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/ along and across the way. Thus. if
we lind it rough to travel from place to
| place in the summertime. what must
be the hindranccs To the people of the
| island when the wild storms Of winter
| fill the roads and ravines with enor
nous drifts of SNOW, whom even the
houses themselves are buried in the
snow. and when il Is labor or DAYS
to cut pathways to and from their
| houses and barns. When nature so
rudely interposes these almost insur-
mountable obstacles--tor it must bu
remembered that nearly all the .school-
/ lng is dome in winter-time--it is sur
prisinS that the children get any edu-
cation whatever. Yet bv reason OF
these very distractions these people
have become self,rcliant, hardy and
enterprising. Those who have but
liitIe give much, and I have always
found these islanders, although shrewd
M their dealings and saving in all
ways. yet kind-hearted and hospitabie.
In the lives of these simple hearted
| fishermen, isolated from the world and
separated Car from each other, there
are episodes full of the deepest pa
| thos
One morning. late in the year, when
| the chill eastern wind drove IN from tue
ocean drifting banks OF fog, with now
and then binding sheets of rain, on
the edge OF dreary stretch of marsh
land by the sea. we came upon a fresh
Is dug grave. Two or three head.
| stones TO other graves near by told us
that this wa, no public cemetery, aud
| only u secluded corner used by its
4 owner 10 make such interment as best
he could. All by itself, it was sad
picture. and little but this waste OF
sand and marsh could be seen. for the
gathering mists inwrappel the noun
tam and the sea as IN a ghostly shroud
\ yet II was not complete. FOR out Of the
| dim distance there came two figures
| bearing 4 small coffin between them,
which they placed bv the side OF the
! grave. The bearers were two men,
| whose tanned and wrinkled faces
bore evidence OF lifelong exposure 70
| wind, and sun and rain their oil-cloth
caps and coats were dripping with wa
ter, while about their rough-top boots
hung the long grass aud kelp cast up
| hy the waves on the rocks and beach
| The poor pine coffin, too. bore like cvi-
| dencc OF exposure, for the water ran
| from its sides. and the sand gathered
about the bottom showed that the men
| must have rested in their toilsomc
journey. We saw all of this At q
glance, and then looked in the direc-
t. 900 other forms, and those of wo
men. approaching. but the hying mi.ts
| unbrOken, shut closer in about us. The
| solitary nourners recognized our pres
ence by bowing. There was no SER
I vice OF the church, no audible word of
prayer was said, and no sound wa,
heard, save that eternal requiem
of the restless sea, while the body wa,
consigned 10 its last resting place.
And then, perhaps il was the sight of
| the tears which came fast flowing from
our eyes which unsealed the closely
compressed lips Of the elder of the
! two men.
she WAS the last one who came to
me- lie said. trembling. And afore
now I've thought she was the prettiesl
Of 'em all. There they are. Sir, all OF
en- wife and children, in the ground
ami l'm all alone The great grief of
the Old man stopped his speech, and
answering the warm pressure of SYM
pathizing hands, not daring gain to
| look at the graves of all he held most
dear, he turned his steps by tie wa,
he came. and, with his companion. was
soon lost to view.
We shall never forget thae pathetic
burial by the sea.
We should have mentioned that in
this vicinity of Schooner Head there
Is 'Spouting Horn which. unlike
most other spouting horns at the wa
terln5-places, spouts now and then
There is also a sea-walI. which is
famous. Otter Creek is another In
teresting point, not far from Schooner
! Head, aud on the southern or seaward
side Of the island, there Is re-
markable sea-wall and other objects
of interest
On your road to and from Schooner
Head and Great Head YOU pass by
Newport Mountain, which also guards
the entrance TO Bar Harbor on the side
OF the sea. 1t Is Il rough place to
climb, yet the enthu ,iastic pedestrian 5.
male and female. have little hesitation
i'll surmounting all its difficulties, and.
in spite of scars and bruises and great
fatigue, ailim they are well repaid by
the noble view which spread out on
every side.
Eagle Lake, a body of fresh water
some miles IN width and two or three
miles long, is phenomenon in its
way. 1t is situated between Green
and Dog mountains, some fifteen hun
dred feet above the ocean, which, ia a
direct line. is not much more than ha
or three-quarters of mile Distant
One can hardly realize the presence of
SO large body of fresh-water at such
an altitude and on a comparatively
small island, and which is completely
surrounded by saltwater. put this
problem to one of the natives, whose
farmhouse looks down upon the lake
from the side opposite the mountain.
He replied. We'll, | guess it rained in
The theory of subtcrranean channels
of water far into the earth ana under
meath the sea, which here find outlets,
were little beyond him. A right
honest, good man he was, by-the-way.
who had sent his sons to the war, two
of whom left their bones on Southern
soil He owns the boat ON the lax e,
and, with his kind-hearted wife, when
the reader goes up there to catch a
generous mess of trout. will help him
cook them. Yes, Eagle Lake has
double attractions. Every rod of its
shore is study for the artist, while
the sportsman may catch all the trout