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a THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6, I02S
Miss Love Writes of
Trip to South America
Miss Jean C, Love, daughter^ of
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Love, of town,
who left recently for Negritos, Peru,
South America, to teach the child
ren of the Imperial Oil Co, em
ployees, has written some very in
teresting letters to hex* mother,
which we are privileged to reprint
and which will be read with inter
est by our readers;
(Continued from last week.)
Pacific Ocean, Friday, July 13, 1928
And herein commencetli the next
effusion from the parboiled voyag-
eur. I wonder where I left off last
time? Have I effervesed about the
beautiful scenery along the Panama.
Canal, the bamboo and banana, palm
etc, I’ll spare you that, and go on
to Panama. Bi^bou is the Pacific
terminal of the Panama Canal, and
the city of’ Panama is just across a
■white line from Balbou. I was sur
prised at Havana, but I was enrap-
. tured with Panama, so quaint and
yet so clean. The streets are so
narrow, and the traffic is all left
handed, so I expected a
every turn.
wonderful road through the tropi
cal jungle to the ruins of the Span
ish town of “Old Panama” on the
Pacific). I enjoyed the ruins but
I was keen about the Jungle. I saw
bananas growing on crazy looking
trees and saw clusters of cocoanuts
on funny palms. Goats seem to be
vfavorites in Panama as they were /nil Havana, but I did not see so many
mules.
crash at
We drove out over a
The sliope are wonderful, inter
esting, queer, I liked the Hindu
ones best where the turbaned hand
some proprietor sat at his door step
and hade you enter, I was charm
ed with it all, and keenly interest
ed in the prices. Of course you don’t pay what they ask, cheap,
powders and perfumes were only
about half the price here that they
are at home, and other articles ac
cordingly. We had dinner on a
wee balcony right above the street
and so could watch the crazy traf
fic down below, They have autos,
but they also have funny old cab-#
rioles drawn by a horse. I saw lots
of bare foot darkey women. We
only had an hour and a .half and I
hated to leave queer old Panama,
to come back to the Santa Maria,
but I have promised myself a delic
ious orgy of shopping when I come
back.
Last night whence were tooting
right along out of Balbos we gave a
sail-bat a close shave. It was right
in our path without a light, and we
just skimmed past. One fellow
screamed in Spanish, and that was
the first indication the captain had
of it. We were sure we hit it, and
hove to. It was a tense moment,
slowly our big boat ‘swung round
and the big searchlight flashed
across the dark water. Frequent
streaks of lightning illuminated
everything for a moment, then all
was darkness, blacker than before.
I shall never forget that moment,
when the cry “Man overboard” rang
out. But everything was alright.
It’s storming to-day out on the
Pacific dark and glory be, a little
cooler. The weather was infernally
hot yesterday coming through the
Canal, so hot that lunch was served
as pretty as
that
the
endmy voyage
love to go on
to
I’d
The time has gone
on the promenade deck, a lovely
lunch whiph I really enjoyed,
Everything is served so nicely, and
the linen is so clean, the dishes, so
pretty and the silver so shiny
the table looked
food tastes.
I hate to come
Sunday morning,
down and back,
so quickly and lias been so full,
Have I written at length about
the masquerade dance to which I
went clad in a clown’s suit made of
the cabin
ways hot.
first prize
contest—a
trinket box of black with inlaid
pearj mosaic work. I like it a lot.
