Show T YO n YO p P n n OUR OUR FLAG G TO TO FLOAT FL OAT AT THE T E POLE ni nOAT nI i r I t 5 1 s sf t f tr t c Lf 1 A I m mc I It Ib b t ft ll L I I r I 7 The expedition tilted fitted out by William J gler and ami to bo ho commanded by U 11 wIn will noon soon start from Dundee Scotland In determined search for the North Pole American Interested In Arctic exploration hopes that time the America vessel will return with Wens news that Uncle Sam has Ims annexed time the North Pole from England l have heart eo so low tow tb tto nieu goods could bo he Imported Importe more moro cheaply than they tho could be made ma e Each Kach colony colon has hau had Imd Its lis own tariff ln laws H anti It has hall bi been ten cn Impossible to tog reg regulate matters no mm that the goods foods made mallo In III one ono colony colon might night be he sold bold at time the same price throughout Australia Now that we WI have federation we wc Intend to well wall Australia about with such ouch a n protective tariff a ns as will make It That flint lx IA nhut what you Americans have done don donan and amid an what we t propose to do tIo R How hIow JIo about your our government work Mr Ir labor I 1 naked asked That la Is nil all on the tho per Ill week villi besia b 1 was wan tho time reply The rhe WilKes wages lire are practically axed by h tho mho unions union and tho the time by the government very one Ol knows what the wages are arc to be anti make their bids Recording according accordingly I 1 ly We WC tan fan object It time the labor U is poor pOOl moor and demand that better men mon be lie em cm but the wages and antI time little arc are fixed Is ls there hm t not t law large force In the goy poV employ I naked Vo Yes replied r Minister Parry but I doubt w hot her on the tho th whole loIA we ve have many tunny mar clerks s than you ou hll Wo We e have the tho tho the telephones anti the tho street ears cars Cl rs under HIP o ri but you rou must remember bar ber that yon tJ u nn an enormous number of at in America How many hive have you lucre bore In lit New South Smith Ii Walon VaI a 1 i asked w v V huc huv in un our salary list Hot l Mr Ir Pt ferry rry and some others on rk Anti Ami what thum I t Is hI your population 7 1 Mit 11 um i was wan the reply r ph skid lh I lot us I ure It Dl DI D tId 11 cn r by b and you ou V I Do Ito you really think the law low Pays pay Mr Ir Perry I asked What do you ou mean menn I mean can you ou run the country on Oil onan onan I an un basis At present you ou have much undeveloped land and nm the chances for tor money making ate arc many man When Australia becomes settled and till the profits decrease CUll can you OU run your our business here on eight hours lIours when Ku In ropo rope hUB bus ten toil or twelve and antI nil all Asia more immure 7 I 1 dont know replied Mr Perry lerr but I believe such uch things regulate s it s You work or k short hours In III Inthe the United States Slates and still you are arc be beginning ginning to manufacture for Cor the world worl Jt It may be he that the shorter hours give Ilvo your men nets time Ume to think think and hence the tho Yankee ee Inventions Invention tor for which you are areso areso areso so famous anions A AI realm fresh non man will do twice as much ns as n a tired man and I 1 believe hellec wo we get better work worl by shorter hours After Arter a Warm man works ten hours hourI ho comes comel home dug dog do tired mod 1111 throws elf elt on the tho lounge or the time hour floor prepared to bo lie liel disagreeable l He Ito linn has no Urn time to get acquainted with his lids family nor to think of or anything outside of ot his routine work Our laborers are ure I 1 believe bellove the happiest of at till the world Most of at them own their own homes homos They live well but they save sae money slut Jut do ItO not the short hort hours Increase boating and amid drunkenness T I dont think so BO was the reply Those who drink will drink anyhow Those who are Industrious 1111 time to todo todo todo do work worl about their homes and a great many spend their leisure In going about with their families s The Tho men feel feu bet better better better ter they respect themselves more inure and andare are far hotter better citizens UNEMPLOYED mm UN ED Hut you Y have many u nem unemployed Yen YOA but not so YO many now as ns some were paid In rations This was Utter after the panic of ot 1591 rind and 1892 