The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-08-10
PouI's Honor


THEY still tell the story at Ten
rAnt's when the feet is home in
SIMMER or when the cargo hunters
are sformbound in winter. What chief
il puzzles me is how first il got abroad.
~ Paul Fralic was lost, and the other
Two were most like to keep the matter
hid Eut set ii down here-not in the
picturesque fisher speech. which is god
l.s- anu unrefined-as it was told me
on summer twilight with the sky
Ike flaming gold and all the hills asleep.
Be Il known that the south coast OF
Nova Scotia is a rampant Of solid rock
fronting the Atlantic surges. Some
time. the fog wells it's stern precipices
ana gray backed waves beat in from
tie shroudtd sea. and sometimes great
Gains descend. when the headlands
las, themselves all day in the quiet
water There are huge Lodges cropping
UP ont ~ the deep and sunken rocks
where the surf takes on a heavier note.
AMI mile on miles of frowning cliffs
where the SHOWS lie strangely white
in winter. But there are also broad
harOors and sheltered coyes where the
fishermen find shelter in time Of storm.
The place called Tenants is a good
example OF the latter. IL is wide and
oscp, with a narrow entrance and
girding 81 rocky hills. At its mouth
stands fat white lighthouse. put
there. not for the Importance of the
place. but because Tenant Cap sticks
Iar out into the Atlantic and the light
guides ccastwise vessels 10 the town
miles away. Seward. east OF the
entrance. lies a rock on which many a
teil SNIP has come TO grief The charts
mafh II by cross and the legend:
breaker nearly always shows" The
f'hcr folk call il The Bull" because.
Tours before storm roAs up. it, hoars.
conn Aining can be heard along .ie
coas'. Currents which know no law
pfA' upon il in stormy weather. and
n al the seafarers who there have
h'' their doom not one has ever
ftAched The shore. alive or dead. The
hA claims its own and guards its Sc
crt wei.
NJ fhe head Of Tepnant Harbor there
small village-two or three streets
O "Aifcwashed houses. with a few slim
"farses thrust ont into the still waters
ushfa'h. During certain seasons Of the
.'ar 'ht place is Lively enough when
" little ilect of bankers is fitting out.
iVr example. and the harbor is astir
".'H ny passage OF loaded dores: or
"H,a he schConers return deep laden.
sAN tN' .aun' fish skids creak beneath
.A'ir Whitening burden. But ordinar-
wv " quiet: the men are absent half
In YEAR while the women and chill
''fh 'il he rough farms or tend the
.'NS aAl goats which find scant pas
'"i'hs on the stormy hills.
tenants impressed something OF its
."n character upon the early genera
WE ~ rs settlers. OF former days ii
40 secluded from the world with
.'"Mn among its granite rock and
..'ur pine scrub. The life and en-
''A'nent bred a sturdy class: fisher
VIII Who piled their trade from Labra-
APE Ann. from the Grand Banks
Ae 'eorges; sailors who built their
SHIPS and took them round the
.'v here still survives certain
IN OF heroism-rough often I'M
"' nut none the less genuine.
4, M many years the place retained
Veaint customs and modes Of liv-
ne house Of former day,
ai' Ifrt.. -
m neN with relics of ancient voyag-
'uiliced the fisLerfolk. TIL. won
ng 70 their huge hand looms and
TN 'hr strong gray and blue cloth OF
n "~n weaving. The schooling OF
c 'idren consisted OF what they /
,r Puck up from the old Catholic |
= Who taught them their letters |
IS spirit moved him o. the rhs um.