'Don’t expect letters so often after
this, as there is mail only
other week, out of Talara and
take more than two weeks to get to
you. Everything is “hunky
wouldn’t have missed this for .any
thing, Worth a dozen degrees.^1 Let
it rain, let it pour” for this is like
ly the last rain I’ll see till I get back
here.
curtains Hot, it’s al-
I got a prize that night,
in the needle and thread
pretty little Chinese
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Trip to Saskatchewan
Mr, Thomas Cameron who is op a
trip to the West writes a very inter
esting letter:—
Although my ticket read to Cal
gary and Edmonton I got only as
far as Flaxcombe. On my arrival
at the hotel there I found an old
The Wallis
20 30
THE MEASURJNG STICK OF THE
TRACTOR INDUSTRY
The lights came on and Captain
Parker read us the telegram, warn
ing us about entering the King’s do
mains, if guilty of any crime. Next
day those who had crossed before
advised us who hadn’t to wear bath
ing suits, so I followed that advice
but Mildred didn’t, she wore a green
silk dress. About 2:30 King Nep
tune, clad In dangling sea-weed, his
daughter, arrayed likewise, and all friend, James Hackney, brother of
their court., the doctor, the Royal (Mrs. Turnbull, of town, who was
Barber, and the Royal guards, dress- adjusting hail claims with the farm
ed most grotesquely with blackened ers. To some farmers the losses
noses,,- and shiny cheeks, came “over' sustained from hail, are very serious
the side” accompanied by loud and 1 but when you consider the immense
repeated* blasts of the ship’s whistle, ’ areas untouched by hail, the small
damaged area seems insignificant.
Mr. Hackney would enter a field and
register a loss of 100% but
he reached the other side
field there might be no loss,
ticed one man was allowed
per acre for his loss
University of Nebraska, whichThe .
Is the standard for United States and
Canada in their Official Test No.
134, has the following to say about
the WALLIS Certified Tractor,
The Wallis Tractor pulled 75% of
is weight on the Drawbar at 2.98
miles per hour.
Delivered 76.55% of its maxium
belt power to the Drawbar.
Delivered one HORSE POWER at
the Drawbar for each 168 pounds
of its Lincoln Test Weight.
It pulled 27.05 h.p, on Low Gear at
2.98 miles per hour.
It pulled 26.3 6 h.p. on High Gear
at 3.77 miles per hour.
Arthur Jones
They proceeded to the large canvas-
covered platform beside the swim
ming pool, and took their places. On
a table near by stood, a larger Jar
of red liquid labellei “rat poison’ ,
beside it was a jar of green “paris
green” another table was laden with
such goods as pumpkin pie, toma
toes and eggs. A large milk can of
White-wash completed the equip
ment. The King called for the cap
tain, and asked for the record of
each and every passenger, hoping j TtyO first day I was taken out to
that none were guilty of hyenish see my old friend, Wes. Harvey and
crimes. The captain replied most his good wife. He is a real son of
sorrowfully that many on board had his father and his wife is a daugh-
never crossed the equator and were ter of"the late Thm’as Cudmore. Once
guilty of hyenish crimes. He hand-! when Mr. Cudmore was dining with
ed the list of misconduct to the
King's Scribe who set up a loud ca
terwauling, as he read it to the king
The first man was summoned and
his charge laid—he was the editor
of a paper—a New York papert at
that, your Honor. The King
screamed “A most -hyenish crime.
Take him to the Doctor/’ The guil-1 vels have seen many good farm
ty man was dragged from his knees
and bustled to the Doctor, who in-
olucated him with the rat poison,
using an automobile pump to do so.
One of the Captains smashed an egg
on his head, another bashed him in
the face with a pumpkin pie, a third
slipped a tomato and an egg down
his neck, and then he was led to
barber. This individual, ably
sisted by other members of
court lathered his face and all
body not covered by a bathing suit,
, with the whitewash, applied with
(a huge paint brush. Some of this
the barber scraped off with his yard
long 10 in. wide razor, but the most
■still there when the 1
before
•of the
I no-
$15.00
per acre for his loss. In estimating
tiie loss fpr any man if it were not
a total he got some heads of wheat
and counted the grain or heads de
stroyed and’ thus arrived at a correct
conclusion. *
Negritos Talara, Peru
July 16, 1928
Note that address, that’s where I
am, having arrived yesterday morn
ing in the land of sand and oil. Mr.
and Mrs. Brake (my manager and
manageress)' took me to their home
here, for lunch, and what a lunch.
