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Show I Exile Vas Voluntaiy to Regain Healih; Found N ahire Gccd Dqcicr I am monarch of all I sucyey; My riiriit tjiere is nmie to dispute: From lb.- ccuier v. round lo the sea' 1 apt lord f tile Cowl itpd the brute. fcOWPER. i;v GEORGE K. Tl.R . . I-.. StoXf Correepotidcht. lilSCIKI.r. Md. Self-banished from socle tj'j cut off from mankind, on! We island. io mllps from h re, Charles M. tlardenburs rfpent 12, ye of his life. rlardenburg 13 truly a modern Rob-' inson Crusoe. Eike Crusoe, he Has finally fi-nally round deliverance fconi biu Island Is-land of Despair' and returned to civi-llaatlon, civi-llaatlon, sattu island la u tins "Jewel" of green forest and white beach set in the eiperald ::nj inrquoise waters of Chesapeake bay. U is two aiiles long and ot zou acreia o third of which la high groinld. 'file aeurcsl Inhabited land la Tangier Tan-gier island. :... nTlleS away, where a i (instable i.ot long ago shot ii boy who 1 roke tne "go-to-chiireh" law. GriS-fitld GriS-fitld is 15 miles to the north. Though vVatts is ncaxast Maryland, u la part of Virginia Theie is a light-bouse light-bouse and frame dwelling built by Ilardi .lburg's ancestors in 1781. I lls uncle ar.d aunt. Mr. and Mrs. F H. Doremus, lived ' years on Watts, ajad four of his up.eestors are buried there. Mafdenburg, t'rinceton graduate and Wealthy ..ttiirm ;.- of Jersey 'lt was s.ii.. and his physicians told him tha' unle:'.. Iii went I ai Ic lo nature" would die Ur. Daniel S. Harden-burg, Harden-burg, i Harles brother, and an eminent .Jersey physieioi:. was si ure ths:t his brother's death was soon that ha I bought Watts Island from their aunt and gave it to Chariest; Then came the exile and the lonf. Sojourn u.i the tiny 'continent," alone with the .aeabirds and his dog, with tha ooaeeless booming of the surf and th.- i i rails of the seagulls as the only sound to break the silence. Fate kept Crusoe to hh Island anil he longed constantly for the life of comfoit hi bad b-ft. So It j with lardenburg. yet hi indomitable win to health kepi mm in solitude "i h 't i" en thei i long until I knew that Hfe on the Island was my way to health," he told Die. "I truly believe i would have been in m gravi to da hail I not Kone to Watts. So. when people sa they think f wasle.J l J yean of nw life. I disagree." Bl lit HIM. TOO. A i times fate, too. held Hardenburg it captive. Two years ao the afi to shoreward was froseri over, ami Har-denburg'a Har-denburg'a supplise grew low. He lived on UUleaVened bread. the fat of a poos- he killed, and coffee. When the lee i.rnUe ! (.rile nf onuncock, a., sent rr lief siiiilles. Life was pretty much "one thing after another" to I lardenburrr. He rose at sunrise, cooked his meal anil cleaned hi house. Then lie rowed row-ed his boats to hU? fish traps and. in the afternoon, hunted ifcse. brant and j SWan. There was un Inexliaustive supply sup-ply of shell-fish at Is door. In the nummer Hardenburg kept n Harden und hi the winter spent most of bla time with nooks, i "Itover." his dog, lived seven years. .The los.s of his toes h a jrun shot and u fight with a muskrat liuatened his end. Hardenburg mLssed "Rover." Hardenburg brought a "Tabby cat" to his island and a year later a fisher-'man fisher-'man from Tangier left him a "Tom .cat." Now there arc "wild eats" all over the island. And thev are wild! RE-ADAPTATION HARD Year followed year and. while Hardenburg Har-denburg never quit gave up his lony-tn; lony-tn; for the gentler things of life, he found interest in his aolitudc. Now Hurdcnburg finds It a little hard to re-adapt himself to the ways of civilisation "I have an indescribable feeling that I cannot find enough excitement to offset the solitude of the island life," he told me at Tlfton, fin., where ''he has accepted position with his bvbthcr, it p. Gentle?, f the Title; Guarantee com puny Cru?ie married u h's return. May-! b- Harden.biirg won t- bht I found him the center of society in Tlflon. ou |