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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-01-24, Page 3Grew Up In Jail Wed English King Queen Joanna, second wife of 'Henry IV, was a widow with nine children when `he married her. Her life had been exceptionally hard and only. with Henry was Ale ever to know happiness and security, As Princess Joanna of Navarre much of her childhood was spent in a :prison in Paris _because she was the daughter of the ill -famed Charles the Bad who, it was said, practised Black Magic and put to terrible use his 'knowledge of secret poisons. After years of hardship the young princess' was released, and when the old Duke of Bretagne offered to marry her she ac- cepted. ' Joanna bore him nine children. Then one day a visitor arrived, from England. It was Henry Bolingbroke ; who had .'been banished by Richard. : II. • When • Henry, saw the beautiful young mother with her fair hair and eyes of forget-me-not blue, he immediately fell'' in love with her. As for Joanna, Henry's hand- some 'face, charming manners and witty conversation enthral- ' led her. She persuaded her hus- band to :help Henry with ships, money and an army so that he could return to England and wrest the throne from Richard. In a few months the old duke died and she was free. Henry, now king of England, sent her a message at once, and Joanna came to England to be his bride. Within three weeks she was crowned at Westminster, For twelve years they lived happily together, her only grief being the separation from her children whom she had to leave behind in France. . They were, however, brought over' to See her at intervals. As Henry's son by his first wife grew up, he began to show antagonism towards Toanna, and this caused some unpleasantness between the prince and his fa- ther. Tragedy was drawing 'near. The king was found to be suf- fering from leprosy. Soon he would not show his face in public. His wife nursed him devotedly to the end. On his death -bed Henry sent for Prince Hal and begged him to take good care of Queen Joanna. ' At first the young Henry V treated his stepmother with con- sideration and when he went off to war against France, made her his regent. This war with France was a nightmare for .Joanna be- cause her own children who were French were fighting against Henry. Her youngest son Arthur had been made Duke of Richmond while on a. visit here and this made him an English baron. He was captured by Henry and charged with high treason, punishable by death. On his return to England, Henry brought the young man back as prisoner and Joanna was forced to pay herstepson large sums of money to save his life. Even so, young Arthur was kept In the Tower under close arrest 4lother love proved stronger khan discretion and, in defiance of the king's orders, Joanna went to the Tower to see her, Ion. Henry was furious when he heard, and Arthur was re- moved to Fotheringay where he was even more closely guarded. For a year Joanna lived quietly In her own country palace, Ignored by Henry, but he had never forgiven her. One day his soldiers came .for her and told her that she was and4r arrest, "What is the charge against me?" she demanded. "Witchcraft, madam," was the reply. Her face grew pale. She was told that the' king had "proof" of her guilt; . that her confessor had been arrested on.,. a . charge of ;practising Black Magic, and after torture had "confessed" that the queen had been trying to cause Henry's death through sorcery. It was obviously a trumped-up charge In order that Henry could' seize Joanna's wealth, her jewels and property. She was taken to the gloomiest of fortresses, Pevensey, and there on the lonely :marshes- she was shnt up and, kept without proper food. The king, however, was a sick man, and when only thirty-five R sudden illness brought him to the brink of death. His conscience' was uneasy" and in his last months he wrote a document withdrawing all charges against his stepmother and restoring her possessions. She was released immediately and retired to the country, where she: found a late happiness with her children. Her hard life had "hot embittered her.' She showed friendship to Henry's young widow and showered affection on his delicate little son, the new King Henry VL Political economy: Two words,, that should be divorced on the grounds of incompatabillty, ON THE GOLD STANDARD — Pure gold from ancient Inca - treasures literally plates the ornate interior of the 400 -year- old Church of San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador. Typical of the ornate decorations is this massive, gold-plated. pulpit, supported by a series of hand -carved wooden figures, each colorfully painted. Quinine. Tablets etter Than Cash On primitive New Guinea, in .the Pacific, there are whites whose job it is to recruit native labour, mainly for the planta- tions. One of the most successful Was "Captain" Bill Slower, a thin, dark, wiry fellow who'd been a, juggler and stage magi- .Cion, Ile got recruits by sleight- of-hand tricks such as picking shillings out of the sand and producing eggs from natives' ears. Once he obtained twenty' for a bottle of quinine tablets for, in pre -fridge days, the missions found that Communion wafers wouldn't keep in the coastal tropics, so used quinine tablets instead. Quinine brings on a "buzzing" in the ears, and