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Show A LITTLE. ISLAND COLONY. Fifty Wfclte Folks Who Mve on Lofty Rock Junt Ills Enough fur Them. A few months ago the handful of people peo-ple who live on Pitcairn island cele- j bratnd the hundredth anniversary of the landing of their fvtheru on that little rock. The world is always glad to hear of tho prosperity of this people, and several sev-eral other little communities inhabiting the smallest specks of land in the ocean also excite much interest. There is one island, however, of which we seldom hear. It is Lord Howe island, isl-and, the home of fifty or sixty white people, alont 600 miles northeast of New soutn wales, tears ago two or tnree ! families from New Zealand thought they would seek a new home. They had heard of the profuse vegetation vegeta-tion on this crescent shaped little island, and decided that they would build new homes there. So they went to Lord Howe island, which is only six miles ' long and about a mile wido, nnd risei precipitously from the sea to a height f t nearly 8,000 feet fit pearly every point. They built their hufs, tilied tho land and after a while two or three otrr : families joined them. Some of thi.8 j original settlers are still living, but mist of the residents are their descendants. The island is under tho government of New Zealand, and once a year it is visited visit-ed by a magistrate, who settles all little i disputes. It is a very easy task, for j there are seldom any differences among the people. Like Pitcairn and other little lit-tle island communities, they have never found it necessary to build a jail. There were none of the higher mammals mam-mals on the islands "when they went there, but now there are quite a number num-ber of goats, swine and cats, which, having hav-ing escaped from domesticity, have ' lived in the woods so long that they : have become quite wild. While some j of the men engage in tilling their gar- j dens others are out fishing. A great j many edible fish are caught there, and , the people find it very easy to live in : comfort without large amount of labor. They say they have not the slightest j desire to return to larger communities, j They do not encourage immigration be- j cause thev think thev and their children ! will need all of the 3,320 acres of the island. isl-and. Sometimes a sailor from a passing ship spends a little while in the conimu- nity, and has been known to carry away ; one of the daughters as his wife, but j most of the people are born, live and die there. I They cannot travel more than a few I hundred rods without seeing the sea, and of course they come to know every inch of their little world. Once or twice a year a vessel comes to them with a large variety of supplies, nnd they purchase with their corpa and other products the goods they need for the ensuing year. At the same time their libraries are replenished re-plenished with new books, a large lot of newspapers come to their homes, and it takes them a good while to read of all that has happened in the busy world since they last heard of it. New York Sun. |