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" Rapid Introduction of the CK Roads, Frees Wetttrlt oMrtree.--Tttere n "of! Indie-"on that western Canada may produce the greatest wheat crop in her history. This will probably create a new world record for avorage yield over the totnt at 23.105300 acres estimated as sown to this crop and bring the total yield of the Prairie Provinces appreciably nearer the 500,000,000 bushel mark. Apart from this the western Canadian harvest ot 1028 Is tsittttitictust " ex. limiting certain trends which my have an influential bearing on the future of wheat growing in that terri- tory. It is extravagant to say that 192R is setting the stage for an almost nearer the 500.00! Apart from thin m harvest of 1928 it comp]: dian h have " ma fall. The ripened crop must be taken] nil and tins-shed before the advent oti winlt-r's tmowr' which may bury it and! tie up the year's income. subject the) grain to deterioration, as well as core) fuse soasunnl activities by necessitat-I ing threshing in the spring. In mar- Velmls manner, by some Herculean ellort. farmers manage senenlly to gel. in the acreage they have planned. especially since tractors have become an goueral in the area the individual farmer accomplishes the work ot sev- eral teams and hired men. Not intre- quo-ntly. however, many are compelled to leave some acreage idle or run Serb uus risk from trust. From seeding to harvesting In a brief hundred days or so. In its earlier stages the tanner can note the short. sturdy growth complacent” enough. but as the stalks - taller and the heads hang with their weight he grows steadily more serious. Final. " as the broad waving Beids take on im- rich golden tint. his immediate responsibility. the colossal proportions of the task confronting him. canoes him to break his leash. It is then that the concerted cry comes eastward from the western plains. “Send III N I ti . nihly than a passing though! that unn- crs have tteen very careless. The western Canadian farmer. or his wife tor that matter, have little time to dun-ll on the picturesque in harwat time. ur opportunity to revel in Its romantic aspects. It in Sttr the farmer a period of ceareiemg ettort. While he has been able to send that crop himself or with the aid of a “rule hired man. such labor is abso- {armor a period “The he has be crop Minn" or link hired man W an the ' rich puns") the ta "" ham The Harvest Expansion life in th Harvesting Methods Make f w, - Canada Wheat Crop More , Secure {ting the slag revolution in " din-ll on the pic“ time, or opportunit manuc aspects. It a period ot teaser a has been able to null or with the MUTT AND JEFF-Bud Fisher tin at which will the pun transports“! ill xct3ryi JW tN Late I’OWUI (Dunn-cunts, I8 stalks grow tallerl Complete Change " 1 The combine seems due to complete- " with their weight I more tserious. Final- ly change the familiar pictures of hare. vest time in the Canadian West. In raving fields take on 1926 there were us ot these machines tint. his immediate . I mums“ proportions in the western province, and in 1921' 'rontimr him. causes there were 774. These years deftttite- leash it is then that ly took the machine out of the expri- . mntal stag tor the territory. This ry comes eastward, . . u plains "Send a. spring and summer orders were ex- . liremely heavy and in the present har- vest the utilization is general. tsignal. "t Expansion ling the real opening of the combine cursinn has from the era in western Canada. One authe1) t weytr'rrt Canada's tative estimate states that at least 500) -en a feature ot Do'ot these are being used in the grain -lall of the year, In fields at Alberta. south of Calgary, time in response to l whereas there were but 35 in that sec- 1 from the West an tion in 1926. and 150 last year. it is ui. of young eastern , unquestionably the moat revolutionary in. their own work factor ever introduced into western md out the year's inofCanadian farming, BNetiy, the use of mrni‘loly unemployed I the combine eliminates the operations 'r's stake; and tltrot binding, tying, and stocking, and m- who wize the op- threshes the grain as it moves along. Mimi-willy visit the More particularly the combination of t ~nlllt‘ years now an the reaper and thresher does away mvu have rushed by with the elevator, the knotter, and , the waiting groin the slice! carrier on the binder and muny transfer of la-‘the trader and blower equipment on 2.. regarded as inevi- the thresher. "dual but very deft-5, By means of the combine trom 25 .u~ darn-d toward in: to 45 acres of grain per day can be lit M'unttlliii help. (harvested and thrashed with a ma- " Vilt- continent, tho chine cutting a 15 or 16-foot swath. n