The Blyth Standard, 1930-04-17, Page 45
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tolin Armitage, Journalist,
In a Few Queer Places,
It'licn John Armitage, novelist,
and war correspondent,
a as a lad at school in Australia there
aung in front of his class a great ma
of the amid, says an &Wife in the
Toronto Star Weekly. To tile neglect
his lessons he spent much of his
taue determining which of the coun-
laies, shown in attractive colors, he
s, ma day would visit.
Most of us have youthful dreams.
law of us make them come true.
tin Armitage has, at least in part,
far he has travelled extensively on
'a.m. continents. Herein Is another
a atm to unusualness, for after twen-
ty -1100 years of travel and writing he
has never seen Europe. Here are a
ew queer places he has seen and
which, to most of us, are but names,
same of :hem seldom heard: All Na-
tions street, Fiji; Rotorua, New Zea -
,old, "the world's safety valve"; the
australlan Nor'west, inhabited
,aocodiles, deadly snakes, savages
and hard-bitten pioneers; Borneo,
home of the dreaded Dyaks; South
Africa, where he was a member of
the fighting, raiding Menne's emits
and loot the sight of an eye; Yuca-
tan, Mexico, where the peons over-
threw the church, shouting "Viva el
Diable!" (Long live the Devili); and
Ctntral China cities, where a camera
le regarded as a "devil -box."
Canada, too, has been done with
Some thoroughness, for he has motor-
ed in and out and round about four
provinces, regaining the moat price-
less of human possessions — good
health.
Of all the strange things he has
seen the two most remarkable are
the firewalkers of the Pacific and an
old nun hs China. The Drewalkera
live on a small island a day sail
from Fiji. They perfortn a ceremony
which Is called "walking the way."
The trlhe hos a pathway some three
feet wide, sunk In the ground. For
two days and nights prior to the cere-
monial walk br dance great fires are
kept burning on these stones until
they borome whtt hot. Then le
dancers "walk the way," showing no
ill effects.
Mr. Armitage Is satisfied there is a
scientific explanation for this, as ho
was able to observe that they rub a
lotion on their bodies before the per-
formance. He was told that this Is a
vegetable extract, but its secret is
still undiscovered, although they
have since performed In New Zealand
and In England.
At the entrance to a temple In
canton there sits an aged figure, a •
nun reputed to have guarded the en-
trance to the Temple of the Five
Hundred Buddhas for two hundred
years, Her head is hairless, her
game toothless and her skin a wrin-
kled parchment. No one ever sees
her eat or drink, and she has sat in
the Buddhist "communion with sil-
ence" since childhood. Only her eyes
live, They are glowing Ores of fierce
vitality, from which men the hardiest
eventually must turn away. Mr. Arm-
itage says that the sensation he felt
when he gazed back into those eyes
was the most unnerving pf any he
has had, even worse than when he
was shipwrecked or his first time un-
der fire. "Soul -shattering," he de-
saribes it.
His longing to set strange people
and strange places is in inheritance,
for his maternal great-grandfather, a.
Scottish surgeon, emigrated to Aus-
tralia before the convict days. Nor
is it remarkable that be is saturated
in the history of those stirring times,
the tales of which he heard round his
natal hearth.
The Lord Mayor'n Chain.
The golden chain made of linked
8'e has bean used by Loadon'a chief
magistate for nearly 400 years, The
existing chain was bequeathed to the
mayoralty in 1545 by Sir John Aleyn,
who had himself been Lord Mayor
twenty years earlier, and was Worn
for the first time by Sir 'William
Laxton in 1646. Sir John Aleyees
bequest took its curious form by sea
son of the popuisuity of the "S" de -
sleet in Tudor times, when together
with the Tudor rose, it was the COW'
nizance of the royal house, But long
before that the "5" was a rellgioue
itymbol, at a time *bee the univer-
sal pietei canted every piece of jewia-
levy to convey some heavenly signifi-
cance. It is the initial letter of Sane-
tus, or holy, which starts the hymn,
"Sanctus Sanctus, Sanctus," chant- I
ed by the prise in performing mass.
From this the letter "S" came to be
regarded as an emblem of the
3aelonr.
