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Show THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER, UTAH v- Intermountain News Briefly Told by Busy Readers by Concordia Mcrrcl Perhaps no living man could have failed to be impressed by the vision of sweet youth which Lucy Gresh-amade, standing at the busy street corner, her small hands catching the broken ends of a strand of beads close against her breast, a little startled at close escape from a serious automobile accident, but more Inclined to laugh at the peculiarity of the affair In leaving her uninjured and taking toll only from her necklace. But the polite and handsome who stranger plunged Into the traffic and tied It In a hard knot while be sought the escaped beads seemed not concerned with youth and beauty.There was something about his eyes that would have chilled romance and put Cupid to abject flight. Little did the gtrl realizet as the gallant stranger restored to her such of the baubles as he could recover, and she looked Into his eyes, that she was gazing Into the orbs of Fate. How was she to know thatthis chance meeting was to set In action a train of events that woufj alter the course of several lives, affect vast enterprises and result in one of the strangest domestic tangles ever recorded? How could she know that her future was to be entwined with that of her father's bitterest enemy? Life Is a queer show, as the man said to himself many times afterward, And the grimmest of human resolutions are nicked about like dry leaves by the winds of destiny. No emotion or purpose will withstand the power of the human affections, as Is amply set forth In this absorbing story of a revenge that turned to love. m jjjV LUCY CHAPTER I -1- A Broken Thread. GRESHAM was walking Bond street, after a morn- ing of delightfully frivolous shopping, when in crossing the top of a rather narrow street she was nearly knocked down by a big, blue car that was turning Into Bond street at a somewhat reckless pace. To avoid the danger, she darted for the opposite pavement, and gained It safely, but in doing so, somehow managed to catch her hand sharply in a long chain of Chinese beads she was wearing. As the thread snapped, she caught the 'broken ends quickly against her breast, but she was not in time to prevent several of the beads from (guttering into the roadway. The owner of the car pulled up, swung himself to the ground, and next moment was standing before lier, hat in hand, apologizing, i changing restlessly, charming ever; Chance, that greatest of all stage managers, had brought these two face to face. Yet neither of them guessed that, with the first meeting of their eyes, they had each looked straight into the eyes of Fate. James Lee's knowledge of this was, however, only postponed until the following evening, when, rather idly turning the pages of a picture his attention was suddenly caught by the face of the little girl he had so nearly knocked down with his car, looking out at him from one of the pages. Next moment he was sitting straight and tense in his chair, and a smothered exclamation left his lips. For, In the pictured group of which the girl was the central figure, there were the pictures of two other people. Two men. Two men whose faces were, for overwhelming reasons, branded indelibly upon his memory . . . Mechanically, he read the legend beneath the picture, which ran: "A charming picture of Miss Lucy Gresham, whose nineteenth birthday Is to be celebrated by a costume ball to be given at her father's town house on the twenty-sixth- . She Is seen here with her father, Sir John Gresham, and her cousin, gold-haire- d gold-haire- beads. Lucy was Interested and amused, It was such a crazy sort of thing to happen. As she stood, securing the broken ends of her necklace, she couldn't help wondering who this man was. MS, gloomy-lookinBut his name, had be given It, would have suggested no clew to his gloom. For, although she might have remembered hearing that James Lee was one of London's newest millionaires, that would rather have suggested that he should be well contented with his lot If though, instead of wondering what his name was, she had Just spoken her own . . . But she didn't, and so her thoughts went on, until some interested people broke through them by pausing to wonder what had happened. By this time the big stranger had gathered a round dozen of the heads, and seeing no more lying about, came toward Lucy, holding them In the curve of his palm. "The.se ore all I can find," he . said. "L think they nre about all that dropped," she answered. "Will you put them into my