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Li rig 15 no need to make hay, except for horses in towns. hand for several months every year, wild in New Zealand and become however, an act has been passed com- pelling land owners under heavy Jen alties to cut down all noxious weeds. by the roots, while others were cutting it down close to the ground, but this would only keep it in chéck and would not kill it. The expense was so great that some farmers found it cheaper to give up the land rather than begin to battle with the gorse, and such ground being abandoned becomes waste and reverts to the government. "The country was very much like England, the grass being beautifully green and very different om yellow, rchied Australia. The settlers were all English, and every few miles villages were springing up, with churches, cha- pels and reading rooms. One man pointed with pride to a fine horse he was driving, fer which he had given £7, a big price in this country. It did not cost him a Jenny for food all the year, y as he merely, turned it loose in a pad- dock. when not needed and the animal picked "up his own food. "In another . place' we were shown tand covered with good grass which had been wild scrub less than twelve months before. This scrub is cut down with hooks, allowed to dry in the hot sun, and then fired. The ashes are read about, grass seed sown among them, and the first shower of rain brings up the grass. "Hamilton is a rising town' with two bridges over the Waikato, and possesses buildi and streets lighted by gas, "BIG GAME | SEASON OPENS. = 4% Now Brunswick MOOSE ; Sept. 15th. September 1st ip October 1st. i Pablicati <== Indigestion SA Dr. Shoop's Restorative 3 © "ALL DEALERS" | he was in no need of consolation. "Saxty while it even has a special reading room for ladies. This country is in a very prosperous condition, and I cannot re- member that during our journey we met with a single disappointed settler, which was by no means the case in Australia, while in Canada many told us that they would be glad to go home if they could raise the fare; but this of course is a matter which cannot be dis- cussed at length here. "The prosperity is largely due no doubt to the progress of co-operation in butter making among the farmers, Cen- tral ereameries are built wherever the neighboring farmers agree to take up a certain number of shares. "They are equipped with an engine, boiler and machinery under a competent engineer, and the farmers drive up in the morning with their milk. This is weighed, an entry made in the book and the milk is at once passed through the separator, whirling around at 2,000 revo- lutions a minute. Cream runs out of one spout, skim milk at another, and the farmer takes back his own skim milk to feed his calves and pigs, while the cream is kept at the creamery. "On certain days the whole of the cream from many creameries is taken to the central factory of the district and made into butter, which is sent down to the ports, tasted by a govern- ment expert, who settles whether it is to be branded as first or second quality, and it is carried to England in vast quantities in ships provided with cool- ing chambers. The farmers receive their cheques regularly every month, a great convenience, and lands, cattle and -------------- v An English traveller in New Zealand, . | deseribing the country around Auckland, says that "there are no haystacks in the || fields, for the winters are so mild that i s as fast as it is wanted and "Snow is almost unknown in Auck- land, and cattle maintain themselves out of doors all the year. - This is a great saving of labor.compared with what we | afterward saw in Canada, where horses required hay for a long time, while cat- tle must be shot up in sheds and fed by "Some of our English plants have rifi_ reat nuisances, the worst being gorse, black- berries, thistles and wild roses, and in- les of good hand by gorse: Now, "Farmers were at work with machines like great scarifiers grubbing gorse up of miles the 'government sale, but not to: of wild land ness. and now sections, averaging 200 acres each. papers, the post April 26, and if only one man applied for a lot he got it. ~ same lot they could not all have it, and here was seen the difference between the English and New Zealand systems. In England we should say, let all the the highest bidder should have it. The New Zealand vernment, however, worked on a different systeny, arguing that if you do that you lettin the big capitalist and land speculator and keep out the bona fide settler. The apph- cants therefore ballot amofig themselves and the Idcky man wins, getting his land at the original price, without hav- ing it run up to a fancy figure by com- petition, "No intoxicating liquor may be sold to a Maori, so the one hotel at Otoro- hanga was an accommodation house--a hotel without a drink litense. At dinner we miet a Me. McNair, who had come from Auckland to see the land with a view to purchase, and we went over it with him. "It was very different from a land sale in England, where the plots are plainly marked 'and easily found. To begin with, the