The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-16

country to some extent as witness the
| Australian ballot system, and the Tor
rens land title scheme. They have the
best opportunities for experiments, as
| the country is new and failure does
no harm. 1t may be said on the whole
that their laws are tinged with social
/ istic IDEAS
/ They are not governed, as many peo--
pie suppose, from England. The gov
ernor is appointed by the queen, but If
the people do not like him. he soon re-
signs, and If the people 50 desire they
can cut his salary down to nothing
without permission from home so they
can make the job unproflt able If MOTH
ing more, to an obnoxious official.
/ The people are immensely progress
sive and seek all the Improvements that
the mechanical genius of this country
produces with the greatest avidity. A
very large amount of machinery goes
to Sydney from the United States. and
no doubt large amount from Worces-
ter. The wool industry is the main one
of the country and the people have
gotten the art of breeding sheep down
to so fine point that they succeed in
getting the wool to grow down the
Sleeps legs to their hoofs, and rams
are covered with a skin that is about
twice too large for them, but conse-
as it ought to-
The climate is very dry and equable
and as a consequence nearly all the
temperate fruits grow to a greater pro-
fusion even than they do in California
Owing to the climate the trees do not
have any certain time of the year to
shed their leaves, but do it little at a
time, so that they are never bare They
shed their bark regularly, however, and
this is done at the same season every
year. The fruits mature in what are
the winter months in the northern hem
isphere, so that the trade in fruit, espe-
cially apples, is becoming a very i'm
portant one
Australia is in some ways a land of
contradictions, as the rivers have no
water in them except a very short
portion of the year when there are
floods, the trees have their leaves edge
wise to the sun and give no shade at
all in the middle of the day the ami
mails are all marsupials and carry
their young around in pouches wher-
ever they go, and most of them are noe
turnal; some of the native fruits are
wood and can only be opened with an
axe, and the coolest weather comes in
July and August.
The people of the island are greatly
in sympathy with the United States and
it is the generally expressed opinion
that this government should retain the
whole of the Philippine group. The
Australian trade with the Philippines
is not large, but there are certain sta
pie articles that have to be gotten
there that the people consider would
be easier of access if the United States
were in possession of the islands than
is the case now
One thing that will increase the
trade of this country with New South
Wales is the recent establishment of
line of wool steamers which will run
from New York to Sidney by way Of
South Africa, Previously all the trade
has been done by way of London.
Australia is essentially rapid coun-
try and the people and the cities seem
to take pattern by the vegetation which
is marvellous rapid in it's growth. Trees
often increase from ten to fifteen feet
in height in two or three years, and
everything seems to be in proportion.
The people are very fond Of amuse-
ments and the talented people who go
there make more money than they do
anywhere else in the world,
In education, the country is progress
i've, but still behind what it should be-
The common schools are excellent, but
they have nothing to compare with out
high school system. They have an i'm
mense university in Sidney, but no en-
cheering schools that rank anywhere
near our Worcester Tech. In fact,
have yet to find an institute that does
outrank it very greatly. / visited the
w. P. l. yesterday and it is wonderful
how that has developed since / left it.
Truly II is an institution of which the
city may be proud.
Mr.. Cobb will spend his leave of abb
sence in the vicinity Of Worcester with
occasional trips about the country to
make investigations into methods Of
contending with various pests such as
the gypsy moth and others that are
being successfully fought in this coun-