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DH35CP TO* NATIONS. WNCX Tltto Fiji Islandors are remark able for many reasons, among Others the fact that while t hoy were cannibals 50 years arfb and made It a practice to kill their captives and eat their lloBh, now they are devout churchgoers. Having boon Christianized, nominally at loaat, doubtless they are entitled to bo Called civilized also, but the fact retaains that many of their old habits $nd customs are bb strong an ever, although their general way of living has been com pletely changed and cannibal forks are no longer in.uso, writes Edward Far rington to Grit. These peculiar forks aro still to be fouhd, however, and it is whispered that modorn reproductions are being made to sell to shuddering and unsuspicious tourists. They are mado of wood, with round handles and long prongs. In the old days ordinary meat was eaten with the tingors. but there was a superstition that it was bad luck to touch human UohIi with the hands after It had been roaBted. The men of the FIJI islands take ex ceeding prido in tholr hair, which is allowed to grow very long and is usu ally very thick. ? Although the enor mous mops of hair worn by the war riors of cannibalistic days are no long er to he seen, being considered as a relic of heathenism, long hair Is dis tinctly popular and It is regularly dip ped in coral lime, which makes it aa More than oneliailor whose ship has touched at Suva, the principal seaport of Pljl, has had a very peculiar experi ence. On going ashore he has quite naturally indulged {n the beverage ot the Islands, a drink called yangona and sometimes kava. When he haa endeavored- to return to his ship a lit tle later, he has found to his immeaaur> able surprise that he haa no command of his legs. His brain Is as clear as it ever- was. He is in a mental con dition to talk rationally on any sub* Ject, but he cannot walk. That Is the way yangona acts. It is said that on* Englishman was found after nightfall with his head buried in a thick shrub by the side of the road and lustily call ing for help. He was perfectly con scious of his unpleaHant predicament but was unable to move. Immense quantities of yangona are consumed by the natives. Few white people like the taste at first, but It is considered refreshing on a hot day and it is so plousantly stimulating that many Euro* peans In Fiji drink It habitually. Making Yangona. Yangona Is brewed on all festlfl oc casions uh a matter of course. A groat wooden bowl with four legs is used for the purpose. I'sually it Is beautifully polished from long usage and has a purple bloom like that of the grape, the yangona root, which comes from a plant growing freely all over the ls I GROVC or travll-lk'T^ll^ while as though powdered for several days, alter which if takes oil a shade varying from warm rod to tawny vol a low. Tiit-re are two reasons for this custom; :t it; this fashion and tt keeps tho hair fn?e from tiny creatures not to be mentioned in polite society. Oil Is also rubbed into the hair and when tho bartering has been completed the heavy locks stick out from thN hen.d In all directions, looking like a great red or yellow adreole. How the Natives Dress. On ordinary occasions tho Pijians of both sexes dress lightly. On certain ccretrionln f occasions. however, rolls of cloth many yards long are wrapped around the body until walking Is made " difficult. Cloth obtained from the white people is made nso of somewhat, but tho natives make a durable cloth i from the inner bark of trees, which Is hammered thin and often dyed. Some- i times the only clothing consists Qf a ; fringe of loaves and the children wear j nothing at all. The chief business of Fiji in sugar J growing and there are thousands of acres in sugar plantations, but the work is und?r the supervision of white ! men and tlirf'acUial labor Is performed ; by coolies. II ditttcult to get the Fijians to work Hard yr for more than a few days at iktftte. They lire in a very simple fashion and have few wants. Tbv tiodlpl are made of thatch, ara rather Ittgfh posted for the sake of coolness artri f tiln a single room. There ara im feeds nor chairs, but great piles of iMWTr fto* Which the ffjlans sit and sleep. ' . 