1592 We had hada a great many bank failures There Theio was a distress dl throughout Aus Australia Australia Australla and Ayere thrown out of ut work At present the tho times ore are aregood good although there ore ate always moro more or less unemployed We e now new have something like Ilke n a hundred applications a n day cia sometimes more sometimes less WAGES S IN AUSTRALIA The rime conversation hero turned to lo wages and aile Mr air Ir Perry mild said ho he belle d that the tho workingman of or Australia me Jl delved calved more mOlo and anet tined lived better bolter tuna than his fellow In tiny any In part of oc the world lie He brought out n a late K report by Mr rr T 1 A Coghlan on time till Wealth and Progress Pi ogress of ot New Nl South Wales Willes anti showed showe mo me the time wages wu s the men worn were getting In I OO Here flare some of ot them Carpenters blacksmiths and masons masoni are aro pall paid 1225 per pcr day cia plasterers tumid painters receive r 1 2 com corn common common cornman mon man laborers while get 1260 Wool u la hos net Jet JH 11 a n week farm tarm laborer laborers 1450 50 a 1 week with hoard board and shepherds 8 about SHOO S I a year yeal The fhe WOlf wages till of ot servants wore were about the time same lame ns as S with us UA Girls of ot nil all work worl get 1226 per week housemaids 1276 2 5 nurses Ji and washerwomen and cooks per week eel THEY LIVE IlE mOIl Wo We also talked of or the cost of or living and from the tho same Mill source I was Willi given tho time prices of n cony things They fh y are arc fully as Os low tow ns as in the United l Stales Slates Sia tes and andIn andIn In many man cases canes murt lower 5 S Scents cents for tor a oll loaf loat of ot bread brend Tim Tho Australian gets gt ts u a loaf hunt for tor forthe forto to time the same Bam s ame mone to nue t Our beef beet costs coals us 11 front from 15 IS to JO 20 0 cents a n pound h b be buys bus his for Cor about 5 cents a n pound He lie pays pars 25 cents a pound for Cor butter IG 16 cents n a pound for tor cheese 4 cents for tor sugar a cent and a n halt half for Cor rice 17 7 cents for tor bacon n and 37 31 cents cent for Cor ten tea Ills HIs eggs cost coat him 25 cents n h dozen his beer 60 cents a n gallon Ills tobacco rum U 11 Uto 1 to n pound The fhe Australian has to pay Pl ns its much In the way woy of ot house rera rens fl ns UR the time over aver average age ago American Workman urn and ami he tune has as ns asa asa a rule pourer poorer accommodations In III i Sydney a II the u room Mat lint costs about 12 0 a 0 month or something like 75 cents per room per week weel A house costs casts about 10 and a house hOIlKO about 12 a month Very few tel of or the thc laboring men live In III houses mouses of or more moie than that live flea rooms unless they have grown grownup up sons or daughters to contribute to the tile family earnings s WHAT THEY EAT As far tar ns as I 1 can enn see the live IIvo very Cry well Few l oW ot or them hat haV wrinkles In their stomachs or hollow hollows In ht their average cost CORt of the food consumed per pcr Inhabitant Is III Sl 81 n a t year while whits our average is less leall than limn SO SOa O I In a n your year They are great meat ment eaters caters and In New Sew South Wales last year cor they the ate ale tons of ot beef tons of oC mutton mind and tons of pork and ba bacon bacon bacon con footing up n a total of ot worth wet of ut meat for tor one colony Glenn The meat ment Is IR good too You will no better mutton anywhere and the beef belt Is ns nil fat tnt and as ns US juicy ns as the best cuts ot of Chicago I am nor surprised at nt the tho amount of ot ten tea which those these Australians drink They swill ten tea ru as ns tho the German swills Ills beer Jom EVery person hits bus his cup clip of oC tea every afternoon and like ns as not nol another cup or so 50 later In the time evening They lOy drink more ten than nay any other nation notion except the They drink It everywhere It Is served without extra charge at hotels and at nt the railroad stations It Is given out at so much per cup curt at nt the same ame tables as the beer heer and whisky The tea Is s always served with milk anti auger HUgar and every person tokes takes four tour lumps The people have hao sweet scot teeth and antI they the eat ent so BO much sugar that their teeth are often otten decayed Title This Is Isn Isn isa n