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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
MINE INVESTMENTS
SOUND
Leadville Colo, has produced
$435,248,814 in metals, from
1859 to 1926; and a new reviv
al is said to be under way that
may equal or pass the old fig
ures. Butte, Mont., has produc
ed even more from a small
territorv- Shoshone County,
Idaho, $536,988,430. Other
western districts have added
proportionate amounts of min
eral wealth to the nation’s re
sources, says the Wallace Press
Times Mining Review,
recognize that the mine oper
Such industries as these are
of pemanent benefit to every
farmer, gardener, stockgrow
er, orchardist, and merchant.
They make a high class, non
competitive market for every
thing the grower can produce.
Legitimate mining should be
encouraged. It is no more of a
speculation than most of the
other industrial or agricultural
ventures. The country should
recognize that the mine oper
ator is one of the most useful
citizens. He produces new ma
terial and wealth for mankind.
Mine holdings might well be
a part of the permanent in
vestment of really conservative
investors.
_o_
ON BEING YOURSELF.
The difficulty of being your
self will be admitted by any
one who has ever apologized
for his own words or deeds by
saying,“I was not myself when
that happened.” Perhaps this
poor substitute for your bet
ter self is the creature of wor
ry, or illness, or some intem
perance of body or spirit. But
even the best of us experience
the difficulty of being always
at his best.
To be at your best physically
is a difficult achievement. The
great singer must train his
voice hour after hour before
his audience can listen to it in
comfort. We often remark:
How naturally he sings! Yet
behind that simple naturalness
ire years of grinding practice.
How much more difficult
then it to be ourselves in that
realm of intangible thing call
jd personality. There seems to
ae a certain depravity into
which we naturally gravitate.
We set out nobly to be our
best, and fall short pf that
shining goal. We do the thing
we should not have done, and
eave undone the thing that we
should have done.
Yet out df this never ending
lonflict of the spirit, comes
personality, power and influ
mce. It makes us what we are.
tt is the secret of such tremen
ious personalities as Lincoln
>r Roosevelt.
Being one’s true self is not
jasy. But beyond its accomp-1
ishments lie the rewards of j
ife. The great Bard was
'ight: “To thine own self be
rue, and it must follow, as the
light the day, thou canst not i
:hen be false to any man.’’
-o
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Those who take upon them
selves the burden of the re
igious education of youth are
>uckling down to what is con
:eded to be a real job. Young
people do not turn out to Sun
lay school as they did a gen
jration or two ago. The reas
>n why would be interesting
ind valuable.
Time was when every child
n every community dressed in
bis best on Sunday morning
ind started off to the church
school fortified with his les
son learned during the week.
He memorized the golden
;ext and, likely as not, a con
siderable number of verses
Tom the Bible. A wholesome
aste for Biblical literature
md a facility in Biblical quo
sation were usually imparted
n the Sunday school.
But times have changed. A
sollege professor recently dis
covered that his class in Eng
lish literature coulqLnot identi
fy 20 per cent of the Biblical
allusions to be found in a se
lected group of Tennyson’s
poems. Familiarity with the
Bible and attendance upon
Sunday school are marked by
the same ratio of decline.
The Sunday school today con
tends with competitors never
thought of in the olden days.
The waning power of parental
authority is another enemy of
stated religious education. But
the great weakness lies in the
antiquated equipment and the
outgrown practices of back
ward churches. The contrast
between the public school and
some Sunday schools is pathet
ic. The child feels this dispar
ity even though he may not
analyze it.
Happily, the churches under
stand this weakness and are
boldly attacking it. The peri
od of transition is upon the
Sunday school and upon meth
ods in religious education. The
problem is a big one but it can
and will be solved.
That it must be solved is the
conviction of every true Amer
ican, whether churchgoer or
not. Religious education is ev
ery hit as fundamental to the
welfare and happiness of a
democracy as secular educat
ion. It must not decline either
in favor or usefulness. It must
not lag behind.
Just for Fun
A homely face is the best
chaperon.
You’ve got to look sharp to
cut much ice.
Two can live cheaper than
one,J>ut not so fast.
The good that die young
aren’t the good drivers.
Fairy stories no longer inter
est children or wives.
Fortune never smiles at a
man because he is a joke.
The meek may inherit the
earth, but not from the meek.
The darker things get, the
more chance there is to shine.
Time and tide wait for no
man but time hesitates for a
woman.
Be careful Where you put
your confidence and you won’t
lose it.
If there were only four autos
twenty-five years ago where
did the taxi companies get
theirs?
Definition of rouge: the pink
of perfection.
Most of us prefer sweet flat
tery to bitter truth.
Many a small boy is kept in
after school becuse his father
worked his arithmetic wrong.
Cement makers use 14,000,
000 pounds of dynamite a year.
May we say their business is
booming?
Science, says a nature maga
zine, has found no practical
i
use for the jelly-fish. Well,
neither has public life.
Hero: One who grinds our axe.
Crime against civilization: The
act of grinding the other fel
low’s axe.
There are two kinds of men:
Those who think the world is
going to the dogs, and those
who are too busy to worry.
Clerk: “Our new manager is
a very interesting man. You
know, he’s an authority on
fish culture.”
Cashier: “Really! I never
supposed that fish had any
culture to speak of.”
A woman gets sweetest re
venge out of another woman
she’s mad at by giving a party
and not inviting her.
Matrimony: A process by
which the grocer gets an ac
count the haberdasher once
had.
No, Gladys, that man with
the lantern is the night watch
man, not Diogenes trying to
find an honest man. We be
lieve he has thrown the light
on some interesting stuff
though.
Emerson’s remark about the
world making a beaten path
to a house in the woods where
better stuff is made was cert
ainly prophetic.
Office Boy-“I hardly know
what to do with my week end.”
Stenog-“Put a hat on it and
keep it from catching cold.”
“Miss Flighty made all her
money in letters.”
“She doesn’t look literary.”
“She isn’t. She won a breach
of promise suit with 'em.”
—
The freedom men really de
sire is freedom from the medi
ocrity that keeps them from
! getting a million.
Whether Methusaleh actually
reached the age of 969 years,
it seems not to be disputed
that he is dead now.
•A
Hyder, Alaska
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PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
Mistress (to new colored
cook) Can you make a sug
gestion for Sunday dinner?
New Colored Cook-I ain’t
made one of them things in a
long time but I guess I kin wid
a lil* help.
Mrs. Carney rushed into her
living room: “Oh, Walter,’’
she cried, as she panted for
breath, ‘I dropped my dia
mond ring off my finger and
I can’t find it anywhere.”
“Its all right, Olive,” said
Walter, “I came across it in my
trouser’s pocket.”
If the United States is ever
forced to go to war again,”
said the leather-lunged cush
ion warmer, “I shall immedi
ately join the aviation corps.”
‘Why the aviation?” interpo
lated his fair companion.
“Oh, so I can drop out any
time I want to.”
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