7 . . ? .... ^2^ . --- lands, is brought in when all Is ready and publicly scraped and cleaned. Then it is cut into small pieces and grated into the great bowl. In olden times it was customary to have the root prepared by chewing rather than J>y grating. Several young men or*' pretty girls were given pieces of the root and bidden chew them until large lumps of white fiber had been obtained. The oporatiOn required some time and the chewer8 frequently ^washed out their mouths with fresh water. It is Contended oven yet by many people in Fiji that yangona prepared by the chewing process Is much preferable to that obtained by grating, so far as the flavor is concerned. The second procefs is adding the water, which is poured over the roots in the bowl, after which It Is wrung out through a piece of hybiscus fiber, which is like fine netting. The yellow ish fluid which Is thus produced tastes like rhubarb and magnesia. In spite of the fact that they follow the practices of the Christian church, some being Methodists, soma Advent ists and some Cathotios. many of the old-time rites are stfll persisted hi. Perhaps the most interesting as well as the mote remarkable is that found on the island of Beqa, one of the FIJI group, where the natives walk bare footed on stones so hot that they glow. Although the statement was long qufcs tloned. the fact has been established that there is no Jugglery about tils rite, although nobody csn explain why the feet of the ffrewalkers. as they are called, are not terribly burned. Oh, say! I say! You say .... . il.- ?>.;? '-.4 ?i i fixju^r Zt? Zu toyov.r grocer man ancj you'll gat snappy, spicy ginger snaps. NATIONAL BISCUIT j COMPANY 5' WKITE8 OF HIS TRIP Over Roads in S?vemlX Counties of Houtli Carolina. K. W. I>abbs, of Salem, Sumter coun- J t y writes to the Sumter l>ally Item j under date of July 1. as follows: Last Monday tin* writer took a party | of ladies to Rock Hill to nttend the Club Women and House Keejiers' courses of the summer .school. We went by Ford and there were live of us j and three suit oases. We left houie at (l :4ft and Cached Wlnthrop college at 2:15, a distance of about 115 miles. If all the road had been as good as the 80 allies in Lee qountythe trip could easily be made in four hours, or if tlio road in Lancaster. had been as good as the Kershaw road the trip would not require over 5 hours. From Kershaw nearly to Lancaster the road was being worked and it was a con stant thing to low gear to pull through the mud. while the danger of skidding was so great that a speed of over 10 miles i km* hour was not safe. Beyond Lancaster the road was hard but very rough. We were told at I Lancaster that there was a fearful hill going down to Catawba river, half a mile long with 60 per cent grade and a bad turn at the bottom to the bridge: If we had not. lost so much time by the mud be tween Kershaw and Lancaster, or If the main highway to Charlotte had been what we expected, we would have gone f>() miles out of the way to miss this terrible hill. What was our relief when we reached the hill to find it not over UOO yards long and not too steep to stop the cur at any point on it by the use of the hand . aful foot brakes, of course if a cur .wore to get away from the driver it would be a miracle If car and occupants we're i lot hurled ai'-ross the log railing at the bend fifty feet over into t.he river. The scene was worth all the trouble and anxiety. From the bridge to Hock Hill the road was hard and reasonably smooth, but too curved fur a sjieeil of more than 15 or 'JO miles l>cr hour. The next morning two of u> left' Rock Hill at S> o'clock coming b\ way of Chester. Wlittishoro and Ridge way, crossing the Southern railway twenty times In a distance of about fid miles. At Itidgeway we turned eastward for the lib miles to Camden, coming through Iyongtown six or eight miles of sand rtwal along a ridge pretty thickly settled. On the left we could see the red rocky hills of Fairfield and across the river Liberty Hill and the hills of Lancaster and Kershaw. On the right the sand hills of Kershaw and Richland. About a hundred yards from the line between Fairliehl and Kershaw we stopjMMl for water, and the hos pitable owner. Mr. Sanders, gave us some of the liuest |>eachfs w fvel* saw; We were surprised t.n tiinl him' and a neighbor so enthusiastic for the "shoe string" county that is proposed to be set up from the Kershaw line to the North Carolina line and froini the Catawba liver