HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
A HARD BLOW
The conflagration which de
stroyed a major portion of Hy
der’s main business district
la*t week was in every respect
the greatest disaster in the
history of the Portland Canal
mining district.
Involved in the wave of firey
destruction were five of the
camp’s most important busi
ness enterprises, in addition to
a number of private proper
ties of considerable value.
While some of the interests in
volved will feel the effects
less severely than others, ow
ing to insurance indemnities
and other resources, the loss
as a whole, although not ex
tensive when measured by the
wealth standards of today,
was nevertheless a tremendous
one for a small community to
sustain. In addition to the act
ual monetary loss involved, it
must also be recalled that
years of laborious effort
amidst many trials and dis
couragements incident to the
upbuildng of a new commun
ity must be included in the
total of the damage inflicted
by the conflagration.
Standing amidst the ruins of
the things they have given
their lives to and facing that
hardest of all tasks described
by the poet as “building up
again with wornout tools,”
they are entitled to the most
profound sympathy and en
couragement the community
can give.
That even the most severe
sufferers have withstood the
shock of sudden adversity with
cheerful fortitude and are
looking forward to rebuilding
at the earliest moment is a
splendid testimonial to their
f courage as well as an inspiring
evidence of confidence in the
future of the camp that should
| uplift the spirits of all.
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I THE NEW FOURTH.
Year by year the old-fashion
ed Fourth of July with spitting
I cannon and sizzling rocket
I against a blue-black sky is be
coming more and more of a
memory.
The Fourth of July which
small boys and girls awaited
as eagerly as Christmas itself,
a day of toy torpedo, of cellu
loid-collared orators, and ice
cream socials, has been trans
formed into an Independence
Day of quiet and dignity.
“But how can we teach our
children what Fourth of July
really means?” a mother ask
ed not long ago, adding, “you
must meet a child on his own
ground-things must be ex
plained to him in terms that
he understands.”
This mother, who is fortunate
enough never to have been
forced to the tragic task of
binding up mangled little fing
ers shredded by “innocent
fire-crackers,” is arguing that
a child must be taught the
meaning of liberty and free
dom and independence by
lighting a pin wheel or hurl
a torpedo cane upon the pave
ment.
It is difficult for us who
passed childhood in the old
fashioned noisy Fourth of July
decade to remember that our
Roman candles and “flower
pots” meant anything lofty
and inspiring to us-anything
but a rollicking holiday.
Safe and fjane Fouilths are
pretty well established but
the argument that some way
should be found to make green
the meaning of what those
periwigged builders of our
nation did back on July 4,
1776, is a worthy one.
The great purpose of a
Fourth of July observance is
not only to pay respect to the
early framers of this govern
ment but to measure the patri
otism of this with that day, to
determine whether this nation
has been true to the faith,
whether it has kept aloft the
torch, whether its willingness
to sacrifice for the common
good deserves a place with the
sacrifices of the fathers of the
nation. Such speculation is in
order in these times and a
quiet, dignified observance,
is a step to that end.
THIS IDYLLIC SEASON.
Many things are seasonable
in summer-such as fresh fruit,
garden vegetables, vacation
ing, sleeping-porches, swim
ming, baseball and gol^-but
from the working-man's point
of-view it.just seems as though
summer is first of all the seas
on's for straight-away, unadul
terated and undisturbed loaf
ing. And when we use “work
ing man” in this connection
we mean every man and
woman who is earning a liv
ing, every woman and man
who is keeping house and ev
ery boy and girl who is going
to school or college.
Ti»e economist who discovers
a means whereby the world
can earn a livelihood and
create an estate in the nine
months from September - to
June 1 should be sainted,
knighted, degreed (that is by
universities, not juries), elect
ed to some good paying pub
lic office and pensioned. Even
though the formula has not
been discovered, there should
be great fortune-making pos
sibilities in high-powered ad
vertising of such a prescript
ion secr!e|ly discovered and
offered to a distressed public
for the first time.
During autumn, winter and
spring the righteous indignat
ion of the toiling world rises
up against such as will not
work but thrive as parasites
upon that part of humanity
which works. What a diffe
rent complexion public opinion
takes on during the warm and
smiling days of summer! No
body blames a fellow for turn
ing hobo then. Bosses , who
spend the mornings at the
soda bar and the afternoon on
the golf links, don’t belabor
their employees for dropping
the pencil for a moment of
day-dreaming and window
gazing. The meals mother pre
pares on hot summer days
would be ample grounds for
divorce at any other time of
the year, but father complains
not and the children are satis
fied. Mother hasn’t the energy
to eat that which she has pro
vided.