The intereet now being taken 111
naval disarmament makesome re•
eent richlevetnente in naval shipbuild-
ing of special importance, says an ar.
thee In Answers.
For instance, the plans of the Ger-
man armored ship Ersatz - Preussen
have made many experts shake their
heads. She is being built under the
arrangement which analyst Germany
to replace old battleships by new, so
long DE they (materna to !special lim-
its, and has been described as "the
outstauding warship of to -day."
This 10,000 -ton ship is designed to
attain a speed of twenty-six knots,
and will have a fuel capacity, with
Diesel engiuen, of 10,000 miles at
twenty knots. She would make a for-
midable commerce -raider in future
ware.
Recant French ships have created
what is claimed as a world record for
speed, and Frame has also a beg
building program of submarines en
hand. The United States, which is
building eighteen cruisers, has 300
destroyers and 122 submarines to
Britain's 134 and 63 respectively.
But perhaps the most interesting tact
about the world's navies to - day is
that, while some of the leading nay-
ieti have been reduced In strength
since the great war, certain of the
smaller ones have increased mater -
tally and are still increasing,
Not only are eonie of these small-
er navies larger than formerly, but
their ships are very much up to date.
Thus the Colloid type of cruiser,
DOW being built In Italy, has a speed
of thirty-seven knots, and its mix-ineh
guns are said to be superior to the
right -inch guns used in the war.
Two recent publications, which
came out just before the conference
—the annual "Return of Fleets," a
British official statement showing
ships built, building, and projected
by the seven principal naval powers,
and "Jane's Figllllng Shi s 1020."
which dealt with the navies of forty-
six different States, show fairly clear-
ly what the present position of sea-
power is, and throw a good deal of
light on the difficUlties of the confer-
ence. Those who study them care-
fully may be pardoned if they become
a little cynical about disarmament.
BRITISH. P0111' LAUREATE.
Continues to Experiment With New
Farms of Verse.
A distinction belonging to Dr,
Robert Brirdgea, the Poet Laureate,
which very few people Iceow, 15 that
lie is probably the only living man
who has refused to stroke the Oxford
University boat, says the London
Daily Telegraph. As an undergrad-
uate at Corpus Christi Robert
Bridges was a notable oarsman, but
he found himself obliged to refuse
the opportunity to stroke the univer-
sity boat on the ground that he could
not spare time from the work he was
then doing for his medical degree.
Dr. Bridges was 86 recently and
his newest poem, "The Testament of
Beauty," was published a short time
ago. This poem, which is in four
books, with a total length of more
than 4,000 lines, Is dedicated to the
King. The Laureate has been at
work upon it for some Year&
Even at the advanced age of 86,
• the Poet Laureate continues to ex-
perimeut with new forms of verse,
and "The Testament of Beauty" le
written In a metre of his own Inven-
tion, and known as "free Alexan-
drines." He is no slave of the die-
tionary, but Birdie each word as he
considers It should be spelt. Exam-
ples in the poem which strike the eye
curiously are hie rendering of "read"
as "redd," and "spread" of "spredd."
Scots' Ramat Home.
The aanual "Klan" or Harvest
Home, is a settled Institution on Scot-
tish farms. These events are usually
held in the granary of the fann,
which ifi suitably (larked for the oc-
casion, The floor Is none too smooth;
but the tackety boots of the dancers
are vita able to contend with it. The
band consists of a Addle and melo-
deon, and the dances bear such weird
' titles os "Petronella," "Befietnaa"
and "Drops of Brandy."
The most amusing part of the pro-
ceediags comes when the steward re-
turne thanka to the termer for giving
the "kirn." It is the one speech he
makes in the year, eo it is a great
event for him. He usually begins 111
high flown English to the admiration
FROM BUSH TO CUP
IakIna coffae at Home tet
lint Preparing the Ilese Is
Another Thing.
Not mie person in a 111111(1ml rea-
lizes the tang and complicated pro-
cosses these coffee -beans have been
through before reaching the grocerat
shop.
