The Mena weekly star., 1912-01-11
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 worth Ei0O. let he goes into Suu reg ularly. He was there a short time ago, returning thirty boys from Cape Marsh that's the Fulcrum brothers pIanta- ton"
 At any rate, his news tonight has given me a 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 1t has what you Americans call hoodoo on it."
 "Berande will succeed Joan said stoutly. T like 10 laugh at supersti- tion You'll pull through and come out the big end of the horn. The i'll luck can't last forever 1 am afraid, though. the Solomons is not a white mans climate"
 "It will be. though. Give us fifty years, and when all the bush is cleared of back to the mountains, fever will be 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 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 offY'
 Sheldon shrugged his shoulders and retorted:
 "Yes, like the North American In- dian. who was 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 by a 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 of one or two black boys at 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 from the veranda. and what do you think of the nigger chaser?"
 "I'm thinking we have a 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 perches were unassailable. was charging straight for the big Tahitian
 But Noah stood his ground. though somewhat irresolutely. and Satan. to every ones surprise. danced and frisked about him with laughing eyes and wagging tail.
 Now that Is what I might call a proper dog" was Jeans comment He is at least wiser than you. Mir. Shel- 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? He savvee you Tahitian, eh?"
 Noa Noah shook his head and grinned.
 He no savvee me Tahitian." he ex- plained. He savvee me wear pants allAthe 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 ehanced. just then. that Adamu Adam and Matauare. two of Joan'5 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 and advertised his find by breaking away from Sheldon's hands and charging.
 No got pants," Noah announced, with a grin that broadened as Adamu Adam took to flight.
 He climbed up the platform that sunnorted the galvanized iron tanks