Show I Breezy to Last I. I 4 1 I w S- S I i t TRADER HORN Held Literary Spotlight Colorful Care Career Of Fan Famed d African Adventurer Ends Trader Horn Young Yoting Man of 82 Dies at Nursing Home in England After Chill D B Dx Associated Puss Fees WHITSTABLE Kent England June 26 26 Alfred Alfred Aloysius Alosius Smith known to the world as Trader Horn died today toda- at a nursing home borne In tn Tankerton after a brief Illness lIe He was a young man of 82 in his own words He was stricken with a B. chill at atthe atthe atthe the home of his sister several days ngo ago and did not rally With a spar kling eye and a great white beard he maintained until his death beethe bed bee the happy happ breeZ breezy manner that had hac Continued on Page Pue Seven SenD S I 0 Colorful Career Of Famed African Adventurer Ends Continued from Page Pace One accompanied a career of ot adventure Trader Horn came caine out of or the Jungles of the dark continent to take takei a i place in fri the spotlight of oC the literary lit m. world In collaboration with Mrs Ethelreda Lewis he wrote Trader Horn and entertained England England En En- gland and America with fascinating tales of his experiences with African natives es STARTED ON TRAVELS His travels began in 1871 when he left Lancashire for the Ivory coast of west Africa on behalf of a 3 Liverpool Liverpool Liver Liver- pool steamship company After assisting as as- the company's agent to promote promote promote pro pro- mote the ivory and rubber trade he lie heat at length developed into the almost mythical of Trader personage Horn with a dozen sidelines Among his activities were shootIng shoot shoot- I Ing ng elephants and lions Prospecting in hl n the Kalahari desert of South Af ric rica lea diamond trading in Rand wash wash- Ing ng gold at Cherr Cherry Creek painting pIctures in the southern part of oC the United States and helping to ta sal sale rage vage bullion bumon from the wrecked steamship steam steam- ship hip Empress of India At one time he was a favorite of the he Queen ot of Madagascar and was outlawed by the French government for tor or fighting In her behalf He served in n an Irregular unit of the Boer war and anti fought a a. caravan of or raiders In the he Lake Chad region He had barrow narow nar bar row ow escapes from death Once he was carried in the teeth eth of a a. wound wound- I ed d lion and again he was nearly slain by blacks in a quarrel over ivory He camo came to England at the outbreak out out- break of the world orld war and tried un un- successfully to enter the British army declaring declaring- he was 20 years ears younger than his age He was reported reported re reo ported t to have served aboard a mine minesweeper weeper sweeper In spite of or his rejection Trader nader Horn was facile tacHe In establishing establishing es es- es himself with the black j i races aces and though sometimes In danger dan dan- ger jer he was usually on the best of ot terms erms with natives He did not hesi 1 tate ate to describe cannibals as his blood brothers In late years after he had returned to England to spend his remaining da days ays s 's with his sister he became quite critical of the youth of the thc modern wealthy classes He once gave vent to his disgust in these words I II I cant can't see sec those young men carrying car car- I a a. gun In the next war or those young oung women bearing babies Many young men of oC today are poor Infants ants with legs made only to walk the length o of a golf course and fists only strong trong enough to drive a car a. car They are re Just pimples on the populace It would be a good thing if We Ve vc revived re the he stone age for a a. year o or two t |