Show I t 6 3 as Li Headers The Tho School roE EDUCATION E N ii RI I IN jN ii RI AUSTRALIA 11 A IJ A A LIA Art and Got ot or 0 About tho tim Newspapers and Colleges The Tho Dairying Industry and tho tho Experimental Farms An Doto Country Where Queer Q of the Public Schools and School I System American AmOV nn Tools Tools To 1 Are Aro AI in Demand Domand j A N L FRANK G 6 CARPENTER 1 Copyright ht 1901 UI li b by frank Frnnk a U Carpen tor I Sydney New ew South Wales WaIls 11 1 I find curious letters from our American bI 1111 In Iii the departments of public nubile Instruction in Australia Some of ot our school echI hoOI teachers Interest their pu pupils plU pils pit In geography by having them cor correspond correspond Correspond respond with school boys nil all over tho the worM world Tho This school boy writes a inter about his de home and life jit in n th and anil In n return the tho Australian boy to reply repty with wIlh a letter hit home aWl and how things thing pre arc go going g gIng gIng ing on on on the he other title thie of ot the tb worM world One such letter which I have before me comes rom roin Ashmore A n thirteen boy of Neb Keb It has hall ha been bt tn answered by 11 one of the Sydmy SydnY boys boy ant young Archie already known how holl boys lo live IIvo In Australia Hero lIero lire arc a n few tow sentences from tram his hl il letter leller Oh b how liow he lives at He lie says ny nyi I live JIe In Maitland Neb Nob on tho the Northwestern railroad Not ot many ninny years yearn ngo ORO RO there was wan scarcely anybody living here but some name time ago ngo people began to t move mOe hero here from Irom foreign countries some of them from Sweden Swed Norway N orn Germany Denmark and anI Bohemia This Thill li II a fine tine place only dry and windy at times Nent N t I will tell you OU what we Wp grow groV here herp We uso ne plows to up the ground and to level It off We WL plant oats oate and corn with a machine called a corn com planter We W cultivate the corn com with a n cultivator three times Wo We cut the tho tf oats oath with a n binder shock It up 1111 ml when hM hen It Is 18 I On tiry It Is 13 l hauled to tho the house lIou hou anti and stacked In the fall when the corn orn gets gots ripe wo we have to hunk huek hll k It and crib it up to keep It for or our stock Mock or orsell sell elI It If wo we want rant to Our school begins begina at 9 0 In the morning and closes cise at 4 In the tho Afternoon Then we go o home and do dour our ur chores and set get et ready tar for Hupper After supper Hupper t I help h lp In n my m tethers fathers store Mont of oC o Jho lie ho girls fillIn Irl help their mothers do When they think they get et old enough they thew tho get Iet married It If they theyan can an find somebody to trl suit sull them Well WellI I will close yours Y l JAS SCHOOLS I i find that the tho Australians have a good gr oa public school system Every col oilY ory lies lias ltd lt own books a and ml Its own oln methods In Victoria the board of edo edu education cation publishes school papers IJ which orne rome out once a 0 month to take tako the place of tho The reading books book u d in our schools These TheM papers are composed of extracts and such original matter as nil the teach each eachern erR ern em think will wll benefit benent tho the children They contain frequent references to till the now news nOI of the month and the articles lire ate on current topics tOil and on matters Australian There are now many des cles about the Hoers and ana the tho th Chinese and the which have hn Vel been going on among them There are arc papers on how plants grow stories of ot geography poems poem and songs The papers lapel are oro Il II 1 i I and seem very In attractive Some Som of the poems are arc parodies and andone andone one of the songs which was published a n afew afew few te weeks week ago has the words and air of ot Columbia beginning the pride of ot the tho ocean Tho The home of ot tho the bravo brave and the free The remainder of the sons song Is about the tho tame same an OR our Columbia the Oem dem of ot the Ocean POLICEMEN N NIn In n all nit the colours education Is compulsory and that notwithstanding the children have 11 e to pay for far attending school rho Tho charge chan e Is l never more than I 6 cents n a week per pupil and never nevermore nevermore nevermore more than a tt or 25 s cents per week per family In New South Wales Wale It If children between five fIo and fourteen ore are kept out of or school during th school season reaton or during any of f their parents are fined lined for the nut ret of offen offence fen fence n and IS 5 or seven days imprison imprisonment I ment mont for each subsequent offense I There are school oI who KO go around and hunt up the pupils and tho the tru nets sue te sure to fo be caught There are oro compulsory school laws In Victoria Queensland and also In New Nel Zealand and one Tasmania Tho Flie system In Is I not ns nil well t 11 developed In n Western Australia I t H HH H HII I H I v V I I If t Ui f I I It t r r I tI t tt tf tt tf f t I p t I tIt f It j t tt t GREAT MELBOURNE TELESCOPE l for tor the tho News els by Frank 0 O Carpenter j J u AJ i 1 1 but even cven that colony has ha fairly good PASSES FOR Fan SCHOOL In Rome lame ot of the colonies child children children