bag, please?" She heJd the hag wide, and he poured them In. That done, she looked up again and thanked him. Thry made formal adleux, and parv'd. Lucy Gresham to go blithely upon her way; James Lee to go somberly upon his. Thus, out of the kaloldoscoplo g pageant of smart shoppers, Idlers and casual strollers; well-dresse- d ... strong, healthy and and yet he went about with a dark expression in his eyes, bitterness around his lips, and didn't seem to know what a real laugh was. Lee sat looking down at the picture, and a new thought began to make Its rather ugly way into his thirty-five- ; distinctly a big, good-looke- mind. How could he make that smiling sweet girl, beloved of Ames, adored by her father, a weapon against them both. . . .? Skies above! But he owed them the utsaying half aloud? "That's who she is. . . . My most of suffering that It was In his G d If I'd known . . ." And power to give . . . Iu the flashing tben, slowly, after a pause: "The of a mere few moments so Incredlast three and a half years haven't ibly swift is the inner vision he marked them." The accent was bit- saw again his boyhood, motherless ter. From the faces of the two men from his first day of life, and fahe presently turned his attention to therless, too, when he was only Just fifteen. He saw his struggle against the girl again. his passionate ambition to Very young and sweet and poverty; rise and make a place for himself happy, her pictured eyes looked up in this great, working world; all from the page, straight into his; boyish efforts to get Just as yesterday, they had looked. his stumbling, on. He saw his first Job in the great ship building yards at Gresham's; not a big Job, but a beginning; therefore with a glory all its own, to him. He remembered how hard and how faithfully he had worked he had always been made that way how he had put all his brain and effort into his work; all his heart and soul ; all his hopes and ambiMr. Oliver Ames." James Lee didn't need to be told who those two men were. All the same he read it again and again, In a sort of stunned surprise, before 1 tions. At thtf sound of his voice, Lucy looked up sharply, and found her eyes caught, and most unexpectedly held, by the man who stood lookThe obvious ing down at her. aspects of his appearance were his liuge height, Immense breadth of shoulder, and a suggestion of great strength ; but It was not these su perfieial things that had the power to catch Lucy's interest so quickly. It was, rather, his somber, unsmiling face; dark, sullen eyes so djrk that she could not tell whether they were gray or black and curiously bitter, unfriendly lips. His voice: "It was entirely my fault. I'm so sorry. But what exactly happened?" brought her to reality. She drew a quick breath, and said hurriedly: "It's my necklace. I pulled It somehow, and snapped the thread. Some of the beads came off before I could stop them." "Only the necklace?" he asked. 'I was afraid you had been hurt. I didn't see you until you were right In front of the car." The words were polite enough, but his voice was as somber and unfriendly as Iita face, and his courtesy was offered without the smallest hint of a smile. "Oh, the car didn't touch me," she assured him. "The worst that happened was that some of my beads are gone," she added. v"W"e can probably find those again." he replied. And then, as unconcernedly as If Bond street were no more than a track In the wilderness, he began searching the road and the gutter for the truant Maltby de CassUis St Abb, to give him the style to which he had been born took it and said: "Oh, she's much better than that in real life. I say, my Jolly old sir, you haven't fallen for her, have you? I mean to say, It's no go; she's booked. My Aunt Cordelia told me that this handsome bloke, Ames, has been mad about her ever since she left the nursery, and that papa Gresham is all ready to do the heavy paternal. . . ." Lee stretched out a hand and took the paper back. "Ames loves her, does he?" he said sharply. Something in his tone made St. Abb look at him a moment, with puzzled, rather boyish eyes. There was something about his chief that he never could get at. There he was, with more money than any man could possibly know what to do with; able to do any mortal thing he liked; only twenty-sevethough he looked a good "Life's a Queer. Show." when he stood before her apologizing for his clumsy driving. Her curving lips smiled, as if, even though it was only a picture, she challenged his grimness with the exquisite young beauty of her. "So that's who she Is," he said to himself again. "I'd forgotten that John