Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — Paradise for Tramps. [ARTICLE]

Paradise for Tramps.

A correspondent says that Australia is a paradise for tramps. They comprise about one-quarter of the population, and spend their life in traveling from one little colony or station, as It is called, to another. The name sundowner is applied to them for theweason that the sun’s setting is a signal for their coming. The stations being so far apart—twenty or thirty miles, or even more—the people have not the heart to send them adrift to the bush to go hungry for the night, and they are recognized as a necessary evil. The well-to-do farmers have usually a “traveler’s hut,” and regular rations are served out to these wayfarers, a pound of the inevitable milttod, a pannikin or dipper of flour, the water bag refilled and a bunk for the night.— Chicago Chronicle.