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The Seaforth News, 1928-09-27, Page 3NOT GOOD IN SUDAN Brat the Cap'.aia Made It Goocl After We Shaved By FRANCIS FLOOD A map'of Afrietk—if WA a big map tura up a stone in the Sudan you'll will show a dot galled Abechir. It's elan* tinthe exact centre of the Dario Continent, on tho southern edge of the Sahara 'Desert. This forlorn little spot in, the `black heart of Africa is not an inviting looking lacus to the average Person who has never been there— and still less to one who lass, • lint to us Abechir seemed the end of the rainbow trail. At least it was the. -peak of the arch, with oulY the downhill slide to the pot of gold at the end:- Thera would bo a little store at Abechir, our our first opportunity in 2;000miles or six weeks' time tp bay anything at all except long-legged chickens and long-lived eggs. An automobile expedition had once made the trip from Abeallir to the Red Sea, Titus if we had no trail we at least had a precedent to follow. It is true, the hamlet ,that expedition, au Englishman and a member of Par- liament, wrote a beak about his trip, and it was not a good roads ad by any means, He, too, had crossed Africa, but by a more soatherly and mach easier route than we. And the dark- est pages of his book wore about that Part of his trip between Abechir and Di Obeid, where we -had yet to go. But Jim :incl I had proved, to ourselves. at Toast, that we could travel on our motorcycles absolutely any place an automobile could go, The worst auto reports we could get would be good news for us. The gasoline problem threatened us again. We towed one bike behind the other whenever it was at all possible and finally reached a .little grass vil- lage called Henrmina, only fifteen, miles from Abechir. It was almost dark, We had just enough gasoline to run one motorcycle the fifteen miles into town. Jim took that and started out, promising to send -some gasoline' back on a native's head for me or to bring it himself on a horse. I tried to get a dozen villagers to tow my machine on into Abechir, or at least until we niet the gasoline coming back and argued in the sign lauguage until I was almost as black in the face as they.. I even offered them money, but they were afraid of the lions in that lonely land at night. Iu English and French I might have convinced them, that I wasn't afraid myself, but it's hard to lie in signs, They towed Hie to a little round mud hut a half -mile from the village and suggested that I stop there for the night. I sent the curious crowd away with instructions to bring me water, a chicken, and some eggs. A few min- utes later two dusky knaves, a half- dozen boys and a young woman re- turned. The two Hien were in the uniform of a French soldier; that 10 one wore the trousers and the other the coat. They knew a few words of French and explained' that the chief had sent them to guard me during the night and the boys to bring the water and chickens and eggs. The young, black female was a special gift from the chief that I might be assured of his hospitality and feel entirely wel- find, a Greer merchant," promised the Lrrenelh Commandant at Abechir. "Rut don't think this our means you'll have good roads the rest of the way, From lel Fasher to 171 Obeid. you'll need to be towed, That's about 000 miles." This pessiniistio prophecy was second; ed by lila two lieutenants, who had never been over the road himself, but who kuow all about it, After two or three days arguing with these irroconcilables, who would believe everything bad about, Prohi- bition and nothing good. Jim and 2 started out again. We made over 100 utiles the first day to Aadre, the last French fort, Geneina, the first British outpost in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, was only about' 20 miles away—and that reminded its of our passports. Our all-inclusive British vise for which we'd paid $10 each, and all British colonies, territories, mandates ' and protectorates, including Iraq and Pale- stine. Not good for the Sudan." It was as big a coverage as a patent medicine , cure-all from cancer to housemaid's knee, but just like those same medicines, it wasn't good for what ailed us, if the passport had said nothing about the Sudan we'd have taken a chauce, but since it went out of its way 4o provide specifically the Sudan"—we could only take a chance anyway. "They'll probably send you back to Lagoaand the West Coast where you started from," said the Captain at Afire