Show JOT n II T DIg Ug Demand Demond for or Our CorThe Australians Au the nest Dost AUSTRALIAN A A L lr AN 4 U 1 U I n fI Spenders on Earth American Plug Tobacco as ns Money o A Hot Continent Whore the Terrible D Kill Wll Even Ii a CUSTOMERS ellS U I l ll L 1 1 ns S the tile Kangaroos and nn The New Artesian Wells Welb i I Which Are Flowing Millions of t gallons fallens of oC Scalding Water J t Per Features e of at Desert Desert f Australia The Land Landof of oC the Never Never The Thc lug Scrub and the Like American Goods and Are Anxious to hug Buy Them Bush Dush w i i V FRANK G CARPENTER L Lua ua u I t tI I II Hor F fi I El ElI i 7 I i M t ft 1 f 1 I I I 1 I 1 I I f Hf 1 I 1 I 1 S r 1 iI t I It t t j J Jj E n j i v vj i ie e 3 I j i if t i f AUSTRALIAN BOTTLE TREE 1 tor for the tho News Nerve by tank Prank I a C Carpenter CarpenterI 1 i r I H HI HII H H H H Is la a II big opening In Aus Ana Australia Australla for Cor American trade Tho rho country countr Is la Ju suet t ripe for tor trio tho ad adVent adent tt Vent Pent ent of at our drummers Tho The peo people people i t pie are ato friendly and every Amer American AmerIcan ican Ivan salesman I 1 havo met meL Is la do doIng lug Ing good business We Wo sell over worth of ot goods an annually annually I neatly In New m Wales Vales or more moro than ISO 50 per fanny family of ot tho the population American goods are aro sold In nil tho the fI stores tores and American farm Implements are ore us used ll l on nearly every farm Carm Three Ehre fourths of at the reapers and aUlI mowers come from the th United States There are thou thousands d sands Bands of df American n plows pI WB and tens of ot thousands of our axes and saws laws The Tho d Australians like our hatchets They call them tomahawks tomah and evidently think we got the tho pattern from tram the In Indians t Our carpenters tools are arc In de demand demend mend mand especially augurs bits hits and andi i Laces braces and ot of all the saws flaws come como from Philadelphia m AMERICAN NOTIONS FOR Iron TUB TUm American notions we are sold Bold every everywhere where were here In Townsville In to northeastern Australia I saw patent camp chairs with the Yankee trademark on them themy themI y I our cur cuff cutt clasps and collar buttons are In common use uso and und there are nil ail sorts of or knickknacks knacks marked American and antl c sold laid us such lIuch I 1 dropped Into a II store storer r the other day which advertised ed Amen Ameri American can candles candle and asked tho the tall young r lady clerk cleric from Cram what city they were Imported She Bhe replied that they were werey y t made in Sydney but they called thorn then American because they thought this would make them sell better b l 1 The Tho Australians Au smoke American tobacco to tobacco bacco They Thoy use URe and plug shaving shay ing off ort the plug for Cor their pipes Tho The They y brands sold are almost unknown In the tho United States showing shoving that the mar nar market ket Is quietly worked by some somo of at our known tobacco firms firma the larger v ones oneil not realizing the tho extent of oC this market In New Nev Guinea our tobacco Is used as money So Su many phi plugs en will r buy you yuu a dinner a II suit of at clothes or ora ora a ft write wife the tobacco currency being moro more common than gold and silver The rl cl f pr gars rg smoked bv by the tho Australians n come from Manila and the trade In Philippine tobacco Is III growing THE lU KEST BIsT Ul ST ON I I have spoken of ot tho the New Zealanders as spenders The Australians arc tulle quite as all extravagant In New South Wales f the average Is III over MH nOO per ear Mr for tor t I each family faintly The people of oC nil all classes dress dren well and live welt well The women of or Melbourne know how to put on their clothes as liS well as liS those of any city of oC similar size site In the United States State tH Many In n not Y of ot them wear American hues s paying a n duty Of OC 75 5 cents on every enry pair They The f wear ear costly hats lints and bonnets and A 1111 In Ini i midwinter pearly nearly every eYer girl has her furs The business men mun as 1111 a rule near silk Bilk hats and good goal clothes clothe The fitting Is not quite as line M nil that of our American tailor but far tar better than 4 1 that of oC London Lo Clothes cot coil about as r much In ht Melbourne and Sydney as ns In Ini i I New Tork York and American styles seem J to be In demand AMERICAN PRINTING A great It oat deal of ot our lumber comes to Australia not only In tn the shape of oC boards and logs but In player paper and now no the Australian ra are IUt printed on American wood pulp Many IRn of ot the theS t publishers use ulle American type With Within S in Ih the past few tl years US the linotype IMS Itu been bt en corning coming com In In and a 1 salesman I timan of ot ore one oneat ot at the American firms tells tell me nie that he hehu her r has hu scattered such machines machine through throughout out Ou the colonies He lie g gets U about tor for each fach machine and does d a business bu ln M t which Is III largely largel ca cash h The leading Am Amerlean n typewriters typewriter ar arwell a are well known here her Some ut of the alenel have hae business col coll If KM connected lIb tt them and