Gresham had a daughter ... I'd forgotten that . . ." "Odd," he thought, "how Fate or Destiny or whatever it Is, can knock you down with one hand, and then politely help you to rise with the other. . . . Life's a queer show. . . His attention came back to the picture. "The last three and a half years haven't changed them much," he thought again. "Old Gresham's a little whiter, perhaps; and Ames, a shade stouter. . . . Otherwise. . . ." HIa thoughts broke off and turned toward himself. If his picture were to appear in the papers, would those two know him as readily as he had known them? Would James Lee of today suggest to them James Warrington of three and a half years ago? He thought not. The last three and a half years had not left him so unaltered. The door opened and a young man with curly hair, wide eyes, a most engaging grin and Savllle row written all over his clothes came In. This was Teregrine St. Abb, James Lee's secretary, and social guide; and, Incidentally, his very sincere friend. "My dear old sir," said this young man easiJy. "If you have no use for my valued services between the hours of ten tonight and breakfast time tomorrow, I'd rather like to look In at a 'do" my Aunt Cordelia Is giving. She rang me up to say that she's a man short and could. . . ." "Certainly," broke in Lee and then, after a moment: "Perry, do you know the Greshams?" "Not frightfully well . . . I've met his daughter here and there. . . . A pippin, I assure you." Lee "Yes; I see her here." crossed end handed It to St Abb. St Abb The Honorable Peregrine And, Just as it seemed that be really had got a foothold on the difficult ladder of success, he saw again how life had dealt him a blow laid that shattered, destroyed, waste. . , . How vividly it flashed before A clerk, him again! bringing money for the payroll from the bank, had been set upon, stunned, and robbed of every penny. now the sifting of evidence had been done, Lee had never known, but he remembered his own incredulous oewildermefit at hearing that some of the stolen notes had been found in an old leather wallet of his, hidden behind a loose brick in the wall at the end of his garden. He was called upon to explain, and, In the head office, before that very Oliver Ames whose face looked up at him from the picture In this paper he held now, he made his explanation. "Do you recognize ttie wallet?" Across the space of ovsr three years, he could heat Ames voice again, as clearly as if it were questioning now; at this very moment . . . And his own voice, replying: "Yes, sir. I lost It some days ago." "Lost It? When!" "Last Monday, sir." "Have you mentioned the loss of the wallet to anyone?" "No, sir." And then, after the smallest moment: "Oh, yes, I did Just speak of It to Mr. Macklln." "Send for Macklin. . . ." Next In the panorama of his memory came a vision of Macklin, under whom he the foreman, worked, small and brisk, smart and smiling. Macklln was questioned about the wallet He said "young Warrington" had never mentioned losing it, that this was the first he had heard of It. . . . And he stuck to this through thick and thin. Then the clerk who had been robbed was unable, when he recovered, to say whether "Warrington" were the thief or not. The onslaught had been so swift and sudden. He had Just got the impression that the thief had been a very big man. "Warrington" was a very big man. Little by little the net had closed upon him. ne had applied for permission to appeal to old John Gresham, and it was granted, but did no good. Sir John felt sure that there was no need for him to Interfere. He was, moreover, on the point of starting on a yachting cruise with his adored schoolgirl daughter. He did not alter his plans. . . . Lee's big hand clenched to a fist as his memory reached that point . . . With one of his men lying under threat of terrible disgrace, old Gresham went yachting! His memory slid on through his prosecution and trial; through the gh.nrt.ty nightmare of his own inability to prove his Innocence. It was his word against overwhelming evidence, and the evidence won. With his whole soul crying out against the unbelievable injustice of it he went to prison for three years. For three years that had seemed like eternities! That was what had knocked the laughter out of his laugh ; put the somberness Into his thunder-graeyes, set the line of bitterness around his lips; and, worst of all, brought him back Into the world of free men, with all his ambitious energies turned to a burning desire to be revenged ; to get even with Ames for his cold willingness to believe him guilty of such a crime; with Macklin