ham-st is a some- _ As an instance of its economy of oper- rl imicnnite attair.,atiou, the case may be cited ot the u thrs Prairies have Noble Foundation Farms in southern th a bountiful yield 1 Alberta. said to he the largest grain in lucuusr they res-term in the world. where there are .u that general pros/many thousands ot acres in crop, In w hound up with goodI1927 six combines cut and threshed date visitors from theithe crop in one operation, the grain a comtortalrly survey i being taken directly from the field to Mon cars the wavingithe railway care. All the labor re- " picture. envying the _ quired to operate the reaperpresherts mic calling. Perhaps i were 12 men. two to each machine. it int a good deal ot the was estimated that the machines per- l under and will not formed the work of 12 binders, " hreshlng until spring, stookers. and at least 66 thresher-men. in. nothing more pos- The 1927 harvest was the cheapest Huston has trom the , western Canada's mu a feature of Do _ tall of the rear, In time In response to I trom the West an "i. of young eastern m. their own work nd out the you": In. m-urluly unemployed a": stake', and the us who seize the op- mnmivally visit the ought that farm named as In but very t' rted toward manual help. , continent. rest is a so pf the Combine, Motor Trucks, and Gtybd Western Plain From LaborWorry, and Aids Marketing , on the tat terri- Bar that an almost [‘ana- tably :1 and may the lately unequal to the tuk ot semen} in; it. still less of threshing it. Her mun secure Idditional labor and pay it wages the urgency ot the work de- mands. He must then take his chances of a threshing machine set- ting round to him before the now comes. Until all these things are done. the money in the crop is tied up as tight as are in a mine. His wife faces the prospect of havintrto house and teed an indefinite period addition- al harvest hands, and then tor a period {of anything from a few days to a Ecoupjle of weeks to attend to the wait-s ot a threshing crew which mny consist of any number up to 30 men. in many European countries the! binder or mechanical harvester would be considered as tar advanced, but western Canada could never have made any progress without it. and no tarm in the territory is to be found without at least one of them. A labor- saving device introduced into this com-I mon system of harvesting was the stook loader, which eliminated the ttecissity of pitching the stocked‘ sheaves by hand into wagons for transport to stacks or the threshing machine. Then the ultimate seemed to have been achieved when the Inte- chanical stacker was invented, which, attached to an ordinary binder, elimi- nated the manual work of picking up the sheaves and standing them in ‘stooks. Neither of these, however, tame into general use, possibly on ac- 1count of the relatively small saving in labor in relation to cost. Then and- ‘denly several harvesting operations {were completely eliminated and the {whole season's work revolutionized 'when, alter a season or two of ex- }perimentation. the combine reaper- !threeher came to be generally adopt- ed over the area. permitting a vision of an almost complete liberation from the hired man thralldoln " harvest time. were 12 men, two to each machine. It was estimated that the machines per- formed the work of 12 binders, 15 smokers. and at least 66 thresher-men. The 1927 harvest was the cheapest this mammoth farm had ever known. The, combine can be used in west- ern Canada regardless of local ma- turing or unsettled weather conditions through the attachment of the wind- row header and pick-up equipment which has similarly passed the experi- mental stage in the territory and proved a success. Harvesting by this system consists ot two distinct opera- tions. The crop is ttrat cut and left in the field to dry and ripen, support. ed by the stubble in a loose mass with the heads on top where they dry and ripen quickly. When ready to thresh. the combines, equipped with the wind- row pick-up. threshes and cleans the grain. ready for market. A consider- able quantity of grain which at the 1927 harvest was covered up by the early arrival ot snow and lay tlat on the ground or in swath all winter was PEN8t0NERtV. SERGT. ALLEN AND J. BRYCE at a bowling match between Royal Alfred Home and Chelsea Pensioners Royal Hospital where England's old tlme regulars are taken care of. in the spring successfully threshed by thla means with little damage or loss. An outcome of the extensive build- ing of good roads and the greater utilization of motor vehicles is the more general use of motortrucks at harvest time for the transport of grain. Last fall the demand for these could not be met in many parts ot the West