HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-11-08, Page 7Musical Windmills
We heard S. Tiago do Cacem
before we really saw it, and it
remains for us on this account
among others one of the pleas -
mit memories of the whole of
our trip. The road approaches
the town — it is really • little
more than an overgrown village
— over high ground, for S. Tiago
lies in a horseshoe of hills that
girdle it on the north, the east
and the south, leaving only the
western side open to the lower -
lying ground and the sea . ten
miles away. Ranged along the
curving crest of this ring of mod-
est hills is a line of windmills,
and it was these that we heard.
The windmills of S. Tiago do
Cacem stand out in our memory
as something magical. They are
squat, round, conical -topped lit-
tle buildings, far less graceful
or imposing than the few tower -
mills that survive in our own
eastern counties: toys one would
say, looking at them across the
Intervening fields, But musical
toys. Therein lies their charm.
For the sound that betokened S.
Tiago do Cacem came, from these
innumerable toy windmills,
whose sails revolved gaily at the
bidding of a gentle breeze.
It is an altogether mysterious,
haunting sound that they make;
a rising -and -falling sound, fluc-
tuating in strength on the im-
pulse of the wind, not unlike
the distant, forest -tree -filtered
moan of a wood -pigeon but more
eerie, less substantial.. , .
We cut across the grass to in-
spect these wind -operated musi-
cal boxes, expecting the music
to increase in strength as we did
so. But it did not. Rather, the
total effect of these pastel -shaded
notes remained of sound eman-
ating from all the scattered
windmills within range, and the
effect at our approach was not
unlike the moving of a micro-
phone about the different wood-
winds in an orchestra.
The secret was revealed as we
threw nearer. From the conical
top of each windmill there pro-
truded a beam spoked with a
Fight rope that made an eight -
sided web, like that of a giant
spider. Between the alternate
pairs of poles a triangular piece
of canvas was stretched, the sails
thus consisted of four triangles
at canvas equally spaced and
hollowed by the wind. And
strung along the ropes were lit-
tle clusters of red clay whistles,
like small bulbous vases. Each
had been subtly pierced to fun-
nel the wind, and it was these
Blusters of ocarina -like whistles,
that distributed about the land-
scape, made this sweet, systeri-
taus music.
They were not there solely
for our pleasure, of course. Ex-
ploring later, we found the mil-
lers' cottages, dotted about in
hollows on the hillsides or on the
outskirts of the town. The mil-
ler's wife, of course, would be
busily occupied with her demes -
tic chores and keeping an eye
on her numerous children. The
miller, however, would be rest-
ing, his feet on a box, his eyes
shut, his head sunk on his chest.
Only his ear, like that of a
watchdog, would be on the alert.
So long as the music of his par-
ticular mill, which he could dis-
tinguish by some art from am-
ong the others, continued, so long
might ' e continue to relax. But
when the wind changed the sails
would cease to turn, and then
he must leave his chair for his
mill, slacken off one rope, haul
sn another, till he had man-
seuvred the sails into the wind
again and the music started up
line more. — From "Portuguese
Tourney," by Garry Hogg,
KILLING THE EVIDENCE
In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, after
householders reported that a car
was tearing around the neigh-
borhood in reverse, Assistant
Police Chief Reine Schmidt in-
vestigated, found behind the
wheel a teen-age girl who ex-
plained: "My folks let me have
,.the car, and I ran up a little too
much mileage.' I was just un-
winding some of it."
INSPECTED BY QUEEN — In full ceremonial dress,. men of the
Royal Scots Greys stand smartly at attention as Queen Elizabeth
H inspects them. The ceremony of the handing over of the new
guidon to the regiment was held in Edinburgh, Scotland..
Empire Auctioned To Pay The Army
Commodus is quite the most
notorious of all Roman emper-
ors. Yet, strangely he was the
son of Marcus Aurelius, probably
the best of them all.
The Roman people must have
expected big things from a son
of the great and good Marcus.
But their hopes received a viol-
ent shattering when, in the tri-
umphal procession in which the
new Emperor returned to the
capital from Hungary—where
his father died—Commodus had
had his Chambedlain, an ex -
slave and ex -charioteer, named
Saoterus, riding alongside him
in the imperial litter.
Very soon, the flagrant and
abominable excesses of the Em-
peror brought honie the terrible
truth to the Romans: that, once
.they had a madman reigning
over them. And not only the
maddest, but the most vicious
man ever to fill the imperial
throne.
His first act was to raise all
his intimate companions—box-
ers, charioteers, and other
"sportsmen"—to noble rank, and
to put them into jobs of the
greatest influences.
He had enough sense to leave
the control of the Praetorion
Guard in the hands of a gen-
eral, Tarrutenius Paternus, who
was both able and honest; but
most of the other key positions
of the Roman Empire which in
those days meant the entire civ-
ilized Western World, Com -
modus gave to his favourites,
men leadin most vicious lives,
all worthy companions of gam-
bling -crazed Commodus, if not
of a Roman Emperor.
Within two years Commodus
had so shocked Rome that his
sister Lucilla, together with her
stepson and cousin, had hat-
ched a conspiracy to dethrone
him.
The cousin, Quintianus, how-
ever, realized that a mere de-
throning woujel do no good. He
resolved therefore, to assassin-
ate Commodus when next the
Emperor went to the chariot
races.
Unfortunately, Quintianus,
having drawn his sword, paused
long enough to shout, "The
Senate sends you this!" with the
result that the Emperor's
guards rushed at the assassin,
overpowered him, and saved the
Emperor's life.
