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THE WORLD SERIES
People who never attended a
world series ball game have
little idea of the thrill of sus
pense that sways that vast as
semblage as those decisive
innings slip away. The low
scores suggest the intense con
centration with which every
man is playing.
It is not merely a beautiful
domonstrfttlon of Athletic skill,
but a wonderful display of
discipline. If the instant obedi
ence given to the leaders of
the team, arid the absolute
submission to the laws of the
game, could be transplanted
to the industrial and social
world, this would be a differ
ent country.
One of the finest manfestat
ions of the world series games,
is the display of self control
by the players. Those fe'llows
realize very keenly how much
depends on their ability to
think quick and carry out their
thoughts. It is not merely the
money they can make by win
ning but the effect on their
prestige and future sporting
career.
But in spite of the intensity
and anxiety of the moment,
these fellows play withwalm
self-assurance Thereby they
give a lesson to ambitious
folks that self control is one
of the bggest things in the
world, and lies close to the
heart of all success.
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CHASING LIQUID GOLD.
Particularly valuable to those
who are tempted to sink their
savings in “wildcat” oil vent
ures in the hope of garnering
vast riches is a bulletin issued
by the United .States bureau
of mines, which estimates that
$30,000,000 is spent annually
in drilling holes that yield no
oil. In the last two years 5,814
dry holes, representing an av
erage cost of $10,000, have
been reported.
Of course anyone at all ac
quainted .with the oil: produc
ing industry knows that fail
ures are frequent and that the
business is attended with haz
ard, but since the sucesses
are widely proclaimed, and
the dry holes get little adver
tising, it is likely to be assum
ed by the uninitiated that the
rewards are more certain than
works out in practice.
The findings of the bureau of
mines may constitute a warn
ing against undue hope in
wildcatting but it is not like
ly to affect it greatly. The
possibility of great gain, even
though remote, is a lure that
appeals to men and.it is prob
able that there will be future
losses in dry holes much as in
the past. Those who do invest
in such enterprises have the
joys of pursuit for a time, ev
en if they realize no other
reward.
FADING LEAVES.
“We all do fade as a leaf” is
a Biblical phrase more or less
melancholy. The thought of
fading is not a happy one. We
speak of fading beauty, a
fading mind or body, but
nobody wants to fade. There
is a hint of late autumn
in fading leaves, of waning
powers, as when Macbeth ex
claimed, “My way of life is
fall’n into the sear, the yel
low leaf.”
Yet leaves do not always
fade in such a manner as to
warrant somber reflection.
Many leaves fade amidst a
glory and beauty such as fills
the western sky when there
is a red sunset Were it not
for the fading leaf the splen
dors of autumn would be lost
and gone from the landscape
the vivid splashes of crimson,
glorious hues of orange, and
more sedate shades of maroon
and russet. Look at the hills
surrounding Hyder and see
the glory and beauy of the
Autumn. "The melancholy
lays” are here. Don’t believe
it. It was a mournful moment
that inspired genius to paint
a somber canvas of nature’s
most glorious garb. “Frost is
on the pumpkin and the fod
der’s in the shock.” Every hill
is radant with flaming reds
and yellows and subtier tones
that reveal the fro«t-king’s
art.
Such days as these, gentle
reader, be glad to be alive.
This is autumn’s gilded
temple, every hill a golden
staircase mounting to the mel
lowed sun.
A. O. Campbell, organizer of
the Alaska Airship Co., which
proposes to establish a dirig
ible airship service between
Seattle and Alaska, was in
Juneau recently in the interest
of the company and reported
that about 75 Alaskans are
stockholders in the project.
Anchorage has been selected
as the headquarters of the or
ganization and the trustees
are all Alaskans located in
Cordova, Seward, Anchorage,
Zenana and Fairbanks. Mr[.
Campbell stated it is the aim
af the company to place a
amall dirigible on the Seattle-!
Alaska route to begin with j
and add other and larger air
;hips as needed.
The proposal is one of con
siderable interest to Alaskans
bcause of the probability that
airship transportation would
result in a great reduction in
he time now required to cov
er the distance between Se
attle and Alaska.
The loss occasioned by the
recent fire at Kake amounted
to appi'oximately $75,000 ac
cording to estimates. The Ker
berger store was the heaviest
loser, with a loss of about $30,
000. Three stores and the Pres
byterian Church were burned
to the ground and 46 adults
and the same number of chil
dren were made homeless.
