The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-12-06

WIFI u DTOHilse VI VeCIuits anu hhicu
all hands At the same instant the
SUI gang that was on board the Mi
nerva jumped Young. He was just
preparing dynamite stick for fish,
and he lighted II 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 his head now. which Is
worth 600. Yet he goes into SUI reg
ularly. He was there short time ago,
returning thirty boys from cape Marsh
that's the Fulcrum brothers planta.
! ton"
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 il gets is the worst. All
the old timers shake their heads at it.
They say it has what you Americans
| call Il hoodoO on il"
"Beraude will succeed" Joan said
stoutly. Il like TO laugh at supersti-
ton. You'll pull through and come
out the big end of the horn. The ill
! luck cant last forever. | am afraid,
though. the SolomOns is not white
mans climate"
"It will he. though. Give us fifty
years. and when all the bush is
cleared off back to the mountains,
fever will he 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
the yellow will have to do the work.
managed ny 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 OFF,
Sheldon shrugged his shoulders and
retorted:
Eyes. like the North American In
dian. who was Il far nobler type than
the MelaneSian. The world is only so
large. you know. and it is filling up
"And the unfit must perish?"
Precisely so. The unfit must per
ish."
In the morning Joan was reused 10y
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 well.
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 veranda. land what do you
think of the niger chaSerF'
I'm thinking we have task before
us to train him into the house boys"
she called back
And to your Tahitians. too. Look
out, Noah. Run for it,"
Satan. having satisfied himself that
the tree pepches were unassailabIe, 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 a
proper dog" was Joan's comment. He
is at least wiser than you. Mr.. Shell
don. He didn't require any teaching
TO recognize the difference between
Tahitian and black boy. What do
you think. Noah? Why don't he bite
you? He savvee you Tahitian. eh?"
Noa Noah shook his head and
grinned.
HE no savvee me Tahitian," he ex.
planned. HE sayvee me wear pants
all the same white man."
you'll have to give him course in
'Sartor Resartus.' Sheldon laughed. as
he came down and began to make
friends with Satan.
II CHANGED. lust then. that Adamu
Adam and Mouuare. two Of Joans
sailors. entered the compound from the
far side gate. They had been down TO
the Balesuna, making an alligator
trap. and. instead of trousers, were
clad in lava-lavas that tapped grace
fully about their stalwart limbs. Satan
saw them ana advertised his find by
breaking away from SheldOn's hands
and charging.
No got pants" Noah announced.
with grin Tint broadeD,d az Ada mu
Adam took Ia Hight.
lie rillanTi NJ the platform the
suli"n"i lnr ga va1.2eh ro'f lang'