land for sale was a huge block stretching over twelve square miles, rising into' mountains and cov- ered with forest. There were no houses, roads, footpaths or bridges, and we had to force our way through the forest as best we could. It was hard, work finding the survey- or's numbered pegs scattered over twelve square mules, and of course there were no posts or wires to se arate the different lots. Fortunately there are no snakes in New Zealand or it would have been risky work plunging through the bush. We saw numbers of half wild pigs, and each of us carried a thick stick, as an attack from an angry boar is not to be laughed at. "After many hours' examination of the land we agreed with Mr. McNair that lots 5, 6 and 13 were the best three, and he decided 'to apply for them. A few weeks afterward in Auckland we heard the result; for the thirty-eight sections 261 persons applied, some from far away Australia; for sections 8, 6 and 13 there were seventy-fotir, eighty seven and fifty-seven icants, respec- tively, and at all the three ballots our friend was unsuccessful. "We now turned east for some days toward Rotorua and the Hot Lakes, passing through little towns, with their places of worship, libraries, reading rooms, newspapers and public parks, and having all the signs of prosperous, thriving communities, The farmers were doing extremely well owing to the splendid work of their butter fac- tories. "A rabbiter on duty interested us. He was, of course, on horseback, carried a gun and had two dogs following, while a spade was strapped to his saddle." -- The Queen. A Hospital Sketch He had demanded that afternoon to be told the truth, and the doctor, him- | self a young Scot, had told him plainly that he could not recover; and then he had asked, as one man speaking to another, both being brave and honest men, when he would die, and the doctor thought early next morning. "About daybreak," said the Scot, with much satisfaction, as if, on the whole, he were content to die, and much pleased it would be at the rising of the sun. He was a characteristic type of his nation, rugged in face and dry of nmnner, an old man who had dnfted somehow to this English city and was liviag there alone, and now he was about to die alone, without friends and in a strange land. The nurse was very kind to him, and her heart went out to the quiet, self-contained man. She asked him whether he would like to see a clergyman, and said that the chap- lain of the infirmary was a d man. "A've nae doot he is," said the Scot, "and that his meenistrations wud be verra acceptable to English fouk, but a've never hed ony dealin's wi' Epis- copalians. He micht want to read a prayer, and 1 cudna abide that, and mebbe 1 cudna follow the texts in his English tongue." e nurse still lingered by his bed. He looked up at her and assured her year ago ma mither gared me learn the wafe (choice portions) o' the Bible, and they're comin' up, ane by ane, to my memory, but I thank ye kindly." As the nurse went back and forward on her duties she heard her patient saying at intervals to himself--"1 know w have believed." "I am per- suaded that neither life nor death." Once again she heard hm--"Although the mountains depart and the hills be re- moved," but the rest she dig not catch. During the afternoon a "lady came DOUR TENDER SCOT mn, MacLaren." Late by the "lan Bethany. When she heard of the old man's illness and his loneliness, whom no friend came to see or comfors, she went to his bedside. "You are very ill," she said, "my friend." "A"m deein'," he replied, with the ex- actness of his nation, which somewhat fails to understand the use of graceful circumlocution and gentle phrases. "Is there anything I can do for you? Would you wish me to sing a few verses of a hymn? Some sick people feel much comforted and soothed by singing ; you would like, I think, to hear 'Rock of Ages," and she sat down by his bedside and opened her book, while a patient beyond, who had caught what she had said, raised his head to enjoy the singing. . "Ye're verra kind, mem, and a'm muckle obleeged to ye, but a'm a Scot and ye're English, and ye dinna under- stan'. A' ma days hev i been pro- testin' against the use o' human hymns i' the praise o' God; a've left three on that account and raised my testimony in public places, and noo wud ye send me into eternity wi' the sough o'" a hymn i' ma ears?" For a moment the visitor had. no reply, for in the course of all her ex- perientes, during which she had come across many kind of men and women, she had never yet chanced upon this kind of Scot. The patients in the in- firmary were not distinguished by their religious scruples, and if they had some prejudices t turned on large and full-blooded distinctions between Protestant and Catholic, but never entered into subtleties af doctrine. "Ye'll excuse me; ment, for I'm no ungratefu'." he continued, "and.I wud like to meet yer wi when ye've been so kind to me. The doctor says I canna live long and it's possible that ma strength may soon. give way, but a'll tell ye what 3'm wallin' tae dae." The visitor 'waited anxiously to know into the ward