OREGOi. CiTY COURIER, FRIDAY, SEPT. 2 i9Q4
7
STORY OF AN OYSTER
TOLD BY HIMG'iLF ABOUT HIMSELF
AND HIS TRIBE. .
The Trlala and Tribulations of the
guccnlent Bivalve From the Time
' of Planting Until HU Appearance
on the Flchtuoujffer'a Counter.
There were about 000,000 of us when,
as' tiny flakes of spawn or pat," as
ie oyster spawn Is called we floated
5ut Into the water one day on "the
flats."
At first we were white and apparent
ly lifeless. Then we turned gray and
Anally black. At this stage we became
visibly alive. Tor several days we
floated, the sport of waves and tides,
Some of my brothers were carried out
to sea and so vanished; others were
iwallowed by flsh. At last we all be
gan Instinctively to sink toward the
bottom.
Then began again terrible destruc
tion. Many fell on mud the most fa
tal thing a young oyster can da These
perished at once. Others attached
themselves to plants and weeds which
grow at the bottom of tho sea. They
lived for a time so long at least as the
plant remained alive. Then, when the
plant died, they perished as welL
Fortunately for myself, I drifted on
toi a bit of "cuRchM that is to say, one
of the oH shells which the dredgers
and oyster men bo carefully scatter all
over the tea floor at an oyster bed. I
ettled with my deep shell uppermost
and my flat or right shell neater the
ground. At the time I did not know
whjr I dtd this, t hare smca realised
that ft wan beoaut in that position. I
should be more easily able to eject the
Bond and grit which a roogb sea some
times stirs tip in shallow water. I at
tached myself firmly to my anchorage
Of "cuttch" and feH myseK at last fair
ly started In life.
i Soon I noticed that every single mor
sel of shell or stone around me was
tenanted by tiny oysters, all lying in
the same position as myself and all
firmly anchored.
There I lay, unmoving, for nearly aN
yenr. Food, In tho shape of tiny anl-
malculie, which an oyster loves beBt,
was plentiful. When the water was
thick with It, we all opened our shells
wide, and, making currents in the wa
ter, by means of the tiny hairs which
fringe our gills and which men call our
.beards, we washed the dainties into
our mouths. Our choicest delicacies
were the minute green algce, which
give to full grown oysters that greenish
tlngo, that is the mark of the aristo
cratic native.
When I first anchored myself, I was
but the twentieth of an inch in diame
terso small, indeed, that a microscope
would have been necessary to examine
me. At' that stage my shell was per
fectly transparent
At the end of ten months I had in
creased in diameter to fully the size
Of a dime and become what la called
- "brood."
During all this time I had been learn
ing many things. I found out that it
was necessary to close my shell tight
when dangers of various kinds threat
ened, when the tide was low or, in win
ter, when frost was severe. You may
perhaps Imagine that an oyster Is a
creature of such low organism that it
cannot see or feel much of what is go
ing on round about it But you are
wrong. The mantle fringe of an oyster
is very sensitive. If you watched us
from a boat in calm water, you would
see that the mere shadow of the boat
crossing an oyster bed will cause those
of us upon whom it falls to close our
shells immediately.
It was necessary to be most careful.
Dangers were many and' terrible. Sea
urchins prowled among us and de
voured many. But of all our foes the
worst, is the five fingered starfish. One
of my sisters, anchored not a yard
away, fell a vtetirn to this terror of
the oyster beds. It clutched her with
its long fingers. She closed her shell. ,
But the creature was not to be shak
en oil. Hour after hour it clung there
'until on the second day after its first
grip she, poor thing, opened her shell
to get a 'mouthful of food. At once the
starfish injetted into her a fluid which
stupefied her so that she could not
close again. Then the monster turned
Itself inside out, shot itself into the
open shell and devoured her.
Then, one day a year after I had
floated as "spat," came a startling
change in my existence. Something
huge and heavy came out of the shad
ow of a boat above and approached,
rasping and grating along the bottom.