on the French side of the bor- der. "You can fight the desert and jungle and drouth and hear all over again." "Never again," vowed Jim: "Or you can stay where you are, here in our Sahara," continued the Captain, looking out over a valley of desolation ho called a lake. "Not that," I said. "Then you'll just have to slip on over the line to Geneina and ask Cap- tain Evans to fix you up a passport vise. He can get it all right if he wants to" The next day we reached the bor- der and British territory again, the Angio -Egyptian Sudan. There was only a sandy•caravan trail and not an officer or even a traveler in' sight, but Jim immediately crossed over to the left side of the road. "Remember the English trails rules," he warned me, "The right side of the road is the left again now." We didn't break any speed laws in that deep, soft sand. We chugged right up to the house of the resident as soon as we reach- ed Geneina, and I think our little Eng- lish motors hummed a jolly "Fee Fi Po Fum" all the way to that English- man.. It was a -real house, too, with even an attempt at a hedge and a Iawn that only a Briton would brave in that desert of desolation and drouth. We knocked on the first door we'd seen in any house for weeks, and a black houseboy, in a clean white gown, a neat, green turban on his head and a sash of the same.mate come and at home as long as Ire• rial corseted about his midriff bowed maiued in his village. ins plump into civilization again. I sent the whole troupe back with There were ruga on the floor, real my compliments and gave my guards pictures on a decorated wall and some a few francs to pay the chief forehis magazines, in English, beside a big provisions. An hour later the zealous unholstered chair. There was a book - black guards returned with half a Cala- case to astound us, and this lone Eng - bash. of strong smelling liquor they lisbman standing guard on the rag of Empire had even had purchased with my money. They Solite tidye ebit of drape about the gg welt° bound to guacgl me and were glass windows we had seen in a already drunk enough to insist on thousand miles of travel. Then, to obeying their chief's commands. T complete this transplanting of Merry rolled the motorcycle into the open England itself there in the heart of doorway of my mud house and spread the Dark Continent the black "boy" my blanket on the sandy floor inside. brought us a pot of tea and a little I had no gun, but I parked the hatchet near at hand and tried to justify,this plate of calces and announced thatthe priests, who have been driven precaution by arguing that the lions the Captain was just now coming) from their temples. I heard out in the bush night try to from the tennis court. An English' — . come inside. man is always English and he'll hang The fellow, who believes in predes- "Zip. Bing!" .A. ki-ki and a roar, onto his home standards of comfort tination jumps as far at the sound of and the sound of bare feet running and cleanliness, 'his sports, and his a honk.—Schenectady Gazette. Canadian, Huskies or Byrd Expedition r When Comn ander Richard Evelyn Byrd desired dogs for the nee of the South Polar Eai edition he, naturally, thought of Canada and it was to the North Shore of he St. Lwreuce in Quebec and Labrador he sent his agents to select and purchase huskies, David E, Buckingham, V.112.D., consulting veterinarian to he Byrd Antarctic Expedition, went along the North Shore and inspected tl e purchases which were assembled at Harrington, Mutton Bay and Blanc Snblon. The latter place, just inside the Quebec boundary, 'had a previous flash of fame as the community from which part of the news of the landing of the trans-Atlantic plane, Bremen on Greenly Island, was flashed ot the world at large, The dogs were conveyed to Quebec by the S.S. North Shore, of the Clarke Steamship Company, and at Quebec transferred to the care of the Canadian National Express, Two special ears were in readiness and the dogs, each in a private stout crate, were carefully placed on board and despatched to Mont- real by the day express. At Montreal, the ears were switched to "The Wash- ingtonian," and on this crack train of the National System the Huskies were sent to Washington eu route to the 'United States Nava] Supply Base at Hampton Roads, Virginia, From that point the,, Canadian dogs will sail for New Zealand, Ross Sea and Bay of Whales, There were 79 dogs in the ship- ment handled by the Canadian National Railways. ports and we slept that