The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
American Tariff Restriction on AIs-
rettes and 7Iumes Has Interferred
With Their Busi-
ness.
THE LITTLE NAPOLEON
Dead Man Who Dances in His Coffin
Once Each Year While the
Orchestra Plays Live
" Tunes.

IBy W1lllam Pnllfp OlulHs, ans W.
respondent of the United Press.l !
PARIS, Feb. 2S.-Because the Wom-
en- of the United States are no longer
permitted to wear aigrettes, paradise
feathers and csrtain other plumes OF
wild birds on their hats, M. Bordeau,
president OF the syndicate OF plume
manufacturers here asserts that 5O,,
900 feather-workers are menaced by
want and that 100000 workmsn are
threatened with the loss of their jobs.
The plume manufacturers have tar
en- the matter up with the French
government on the ground that, IN
forbidding the Importation of certain
plumss. the United States violated
the rulings Of the commercial treaty
existing between America and France.
A committee composed of the presi,
dents OF the various local plume man,
ufacturers' syndicatss has already
called upon President Raymond Pom
care, placing the matter before him.
/ The same committee also waited upon
the minister of commerce submitting
| to him certain docum snts which, they
claimed, proved their case.
Disinterested officials here, however
do not hold out much encouragement
to the plume workers because, they
say, the measure adopted in the Unit
ed States was not aimed at France,
or any other country, but was pri-
| marily intended as a humanitarian
measure protecting animals and birds
now in danger OF extinction
"A little child shall lead them" the
good book says, and if the fight now
begun to permit French pretenders to
/ the throne to return to this country
bears fruit, it will be largely the re.
suit of the existence, if not the efforts
of the month old boy of Napoleon
Louis. son of Prince Victor Napoleon
| imperialist aspirant to the French
4 crown. In 1886 France passed a law
banishing from the country forever
all heads of families once reigning in
France. together with their direct de
scendants. Their presence in the
4 fatherland was deemed perilous to the
existence of the republic. The Duo
4 d'Orleans. royalist pretender, is now
an exile in Brussels, in which cit,
! also is Prince Victor Napoleon, the
imperialist "hope" Both men have
repeatedly protested their undyinE
i devotion to France and both have
sworn never to modest the home gov
! eminent and indeed never to accep
even the throns unless called upo1
to do SO by the people themselves.
Their protestations have had no Ell
feet. Homesick, fgurativeiy speak
( ing, they have .shisd tears of longins
at the frontiers Of France to the north
east. south and west. Still nobody in
i vited them to come in. But now tina
: there is a pink and pulling baby,
collateral descendant of Frances mos
Z famous son, an exile from Francs be
!. cause considered peril to that coun
: try's existence, ideas have changed.
, The exiting of this baby foreve
from it's rightful home has appeale
to the imagination of all Frenchmer
A movement has been begun to abo
: ish the law of 1886 as a disgracefu
| survival of tyrannical exercise @
, power. That grown-ups have bee
r forced into exile, had not struck man
/ republicans as much of an injustice
: but the Punishment of baby, eve
, before its birth, suddenly had it's al
peal The chamber of deputies wit
i the little Louis Napoleon in mind In
, republican deputy says Prince Loui
, Napoleon') may repeal the exile law
The spectacle of dead man "dan'
ing in his coffin is to be seen a
, stated intervals at Liberchies, in tn
Hainaut department, from now OF
I the music for the dance being pal
, for by the deceased by a stipulatio
, OF his testament. Recently an oil
: man named M. Bioux died after NAL
7 ing many strange last requests in hi
; will He desired that his funer;