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Trader Horn Steps Out of Book
Into Bustle of American Scene
Ready to Drop Role of Rogue Elephant, Says Alfred
Aloysius Smith
New York. ---Trader Horn, odd and coneignmen+ts of pots and kettles to
refreshingly preposterous creature of be •sold:
fiction that startled a bored literary A vacation—or at leas=t a change?.
world a year ago, is appearing here A visit to the United States he had
"in person," • • not seen since 1914. In 1913 he had.
One morning last week a man, Al- been into Georgia, "where there are
fred Alousius Smith, a long, gray man the finest people, and exceedingly hu
in a long gray caped coat, strode down man" It wasn't merely an excursion
theg angplank of a steamer and lol he to spend some of the money that
and Trader Horn were one, stepping rolled in. "I've had money before
forth from a fictional picture, rimmed this," Trader Horn announces, "Scads
about with bright aluminum pots and of it. My money was always equipped
pans and toasters, and garlanded in with legs. When I needed it I could
tales of enormous adventuring. make it. Moneyisn't everything."
"There many years," he said first, Cannibals were probably one of
"I've been a rogue elephant." InTrader Horns reasons Cons for not con -
Africa, whence he come the rogue ele-
phant roams independent of the herd,
a carefree, insubordinate rascal, care-
less of the traditions of elephant life,
always confident of finding a better
way. "But now," Trader Horn added,
perhaps unconsciously supporting the
old, inevitable philosophy of the prodi-
gal, man and beast, "I'm glad to be
back with the herd.""Trader Horn" was a name worthy
the fiction. Back a long way Alfred
Aloysius Smith had "always wanted
to write." Then, one day he sold a
kettle or a toaster --perhaps he for-
gets which—to Mrs. Ethel Reda
Lewis, somewhere on the plains
around Johannesburg.
And they talked—Alfred Aloysius
Smith always talks when he •sells pots
Record Sheep Heads Caught
ONTARIO AND THE CORN BORER
Canadian Experience Proves the Worth of Effective Clean-upk
Regulations As Seen By "Michigan Farmer"
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Within a xtone'a throw the
PROGRESS
Lawsonat by Prof. Caesar, proprovincial,.productive agricultural counties of entomologist.Miolilgan, lies alaboratory--in South- These eight counties, with the ex-
western
swestern Ontaro--wherein. the .lilur• caption of Prince Edward and parte
ae can corn borer has demonstrated in of Norfolk and Oxford, were se
a moat convincing manner that it is heavily infested in 1926, the report
capable of inflicting serious commer-. states, "that had :the borer miultipided
dal damage to the corn crop, and, la as rapidly as it did in Welland and
a great many cakes, of utterly ruin- several other counties not under the
ing fields; of this basin agricultural loot, almost all of the cornfields, wattlecommodity. " have been ruined.'
But while King Corn has tottered in Due to the clean-up last spring, 'fa
his shoes, and Ms va+esale in untold Kent and Essex Counties, the num-
numbers have forsaken him for other bee of borers was rednioed folly fifty
Governmentorops, the Ontario Government has per cent. in ovine of a fifty per cent.
been fully aware of the dagger car- reduction in the corn acreage. In Hie
gin County, there wasp a reduction iu
the average ifestatiom from forty-seven
and seven -tenths per dent. in 1926 to
approximately tli.irty-sight per scent,
in 1927. Similar decreases in borer
population were noted in Norfolk and
oxford Counties.
Lambton, Middlesex, and Prbeee Ed'
ward Counties had a slight increasere
In the number of borers lest year.
sidering money everything. It isn't Two fine examples of the elusive menutain sheep were recently captured lied by this European pest, From the
everyone who gets on terms of social by Jim Brewster., of B'ewarter Transportation Co., in the Banff Territory. The first, the Government has toiled inoes-
ease with cannibals. Trader Horn heads captured are records for the size, the one on the right being 19 inches santly to acquaint Canadian farmers
did. "Fine people. Not what you with the other 181/2, this measurement applies from the highest point on the with the seriousness. of the problems,
think." Trader Horn spread hip horn to that on the opposite side. 1 with measures to combat the pest,
hands benignly and then stroked his These sheep are often seen from the windows of Canadian Pacific trains and with the aftermath of what would
silver beard, long, affectionate strok- which travel through that district and are often a great inducement by their follow if he corn borer were allowed
fres. sheer beauty, for tourists to return and hunt these animals. They naturally to become established in this great
By this time the . Literary Guild of agricultural empire.
