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LIFE ON TRISTAN DA CUNHA. THE WORLD'S MOST ISOLATED COMMUNITY.
Three years ago the Rev. Martyn Rogers took his young wife out to the lonely South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha.
Now, after working among the members of the world's most isolated community as missionary, school teacher and doctor Ar. Hogers, with his wife and their twes year old son. Edward, is on his way to They have no plans for the England Fushte, and are, indeed, rather anxious as Tristaa. they sold their home to get to His pate face lined with hardship, ar Rogers told the correspondent of the Daily News a strange tale of island exile.
THE TOUGHNESS OF POETS.
The new Life of John Keats, written by Miss Amy Lowell, will help to dispel the still iugering delusion that the poet was a weakling of languorous and un- The strong cle. wholesome proclivities. ment of sensuousness in his poetry and the aucertain taste in expression, which he did not live to outgrow, have seemed to & in very nicely with some stories of him left by Benjamin Hayden, and other not wholly trustworthy people.to make up as anmanly figure. Keats peppered bis throat to make the claret seen the cooler. He wrote love-letters which are was attacked by some heavy handed Scuts, neither reticent nor generous. When he who thought they were being fanny, he could not bear it, and died of dejection. For two years there had been no mail. Of course, the poor fellow was consump boat at Tristan, when the Hamon da. Lantive, and just not be judged by ordinary ranaga steaned up to the island recently, standards. All this, we believe, is no It was thus by the merest" chance that exaggerated statement of the view of John Keats which, till recently at any Mr. Rogers was able to leave.
rate, was prevalent. Miss Lowell's John Keats is a very different sort of man or rather boy, for he did not live to his maturity, At school he was a pugnacious archia, who liked fighting boys bigger than himself. He remained an arilent "Towards the end of our stay on the boxer, and gave a good dressing down to
that
a ruffian whom he saw ill-treating a cut. island there was such food shortage my health suffered, and my wife and child were beginning to feel the hard. He got a black eye through trying to ship. For many months we had none of play cricket when he was too ill to see. romuch less to play, the ball. He died. the so-called necessities of life--no gro eers no flour, sugar, or coffee. Some not of chagrin at an insult to himself times there was nothing to eat but sea and to his poetry, but of the results of birds, eggs, and fish. The island petato walking tour in the Lakes North crop failed. Cattle died. We drank tea Wales, and Scotland. in which he eaver- ed. ill-cli nad ill-fed, "distances that only a few times a week"
would have taxed the strongest. This it was which, called into activity the in- herited disease which he had already courted by his devoted-nursing of his
unger brother; and thus he conde
To be back in a city is a queer bus
"I feel almost aess," said Mr. Rogers. as though i had been on a trip to the
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HARD BET HAPPY LIFE
Yet Mr. Rogers was happy on Tristan, 1 do not regret a moment of the time There was We spent there," he said. so much, to do. My wife and I were busy school-where our pupils' ages rang. ed ironi 4 to 40-every morning and alternoon. There were four services to hold on Sunday. Often we bad to attend to serious accidents, and our medicine cheat was always open.
har my troop of Boy Scouts to train sturdy lot of youngsters-while my wife taught domestic and religions subjects to the women and girls of the
island.
SHIPS THAT NEVER COM
The greatest hardship of life on Tristan is the length of time which pase ps between visits from we outside world. Weeks are spent in vain longing for ships The islanders ask for which never come.
The visit of H. M.S. but one mil a year. Dublin
19 still discussed among the Tristanites as one of the greatest experi- encea of their lives.
to the months of pain and misery through which be was dragged out of the life that his gay and gallant spirit had loved so well.
He had, of course, the excessive sen- sihility without which no man can be a good port, or a good artist of any sort. And this excessive sensibility predisposes the world to imagine that all posts tend to be soft and perhaps even rather effeminate persona. The nature of their work also supports the delusion. To take a parallel from another art: we are all inclined to & ready smile at the sort of old drawing which shows burly and
in rough
country bewhiskered clothes busy over tiny, water-colours. If that is their life's work, we instinctively feel, then those clothes and those whiskers must be mere fancy dress. In truth, the "I am sure that it people in England painting of pictures and the writing of could visualise the terrible isolation and poems are no less manly occupations than mobotony of these remote people some buying and selling from an office chair. effort would be made to meet their needs. or drawing up indentures, or diagnosing "Let me tell you of the excitement illnesses, or any other of the familiar when the Ramon de Laing was forms of work. And, if the poets them. selves are to be believed, writing poetry sighted.
