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i —— ~ HERMIT 50 YEARS Englishman Has Turned Sour on Whole World Great Canfiald, England, Sept. 30, (P—In a hermit's rural " fortress near this little Essex town lives James Mason, 70 vears old, Who for 50 years has hid hjmself from the eves of men g TWhen he was a vouth of 20, his sweatheart married anqther man, and Mason fled tnto seclusion . to 3 s inconsolable sorrow. For ' vears he has not looked upon the face of a woman The woman who ' Mited Mason still lives and this year celebrated edding anniversary, Thomas, years younger voted himself to the care of and’ throughout the five 4 has been his sole attendant companion. -Only: three times during halt century of exile has Ja Masori been seen by men other than his brother, and t e all within the past few mornths Once the old man, tortured by »is, feared he ' was n He refused to be seen cian, but summoned for a secret conference. Again recently the hermit ap- pled for an-old age’ pension, and to obtain this dole he submitted to an interview by a pensions officer. At first he declined to receive the official, but his incredsing infirmity and the growing pdverty of the aging pair forced him to bréak his rule A newspaperman who sought to visit Mason on the fiftieth anniver- sary of his self-imprisonment failed to gain admittance, but saw the face of the graybeard through h window. When the youth made his vow to abandon human society, he and his brother bought two acres of farm land and proceeded to transfer it intp a stronghold of complete pri- vacy. Bristling hedges and a ‘co rugated iron fence . guard the bo: ders. Would-be .intruders have en- countered barbed wire barriers and tunnels with trap doors to defeat their curiosity or rian impulse: The hermit‘ himaelf a clergyman lives In'a small hut flanked by a jungle of | thorny bushes and thistles. During their humanita- | SPURNED BY GIRL, DURING OCTOBER’S CRISP EVENINGS| NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1927. MILKY WAY IS ESPECIALLY BRIGHT | his lifettme of isolation he has read | cnly the Bible and Fopies of a reli- gious journal brother has brought States and Counties hift, Houses Unmoved Northport, Me., Sept. 30 (P —An ancient house-that has stood in two states and three counties and yet never has been moved from its criginal location, will be preserved here, The old structure, named ‘the “Tane Hart House," after one of ifs 1718. An early owner of the land on which the houst stands was Gen. Henry Knox, first secretary of war under, Washington For 102 years the ¢ld house was 'situated on the soil of Massachu- setts. Then came the setting-off of Maine as a separate state, amd the Touse officiaily was situated in the plantation of Ducktrap and Canaan, Lincoln County. 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