rent and sell Mil 1 a In Inthe Inthe X the same way a as AI In America You can buy all 1111 kinds of ot American 1 here hern and the American Is M to tobe tobe toJ be seen everywhere fm fAI So far tar no DO WA WI M Mi J i to speak peak of oC have been n Imported Im ort but there Is I a good goal demand for tor parts of 01 our and wagons sail and I think this thise e i field might be developed The Australian Is Ie fond of at show shaw II He 4 t d likes n a good goal horse hone and find a good goal and some of ot the rubber tired rigs wl which h haye are aye pow now being made mad In America might t be lire here J re at a 1 profit One Orie of ot the best belt pushers of ot American trade In Australia Is III our consul at Sail Syd Sydney ney nay George OlOr W Dell 1111 lie he Ie Is 18 well eil ac so acquainted sop p i l with the th markets and l I la do doIng doing Ing considerable good lie He tells m me that many of ot our goods goals sold here are t y k marked as made nde In Germany and that t l some eo me of oC the Importations come com ime via Ia tendon Landon This Is so o 0 of wire 11 both barbed and smooth of ot which a IL avast ILi at i t vast ul deal dell Is I used need u and also alo of oC silver plated plat ware Inre watches and clocks clock 7 J 1 b A and other othir cloth j jt AIt 1 t Ti iI L r sl idy atle e A d dy t kites husk h order th Jt maty y i 1111 n j the supply como comes chiefly from Crom England und anti tho the continent There Thore Is no at attempt attempt attempt tempt to push posh American goods of kind and the low freight tr lIht rates MIllS to Kur Eur opo operate against our Importations HUH a 1 trade could be built up In Amer American Amerlean lean Ivan cottons and as soon foon oon as tho the trans truna Isthmian canal Is la completed there will wilt undoubtedly be bo largo large shipments ot of call cos cue and denims AMERICAN CORN COUN FOH FOIt AUSTRAL AUSTRALIAN IAN SHEEP One of oC the great markets ot of the fu tu tuie tUlo for far the corn of tho too Mississippi Ml val valley at ley Icy will be In Australia Australla The county country Is la subject to frequent and at nl such times food for tor stock Is III an imper Impel imperative Imperative necessity n In Queensland I 1 saw laW green oats oatH straw selling for tor IS a II ton and I was waR told that t several ship loads of oC corn had lied been Imported Imparted from the states by that state to feed Its cattle and has been heen a great t drouth and the stock Hock has ban hn died dl d by the tho thousands One man who had sheep and nothing to feed fwd them paid 1011 HO HOa tO 10 tOnton a ton for tor American corn lIe He soaked Bonked It ItaM and aM then fed ted It and as us n a result saved his flock nock One who has hall not visited Australia can have no Idea of oC the need of food toad In time of ot drouth Within tho the past ten years millions of ot sheep have died of oC hunger and vast ast numbers of or thirst This state stale of oC New South Juth Wales WaIls had sheep hi lit It 1891 1301 It has hM not mote more than now no Within ten years tho the number has hai fallen fall n olf olt more moro than Estimating each sheep at ut this means n a loss of oC In Inthe the tho capital stock of or the squatters In one ono stale only There have havo been lIeen large luge losses lassos In South Australia u Victoria and Queensland I urn Rm told toM that numbers number of oC sheep die dlo almost every year and anI that the losses during the past ten years eara havo been almost continuous THE TIIE OP 01 THE TIIE DROUTH You need heed not go 0 tar far In Australia to hear henr roar of ot the horr JR of oC the drouth Mouth You Youcan Youcan can cnn easily meeta meat U man who has lost a n fortune by b dry dr weather M Mn JIn n w me times go iro Crazy on their stations tar far off ore offIn oreIn offin In the Interior because the rain falls fulls to conic come They The have hae thousands of oC acres and tens terms of oC thousands of oC sheep and they have to sit lilt and watch satch the animals die before their eyes eoll knowing they can cannot cannot cannot not feed them The clear the theland theland land of ot everything The fhe pastures become as hare bare tUI the till roads rOld and till the sheep ep stagger about nosing In the dust for the needs of greases grasses and tr tret trees s II Sometimes t t are uro cut down dawn to 10 give thorn them food tOO One man who hAIl had 1000 acres of ot land reef men busy cutting ort oft the of oC his apple oak nod and other trees to f reed feed ed the tho sheep They eat cot the leaver and ami even eln the small twigs This Thin same amt limn man Imd had snottier another force forc skin skinning fling ning dead cheap Ih and AmI another whose It wa Will was to lift up u the sheep heep when hen they fell felt down and nd could not Hoe rise of oC their own awn This It is I to keep them from tl till the carrion crows crow whir which I hover hoer about over them and pick out th their ir eyes if It they tall fall AND KANGAROOS During these II rout hI the tb rabbit rabbits die dieas dl dieas as 8 well n III as the sheep They Th drop dead outside the tM rabbit fence You may see let er kangaroos kangaroo Wing lying here and Ind there dead uK On n the plaint III HIM and I have bare been told lold that even ern In th tb the birds bird drop tIlO dead