America was having a "birthday, take artisic poses often seen posed on he highest crag of mountains, to be In fact, Ontario agricultural lead-
great
for Trader Horn, There was a alarmed by a slight rustle and away they go, fast es the wind„ jumping here ers did everything in their power to For various reasons., it was, very diff-
great cake, made like a book. They and there from one point to another until they reach a plateau of security. get their farmers to avoid the same cult to got a satisfactory e1eanJtip in
don't have cakes made like books in They are game worth humtin,g and the hunter who secures one is usually experiences which ,state and federal
Africa. The cannibals would laugh. g immensely proud of his prowess with his rifle.
are now trying to help farm -
Other fragmentary communications ,r.._ ens in the United States to escape.
dripped from a tongue which had.evi-
denbly done a Little practicing in glib-
ness on the boat coming out from
England. " . wrote poems while
I was a peddler too. ,...• Painted ani -
OLD FRIENDS MEET
The author Trader Horn and Rita Bell, musical comedy star,, are seen Having no scientific training, I can:
here here enjoying exchange of reminscences of their meeting in South Africaask these questions without being
able to answer them, But I look at
mals on tin, too, in case a lady didn't folks as I go along, and recently I
want a kettle or a toaster.... saw an interesting contrast.
"Stanley and I explored Africa There were two brothers, one rich.
Not together. .. ." The long gray
these Counties. In Prince Edward
County, one of the difflcu1tiee wasthe
common practice of using narrow in,
On the other hand, Ontario farmers stead of wide plows,
It's.ow ow Cine Thinks So One Really Is assumed a passive attitude, until rev- ,+A narrow plow will teat saver stub
ere mosses were suffered in tb•e great ble and debris s,attsfaotorily and .this
coru-growing areas of Essex and Kent gives an o liortuaity for maw bar- •
counties. ers to sus-vive," states Professor
Bruce Barton States a Basic Truth in Shortf`Article in New
Herald -Tribune The eituatfon• finally culminated in Caesar,
the'passage of the Ontario Corn Borer Clean -Up Area Enlarged
Act in 1926. In an effort to avoid 'Outside. of the eight mantles which
the Canadian experience, a similar were placed under the corn borer sot
law has been passed in Michigan and last years tble peat has multiplied• ra-
other etate,s. The operaton of the pid:ly, thus .emphasiziag a the need of
law in Ontario should prove of inter- clean-up mieataires wherever the pest
est to Michigan farmers. is known to be present. In moat •dis-
The` act was put into effect in eight tricte dreier were apparently twice as
counties 1n the Province of Ontario. many berms 'as last year and four
Ths law is very similar to the one times as many in some localities.
passed by Michigan, Oleo, and other Due to the large -inorease in borer
states. The clean-up regulations are ,population in ,those oountes where the
Virtually the •same in that all• corn de- Corn Borer Act 'was not in force,
bras must be disposed of prior to the eighteien additional counties baave been
ttme when the corn borer moths are added to the clean-up area for 192.
expected to emerge. This action ;places. all of Southwest-
Compulsory
outhwes-Compulsory clean-up may be done ern Ontario south of -a line from
and asse"Saed as taxes against the Gaderfch to -a Point about eight miles
property when ihfs• operation is pec- month of Toronto under the Act, and
ceasarY.