It was a great trinngular dredge of
wrought iron. At the bottom was a
flat bar with a blunt edge, known to
the dredgers as the "bit"
As the "bit" approached it scraped
the bottom of the sea clean, and next ;
instant I, too, found myself" lifted and
dropped into the net, together with
hundreds like myself and a miscel
laneous collection of small soles and
other things.
One of the men sorted over the catch
and, having selected all the oysters
and spat, "shaded" the rest back Into
the sea through a porthole.
I, in company with enormous quan
tities of other brood, was put into a
"wash" a measure holding five and a
quarter gallons-and relald. Here life
was less eventful and food most plen
tiful. To fatten well an oyster must
have a certain amount of fresh water.
In this snug retreat I passed from
. brood to half ware and from half ware
to ware, or full grown oyster. But I
still went on growing and developing,
until one day the dredge swept me up
again, and I was raised once more intc
the nnner air and ranidlv brought In.
I was then dropped into a large bag
and suspended in a tank of fresh sea
water, which is constantly renewed.
There I await my final fate, which
will; I fear, be a fishmonger's counter
New York News.
Summer Excursion Bates and
Special Train Service Now
on Between Portland and
(Jlatxop Heach.
"I he Summer schedule" of the Astora &
Columbia River Railroad has been In
augurated between Portland, Astora, Gear
hart and Seaside in connectoin with special
round trip excursion tickets to all Clatsop
and North Beach points, and train leaves
Union Depot 8:00 A. M. daily and runs
through direct, arriving at Astoria 11:30
A M . Gearhart 12:20 P. M. and Seaside
12 30 P. M.
The Portland-Senside Flyer leaves
Union Depot every Saturday at 2:3o P. M,
arriving Astora 5:50 P. m. and runs
hro ieh direct, arriving at Gearhart 6:40
P. M. and Seaside 6:50 P. M .
In connectlonwith this improved service,
special round trio season excursion tickets
are sold from Portland to all Clatsop and
North Beach points at rate of $4 00 for the
round trip, good tor return passage uiuii
Ort nth
Special Commutatian tickets, good for five
round trips, are sold from rortiana to same
points for 1 15.00, good to return until Oct.
15th.
Saturday Special round trip excursion
tickets from Portland to all Clatsop and
North Beach points on sale every Saturday
at rate of $2 60 for round trip, good to re
turn Sunday.
Tickets sold from Portland to tyorth
Beach points are Issued in connection with
I R. & N. steamers from Astoria and bag
gage Is transferred to and from depqt and
steamer dock at Astoria free of Charge, and
all tickets sold by the O. R & N. Co
from Portland to Clatsop and North Beach
points, art Interchangeable and will be
honored on trains of this company In either
direction between Portland and Astoria.
For additional information address O. A.
Stewart, Agent, 348 Alder St., Portland,
Ore. or J. O. Mayo, G. F. & P. A.,
Astoria, Ore. Seasidt Souvenir of lo04
will be mailed to your address free upon
application. Write for it.
Short Crops at Logan.
Mr. Fink, a farmer of the Logan
district, says grain threshes from one
third to one-half of the usual yield,
oats going from ten to seventy bushels
per acre,, the latter being from ex
ceptional fields only.
Inference.
Dorothy Wliat Frank Werser ever
could have seen in Bessie Brown is
past my knowledge.
Bella Why, Dorothy, I didn't know
you cared so much for Frank. Boston
Transcript.
SUMMONS.
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon, for the County ol Clackamas.
O. F. Vonderahe, plaintiff vs. Wil
liam W. Jones, Carrie P. Jones, defend
ants.
To William W. Jones and Carrie P.
Joneti, the above named defendants.
