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THE MODERN GIRL
Thoie who have observed
that (he average girl of today
is healthy, pretty and trained
to wo.k require no defense of
the modern young woman.
Still there are some who, mis
led by the excess of talk about
flapper-, have the notion that
the a' rage of the girls of to
d ;y is not as high as in former
time'?.
The jr rl* of today probably
do more work than those of
any other t me, for the reason
that the modern world has
brought more occupations suit
able to <hem. Nor are all those
called rl <npers to be thought
cr a light, flippant creatures;
certainly not as being immoral.
Gf course there are extremes
among them, as in all classes
and in all periods. But we
should not judge the many by
the few. However, the worst
flappers of today could not
possibly be inveighed against
more severely than were their
sisters of ancient times. Cato
the Censor had his troubles
with them, and the Bible also
• has many commentaries on j
their ('.re3a and conduct. What |
modern flapper could act in a j
. - more flippant manner than the j
daughters of Zion, described I
i in the sixteenth verse of the!
third chapter of Isaiah; daugh-!
ters'who were haughty, and
walked with stretched forth
necks and wanton5 eyeis; walk-!
ing ard mincing fcSMiftey went, j
and making a tinkling with
their feet? The relit of " the
chapter also has much to say S
of their dress. In all ages there |
has been extreme^-just as to- j
day. '
MINES ARE MADE BY MEN
This is an argument frequent
1 y used by those who would
“nationalize” the mining in
dustry : “God put those metals
in the ground; all the .miner
does is to take them out.”
They might with equal justir
fication state: “God made j
those seeds turn into grain,; allI
the farmer does is to reap the !:
crop.” 1
The two eases are parallel.
An expanse of soil in which
seeds will grow does not con
stitute a farm. Land is not a
farm until it is farmed; the
soil must: be tilled and seeds
planted before the farmer can
reap any benefit from its own
ership. Whe n the pioneer set
cler has cleared his woodlot
or watered his desert and
urned it into a productive
acreage, no wild theorist (out
ide of Russia!) comes along
and te]ls him he must give it
back to the government, be
cause “God makes the seeds
sprout.”
Yet the miner pours his toil
and his brains into the ground,
just as surely as the farmer
does. A mineral deposit bur
ied under tons of rock is not a
mine until the ores can be ex
tracted and shipped away at
a profit. Holes must be drill
'd and tunnels blasted out,
machinery installed and geolo
gists consulted, capital inter
ested and transportation ar-1
**anged, all more expensive'
'rocesses than any that the
’armer has to undertake. Yet
he same gentry who never
question the farmer’s right to :
his land raise the cry every
low and then that the mine
should be taken from the min
;r and returned to the state, j
Because “God put the metals
in the ground” !-Mining Truth, j
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THE HISTORY OF GOLD
Gold is the most ductile of all j
the metals. It is too soft for ‘
use pure, and to harden it, it \
is alloyed with copper or sil-1
ver. The coinage of the British }
Empire contains 22 parts of j
gold to two parts of copper.
Such gold is said to be 22 car
ats fine. Gold is first mention
ed in the Bible in Genesis II-II
The rivers flowing out of Eden
are enumerated and one is said
to flow through a land where
there is gold.
The value of gold compared
with silver is said to have been 1
estimated in the time of the ■
Greek historian Herodotus,
450 B. C., at about ten to one.
At the time of the Greek phi
losopher Plato, 380 B. C., it
was twelve to one; today it is
abut thirty to one. '
The Spaniards discovered
gold in South America in 1493,
from which time until 1731
they carried from South Amer
ica 6,000 millions of “pieces of
eight” in registered gold and
silver, exclusive of what was
unregistered. One piece of
gold weighing 60 pounds troy
was found near La Paz, a
town in Peru, in 1730.
Gold was discovered in Ma
lacca in 1732; in New Anda
lusia-in 1875; in Ceylon in
1800. Gold was discovered in
California in September, 1847;
and in Australia in 1851. It is
estimated that between 1851
and 1859 gold to the value of
$450,000,000 was exported
from Victoria, Australia alone.