In addition, however, per- also an area about six miles wide
sons who fail to comply with the re- along Lake Ontario from Temente to
striations may be fined a minimum :the east boundary of Hastings Goun-
amount of ten dollars and not more .ty,
than :fifty •dolla•.rs for each offense. As indicated by the report of the
Offenders may .be brought into' court provincial entomologist to the Minis-
repeate•dly and fined until they do teeof Agrculure, the large increases
comply with the regulations. in borer population in Ontario .during
The administration of the corn 1927 took dace in those •sections of
borer ant is performed by the Ontario the province where the Ontario Corn
Department of Agriculture, which Borer Act was not in effect and where
Corresponds to our State Department ooimpuilsery clean-up regulations were
of Agrioulture. The work is in the not prescribed.
THE MIND CONTROLS
Not long ago the newspapers re-richbrother carried more kinds of in -
ported a curious case.in Kansas City. surance than any man I have known.
A defaulting• banker, who had ruined If care and continuous self-protection
his own life and the estates of many can extend our years, ho should have
others, was locked up in jail. Where -lived to be ninety at least. But he
upon he proceeded, in the words of died at fifty-three.
the report, to . "think himself . to The poor brother had little enough
death." chance to think of himself. Night and
He had no organic disease, but, de -day he was at the beck and call of
liberately casting aside all desire to every sort of affliction. He got his
live and fixing his thoughts upon feet soaking in the winter rains. His
death, he compelled his sewn mind to sleep was broken by calls in the night -
destroy him. His meals were snatched on the run.
The late Thomas R. Marshall in
his autobiography hints of some simi-
lar tragedies in the career of Senator
011ie James. He says: "The death of
James, in the full flush of his man-
hood and in the splendor of his intel-
lectual attainments, was especially*
distressing, if I am correctly inform-
ed, because he suffered from no -actual
disease. He really died, as I was told,
a rom mental suggestion."
Of all the realms of knowledge, that
which the mind has explored the least
i the mind itself. What does cour-
t :age do to our health? How far can
• love lift us out of our limitations?
What effect have anger and envy on
our arteries How much of the dif-
ference between a one -horse -power about himself," w.atildn't he probably entom:odogist'is empowered to appoint
man and ahundred-horsepower man have .died as his brother died. before one or more supervisors in each coun-
ts faith?•
him? ty to carry out the provisions of the
• Not being a scientist,. I cannot tell. act.. •
At the age of sixty he grew very
tired and went to a sanitarium for a
three -weeks' rest. They said to him:
"You have the arteries of a man of
ninety. You are likely to drop dead
at any minute."
Whether he ever gave the verdict
any thought I do not know. He was
a very religious man, and his idea was
that he was doing the work of An-
other and would be called away from
it whenever the work was done.
He died at the age of seventy-five.
I attended his funeral, and this is the
thought that was' he my mind: Sup-
pose, when the specialists warned him, charge of Professor Lawson Caesar, To repeat, as •Professor Caesar hasp
he had stbpped his 'Work and begun provincial` entomologist; with head- stated, had the borer, multiplied as
to take care of himself; to "think Quarters . at Guelph... The provincial rapidity as It did in. Welland and sev
eral .ethler counties not under 'bele Act,
almost all of the oornlelds would
have been ruin.eri, if cleanup meas-
ures had not been resorted to in the
Canadian Corn Belt last summer.The experiece of. Canadian fann-
ers with the corn borer has been cost-
ly. It has taken serlous commercial
damage and ruined cornfields to
awaken the Canadian farmers 'to the
economic danger df thre -corn borer.
and kettles, and when he trades in
rubber and diamonds and ivories too,
and one thing led to another and
presently Mrs. Lewis had started him
putting together things remembered
and other things noted in a little tat-
tered book. Long hours of scribbling
under the smoking golden flame of a
kercrene lamp, always against the call
of the peddler's road. .
Sometimes the call was too strong
and insistent and the manuscript
would lag. But it was finished, John
Gals -worthy helped to pick out the
noire "Trader Horn," and Alfred
eyes twinkled and blinked and a secret
smile ruffled the silver beard...