for his treachery; with old John Gresham for his selfish carelessness. But as he had said, Fate and Destiny were queer, unaccountable forces, shattering one day, building up the next He had been free scarcely a fortnight, when he came Into an immense fortune left by a cousin, who had died in Canada one Terence Lee, of whose existence he had scarcely known on the sole condition that he changed his name from Warrington to Lee. Money was a power. He meant to use It But there had been things to do first. With Ue changing of his name and fortune, he intended to change his whole mode of life; to become a new personality; to raise himself to a level of social equality with those he regarded as his enemies, so that he need be at no sort of disadvantage. With this in view he had advertised for a young man of good social standing to act as secretary and social guide. The answer to this advertisement had been Peregrine St Abb. Under the guidance of Peregrine, Lee had Installed himself in a fine town flat; taken a nice little country place In Hertfordshire; acquired a splendid car; a big collection of clothes for all occasions; and a good working knowledge of the manners and customs of polite society. . . . Money was a power, and he meant to use It. But here and now he came out of the past and let the new and ugly thought have sway here was a power deadlier still. That smiling, sweet, girlish thing, with her young, unclouded eyes and pretty, childish lips where, if he searched the world over, could he find a sharper weapon than she might prove? Her father adored her; that was ancient history. And now St. Abb had told him that Ames loved her. To snatch her from them. . . . He, who had been their workman. He, who had To been three years in prison. snatch her from them. . . . "Old Gresham wouldn't know me anyway . . ." he argued to himself. "And I don't think Ames would either. . . . I've changed so . . ." Anyway, being recognized was a risk he was bound to take. . . . There was no avoiding It His thoughts went on. "Perry," he said suddenly: "Get me an invitation to this birthday , . ." He party on the twenty-sixth- . tapped the paper. "I want to meet . . . John Gresham's girl. y ... ..." CHAPTER II Lucy Meets James Lee Again. Oliver Ames, gorgeously WHEN effectively disguised as a Spanish grandee of the time of Velasquez, arrived for Lucy Gresham's birthday festivities, Lucy herself was Just coming downstairs Into the hall. She was dressed after the fashion of her own grandmother, in flounce upon flounce of delicate, creamy lace, that billowed cloudily round her as she moved. Her wide-se- t eyes, so almost unbeh lievably blue, were bright with excitement in the occasion. She greeted him very sweetly, with only the smallest hint of nervousness, and took him Into the drawing room, where her father was ready to help her receive kid-dis- guests. Sir John Gresham, tall, white-haireand handsome, welcomed him warmly. "I'm glad you've come In good time, Oliver," he said as they shook hands. "Well, sir, I have to go early, so I wanted to have all the time I could," answered Ames. "There's some hitch over that big Norwegian timber deal and they've cabled me to go over and see about it without delav." "Won't old Nilsen sell after all?" asked Sir John. "I fancy It Is young Nilsen who Is creating obstacles. Perhaps he thinks he can get a better price," answered Ames. Sir John glanced d " at him quickly. "You don't mean LInforths are bidding against us?" he asked. "Have they the means?" Ames rubbed his chin thoughtfully. Then said: "Three months ago, I should have said no, without hesitation. But lately they have shown signs of renewed life. . . . I'm not sure of them. . . . Anyway, I'm going over to look Into this business myself. I'm taking the midnight to Hull. Lucy knows I don't want to." Ames turned to the girl, his eyes rather longingly on the picture of grace and loveliness she made. "Oh. I'm awfully sorry," she said, cordially. "But of course, I understand." "Well, Oliver, If you must go, you must But I'm sorry. Anyway, the meantime," said Sir John. "Lucy is keen for you to see the ballroom before the crowd arrives. She planned the decorations all herself, and I think they're quite tolerable." His handsome old eyes twinkled round at Lucy. en-Jo- y (TO HE CONTINUED.) Statistics say that the averntre American eats 25 pints of Ice cream and 20 pickles a year. I HINT kjelics I IMPROVE STREETS ARTESIAN FLOW GAINS j WORK (Copyright) WNU Service ! FOR j FARMERS ELY, NEW Once completed, the newly designated U. S. highway No 1)3 from the Canadian line to Las Vegas, Nev., will