The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

guhWaie with the weight of fish-fish that
the lazy, loafing Apian natives caught
but rarely. The old man passed up
Two or three more, took a glass of grog
and padded ashore
Next morning he repaid the borrowed
money and showed Denison $15-thc re-
suit of his first nights work in Samoa
The saloonkeepers and other white peo.
pie said he was a treasure Fish in
Apia were dear and hard to get.
On the following Sunday a marriage
procession entered the Rarotongan chap
ell in Matafele, and Tarreo otherwise
sReo) was united to one of the prettiest
and least disreputable native girls in the
town, whose PARENTS recognized that
Reo was likely to prove an eminenty
lucrative and squeezable son-in-law
Denison was best man. and gave the
bride five, dollar gold piece Chaving
7 previously made private arrangement
with the bridegroom that he was to re-
eeive value for it in fish.
Reo's wifes relatives built the newly
married couple a house on Matau IL
point. and REQ spent $35 in giving the
brides local connections a feast. Then
the news spread, and cousins and sec
ond cousins and various breeds of aunts
and half uncles Travelled up to Matautu
Point to partake of his hospitality He
marked sadly that he could not catch
fish fast enough in a poor canoe. If
he had boat he could make $50 a week,
he said; and with $50 a week he could
entertain his wifes honored friends con-
tinuously and in a BETTING manner.
The relatives consulted, and thinking
they had a good thing, subscribed ana
bought a boat ION credit from the Ger
man firm, giving mortgage on piece If
land as security. They then presented
REQ with the buat, with many complI-
mentary speeches, and sat down to
chuckle at the way they would make
the old fool work." and the "old fool
went straighfway- to the American con-
sui and declared himself to be a citizen
of the United States, and demanded his
country's protection. as he feared his
wife's relatives wanted to jew him cut
of the boat they had given him.
The consul wrote out something ter
rffying on big sheet of paper and tackled
it to the boat, and warned the surprised
relatives that an American man-of-war
would protect REQ with her guns, and
then REQ went inside his house and
beat his wife with a canoe paddle, and
chased her violently out of the place, and
threatened her male relatives with a
large knife and fearful language.
Then he took the boat round the other
side of the island, and sold it for 5000 to
son, and asked for a passage to Tutuila
and the German firm entered into and
took possession of the mortgaged land
while the Infatuated relatives tore up
and down the beach. demanding Tarreos
blood in a loud voice. Tarreo, with his
$500 in his trousers pocket, sat on the
schooner's rail and looked at them stol-
Idly and without i'll feelings.
Denison landed the ancient at Leone
bay. on Tutuila, for he had taken kindly
to the old scoundrel, who had many vir-
tues and could give points to any one,
white or brown, in the noble art of deep
sea fishing. This latter qualification en-
deared him greatly to young Tom, who.
when he was not employed in keeping
the captain sober,sor bringing him round
after an attack Of "r. t.'s'' spent all his
spare time in fishing, either at sea or in
port. Sas
REQ settled in Leone, and made a good
deal of money buying copra from the
natives. The natives got to like him, he
was such a conscientious old fellow
When he hung the baskets of copra on
the iron hook of the steelyard which
was marked to weigh up to $50 pounds,
he would call their attention to the
marks as he moved the heavy pea
along the yard. Then. one day, some
interfering Tongan visitor examined the
pea, and declared that it had been tax
en- from a steelyard designed to weigh up
to 400 pounds. REQ was SO hurt at the
insinuation that he Immediately took the
whole apparatus out beyond the reef in
his boat and indignantly sank it in
fifty fathoms of water Then he returned
to his house, bade his wife Che had mar
ried again a sorrowful farewell, and
said his heart was broken by the vile