"Stanley should not have let the
Congo go to Leopold. But all that is
past. • . , I get four to five thousand
a week royalties. So they. slay. That's
pretty funny, too. The cannibals
wouldn't think it mattered much....`
It makes me laugh:
"You can always laugh better,
though, if you kiew yea, can go back
Aloysius Smith, who has seen many to --well, peddling;, for Instance. It's
funny things in his lifetime, sat back a good business. . Meet lite of nice.
to behold 'the spectacle of himself re- people. Some of the finest people l
ceisneas money—royalties" someone the world stand on doorsteps and buy
a."
• cQ � the money—that just rolled in pots and kettles..
whether or no. Members of the ;Literary Guild stood
.Even in• Africa ,people know that •abut. and ;,ir3uritured' words that
sobnet or later' a'lecture tour can, if sounded like"eignifidt rit,.'f "figure of
a writer will but listen, be as inevit- a new literary day," "vital" and "such.
able as chapter headings- After all, dear," " T d+er Horn and Alfred
efiee .not? The diainon,d fields would
always be there, and the rubber plans
tatl7iis aril tusked elephants and new
and the other a poor physician at-
tached to'a social settlement. The will have ten more good years of life. the provincial entomologist such local-
ities are required to appoint an in-
speotor, and, as a result, the enforce -
The American Temptation went of control mleasure,s n munici-
LondanDaily Express (Ind. Cons•):.palitiesis usually done by. the police..
(The new American Immigration BI11 I The county corn . borer supervisor
is being framed to give still greater : oomtmenoes work about September 1
preference to British subjects.) This and . continues until fall plowing
is a direct challenge to the whole oeaasel. . This period. ins spent in ob
movement for promotng emigration taping an .est -irate of the corn acre -
within the Empire. Every family that age to be cleaned. up and explaining
leaves Britain for'a non -British noun- the regulations to farmers and advis
try is a .delntte loss to the Empre, ing them how to meet the regulations.
The Empire question'is beyond. every- The inspector resumes bas • work in•
thing else a papulation 'question. But the spring asepoon as field operatiofts
what is being done to solve it? 1 .; The non n1encei and,, Wei -1W through. untII
Dominions and' the Home Govern- about June 1e.'• It ifs his duty to see
trent have `• been, equally to'• blame: `for that the•• act,- le omipleed :with, by
not" having,thought out and solved, everybody and that the clean-up le
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this oentral 'problem long ago. While accomplished in accordance with+ the
it remains unsolved our Imperial heri-
tage
er
Cage Is simply being muddled away.
But when the laws of the mind are Clean-up work in cities, however, is
finally discovered and -charted I sus- done by the cities• themselves, as
pect that one of them will be this; cities„ or, "separated towns," do not
If you do most of your thinking about conte under the county council, or
other people the chances are that you governing body. • Upon notice from
A Resolve
Not for a myriad little things will I
Droop gradually, and at the proper
time
Close down my eyes, and breathe witli
pain, and die;
But some day there will be a hill to
climb
Too steep for climbing; some day
while I yet
Am strong and young, I shall at-
tempt a deed
Beyond my strength; and in my fail-
ure get
Oblivion; therefore I,,pay.,no heed'
To all the cautious whispering about
me,
a ear. ra But I will follow you up. to the day
Aloysitis •Smith didnt 'hear. They were ; That marks the place where you go'
cuttiivg.agale made like. a book., The• •• on with. me, '
• • There I will stand, and cast my staff'
oannlbais w�ruld have laughed. aa3�: •'
°'W I I'E ASH VALUABLE to the lima, stirrings + unstajatly'and :Y
IN FIRE PREVENTION
;I f' _Made by Special Formula
`Has Real. 'Value For
Fire Proofing
' ;` While whitewash holds an important
clesition on many -teams during spring
an-up• of stables and outbuild-
Sags !t. is`�generally applied for sani-
tary., reasons and to improve appear-
ances. lint if a little special atten-
tion•,even'more• important ,purpose do
making wooden structures at least
partially fireprobt. Its use will pre,
vent splinters -and rough serra•ce&
Iroise igniting quickly and the best
results - wel be obtained if the mixture
is applied with a pressure spray pump.
roof that all cracks are 't i:orough-1y filled.