In April, 1858, gold was dis
covered in British Columbia,
and a rush of miners to the
goldfields followed. In New
Zealand gold was discovered
in 1861, and in the Transaal.
in South Africa.. The Witwat
ersrand, South Africa, was de
clared a public goldfield in
September, 1886. In South
Australia gold discoveries
were made in July, 1891.
In the Klondike district oi
the Yukon Territory, gold was
discovered in 1896. The new
goldfield proved to be one of
the richest in the world, and
fortunes were obtained from
placer mining. During the past
ten years production has fallen
off, but hydraulic mining is
still earned on by several com
panies.—Interior News, Smith
ers, B. C.
Just For Fun
Maybe Old King Coal is a
merry old soul, but we notice
.hat the consumer fails to get
much merriment out of him.
A hold-up-man " needs no
praise, he will stick up for
himself.
Correct this sentence: “It is
an utterly foolish bill and, of
course, the legislature will not
pass it.”
Myrtle says that a cold sore on
her mouth or a pimple on her
nose can keep a girl away j
from a dance when a funeral
in her family couldn’t do it.
Being a rugged character is
all right, but you are liable to
wear your teeth out snapping
them together.
“This is a very small town,
isn’t it?”
“Wal—no. The town is plenty
big enough, but there ain’t
many people in it.”
_
In a little while big sister’s
things can be passed on to her
younger brother.
“Some people are such blam
jd fools they do what they
vant to do instead of what we
want them to do.”
It’s a great life'if you don’t
veaken, and Pete Wibon say,
i greater one if you weaker
iust a little bit.
“And what position does your
son plajTWi the team !
“I’m not sure, but I think he
is t he one that -makes the
touchdown!”
What a whale of a differ
ence a few scents make,” said
Lady Fatima after being kiss
ed by an oriental onion-eat
ing Romeo.
A Michigan farmer caught;
an eagle in a skunk trap, much |
to the eagle’s disgust.
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It is fine to get back to nat
ure if you can have one hand
free to scratch bites next day.
Any man can fool a woman be
fore she is married, but Noel
mys it takes a genius to do it
afterwards.
People are so unoriginal. Ever
since Dante wrote his ‘‘In- j
ferno” to please Beatrice, ev-j
ory boy who falls in love tells i
his girl he would go through
hell for her.
For red ucing the price of
iggs nothing has been found to ■
beat the spring of the year.
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An exchange leads its edi
torial column with an able edi-1
torial on spring. The editorial
is as follows: “Fore.”
IIe( in front of her parents) :
“Here, son, take this quarter
and go see the Sheik.”
“If it’s all the same to you, j
I’d just as soon stay here and
watch you and sister, after
mamma and papa have gone
to bed.”
“Talk about torture-”
“Yes?’
“Nothing is worse than sit
ting in a barber’s chair with
your mouth full of lather,
watching the boy trying to
give another customer your
hat.”
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
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Evervono
Rev. C. T. Hatten. Pastor
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Irffrration
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
ViV ? DISTRICT
RoyNewton says you can’t
tell if a man with spring fever
is stretching himself or telling
a fish tale.
The national House of Repre
sentatives has voted an appro
priation of $10,000,000 for
the general purpose of making
life more pleasant in the Unit
ed States embassies abroad.
Ben Franklin, one of the rear
diplomats of yesteryear, and
who lived in an attic abroad,
must feel that times have
changed.
Houses should have three
coats of paint to maintain
beauty and preserve the sur
face, say builders. Some of
the girls must get their beauty
hints from the lumber maga
zines.
That city treasurer of Provi
dence, R. I., must be a suspici
ous chap. He caused the ar
rest of a stranger just because
the poor fellow tried to cash
a check for $508,000,000.
A man struck a match to see
if the gasoline tank was emp
ty. It wasn’t. Another man
touched a trolley wire to see if
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The Herald Job Shop.
it was live. It was. A mart
jumped out of a boat to see if
he c ould swim. He couldn’t.
A man cut out his advertising:
to see if he could save money.
He didn’t. )
j It seems that the Volstead act
I has had plenty of publicity
and now only needs clear-cut,
popular respect in order to be
i come quite a success.
John Hovland
Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
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