and this year there will be a great many more hurrying grain trom the farm to the railroad. The use of the combine has reduced grain storage re- quirement' on the farm and the grain is frequently taken directly from the Beld to the elevator or railroad car, eliminating many handlings. To-day the long lines of horse-driven wagons laboriously toiling over rough trails have given place to tieett, of powerful motor trucks effortlessly transporting much greater loads ova-r good roads. ---Cl1ristian Science Monitor. _ Among the patrons of mystery thrillers to-day are not only the oftiCe boys ‘and Junior white collar clerks, who have always been credited with keeping the market flourishing, but also many citizens ordinarily included in the category ot "beat minds." The fierce light that beats in any direction the public eye chances to rave has lately been exploring some new clos- ets and revealed that in many of them some of the favorite possessions are the stacks of detective stories. mHerbert Hoover at present would probably be rated as leader of the clan. He is a habitual reader. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, in the rare moments when he takes a little leisure, likes to have a stack of mystery boots at hand. Dwight Mor. row, the United States Ambassador to Mexico, is an inveterate reader pt them. J. P. Morgan enjoys the same pas- time. On a recent trip home from Europe, when as usual he wished to avoid public attention, he spent al- most his while time inside his pri- vate suite, absorbed in the exploits of imaginary detectives. Clarence Dar. row, Lloyd George and even George Bernard Shaw have the reputation of being fond of detective stories, while to President Wilson it was only ri. valed for relaxing qualities by a visit to a good vaudeville show 'le.-"-- - .&,_ Detective Stories ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO I lScanderbeg III. an Ahmed Bey Zogu Had a Short But Stirring Career BY T. J. C. MARTYN. ' The scent coronation of Ahmed jBey Zo as King of the Albanians, 'under the title of Seandorbog III. brings up a host of questions. First of all, Who is Ahmed Bey Zogu? Where is Albania? Why did he choose the title of King of the Albanians rather than Kng of Albania? Who wore Scanderbeg I. and H.? And what kind of people are the Alban- inns? Albania', King Won Crown by His Wits The answer to these questions weave themselves into a story which, so far as Zogu is concerned, is matched per- haps only by Napoleon's. King Soamderbeg is now 38 years old. For most of the time he has lived, it ever a man has. by his wits; and, by the same token, he has risen by a oombirtation of merit and shrewd- nexss that would be commendable in so young 3 man were it not thoroughly unscrupulous. In his early youth he received the Albanian equivalent of a high school education. He was no sluggard and learned to speak, besides his native tongue, Turkish and German. He was still in his teens when his father died and he succeeded him as Bee, or ruler, of the Matl, the moat powerful tribe in Northern Albania, He began by being pro-Turk, and, although he has been at various times pro-Serb and pro-Italian, he seems to have been, underneath it all, a sincere Albanian -which is more than can be said for many of his countrymen, We hear of him as a Colonel at 20 and at about 25 he burst into politics, cot like a roaring lion but with the suave tionehalance of a man who knew where he stood, and with the now evi- dent determination to stand highest in the realm. This was at the time of Albania's ne-creation at the e-red of the World War, when it was neither a republic nor a monarchy and was governed under a provisional Con- stitution. AT HEAD OF THE ARMY Zogu was then anti-Italian and a Deputy. By 1921 he was Commander- in-Chief of the army, and as such put down with the utmost severity a ris- ing of the Mirdite tribe. In Tirana, the capital. his stock increased by leaps and bounds-eo did his power. He was appointed Minister of the In- terior, and the following year, after successfully putting down a revolt in Tirana itself, he became for the first time Prime Minister. There was not As a Substitute For Dan Cupid Mister Mutt is a Bust the ghadow of I doubt that .ttaiivas Ge JPoet rtsierfis1 nan in the country. T U532“ 1m, whon Fan Ntli, a Hat'- w-ar grunt». 2940 into power on tho wings of revolutbil. 