The following formula is recon-
melded be' the Ontario Fire Marshal:
Soak five poun•de• t>f cabein in about
tenni:valetas of water (preferably hot)
+until • thoroughly softened (about twin
Iheure) Di�se+olvo three pounds . of
vigorously. Thin to , desired concis,
tency,.. Caseain or glue solution 'must •- •-
be coii:r2w'llen mixed eidth the lime,
paste which must alero be Hold.- Do ,
notr prepare . more than a can :lee .used ,
thio oamne day although it Meer be mix-
el
ixell dry and stored.. "' , t •
Piccadilly May Exclude
Famous .Statue, of Eros=
London.—The exigencies, , of Lane
don't traffic may result` in the per-'
petual banishment; Hoene Piccadilly
Circus of "the 1'amnus statue of Eros
which ,used to occupy a site in the:
centre of the open spaces there. When
some months ago the construction of
a -twee subway: station under Picea
-
dilly Circus' was decided upon Eros
was removed from his pedestal and
given a temporary location • la the,
Embankment Gardens
Since then the traffic congestion • in'.
Pieead.illy Circus : has' iiicreaded to
such inn exten that; the authorities aro
now considering whether the graceful
smut In about two "gallas of water statue . with' its fountain pedostal•
add this to the casein, allowing (about which a iuitnber of wanton
l mixture to th,erougihly diesolee. flower sellers were always to be
pre'paro a thick cream by' thoroughly found) does not occupy too much
mixing or by caretttllq shaking 88 space` to be` returned to salt a buffy'
pont& of qulek lithe straining neigbborhooci.. .
the i)avlita •thrmigh tefitveen. When i�tl.lin stations and moadslde stands
'Holli ltryus and cafiefn iniatnree are•cold.
litiswI7 4.414d the Boata eneseel i •eolettiole Mike even the'•bywaye buywaya.
—Helene 'Mullins.
i• law,.
While Prohibition fa' • r:ei.gniifg,
is Pouring,. , .- . ••
Clean -Up Law Effective
The corn borer population was re-
duoed. •'iu fi Ve et the •.eight counties in
the 1927. odtflpuldeee clean-uliarea of
Ontario, according to: a •curvay invade
`\V'ho .Said Pie?
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11-11S' 'DIVE WOULD Pt. ED le ORE THAN FOUR
in circumference `and nearly .2 feet thick, pre-
pared
largest pie in the risking: Huge pastry, 80 fent
pared on a mamnmoth•outdoor':oven in" Los Angelde:' nsead of 'four and twenty blackbirds` the: elief8 filled the
pie with thousands'ot tl'uii s,. rs
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But now control measures and claean-
u.p regulevtions have become establish-.
ed farm practices in Ontario, and
farmers are :solidly . behind• this pro-
gram.
Michigan farmers might well profit
from the experience of -their Canadian
neighbors and avoid the embryostage.
by co-operatng one hundred per oenut.••
witlu the • starte • and federal .govern
menta in their program to control this
alarming' crop pest: th+e European
corn borer. An excelleft start was
maga last–spring.
.About•Butter• k
Butter served in restaurants or
hotels often le' kept in tae water to
prev=ent its xneltiug, and,it always
acquires a white appearance. This
pale color is caused by the - fact that
the colorings matter dissolves in plain
water. A dairy inspector for the Cali-
fornia Department of Agriculture has
discovered that theaddition of a small
amount of salt to the water will not
only preserve the color but also add
to the flavor, as the salt used in sea•
coning the butter also has a tendency
'to dissolve when clear water is used. -
•Salted water will, also keep the butter
in firmer condition.'.
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Right..
1st Bird—"I'll bo .glad spring will
be here soon, so we can .' get some
.worms." s ;?
2tld Burd --"So will•` the •'ltghet mon i"
lieuxtery Speshuli
"Oh, ;McAllen our Young,People's
Conferoiice was so exciting! We
voted to abolish war'
"Chinese are itching for higher
Tariffs." Btit will they collie to the
ratcht'
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