So it is resolved that summer
was made for hammocks, ice
cold lemonade in the shade, a
water-side cottage, a loafing
automobile or anything what
•i so ever except work.
i
Just for Fun
If a woman’s intuition is sc
wonderful, then why are the
divorce courts so busy?
One way to get the boys bacl<
1 on the farm would be to fil
1 it up with pretty boarders
from the city.
Use the energy that you pu
; into a “kick” toward helping
4 yourself and helping others.
• This much can be said ii
> favor of being a candidate foi
1 office: It makes a fellow trj
• to be agreeable, at least dur
’ ing the campaign.
3
1
} As a remedy for divorce a
i Chicago judge urges men no
l to marry until they reach th<
i age of reason. But that wo.ult
, bar so many from marriage al
together.
“You can bring to your office
and put in a frame, a motto
as fine as its paint; but if
you’re a crook while you’re
playing the game, the motto
won’t make you a saint.’’
Most of the things you think
are necessary wouldn’t be I
missed at all if you didn’t |
think they were necessary.
While the fellow with a pok
er face may get along, there
are times when most of us
think it needs poking.
A good doctor has to know
almost as much about medicine
as he knows about human
nature.
The school of experience is
open twenty-four hours each
day.
Have the men who make
nickle cigars ever thought of
serving a slab of corned beef
with them?
Jack—Why is the figure “9”
like a peacock?
Jim—I don’t know. Why?
Jack—Because without a tail
it is nothing.
The gentleman dancer no
longer wears a handkerchief
over his hand to keep his moist
fingertips from staining her
gown. Her gown isn’t there.
She is the kind of girl you
can tell is going to have a past
by her present actions.
If we live long enough we dis
cover that other people are
very much like ourselves.
“I heard your father was
nek,” said the teacher.” Is he
any better?”
“He had the stummick ache
somethin’ awful,” replied the
little son, “but it don’t ache
half as loud as it did last
night.”
In Chicago a crooked sur
geon tried to straighten a
girl’s crooked legs and now
he’s headed straight for the
penitentiary.
The only thing the average
American male really fears
are snakes, and dogs and but
lers.
One—“Did you fill your date
last night?”
More—“I hope so. She ate
everything in eight.”
New Servant—Can I have a
different clock put in me bed
room, mum?
Mistress—Why, I put that
dock in your room for a spec
ian purpose. “Its an alarm
clock.”
New Servant—Well, mum,
I can’t stand it. It woke me
up this morning.
Fond Mother: “I am going to
make an artist of my little
boy.”
Friend: “Has he any special
aptitude for art work?”
Mother: “Oh, yes. He can go
three days without eating.”
The hardware man had call
ed on the widow every time
he had a free evening, for over
a year.
“Why don’t marry her?”
asked a friend.
“I’ve often thought about it,”
he replied. “But where would
I spend my evenings then?”
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL OMR OF MOOSE
Meets Se.cond and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
CHAS. F. SAHDFORD
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
John Hovland
MINING
Hyder, Alasita
Judge: But why do you wish
the divorce?
Fair Plaintiff: Well, I’m
thinking of getting married.
A minister holding services
in a southern church in mak
ing an announcement one Sun
day morning said, “Next Sun
day, services will be held at
11 o’clock at the north end of
the church, and at 3:30 o’clock
at the south end. Infants will
be baptized at both ends.
Breakfast nooks were never
heard of until people began
to try to support a dining room
and a garage at the same
time.
“What makes you think she
isn’t sincere?’’
“The last letter I got from
her was a carbon copy.”
One day a Jew went to visit
his son. His daughter-in-law
was rocking the baby to sleep,
singing, “bye lo, bye, lo, bye,
lo.”
“Ah, ha, he said, “Rachael
you teach the boy to buy low
now, and I’ll teach him to sell
high when I get him in the
business with me.”
PROFESSIONAL
(Attorney at l&tia
J-tgfrer, .Alaska
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
6E0RGE B. GRIGSBY
Attorney - at - Law
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