The Republican Journal

Gov. Hill of Seal Island

"It is not generally known," remarked Captain Sol. Jacobs of the schooner Helen Miller Gould, when in port last week. "that Maine has two governors and both of them are named Hill. Yet such is a fact. Off Isle au Haut lies Seal Island, a small though fertile piece of rocky land which is governed by David B. Hill, a fisherman, who has secured from the State of Maine a ten year's lease of it. Talk about your pooh-bahs, emperors or Robinson Crusoes, why Dave Hill is the whole thing and more besides. All the fishermen who have occasion to put into Seal Island salute Dave as governor, and the old man is just tickled to death every time a man addresses him as Governor Hill. "If Gov. Dave gets out of bed on the wrong side of a morning he is liable to be cranky and won't let a boat land on his tight little isle. There are quite a number of fishermen on the island who regard Dave as the only boulder on the beach, and what he says is law."-Rockland Star.