whose service to the Lord was the visitation of the sick; a woman after the type of Barnabas and Mary of what service he was going to render her and what comfort she might offer him, os Farmers--tlow Land Sales wre gheep are fetching "high prices as Se resul ior 'on a large scale. We took oe rail to Otorohanga, 114 south of Auckland, to see outside the town a block of 8000 acres of land throwing open for highest bidder. We had come so far on purpose to see a bit % the white man touched 'it, so that we might know what lay before a settler who started to carve out a home for himself in the wilder- "The inhabitants' bf 'Otorohanga are all Maoris, except two or three English shopkeepers and a schoolmaster. The |, eal vers on ow : : your metrical version. Do you know I Eovemment had bought this great L}.ce heen in the Highlands of Scotland of land 'from the natives, bad | nq have heard the psalms sung, sent surveyors to plot it out into farms as on sale in thirty-¢ight | of the grave sweet .melody, for it "It was well adyrtined «<n the news- the land offices and at every railway station, the price fixed for each lot being just enough to cover the original cost plus surveying and expenses. Au applications were to be sent to the Auckland Land Office by "But if more than one applied for the applicants bid against .one- another, and "Sae lang's a've got sfrength and ma reason continues clear, am prépared tae argue wi ye concernin' the law- fu'ness o' usin' onything except the of Dauvid in the praise 0' G either in public or in private." Dear old Scot, the heir of many a Covenanting tradition and the' worthy son of Covgnanting martyrs, it was a strange subject for discussion for a man's last hour, but the man who could be true to the jots. and tittles of his faith in pain of body and in face of death was the stuff out of which heroes and saints were made. He belonged to a nation which might sometimes be narrow and over-concerned with scru- ples, but which kaew that a stand must be taken somewhere, and where it took a stand was prepared to die. The visitor was a wise as well as gracious woman, and grasped the heart of the situation. "No, no," she said, "we will not speak about the things wherein we differ, and I did not know the feeling of Scots about singing of hymns. But I can understand how you love the psalms and how dear to you is and the metrical version. so full was. the music of a strong and pious people 7" As she spoke the hard old Scot's face began' to soften, and one hand which was lying outside the bedclothes Te- peated the time of a Scotch "psalm tune. He was again in the country church of his boyhood and saw his father and mother going into the table seats and heard them singing :-- O thou my soul, bless God the Lord, And all that in me is Be stirred up, his holy name To magnify and bless. "More than that, I know some hot tears came into my eyes at the sound of your psabm tunes and I have the words in my hymn book; perhaps I have one of the psalms which you would like to hear." "Din ye~think that ye cud sing the I'll not want'? for I wud count it verra comfortin'." "Yes," she said, "I can, and it will please me very much to sing it, for 1 think I love that psalm more than any hymn." "It never runs dry," murmured the Scot. So she sang it from beginning to end in a low, sweet voice, slowly and rever- ently, as she had heard it sung in Scot- land. He joined in no word, but ever kept time with his hand and with his heart, while his eyes looked into the things which were far awav. After she ceased, he repeated te himself the last two lines: And in God's house for evermore My dwelling place shall be. "Thank ye, thank ye," he said, after a little paase, and then both were silent for a few minutes, because she saw that he was in his own country, and did not wish to bring him back by her foreign accent. "Mem, ye've dune me the greatest kindness ony Christian cud dae for anither as he stan's on the banks o" the Jordan." For a minute he was silent again, and then he said: -- "A"m gaun' to tell ye somethin', an' I think ye'll understan'. Ma wife an' me wes married 35 years, and ilka|nicht 0' oor married life we sang a psalm afore we gaed to rest. She took the air and I took the bass, and we sang the psalms through frae beginnin' to end mony times. She was ta'en from me 10 years syne, and the nicht afore she dee'd we sang the 23rd psalm. A've never sung the psalm since, and I dinna join wi' ye when ye sang it, for a'm waitin' to sing it wi' her in oor Faither's hoose the morn's morin', whar there'll be nae nicht nor partin' evermore." And this is how one English woman found out that the Scot is at once the dourest and the tenderest of men. Vegetable Cough Specifics. The Diamond Cough Remedy is made of Wild Cherry, Horehound, Elecam- pane and like remedies. No opiates, Pleasant, prompt and certain cure for Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat and Hoarseness. Equally good for young or old, 25c., at Wade's drug store. FINED FOR SLUMMING. A Wife Says Her Husband Was Slumming. Quincy, Mass., Oct. 22. 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