night,be- tween clean white sheets. We ere ready for the Sudan. Chinese Girls Combat i:; an (3.2 •>inding of Feet Priests, Supporting Opposi- tion, Driven From Temples Chengchow, China. — Footbindiug here is being stopped by force. Shop keepers who were "urged" to paint their doors and gates a "Nationalist blue" do not resent the new reforms nearly so much as the young women and girls who have had their tightly wound foot cloths forcibly removed by the authorities in the street, In the country districts of Henan Province much trouble has been caused ff'om time to time by an or- ganization called the Miao lao ICui, which has been urging the women to cling to their old-time custom of bind- ing their feet despite all the orders to the contrary by government offi- cials. ' This movenieut was launched by through the sand awoke me in the dress clothes as long as he'll hang dead of night. I seized my hatchet onto his bath, his beer and his con - and peeked around the motorcycle genital aristocracy—and that means wheels. A black man, spear in hand,! as long as he lives. You can lead an was crouched behind the compound Engiishntan into the bush but you wall, Another spear zipped Past my can't make him a bushman No one door,and I polled in my neck. Then could have been better to us than the I remembered that u the land of French during the weeks we were .in blacks. the white man's constant show I French Equatorial Africa; but the of superiority and' .fearlessness is the French—well, they don't dross for only guarantee of safety and respect, dinner in the bush. and here I was cringing ha,the sha- I We showed the' Captain our pass- Bows of my mud doorway. I Strode Ports and trembled, The English are out into the dim inooniiglrtand sternly sticklers for law and regulations and called my guards to time for malting we knew 11. They will 'hardly con - such anoise. sitter a man born if there is the slight - They were all excited. A lion, they est irregularity in his birth certificate said, bad chased a jackal inside the —and our passports were absolutely compound walls and they had thrown no good at ail. Besides, we were "fool their spears to drive the lion and. his Americans", dirty and whiskered and frightened prey away. Imagination ragged, and we had no dress suit for runs high in the Afric mind, •especially dinner. Clearly we didn't belong in when lubircated with a combustion of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan the way we looked, "Sorry, old beans," he finally an- npunioed, "hut I eawn't recognize you from these photos In your passports, and told them it was only a "olden," You're smooth shaven in the pictures. But lion or dog, 11 was enough to keep You'll have to cut off that brush, We me awake for—well, nearly thirty don't live In the bush here, Boy, bring fear anti bad liquor and a desire to show off their bravery before a wen - framed white man. They insisted it *as "le lion" and I piped them down minutes, I suppose. About three o'clock Jim came back, bareheaded, on a horse. A black cal' i'ier was supposed to be somewhere behind with five gallons of gasoline on ills head. The moment he arrived we poured the gasoline into our tank, two pitchers of hot water!" "Ile's got us; tap," mourned Jim. "Shades of_Bili Thompson, We've got to shave." "He thinks you're a Red" I told' Jim, tor my partner's six weeks' of untrimmed beard was a flaming 13o1- gave him the horse to ride back, and .sireviic red, I had plenty of beard startecl aff. Since ,Tim hnd come away myself, and a Tong, flowing black' Peen: Abechir without bis cork helmet moustache that looked lice the spirit we had to be back before the ems get of '00, It was the eighth of Fehru- Loa high above the horizon. ai'y, and we hadn't shaved since At Abechir we found a Greek rater. Clu'istnin.o avo.The Captain was right, e' c. And a Forcll "Every time you We shaved, XIS viseed oar pass/ - "With all the talk people do about death I don't believe we know the first thing about it." "Oh, sure we do! We know it's always fatal.'" "My wife and I agree perfectly about some things." "Indeed!" "Yes, When anything goes wrong I take it for granted that it is niy fault. And Henrietta always thinks so, too." "Babe" Ruth has forty-four home runs to his credit this year. But he made his greatest hit of the season re- cently when he gave ice-cream cones to hundreds of youngsters. The c' ~ ri �n .c at thio trailitng schools? Titers pro' I 'fid greasive, leit't it'l T stzpli065 it will lefee to mean Kilbrter erutoos at sou; One of tlra People We Know In Fact, probably lessen tine use of the r , navy tor sea purposes, But it will $coeliac We Gant zaisp rho standard," earniolan and italfan flees Help it ' ""T suppose sa;" I "Did Cornparattve tests lute** rices cone Wo 1"c in and out pretty ofteai to' yali road about tiffs 04411:413071.