native com- municants came to regard it as high state of holiness. "The more their ears buzzed," said Bill, "the fuller. they reckoned they were of the Holy Ghost." Minding that the headman of the village from which he wanted recruits was a zealous mission convert and communi- cant, he got him to induce twenty "boys" to sign on in re- turn for the bottle of quinine tablet, which would raise him to an unparalleled state of holi- ness, "Is shouldn't be surprised if his ears are still buzzing," Bill told journalist explorer Colin • Simpson, who recounts his tra- vels through Melanesia in his book "Island of Men." Once Bill took his lugger across to the island of Wogeo,. for native copra, but couldn't get the islanders to sell him a single ,bag; they'd collected it, they said, for the mission — it was all "copra bilong Jesu." That gave Bill an idea. He went, away, had his lugger painted white with palm fronds tied to the , rigging, put on a new crew, and then sailed back to Wogeo, timing his arrival for nightfall. When the villagers rose in the morning they saw the white, decorated lugger, and a • venerable, bearded figure robed in white walking up and down the beach, reading from a large book which could have been 'a Bible, followed by his crew singing hymns, • Who was he? Th, crew said he was a very holy man. Where did he come from? From place bilong • Jesii. Why had he come? To take to Jesu the copra that had been collected for Him,. So the good people ;of Wogeo load- ed the mjssion copra on to the lugger,' sang a farewell hymn' to hfxli, waved palm branches from the shore until she cleared the .island, and were: still wav "ing when Bill went below to get the sheet and false beard off and open a bottle of rum: But it's not only traders who use religion to exploit the na- tives. Even some missions are guilty of getting gullible ad- herents by preaching' of the hell -fire in 'sture for :those who don't do ;as the mission' says they should, The' wealth .and influence of New Guinea missions often amazes travellers, who ' have never' thought of missionaries as.'big business men, running profitable copra plantations.. It used not to be unusual to come across . firms with . names like "Catholic Mission of the Holy Ghost, Ltd." seaman nearly 'caused a riot some' 'years "ago ,.when tie told native . mission workers, slaving away from dawn to dark; for a monthly wage of one .shilling, that: non -mission. plan- tations were paying ten shill- ings a month for much shorter hours. When a worried bishop and older fathers had the man con- fined to his ship for "putting bad ideas into the heads of our children," the natives swarmed aboard after dark to hear more about the outside world where Christians were' not obliged to work for one shilling a month, Bluey Ireland, another note- worthy labour recruiter men- tioned in Colin Simpson's book, wore — to impress the natives wore — to impress the natives with "Bluey" embroidered dia- gonally in red across the front and "Ireland" across the back. His red hair gave him a cer- tain prestige, and on arriving at a Sepik village he never cover- ed it until he met the headman. Then he put on a black silk crush opera hat, popping the crown as he did so. "The kanakas like it" he used to say. "You pay 'em the com- pliment of puttin' on y'best rig- out when you go to their places -- they appreciate that. Nobody gets as many recruits as I do." When he was 'recruiting for the copra plantations taken over from the Germans and managed by the Expropriation Board in Rabaul, a headman said he'd get him two recruits if Bluey would give him a dog and a cat, for the Sepik people are very fond of them, both' as pets and pro- tein. gluey wrote to the Board: "Send 2,000 dogs, also 2,000 cats." When none arrived he said to a pal: "A man gets no co-operation from those mugs in Rabaul!". On the island of Mer, Simp- son met a native police -serge- ant, Kaikai, who .hated the .idea of arresting anyone and put- ting him in jail. When the superintendent in- sisted that some miscreant be clapped into it, Kaikai demur- red: "Baba, man he get lonely in dat place,", then suggested that at least, he arrest someone else, so that the prisoner would have company. "Not" said the superintendent. Whereupon ICaikai put the man in jail - and spent the night there, with him 'for'com- pany! Kaikai received $15 a year, tobacco, and a uniform - but never wore the trousers, pre- ferring a lava -lava held up by a Boy Scout belt. He could read and `write only with difficulty, but when Simp- son asked what he'd like sent from Sydney he said: "Please. you send me book 'bout da Law." which he thought enor- mously important. "Me like_ know how, p'lieeman bilong Sydney he can 'tell when man drunk." Simpson told him of two tests — walking a chalk line, and saying "British Constitution." He could hardly wait to spring the chalk line test on the next drunk, but after trying "Brisk- Krish -Con- 'Brishcon-toosh" on himself, he roared with laugh- ter, slapped his thighs, rocked, rolled and decided that by this test everyone on the island was hopelessly drunk!' OVERWORKED • Sam 'was bringing the doctor back home with him to deliver his• wife of their 14th child. As they .turned into thebarnyard, the doctor noticed a duck wad- dlingup the driveway. 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