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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22
CALIFORNIA SEA ELEPHANT.
The Largest of the Seal Species in Now Al
most Wholly Extinct.

The California sea elephant is an ami
NAL with a fearfully long Latin name, but
very short stay on this earth. It is
the largest Of all the seals, its average
length when fully grown being from
- to II feet, while it sometimes reaches
the astonishing length of % feet, including
the hind 1ippcrs.
It is still an open question whether
this animal is of the same species as
the sea elephant of the Antarctic ocean.
Our animal, like the other, derives it's
popular name from tho heightened, ia
pir-like proboscis, or snout, of the old
males, which sometimes projects six
inches or more beyond the end of the
z..Il.eshair is5exeeetlingly short, very stiff
and harsh, and when clean and dry is
of 5dusky yellowish color. This species
once Inhabited about 200 miles of the
coast Of California, from Point Reyes
south, but it has been practically ex-
terminated for the sake Of its oil. In
1884 G. II. Townsend visited San Bar
bara island for the express purpose of
preserving for the National Museum the
skins and skeletons of what were sup
posed to be the last survivors of the spe-
cies, then about to be killed by seal
hunter for their oil. The result was
that at the eleventh hour number of
very valuable skins and skeletons were
saved for the geological museums of the
world
About the same time an enterprisng
collector actually captured five young
specimens alive and shipped them to
New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Cincinnati, which was the first and only
time the species were ever seen alive in
the Eastern United States, and will
doubtless be the last. But am glad to
be able to state that these seals are not
absolutely extinct for short time ago
Mr.. Townsend informed me that a few
individuals are yet somewhere south of
San Francisco in a place the seal hunt
ers know not Of; and, in the language of
Jefferson's Rip Van Wrinkle, MAY them
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22

The snow at Summit, on the Central
Pacific railway, 10 said to be eighteen
Fest deer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22
Notes.

Notes..
We buy about $4O,OOO,OOO worth of
oranges and lemons from Italy per an
mum.
In 1872 it took $131 to buy 100 bushels
of wheat; now in Colorado 500 will buy
800 bushels. ~ -: .....
Good drainage, natural or artificial, is
essential to success. Trees are impatient
Of wet feet.
! Experiences Of the past encourages the
expectation that the largest crops follow
seasons of drouth. .s7~-' -.
Well-drained lands IRE dryer in wet
SPELLS and .nloister~in dry spells thnn other
lands. They can be worked earlier i'll
spring. <'.g 9 5.g<f' a.a:<&$.. :.
Whenever and wherever the small
farm well titled is the rule, right then
and there can be seen the greatest degree
of prosperity. H.
The statistics indicate that the farms
of Ohio are worth upwards of 500, 600
900 less than they were a year ago, while
the. Indebtedness Of their owners has
grown about $4,000. O0O. ..z
Trees should be- made 4 to send their
roots deep into the oil Ill order to fortify
themselves against salEoutl iiis done
BY irnlning the
soEchxtd rather deep
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22
Examine for Lice Now.

Don't wait for warm weather. and
don't labor under the supposition that be-
cause they do not get OH you when you
40 into the poultry yard that no lice are
carefully look along the neck and top of
the head, and the chances are you will
find them, and they will be large and
easily seen. The lice that travel over
the poultry house are the very small red
mites but those that you will find. on the
bodies of the hens do not leave the bird
at all, but remain and multiply: If You
see a single one grease the necks of all
your hens, for if one has them none are
exempt
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22
Grooming for the Cows.

Horses have much more often been
made pets than cows have been. So far
as grooming goes the average, cow gets
very little of it EXCEPT what she can do
herself by rubbing her shoulders and neck
against the sides Of the stable in which
she is confined. Try curry comb and
Unless the cow is very thin the curry
comb will be liked even better than the
brush. The dirt in cows hair is al
ways liable to get into the milk pail, as it
is brushed out when the mixer rubs'
against the animal in getting out OF the
narrow stall.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22

Muskegon lake Saturday and witnessed
one Of the most exciting fox chases ever
held here. The fox led the dogs one
quarter of a mile at the start and had al
most reached the woods on the north
side when captured, having made nearly
four miles u i ~ = :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22

If You Haye Worrying Cough, or
any Lnil IN .rhroat trouble, use at once
nv psc npoye . a s. o aan.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22
Fields that Do Not Pay.

