stood erect before the blond
Lady, his yellow curls flowing. his
cheeks round and rosy and his keen
eyes looking straight ahead.
She asked him dozen questions:
where do you come from? Where
is your mamma? Who brought you
here? What is your name"
But the boy didn't answer them.
He merely said:
1.-THE war frightened me. SO |
came to you"
The blond Lady felt her heart
sws1l With compassion. She bent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

Queen, who concealed your rank
from me in order to draw nearer to
me in my childishness, who gave me
bread with all your heart-I see that
you understand the sermon Of my
humble infancy.'
The blond Lady tried to say:
my people and their allies are on
the side Of right. They are people
of good will
The Child moved softly toward
one of the easements of the white
hall. His clothes were like a mirror
rejecting the rays Of the sun. His
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

"a song which my mother told me
the angels sang over my cradle
when | was born.'
The Lady yelled her face with her
hands, and asked, tremblingly:
"Who are you, them
II am the Child whom Christmas
gave to men long ago, OH a night
like this. l am Simplicity and Love.
| am the Lesson of Humanity which,
each Christmas Eve, come back to
preach to the world and which the
world doesn't understand. You,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
YUer

Good Will. The real peace will CONS
to the nations in which each citizen
Will have wished it, not for his own
good, but for his country's good"
The Lady listened, with closed
eyes, TO the words Of the mysterious
Child. When her lids opened no had
vanished. She lifted the muslin cur
tain to look out into the blue depths
of the night. But she saw only
big golden airplane, with iris wings,
which mounted toward the skies.
making what sounded like celestial
music.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

eyes We're as deep as the skies. He
said:
The true peace, the peace which
you desire, will be the recompense
of the peoples Of the best will-of
the strongest, the most intlexible, the
most invincible, the most unalter-
able will, the will which seeks
neither its own advantage nor
its own welfare nor any personal
interest whatever, but which CON
sents to all abnegations, to all i'm
violations, to ali sacrifices. That
is the Perfect Will That is the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

got 10 shillings a week. l got the
sack for asking for more wages
after year or two at the job. and
the next work | tackled was among
the cattle, earning 81 week. Some
months later had saved up enough
to purchase bullock team, and did
carting out In the back country. I
sold my working bullocks after a
time, went to Cobar and opened
butcher shop. l bought some more
hullocks and bought sugar, tea and
other rations, which / sold to the
miners and made bit in profit.
by and by l got rid of the
butchering business because | could
rot get the cattle. I started drov-
ing in real earnest when my brother
got me, at 25 shillings a week, to
take mob to Adelaide. I suppose
l must have been twenty-five when
arrived back and received then
my share Of a4O0 or $500 out of my
grandfather's fortune. 1t was big
sum to me in those days, and off
went to the Darling and bought a
mob of horses. I brought them to
the market and got $40 a head"
Even now, nearly forty years at
terward, Sidney Kidman chuckles
over the success of the dealt was
the first little heap Of gold of the
future cattle king. 1t was difficult to
get him back from among the early
years, but suddenly he came through
the mist and resumed the story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

Six months later that fourteenth
share was worth 10000 and more
than 81 100000 would not purchase
it to-day. The fellows who got it
made a fortune. After that little
romance I went away to Queens
land and bought cattle
But Sidney Kidman struck the
golden trail, too, although not until
many years later. You could put
the whole of Scotland inside his
dominions and then have something
left around the edges. Yet he con-
tesses that between $4,000 and So
900 square miles of country is far
too much for any one man to have,
He has been long time finding that
out; not, indeed, until he had de
cided to go into retirement. His
trip to America is a sort of valedic-
tory to his reign in the empire Of
cattle, but doubtless this pleasure
excursion will take on a serious
business aspect all the same Sidney
Kidnan has always been an admirer
Of many American methods, par
ticularly of their boring for water
During the rumor Of the beef trust
invasion of Australia he smiled at
The supposed menace
Welcomes the Americans
Some men have talked of meat
rings and corners" he protested,
but Australia cannot be cornered
while we have our own railways.
don't care what they say about
Swift & Armour or anybody else
| am pleased to see the Americans
come here. We would not have had
the fine bores we have now all over
New South Wales and Queensland
if it had not been for the Americans
introducing the system which has
been the salvation Of the country"
"Why are you going to America ?"
"Just to have a look at the coun-
try" he replied. Sidney Kidman
ha@ never been there and he stays
he is "going all over it, He will
not be in a hurry, either. 1t may
take a year or eighteen months
perhaps two years. That doesn't
matter. The king will be off his
throne and will have plenty Of time
II am anxious to see South Amer
ica," said Kidman, and anothe,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

over and caressed the little fellow,
hoping to reassure him. Then he
whispered:
I'm hungry
She led him into the dining room
and had some food brought While
he ate she asked him why he had re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