ren ran ard pr carried free on the railroads In Ingoing Ingoing ingoing going to arid and from school They rhey are tHe given 1101 pasties passes to the school nearest them and am every Is made to give every overy everyone dis districts one an education In tho the country countr there tire Itinerary school teach tench teachers ers er em men mell who travel from place to tel place and teach tenh for tor a short time In a number of at families going back bek again to carry carryon on tho tM work they have laid out to be belone lone In th thir lr absence nb At pres present there are about pub public public lic lie schools tri in Australia u with about 17 teachers and ani almost schol chol scholars tin ars everywhere the schooling Is II secular although in Now New South Wales where the tho patents parents do 10 not object a preacher In Is I called In for on all hour dally daily to tench teh religion In n South Australia religious Instruction III tr cuon Is given before school hours hour If till the parents so EO desire but as ns n a rule rille such uch teaching Is left leCt ti tl tillie tile llie which thich are about n o on numerous n rn rou an us in any Jiny flY country In tin th world orld Every Ever one of the tho status states lm hn has of or Sunday schools chool each ench church denomination having haIO Its It own oj Including the th Salvation Array Army which Is 1 many of ot poor p or boys and girls girl SCHOOLS OF OP ART AnT ARTOne One of ot the queer quer QU lr features of education tion tiba In this part port of or the world are aro the schools of or art Nearly every eVer town has I One ne and connected conne with willi It a n library In III Queensland tile trie government will ivill give dollar for to dollar or rather pound for pound t town which raison raises rols la a sum for fot ti this purpose For Instance If IC n a vii vil village 11 lage i robe 1000 to establish a n li It library SlId and school chool of art the govern Inon will lii supply another thousand thou and wll Its It gifts Rifts ns os the people give more These schools I chool of art teach tench draw drawing drawing ing and painting music botany type tyle typewriting writing am an stenography and In fact falt about err thIn tIlIng you ou will find taught In Mens Christian schools In our country They also leach painting and find the higher studies They Tho have leading reading u rooms room and their li It libraries art are well velI supplied and well voll pat patronized The Tile school pinol of arts In Sydney has lies n a library of volumes TI SCHOOLS In addition every ever It of or any size his hu Its schools school There Thero are seven fI different taught In Syd Sd Sydney ney noy no and Kg it suburbs and In them are students Th ri city has hns a n te gieni museum with vIl exhibits In tn Including cloning specimens of ot wood The Tho museum building alone cost ost There Thero are aro In New Nell South Wales VaIe 3 O me Institute many mony of ot them might schools in order that the working men may attain them In III Melbourne hers Is 10 a college which has ho buildings bu I hll lilt and ami an equipment worth about 2 OOOO and which has at lit prevent nt In tn the tho neighborhood of 2000 1000 students student The Tho chief elapse are arc In the evening When there thero are arc lectures and ane recitations upon ulon scientific art engineering mining commercial and ana other oilier technical sub subjects as ns well Veil as on tho the lending leading trades trade The technical schools ot of Victoria are Ire under the direction of the educational department There are ore eighteen of ot them teaching almost almot every branch of ot science trade and art Among the trade subjects taught are photography woodturning and pattern making me rile tul working plumbing and gas gns fitting carpentry coach building wool sorting n 1 painting and sign writing writ n tailor cUt hug tin cook ng nf dressmaking dr lag ing anti needle work All Mi sorts sort of man ual mn training are taught and ad everything In tho the way of engineering The technical schools of New South Wales Wale have quite as n broad n a curriculum u lum loom the tire branches of ot wool sorting settIng and ld wool woof classing architecture and agriculture l ture being especially good AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS Tho Tim newspapers show that there is M nu lack of or Intelligence among the tM Austra Autra Australians hans lians About u ii L thousand aro arc published on oil the continent and In New Zealand Including the magazines and trade Jour Journals journals nals nab In 1 Melbourne and suburbs alone lIone ISO magazines and newspapers art ar published and fully tully as ns many I say I BA In Sydney Tho Th Melbourne Agy Ag has hall about circulation and the theArgus Argus Is a n good rood second Tire The Sydney Herald Is III taken In all parts of Austra Ho 1111 and ono oat sees gees the tho Sydney y Mall Mail IIII everywhere every whole Adelaide Adel hJo ann UMU Perth both morning arid and afternoon dallies dailies and 1101 In tact fact there is III scarcely n a town on the continent has not riot four or more moore papers rho Tho lending leading 1 so society 80 cleW ciet are ro the Sydney Bulletin and antI the Melbourne Punch lunch Table Talk Critic and the Sun The leading dallies have big IIII Saturday