In the name of tne btate ot uregon,
you are hereby required to appear and
answer th complaint filed against you
in the above entitled action within six
eeka from the date of the first publica
tion of this summons; and if you fail 10
answer, for want thereof, the plaintiff
will take judgment against yon, and
each of you, for $35 82 and interest
thereon since May 13th, 1898, at the
rate of 10 per cent per annum, together
with $35 attorney s lees, ana costs; ana
for an order of sale, of the following de
scribed real estate, which baa been at
tached in this action, to-wit:
Beginning at a point 6.71 chains
north, and 17.52 chains east of the one
quarter Bection corner Detween sections
nine ard ten in township two south of
ranee two east of the Willamette Merid
ian ; thence south 16.68 chains; thence
west fifteen feet; thence south 3.75
chains; thence east 3 rods and 15 feet;
thence nortli 3.0 cnains; inence east
12.18 chains to eoutheast corner of our
land ; thence north 16.58 chains; thence
west 12.93 chains to the place of begin
ning containing 22 acres of land, more
or less.
Thi" summons is published by order
of the Hon. Thomas A. McBnde, judue
rf the su id court, dated July 25th, 1904.
First publication being dated friday,
the 29th of July, 1904, and the last to be
on Ftiday, the 9th day of September,
1903.
C. D. & D. C. Latourettk,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
PETITION FOR LICENSE. .
" In the County Court of the State of
Oregon, for the County of Clackamac.
In the matter of the application of
H. Jacques for Liquor License.
To the Honorable County Court of the
State of Oregon for County of Clack
amas : 1
Whereas. The number of votes cast,
at the last general election in the pre
cinct of Oswego. Clackamas County,
Oregon, was 130 votes; and
Wliereas, We the undersigned consti
tute a majority of said voters ; and I
Whereas, H. Jacques is desirous of ,
obtaining a license to sell spirituous,
vinous malt, and fermented liquors in
quantities less than a gallon in said
precinct; Now
Therefore, We, the undersigned,
said voters of said preoinct.hereby pe
tition your Honorable Body that a li
cense to sell said spirituous, vinous,
malt, and fermented liquors in quau
tities less than one gallon may issue
to said H. Jacques, and that the time
which said license shall cover shall
be the term of twelve months from
the 5th day of October, 1904, W L Sui
dow, J H Manning, L E Morrell, I
Austin, P Keyzer, Joseph Woell, A
J Fuller, D W Kelsey, A Fortener, Q
O Worth ington, R Woodard, Ed Da
vis, W L Davis, J N Lykes, E Kiser,
J George Nagl, S Piatt, John Kiser,
Chas DeLashmutt, Harry Farmer, S
M Brown, E Worthington.P Hawkins,
Jos Bachle, Theo Steinhilber, J Mo
Mangh, ; D Erickson, Chas Carlson,
T J Brown, Joseph Lemery, W Piatt,
E B Gates, G S GateB, Jerry O'Brien,
Henry Koenig, Herman Koenig, Ohas
A Groshens, J L Davis, John Bow
les, G Kiser, W H Yates, P Maeter,
M J Worthington, A Tapfer T J Whit
tier. Rich Ball, E E Coon, H O Grab-
enhnrst' E Halliman, O O Thompson, ,
I N Davis, J F Grabenhurst, A Wal
dorf, P Dooley, A Nelson, James Fee-
ney, H liana, J i uoyien, a uonrana,
Philip Pollard, Edward Pollard, Fer
dinand Pnymbrook, Ed Barker, Tom
Barker, F W Wanker, Peter Pnylaet,
Jos Bickner. Alex McBeath, M Did-
znn, Jos Zivny, .Gottfr Lehman,
Henry Lueg, Martin Blanken, Alex
Rankin. O F Meagher, Oliver A Rat-
cliff, Eathan McMaugh, M R Monoh
on, U Erixon, G E Oline, D Munro,
F V Whittier, J L Hale, J N Bivert,
A G Shaver. A F Bergan, Wm Wor
thington, A E Campbell, O L Sulli
van, J firickson, A J xsicKnm, Ameae
Seguin, Oonrat Meyers, Steve Blan
ken, Al Seguin, John McGuire, O
Anderson, F Dhoohge, T Hughes,
Frank Whittin, Russ De Lashmutt, J
E McOntcheon, William Halliman,
Charles Weltner, J N Stone, W E
Thurman, John Abeln, Fred Brock,
O O Davidson, R O Worthington.. j;H
Piatt.