from the tree tre The Th country Is II one of the thet best t sheep districts of oC Australia It 11 prod Hien some of or the finest wool wad and anti andI andIs I Is II noted for tor It iii excel excellent ex ant grass In the drouth of ot ISK 13 It looked a as though a had swept 1 t over It The mo most mOlt t of at it U was WAIl a as AI clean dean a III as a l all pound It II could not have hav been more mo bare bart If It It II had been plowed d There was wan not nol a green sprout or any In sign IIAn of vegetable ve life lit to tobt tobt bt seen Last year rear much the same Im con eon condition prevailed In part of Queensland There were tract covered with dead dId sheep cheep 1 cattle and 11 bosses ton Jl and nel dead emus I i and anti kangaroos kangaroo were err lying here and there over th the country This and other drouth b hate caused a Deduction In one ont district of ot N 4 per cent nt or the th sheep and IDd other district oven rn mare mure It 11 In to said that the drouth la Ia IMS 15 lightened ed the wool clip 11 I 1 per cent and it II de di d creased the Ih l Iamb mi rr crop p In New uuna Wale wake about 1001 0 head d OP OM ARr IAN ELlA Within the pest at few ew year the gar eminent of I Australia have hu been pre se Ing to I r IM 1111 than theae t drouth They have ha hon Iv n Finking artesian well ell mIlt mak making ing darn dams and putting up lIp water muter work The hll In jn many n parts part rt of nf the coun roun country country try I ry an are a such that for tor nine month the tIN sheep heep i ran an fed 1 on the dry grasses aNN It If they the can an ant get gt 1 water WI old and It of late the tile water rater n i mal inn place ha hoe conk com ro from art i w II The chief 1 danger ha lull has I been in m t eking so 10 o that the heep sheep I em eat lit all 11 the grM and the tb water die elM of ot n I There are ens a in Queensland Q 41 atone alone on IM IMn artesian lIlan n well II KIM dad aHI a number humber more moh an art put rUI down Already more than then ISan 4 have hag h been spent p nt upon them The Th aggregate urt te dh depth Ih ef et the wrens wells Is u is in tn inthe Inthe the tM of ot feet Some Seine of Gt the wells 11 ore are very try deep There Theft is II ison 1 on at Winton which was w sunk c LOW or y feet feat before It struck water avatar and there thare therein alt me in many down and more One well gallons u a day er ar and ami another anal her In New South Wales Wale a n large luge number of or orborn born bore bores as they are called have been lJean sunk and several of them are flowing from rum one to two to million gallons a day dllY 4 singular thing about the tha wells In hi that thit the water that comes from them In II very ry hut hot As All one oe of the thu squatters says en it lu hot enough to scold a n dog dot and Indeed u Il dog that fell Into the time stream of ot one of oC them the other day daywan Was wan killed The water waler Is ls slightly salt and It contains some seine soda odo but the th sheep drink and thrive thrle upon It U It cools coals QC of course as it runs off oft being conducted In ditches and pipes pipe over the Iha pastures roi TIlo are made madl with lIh huge hUla constructed of or lugs logs In lit the form torm of ofa n a V The end Is shod with Iron and u n team of eight of oC ten oxon oxen drags tint the plow plot plo along ulon the course desired delred forme for tor the This makes make a 1 broad turn hit v I touring forming tho the canal ranal at which the tho stock I cad CAli drink There uro arc many canals cAnala of oC title this kind from fifteen to twenty miles I long Ion and some soma even longer lanKer THE TILE LAY lu Y nans Australia Is IB the hottest country on record I 1 have haO ridden for Cor miles astride the tho but hut I t have hae never found heat hent lo to compare with this title Out In the Ih country In the dry tunes there Ihen to ba ho IJ little More than n a sheet of oC brown griper between weon you OU and the lower re regions gions and the people facetiously suy sa that they thoy have hu to feed their hens cracked era cited Ice to keep them thern from laying boiled polled eggs The dry lands are aro hotter hattar than Sahara Much of oC them Is desert mind and the sun nun heats beatH vertically down Up Upon upon upon on tho the continent during tho the hottest part of oC the year car three hours every day In tn traveling tra across It Australia Is as J long tram from one side sille to the time other OH un from New York to Salt BaIt Lake City and the greater part of oC It Itis lit is covered with granite sand Band It has liar no cooling winds to speak of oC and the sand and rock rack bottle bolth up the heat and give It out again Capt Copt Sturt Start who crossed the tho Australian desert saint somi years ago that ho ha once hung his hili thor graduated to degrees In fn Inthe the tho shade and that the mercury rose roseand roseand and broke the tube The temperature must have been at least degrees In iii the open air outside which Is sale to bo be the highest temperature recorded In nay any part of ot the world Tor VOr three months during that trip th the temperature averaged over ocr degrees Fahrenheit In the shade abode and antl the air was so BO dry dr that Capt Sturt Start writes write that every 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