The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 14, 1916, Image 8
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.
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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
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toyov.r grocer man
ancj you'll gat snappy,
spicy ginger snaps.
NATIONAL BISCUIT j
COMPANY
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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.
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Tornado, Lightning or
Country property whether mortgagee
unincumbered.
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dent or Damages.
Live Stock against death from any cai
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Plate Glass, Bonds of all kinds, Hea?
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