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Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
Interior Alaska™^
1 Wing the winter season of 1916-17 our regular train service will
be maintained North and South Bound between Skaguay
and Whitehorse, trains leaving both terminals Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our Through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be oper
and between Whitehorse and Dawson, affording every possible
Ucility for comfortable winter travel by means of a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
For full information apply to
\V. CASH A. F. ZIPF
Mail Service Dept. —OR— Traffic Manager
I TEHORSE. Y. T. 612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, Wash.
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Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE \ol 38.
Morrtay, Wednesday and Friday
No. I. N. Bound
1st Class
1*1. \:a l «
a. in
11:05 ». in
11: )'! a. in
112: 10 p. in
•J.'JD p. ni
1:.~S> p. hi
Leaves
Arrives
Arrives
Leave*
No. 2, 8. Bound
1st Class
3:50 p. m.
2:20 p. m.
1:30 p. iii.
13:50 p. ni.
10:48 a. m.
8:00 a. m.
SKAGWAY
WHITE PASS
LOO CABIN
BENNETT
CARIBOU
WHIT3SHORSE
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»fx- -ted ai d cheeked. Inspection la stopped 80 wlnatw before
lta>.lng time of trains. j - '■
! "50 pounda of baggage will be checked free with ead» full ^
fare ticket and 75 pounds with each half face ticket.
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THE 0YSTE8 DROP
One of the Most Valuable ol
Those Gathered From, the Sea.
ONLY THE HERRING BEATS IT
Of th* Mora Than Forty Million Buah
el* of Theia Nutritious Bivalvaa Qath
arad Yaarly Thla Country Suppliai
Ovar 90 Par Cant
Of aU the products of the water,
oysters are, Kith the single exception
of the sea herrings, the most valuable
and most Important to the human race.
They owe that economic pre-eminence
to the fact that they Ear® high food
value and that they are palatable,
cheap, widely distributed and easy to
cultivate.
Oysters occur in greater or less
abundance on the shores of all temper
ate and tropical seas, bat the supply In
the arms of the North Atlantic ocean
exceeds that In'all other waters com
bined. There are at least a hundred
different kinds or species of oysters,
with a wide range In habits, flavor,
shape and size. Ail the oysters oh the
eastern and southern coasts of the
United States belong to one species,
which has, however, many local varie
ties; the native oyster of the Pacific
states of a wholly different species.
In about thirty-five countries oyster
farming is a special Industry. The an
nual oyster crop of the world now
amounts to more than 40,000,000 bush
els, for which the fishermen and plant
ers receive about $25,000,000. The
United States furnishes nearly 00 per
cent of the crop.
Few animals are more prolific than
oysters, but of the millions of micro
scopic young that a single full grown
oyster produces only a very small per
centage survive Infancy. The heavy
natural mortality among oysters at all
times is particularly marked In their
early months. The newly born young
are for a few hours free swimming
creatures, wafted about by tides and
currents, and unless they settle down
on a suitable surface they quickly per
ish. After attaining the size that is
visible to the naked eye they are not
able to change their position. When
the temperature, density, tides and cur
rents are favorable tbe floating young
go to the bottom and become attached
to the shells of old oyiters or to any
other hard surfaces that may be pres
ent, but all that fall on a muddy or
soft, sandy bottom or on slimy sur
faces soon perish. Modern oyster cul
ture alms primarily to save the free
swimming young, and oyster planters
therefore provide clean shells, tiles and
other hard objects to which the "spat,"
as the young oysters are called, can
attach themselves.
Oysters have been under culture long
er than any other shellfish. A simple
type of cultivation flourished in China
at a very remote period and probably
antedated by some centuries the begin
ning of oyster culture In Italy, which
was about the year 100 B. C. JVlth the
Increasing demaud for oysters they
came to be cultivated In all the Impor
tant maritime countries of Europe. In
other parts of the old world and In the
western hemisphere the growing of
oysters by artificial means has become
an important industry, so that today
oysters are the most extensively culti
vated of all aquatic animals.
The human animal is not the only
one that looks with favor upon the edi
ble qualities of the oyster. At every
stage in its career It is attacked by a
horde of dangerous enemies, some of
which are most destructive after the
oyster has put on its stoutest armor.
Before the young oyster attaches itself
it is extensively consumed by adult
oysters and various other shellfish as
well as by fishes that strain their food
from the vrater. When the oyster at
tains its shell a new set of shellfish
enemies provided with drills begin
their attacks and extract the soft parts
through minute holes that they make
in the valves.
xue oyster growers or i*pug isiauu
sound and adjacent waters suffer
heavy losses from the Inroads of star
fishes, which, moving In waves over
the bottom, devour every oyster In
their path. In a single season they
have been knowu to destroy in one
state several hundred thousand bush
els of marketable oysters. It seems
1 strange at first that a weak creature
like the starfish should be able to prey
on an auimal so strongly fortified as
an oyster. The starfish attaches It
self to the lips of the oyster shell and
exerts a steady and long sustained
suction with each of Its numerous
small suckers. After a time the pow
erful adductor muscle of the oyster
becomes fatigued, the valves open, and
the starfish Inserts its stomach and de
vours the helpless oyster at leisure.
Other enemies of the grown oyster
are fishes with powerful Jaws armed
with crushing teeth. On the Atlantic
coast the most destructive fish Is the
black drum, a school of which may
virtually clean out an oyster bed In
one night. On the Pacific coast a spe
cies of sting ray Is the chief offender.