~ UR CATTLE KING is on his
I way over to see YOU A
" trough diamond" Sidney
kidman Is our most pic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
His First Job

81 laid out 81 los on a horse
and hit out toward New South
Wales. My first job was at the
famous Barrier Broken Hill, of
mining eminence) as cowboy, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

fused the dainties which the officers
below had offered him.
because | wanted to see you,
madame"
"You knew me, then, my child?"
"And you, madame, did you know
me? Why, then, did you bid me
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
Translated by
William L. Mcpherson
copyrish. 1879. New York Tribune lnc.>

Hero u Belgian Christmas Eue
'artcsy Of poetic quality. II does
aonor, also. to one OF tho greatest
and 10orthiest OF queens
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
By Edward w. Parish
Adelaide. South A,tstrol Tia


~ UR CATTLE KING is on his
4 way over to see YOU A
~ trough diamond" Sidney
kidman is our most pic
.ursoue millionaire, man who
started 8 long way behind scratch
and has won a fortune. He probably
OWLS more os the British Empire
than any other man, but he has the
careless. unassuming, fuss-detesting
personality indigenous to the Aus
tralian bush, and it withers into retl-
cence if you coddle it.
Sidney kidman is one of the most
democratic millionaires in the world.
He hates to be feralded by bands
and flags and professions, so, when
YOU meet him, over there in Ameri
ca. Just forget the fact that he is
our cattle king and has q career
wrapped around with thrilling TO-
nance and unstudied versatility.
That will make him feel at home.
He is a big child of nature, abso-
utely unspoiled by great luck and
great wealth. Sidney Kidman likes
acts without frills. He will tell you,
as a fact, that he owns or controls
$4,000 square miles of Australia.
spread over six states: that he has
10000 head of cattle and 10000
horses, as a rough estimate, which
might miss thousand or two
ether way. and he does not mind
people knowing what his railway bill
for stock traffic comes to in a year.
Little or No Education
Australia regards Sidney Kidman
as peculiarly her own-a millionaire.
pioneer, bush statesman. true
democrat, made out Of fencing wire
and covered all over with bullock
hide. He has been q wanderer
among the big spaces since he was
twelve, when he left home for life
under the sky. got him to sit down,
.iust before ne sailed, and tell me the
story OF his life. | think America
will be interested in It.
Sidney kidman is one of Austria
las big men to-day because he had
'islon and courage. He looked long
way ahead and looked we'll. He saw
right past the busy, competition
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-05-02

Those who spent Sunday with BIT.
Grammar Phillips aud family we're
Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart Wantz. OF Ia
timore: Mr. and Mrs. elias Phillips.
OF Glst. md Mr.. and hrs. Charles
Barnes. Of near Gambler.
Mrs. Geo Phillips spent from sun
day until Monday IN Baltimore with
her sister. Mrs. Albert Greswell.
Mr.. David RaynonId and family
spent Monday IN Baltimore.
ftoby Gresweil. ~ baltimore =
visiting his aunt, MR. George Phil
lips. j.
Miss Linda DdYall. If the STATE
Hospital spent from Thursday until
Sunday Visiting friends In this
vicinity.
Motorists who find i necessary -
go through Manchester better b
sure to comply with al the laws -
some people there are making money
easy b Informing On The yiolatorz.
Wheat n this neigizborhood Is look
ing very GOOD. :
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7. w. MATHER & SONS, 3
Westminster, Md. :
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NOTICE II CONTRACTORS.

The County Commissioners Of Car
roll County. VII receive sealed bids
Tor building : section Of State Aid
Road on the LIltlestown Pie. dis
lance OF about THREE miles, said
bldg win Be opened until Z m, on
the 9Th day d lay. 1919. n the ONCE
q aaid County Commissioners of
Westminster. Id.
Bids muat b made upon he blank
proposal form which, with apecifica-
1Ions and plan. will be Furnished by
he County Commissioners nn0n apph-
cation and ca.h payment i 100 as
hereafter No charges II he per-
mIII9ds
10 BIDS vii Be received unless ac-
eompanied b : certified check for
ne sum o. TO Hundred (s2OO)
Dollars, payable TO the County Com
mIaHionere.
The successful bidder III be re-
auIred TO give bond and comply with
the Acts Of ne General Assembly OF
Maryland. respecting contracts.
The County Commissioners re-
serve the riglI 10 reject any and all
bids.
By ORDER q the County Commits
HIoners this 9th day of April. 1919.
,. +. sTAHsnuRY,
J. w. MYERS.
IN. "A. R00p,
County Commissioners q Carroll
County. Maryland.
Martin ID. Hess. Secretary.
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