°21(e%7 mar- ducted by thvete 1)ivislon of tiro Ex- gettter, li. r,ed 1, on a suburban trent. der ease on Long Island?" erinzental harm Ottawa,_t etc That' bury 1 came to talk to Hint. No,"" he said. "`X never read mur- p to i r "Fina morning," 0 said as I sat down der oases, They don't interest Rio. ming the relative value of Carufolan beside him yesterday and opened a. Xn fact, I think the whole continent and Italian bees. The ,trapezi epes uewspaper, is getting over ooeupled with them-^" gave the fallowing average .crops: "Great!"" he answered, "the grass is "Yes, but this case had such odd 1924-101 lbs. 1 nes.; 1925-225 obs.; drying out fast ,:.ow after all tido. rain features—'" 2159 104 lbs. 4 ozs,;,. 1927-181 IUs,. and the greens will soon be all right "Oh, they all have," be replied, with 14 mi.The Carulolaus gave; 1924- , to play." , an air of weariness. "Bach one 1s \otcs "Yes;" T said, I just boomed by the papers to make a 79 lbs. 2 ems.; and 1927-110 lbs. 14. ole. The Car'niolan bees showed "Por the matter of that," satd my sensation--" • themselves to be more persistent in friend, "a man could began to play "I know, but in this case it seams their preparation to swarm than the at six in the morning easily, In fact, that the man was killed with a blow Italians. These results .Have been I've often wondered that there's so' from a golf club," i taken from the Annual Report of the little gait played before breakfast. We "What's that? Ela, what's that? I•Dominion Apiarist of the Ex riment- happenod to be talking about golf, a Killed him with a blow from a golf al Farm. The report contains u groat few of us that nigght—I don't know club! 1" deal of information of value to hep how it came up—and we -were saying "Yes, some kind of club—" that it seems a pity that some of the "I wonder if it was an iron --.let mo keepers. It covers a wide field in best part of the day, say, front five see the paper --though, for the matter eluding experiments on pollination by o'clock to seven -thirty, is never used," of that, I imagine that a blow with bees, queen breeding, wintering, fila "That's true," I.anawered, and, then, even a wooden driver, let alone one of eases, etc: Those interested may ob- to shift the subject, I said, looking out the steel -handled drivers—where does Iain copies on application to the Pub of the window:tt say it?-pshaw, it only just says 'a ligations Branch, Department of Agri "It's a pretty bit of country just; blow with golf club.' It's a pity the cu'lkure, Ottawa, here, isn't 11?" gapes don't write these things up with "It is," he replied, "but it seems more detail, isn't it? But perhaps it bee Stores For Winter a shame they make no use of it—just will be better in the afternoon a few market gardens and things like paper.. , that, Why, I uoticed along here acres "Have you played golf much?" I and acres of just glass—some kind inquired, I saw it was no use to talk of houses for plants or something— of anything else. and whole fields full of lettuce and "No," answered my companion, "I things like that. It's a pity they don't am sorry to say I haven't, You see, make something of it. I was remark- I began late. I've only played twenty lug only the other day as I came along years, twenty-one if you count this in the train with a friend of miuo, year. I don't know what I was doing. that you could easily lay out an 18- I wasted about hall my life, In Pact, hole course anywhere here." it wasn't till I was well over thirty "Could you?" I said. that I caught on to the game. I sup - "Oh, yes. This ground, you know, pose a lot of us look back over our is an excellent light soil to shovel up lives that way and realise what we into bunkers. You could drive some have lost. big ditches through it and make ono "And even as it is," he continued, or two deep holes—the kind they have "I don't get much chance to play. At on some of the French links, In fact, the best I can only manage about improve it to any extent" four afternoons it week, though of I glanced at my morning paper. "I course I get most of Saturday and all see," X said, "that it is again rumored of Sunday. I get my holiday in the that Lloyd George is at last definite- summer, but it's only a month, and ly to retire." that's nothing. In the winter I man - "Funny thing about Lloyd George," age to take a run South for a game answered my friend. . "He never once or twice and perhaps a little played, you know, most extraordinary swack at it around Easter, but only thing—don't you think?