The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-14
FLASH SCARED NATIVES.
LIFE IN THE SOUTH SEA IS-
 LANDS.

Were Shaved in Steamer Chairs by the
 Blacksmith in Papeete-TOn Oi Change for Twenty Dollar Gold
 Piece.
 "slangy Jack'' Sherwood, of Butte, Mont, tanned but effevescent, turned up the other day bubbling over with "reminiscences of his latest attempt to make the world a playground. Jack disappeared several months ago. and his friends were not surprised, after the preliminary libatory maneuvers were dispensed with, to hear him say that he had been prowling around the South Sea Islands.
 T don't know how I ever came to make that trip" said Jack, 'but I do know that one day I found myself tangled up with a good fellow on board a steamer bound from Frisco to Pa peete and having such a fiorid time that we persuaded the captain to put her under a slow bell, so that we might have chance to tell each other the story of our lives before reaching port.
 My companion, George Wells, was a lowset blond of the adventurous type with glowing thirst for any kind of excitement, and on the voyage an- other fellow f1oated in whose nature was as opposite to ours as two houses across the street from each other. He said his parent called him Theodore, but we called him Teddy. However, there was nothing Presidential about him. He was the proud owner of one of those maternity overcoats, with fili gree work which spreads across the back, and hissjewelry was made of me- tai taken from the gun that Johnny was told to get. ... ... .....
 Teddy extended upward quite a distance and explained that he came from Wisconsin. When we asked him if he had ever been away from home before he replied that he was out camping once. ....
 Teddy had short waisted soldier Friend stationed at the Presidio in Frisco who had loaned him a khaki uniform to wear in the tropics There was a marked disparity in the statue of Teddy and his friend, which became apparent when Theodore, on the se- cond day out, arayed himself in the : Borrowed canvas. It fit him every where, but not anywhere, and made Teddy look as tight and comfortable Ss country bridgegroom. In other ways he resembled a human scissors, Rnd 1t was a shame to keep from laugh ing at him. le=.
 Well, about eight bells on the Ehuf1e- board watch of warm Decem- Der morning we were piloted through the coral reef up to the wharf of the metropolis of Tahiti. There was quite covey of natives dressed in their glad rags standing on the dock get ting good and ready to rubber and jabber at us when we came ashore.
 Right here I want to parenthesize that Papeete is a lovely tropical town
 minus. Things are so slow down there that everybody shutters, ad they have to tickle the hand of the town clock to keep it going. ....-%-
 After settling our refreshment bill, which required the mathematical acu- men of several stewards to figure out, George and obtained lodgings in a loW-browed native mansion, with barn- boo sides and the sky for top. We sat and muttered few things to our selves and then started for the lair o1 the village tonsorial operator. He used D couple of steamer chairs, and the walls of the shop were covered with diplomas in French, which might have proclaimed him to be a thirty-thir de- gree taxidermist for all we know. ..
 Being the first in (George have stop ped to drink few cocoanuts at fruit erer's hard by) sank into the nauti- cal furniture, and the Frenchman, se- lecting a weapon about the size of al oar, began an unnecessarily painful operation. can still tate those suds and when he scraped my groans could be heard all over town. We after ward leaFned that he was the village blacksmith, who was temporarily re- placing the barber, the latter having gone to the Marquesas Islands to tune < 9 piano.
 .Papeete has population of about 4,000 natives, French and Germans There are three moneys in circulation in that country-United States, Frencl and Chile (silyer) the latter being the prevailing currency All prices are bas. ed on French currency. One dollar ot United States money is equivalent tc $2.50 Chile, and French money is cal culated at discount of 7 per cent from United States money. So there you are- subtract and you have tht difference. When you convert a $2t goldpiece into Chile money, they hant you a package of silver coin about tn
 STRONGER THAN MEAT.