Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-09-11

the fimfF Daih OF baAhft ihlAhh anu
the Discouraged citizen of fsie nu naut.
native. Who Never saw Horse. a
Train. mn Engine or Brick House.
Tho residents Of South Thoinaston
are, In common with other Maine coast
jewellers. rather behind In tho march of
progress, and It doesn't require much 10
stnrtlc them. Tho other day steamer
passing White Head blew very long
blast from her peculiar sounding chime
whistle, whorcat the villagers marvolod
greatly, but NJ night they wcro posi-
lively frightened. A steam yacht In the
harbor displayed an electric rejecting
light, illuminating the sea, sky and land,
aud not Tow u tho unsophisiicatod ma
tiyca. remembering the unoarihly ahrioka
of tho strange steamer, coupled tho two
events aud concluded that the univorls
was about to collapse.
The innocence of these people will not
seem 70 very strange when It q rcmcn'
bcrcd that many o. the natives Of Mon
hogan and other coast islands have never
seen n hone, train OF cans or u brick
house, never having set foot upon tho
mainland. There is man on Monho.
Kan Island who knows the Boston and
Bangor, the New York aud Bangor and
al tho other steamers that pass tho
island By SIGHT, but although nearly
seventy years old, no has mover been on
board Of any kind Of steam craft, aud
has not tho slghicst conception Of an
engine.
II Is not very long since a few acres ~
rocky coil IN outer Cafco hay. known M
Basket island. was deserted by tho only
people who ever had tho courage 20 1.-Two
there-an old fisherman. bis wife and
daughter. These people lived IA an old
tumhlodown rookaEy ON tho little wind
swept isle, aud wore yoritahlo hcrniis.
AN UscuLTURED MAID.
Tho man hshod. while his vito aud
daughter carried on tho farming opera.
tons, which consisted In harvesting
what lltllo coarse hay the Island afford.
ed and carrying It ON poles TO tho cow
shed. They had no garden, not oven
patch Of potatoes, but wcrc merely toll
ors Of tho Hoh. Tho wife had not visited
the mainland for seventeen years, while
tho daughter had passed the entire six.
teen years Of her life upon tho lonely
rpot. although the city OF Portland was
almost In sight.
Tho girl was bright, but untutorcd,
pretty. but miscrnbly clad. She wore
no stockings aud knew nothing of hats.
The only relative sho know Of outside
tho family circle was half sister, who
rho had never seen. Her father taid
that this other daughter lived tout
west" She lived In Konnobunkport,
York county. This daughter Of the sea,
much TO the surprise II some yachtsmcn
who once landed on the island, wah able
TO play several popular airs upon nm old
accordion.
Sho had picked tho music out by car
after hearing Il played by the bands Of
passing excursion steamers. A party of
picnlckerA who landed there found Bas-
kct island deserted. Tho matted grass
was alive with field mice, aud eulls
pcrched boldly upon the rotiing window
shls Of the old house, while la ono corner
lay tho dilapidated accordion which had
long been the chief consolation Of tho
lonely fisher maiden.
There IL, perhaps, no moro lonely spot
on thewhole Atlantic cOnst Of the United
States than lslo nu llaut, which lies Ear
seward oil the entrance 10 ponohscot
bay. The name given TO this island by
the early French yoyagers is most nppro.
pirate, for u looks liiu a mountain half
submerged In tho sea. The pcoplo are a
simple, primitive cot, aud few OF them
ever visit tho mainland. The leland,
with ils fish aud sheep md bluobcrrics. Il
their world, and within it, limited circle
they AFRO content.
DISCONTINUED.
Some queer specimens Of humanity
are 10 DO found ON Isle au Haut. Not
long nso a yachting party went down
theru on fishing trip, and after catch
ing enough cod for u chowder went
ashore TO procure some milk. The
yachtsmrn soon Tell in with weather
beaten native who was looking along
tho shore, and he informed them that
they could got plenty Of milk, but that
they would have to wait until his wife,
who had gone bluebcrrying, returned
and MIXED the cows. The native led
tho way over rocky pastures to dllapi-
dated cottage, and uShcrcl them into
The kitchen to await the return OF MA.
ria.
Tho floor was scrubbed as white as a
man-o.wnr's deck, the coolHtoyo was
brightly polished and little plot before
the windows was gay with marigolds
and other homoly fowcrs-all tho 70.
suit OF Maria's patient industry. Tho
lord and master sat himself down upon
tho doorstep and thus uminatel while
busily whiting u shluglo aud sending
up clouds of smoke from short clay
pipe.
"rimos Amt Ms they used 10 be In lie
or Holt THE native pronunciation Time
was when a man might got living hero
abouta, Fishin was good n farmin
consid'able good but thata all gono
now. Used ter be u good wharf In this
hero cove n a good fleet er ycssils outer
here, but thatsall gone now. Ny father
usad ter DO In trade here-had store
down thero "a sold nigh Almost every.
thing, but that's an gono now He said
that no had boon ny ing TO ssll his place
-housa, barn, land, cows aud all, for he
wanted 10 cmiefatn 10 Washington
state, He wanted 300 Tor the whole
outfit, and no stopped smoking long
enough 90 swear great oath that no
wouldn't take cent less. This man
had loafed so long that no had forgotten
how TO work, lle seemed 10 feel that
somehow he had been cheated-that tho
world owed him living, but that the
Isle au Haul was a poor plnns in which
10 COLLECT tho debit,