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THE WINNIPEG TRIBUNE SATURDAY, APRIL 3K, MM 8 Life "Slow" For White King of Haiti T0W3 PBOPLffS SECTION Wirkiis I. Is Disappointed With Monotony of Civilized Life By PAUL. HARRISON lOSl Faustin E. Wirkua, the A Haitian king, business total tamp Just now, but soma day he pmns to voyage again to the romantic little Island of La. Gonave ad reaseame.

for a while aft least. Ma regal treses and She Wo he laved eo weH. Only two months out af active duty with the marines, to. the uniform of which ha ami tod nearly fear yean aa rnler ef aaaaa 13,000 natives. Kins Wirkus I already la (rowing restive trader the restrictions of the white roan's social order.

And Wirkua ia not accustomed aa accepting orders, so eiel or otherwise, from anybody. In La Gonave, ha rode ia soli tary glory over the mountain trails, occasionally motioning a boy to go forward and eolleot the small gifts that appeared as though by magic ta his path. At home ha ia sworn at by traffic cops, aad whirled to nausea ia the jammed rush erowds. He has to sleep under a roof now, and pay what would be al anoet a Haitian king's aaneeaa for the privilege. Aad the time, has passu) when we esidd aHeaoa.

with a single ward, all anise which anient dlstwrw Ms stnmbers. What a Change! Down ia La Gonave, it was King Wirkua himself who decreed' when dances and feasts might be held. But at heme, whether ha likes it or aot, he must dears until dawn, aad sip cocktails more taeidious than tropical elarina "Aad so. sighed Wirkua, Tin getting tired aB this. I ean't aahack to La Goaave immediately, but I must get out as the opea again.

So as aooa as I can get away. I'm going oa aa arehaeto glcal expedition to Santo Domingo with some friends. "I took that Job in La Gonave because of the absolute freedom it would afford me. Aad ia more thaa three years I aaw anly Soar Inspectors. I was the boss, the king; the lieutenant, the er tax receiver, aad meat af the time the only white maa aa she mland." Others But it was not as a king that Wirkua was detailed to the post When he was a square faced blue eyed boy of IT he had left the seal fields to enlist ia the Marine corps, and at 21 waa shipped to Haiti ait sergeant.

After years af doty oa the mainland, Wirkua became a Beutenant of the Haitian sjssde, and finally Ma tarn same sor assignment to aha tiny post of La Gonave. He found knee If km charge of a detail of 22 native troops and aa island fan of ebony savages who practised voodoo rites, and knew the taste af bums flesh. His Duties Varied Lieutenant Wlrkas learned the difficult language, doatored adults and sat np nights ia read "The Care and Feeding af Children" so he could give advioe to mothers. Alone aad unarmed, ha rode horaebaok over mountain trails to villages white men had never visit ad. He showed aattve farmers how to Irrigate their load, and avea taught the flab asm oa some ricks in netting.

He personally investigated eom alaiats against his tax eefleotors, installed a radio in the main wa it his Justice. When ha went was a matriarchy under the indlf 7T 4 If v. 12. When King Wirkus I. was Queen Timemenne ferent rule of Timemenne, elderly, portly saliva queen.

Taass be fore, Wlrkas had been Instrumen tal in amoothiag over soaee tax difficulties ia which aha feuad herself, aad now the gratafal queen helped the white maa to gain the full eonSdaaae af her people. "They often told na daring the first few asms ha. that they were going to make me king." recall rd Wirkus. "Bat I test thought it waa a Joke. Wirkua "Cere nation' "Then one day I heard the drums beating all day long, seeding their code signals over the island.

A delegation came and asked me to attend a big meeting, aad I rode up. wondering want was all about. I waa mat dawn the trail by officials of aha agricultural guilds and four men who carried me in a chair lata the town." The coronation af King Wirkus took place with aa elaborate oare saoay. Flags flapped aver his head, flowers and palm breaches were strewn in bis path, an enormous yellow silk ani was draped around his figure aad at abets were laid upon his shoulders. He was carried around the circle, seated in a chair.

"Wooden flagbearars led the wag to the drums, which gave ths king's call four "raffles' and three taps. Everybody bowed sad greeted me aad they put the king's flag around any shoulders." Inspection and official duties occupied she mornings af King Wirkus. As a judge he scolded fiercely aad punished lightly, real ising that a One of 9 or Jo might represent a year's savings to a native. Assouan polygamy is practised oa La Goaave, aad marriage simply a mutual agreement, aural stand ards ware higher thaa hi oivfilsed souatriea. ha said.

Murder and. crimes of. violence 4 ia his glory aeettcu! mmder the malms with the native while a aerraat fans them that was the life I were virtually unknown. Thievery oaiaaiita. bat his en soe srisaiena.

often left unguarded for days, never wars molested. wewt MgwvQ In aha afteraoea he swam, nakei aa a native, aa white beaches, practised golf or polo by himself or went by eanoa or horseback on exploring tripe. His collection An Electric The four electric light bulbs which this young lady is holding prrssart aa Interesting mstrtsmst ieal panel, to solve which von win hare some fun with figures. Bach of the bulbs is of a differ ent sise aad their total wattage ia fa. The wattage of the largest bam ia nve times that of the amallset The total wattage af the aen to the smallest aad the next to the largest bum ia equal to the wattage of the largest hum.

The sum of the wattage of the ems Heat aad next smallest bulbs is equal to the wattage af the next to the largest bulb. How many watts are each af the four bulbs. of Haitian art, idols and industrial objects ia conceded to an the finest. Noaahtally. Haiti ia a democracy.

As the fame of King Wirkus grew, and stories were told in Port nu Prince aad even farther away, there may havs been some official uneasiness regarding the stains of this white monarch of La Light Puzzle Gonave. Suddenly ha was relieved of his governmental post. There was mourning aa the islaad whan she white king sailed away. But the ooeupatioa af Haiti is scheduled to and ia J9S6. After that, Fauetla Wirkus thinks ha may go hack, at least for accae ioaal Vistta, to thrill again to the iluenalug tempo of the drams.

The Robust Queen Vp to the time that ha was 30, the name "Haiti" meant little to him except something out af a geography hook. He proved to be aa exoeHeat soldier, and it wasat long before he was promo tsd to a Ia 1 he made a trip to La Gonave la a sailboat. Just to satisfy few curiosity, and the inland interested him. A bit fatsr, in Haiti, he met a fat nisiwii. who had been air eat ad by the HaKiaa anthorMlea, for some trifling to war.

8ha than, af Che Tsleai aC La Ctenave. lis aaaaa was Fauetln. the name af Haiti aw reus a tmditioa km tfc who ia te aome." their msrtlag aaa There was "One ahe Metotd Wirkua asked for the diet ail of being the marine atatiaaed aa the af Oaaan Tl fat. QradaaBy by with their arahlema, he gained the ronfirtasoB af the a agues, aad than by siiagaarha ef Quaes TV mammas, herself, they decided to declare aim king. Perhaps if his Queen, was was aot hh) wife, was not a squat aegress, bnlklly munonlar anther thaa adipose, big and heavy, and if this hoy from Pltaaon, Psansyl vaaia did not dislike St women so much, arrangements may have been made whereby he could have still retained his unique post as White Emperor of La Gonave.

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