—for a man in a week at a time, I'm too busy -- his position. Balfour, of course, was that's the plain truth of it." He sigh - very different: I remember when I ed, "It's hard to leave the office be - was over in Scotland last summer I fore two," he said. "Somthing always had the honor of going around the turns up" course at Dumlrios just alter Lord And feared that he went on to telt Balfour. Pretty interesting expert- me something of the technique of the encs, don't you think?" game, illustrate it with a golf ball on 'Were you over on business?" I the seat of the car, and the peculiar asked, mntai poise needed for driving, and "No, not exactly. I went to get a the neat, quick action of the wrist golf ball, a particular golf bail. Of (he showed me how it worked) that course, I didn't go merely for that. I is needed to undercut a ball so that wanted to get a mashie as well. The it flies straight up in the air. He ex - only way, you know, to get just what plained to me how you can do practi- you want is to go to Scotland for it" cally anything with a golf ball, pro - "Did you see much of Scotland?" vided that you keep your mind abso- "I saw it all. I was on the links at lutly poised and your eye le shape, St. Andrews and I visited the Loch and your body a trained machine. It Lomond course and the course at In- appears that even Bobby Jones of At- verness. In fact, I saw everything." ]ants and people like that fall short "It's an interesting country, isn't it, very often from the high standard set historically?" up by my golfing friend in the sub - have"It certainly is. Do you,know they urban car. have played there for over five hue • • • • dred years! Think of it! They So, later in the day, meeting some showed me at Loch Lomond the place one in my club who was a person where they said Robert Bruce of authority on such things, I made played the Red Douglas (I think that inquiry about my friend. "I rode into was the other party—at any rate, town with Llewellyn Smith," I said. Bruce was one of them), and I saw "I think he belongs to your golf club. where Bonnie Prince Charlie disguised He's a great player, isn't he?" himself its a caddie when the Duke of "A great player'!" laughed that ex - Cumberland's soldiers were looking for him. Oh, it's a wonderful country historically." * • * After that I let a silence intervene so as to get a new start. Then I looked up again from my newspaper. "Look at this," I said, pointing to a headline, Navy ordered again to Nicaragua. "Looks like more trouble, doesn't it?" "Did you see in the paper a while back," said my companion, "that the Navy is now making golf compulsory From Coast to Coast We're "Brither Men For A' That" UNVEILING OF A MONU•MEENT Itt, Iran, Ramsay Wier/011dcl, former Labor prime minister h Stanley Park, Vancouver, before a splendid gathering. TO ROBERT BURNS of Great Britain, officiated at impressive pert. "Llewellyn Smith? Yes, he can hardly hit a ball! And anyway, he's only played about twenty years!"— Montreal Standard. Oxford Magazine gUrges Tax Upon U.S. Tourists Oxford, England.—A tax on Ameri- can and other tourists is suggested by "The Isis," the Oxford University magazine, in an editorial directed against overseas visitors. The tax, the magazine suggests, should be devoted to the Oxford Preservation Trust, which has been formed to prevent the encroachment of manufacturing plants into the uni- versity part of the city. "The Isis" exclaims against "Oford baring her beauties•to the kodaks of Kansas and Khartum, receiving noth- lug in return save paper bags. If tourists must come to 'Oxford "ve see absolutely no reason why they should not be obliged to pay for what they apparently consider a privilege. The manners of these tourists are apt to be boorish in the extreme", To survive the winter and to resume brood rearing the following spring, bees require a considerable amount of food, While the amount needed for the winter months is not large, consumption increases very 'rapidly in the early spring when '"cod rear- ing is resumed and befoPs?se weath- er is suitable to open the °ebonies. It