Really it was the nicest I have ever
eaten, Their home, too is lovely,
built of frame, of course, as all these
buildings are, with painted board
walls, as all these houses are, yet
very cozy, It is a large square
house, one story, with all the rooms
opening aimlessly out of each other.
To come to my abode—I have a
good-sized livingroom and wide
double window faces the ocean
which is about a; block from here
and lower down. As I write I can
watch the sunset on the Pacific. It’s
only 6:15 but it is almost dark, and
you know there is no
It is light then it is
course Negritos isn’t
complete darkness the
su.n sets, but there’s
light,
o’clock
and in half an hour you have tho
lights on. We have a maid known nye“1SH crin\e inroY !um, ove7°a™; i as “Petraneylya” who only speaks’ *° was. dumped backwards and I
Spanish, and does all our work for ieadfirst. * ° the tank,
a few cents a week. jthe . criminals were given _
I can't describe the country—it is Doctor? Two young dandies
so absolutely different from anything iinighty good sports in
I have ever seen. It is all sand, ves • commanded to lie flat On their sto
machs, heads rMarly together, left doing so. well and are of the very
hands clasped and the right hand | best class when we remember the
equipped with a pumpkin pie.' At
me I suggested that he should al
low me to give him a
ing of fish because it
brain food and he said
a whale then. Mr. and
have a lovely family of two sons
and two daughters, all getting a
university education. In my tra-
second serv-
was a good
I should eat
Mrs. Harvey
It
It
MASSEY-HARRIS MACHINERY
twilight here,
dark, but of;
plunged in
moment the
no lingering
It is quite dark at seven
You have bright sunlight, •was
homes, beautiful houses and fine
barns, 'but always lacking something
that might be improved but Wes.
Harvey’s farm home, buildings, gar
den and farm, are complete, as fine
as a picture, a two story brick house
standing well back bn a fine section
of land, with barns, stables and silo
finished even to the painting, sur
rounded with a fine growth of trees
a large garden of flowers and vege
tables, a tennis court and wheat
fields that will yield at least fifty
bushels to the ace. On this farm he
has two six horse teams of the fin
est kind, a tractor, two twelve-foot
___i binders and a twenty-foot harvester
King ' ready to dip into the grain any day.
screamed “He is gpilty of a’most! In all he wns 1120 acres of choice
hyenish crime throw him overboard” land.
__ I Then there
Some of Mr. and Mrs.
severe people, with all theii" children mar-
* I punishments before being led to the ried.i He and one of his sons run a
(but large store full of all kinds of sup-
this) were plies for the farmers.
Is it any wondei’ these people are
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the
as-
the
his
were my old friends,
Robert Down, lovely
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I have ever seen. It is all sand, yes
but not like Grand Bend sand at
all. The nearest I can come to it.
iS, th» JIP tllat “magnifyins|«<liupp«u wiui a puu^u. pl«.
g ass ou it that you park on yourj.^ cpxnmand each was to biff the
nose, and slide something up and!0(.iier over the head with the pie.
own till the picture is in focus, and Awfullv funny. One woman was ac- lrvrxt* , ■»■> r/Mi f-ltr ^.4. 4.1. z-v ..J xs . *° cused of winning a race
gence—a most hyenish
stead of with speed,
Mildred and I were
ward together and made to kneel
among the slippery egg-tomato-pie
debris. Mildred was accused of
flirting in the dining room and I
of flirting with everyone on board.
We were scolded and commanded to
sing, we stood giggling and the King
screamed “Terrible, take them
away.” I was given the whole
treatment from egg to being thrown
into the tank, but because Mildred
can’t swim, they didn’t shave her,
or throw her over. "Her dress was
an awful looking sight.
When all the criminals were pun
ished they seized the King and his
court and threw them in, and then
we pelted eggs, etc. at them. It was
a scream. Don Hall was dumped in
boots, socks and knickers, Holmes
had a roll of bills in his pocket and
he was tossed in too, money and all.