2ottu was. in fact, [the Government. With the advent or ‘Noli; he fled to Yugoslavia, at/thits' time being pro-Sub, and in the capital ot Belgrade plotted tor his return to Albania. allegedly receiving much assistance and cr.couragement from the Yugoslav Government, ever on the much to secure an advantage in Al- boniw: Non. meanwhile, had made the fatal' "dunks of tuienatihtt some of the powerful tribes of the hinterland, ind 20311 wish quiék to Seize the ad- "iiiiiuGir thm (mm. Noli was a Chrithn and a reformer, and the combination of the two mad-2 him para ticularly unwelcome to the' Mohamme- dan Begs. Six months after he had fled from the country, Zogu reappear- ed in Albania at the head of a small army. Noli Bed. . Immediately after his return Zozu secured. by what means is better left to the imagination, his election to the Presidency of the country and soon afterward a constituent Assembly, convoked by him, created the country a republic and voted a definite Cun- 2ogia took cane to retain the Pre miership. He appointed his own Min isters. They are obliged to retain thc, eonfidence of the Senate and Chant her, but the Senators and Deputies receive salaries, and it in an open see- ret that Zogu used his contml over the Treasury to bring the Legislature to heel whenever he wished to impose his heel will. a republic stitution. As to the man, Ahmed Bey Zogu, now Kind Scanderbeg IH., he is, ac- cording to most_of, his interviewers, a man of very distinguished appear-l ance. Tall, well set up, dark brow? hair, blue eyes; white, nervous hands/ a small, neat mustache, immaculate uniform, in winning irmile---he is at once a charming individual and a win- ning persommty.0 His speech is de- liberate, and his manner. is convinc- ing; only his thick, sloping eyebrows give a hint of calculated suavity and distinguish the educated Albanian from a seeming polished Westerner. Urbane and dignified, he yet never lacks the air of an Oriental, with all the cunning and cauuousness of the Zoe-u irfqht be called a progressive. His clear. blue eyes look toward the West and his aims are the develop- ment of his country along Western! lines. A good many more things enter into the picture, but soon after his return to Tirana Zogu found little to I ilure his gaze eastward toward his old ‘friend Yugoslavia. She had no iiia//,l, for one. thing. Moreover. Italy Ct," quick to recognize a strong man, and, with firm intention of keeping her) bottling grip on the Adriatic, madei overtures to the dictator, accompanied l? offers of glittering prizes-loans, ldevelopment. roads (of which there lam hardly any), and many of the 'thing‘s that Albania needs to start her ion the way to civilization. [ The dice were soon east and Zogu’s allegiance was transferred to Italy. That he called himself seatuierbeg lrH, is a reminder of early Albanian lhistory. The first Scanderbeg, "Tho ‘Dragon of Albania," after having 1terved the Turks, turned and fought them successfully for twenty-five years and In 1461 the Sultan was forced to recognize him as Mpret, or lord of Albania, ' Much has been made of the new King's need of a wife and mention ‘has been made of Princess Giovanna got Italy and Princess Iliana of Ru- imania-rrathtr unlikely choices since Scanderbeg is a Mohammedan. Can “it be that, like Napoleon, the King ,wants to found a dynasty allied to one ‘of Euroce'a royal and ancient houses? In this connection it is to be noted that Zogu was engaged to the daugh- ter of one of Albania's wealthiest Begs. This msn is said to have lent hlm some 880,000, a vast sum for Al- bania, and so helped him materially to win a kingdom. But nothing is heard now of hh fiartemr, but much is heard of foreign princesses. Perhaps Scan- derbett has learned already that kings are the sarvynta of Stews and has forgotten the loves of loam-N. Y. Times. He: "it I felt like working harder I'd get married." She: "Yen, and it you got married you'd (eel like work- ing harder." 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Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin ptrferred; wrap it carefully) for each number and address Four order to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. iPatterns sent by return mail. Willie: Let him get his seat: htm. selt. I wouldn't be waiting on people like that. LET HIM GET 'EM HIMSELF Hubby: I're got to get three seats for Shakespeare to-nlght. A MYSTERY Bird: I don't see how you manage to fly. You haven‘t an, walnut! 