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Cllfft of Lowtr California Island.
T1IK l.ilnndi Crt in wwi owm
of Lower California aro widely
arattrred over a aeollon of the
ocean wmcn provimi titj
(cant ralnfulU At a coneiuemt!,
dfiiert eondltlona prevail amnnx tliem.
Tlie moat lntereattug of then la-
lands Is Guadnlup. It rlHea pre
cipitously front aliysmnl di'ptlia, vol
cano torn 12,0(10 feet lilgh but WHO
only l.noo feet above tlx sea. It has
Boer been connected with other
fhorcs and It Is, therefore, an oceanic
Inland In every rerpect. All of Its an
imals and plants have com to It
cither over or through the ocean.
This enforced Isolutlon of the spe-
rtes which come to Gundulupa has
caused them to become modified Into
many dim I net forms which art of
irreat Interest to students of biology.
Hut, aside from this "esthetic" value.
the Island ha been of very consider
able commercial Importance because
of the itreat abundance there at one
lime of certain species of marine
mammals.
Guadnlup It the sole remaining.
horn of the only remnant of herd
of elephant aeals In the northern
hemisphere. Its flue herd of fur aeals
was hunted and persecuted nntll ap
parently the Inst sun-Ivor succumbed
to the huekuhot of the hunters. At
least 200,000 skins of this valuable
fur-bearer, which, at present prices.
would be worth more than 10,000,000,
were taken from the Inland.
Guadalujie, Meilco's westernmost
posnerslon, located ISO miles south
went of Snn LHrgo, Calif., la about
20 miles Inn and alx mile wide. It
It known to have been visited by fur-
seal hunter In the early part of the
Nineteenth century.
The world's (reatest herds of fur
seals have been so long commercially
extinct that people have come to as
sociate the name only with the spe
cies which resorts to the I'rlbllnf Is
lands, In Alaska, where, by long an!
hitter fighting of diplomatic and legla-
Intlve battle, the I'nited State has
been successful In preserving the larg
est herd now In existence. Hut once
there were several other herds, much
larger, In the tout hern hemisphere.
Fur Seala All Killed.
Tli specie which lived on Guada
lupe was akin to then Inst and not
to tire Alnxknn forms, allhnugh the
furs were almost equally valunbl and
hrouiiht Kd profits to the hunters,
(luudulup being such a distant out
post of Mexico, It la doubtful If a
tingle nhVlul of thnt government had
the fnlntest conception of Hi war of
extermination at the time It wae tak
ing pine.
Ho fur at the available records
show, the lust living fur seal wus
seen on Guadalupe In 1S0Z. Sine
Ihen several expeditions have gone to
the Islnnd and sen relied for the an
imal without SUCCORS.
Former fur-seal rookeries hnve been
examined with scrupulous care, the
area measured and the number of
anlinnls which once hauled out there
to rear their young computed.
South Itnokery originally contained
at least 00,000 fur seals and compared
fuvoruhly with the major breeding
grounds of the I'rlbllnf Island today.
The entlr Gundulupe herd must have
numbered at least 100,000 onlmnlt
when It was In Its prime.
Without printed records, how do
we know this, thirty years after the
last of the animals died? They left
their own records, which can be rend
nlmoet as plainly today at If each an
Imiil were In Its place; and this ninkea
the realization of th fact all the
mora bitter.
Tli anlmnla chose th roughest and
most rocky shores for their land
home and congregated In large, com
pact rookeries, In conformance- to the
habit of fur tent generally, The con
stant trampling of thousand upon
thousand of flipper over th hard
blocks and bowlders of lava rock wore
them down to the smoothness of pol
ished marble. And there they are to
da, silent monument to lielplesi
animal which paid dearly for having
a skin coveted by man.
Th great aluughler of the Gund
alup fur aeala took place between
1S00 and 1U0. Th hunter then
thought they had killed all th an
Imale, and th Island waa forgotten
for many years; but about 1W0 It was
rediscovered and several thousand
seala wer killed In few succeeding
seasons.
Stories are still heard In Ran Ph'go
of (h Inst killing which took place,
The fur-bearvra wer pursued Into
th dark recesre of volcanic Iwach
caves and shot or clubbed by th tight
of torches.
Th Elephsnt teal.
Another Interesting sea animal I
the Guadalupe elephsnt seal a huge,
clumiy beast with lung flexible
trunk. Th animals wer at on time
widely distributed and abundant on
many of th remote Islnnd of th
Antarctic region, but th whaler
toon learned that a fair quantity and
quality of oil could b obtained from
each rnrcar. Ho the slaughter be
gan, and ended only when th specie
waa commercially exterminated.
Th animal found on Guadulup I
similar to, but not the same sitecle
s thnt of southern waters, but It suf
fered equally from th attacks of tli
whalers.
More than once It was thought that
th lust living representative of th
specie bad been killed; but fate has
dealt more favorably with It than
with the fur seals; each time a nn
cleus escaMd to rebuild th herd.
Then anlmnla atlll frequent th
original elephant seal beach, alight
Indentation of th northwest shore
line of Guadalupe, where precipitous,
unscalable cliffs wall In the beach on
the back. .