1t needs Il thorough understanding of
the capabilities of any farm to make it
pay the most that is possible for it. Very
often these possibilities are not learned OK
cept after costly experience. There are
some fields that have fertility enough to
produce good crops, but are so covered
with stones that blowing costs more than
it ought Such fields should be kept in
grass as much as possible until the farmer
finds time to clear away the Instructions
enough to be cropped, though they are not
apt to be. They should generally be kept
in grass, for if cultivated and left naked
through the winter, much Of the surface
soil will be washed away by spring floods
As a rule,tson most farms nearly all the
profit is made from a few fertile feds
These are the places to put the bulk OF
the manure, gradually extending the ma
nured area as it can be got in good condi-
ton for blowing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22
Feeding Corn Meal.

While it may be admitted that corn is
a staple food, and corn meal the cheap
est and most convenient material i'll gen
eral use on most farms, yet it not the
hest food for chicks, nor is corn the best
for fowls. In the winter, when the
weather is cold and the birds should be
kept warm, then corn is the material for
that purpose as it is rich in carbon and
creates warmth, but for growing chicks
it is insufficient. 1t must be considered
that unless the growing chick is sup
piled with all the elements necessary
for assisting in the. formation of bone
and muscle it will gradually. droop and
die without apparent cause, in the same
manner that a plant withers when not
provided with fertilizers, though some
times the chicks will appear healthy,
when fed on corn meal are often at
tackled with bowel diseases. The safest
plan to adopt for cure is to- immediately
change the food to an entirely different
kind. Some may claim that they have
raised chicks on corn meal, which is
true. but only when the chicks have an
opportunity to forage and secure insects
and worms. Exclusive corn meal is only
partial and incomplete food.-Prairie
Farmer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22
Milk for Poultry.

Any kind of milk will do for the hens.
whether fresh, sour, or clabber. The
hens will drink it if set before them, or
it may be put in the soft food, adding Il
teaspoonful of bread soda to every quart
of milk. 1t is an excellent egg-producing
food and should be given literally
wherever it can be cheaply obtained.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-22

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Most Economical Collars and Cufr< WORN thew arr MATS
OF me cloth, both sffsy finished alike and hin r
veIsIbie one collar il equal Of ether Kind
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Ten Collars Five Pairs n Cans for Tw-ary FIVE
Cents 10y ''''
sample Collar and PAIR % CsTfrs b~ rlat a1- -tr
Cents Name style and size. Address
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Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14
THE REGENT ClAnONO.
The One Precious Stone That Comes cJear-
est to Being Eia.glcs5.

The One Precious Stone That Comes Gear
est to Being ria,.lcss.
The Regent diamond, while surpassed
i'll size by the Great MoguI and several
other well known stones, is really the
finest of all, being nearly faultless III
form and parity and the most brilliant
diamond i'll the world tod#y
Its French history dates back to 1717.
Ii that year it was purchased from It's
English owner, for the TiImuh iIgalia,
by the Duko Of Orleans, then regent Of
France, whence It's presel.t name. 1t
had prcyiCu"!y been known b. Il name
almost as f;lmous.
In 17l7 French finances were in u
desperate S r,sit. The people were s:arv-
ing, the treasury was nearly exhausted,
credit even was lost, yet under tLo per-
suasioGs OF the Scotch tinancier Law and
tie French Duke Of st. Simon the re-
gent Ct France. hcsitating where every
monarch Of Europe had refused, finally
agreed to the price of $G75,0
Greatly to the relief of the duke, his
act appealed to the pride of the French
people, and instead of condemnation for
his extravaganza he received their ap-
plause. In the light Of subsequent events
their approval has touch of the pro-
phCtic.
The first prominent appearance of the
diamond i'll the French regalia was in
the circlet Cf the crown made for the
coronation CT the boy Louis XIV, in 1922
After half Il century it was again the
center OF Il new crown, that which i'll
1s15 weighed heavy on the head of the
Young Louis XVI till he cried out in
discomfort, ''It hurts mer'
Then come 1889 and the fire and
blood and :ury of the French revolution.
Charles Stuart Pratt i'll Lippincotts. S.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14
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Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14
ACTION OF THE RAIN.