be one of the inos'. important roads in this section of the west. GREENRIVER, UT. A group of young men, under the direction of Donald Scott of Huntington, N. Y. and representing the lVabody mu seum and Harvard university, are in the Book Cliff region In search of cliff dwellings and to gather relics. IDA. Representatives BOISE, of the various Idaho industries, meeting in Boise recently charged the railroads with wasteful operation and inefficient management and lodged a vigorous protest against the carriers' recent Increase In freight rates. ST. GEORGE, UT. A second dividend has been declared by the Dixie Stockgrowers' bank, and checks have been mailed to deThis dividend will reppositors. resent a 10 per cent liquidation of the present indebtedness, and represents a total dividend of about S3 per cent. PROVO, UT. Permission to go ahead with the construction work of raising the dam at the Lost Lake site, near the head of the Provo river, has been granted Provo city by the forestry departement. ARCO, IDA. Idaho pea growers have excellent prospects of market-lu- g their 1931 crop If the eastern markets remain firm. Four hundred acres at Arco and nearly one thousand acres at New Meadows will be sent eastward. EPHRAIM, UT. One thousand cast iron pipe has feet of Just been laid at a point above the head house of the local water works system to bring the city water over a stretch of the line that has given much trouble and lost much water In the past. six-inc- LAS VEGAS, NEV. A second story will be built on the Boggs business block, now under construction on Fremont street. The original contract called for a single story building. well is LEHI, UT. A being driven by the Lehi Irrigation company In the creek bed north of Lehi to be used for irrigation purposes by the stockholders of this company. WYO. Only the EVANSTON, h fact that the city of Evanston, with exception of the Wyers Land nnd Livestock company, has the oldest water rights on Bear river saved the residents from a drastic water shortage. The city reservoir had receeded to a depth of five feet. SALT LAKE CITY, UT By the Installing of 112 modern light standards Salt Lake's Improved business district has been extended four blocks south on Main street. The lighting system was initated by property owners of the district at a cost of $15,000. LAS VEGAS, NEW Despite the extreme hot weather prevailing throughout the intermountain region and the serious shortage of water in almost every section, Las Vegas' artesian water supply has shown nearly a 20 per cent increase In flow over last year. MERIDIAN, IDA. The grain crop of this section promises a fair yeild, but It is said that the alfalfa crop will not be a heavy one. Many farmers who are having wells drilled to provide irrigation water are assured of a third crop of alfalfa. LOGAN, UT. The county school board met with the county commission recently and decided on 8.5 mills tax levy for the next year. Last year's levy was 10.1 mills. In actual cash, it is about a $40,000 cut over last year. RIGBY, IDA. A uniform price of 12 cents a bushel, milling weight, for threshing of peas in the Upper Snake river valley this season has been adopted by the Tea Growers' association. LEHI, UT. The connection of the new artesian well with Lehi city's main water supply has added COO gallons per minute. The present hook-uis only gravity flow, but the city officials intend to install a new pressure pump Immediately. CHEYENNE, WYO. Forest fires In northeastern Wyoming and the Grand Teton national forest have burned thousands of acres of valuable timber. Many dude ranches In those sections have been threatened with destruction. BOISE, IDA. Employment for farmers of the Middleton district after the harvest season will be provided by a $00,000 highway Job, the bureau of highways announced recently. p EPHRAIM, UT. The Mantl forest is the driest it has ever been since leing put under federal administration, the local forest office reported. The fire hazard is therefore the worst ever and the forest officials are urging the greatest of care nnd caution by all who visit in tills region. OGDEN, UT. Announcement hni been made by the manager of Mo merClanahnn's, Inc., clothing chants here for the past ten years, that the firm will construct a new and larger store. Street in Agana, Guam. Intense colors, some of them a deep greenish blue, others looking as THE interests of governmen- though painted with blue and pink INtal economy the lonely island of opaque colors; variegated Chaeto-donGuam, one of the smallest of called "sea butterllies" by the American possessions, will be