Show ANIMATED ciorra novra MI limit rr lateer ivan BH b y r tit ller yanic es in 1813 1812 perhaps the fogt rno st bairen lonesome to looking ol illo and ill woebegone boebe I 1 olle appearing I 1 I 1 iry I 1 ato to lie b found in c auth ives stern not oven even excell excepting biting tile the dunes ind il cranberry of Cinn coll Coil is to ile be found in that loll 1011 W aste iste of terri territory torr lying 0 between tile of ta miton new nen bedford it ril ild Midd middleboro leboro and much tile the largest e I 1 a I 1 I 1 of which 11 is within the confino con linea 9 of tile iho low to biship of freetown but thia thi 3 is ita tile town where people live to tit ile bc fro froin in eighty ninety anti and ninety five I 1 vi vii ear i old scores of them A canvass bif of ahe town would mould disclose an average of one no person over seventy yews old to to ci cicro cry thiril house houm ind and an of a pers eighty 1 or over to every twenty houses throughout a i lan large c portion of tile town i in a low old fashioned farmhouse farm finn house on the asonat As road dwells the patri birch of nil all this community of aged i ed people ennis hathaway the man irian who enjoys the di diz of being the oldest inhabitant inhibit int in i town where old age 0 counts co lints for a good deal lie ile was born in freetown F rec toAn in a i house nearby lie a rby where lie he now lion lives jires with his hia son on oil karrh 12 1793 G ray li gaii aired ed with willi a Z t pinched pin clied and wrinkled fice face the old yet vot arin sits in ill hiis chimney corner by the window and ami t fells alls stories of his bolln cr flays ind and of tile changes eliell C es that lias has wrought within the span of nearly a century of his recollections n lie dwells with special il liking upon the lie tormy times of the war 0 of 1812 in which lie was a private and of which lie he is a pensioner hr was attached to the lie coast guar guard dil stationed ill at fort phomia in fairhaven when his comrades sighted in ill the ollila oiling ff tile alic Bri alil ateer nimrod that was known to have been prowling about in neighboring waters for seve ral das the too took a schooner from the hie dock loaded her with empty bar lel ve vering terin over the llie decks and hatches in imitation of it a vessel tessel bound to sea loaded with willi ordinary freight in barrels in ili each cadi barrel it a guardsman was stationed then apparently tile IK schooner sailed quietly out into tile ilic bay taking a course out ont toward tile the that layat lay at ill anchor ichor 0 outside ats de down she boro born on oil the lie pd ateer hose men had ilver biever a i SUIT suspicion uio 11 of tile ilic trick ind and tit all at one once hun un close alongside tile barrel baiT cl turned ocr all it at ono one billic 1 on I tile the deck of tile the schooner cleooner clio oner arid ami 1 a I fierce lound of shot taking the arh by surprise ritie them eliom to surrender before the they ij ill id a i chance to rally another experience in which mr hathaway ILith away hall a narrow escape lit in iiii mixing illa manhood n hood was when lio lie ii i piled in a schooner from ai for tile yonly ind and was east cast away oil off jape cape hatteras Hatt Ilat teras cras lie finall hoilly v reached rca clied land after long exposure more dead thail alive while in tile lie south it at savannah lie with several other keithern els boiking at or near the city was drafted 11 to light fi C lit the lie indians but they had heard stories of hard usage ind and rather rit lier than llian waste their time and lives lires to light fight a 1 I foe that was wit no particular foe of t I 1 theirs they deserted this sir mr away recalls rc cills with ith great gusto I 1 tile the old nian man ia slightly losing his mind but otherwise his senses sell c ire arc lip patently parent ly ilis his sight si lit hearing in sense nse n se of smell lS ind and touch i acm to ile be as good out is as those hose of half if the ile men let of sixty to seventy years of age ae whom idol I lOl oil one c might select at random ilia iii astren ailt is tailing failing ind and lie hu can call not exert himself much lit in walk walking iop about the house without ii frequently stop pin 0 to rest ile iio says that lie lias his used tob lob teco iceo all ait ill lii life both for smoking and chewing inand while lie does not see that it hit has s dono done him any harm neither does docs lie see sec that it lias has been of iny any help bpi to MIA hinl beyond the great comfort it has been to liim hini and it its assistance in ill passing in 0 awa away y many dull drill hours ile ho has used very little liquor in all his life except for medi medicine cine ind then rarely and sparingly sparing ily its as lie lias has lind had ter very y little sickness ile he attributes hij ecat acre ac as ai hugely owing to his of a I 1 loll long c lived race ilis hi father joseph athaway II lived to the ago of ninety wo two yearl b anit anil his sister who died last car aged ninety file years was for several years the oldest resilient resident of tile town where silo alio lived ih cd adl added let I 1 to ile 1 natural hardihood of his race lie he tt t is ao age go to ins his simple mode of living in tile the coli country ile he was en anaed in out of door labor as is a carpenter carpente r and farmer the larger C portion of ili years althou although ai lie learned tile cabinet anak ars trado ind arid worked it at it for a dittin b of airs eal 8 this kind of libor labor added to temperate habits and taking taking good caro care of himself in a general cri cral way lie thinks has led to his lii lhing ing to his ripe old a age e boston globe |