In, accordance with the above peti
tion, I will on the. 5th day of Octo
ber, 1904, or as soon thereafter as the
court meets, apply to the county oourt
of Ulackamas uounty, uregon, lor a
license to sell spirituous, vinous and
nialfc honors in th eprecinct or us-
wego, Oswego, Oregon, for a period of
twelve months.
Dated Septembr 2nd, 1904.
H. JAOUES,
OREGON
and Union Pacific
3-TRAINS TO THE EAST DAILY 3
Through Pullnran standard and tourists
sleeping cars daily to Omaha, Chicago,
Spokane, tourist sleeping cars (personally
conductde), weekly to Chicago and Kan
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to the East daily.
70
HOURS
Portland to Chicago
Nojchange of cars
70
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Spokane, Wallace, Pull
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For San Francisco Every five days at
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service (water permittlng(n Willamette
and Yamhill Rivers.
For full information ask or Write your
nearest ticket agent.
A. L. CRAIC.
General Passenger Agent
The Oregon Railroad and Navagatlon Co.
Portland, Ore.
Astoria & Columbia
River Railroad Co.
- ... SUMMONS. .; ;
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon, for the County of Clackamas.
O. L. Mason, Plaintiff, vs. Julia A.
Mason, Defendant.
To- Jnlia A. Mason, the above named
defendant :
In the name of the State' of Oregon,
you are hereby required to appear and
answer the compliant filed against you
in the above entitled Court, ou or be
fore the 15th day of October, 1904, and
if yon fail to appear or answer for
want thereof, the plaintiff will apply
to the Oourt for the relief demanded
in the complaint, tp-wit : For a decree
dissolving the bonds of matrimony
now existing between the plaintiff and
defendant, and for such other aud fur
ther relief as may be just and proper.
This summons is served upon yon
by publication, pursuant to an order
of Hon. Alfred F. Sears, Judge of the
above entitled court, on this first day
of October, 1904. The date of first pub
lication being the 1st day of Septem
ber, 1904.
T. B. McDevitt.Jr.,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
LOST On eveningof August 27th
between Oregon Cityand Parkplace,
lady's chatelaine bag containing
breast pin, some coin, and valuable
papers. A suitable reward will be
paid for its return to this office. L.
W. Ingram.
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LEAVES UNION DEPOT. ARRIVES
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Dally Clatskannle, Westport,
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TRANSPORTATION CO.
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Will make Four Round Trips daily
bet. Oregon City and Portland
Leaves Portland
8.30 A.M. .
11.30
3.00 P.M.
6.15
Leaves Ore. City
7.00 A. M.
10.00
1.30 P. M.
4.30
The Most Picturesque River Ride In Oregon
SDeclal Attention elven to the Handllnz
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Landings on week davs at Osweeo and
Magoan's only. All Landings made Sun
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Corvailis &
Eastern Railroad
TIME CARD NO. 26
No. 2 for Yaquina
Leaves Albany 12 ;45 P. M.
Leaves Corvailis 1 :45 P. M.
Arrives Yaquina 5 :40 P. M.
No. 1 Returning
Leaves Yaquina 7:15 A. M.
Leaves Corvailis 11 :30 A. M.
Arrives Albany 12:15 P. M.
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Leave -Albany 1 :00 P. M.
Arrives Detroit 6:00 P. M.
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Leave Detroit 6:30 A.M.
Arrives Albany 11:15 A. M.
Train No 1 arrives in Albany in time
to connect with the 8. P. south bound
train, as well as giving two or three
hours in Albany before departure of 8. P.
north bound train.
Train No. 2 connect with the 8. P.
trains at Corvailis and Albany, giving
direct service to Newport and adjacent
beaches.
Train No. 3 for Detroit, Breltenbueh
and other mountain resorts leaves Al
bany at 1:00 p. m., reaching Detroit
about 6 :00 p. in.
For further information apply to
EDWIN STONE, Manager.
T. COOKRELL, Agent, Albany.
H. H. CRON1SE, Agent, Corvailis.
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