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The Portuguese Anniversary

(course that only on second thoughts did one recollect that

HERE, THERE

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CHALLENGED FIRST EDITIONS

The question of who was respon- sible for the printing of the 50 old Victorian pre-firat. editions which | Mr. John Carter and Mr. Graham i Pollard recently challenged 25 forgeries, is likely to receive further Fattention in the near future.

THE FIRE-WALKERS OF INDIA

A

CEREMONY OF GREAT· INTEREST

DATE OF ORIGIN LOST

(By E A. Mackenzie-Bell)

CEREMONY of exceptional of those who have preserved their interest, unknown elsewhere ten days' fast and are ready to put

Lord Esher, who owns a number of the suspected pamphlets in his in the world, is held once a year their faith to the final test. magnificent, collection at Watling-at certain temples in India, and Naked, save for loin cloths, ton Park, near Oxford, has already is described, ' in its English carrying lighted torches above announced that he is on the war equivalent, as the Fire-walking their heads and garlands of path.

Ceremony. The date of its origin flowers about their shoulders, and

A number of collectors who had is lost in the mists of antiquity, headed by a shaven priest in purchased the pamphlets from book though of the events which gave whose hands a. garish image is sellers at high prices, are now it birth legendary information held aloft, the participants ap-

demanding. their money back. The remains.

proach and pass round the flam-

booksellers, who sold in all good In the dim ages of the past, iting pile to the accompaniment of faith, believing the volumes to be seeme; there arose five auitors for a crescendo of beating drums the genuine rarities, intend to carry the the hand of the daughter of a rul-muttering of jargon, and excited. [chain a link further and them-ling potentate. In order that each gosticulation.

selves seek recompense from who-be given an opportunity for prov-| Round and round they go, each Jever, sold the books to them.

A GREAT COLLECTOR

ing his worthiness of the honour, moment adding to the din of a test of archery was arranged, to raised voices and throbbing tom- promised in marriage. the winner of which the lady was toms, the. conflagration, as it in- creases in intensity, casting a

Much the largest collection of the pamphlets is in the possession of The contest duly took place, lurid light on the dark skinned that great bibliophil, Mr. Thomas [and one of the suitors was ad- figures, aweat-soaked" and gleam. Wise, who in his house at Hamp judged the victor. But the van ing stead has probably, the finest private quished competitors were reluct With the fire at its height they library in existence.

ant to forgo their claims to sa return to the temple for prayer,

One of his greatest treasures is the manuscript of a novel by Swin-great a prize, and resolved upon only to emerge again a moment burne written in French and deal. jan expedient by means of which later and to repeat their former they hoped to secure a compro- evolutions, the now rapid beating ing with the Chartist rising. It mise. Presenting themselves at of the drums, and the imminence has never been published owing to the palace of the ruler, they of the awaited ordeal, stirring some #bellous remarks about Queen brought, as 12 token of their them into paroxysms of religious

Victoria and the Prince Consort.

Your Daily Smile!

wishes, offerings of a particular fervour.

variety of Eastorn fruit, in the All restraint is at the end, and, structure of which were as many like creasures possessed, aban parte as were there suitors for doned, they twist and turn, leap

hand of the damsel,

and dance, in a veritable frenzy of ardour.

Then, once

An author says it is most annoy-the he was a foreigner. In fact the ing to be in a punt with someone. friendship between the two Gov-who will keep getting up and walk- ernments was so cordial that the jing about. And most upsetting inj revolution was a complete sur-la canoe,

prise to the Englishman.

We are inclined to attach less Football Again

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Barefoot Through Fire For Purification

importance than some other na- Strong on the wing, but rather wife to each of the suitors in turn

tions to the form of Government, poor shots.

so long as people get the sort of Government they want; as Pope Might Go Of

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are

again, they The gift of its strange implica piloted to the temple, and their tion apparently found favour with departure is taken as a signal by the rajah, who accordingly de- those in attendance on the blaze creed that his daughter become to make preparation for that

which is to come.

The fire is raked fat and spread for a period of one year, and that

over a large area at the end of each term of mar-

of the ground, »

shippers, their coming heralded by the appearance of an immense Such is, the alleged origin of the Wooden effigy of the rajah's daughter carried on the shoulders

The anniversary of the pro said "For forms of Government A man recently, arrested had lage she be obliged to walk bare-and the now hysterical fire-wor

footed through a fire for purposes

clamation of the Republican con- let fools contest, that which is 6% Ib. of gelignite in his pocket. of purification. stitution in Portugal is a date to best administered is best. It is We should imagine that it would be noted with sympathy towards very clear that our favourite be very risky to pinch a man like present custom of fire walking, our fellow citizens who will be method of Parliamentary discus-that. celebrating it as the end of a re-sión does not suit everybody. It

gime which had become unpopu was asserted that sums of money Just That lar. It recalls the long history found their way into the Royal

has witnessed so many changes, troversies were not genuine; that political and social, that a diplo-there was an understanding be

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and although in principle. It is of a small army of coolies, ap- still unchanged, women no longer proach the fiery carpet walking four or five abreast and, un- take part in the rite. races in the cleansing propertics move forward across its surface The belief among primitive hurriedly and "with deliberation, of fire is, of course, age-old, and from end to end.

An oppressive silence takes the

that invocation may be made to

flames

throught the fire unscathed, say Ithe believers in the ceremony.