Tho Wonderful Factor 1t Is In the Disin-
t2gr,s:on Of Rocks.
Tho rain falling Oh the rocks sinks in
to every crack and creviCe, carrying
with it into these assures surface mate
rial which has been degraded by the
weather, anI thus affording matrix
sufficient to start the growth of vegeta-
ton and aftcrward to maintain the
plants. the tibers and roots of these
plants, bushes and trees thus brought
into life, growing and expanding, act
as wedges to split up the surface of the
rock and to commence the process of
wearing away. From this quality of de-
struCtlOn IL large class of plants derive
the name OF saXifrages, or rock break
erS, from their roots penetrating into the
minute assures i'll search of water, and
SO assisting III the process OF disintegra-
tion. lii winter the water collected in
the hollows and "evices becomes froz-
en-, and expanding us it changes into
ice cts like Il charge Of blasting mate
rial i'll breaking up the rock. The pieces
thus detached become further disinte-
gated by frost and weather, and, being
rolled over and q --er and rubbed against
each OTHER as they are carried away
down the mountain torrents, are ground
gradually smaller and smaller, till from
fragments of rock they become bowlers,
then pebbles and finally sand. AS the
mountain stream merges into the river
tho pebbles and coarse sand continue to
be rolled along the bottom of the chan
mel, while the ragillaceous particles and
salts become mingled with the water
and flow on with it either in suspension
or solution.
While this disintegrating process is
going on inland the rocks and cliffs OH
the coast exposed to the sea are suffer-
ing degradation by a similar process and
are also being Worn away by the inces-
SAINT action Of the waves of the ocean
beating OH them and attacking them,
not only with the impact of the water,
but also with the fragments broken off,
which, dashed against the face from
which they have been erodod, are thus
used as Implements of destruction
Longman' S Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14
FROsTBURG, Md, SATURDAY, DECEMBER H. 1895.
LESSON OF THE LILIES.

Dear lilies of the field, they grew
In sweet profuson by the road,
Where passed the Sunday people through
To worship in their church abode.
''Why are we daily wasting hcrc?'
The lilies asked in mild complaint
"Thcre is no shade protecting near.
In heat and dust we often faint.
"'Twas cruel Of our Lord to make
His flower children suffer sol"
Then answered one, "For his dear sake
1t might be here we ought to grow"
There passed that way maiden fair,
In spotlCss white for church arrayed.
She saw the lilies blooming there
"i'u gather them to wear" She said
That morn youthful preacher stood
To break the bread and speak the prayer
Then waited in a thoughtful mood
To find his inspiration there.
When soft to her accustomed place
The littl- maiden gently trod,
The preacher bowed lis anxious face,
And in his spirit prayed, "Thank Godi'
Here was his toXt, his sermon, too,
''The lilies of the field" he spallo
In words of love, with meaning new.
The bread of life to them ne brake.
And i'll the little maden's eyes
He saw delight and sweet content,
Then said the lilies, growing wise,
"Our Lord this very lesson meant"
Mrs. NJ. l.. Payne in Detroit Free Press.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14
ONCE AND TODAY.

a wreath of lilies and of passion flowers
For golden days slow strung,
y chain of memories to link the hours
Whose knCll so soon was rung;
y G.t of pride and love must henccforth crave
10 hear what death scaled lips no moro may
say,
Sad, widowed eyes that toward my silence
stray.
Ah, fading wreath, too quickly cast away,
That may noV miEglc with my lonely dust,
All, warm young life, that cannot near
stay,
Gy poverty led forth to strangers trustl
Sweet, miser soul, that in l.fo nothing gave,
Yet row bcqueaths great tears in generous
showers,
You starved my love while wealth, youth,
life We're ours!
Oh, faircSt face was seen since Eden's bowers,
Oh, ripe, red lip BY too great scorning stung.
Short, Winiul cEn, cold, bright eycs-dcarest
dUwCrs
OF woEIUn's beauty ever lover sung!
Oh, heartc.s, TRUSTEES soul could ever brave
The chance to t;ri"ve when rosy youth grows
gray
You would not hear me once-you love today.
New Budget.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14