westward to within s miles of Wlnnshoro. Chester and York court house. "Why man it is ?;n miles from here to Hock llili. w hat will- you gain by" such a change?" "Kverythlng to gain and nothing to lose. Several roads have been aban doned because the county will not keep up the bridges on big < ivekg that empty into the river. The chain gang has not worked the road through here in 10 years. A court house ring at Winnsboro takes all the ottices ami all the road work Is done' nearby." Well, Itock Hill will (to. you the same way." "No she wont, Itock Hill does things. There will l>e several timet* the wealth in the new] county |H?r square mile than there la! now iu Fairfield. We can not be any; worse off." They, gave us the tlgnre*? but I have forgotten. They also ^atdf ? you will find the roads good In Ker-1 siuiw county." A short time after leaving Mr. Matoders we ran into the* rains that we had been weeing off tQi our right and left for an hour, and from there to three ndles al>ove.. Mayesvllle we came for five hours inl the rain. Some place** the water was running down the road or across It like a creek. We stopped n,? hour In Camden during one of the hardest o? the showers, a half hour in Bishopv vllle during another downpour, a hal{ hour in Mayesvllle and a half hour be fore the rain talking With Mr. San ders. Reached hone at 7 :80, eleven.' and a half hours from the time we left Rook Hill, actual running time of ft hours for 140 ndlea as near as w? could count It. From Bishopville we came toward Sumter for a mile and then turned down by the McOutchen's and Mt. 'AUm church. In the AfeCutclien neighborhood we saw the 1 1 nest corn of the whole trip, there were three Ileitis of 20 or more acres each* (it was raining so we could not see how large they were) that looked good for tH> t?? t?M? bushels |wr acre. Good sturdy stalks, close In the drill, nearly till silked oat. one to two ears de veloping. and so far advanced that the rain of Tuesday afternoon Insures a crop. In the last two weeks 1 have been In !H?xlngton. Richland. Fairfield, Chester, York, Lancaster, Kershaw, Lee and Sumter. I ah* has the t>est roads and the best crops. Hlshopvllle outfht to be u metroi>oUs (?) some day, for 1 have* never seen any town so surr<ti?nded with flue lands and progressive farmers, nor with as good roads leading Into it from four direc tions. Next in quality of roads Is Kershaw, with York a close second. Hut for the I >oor road through the "black jack" section of lower York. 1 would put York ahead of Kershaw. The national highway In Lexington. Richland, and Lancaster was a disapi>olntuient to inc. Another disappointment was the lack of road markers in York, Chester. Fail-Held and Sumter. We went up the road from Hock Hill toward York as far as old ftbe nezer church. This is perhaps the prettiest suburban settlement in the State. Then to the Winthrop farm by one of the show alfalfa farms of ltwk IHII. S< KM l after we crossed the river into. York wo passed by w| falfa patches ami they hic scat tyred ail along through tln^tpr and Kali ii. lil. Camden Hock Hill and Wlnnshoro have" hcautlfnl "'al reefs ami handsome rcthlcuces, l?nt tin* only advantages I M w liver Kuiutor Mfi) In the width of I streets, the spacious grounds, and tilt* undulating lands that o|ieu now vistas at eVCry turn. "I would llk?? to mention all tlie k?kn|, farming HM'tloiW (hat (inpri^HNl me, hut tills letter Is too long. FARMKK Arc you keeping a record of your cu&ii transact ions.' l)o you kuovv hou| much you will owe next fall? l)o yrtu [ know what your yield of corn, oat*, wheat or j?otatoes will have cost you per bushel 7 Ai*e you Roill# t<> 'w able next fall to tell the lowest price that you can take for your Cotton and .still make a reasonable profit? , ^|ip|M>se that at the end of the year you have cleared a hove all ex*-j lenses; will you know which crop made you the most money? Perhaps, and It often hapi>ciis. one of them will have made no money at all, or may have even los\ money for you. llenee, t ho Importance of knowing which crop was unprofitable, In order that you may avoid loss year after year hy using the same methods. The only way to know this is to keep records on. your crops. Not necessarily "down to the cent" records If there Isn't much time, hut reasonably detailed accounts of what money, labor and fertilizing