Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1875 — A York State Hermit. [ARTICLE]

A York State Hermit.

Two miles south of Albion, N. Y., lives a very singular person named Anthony Tripp, an old man between seventy and eighty years ot age. He lives within a mile and a half of the Niagara Falls Railroad, yet he has never seen it, nor the locomotive whose whistle he daily hears. For over half a century he has dwelt by himself, doing all hfo household work. During all that time no woman has crossed his threshold, and, indeed, but few men. If a woman approached his premises he would bar the door and take Tef uge in the cellar. With men he would hold no intercourse except when absolutely necessary or unavoidable. Latterly he. seems to have taken even a stronger antipathy to his fellow-creatures, hiding himself upon the approach of any person. When Anthony Tripp was about twenty years of age, so the story runs, he fell in love with a pretty neighbor girl, and was engaged to be married to her. But she was fickle, and jilted him. From that time his life was embittered, and he foreswore all womankind. He was not one of those who think there are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught. The falseness of this girl partially crazed him, and he has since dwelt apart from humankind. This should be a warning to young women never to jilt a lover.