2 _ --" View bind. in the frozen = not so very hr from Green. pad. live. " Mill!) tribe that can be coupled to other utives or it... far north in their mode: ot living only, Apart from tint. in appearance, for leuniplo. they have little in common, in. “mm illnnd mums ran hard. I ly he distinguished from whiten. i " "a Vilhulnmr Shannon. thet c,tutndiatt-ttorn explorer. who [Martin-r. ' ed the “blond" Eskimos. or, an ho can. ’od then. the "(Ripper Eskimou.” in In; 1910. while on one of his “rut journey! tin-M the -rrtslored north. he came heroin one of their vii. laces, and for n short time tin-ti with than. and it is to him that tho wurivi is indebted for what is known about i them. l The blond Eskimos. f9tetannmut found, have many ctuuacterOtio iliul l place them above the level at the (llhur ; Eskimo tribes. Not only are they 'drnore highly civilized than than of " their blood who also make their human “in the Arctic wastes. but they show 'an understanding of the ways at th" white man that is 'significant. It seems to hint that some venturing inn-k the two hail more in rommnn than they have to-dny. It was night. when Stettittstsott and his guides arrived at the villugu ot the blond Enklmm. Intortutstion hn had received previously trum other Eskimos set him an the trail at a trilu, which until then was unknown l1. white explorers, an he wan lil‘rpal'mi tor almnnt any surprise when ho run-r ed the village, Not wishing to alarm or incite “in blond natives “Must him, he aunt an Eskimo guide four-rd to arouse them And tell them ot his coming. They, ‘uturaliy. were excited by the Intru. sion upon their rent, but their unaifert (Ci hospiulity nude amends tor their lasrettement, One of their ttrat helium Iv“ to tie up their own dogs so that they would not light with Btefansu Ion'l. The Blond Eskimos Though they bad never noon . whit: mu before. they. unlike other native: of this continent, did not regurd hits coming with distrust. Nine of Hm blondes “hiked out of their huts hands raised, to meet and greet llm union.“ "We are friendly," they slid, in an linden-.2. ul glad Bach Inn: in Bietunssott'tt party was then taken to I renames hut to In; sheltered sud ted and eutertainvd, an lint was the greatest compliment they oauld any any visitor. The explorer'. don. too. were cared for well. V FasUa Illko to be ironed well just “to men de," they said, and gave Hm animals boiled meat. Stefanssen expected to be surprised by the appearance of the hitherto all known tribe, but it had never occurred to him that they would looks as my did, To him they armoured “kn "tstms'cy, sunburnod, but naturally fair Scandinavians." Though the explorer was Surlil‘im'd In his discovery, his Iskimu guides showed more lncredulity than aslotV Mutant. "Those people ore not Eskimos," they said. “They merely talk and act and are“ like Eskimos. Thrm: of than look like while tore-mast hands on a Whaler: And aren't they hum? And one looks like a Portuaoso.“ Some ot the men had thick boards ot a light brown color, and the ham on their hud- wu qulte unlike that of other Eskimos. insofar 3s it wan light instead of being black and loam: And, strangest ot all, some of "heat had red hands so colorful um Ihtr wzva'd be conspicuous oven in Bull. The women were comely. and that mum were as dehicate.ir “a.“ It thou ot so“ Scandinavian girls. Modern deeteeq which Btetansson brought with hill did not even amuse the curiosity of the blond Eskimos. They reamed them " supernatural. end made little or no comment. When the explorer showed them, thruuuh " Beld sham. uribou that tin-y could not see with their unaided sight. they made this hawk: "Now that you hue found the eari. bou that are here today. will you not also look tor the caribou that an com. ln; tomorrow Ind tell us where to [lo In watt tor them t" Those Eskimos appeared to in" ditcovered I menu ot working coppar. " their tttttt book: were made ot it. u well " their knives and spear- thI. Btrrtnttttttetn'. ritte they passed of with n (amt! slum-e. " was name» thin. beyond their understanding. and they refused to bother themtselvett about it. Numerous theories have been mt “need to smut for the origin or the blond Eskimos. Some hold that they descended trom Hudson Bay tree tnders. but this theory 13 scouted an the grounds that none ot the traders ll Ditch ll tnew of the existence of Hood Eskimos, sud had never tttttrr Loo u a; u Victoris Island. A momma exphnation of the orlp,its of this blond tribe ll that its member: p. descemlulu of the tgcandituiviautt who founded I colony in Grevnland -arrat centurion ago. Late. when plum- and var cut tlicttt m! from Nor, wny. their homeland. the y may hate $ntermarHed with the Eskimnx who lived near them. When the English "discovered Greenland, in first onion- m.- were living almawhenu Strangely enough. doisp'.to ali Hwy have in common. Shelallssun totrnd that all the blond Eskimos do not band themselves together,--tBy H. L. Mar. Phemn, Fathom} Btatt, The Bard" cum Star.) _ _ are friendly," they “Id. , dialect that Blennsson mud. "Your coming has tet ott from Nor they may have , Eskimos: who en the English l, Ite ttrtrt colon- In In could made Was German Responsibl the WI Au ti 'ttattf Inuit " lk tun ll Ema ll Th " d " tt " rah " than ER tir ttr \\ " " d " I! 0 " 0