Among the fellahs of modern Egypt
process Of incubation is i'll use which
has bCCn handed down from antiquity,
perhaps froul the time of Diodorus, who,
30 years b. fore the Christian era, said
that he Egyptians brought eggs to ma
turity with their own hands and that
the chickens hutchcd thus were not in
i,rior to those hatchcd in the usual way.
Tie process is described i'll Nature.
Ovens arc built, consisting Of a cham
bcr about feet square and feet high,
with a flat roof. Above this another
chamber, 8 feet high, it built, with a
vaultcd roof, having a small opening in
the middle to admit light Below q
larger opening communicates with the
room underneath. III cold weather both
rooms are pt closed and a lamp is left
burning i'll each, entrance thcn being
through the lower chamber.
When the oven is ready, the lroprie-
tor goes to the neighboring villages and
collects eggs. They are placed ON mats,
strcwn with bran, i'll the lower chamber.
Fires are IL II lighted i'll troughs along
the sides Of the upper room, the eggs be-
ing in two lines Immediately below.
The fires arc lighted twice day, the
first dying out at noon and the other
burning from 3 to s i'll The evening. The
first batch OF eggs is left for half day
i'll the walm"at place and thon it makes
way for the no Xt, until all have been
warmed This process is kept up for six
days, when the eggs are examined care
fully i'll a strong light. Those that are
clear are cast aside. Those that arc
cloudy arc Put back in the oven for an
other four days, They are then removed
for five days to ano:hCr chamber, where
there are no fires, but the air is excluded.
After this they are placed az inch or two
apart and continually turned, this last
stage taking six or seven days
The cgSS are examined constantly by
being held against the uppcr cyclid to
reveal if they are warmer than the hu-
man skin. The whole process lasts 21
days, but the thin shclled eggs often
hatch in IS. The heat required is Sc f.
Excessive heat is undesirable.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14

There can be no doubt that the tramp
is in cc.'.ain sense the maker and
chooser Of his own career. The writer's
experience with these vagrants has con-
WINGED him that, though they are almost
always the victims Of liquor and lazi-
ness, fully four-1ifths of Americas vol
untary begsars have begun their wiGo
and restless ways while still in their
teens, and have been furthered i'll their
wrong tendencies by unwise treatment
applied to them when young.
Year after year, even month after
month tlampdom is increased by squads
Of youths who will soon take and hold
tho places Of their cldc:s, who will nat
uraliy drop away with the years. These
bOyiSh rOadStcrs are more often illcgiti-
mate than lawful children and conse-
qucntIy proper sabjccts for state care
and guardianship. And the fact that
every tramp i'll the United States has
spent some part q his yonth i'll Il re-
form school, CT, worst Of all, in jails,
demonstrates that there is a failure
somewhere il oar system of correction
and rcforn,;;:iu ion and makes it necessary
and only FAR that the sociologist as
we'll as the rciurmer should know the
tramp from boyhood to manhood. Su-
pelficial and unsympa:hctic studies of
his character, with shallow theories
about remedial measures, havo so far
failed signaliy IL checking his Nalign
influence upon society. -" How Men Be-
come Trump ty Josiah Flynt, in
Century
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14
OyeratilletiCiSnl.

