| Show U to L K L rv 7 ZT baine al ri ISLAND N ED 0 N certain of tie tle islands lying 1 off tho the coast of maine are some boff of the peculiar hermit like and sometimes degenerate chr chuan ac tes te s such as aro are found in the remote region regions the back towns and the bill hill towns of every now england state but these islanders more completely separated from their fellow men than the recluses of the inland states or oven even the inland portions of maine are a distinct type and per haps the moat most iriving representatives of a certain class that shuns and lives and rears its young in the manner of post past centuries back in the hill country of the south are descendants of some of the best blood of early colonial days stranded on the mountain tops like the ark on mount ararat of the purest saxon blood and the best ancestry the country affords falen into ignorance and sloth yet A it sense of family importance and per bonal dignity poor and proud ad as an ancient scottish gentleman resisting the advances of civilization while eager for its advantages dislike civilized life not like these are the dv dwellers ellers of the islands off the maine coast they boast ro pride of ancestry though theirs may inay be as its good as that of any of their more respectable contemporaries por aries they live apart from civilization because they have no love for it they have no sense of forced isolation the result of generations of 0 haskell island 0 ou er heron or farther east on isle au haut are ara peculiar pecullar characters charac tera who shut themselves off from communication with their fellows live their own strange lives and avoid intercourse with any but their own people when a summer visitor or a yachtsman goes ashore the children scutter for cover liko like a covey of grall and it ie to almost impossible to get into intelligent communication with any excepting the patriarch of the family utterly ignorant lonor pt some of these people do not visit the mainland for 20 years at a time they havu have no dally daily papers seldom even a weekly thoy they are utterly ignorant of what goes on in the outside world and a ingle single visit to the mainland affords them thern sufficient material for conversation for a dozen years on outer heron island Is uncle jerry madison who never visited the mainland till he was past sevesty year old the eloc electric cars railroad trains aLfa automobiles mobiles electric olec light telephones all the things that have become commonplaces of modern life since ho be was born he saw for the first timo time in his life one day cf of sich experience was enough for him and he went back to bin laland island home raa su tented to remain among amon hi haa millar surroundings uncle jerry is reputed to have been jilted by a young lady in his early years and took up his abode on tho the island in a fit of misanthropy with two cats for his companions a reg is N 04 0 an such living as have the mountaineers of kentucky and tennessee they live aa as they do because they prefer to live in that way they may not any alth timon of athens 1 I am misanthrope an end bate hate mankind tut they hate bate cl they avoid contact with the dwellers of the cities thel the follow their own pursuits in their ri way and ask only to be allowe t u live in peace and undisturbed by those who live in different circumstances et ances an almost unknown coterie the cast missionaries and a few ahammer visitors eltora vi know something about theae these peculiar people but aside from them they are almost unknown they pay no taxes mainton ln no ac hooli take no part in gove gov ament nut evin to the extent of acting and are an buchac stranded off the coast no particular menace to society not niclous jr dangerous simply aloof suspicious indolent and careless the islands on which they live belon belong to the state but they are not worth levying taxes upon and the squatters there are undisturbed by the authorities they live their on life fishing occasionally grubbing a scanty sustenance fron from fro n the spoil oc oz following a trade which has erell 11 patronage unfamiliar with mod rn ru I 1 te fe unkempt and happy micro Is a camaraderie of the sea ana the crew of the vessel wrecked off bount desert island a it week or twe two ago found plenty of assistance among the rugged islanders there who cared for them in their homes hotnes and sent sant them to the mainland clothed and fed these aluse island erg ern would respect any vessel so long as she were anat but anen nen ground ed or stranded eho sh 5 1 becomes ta in their parlance a wrack and la Is proper plunder for any of the coast or island inhabitants who may have opportunity to reach her monhegan Mon hegan began isla id lying 20 miles out la in the atlantic off tho the maine coast him bax produced a type of hardy fishermen equal to anhof those who sail bout out of gloucester J there as on ular robinson crusoe there ho he haa has remained ever since his cat family has increased to fifty or more in alte 1 of frequent when ho goes some of the feline family accompany him in the boat and the others perch on rock rocks about the shore to await bis his return with the fish that constitute their p principal food hae haie no ue use for visitors only occasionally does a visitor get a glimpse at the interior of one of their hat the women and children are aa as carefully guarded from cabral visitors as the lar inmates nates of a turkish harem but whore where a man lives alone baches it aa as they say the visitor may m ay receive an invitation to enter es pec lilly if ho he has beau liberal la in tle matter matte of flour or tobacco or likker 0 which is forbidden by the maino maine law and therefore in greater demand than it would be among ordinary qaher folk they are a queer people these la is land squatters they are apart from the horld in which they live and have no desire to mingle with any but their own folk fok they are uncouth un dempt sempt illiterate but not decadent or degenerate they are fair representative senta tive of 0 the peasant class of two centuries ago no one knows their ancestry the history of their marriages Is 1 obscure they live outside ou the law and have no occasion to invoke it in their affairs neither do they desire that it be invoked to control their activities they are an Arc arcadian adlan group representative of the reel rest philosophical anarchists tuco who feel feet themselves able to live outside the law without the restraint or compel of government and who recognize no autho authority Kity beyond their own wn desires and needa needs they have achieved the care free life which many philosophers have bought nought and perhaps those who aspire to the ideals gift of philosophic anarchy may find some guidance in the rord of tb abd tbd ily blvd M of these ho are to all huttl aws |