you are putting on each crop, so that you can get a pretty accurattv Idea of what crop cost you. Fortified with this in formation you will l>e able to discuss cost and marketing of crops more in telligently, and the quoted prices for the different crops which you have for sale will mean more to you. Why not start keeping records right away? Only a few weeks ago, over SOU farmers in one of the westefJi states, realizing the lmiM>rtance of knowing what it cost them to produce their crops, got together ami agreed to start keoplng records tills year. It's simply plain business, and un doubtedly will be worth much more than the time It takes. For fuller information write the Bu reau of Farm Management, Dept. of | Agriculture, Washington, D. C. . Marrying Parson Dead. - | Bristol, Va.-Tenn., July 5.? Kev. A. | II. Burroughs. .83 years old, and wide ly known throughout the South, died i here tonight after a short illness. Kev, Mr. Burroughs gained fame many years ago when he established a "Mec ca" on the. Tennessee side of the city, where he married run-away couples, the law of that State not requiring the consent of parents for candidates not ? o? age. It is said that he has married r?,1412 couples from over five States. He was generally known as "Par son Burroughs" and many magazines and newspai>ers have .carried stories of him all .over the United States. STATE OF TAMAuTJI Border Region Many Rich Reaour^ } HHie promthemv which il* y j State of Th nmullpas i* .*,111,1 llU? border newfc of the day twikJi following bulletin. Issued t?v 2* tloilill tlCOgrapbU Society IH NVashlngtoij headquarter*, i,f nJT' terest : Owlnn to tin* 'border outran inltted by huudlts who bavi> u ' Texas at opposite the ,\i Slate of Tumaullpas, public luten focused on tills poll thai <11 vision southern republic which ha* rlclt resources, both mineral Rnrtrf roltarat,- but which lias u,.t |*Ll voI?mhmI by American u1hj jJJ J capital as have other section* Jf! country, Tainaullpas Is about tlu? Ugl Maine, but with only about oumu the population of the New Kitf! commonwealth. Its ^ulf cxkusit ft low, sandy, hot and niolst, txt? north and south for i>50 milt* fr^T, mouth, of the Klo Orumle to tin- inj of the Pauueo river/ where Is sjJJJ the lmi?ortunt seajwrt OfTawpltut Its fabiih>UMly rich oil fields. Thl?? is indented with many shallow formed by the Isluud anil ftl&dhta the mouths of the Ulo tlraude, ohus, Soto la Marlim uiul T*iowh vers. In wlntejr It Is swept- by vfeg "northers" which art* exceeding* j serous to navigation ami which ttf groat discomfort to the natives. That iM>rtlon of the Mat? botfei on Texas Is flat and Ik very dry eight months of the year but wlwn rlgated Is extremely fertile, produrl bountiful grain crops as well as H talnlng numerous herds of cattle. 1 southern and central section* ^ su^ar cane, bananas coffee and w co In the well-watered valleys. ? mountainous regions, back froa coast, the Atatc iK>sst?sx?*s Immemt tentlal wealth In Its undeveloped silver, copper, marble, asphalt atf3 mines. 10 veil in the Tamplco tfl the great underground reservoir*? troleuui have been tapped only ?w recent years The mountain# of Tuuinullpan^ boast a salubrious climate, teem i9 game, and sportsmen of MexlctC? make annual excursions to this rati to hunt deer and the vast floctol wild fowf which nest In the neljto# hood of the numerous lakes that M the state Tamaullpas owes its commerclall* poitance largely to Jts Utle fiber tod* try and to the great volume of far* passing through Tamplco, which rs next to Vera Oruz among Mexlcnj ports. Its total commerce for IWJv? more than $63,000,000 while V?1 Cruz's trade was $83,000,000. Fn?| Tamplco to New Orleans by Ateaatri 705 miles, about the satne distance t>j from Philadelphia to Savannah. I* Tamplco to Galveston Is 450 miles. TM capital of the State, Ciudad Vldwll has a population of about 10,000. tm Is situated In the mining district, miles north of Mexico City and miles northwest of Tamplco. The Williams Fire Insurance the leading Insurance Companies doing business in the State. r. v. ?W._ ?SJ I ? ' ir-V-! 1 We will insure your Tornado, Lightning or Country property whether mortgagee unincumbered. - Automobile owners dent or Damages. Live Stock against death from any cai ? . , . r Plate Glass, Bonds of all kinds, Hea? * - .V StaSHl and Accident. = ? ?? Camden, South