editions of If man masi pages which sell at 12 cents a n copy COP go going goIng goIng ing out by malt mall to all nU parts of ot tho the aOl col colones c l lones ones There Thero are nil all sorts Borts of agricultural Journals sheep Journals anti and financial Journals The Tho Review of has bas hasan banan an nn Australian edition and there ther are ar lo io local cal It 1 editions of the tho Illustrated London News and Sketch The Australian dailies dallies as ns n a rule are aro less lees sensational than the American newspapers n nail and are more lively that the 1 newspapers nw papers Neatly Nearly all nil have good advertising patronage the shipping Advertisements alone supply lug Ing In from three to live JIve dally In It and anil the ire auction sales In many pany cases covering a n rage page SOMETHING SO ABOUT TUB THE COL I went vent out the tho other day dl to Visit Isit the tire Sydney University It trite has about lOv 1001 students of nf both sexes exes It given elves degrees of ot art law antI and Its II studies embrace all nit branches except theology and divinity Its graduates ur urt received at Oxford and an Cambridge on onen In en equal footing with those tho of the thi Kug I ng schools It Is ts the same some with the tire Melbourne University nn an Institution which has hns already conferred about degrees leg In addition universities cities In Queensland ariti anI South Austra Australia Australie lia lie ns as o well wen as ns numerous colleges sup up by b the tho various religious denom A SHIP REFORM SCHOOL SCHOOr Here In I Sydney the government has hasa n a nautical al school hooi ship which It uses tiRes a aa aa aa a reform school chool Upon It some boys 00 are put through n a regular course of etl H I and training Th They The y haw hlO the studies of the tit common schools and nt at atthe th the same time re me drilled so BO that they am arti tit lit to tJ be lw efficient sailors they leave Ion The Is I the and It In Is M a well equipped se s school training shir anywhere The boys 00 als have h land quarters on one or of the Island Isla nt of ot the bay and anil altogether alto till ar arl are welt well sad and ns fit rS a rule rull are UP rc ina l Into Inlo good men mes by their training raining They Thoy hie hwe iii Ic cricket ground lions and arid all iii a mr rt a of or same name Th y are to sad and an put pt through h u ui i lly OUtfit coute nf of f X T is s The Tit They mh ah thIr o own on n kp the th shin In order euler lull hut do n nil contract rk of 4 r at Industrial character After lea v tag they are ar apprentice to In farmers or men In different pert penis of NV N Kith I Wale WIH se and ami the report from iii lit Are r that On do exceedingly well 11 tv f p lar tar HII u I ran eta a learn larn the tI school I is a II af f neu M and tM M hp Un n m i r sine it VA lu organised now years ago agi 41 Ut I like lib the way w these UI or MW heW w ch when they t tt r have ban any In they th y wish teh IM to ile top Within the th lIt IMM few fw yun far ears bat baa been Riven In dairying and I sad and the haY hare been bean lit ill they tiry U ran as to 10 ball bulli I up rip Mi this th I 1 f M The on remit Is I that there thi t irs are now DO a s anum num Ur 1 of or liege lame butter butler and the rheeM K In ever tv Male at and the export of tilt Ud a axa au rapidly int Irlo h to II I now Making s like Ilk Oeo of butter bolter and I of or eis i annually n New ew South tb Wales Wal m fIM mill t hut iss 1 year yr r over gr J UMI MUnd or of butter utter sad and 30 pounds of or eh f t r Thor Thee Th hi lire tui new oc more muff than hn pIA 4 M dairy o wl wa In w South ala yla Ia annually like gal sal ions loni of rank The t butter over tho the local beat requirements amounts to about 75 15 per cent and nn tire the t al roo most t oi of tm th tub the thu l markets although i h goes goel to 0 some Bomo Is s a now beIng exported i to the 1 Pith Th The Australian but butter brings t I bl blutt higher price e In I london titan than t um i the tte butter Ond the people eople are ex 1 lag inc In In every ever way to b better tl r tn their r p II rod and the methods method of shipping U It HOW now TUB OO nN m T s n A BUSINESS Tho Tire beginning of f dairying In Victoria U is interesting One of or the miLler outler r rank mak makers ers Crt talked to lu me roe about it durum my ray stay in Melbourne Said he lie iIvo 1 years yeara ago we made no butter to speak of or Our total shipments along In iii tile the Ws 1101 did not amount to tu more inure tl iu pounds per pr annum Then Therm the n government came carrie In and hel a the me It arranged a 11 scale reals of boun bounties bounties bounties ties fur for for butter export which was to last for five fIu years For tine the year we were to receive from the govern government government ment 4 cents per pound for tor all we ve shipped d tho second year eai al 3 He tre third year 2 I cents centa und and tin fourth year t I I tent cent l The rhe result was as that the people at nt once oneo began b to 0 study and experiment Men idea who vho would not own on a n cow under tinder the old laws bought dairy dalr farms ns as soon Boon OH OR tire the bounty was wan promised I and now our butter Is Felling seiling at high prices In both Joth Asia la and Europe In Itt 1831 isai we sold about |