Of course there are other elements which should be taken into considera tion. Something must be allowed for the necessity incumbent upon [ each new comer to make himself acquainted with the points in which we do readily differ from our brethren at home. The especial needs of a new country do undeniably breed special customs to satisfy them. Perhaps this is more true of country than of town life out here, there city life has of course assimilated itself more nearly to the home model. It is worth while noting these things, because new comers are often discouraged and dismayed by being told they must acquire a some thing indefinable, that lias no local habitation, that cannot be taught, and bas. consequently no professionate at tached to it, and yet which is absolutely essential, a sine qua yon, to every as pirant for the front rank. To those who wonder what on earth the thing is which they are told they nutst get, but which none will define for them, we would say, the demand is one extremely reasonable, and founded upon very good ground. It is the natural de mand of employers for a trial, a very natural suspicion engendered of bitter experience that the causes which im pelled you to come out here will not bear inspection. Call it by what name we will, you must endure a cer tain quarautine to see what stuff* you are made of, and when you have proved yourself a good man and. true, you will have acquired enough Colonial experi ence, and will probably be in a position to set about demanding it from later comers than yourself.
