Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-03

he slipped his anchor and got away.
They've got 100 fathoms of shell
money on his head now. which Is
worth 900 Yet he goes into Sun reg
ularly. He was there a short time ago,
returning thirty boys from Cape Marsh
that's the FuIcrum brothers planta-
ton"
AT any rate. his news tonight has
given me a better insight into the life
down here" Joan said And 1t is
colerfuI 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 Ike
this" Sheldon answered "Of course.
Berande is the worst plantation and
everything IT gets is the worst. AL
the old timers shake their heads at it
They say it has what you Americans
call a hoodoo on 1t"
''Berande Will succeed" Joan said
stoutly. Il ike to laugh at supersu-
ton. You'll pull through and come
out the big end Of the horn The Ill
luck can't last forever. l am afraid,
though. the Solomons is not q white
mans climate"
1T will be. though. Give US fifty
years. and when all the bush is
cleared of back to the mountains.
fever viii be stamped out. everything
viii 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
the yellow will have to do the work,
managed by the white men. The
black labor Is too wastefuL however,
and In time Chinese or Indian coolies
will be imported"
Then the blacks Will die of p
Sheldon shrugged his shoulders and
retorted:
Yes. like the North American In
dian, who was a far nobler type than
the Melanesian. The world is only so
large. you know. and it is filing up
and the unfit must perish?"
Precisely so. The unfit must per-
ish."
In the morning Joan was reused by
great row 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 we'll,
tying him up daily for several hours
and telling off one or two black boys
at a time to tease him. So Satan
had IL 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
from the verauda. "and what do you
think Of the niger chaSer?'
Tn thinking we have task before
us to train him into the house boys"
she called back.
And 10 your Tahitians. too. Look
out Noah, Run for it,
Satan. having satisfied himself that
the tree perches were unaSSailable. was
charging straight for the big Tahitian.
But Noah stood his ground. though
somewhat irresOlutely. and Satan. 10
every ones surprise. danced and
frisked about him with laughing eyes
and wagging tail.
Now that is what / might call
proper dog" was Joan's comment. He
is at least wiser than you. Mr.. Shell
don. He didn't require any teaching
10 recognize the difference between
Tahitian and black boy. What do
you think. Noah? Why don't he bite
YOU: lie savvee you ahirian. en-"
Noa Noah shook lis head and
Grinned.
He no savvee me Tahitian." be ex-
planned He savvee NE wear pants
all the same white man"
"YOull have TO give him q course in
Sartor Resartus. Sheldon laughed. as
he came down and began TO make
friends with Satan.
1t CHANGED. just then. that Adamu
Adam and Matauare. TWO of Joan's
sailors. entered the compound from the
far side gate. They had been down to
the Balesuna. making an alligator
trap, and, instead of trousers u-nr,,