FAREWELL SERVICE.
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"It was just after daybreak on Febis very exacting and exhausting task. If the port has excessive sensibility, be ruary 4th, when someone shouted Sail-bo. Instantly there was movement everywhere. must have also more vitality than most Wonen left their kitchens and ran to men. On consideration, the s catch fowls, geese, and other livestock for it irritabile, will be found also to
The men dashed turn. It was when Coleridge erased bartering purposes. down to the beach and launched their to be a juct that he became flabby. Ä Heine of Keats, doomed by nature canvas boats.
(and by medical science), is an exception Captain J. V. Jones, the master of the to the rule. We have bur to think of th at work when over eighty: of Words. atricer offered us a pavaga, and gave magnificent figure of old Goethe, hard us long enough to collect our belongings worth, whose sensibility was none the less We visited-a-few sick people held for the care he took to hide it of And our tarewelt engrch service, and married Sophocles and of Simonides, to see that. two couples, who were most anxious to be great poots can make old bones,
At the service the united before I left.
we have to-day at least three eminent sounds of sobbing could be heard above English poets who have passed the aliot- the joyous strains of the wedding hymns.ted span and are still in vigour. Byron... I shall never forget that scene.
Jamur though he is, is horseman, swimmer, attlete fencer a thorough On the beach there were good-byes all boxer. round, and some of the women clung to Shelley, a wraith of a man ca some thick my wife as though they could not bear to him, has a passion for sailing and nerds part with her but the steamer's syrenext to no food to sustain his enormous blew the good-bye signal, and as we went civity. Keats in his healthy boyhood aboard the islanders gave hearty cheers mighty walker and a boxer: and Ben for the missionary,' and three more for Joann. in middle age, Rets sturdily forth on foot from London to Scotland. Captain Jones."
11r. Hogers, in a special message We shall find, if we look into the matter. fiber folk but the Daily News, says that this inhabi tants of Tristan are petitioning the fritongher than the cominen run of men, tish Government to send a warship to my even find that their excessive the island annually and invites readers srusibility is no weakness, but a sign of to support the petition by writing to strength to which the common run may their local 41. P.5.1
themselves attain by the gradual develop- ment of man.-The Thuis.
The Rev. Heary Marty Rogers was curate-in-charge of Alexton (near Up Rutland border hamlet, pingham), a when, in 1921, he decided to go on his years mission to Tristan da Cunha. three He arrived in the Island on April 1BL,
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Rogers gave birth to her baby on Septem-ly, found a 8807 oid man asleep on
ber 21st, 19-the first English child bench. ever born on the island.
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a correspondens of the Daily News. of questions. Everyone in the room Seen from the outsule, this training knows Hyde Park and its hecklers well, school is a canverted Army, hut. Within and enn uild just the touch of caricature however, the visitor sees a hall. large that is needed to convert the speaker's enough to accommodate about a hundred trial into an ordeal. The subject matter, students, and opening from it, a crateca,its preatment, even the personal appear-East of Greenwich.. library and offices. The ball is made disance and bearing of the speaker, are tinctive by a platform, similar to those made mattera "for discussion, while here and there a question shoots forth that used in the Park.
The students are volunteers who attend would give pause to a platform veteran,
Set a class of schoolboys to correct each three evening classes a week Two are other's papers, and you will discover the devoted to lectures by seasoned speakers most intolerant erities in the world. It is on subjects with which the students will inuch the same with a Hyde Park class.. one day deal from the platform, while the The students recognise that their victim third is set apart for practical training is qualifying to defend their. cause in The third class is always the most in public, and determine to make him prove teresting. One of the students is choses his mettle. They feel, too, in the mood to deliver a test lecture. He mounts the for recreation and orator baiting is un platform and faces the class, which be questionably tremendous fan. Perhaps comes, for the time being, & crowd of the orator noticen a certain absence of hecklers. He clears his throat, begins entertainment value, but be comforts with a timid Ladies and gentlemen," himself with the thought of his own exer- of the nad relapses into silence. A mild taunt cises in the art of heckling ar
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