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of

of the relations between the exchequer that had never been can sing bass notes says she. In British and the Portuguese King voted for, the Civil List. After herited the gift from her father doms which has been that of the Revolution it took Bome He gave her the low-down. continual alliance from the time for things to settle down; fourteenth century. There is there was a tendency towards My Choice

the deities by homage to the place of the earlier babel still an unrepealed treaty of the same system became estab-

is but a natural evolution sound, broken only by the crack- amity between the two Govern lished in Spain under the name scientists predicts an ice age. I that may be, all manner of boons of blazing wood beneath the feet A news item says that a Berlin of that earthly faith. However ing of the fire and the crunching ments which has come down of "rotationism." from that early association. It was simply that the political con- ing flavour will be vanilla,

The system sincerely hope that the predominat-will be bestowed upon those whose of the believers.--.

faith is sufficient to carry them Ember Trodden In And

Extinguished Facing about, they retrace The blind will be made to see, their steps, in which manner, by the lame to walk; the sick will be passing to and fro, the ritual pro relieved of their maladies, mall-cecds, until the once red-hot em gnant diseases will be cured;bers are trodden into the ground Stromboli fathers without male offspring and extinguished by the passing what ails will be blessed with sons; worldly and repassing of naked feet. The wrongs will be redressed such procession then returns to the are a few of the bounties which temple for the last time, and the faith offers. to the true believer, fre-walking ceremony is at an

many are the miraculous cures It only remains to be added that and benefits attributed to this the participators of this amazing

en spectacle are neither fakira

matist would naturally refer to tween Government and Opposi-Far Less Trouble something more modern for any tion; that the leaders ejected "Have you a pet grouse?" asks practical purpose; but its con from State Office were accom-reader. No-Just a canary, tinual existence, and the tradi-modated with Directorships in

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tional spirit of friendly co-opera- the National Bank, and similar What, Indeed? tion to which relationships have desirable appointments, until it An eruption of the always tended to revert after was time for them to return to volcano is reported, estrangements caused by the in-office. However that may be, the crater? evitable frictions of trade com there is no doubt that the pre- petition, are interesting to the sent system of Dictatorship has Not Flighty historical student as the oldest secured many useful reforms. The engaged girl on holiday who And it is Interesting to note that end. Jalliance of which there is any re particularly in finance and cur found a new cove in Devonshire.

cord.

rency, and that although Portu

The last Portuguese King gal, like the rest of the world. Results

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аделсу.

nor

lived for the greater part of his has suffered from the depression, Coroners should be paid by re- Probation Period Under A Priest ascetics inured by long years of life in England, and came to re the present Dictator has made a sults," suggests a newspaper cor- But those who would under hardships to enduring bodily plain gard the Thames Valley as a heroic effort to stave off any respondent. Nothing censure, take the fire-walking- In order to with stoical fortitude, for they are second home. But it was never thing like the general break nothing have.

win auch benefits must first pass volunteers drawn from all classer allowed to obliterate the mem- down that at one time seemed to

through a period of probation of the cmmunity. Jories of his native land, be probables V

under the eye of a priest. where for a short and stormy In Hong Kong. we are more

Whatever may be the bounties The golfer who was born with a

Ten days before the date of the accruing" from Indulgence in the spell he had once been king. He concerned with our near neight-steel-shafted spoon in his' mouth.

ceremony they must renounce all extraordinary, ceremony-and fust was of the quiet tastes of a bours in Macao It took a long

{food and subsist on nothing but how far expectations are realised student, and became an expert time for any community of in- I Wander?

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bibliophile; his hobby was the terest to be recognised between Crushed blackberries are now and incantations that their faith writer is prepared to testify that collection of early manuscripts the merchants of Macan and being recommended by doctors for prove strong enough to resist the when, in Madras, as privileged and books illustrating the history the old East India Company or rheumatism. What the juice next? physical effects of the last or European, he was permitted to particularly the poetry The to the Company's privileges. AHID

deal. For only those who pass witness it, neither was there smell whole collection was left by his For two centuries Monopoly, was "A thirsty man cannot

through the frat unharmed will of burning flesh nor any visible. will to his native land King the guiding idea of Company, the value of water in terms of Soon after sunset on the ap

measure reap the coveted rewards. ·

evidence of injury to the walkers. Manoel's elder brother made a Macao Government and Chinese gold," says a writer.. Unless it's in pointed clay, and arranged at a good impression when he toured alike. The records of the long quartz. first Angola and Mozambique, disputes leave one the impres- and afterwards the British Col-sion which a noted historian The Homeland onies of South Africa The says he has derived from the his Revolution, by ending a promistory of the world in general, -- {ing life, deprived him of any op "the futility of it all. When for shop assistants will soon be ob- twenty feet in diameter and portunity of showing his capa- the reformed English Parliament solate, 1 read. A land fit for reaching to the height of a man's city for public affairs. Their of a century ago revoked the heroes to love out in. father paid a visit to Queen Vic Company's Charter and estab

short distance from the entrance to the temple, the framework of large wood fre is prepared, mea-

In Britain the "living in" system suring at its base from ten to

toria in 1896, and was reted at lished free trade for the Interiop-New Watchword

head.

Ignited at all points, thereon are flung bundles of dry brush

the Mansion House and elso-ers a long spell of good trade, Cool and casual love-making to wood until, blazing where. On these festive occa profitable to all parties, ensued: not fr accordance with our na-renering near slons politics are taboo he ap it might have been thought that tonal ideels, we are told. Eng-sible, the air peared to be a genial bon viveur the lesson had been learn Jand expects every man to woo his smoke and clou who made the most of life with Unfortuntely we seem

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