a good place for tor a n dentist and I am nun surprised more American dentists do donot donot not como come here hore to practise AS S A O NATION As to 10 whisky and beer the Is large It H varies In different parts of ot Here In km Now New South Wales they thoY drink less leni than In Victoria and anet less than In western Aus Australla where the consumption of ot whisky hl kY to about live five gallons for every 01 man mun woman and Ind IndI hll In to time the county or from twenty to I Oe gallons per family The he heoC of oC boor consumed ron there aver aces tur o a per c head hr n d or e I II r I ni a n hundred gallons tier per family per annum Speaking of or cost coat of ot living Mr Me Ii Coghlan shows that thaI time the Australian has to work workless less lam for his hlA food than hon t any au 1 other oilier man Inal manIn In the tho world work except the th e American He lie quotes Mulhall tin tro th great Ire l ns nil his authority showing that It taken alts loss leslI work worl to buy food tye 1 In time the United l States Canada and New South Wales than thun In OIlY nay other oilier country He Ito shows that thaI the Germans and Russians have hn ve to work twice as many days duys during the I year ear to flit their stomachs as ns the lie Americans or PI Australians The Till Aus Australian must work days for his food and tho time American only onh 76 C while tin the Englishman J has lias to put In to days day the Frenchman u works 13 days the time German the till Russian and the tho I guere days per for Cor the time faint purpose The Australian nail ond the Amor lean icon teed feed better titan than any of oC the time oth others ers lir they eat mor drink more mare non spend more Indeed It Is 18 that tho I It costs about 1200 per POI year to keep An nn Australian LABOR SETTLEMENTS n One of ot tho the queer labor movements movement ot or Australia resulted In the tha establishment c of ot a II number of ot lumber labor In or colonies or ments In the time different states stute Tills Tuns oc ac occurred 0 along about the panic of ot 1592 1 92 anti and 1893 when there thele was n a vast num number number ber her of ot unemployed Several of ot the col eel colonies onies onles set aside lands for Cor settlers and advanced money monc to them In some Borne set settlements settlement the lands Innes wore hold held In com common common common mon amid In ht others rH they the were era so arranged ar arranged r ranged that alter after n a given Riven time lime the peola peo people pIe P la could vote ote s whether s they should con continue to tt hold hohl them as CIS a settlement or should divide them up among them f selves There are ure two such sueh settlements In ht New South Wales one at nt Wilberforce Wilber I force and the other at nt Mega The Boga liega settlement Is about miles West of on Sydney and twelve miles front from the time coast on the lingo Baga river To fo reach It I you go on the railroad to within nor sev I miles mites of ot the place lInce and then ihen take a 0 conch coach or you can cnn go 10 by b steamer twice a week welk The settlement has hOR families and Is to be bea ben a n success 8 u cess South Australia hns has similar settle lettle settlements settles ments a n hundred miles or BO so from Crom Ade hide on the Murray river Kach I of or these was given acres to hold In common cammon mind 1111 ouch ach was lS advanced something like 1000 for tor buy buyIng Ing lag tools and stock The people have built I II lit houses hOIlle set pet out orchards anti are ure engaged In farming of ot various kinds They lave have I nm nun told lemon find olive orchards flocks of or sh sheep ep They work but right eight hour days labor lahar and ending cn with the tM blowing of ot a n horn They y Ime ho n It common store and have attempted to run their vII vil on tlc lines lanes I have not vJ s I tt 1 I but ut I under understand u 1111 I stand that they the are arc doing fairly wIll well although there Is some dissatisfaction ns as to the dIVision di lei n f I ark IOk th Ih 5 I III b bra lurs claiming th 11 II h I 1 j k fur for what thoy t 1 I ilm II n r i u uI I 1 men v wh h hilI f t nr ft I niter the It I if I f f III M Mt st t the members pp a 1 t III to i 1 ii ii k hv I X v tt t whether they i I II ll lIu hu U I h 11 he lands halide In common or dill t Th its probability Is II that th the et 11 trill vill br be In favor of oC division n 0 fI 1 |