is, therefore, a wise plan to give the colonies enough food in the autumn to carry thein well on into the fol- lowing spring. Each colony should have not less than forty pounds wben put away f01' the winter. In addition to what is in the hives, it is also ad- visable to carry over a few well-seat- ed combs of honey for emergency feeding in the spriug. The Dominion Apiarist, at the Ex. perimental Farm, Ottawa, in discuss, ing this question in "Seasonable Hints" says that healthy bees eject waste material only when flying and during the winter confinement to their'bives it accumulates in the in- testines. If the amount of waste material is large, dysentery and death may follow, hence it is fmpcstizit, that the food given to the bees for the winter be as free from indigestible matter as possible, Clover and buck- wheat honeys are goodbut sugar , syrup is the best for the dormant sea- son. FIoney is better than syrup when brood rearing is - in progress. When feeding in the autumn, it is a good plan to leave several pounds of honey with the bees and then to feed them with sugar syrup made of two parts white granulated sugar to one part of water. The syrup being stored . last will be first consumed, thus put- ting off the consumption of honey' until towards spring. Those who wish to secure copies of "Seasonable Hints" may do so' by forwarding their names and address to the Publication Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. The September Dip The spring dipping of sheep is not sufficient for the whole year. To keep the flock free from external parasites sheep should be dipped in the spring and again in the fall. A warm sunny day in September is a good time. A properly arranged dipping tank is a necessity on any farm where sheep aro raised. When the sheep arrive home from the fairs and exhibitions, or when fresh stock is introduced dipping should be practiced, Ticks, lice, and scale spread rapid- ly and the best protection is dipping. A satisfactory tank for this opera- tion is fully described in Bulletin 75 new series, which may be had on application to the Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. This bulletin of 111 pages deals very fully with "The Sheep In- dustry in Canada." It contains an historical review of the industry, and chapters on the leading breeds, the establishing of a 'commercial flock, fattening, handling, feeding, diseases, and many other angles of this im- portant mportant industry. Fruit and Vegetable Wholesalers A publication of interest to fruit and vegetable growers and distribu- tors has just been revised and 10 ready for distribution, it is a list of "Wholesale dealers in Fruits and Vegetables in Canada." The List covers wholesale dealers New Quay Southampton Hin apples, other domestic fruits, pota- toes, toes, onions, and other domes: t vege- Will Cost £65,000,000 tables. It le divided showing firms Southampton, Eng.—Twenty ocean dealing in carloads at marketing liners the size of the Leviathan will centres or distributing points, and be able to dock at the new quay just those handling ten carloads or more ordered built here, But it will take l per year at producing pointe. Firms twenty years to complete the job. I doing a purely brokerage business are Berths for two such liners, however, indicated as such. *will be ready in two years. 1The publication is bulletin No. 101, - A dock wall to be constructed w111 I "List of Wholesale Dealers In Fruiti be the deepest in the world. It will be and Vegetables in Canada", and may 3,800 feet long and will necessitate be had on application to the Publica- seventy-eight concrete monoliths, each . tions Branch, Departmentof Agricul- weighing 7,000 tons, being sunk in the ' tura, Ottawa. In distributing this list river bed. ( the Department assumes no respousi- The eroation of thhis wail is part, et bility as .to the financial standing on a schema began two years ago which any of the firms listed: -'-Issued by the it is calculated will cost 4.65,000,000. 1 Director of Publicity; Dom, Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa, A man who had been asked to make Ire (anxiously)_"I say, Jill, what his after-dinner speech as short as do your parents think of. me?" She possible, arose and said: "ram asked (lightly)—"I really don't know—taut- to propose the toast of Mr. Dodshoti, er hasn't said and .mother is welting ceremony and I am told that the less said about fur his opinion ce :lint she can dis- t him the better." Iagree with him:" •, '