taken natives; trunkflshes with horns and from the list of American naval armor, leopard-spottegroupers, bases and turned over to another hideous-lookinwarty toadfishes, government department, possibly armed with poisonous spines, much the Department of Interior, which dreaded by the natives, and a black has already suggested that Guam fish with a spur ou Its forehead. would make an attractive national As many young fish unfit for food are destroyed by this process, the park. Guam's military importance has Spanish government forbade this always been theoretical, but as part method of fishing, tut since the American American occupation of the island of a chain of stepping stones, leading from Cali- the practice has been revived. fornia through the Hawaiian Islands In the mangrove swamps when to the Philippines, Guam has also the tide is low hundreds of little provided a handy landing place and fishes with protruding eyes may be relay station for cable lines across seen hopping about in the mud and the Pacific, and a base for repairs climbing among the roots of the and supplies for American vessels Rhizophora and Brugulera. These More than belong to a group of fishes Interplying midway lanes. 1,100 miles of open water separate esting from the fact that their air It from the Philippines while the bladder has assumed in a measure ocean Jump to Midway, nearest of the function of lungs, enabling the the Hawaiian islands, is even grea- animals to breathe atmospheric air. tersome 1,700 miles. Natives of Good Appearance. Guam's strategic value is out of The natives of Guam are, as a all proportion to its size and popu- rule, of good physique and pleaslation. ing appearance. Owing to their In area it is about three and a mixed blood, their complexion vahalf times as large as Nantucket, ries from the white of a Caucaslon having a length of less than 30 miles to the brown of a Malay. Most of and an average width of about six them have glossy black hair, which miles. Only 18,020 people, more Is either straight or slightly curly. s than of whom are na- It is worn short by the men and tive Guamese, a people similar to long by the women, either braided, the Filipinos, Inhabit this coiled, or dressed after the styles oasis. The population, how- prevailing In Manila. ever, Is growing. It Jumped 40 per Though the natives of Guam are cent in the last decade. naturally intelligent and quick to discovof Guam The Island was learn, little was done for their eduered on March 6, 1531, by Magellan, cation until comparatively recent after a passage of three months years. The college of San Juan de and twenty days from the strait Letran was founded by Queen which bears his name. An account Maria Anna of Austria, widow of of the privations and suffering of Philip IV, who settled upon It an his crew, many of whom died on annual endowment of 3,000 pesos. the way across the hitherto unex- Through misappropriation and displored ocean, Is graphically given honesty the annual Income of the by Antonio Plgafetta, Magellan's college gradually dwindled to about historian. He describes how the 1,000 pesos. The greater part o expedition arrived at Guam with this was absorbed by the rector, the crews suffering from scurvy and who was usually the priest stain a starving condition, having been tioned at Agana, and by the runcompelled on the passage to eat ning expenses of the school, which rats and even the leather from off were the subsistence and wages the standing rigging to keep soul paid to Janitor, porter, steward, and tody together. In comparison doctor, and the lighting of the with Magellan's feat of crossing the building. vast Pacific, the first voyage of CoThe people are essentially agrilumbus from the Canary Islands to cultural. There are few masters the West Indies seems insignificant and few servants on the island. As' Raided by Magellan. a rule the farms are not too extenThe natives of Guam came to sive to be cultivated by the family, meet the Spaniards iu strange "fly- all of whom, even the little children, ing praes (canoes provided with lend a hand. Often the owners of outriggers and triangular sails of neighboring farms work together in mats). The Spaniards had dropped communal fashion, one day on A's anchor, furled their sails, and were corn, the next day on B's. and so atout to land, when it was discov- on, laughing, singing and skylarkered that a small boat which rode ing at their work and stopping astern of the flagship was missing. whenever they feel so inclined to Suspecting the natives of having take a drink of tuba from a bamboo stolen It, Magellan himself went