Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 4, 1920, Page 3

g —— e —— N R ——————v Ny w "~ FOR TRICOLOR ‘French/ Inhabitants of Mauritius Ask That Island Be Re- turned to France. 1S NOW UNDER BRITISH RULE Possibility That Their Request Will Be Granted as a Matter of Senti- ment—Spot Made Famous by “Paul and Virginia.” ‘Washington.—News from the peace «conference has told nothing of the mationalistic movement in the little ‘Ralf-forgotten Island in the Indian ocean known as Mauritius. But the movement there is something new in the realm of international complica- toms. The inhabitants have asked to ‘be restored by the British empire to France and the French are anxious ‘to have the island back because it is ‘the scene of “Paul et Virginie,” pub- 1ished in 1787, by Jacques Henri Ber- nardin de Saint-Pierre. The islanders ‘have a new claim in that they say they belong to the “domaine sentimental” -of France. Madritius since 1810 has been a Brit- -ish colony. Before that for a century 4t had been French and known as Ile -8e France. The name it now bears %8 1n honor of the Dutch Maurice, giv- -en to it by his faithful subjects in the ‘seventeenth century. Tt was, however, discovered by the Portuguese. It has thus passed through the cycle of col- -onization and exploitation. And now -a committee of delegates in Paris has addressed a double memorial to Cle- ‘meanceau and Lloyd George saying that }Ihcy wish to return to the French fam- y. Tribute to British Rule. And here again is a new note. For ‘the Mauritians have not drawn up a ‘dM of complaints against England nor -organized a Mauritian Sinn Fein. On the contrary, they say that they have only gratitude and respect for Great Britain for her generous treatment of ‘them and their island. Objections to this transfer there ‘would certainly be. The government -of & century is not easily switched. And under the English, who under- stand better than any other nation how ‘te govern colonies (since the lesson -of. 1776), the island has prospered -wteadily. The most striking feature of the development has been the great foflux of East Indians where there ‘were formerly only French settlers -and their black slaves. Now the white inbabitants, descendants mostly of the Freach colonists, number between 70,- *000.end 80,000, while the Indians are Your times their number and have got into control of most of the business b ‘the capital, Port-Louls. But the old French familles, who have gone on ‘with their own language, laws and cus- ‘toms, thanks to the kindly British rule, stit consider the island as theirs, and ‘pot the Hindus' All Very Much in Earnest. & At once, after the signing of the armistice, a demonstration was held ‘before the French consulate In tne -capital, where the chief speakers de- manded that the island be turned back ‘to France, and in January of last year - banquet was held in the city hall in ‘homor of France, where the chief ob- Ject of interest was a statue of the immortal lovers, Paul and Virginia, the work of the Mauritlan sculptor, Pros- per d'Epinay, draped in the tricolor of France. The guests at the banquet sang the “Marseillaise,” which was taken up by the crowds outside. Af- ter the banquet a delegation was named to take up the matter of the transfer with the British and French goveraments, and this commission, ‘headed by Dr. Joseph Riviere, has ‘heen active in propaganda at home and in France. The French writer, Alberic Cahuet, in L'Tustration puts the case for the French Mauritians as follows: “The elite of the population of the Tstand of Mauritius Is made up of the -descendants of the former French col- onists, having piously preserved the integrity of their souls and their na- tional culture and who, in spite of all the i{mmigration, bave remained the exclusive possessors of the soil and the agricultural riches. In valin has ‘been the influx of Indigenous races— negroes, Hindus, Mongols and Arabs —which has swelled the figure of the ‘general population. The little pfimi- tive kernel, 70,000 to 80,000 inhabi- tants in 375,000, has kept its prepon- derance.” Sole Shoes With Currency. Mattighofen, Austria.—Residents of this community in Tyrol are using leather money as soles for paper shoes, Fractional metal currency disap- peared some time ago, and the munic- 4pality authorized a big leather fac- tory to stamp out little round ten- heller pieces from scrap leather. This gerved the local business requirements until the people found it cheaper to use the leather money as soling for their shoes than to buy the leather soles. Scratching Cat Blinds ' Council Rluffs, Ia.—T: eyes scratched out by a r the misfortune of Mrs. Kai i nett. While ascending the stairs in her home a cat sprang from the upper janding to the woman's head, tearing her hair and face and destroying her sight. 'WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1920 EXPRESS LUVE < | VICTIM OF FATE'S HARSHNESS | NEGLEGTED COLDS 8ad Story of Luther K. Linkenhooper Would Move Aimost Any One to Tears. “As 1 was coming to town just now,” said the motorist, “I saw a peculiar sight; a thin, wild-eyed man, clad in a red-and-blue bedquilt, perched in a treetop and ¢very now and then crying ‘Honk! Honk! to the unbridled glee of a gang of men and boys assembled below.” “That was Luther K. Linkenhooper, by the symptoms,” replied the landlord of the tavern at Grudge. ‘“He accumu- lated three second-hand Hootin’ Nanny, cars; one he traded for, one his broth- er-n-law wished onto him and one was left him by will. None of them were of any account, and so he set to work to take 'em all apart and mgke one good one out of the three. The task was too much for his mind, and after he had made about five from the ruins of the three and still had a lot of stuff left, and none of 'em would move a muscle, he began to chatter, then to yell, and finally took to his bed a-jib- bering. Once in a while he escapes from his relatives and gets out and cuts some such caper as you saw. He thinks he is a Hootin’ Nanny himself.” “But, great guns! KEven a car of the name you mention does not wear & bedquilt and climb trees!” “Mebby not. But it would if it was as crazy at Luther is.”—Kansas City Star. PRIZE CAST-OFF CLOTHING Peculiar Whim of “Fashion” in Virgin Islands Puzzling to United States Marines. United -States marines garrisoning these new possessions of Uncle Sam can’t understand the fashions affected by the natives, writes a St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) correspondent. Just why a negro or Cha-Cha Indian should wear an overcoat when the thermom- eter stands 100 in the shade still mys- tifies the “sea soldiers.” Many of the marines down here have seen service in the neighboring island of Haitl, where clothes are the least consideration of the natives. But as soon as the new arrival reaches these shores he 1s approached by natives begging for his cast-off clothing. For some strange reason the native Virgin islander believes in wearing every article of clothing he can lay hands on. All American holidays are now celebrated by the natives, who spend the day parading about the streets, some of them wearing over- coats, capes, two or more pairs of trousers and a red bandana handker- chief about the neck. Also they fre- quently adorn themselves with the horns of cows or oxen attached to the head just in front of the ears. Immortal “Mermalid.” She was a “famous woman,” be- cause she was a “famous” inn that served “famous” men. That was enough for the Mermaid. She was named after an enchanting lady of the vasty deep, who is a woman to her girdle and a fish to her feet. Her figure was on the signboard of the famous inp, in Friday street, London. Pass with hasty glance the bar in front—the parlor behind of the black- ened roof and polished tables—tap- room on the left—low doorways, wind- Ing passages—and you have come to the inn parlor. This is the Mermaid! And the men sitting there? Ben Jon- son, Fletcher, Beaumont, Carew, Donne and—Shakespeare. Shake- speare is roaring over his dog's nose, and Ben Jonson over his canary. Oh, listen to the wit-combats between Shakespeare and Ben Jonson! Mer- maid, dear “famous woman,” why were you not a twin? Varying Colors of Diamonds. Each of the five mines owned and worked by the great De Beers com- pany in the Kimberley district pro- duces diamonds with well-marked characteristics. The rich Kimberley mine yields a good percentage of white and many yellow stones. Dutoitspan mine is famed for its large yellow dia- monds. At Bultfontein small white and spotted stones are common. From the Wesselton mine come many beautiful deep orange colored dia- monds, while the De Beers mine shows a good percentage of tinted yellow and brown stones. The Premier mine (Transvaal) yields a large number of “off-colored” stones. The Cullinan diamond was of exceptional purity. "From the Jagersfontein mine in the Orange Free State the famous bluish- white stones are derived. The dia- monds found in German Southwest Africa are small and yellowish in color. Win Fight on Yellow Fever. In 1916 the Rockefeller foundation sent a sanitary commission to Ecuador for the purpose of arranging with the Ecuadorian government to take the responsibility of eradicating yellow fever from Guayaquil. The prop‘)snl was accepted June 10, 1918, when a celebrated bacteriologist arrived and began his work. He succeeded in dis- covering the germ which causes yellow fever, his investigations promising to produce not only a preventive, but also a cure for this malady. The “Lower Calling.” The Principal—Miss Brown, 1 wish you would give up this idea of mar- riage. The training of :hildren is a far higher calling than tte mere bearing of them. The Teacher-—Yes, Miss Matthews* but If it weren’t for those of the lower calling, whom would you bhave tr traln2—Life. —— — = e —r THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ARE DANGEROUS! 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