NYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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AN IND^ ' OPVT :. WSPAPER
SAFETY IN CHECKS.
One of the subjects most pro
lific in the way of texts for
comment is that of the safety
provided by banks to persons
to engage in financial trans
actors of any kind. Many
\more persons should adopt the
plan of making payments of
al! kinds by checks instead of
in currency.
Every few days the newspap
ers publish accounts of thefts
which have been committed in
cases of persons who withdraw
sums of money from the banks,
or use money they have kept
in their homes for payments
on property or other transact
ions.
A bank check practically
eliminates all possibility of loss
of money in making payments
Bankers are particular to know
that persons presenting checks
for payment are entitled to
the money, and even if a check
is stolen it is highly improb
able that it can be negotiated
by the thief. Banks require
identification before making
payment on checks, and the
writer of the check can im
mediately stop payment on it
if it is stolen.
Persons who keep money in
considerable amounts in the
home do so at their own risk.
Would-be thieves have means
of securing information which
may not be suspected by the
person who keeps money in
his home, or they may even
take a chance of finding cur
rency hidden about the house.
The resulting loss is the same.
There is no reason why any
individual should draw cur
rency from the bank when a
check will complete a financi
al transaction; neither is there
any excuse for a person who
receives money undertaking to
be hia own banker.
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GROUNDHOG THOUGHTS
Ancient tradition says that
on February 2, the groundhog
or woodchuck, comes out of his
hole, and decides whether or
not to remain, out by the
weather conditions of that day.
The sophisticated American
passes by such a superstition
with a smile. Perhaps there
are some city bred folks who
never heard of it. Yet those of
us who were brought up in
country homes, find these an
cient sayings very interesting.
In pioneer times people were
close observers of animals and
of the weather and changing
seasons. They did not have
many books. Nature was their
book. It gave them a certain
serene contentment, and was
a subject of perennial interest.
The instincts of animals must
have interested them greatly.
They observed that certain
species have a power for fore
telling weather conditions and
discerning other matters hid
den to humans. No doubt the
groundhog tradition came into
existence as a result of at
tempts to enterpret the per
ceptive powers possessed by
animals.
Those simple old habits of
our ancestors would seem
terribly dull to us now. But
the men and women who*
watched the woodchucks and
other dumb beasts, found in
finite pleasure in observing
their frolics and struggles and
labors, and thereby became
better able in many ways to
use their eyes and wits than
we are.
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CARLYLE’S CRITICISM
Thomas Carlyle wrote scath
ingly of the way the reading
public with avidity seizes up
on the latest scandal news
about people unknown to the
reader personally. Carlyle calls
it the evidence of a small mind,
and we think he is exactly
right.
Metropolitan newspapers are
the greatest offenders in the
!ine of purveying this type of
‘news” to their readers, cater
ing to the lower minds of the
community by so doing.
Legitimate information about
one’s neighbor’s, such as the
erection of a new building, the
births, the marriages and
deaths in our own community
are wholesome and are out
side of the realm of imperti
nent curiosity, which drew
the great Thomas’ wrath.
These are the main items car
ried by country weeklies,
along with straight construct
ive matter like the doings ot
the chamber of commerce
and the other public bodies
and officials. They do not de
scend to the tattling of private
scandals, or at least when
they do one soon sees another
newspaper for sale and anoth
er editor seeking new fields.
BIG MINING PROJECT
NEAR WRANGELL
important development op
erations will be started during
the coming season in the
Groundhog Basin district, near
Wrangell, according to J. G.
Gal.'in, head of the Virginia
Lake Mining Co. who recent
ly arrived in Wrangell from
New York.
The company plans as its
initial undertaking the driving
of a 4,000 foot tunnel, with an
additional 1000 feet of raises
and drifts, which will give a
depth of 2000 feet on the ore
bodies and is expected to block
out ore running into the mill
ions of tons. A crew of 50 or
80 men will be employed at
the start and work will start
as soon as the necessary equip
ment can be placed on the
ground. After this work is con
cluded the company proposes
to install a plant capable of
treating several thousand tons
of ore daily.
Just for Fun
All some folks need to believe
is the desire to.
One broadcasting station that
doesn’t need a license is the
sewing circle.
For that matter the sun nev
er sets on an American loan.
“Does your husband gam
ble?”
“Yes, but not in an objection
able way. He nearly always
wins.”
They call him Adam, because
he knows his apples.
Live snakes were used in a re
cent ballet. But calves still re
main the motet ^important
zoological feature of these
performances.
The Blueberry Kid says we
make our own beds and then
try to lie out of them.
The hope chest is with us yet,
but it contains few embroider
ed dish towels.
“She told me her husband
had left her for good.”
“For Good, eh! And she told
me he’d gone to Paris.”
The department of agricult
ure is conducting tests to learn
how tough a piece of beef
steak may be. We supposed
there was only one degree-the
toughest.
Doctor (to fair patient):
‘You certainly have acute ap
pendicitis.”
Fiar Patient: “Oh, Doctor,
you flatter me.”
It’s better to fall down on a
job than lay down on it!
Dancing exercises just about
everything but discretion.
All work and no play gets
Jack in shape to pay the ali
mony.
Boys leave the farm because
they hate to plow through life.
Exercise alone should give
you slender lines. Look at the
tongue.
It seems to us that another
thing the Christian world needs
rather badly is Christianity.
The trouble seems to be too
much petting before marriage
and not enough afterward.
Think how long it takes scien
lists to evolve a new and per
fect tooth paste about like the
others.
Tliere are towns and towns, j
but the real old-fashioned town I
was a town whose business dis
trict was built around the
courthouse square.
If you hitch your wagon to a
star be sure to use a good
coupling pin and make sure
that the endgate is securely
fastened.
A professor whose wife is
noted for her extreme plain
ness was lecturing a class of
boys on politeness. “When a
plate of apples is passed to
you,” he said, “never take the
best-looking one.”
From the back row came in
a low tone: “I’ll bet that’s the j
way he picked his wife.”
Because you don’t see his
wife is not sufficient cause to
charge a man with having no
visible means of support.
There are only 27,632 men
who know just how to run the
world, and all of them are
busy whittling.
A stable government is one
in which the p wi]1 re
main hitched.
Sensitive Soul (on street car) —
“Hey, boy, wake up!”
Boy—“I ain’t asleep. I just got
my eyes closed. I can’t bear to
see women standing in a
crowded street car.”
Overheard in a country post
office:—
Countryman, to postmaster:
“Anything here fer me, Zeb?”
“Yep, they is Zeke. They’s a
letter here addressed ter you,
postmarked from Chicago, but
they aint no return address
writ on it, though, so we
couldn’t tell who writ it to yei.
Here ye are.”
After glancing at the much
thumbed letter, Zeke said: “Is
that all there is fer me?”
The postmaster stroked his
chin meditatively a moment
and replied:
“Wal, Zeke, they’s a coupie ;
them pichur-post cards here I
fer ye, but all the boys ain’t'
seen ’em yet.”
An exchange reports that s
fellow was arrested for steal
ing eleven bottles of whiskej
but was not convicted because
the Judge could not mak<
a case of it.
Chamber
of
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
There are four thousand peo
ple in the United States who
are over 100 years old1. They
can ail remember why the
Statue of Liberty was erected.
First Drummer: “They say
Jones’s wife had. triplets after
reading the “Three Muske
teers.”
Second Drummer: “Good
heavens, mine was reading
‘ The Birth of a Nation when
I left.”
John Hovland
Assay Office
H y d e r, Alaska
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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