You would think we were a bunch of
wild saavges, but we had a whale of
a time. Those on deck had a better
tOne than we did, too. Next time
I’ll be in the audiences. A bath
for me and my suit, removed all
traces of
wash, rat
At dinner
presented
thusly,—-
look intently at the picture of Moses '
in the wilderness. He has his tribe
up on one rough sandy hill, and *he
is wondering how he is going to
make the hop to the next one. As
nearly as I remember that wilder
ness is a picture of Negritos, It is
all hills, rough, hard looking things,
desperately fascinating, yet so weird.
The buildings are all the funniest
things, built on stilts—'Why, I don’t
know, unless it is because of the
dampness as it never rains (al
though the will® moans as if to an
nounce a dreadful storm) every
thing is covered with a fine oily
sand. Very .little grows, but the
Company have a fine-looking
den in which they grow everything
from carrots to bananas and figs
and lemons, oranges and grape-fruit
are whoppers. We eat at the club
house, quite a nice building, near
here, where they serve good meals.
Down in the Club House is a read
ing room well supplied with Ontar
io papers, magazines, books, etc.
There is an inland swimming tank
a golf course and a good tennis
courts. I have quite a lot of holi
days, I should have the last two
weeks in July, but I won’t take them
this year—then I have a week from
Friday for some Peruvian holiday,
two weeks at Christmas and at Eas
ter, the Cahadian and Yankee
Thanksgiving, Dominion Day, July
4th and all of February and any
othei’ Canadian, English or Yankee
holiday, or Peruvian.
I was up at school this afternoon
and received a huge surprise, it is
the best equipped school I have ever
been in. The Company supplies,
everything, scribblers, pencils, paste,
drinking cups, pure water—absol
utely everything, and most gener
ously. I certainly laughed when I
thought of the stuff I
down here, expecting to
solutety barren school.
Qne thing I regret
had
find
is
gar-
lugged
an ab-
that I
did not take along a heavy cloth
coat. It is actually cold down here,
especially at night. Of course it is
warm compared with our cold
weather, but it is not at all hot—-a
chilly, bright spring day, with a
sand-laden wind blowing off the
ocean, They have no furnaces any
where, but the people have little el
ectric heaters and gas fireplaces.
Weird Initiation on Crossing tho
Equator
Now I must tell you about the
ceremony on board the Santa Maria
as we crossed the equator Saturday
afternoon, entering the Kingdom of
King Neptune. Friday night at din
ner we were all startled by a hea
thenish uproar, the lights went out,
the whistles blew and
bangable was banged,
messenger, had boarded
everything
Neptune’s
the ship.
with intelli-
criine—in-
hauled for-
mothers who reared them.
Then there is James Reid, brother
of Wm. ’"Reid, of town. His good
wife was a McLean, of Hibbert. They
have four sons and one daughter.
I christened, one of the boys Uncle
John McLean. ’Reid is closely con
nected with some of the aristocracy
of Ireland and his wife can speak the
Gaelic,
wheat,
and is
one of
fine family but how could they be
anything else with an
and a Scotch mother.
Besides these were
homes of young people
with their small houses and a few
(little children, some of whom had
come .from good homes in the east
| but all fighting their battle bravely
I and will “nae doot get awa wi it.”
I drove for hundreds of miles
around Flaxcombe and found them
farming well, with very few or no
poor farmers. The crops were won
derful. .
I must say I enjoyed every minute
of my short stay, and would have
liked to stay longer but had to come
home. On the Sunday I had the
pleasure of attending a good service
in a small country church.
In Saskatoon I was off for a few
hours and an old friend from the
Thames Road, Fred Borland, met
me with his car and drove me around
the city, and a wonderful city it is
; for its age. Saskatoon made a
He has 1120 acres, 340 in
He has fine farm buildings
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There is an excellent library and
lots of athletic Sorts, a theatre and
much more to see. The people here
are awfully kind and friendly. We
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