The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-04

money and showed Denison fifteen dol
 lars-the result of his first nights work
 in Samoa. The saloonkeepers and oth'
 CT white people said he was treasure
 Fish in Apia were dear and hard to get
 On the following Sunday a marriage procession entered the Rarotongar chapel in Matafele, and Tarreo (other-
 wise 'Reo) was united to one of the
 prettiest and least disreputable native
 girls in the town, whose parents recog-
 nized that Rec was likely to prove an
 eminently lucrative and squeezable son. in-law. Denison was best man
 and gave the bride a five-dollar gold
 piece (havlng previously made pri-
 vate arrangement with the bridegroom
 that he was to receive value for it in fish).
 'Reo's wife's relatives built the new
 ly married couple house on Matautu
 Point, and Rec spent thirty-five dollars
 in giving the brides local connections a
 feast. Then the news spread, and
 cousins and second cousins and various
 breeds of aunts and half uncles trav-
 eled up to Matautu Point to partake of
 his hospitality. He did his best, but, in
 a day or SO remarked sadly that he
 could not catch fish fast enough in a
 poor canoe. If he had a boat he could
 make fifty dollars a week. he said; and with fifty dollars week he could en-
 certain his wife's honored friends con-
 tinuously and in beftting manner.
 The relatives consulted and thinking fh<xr 1,oJ o,,1 bought boat Con credi) from the Ger
 man firm, giving mortgage on piece of land as security. Then they present. ed 'Reo with the boat, with many com
 plimentary speeches, and sat down to
 chuckle at the way they would make the old fool work" and the "old fool'
 went straightway to the American con- sul 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 out of the boat they had given him.
 The consul wrote out something terri flying on big sheet of paper and tackled 1t to the boat, and warned the surprised relatives that an American man -of-war would protect Rec with her guns, and then Rec 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 large knife and fearful language.
 Then he took the boat round the other side of the island, and sold 1t for two hundred dollars to a trader, and came back to Apia to Denison, and asked for tr tYf, 1o ha firm entered into and took possession of the mortgaged land, while the infuria- ted relatives tore up and down the beach, demanding Tarreo's blood in a loud voice. Tarreo, with his two hun dred dollars in his trousers pocket, sat on the schooner's rail and looked at them stolidly and without i'll feeling.
 Denison landed the ancient at Leone Bay, on Tutuila, for he had taken kind ly to the old scoundrel, who had many virtues and could give points to any one, white or brown, in the noble art of deep sea fishing. This latter qualifi- cation endeared him greatly to young Tom, who, when he was not employed in keeping the captain sober, or bring ing him round after an attack of I'd. t.'s," spent all his spare time in fishing, either at sea or in port.
 Rec settled at 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 one hundred and fifty 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 taken from a steel yard designed to weigh up to four hun dred pounds. Rec was so hurt at the that he immediately took the whole apparatus out beyond the reef in his boat and indignantly sank | 1t in fifty fathoms of water. Then he | to his house bade his wife Che l had married again. a sorrowful fare | we'll, and said his heart was broken by | the islanders of vile Tongan pig from i l mission school. He would, he said go pack to Apia, where he was respected | oy all who knew him. Then he began | to pack up Some of the natives sided with the Tongan, some with 'Reo, and n few minutes free fight took place on the village green, and 'Reo ,tood in his doorway and watched it rom his narrow piglike eyes; then, ,eing of magnanimous nature, he walked over and asked three stout youths who had beaten the Tongan nto a state of unconsciousness and were jumping on his body not to hurt Jim.
 About midnight 'Reo's house was seen O be in flames, and the owner utter ng wild, weird screams of "Fla ola!" Fla ola!" C'Mercy" "Mercy!D fled own the beach to his boat, followed by lis wife, large fat woman, named ap- enough Taumafa (Abun- lance). They dashed into the water, lambered into the boat, and began ullng seaward for their lives. The illagers, thinking they had both gone lad, gazed at them in astonishment, nd then went back and helped them elves to the few goods saved from the urning house. As soon as 'Reo and the good wife ,ere out of sight of the village they ut about, ran the boat into little bay lrther down the coast, planted bag seven hundred dollars, with he best of the trade goods (salved be- ore the fire was discovered), and then at sail for Apia to "get Justice from