For five ,ears the writer lived on a
coffee estate in the West Indies,
growing what le universally, regarded
as the (Meet coffee in the world, says
an artiele in Anewers. This particu-
lar coffee is co scarce and so aboice
that It Is sold in the Engliali market
by auction for blending purposes only
--Just to lend its marvellously aro-
matic flavor to lesser coffees. It is
strietly "mountain coffee"; that Is, 11
growa only In perfeellon In the 111110.
The nianagerat house stands 2,600
feet above sea level. Immediately In
front of It are a series of conercie
platforms, mall a few feet lower thee
the previous one. These platforms
aro known as "barbecues.,"
Alongside each "barbecue," "feed-
ing" it, is a grooved channel of ce-
ment, to contain water. On either
side of each barbecue are a number
of wooden huts.
Behind and to the side of the
house is an enormous shed, contain-
ing a large, electrically- driven ma-
chine, called the "pulper," and be-
hind this a huge sunken tank, which
can be tilled with water or emptied
at will.
But where does the coffee grow?
Stand with your back to the house
and look upl You are facing a chain
of mountains, with cultivated patches
on the windward skle of each hill.
These are the coffee fields. They are
I huge tracts of systematically, planted
stubby trees or bushes, with dark
green, glossy leavea. As it Is "crop"
season, each bush, is heavily laden
with bright scarlet berries, like 501011
cherries at first glance, though oval
in shape.
You pick a berry and tear off the
red skin. Inside you And two per-
fectly shaped "beans," enclosed in a
sticky white skin. When this is off
the two "halves" come apart nat-
urally.
When the berries are gathered
they are taken to the shed at the side
of the house, where the berries are
"fed" into the "pulper," which re-
moves the red eklns and shoots the
loosened "halees" into the tank at
the back, now a quarter full of water.
Tim released beans lie in the tank
fro two or three days, ta, farm.,
'II s is a ticklish malter, 05
slightest degree of "ever-feratem.-
Won' would ruin the beans.
The latter are later run through to
the barbecues by the release of the
water from the tank. Here they are
spread out by the barefooted black
boys for their preliminary drying. At
night they are pushed into the coffee
huts at the side.
Daily for nany weeks the coffee
beans have to be brought out of each
hut and spread on the barbecues la
the via, to bring them to the 0147
mate perfection of "dryness"
Atter the first drying not a spot of
rain must touch them or they will all
become mildewed in the huts! At the
first sight of a rain -cloud on the hori-
zon, everyone— man, woman, and
child, inside or outside the house—
leaves what they are doing and
rushes to help in the coffee.
The preliminary grading of the
beans is done In the Coffee Home,
whet., they are put through various
machines, called "hullers," which
tear off the outer skin and the inner
silver one, and then shoot the beana,
sorted according to size, into differ-
ent receptacles.
But the tint "grading" has to he
done by hand, There are a certain
number of "picked graders" in every
coffee district, always black ladles,
who do nothing else, and who invar-
iably wear their best clothes for the
job.
This work is highly paid, and the
women, who are experts, have done It
for years. The knowledge cif it is
handed down in a family. They eft at
a long wooden form In the shape of a
school desk, under which are draw-
ers, full of beans. TheSe they pass
through marvellously quick fingers,
to drop into little heaps of various.
aizes.
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'nem was a fight in front of our
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then the crowd gathered. The cline
who was struck ran and grabbed a
cart -stake, his eyes blazing. I thought
sure he would knock the other chap's
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them."
Els little lad had given over eating
hie dinner as the narrative proceeded
and his eyes bulged out of lee head.
He was proud of his father% valor,
and he said: "He 000111111 knock any
brales out of you, could he, dad "
The man looked long and intently
at his heir, then resumed his dinner.
—London Weekly Telegraph.
Elis Majesty Laughed.
The recent case of a dumb man
having hte speech restored by shock
when coming In contact with a wall,
to avoid II motor oZolo, reminds a
correspondent of a hospital story.
The King was visiting a military hos-
pital during the war. As he entered
one of tLe wards a shell-shoaluti
man, who had not been able to speak
for menthe, put his hand on a radia-
tor as he stood at attention. It was
burning hot. Tho woad the man ut-
tered began with 0 large D, and the
Ring never enjoyed a heartier
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