The Countryside Transformed:

The Famous Bay Side Resort of Va., Fishing, Bathing, Boating, Gunning, and Driving Unexcelled. J. B. Wise, Manager.

Cherrystone Cottage, Situated on Cherrystone Inlet, Chesapeake Bay, Northampton County Va, has just been completed and is now open for the reception of guests. It will comfortably accommodate 100 persons.

Description

BAY HAYMAKERS.

Crop of Sea Grass They Secure from Bottom of Chesapeake.

The haymakers of the Chesapeake Bay waters are almost a class by themselves, living apart from their fellow baymen in little shacks on jutting points or on the marshy islands. Their harvest comes from the bottom of the bay, where it grows in long, waving ribbons -- "the sea moss" or "sea grass."

A LETTER.

Fox Island, Va., Jan. 1, 1894.

Dear Sir;

Among others you were so gracious to ask me to submit in writing the views I entertain on the Oyster question. In spite of the desire I feel to write to all who have honored me with this request, compliance is only possible through the aid of the printer.

I respectfully submit the following:

All problems regarded difficult repel investigation on the part of those who do not feel directly interested.

We are used to the singularities and felicities of North Carolina, which in spite of its "bumper" crops of poets cannot lose some lingering trace of Eden. So this advertisement in the Rockingham Anglo-Saxon rather fulfills expectation than causes surprise.

The Hotter it Got the More Flannel Shirts He'd Wear.

Chincoteague One of Virginia's Most Interesting Spots.

NO TRACE OF HER SETTLERS

They Lived and Died With the Waves of the Ocean -- Tradition as to the Origin of the Ponies -- Characteristics of People.

Virginia is not a very large State, and yet, with a range of mountains on the west and the seashore on the east, her industries are so varied that one half the Virginians know little of how the other half lives. What do your readers west of Richmond know of the islands within our boundaries?

Ancient history and modern research have made us acquainted with the queer lake-dwellings of Switzerland, long since submerged, but few people know that we have something similar in this country. Away over in the extreme northeast corner of Virginia is the most curious village ever seen. It is a barren region, owned by the Franklin family, and most of the estate is under water. However, there were plenty of good oysters on it, and for fifty years every one who wanted to, helped themselves to the bivalves.

And the Wickeder Man Who Thrived on it Till He Tried to Become a Trust.

Crisfield, Md., Feb. 18. It is long since Chesapeake oystermen have seen the shallows of the bay frozen tight and the oyster beds scaled up with ice for two winters in succession. Hard and long continued frost in this region mean distress and sometimes ruin to the oystermen, both employers and employed.