The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-04
cannibaIs Still Remain in Austria
Iian Desert.
Not Many Visitors to Australia Tempt
ed to Penetrate Center Of Country
Everybody Says It's Vast
#t UNEMPLOYED Region.

New York.-lf you have mind to
visit Australia it might be just as we'll
to keep away from the center of the
continent, according to D. C. Cameron,
"a Scotehman who has lived out there
for 20 years and who is now at the
Imperial. Especially would Mr.. Cam
stefon be disposed to recommend that
You refrain from travelling alone.
Why? Cannibals.
Not that many visitors to Australia
are tempted to penetrate the center of
The country. Everybody says it's a
vast unexplored region, desert. But
sometimes a man goes out prospect
ing and Is never heard of again, and
then down to civilization come tales
sof now the bones of what had appar-
emily been a white man had been
found bleaching about the remains of
"a camp ire, and then bit by bit the
i TACT comes out that the solitary seek
ser for gold had fallen into the hands
4aof some Of, the first families OF the
country and made contribution to
the aboriginal table d'hote.
u wasn't to tell about this that Mr..
Cameron came to Ney York. He is a
sober, practical business man, and he
As IN the United States to see how
milk il manufactured here. Not the
scaicere ous beverage obtained by treat
lnent Of disap hanizomenated aqua GRO
! t0Ila that used to find a ready market
acre before some New Workers. had
:neartl about cows, but powdered milk.
l,ey are going to start a new manu-
turing industry in Australia and
sMr Cameron Is the general manager
sof tho company and he is travelling to
get points.
)ur factory is being built at a place.
about I25 miles from Melbourne" said
iar. Cameron. within radius of
four miles from it there are yielded
every morning from 10000 to 10000
pounds of milk That, of course, is a.
great cattle country; and there are a
Hot OF butter factories OF course a
great part OF the milk produced is con.
gsunled by the butter factories; in the
spring the supply is such that the
waste cannot be consumed by the
calves and pigs in the neighborhood,
to which it is fed. We are building a
plant to cost $4,000, and an English
engineer is installing machinery. L
have been visiting factories in Canada
and Syracuse and am now going over
to England to study the process there.
We shall begin on a small scale, but
we expectlthe far east to furnish a
great market.
$50 Big holdings OF land in Victoria
are rapidly going out, the big estates
being rapidly divided into smaller
properties and sold off Just month
before left an estate of 10, 90 J35acres
was divided up and sold. and great
deaf OF It realized $500 an acre. This
was not for city lots, mind you, or
Drchard land. but Cor what had been
dairy land for some years. A 5curious.
thing about the sale was that the. peo-
pie who bought were all residents of
,tile district.
80 What We call the bush lis not So
far from Melbourne on one side,'' said
Mr. Cameron Ia answer.sto a question.
In fact, 1t lies only about thirty miles
80 the west. The aboriginal Inhabitants
are very few now and most Of then,
are kept in colonies by the govern
slaeat. corresponding somewhat tos
:Tosir Indian reservations. In parts of
Western Australia, should say near
THE center of the continent, the blacks
are savages, and like their bit Of hui
man Hesh at times. They are not a
Sighting lot and | don't believe they
Kill and eat one another to any extent,
but an occasional prospector gets In
slne1g them and realizes his mistake
Too Ia sfss}.
'''l re- very fond Of Chinese too, /
and tseiestial gets among them
ite,..a 4 % dievaur him.
There q Be S;ls lot more Of Chinese