Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-03-31
|CANN|bALs ARE
YET TO Be FOUND
FEW OF THEM LIVE IN AUSTRIA
Liza AS CLEANED BONES
TESTIFY.
TELL A HISTORY
Bones on Smallest Continent Il
World Relate Story of Bar
barOus Death.

New York, N. Y.-If you have
mind to visit Australia it might be
just as well to keep away from the
center Of the continent, according TO
D. C. Cameron, a Scotchman, VINO mas
lived out there for 20 years and VINO
Is now at the Imperial. Especially
would Mr.. Cameron 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
vast unexplored region, a desert.
But sometimes man goes out pros
pecting and is never heard of again,
and then down to civilization come
tales of how the bones Of what had
apparently been a white man had
been found bleaching about the re-
mains of a camp fire, and then bit
by bit the fact comes out that the
solitary seeker of gold had fallen into
the hands of some Of the first famil-
les Of the country and made con-
tribution to the aboriginal table
de'hote.
It wasn't to tell about this that Mr..
Cameron came to New York. He is
sober, practical business man, and
he is in the United States to see how
milk is manufactured here.
Not the calcareous beverage obtained
by treatment Of disaphanizomerated
aqua crotona that used to find a ready
market here before some New York
ers had heard alb out cows, but pow
dered milk.
They are going to start a new man
ufacturing industry in Australia and
Mr.. Cameron is the general manager
of the company and he is travelling
to get points.
"Our factory Is being built at a
place about 125 miles from Mel
bourne" said Mr.. Cameron with
in a radius Of four miles of it there
are yielded every morning from 160,-
600 to 10000 pounds Of milk.
THAT of course, IL a great cattle
country; and there are lot of but
ter factories. OF course great part
Of the milk produced Is consumed by
the butter factories; in the spring
the supply Is such that the waste can
not be consumed by the calves and
pigs in the neighborhood, to which it
is fed
1--WE are building . plant to cost
$4,000, and an English engineer is
Installing machinery. have been
visiting factories in Canada and SYRIA
cuse and am now going over to Eng
land to study the process there. We
shall begin on small scale, but we
expect the far east to furnish a great
market.
big holdings Of land in Victoria
are rapidly going out, the big estates
being rapidly divided into smaller
properties and sold of. Just a month
before left an estate of 1900 acres
was divided and sold, and great deal
Of it realized $500 an acre. This was
not for city lots, mind you, or or
! chard land, but for what had been
dairy land for some years. A cur
ious thing about the sale was that
the people who bought were all resi-
dents Of the district.
What we call the bush Is not SO
far from Melbourne On one side" said
Mr.. Cameron in asnwer to a ques-
ton. "In fact. 1t lies only about 30
miles to the west The aboriginal
Inhabitants are very few now and
most Of them are kept in colonies by
the government corresponding some
what to your Indian reservations. In
part OF western Australia, should
i say near the center of the continent,
the blacks are savages, and like their
bit Of human flesh at times. They
are not fighting lot and l don't be-
leve they kill and eat one another
to any extent, but an occasional pros
pector gets in among them and real
ICES his mistake. too late.
"They are very fond Of Chinese too,
and if Celestial gets UP among them
they are apt literally to devour him.
There used to be lot more Of Chin
csc disappearing by this means some
Years ago than is the case now, be-
cause our immigration laws prohibit
them from coming into Australia and
those that were elready in the coun-
try have grown cautious about leav-
ing the thickly settled parts of the
country. The aborigines have acquir.
ed many of the vices and apparently
noe Of the virtues Of civilization"