The outcome was not only
that Lucilla, Quintianus and
Lucilla's stepson were executed,
but that Commodus's wife was
banished to Capri, and there
strangled to death, by her hus-
band's orders.
The general of the Praetorian
DOUG SANDERS OF MIAMI BEACH receives the Seagram Gala
Cup, emblematic of the Canadian Open Golf Championship
from J. E. Frowde Seagram after becoming the first amateur
elver to cop the Gold Cup. Sanders nosed out pro Dow Finster-
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necessary when they tied the regulation 72 holes at Montreal
Beaconsfield with 15 -under -par scores.
Guard, who had been innocent
of any share in the conspiracy,
relieved of his command and
tortured to death, and the com-
mand of the Guard was taken
over by one of Commodus's
most vicious companions, Peren-
nis.
Now, with every key pos-.
ition held by an underling of
• the Emperor, Rome was truly
the prey of a madman.
Panic-striken by his suspic-
' ions of all but his intimate com-
panions in vice, Commodus dec-
imated the ranks of the senate
by almost daily executions for
"treason," until only those were
left who had proved themselves
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nothing but lickspittle servants
of his will.
Perennis was, as might have
been expected, far more treas-
onable than any senator who
had been beheaded for "high
treason"; but Perennis was bid-
ing his time, until he could
plunder the empire of a fortune
for himself and his two ambit-
ious sons..
In the meanwhile, the Em-
•peror's love of racing had so
crazed him that nothing would
please him but that he must
ride in the races himself, back-
ing his "colours" with sums equ-
ivalent, by to -day's values, to
millions of pounds. Soon the
imperial treasury was empty.
Perennis, who had left his
plans too late, had fallen under
suspicion, and had been sum-
marily executed. His exalted
marily executed. His exalted po-
sition was now taken by a Greek
been an errand boy in a house
of ill -fame, and with the pass-
ing of the empire into the hands
of the money -mad, unscrupul-
ous Greek, what little of sanity
that had remained in public
life completely disappeared.
As the treasury was now ex-
hausted, and both Cleander and
Commodus needed money for
their particular purposes, Clean -
der started off by selling pos-
itions and other benefits for
enormous sums, in the course of
which he amassed a fabulous
fortune.
Some of this money, but only
a relatively small part, he haa-
ded back to Commodus to de-
fray the vast expenses of the
Emperor's harem, gambling
losses an,1 army of corrupt
hangers-on, lie encouraged
Commodus to go chariot racing,
so as to be free to pursue his
own plans, but both Cleander
and the Emperor made the
great mistake of failing to pay
the Guard.
In a Rome so deprived of
common decency as Commodus
and his companions had made
it, it is not to be expected that
the unpaid Guard were going
to show any scruples. They
IixOmptly engineered a hold-up
in the corn supply, fanned pop-
ular feeling against Cleander,
whom they blamed for the fam-
ine,' and organized a riot in the
arena, even as Commodus, as
usual, was winning a chariot
race (the other competitors
knew it never paid to win!)
Commodus hurridly withdrew
to cafe of his villas, and the mob
poured out of Rome on his tail.
They found their Emperor cow-
ering in terror, only too happy
to save his life by ordering the
the instant execution of his
favourite, Cleander, when the
leaders of the mob demanded
it..
Commodus lasted for a short
while longer, but his end came
when he decided to celebrate the
eight anniversay of his accession
tci the imperial throne, not in a
solemn traditional ceremony
but in a personal appearance as
charioteer.
Warned by the howl of pop-
uiar fury that the announce-
ment of the Emperor's plans
aroused, his mistress, Marcia, and
two others determined to gain
favour with the mob by killing
Commodus. The gave him
poison -and when that had no
effect they paid Narcissus, one
of his favourite athletes, to
themselves masters of Rome and
murder him and- make them-
selves masters of Rome and
,masters of the world.
The Eternal City had had
some shocks in her long history
but never had it such a shock
as when on morning the tramp
of armed men sounded in the
streets and the Romans watch-
ed the Guard, brave in scarlet
cloth and steel and bronze ar-
mour, march in ordinary pro-
cession to the Forum, traditional
centre of Rome. •
There they saw the Praet-
orian Guard form up in a
square, and their Prefect or
general, mount the rostrum out-
side the Temple of Castor and
Pollux.
He had only a short announce-
ment to make—but it was one
°iif unprecedented importance to
his astounded audience.
Since the Guards' wages were
in arrears, he explained, and
there was now no Emperor to
pay them, the vacant office of
Emperor was being put up for
auction.
"Well, citizens of Rome, what
am I bid for Rome ... for the
- entire civilized world ... ?"
The Guard stood firm; and so
did their Prefect.
And then, as though the pre-
posterous offer had not been
startling enough, the next par-
alysing shock came.
If the Prefect and his men
were in deadly earnest . . . so
were two ambitious senators.
The bewildered, scandalized
Romans had the incredible ex-
perience of seeing two men
actually bidding for Rome—for
what was then the known
world.
At sunset, Rome was knocked
down by the auctioneer to Sen-
ator Marcus Julianus. His rival
counld not top his bid of
$1,500,000,000; and, that night, a
new Emperor slept in the
purple -hung apartments on the
Capitoline Hill. But not for
long, . . .
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While New York and London,
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Many new toys made an ap-
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This versatile plastic appeared
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The variety of toys displayed
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