vessel hanging to a neighboring coashore at the head of a lauding conut tree. Each does his share without conparty of 40 armed men, burned 40 or 50 houses and many boats, and straint, nor will be indulge so freekilled seven or eight natives, male ly In tuba as to incapacitate himand female. He then returned to self for work, for experience has his ship with the missing boat and taught the necessity of temperance, immediately set sail, continuing his and every one must do his share course to the westward. If the services are to be reciprocal. The natives did not fare much In the evening they separate, each better at the hands of later visi- going to his own rancho to feed his tors. Missionaries came in 1GC8. bullock, pigs and chickens. After Though Guam lies within the a good supper they lie down for the tropics, its climate is tempered night on a pandanus mat spread throughout the greater part of the over an elastic platform of split year by a brisk trade wind blow- bamboo. All Raise Crops. ing from the northeast nnd east. Its None of the natives depends for mountains are not high enough to cause marked differences In the his livelihood on his handiwork or distribution of rain on the Island, trade alone. There are men who and the island Is not of sufficient can make shoes, tan leather, and extent to cause the daily alternat- cut stone for building purposes, but ing currents of air known as land such a tiling as a Chamorro shoeand sea breezes. Generally speakmaker, tanner, stone mason, or mering, the seasons conform In a chant who supports his family by measure with those of Manila, the his trade is unknown. In the midst least rain falling In the colder of building a stone wall the man months or the periods called winwho has consented to help do the ter by the natives, and the greater work will probably say, "Excuse me, rainfall occurring In the warm Senor, but I must go to my rancho months, which are called summer for three or four days; the weeds are getting ahead of my corn." And by the natives. The forest vegetation of Guam when lime is needed the native to consists almost entirely of strand whom one is directed may say trees, epiphytal ferns, lianas, and "After I have finished gathering my a few undershruhs. The majority coconuts for copra I will get my of the species are Included in what boys to cut wood and gather limeSchlmper has called the Barrlng-tonl- a stone to make a kiln. Never Sear, formation. The principal Senor, you shall have your flme trees are the wild fertile bread- within six weeks." On one occasion a blacksmith fruit; the Indian almond; was delayed two weeks in making and the giant banyan. How They Catch Fish. a plow owing to the fact that the The fruit of another common man from whom he got his charcoal tree (Barrlngtonla speciosa) the na- had been so busy supplying visittives use to stupefy fish. The fruit ing vessels with fruits and vegeIs pounded Into a paste, Inclosed In tables that he could not find time a bag, and kept over night The to burn it. time of an especially low tide Is Agana, the seat of government selected, and bags of the pounded and principal town, Is about eight fruit are taken out on the reef next miles from Apra harbor, a fine anmorning and sunk In certain deep chorage but closed to all foreign holes In the reef. The fish soon ships, Guam Is a lonely spot, seeappear at the surface, some of ing only an occasional army or them lifeless, others attempting to navy transport, the mall steamers, swim, or faintly struggling with and a few American commercial their ventral side uppermost. ships. Tourists are unknown. The official currency of the island Nothing more striking could be Imagined than the picture present- Is that of the United States, but ed by the conglomeration of strange the old Spanish code of laws, shapes and bright colors) smikelike slightly modified, still is effective. , sea eels, voracious English, Spanish and native langurlike houndlishes, with their Jaws guages are spoken. The schools prolonged into a sharp beak; long nre conducted In English. The prinsnouted trumpet fishes, flounders, cipal exports are copra 'and cocowith nut oil. bristling porcupine fish, The governor of the Island, a spines; squirrel flshesi of the brightest and most beautiful colors scar- navnl officer appointed by the let, rose color and silver, and yel- President, takes precedence over low and blue; parrot fishes, with nnd Is entitled to the honors due large scales, pnrrotlike beaks, and to an admiral. (Prepared by the National Geographic. Society. Washington. L. C) s, d c nine-tenth- coral-reefe- lizard-fishes- d |
