The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
BY GUY T. VISKNISKN.
Copyright, 1908 by Guy T. viskniskk,

easy, they find themselves worn out
and then they die
But over here we catch four or
nve thousand shad apiece during the
season, go after eel and bass a little
ana work just enough to be happy
ana well fed the year around. The
rest of the time we enjoy ourselves.
ana we sleep soundly at night, in
stead OF lying awake and trying to
scheme how We'll do the other fell
low when the sun comes UP. We
cont chase the almighty dollar twen-
ty-1our hours in the day and wish.
when the last hour is gone, that the
good Lord had made the day twice
| as long. No, sir, we're content to
I'VE natural lives, and there you have
the reason why every baby who has
ever been born in this settlement and
ilved here all his days has not
neen compelled to think seriously of
une other life until he was we'll in his
nineties."
The last death in the colony &C.
CURED last year. In each case the
mans age was over ninety, and one
had nearly reached his hundredth
year.
hlshermen With Long Pedigrees.
Although not a few of the bows born
IN the settlement have gone out into
the world, every one of the six fami-
hes that formed part of the colony
hundred and fifty years ago has been
unorokenly represented since that time
by one or more fishermen. Tim and
John Campbell, both strapping men
ana finely educated, are proud of the
TACT That the settlement is credited with
nelng founded by a Campbell of whom
they are direct descendants.
Il
with these fisher folk, and the sayings
of the great-great and great-grand-
Fathers are handed down by word of
mouth from generation to generation.
Inc settlement also takes not a lit
~tle pride in its full blooded collie dogs.
OF which it has half dozen. The COT
lie has been the settlement dog for
nearly twenty-five years, and, as no
mongrel, or any other kind of a dog.
is allowed around by the fishermen.
the strain has been kept pure. The
lover of collies would have to search
long before he could find better speci-
mems of the breed than those in dimin-
utive Alpine.
To Brooklyn for Their wives.
There has been no accession to the
colony, except by birth, for nearly
seventy-five years. About five years
ago an Irishman built himself a hut
half mile farther down the river, but
that is as close as any one has come
to adding himself to the shad colony
since the Quinns moved in three
quarters of a century ago.
Don't you ever long to have a new
face among your" Mclean was asked,
after he had dilated upon the colony's
ability to live to itself
WELL" he replied, when we do, if
there's any unmarried man among US,
we send him over to Brooklyn to get a
Wife,, and then for the next ten years
or so we find plenty of opportunity for
talk in discussing her.
why do we go to Brooklyn for our
wives? Just a habit. The colony's
been doing it long before my father
was born. Brooklyn women seem to
take to the quiet life we lead as easy
as a shad to water. guess our fore
fathers noticed that fact, and, not
wanting to be stirred on to undue
effort, decided to secure an easy exist
ence to themselves and their descend
ants by establishing the custom of go-
ing to Brooklyn to get married"
Be that as it may, it is beyond ques-
ton that the little colony of less than
a dozen houses, scattered among the
protecting inches in the Palisades, is
as free of the restless hustle of the
modern world, as New York or Chi
cago is typical of its ceaseless rush.
1t is a survival of the old mode of
easy existence almost within rifle shot
of the chief example of the present
style of strenuous living.