The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-19

"where is Marovo lagoon?" Joan asked.
 'New Georgia, couple of hundred miles to the westward" Sheldon an swered. "Bougainville lies just be yond."
 'His own house boys did it." Young vent on; ''but they were put up to 1t by the Marovo natives. His Santa Cruz boats crew escaped in the whale boat to Choiseul, and Mather, in the Lily, sailed over to Marovo. He burn- ed village and got Henley's head back. He found it in one of the houses where the niggers had it drying. And that's all the news I've got. except that there's a lot of new Lee -Enfields loose on the eastern end of Ysabel. Mo- body knows how the natives got them, The government ought to investigate. Ah-oh, yes-a war vessels in the group, the Cambrian. She burned three villages at Bina-on account of the Mil nota, you know-and sheiied the bush. Then she went to Sic to straighten out things there"
 The conversation became general, and just before Young left to go on board Joan asked:
 How can you manage all alone, eIr. Young?"
 His large, almost girlish eyes rested on her for moment before he re- piled, and then it was in the softest and gentlest of voices.
 "Oh, I get along pretty we'll with them. Of course, there is a bit of trouble once in awhile, but that must be expected. You must never let them think you are afraid. I've been afraid plenty of times. but they never knew It."
 "You would think he wouldn't strike mosquito that was biting him." Sheldon said when Young had gone on board. "An the Norfolk islanders that have descended from the Bounty crowd are that way. But look at Young. Only three years ago, when he first got the Minerva. he was lying "a Suu, on Malaita. There are lot Of returned Queenslanders tlfere-a rough crowd. They planned to get his head, The son of their chief, old One Eyed Billy, had recruited on Lunga and died of dysentery. That meant that white mans head was owing to Euu-any white man, it didn't matter who, so long as they got the head. And Young was only lad and they made sure to get his easily. They decoyed his whaleboat ashore with a promise of recruits and killed all hands. At the same instant the Suu gang that was on board the Mil nerva jumped Young. He was just preparing a. dynamite stick for fish, and he lighted it and tossed it in among them. One can't get him to talk about it, but the fuse was short, the survivors leaped overheard, while he slipped his anchor and got away. They've got 100 fathoms of shell money on bis head now, which is worth f1OO. Yet he goes into Suu reg nlarly. He was there short time ago, returning thirty boys from Cape Marsh Hon."
 At any rate, his news tonight has given me better insight into the life down here," Joan said. And it is colorful life, to say the least. The Solomons ought to be printed red on the charts-and yellow, too,, for the diseases."
 "The Solomons are not always like this," Sheldon answered. "Of course, Berande is the worst plantation and everything it gets is the worst. All the old timers shake their heads at it. They say it has what you Americans call hoodoo on it."
 "Berande will succeed" Joan said stou.ly. 'I like to laugh at supersti- ton. You'll pull through and come out the big end of the horn. The ill luck can't last forever. I am afraid, though, the Solomons is not a white mans climate"
 Ut will be, though. Give us fifty years, and when all the bush is cleared of back to the mountains, fever will , stamped out, everything will be far healthier. There will be cities and towns here, for there's an immense amount of good land going to waste. The black, the brown and kaE yCAlVW VIII AAFE u AO LuC WOAA, managed by the white men. The black labor is too wasteful. however, and in time Chinese or Indian. coolies will be imported"
 'sThsn the blacks will die off"
 Sheldon shrugged his shoulders and retorted:
 ''Yes, like the North American h. dian, who was far nobler type than the Melanesian. The world is only so large. you know, and it is filling up"-
 "And the unit must perish?"
 Precisely so. The unfit must per. ish."
 In the morning Joan was reused by great TOW and hullabaloo. Captain Young had landed Satan at the mo ment when the bridge building gang had started along the beach. Satan was big and black, short haired and muscular and weighed fully seventy pounds. He did not love the blacks. Tommy Jones had trained him well, tying him up daily for several hours and telling of one or two black boys at a. time to tease him. So Satan had it in for the whole black race, and the second after he landed on the beach the bridge building gang was stampeding over the compound fence and swarming up the cocoanut palms.
 Good morning" Sheldon called