The body can be killed through one
organ, and in youth and middle age
mortal injury Of body and mind comes
usually through one organ as tbs pri-
mary seat Of evil. 1t is an evil of fire.
queIt occurrence and greatly on the in
crease. A man is said to "throw him
self, heart and soul, into his work. "
Such q man is i'll danger. He has four
great parts CT his body to consider-his
heart and blood system, his lungs and
other organs associated with breathing,
his muscles, his brain and nervous sys-
tenn. Bat he does not heed them at all
He runs CT cycles excessively, and in
much shorter time than he has the least
idea Of he makes his heart too strong for
the rest Of his organism and cndangers
the finer qualifications of the vessels
which are ur(ier the domination of the
heart. He rows without studying conse-
quencos, and l0,.S before he is convinced
Of trouble he Las produced an injury of
the chest mechanism which may soon
be permanently established.
He takes to some muscular training,
which pats the muscular organs to an
extreme Of tension. Large and small
muscles alike are exposed to strain, both
the strong muscles that give propulsion
and the delicate muscles that guido, and
before he has become conscious of the
error he has committed he is o strained
man, from which predicament he is for
tunate if he make anything like a COM
iptn
competitions i'll which his mental organs
arc Kept awake for long intervals,
charged with expectations, anxieties,
fears, nay, excess Of satisfaction, and
while he is Vet Young he GROWS old.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14
Senator Sherman's EuIogy CT lincoln Dur
ing His Campaign Eor Ec-cIection.

Senator Sherman CT Ohio in speech
at SandusEy, du1lng the campaign for
Lincoln 8 re election, i'll the fall of 1864,
drew this rough but accurate outline Of
the lamentcd Presidents character:
Il know Old Abe, and | tell you
th.rc is not at this hour, a more patri-
Otic or q truer man living than that
man, Abraham Lincoln. Some say he is
an inbecilc, but lie not only held his
own IN his debate: With Douglas, whose
power is admitted, and whom | consid-
er the ablest intellect in the United
States senate, but got a little the better
of him. He has been deliberate and
slow, but when he puts his foot down
it is with the determination and GER
tainty with which our generals take
their steps, and, like them, when he
takes a city lie never gives up. This
firm old man is noble and kind hearted.
He is a child Of the people. Go to him
with story of woe, and he will weep
like a child. This man, SO condemned,
works more hours than any other presi-
dent that ever occupied the chair. His
solicitude for the public welfare is nev-
er ceasing. l differed from him at first
myself, but at last felt and believed
that he was right, and shall vote for
this brave, true, patriotic, kind hearted
man. All his faults and mistakes you
have seen. All his virtues you can nev-
er know His patience in labor is Won
derful. Eio works far harder than any
man i'll Eric county. AT the head of this
great natiOn--look at it He has all the
bills to sign passed by congress. No one
can be appointed to any office without
his approval No ono can lie punished
without the Judgment receives his sig
nature, and no one rardoned without
his hand. This nlan-always right, al
ways just-wc propose to re-elcct now
to the presidency. ."--Louisville Courier
.IQurua1
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14
Onions For Smallpox.

''I don't know Of a better article Of
diet during an epidemic Of smallpox
the City hospital yesterday. "A liberal
use Of them is the best thing know of
to prevent contracting the disease out
side of vaccination. The action of an
onion in the presence Of smallpox is
peculiar. If you put an onion i'll room
infested with any manner of disease 9TH
er than smallpox, the onion will thrive.
But put an onion i'll smallpox ridden
room, and it will wither and die SO
rapidly that you are almost able to see
it. This shows how the onion absorbs
the poison Of the disease and manifests
what q power it is us Il disinfectant. -
Exchange
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14
Ha Denied the Call.

An English army officer tells an
amusing story Of an incident that oc-
CARED at Maidstone many years ago,
III the time of the old cavalry depot.
On certain very foggy night there was
q complete s lence, broken only by the
voices Of the sentrics who, at regular
intervals, passed the usual word down
the line. Ilo officer woke up just as
the usual watch was passing, and this
was what he heard: First sentry, "No.
l, and all's wellI' Then there was
silence fora moment, and voice called
into the darkness, "No 3, and alls
well, and No. 2's asleep!" Before No.
could take up the thread of the pro-
ceedings a voice in which more than o
suspicion of slumber remained cried
hurriedly, "1[o. 2, and all's we'll, and
No. 3's liar!''
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-12-14

The word trcaclo has undergone an
odd modification AT first it was applied
to such dccoctions Of roots Or other sub
stances as were deemed beneficial in
medical practice. Then, as these were
frequently swcetened, it came to mean
any sweet connection or confection, and
lastly, as molasses was the sweetest of
all, this namo was exclusively applied
TO EiIup,