Juneau Chapter of the Red
Cross took immediate charge
of the relief work, sending
$1,000 worth of food, clothing
and supplies to the scene for
distribution among the needy.
Reports from the fire stricken
town ^ay the residents plan
to make a model town when
they rebuild.
Just for Fun
Columbus had never heard of
prohibition, but Ed Provinse
says he knew dry land when he
saw it.
Since the fashionable new
earrings reach the shoulders;
and weigh a quarter of ai
pound each; we predict that
as time goes on, ears will be
worn longer, too.
Most everybody disclaims be
lief in ghosts but most of them j
believe in the one that walks |
on pay day.
Congratulation from some |
people are modes of sympathy.!
A woman is a person who>
will not wait her turn in the j
barber shop.
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Hawaii is reported to be no
longer a snakeless land, but I
that may be merely an excuse. |
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Many a woman who never
looked inside a volume of
Blackttong is able to lay down
the law. (
A man likes to blame heredi
ty when ii is an acquired trait
that causes the trouble.
People are'still communicat
ing ^frith the spirit world. That
is^to say, they are calling up
their bootleggers on the
’phone.
Line in a book of etiquette
says, “A girl should always
conceal her emotions.” Quite
right. But in these days of
short skirts and low neck
gowns, where can she conceal
them?
Two colored gentlemen who
had just reduced the populat
ion in a farmer’s henroost
were making a getaway.
“Laws, Mose,” gasped Sam,
“Why you s’pose them flies
follows us so close?”
“Keep gallopin’ nigger,” said
Mose, “them ain’t flies. Them’s
buckshot.”
This was an Irishman’s de
fence in a poaching case: “In
dade your worships the only
bird I shot was a rabbit; and
I knocked that down with a
stick!”
!
“Have you anything to say,
prisoner, before sentence is
passed upon you?”
“No, your lordship, except
that it takes very little to
please me.”
Both girls riding in the ma
chine which had overturned
were injured. Miss Lane was
cut about the face and hands
and Miss Swope in the back
3eat-.Raymond (Wash.,) Her
ald.
“I thought, Sam,” said Jones,
upon meeting his colored
friend outside the courtroom,
“that you were going to
settle your dispute out of
court.”
“We did, suh,” declared Sam.
“Dis yere am jest de suit fo’
”sault an’ battery what hap
pened durn’ the settlement.”
Oren F. says just let a man
talk about himself and he will
think you are interesting.
If a man’s face is his fortune,
some of us are in debt.
An easterner trying to be
smart went west and picked
up a pumpkin from the vege
table stand, remarking, “Is
that as large as you grow
apples around here?”
The Texan replied: “Hey,
drop that grape!”
First Dumbbell: I got a letter
today from Charleston, S. C.
The Charleston, I know, is a
dance but what does the S. C.
stand for?
Second Dumbbell: Shake con
tinually.
Pointing to the distant peak,
the sighseer asked an indolent
native its name.
“That there mountain?” re
plied the lazy one “that’s Cat
fish Mountain.”
“An odd name,” mused the
sightseer. “And why is the
mountain so called?”
“Bcause,” drawled the laconic
son of the sod, “nobody can
scale it.”
Lashes to lashes,
Dust to dust
If she puckers her lips,
Then in Ood we'lj trust,
These airplanes are getting
more damgerous than ever.”
"Someone killed?”
‘No, but I see a chap got mar
ried in one yesterday.”
A lady who had given a din
ner party met her doctor in
the street the following day,
and stopped to speak to him.
“I am so sorry, doctor,” she
said, “that you were not able
to come to my dinner party
last night; it would have done
you good to be there.”
“It has already done me good,”
he replied tersely. “I have just
prescribed for three of the
guests.”
Chamber
oi
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
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PORTLAND CANAL !
MINING
DISTRICT
The harm others may do to a
man’s reputation is not so seri
ous as what he can do to his
character.
The defendants were all cert
ain that they had not been
over-speeding.
“We may have been putting
on speed when we got to the
hill, but we could be d own to
twenty miles an hour within
two car lenghs,” said the first
one.
“I’m sure,’’ said the next man,
“that we weren’t doing more
than fifteen miles an hour,
and at the cross roads we
'were down to ten.”
The third merely put it: “We
were practically at a standstill
when the policeman came up.”
“If I hear any more witnesses,
I shall have the car backing
into someone," said the magis
trate. “I’d better stop the
thing now. Ten dollars fine.”
John Hovland
Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
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