Even without the 'fur aeala and ele
phant teale, Guadalu would be on
of th most- Interesting Islands of the
western bemlspher. The sea haa eat
en Its way Into the votranlc materlnl
of which It la composed, and exposed
the very heart of some of th era
ters. One needs but to ml) along
close to shore and examine (he great
dike systems, caverns, lava hsWiles,
and vent to gain an Idea of tlie tre
mendous dynamic force which wer
once at work here.
Th first naturalist to visit Gund
rlu ie we Dr. Edward I'aluier, In
IST5. He camped In on of the cy
press groves and described the pine
as paradise. There wer a great
many beautiful shrubs and flowering
plants In th molstur belt, and th
birds were so abundant and en tnm4
that he called It an Isle of dreams,
DavastaUd by floats.
Put conditions are vastly change!
now. Guadnlup 1 a biological
septilcher.
The shrub and flowering plants
have been 'practically extermlnnteij
and for thirty year no young tree
hnve had a chnnce to grow. Fortu
nately, specimens of the pines, pslme,
and cypresses hav been brought to
California and planted In aom of th
pnrks. The oaks, which apparently
have been neglected, are said to hav
the largest acorn In existence, belli
fully two Inches In diameter.
The old tree are fast dlsappenrlnt
through natural denth and th ef
fects of rtorms. Four of the fin tie
cle of birds have become extinct and
the other are reduced to a fraction
of their former number.
The cause of all this death and de
struction waa the ambition of somt
one to start a gont ranch on Omnia,
lupe many years ago. The animals,
without cure, thrived beyond tli wild
est expectations of tlie promoters, but
the venture proved a fullur finan
cially. The goata hnv learned to quencli
their thirst with sea water and hnv
eaten almost every living plant li
seasons of exceptional drought, whet
nothing grow on the loSnmls, thou
sands upon thousands of th mlmnli
hav died, and th canyons, henchea
and caverna ar itrewn with theli
blotched bone.
SICK WOMAN
SOONREGOVERS
By TaLlng Lydl E. Tinkham't
Vegetable Compound
"A neighbor advised ma to try Lydla
Id. Plnkhsm's VegnUbl Compound.
which tho n!d hait
helid hor so much.
Ho 1 bought a ten
bottles and triad It
out. It sure hulpedj
m Wonderfully, I
felt much better.
My wrk was no
longer a droad to
mo, If I hear of any
one who Is troublsd
th way I was, I
will gladly recom
mead tli a Vecstsbla
Couipuuud l them and I will answsr
any lottort la regard to the said."-
Ma. llxsTit Mbacbaw, 1U N, J'eun.
Ave., Lanslug, Mich.
"1 had been sickly ver tlnr I waa
fifteen ysars old. After taking Lydlaj
K, t'lnkhtni'a Vegntabl t'ompouud I
?ot (0 1 could do all my housework and
am In good health." Mas. Mxaia K.
VV'iixiius, Kstrblkan, Alaska.
From Michigan to Alaska, from Mains
to Oregon and from Connecticut to
California loiters ar continually being
written by grateful women recom
mending I.ydl & l'iukhaui'a Vegutabla
Compound.
Th Compound I mad from root
and herbs and for mors than fifty years
haa been helping to restore run-down,
ovtrworksd woman to hrnlth.
Ar you on Ui Sunlit lload to Bet
tr Health?
Th Ungllsli lawt punish vice; th
Chines law do more they reward
virtu. Goldsmith.
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The BABY 1
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no mouier in in is emiiriitnit ra
would glv her baby something aht
did not know was perfectly harmless,
stMClallr When a few drntia nf nlr.tr.
Castorta will right a baby ttomacn
and end almost any llltl 111. Fretful
nee and fever, too ; It seems no time
until everything Is serene.
That's th beauty of Castorta J It!
getitlo Influence seems Just what I
needed. It does sll that castor oil
might accomplish, without shock tc
th system. Without th evil tasta.
It's delicious I living tiurelr veseta.
able, you ran glv It a often a
there's a sign of colic; constipation;
diarrhea; or need to aid souud, not
aral sleep.
Just on warning! It It genuine
Fletcher's Castorta that nhrilrlans
recommend. Other preparations may
b Just as fre from all doubtful drugs,
but no child of thl writer's Is roln.
to test them I Beside, th book on
car and feeding of bablea that comet
with Fletcher's Castorla la worth lm
weight In gold.
Children Cry for
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AmblOou la Ilk lov. Imnutlent
both of delay and rivals. Denham,
Htaiaehtt horn Slight Coldt
u.Z pnMO QIIINrNB Tablets r.
Iisvj th llnsitaehe r rurln lh Cold.
Ijook r slsnstur of U. W, drove oa
th boa, o-Ad. "
There's no success without fullh.
1LT77
"Utter rTT
Don't blame the feert nr h ren
dition of your stock if market
men grade you low and custom
ers complain on account of the
color of your butter. You can
keep your butter always that
golden June color which brings
lop prices by using Dandelion
Butter Color. It's purely vege
table and meets all State and
National Pure Food Laws-uaed
by all large creameries for years.
Its harmless, tasteless and
doean't color buttermilk. Large
bottles, 35c at all drug and gro
cery stores,
Writ for FREE SAMPLE BOTTLE
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