The United States la particularly
fortunate In its oyster supply. The
output here Is larger and more valu^
able than elsewhere. Moreover, on ac
count of the relative low cost of oys
ters to the consumer In the United
States, the consumption In proportion
to the total population is greater than
in any of the other leading pyster pro
ducing countries.
Our annual oyster output Is worth
about $17,000,000 to the producers. The
yield has Increased 70 per cent In quan
tity since fS80, and under the favor
able conditions that now prevail Is be
coming larger every year.—Hugh M.
Smith, Commissioner of Fisheries, in
|» Youth's Companion. "7
ECLIPSED A PRINCE
Beau Brummel Outshone and
Then Snubbed the Regent.
j STORY OF A FAMOUS CRAVAT.
After Hia Historic Quarrel With Wales
the Beau Won a Sartorial Triumph
That Almost Choked His Royal Mas
ter With Envy and Dismay.
It was Beau Brummel who was de
scribed as "the glass of fashion and
the mold of form," and today there are
ordinarily only two things which the
name of the famous dandy of the Eng
lish court suggests. One is an arbiter
of fashion, the other the Incident in
which Brummel asked of a companion
of the Prince of Wales, "Who is your
fat friend?"
In 183G Beau Brummel still was liv
ing, and the New York Mirror, a week
ly publication "devoted to literature
and the fine arts," printed a biograph
ical sketch of him as a figure in con
temporary bistory. Reading It today
makes very real a character now little
more than a tradition.
"For an obscure individual without
fortune or rank to have conceivcd the
idea of placing himself at the head of
society in a country the most thor
oughly aristocratic in Europe, relying,
too, upon no other weapon than well
directed Insolence; for the same Indi
vidual to have triumphed splendidly
over the highest and the mightiest—to
Lave maintained a contest with royalty
Itself and to have come oft victorious
even in that struggle—for such a one
no ordinary faculties must have been
demanded," the Mirror said in Its Issue
of June 4, 1836.
It will be well to recall here that
George Bryan, Bruramel's father, was
Lord North's secretary; that the son
at Eton and later at Baliol college ac
quired a reputation for being a "swell
dresser," and that still later he was a
favorite of the Prince of Wales, who
was to become George IV. of Great
Britain. The Mirror related the fa
miliar story of the' "fat friend," immor
talized in a Punch cartoon, explaining
the circumstances which led up to It.
A mutual friend had dared Brummel
to give an order to Wales, who was
then prince regent, and at a dinner the
dandy said to him, "Wales, ring the
bell!" The prince did so and when a
servant appeared said, "Show Mr.
Brummel to his carriage." It was to
repay the regent for this public humil
iation that Beau Brummel uttered his
famous question the next day In the
street The prince was growing cor
pulent and sensitive of the fact, so a
feud between the two was launched
with the remark.
It Is an old story up to this point, but
the Mirror proceeded with some facts
which probably have never been pub
lished since. Brummel boasted that
he would put the prince regent out of
fashion, made his plans at once and
sprang his coup at a brilliant ball
given by the Duchess of Devonshire.
In the Mirror's own words:
"When the whole assembly were con
versing upon his supposed disgrace,
Brummel suddenly stood in the midst
of them. Could It be Indeed Brum
mel? Could it be mortal who thus ap
peared with such an enclncture of ra
diant glory about his neck? Every eye
was upon him, fixed In stupid admira
tion; every tongue, as it slowly recov
ered from Its speechless paralysis, fal
tered forth, 'What a cravat!"'
And then the description of the cra
vat which confounded the guests at
the Duchess of Devonshire's ball:
"There it stood, smooth and stiff, yet
light and almost transparent; delicate
as the music of Ariel, yet firm as the
spirit of Regulus; bending with the
grace of Apollo's locks, yet erect with
the majesty of the Olympian Jove;
without a wrinkle, without an Indenta
tion. What a cravat! The prince re
gent saw and shook, and, uttering a
faint gurgle from beneath the wadded
bag which surrounded, his royal thorax,
he was heard to whisper with dismay:
' him! What a cravat!' The tri
umph was complete."
The Mirror added that the Prince of
Wales sent an emissary to Beau Brum
mel to learn the secret of the wonder
ful creation in neckwear and that
Brummel sent back word, "Tell your
master lhat you have seen his master."
It r,as not until his debts forced him
to flee from England and to take the
obscure position of British consul at
Caen, in France, where he contracted
more debts and finally died insane in
1840, that the secret of the cravat be
came known. The Mirror said:
"There was found after his depar
ture written upon a sheet of paper
upon his table the following epigram
of scorn: 'Starch Is the man.'
"The cravat of Brummel was merely
starched. Henceforth starch was intro
duced into every cravat in Europe."—
Kansas City Times.
St. Bernard Dogs.
The true St. Bernard dog originated
in the fourteenth century, being a
cross between a shepherd dog from
Wales and a Scandinavian crossbreed,
half Dane and halt Pyrenean mastiff.
The last pore descendant of the tribe
was buried beneath an avalanche in
1810.
There is a perfect specimen of a true
St. Bernard dot; In the Natural History
museum at Berce, where tlie stuffed
body of the famous Barry is preserved.
There is plenty of St Bernard blood
left, however, crossed with other
strains, and the fame of the breed
can never perish.
Man is immortal till hla work la
done.—Williams.
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