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HYD&R WEEKLY H&RALD
Established 1924
Published Erery Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. P. Sandford .. Qwner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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interested in the sale of mining sharOs and publishes no in
formation relative to local mining development that is not be
lieved to bb in full accord with fact.
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UNSEASONABLE WEATHER
Peculiar weather conditions
in many parts of the country,
and particularly in the Pacific
Northwest, have set the fire,
side and street corner weather
observers to asserting once
again that the climate of the
country has changed and is
still in process of change. They
are persuaded that the climate
is shifting toward the tropical,
but if one's memory does not
lead into error, it seems a re*
turn of the glacial period was
recorded in sections which ex
perienced an unusually cold
winter a year ago. The climate
is assuredly i n process o f
change, if one measures the
transitions in the geologist’s
years. There has indeed been
a radical change since the glac
iers covered sections of the
United States. But of changes
of a permanent character with
one man’s lifetime there is no
real proof.
In 1861, the “year without a
summer,” there was frost in
every month and the winter
was cruelly severe. Crop fail
ures created an acute food
hortage and the death rate
was abnormal, according to the
records. The hysterical said at
that time there would never be
another warm summer:. That
was a freak year, not even ap
proximated by any of the ill
years that have since elapsed.
Within the memory of this
generation there have been un
seasonably cold summers and
unseasonably mild winters, and
there have been years that
have run true to normal. Ob
viously the human memory is
never more fallible than when
dealing in weather facts. Un
seasonable weather impresses
the mind to the exclusion of the
normal, with the result that the
weather of the present is con
trasted with freak conditions
somewhere in the past.
The “good old summer time”
and the “old-fashioned winter”
will have their innings in the
future as in the p#st.
MAIL EARLY
The approaching holiday
season is witnessing the usual
request of the postoffice de
partment that the public dp
what it can to aid in the
prompt handling of mail mat
ter, which' will be increasing in
volume each day from now un
til Christmas,
In sending gift packages two
things are important if disap
pointment is not to be invited—
careful wrapping, and mailing
as soon as possible. Holiday j
package mail may be marked j
to indicate that it is not to be j
opened until Christmas, and
this permission should result in
an increase in early mailing.
It is a mistake for any person
to feel that the small amount
of mail which he sends does
not delay the transmission of
mails, but the aggregate of
mail matter, even in a small
community like Hyder, often
severely tests the facilities of
the postoffice staff during the
holiday season.
Even if an individual does not
take the broader view of mak
ing his contribution toward the
handling of the mail, he should
think of the personal advan
tages in obtaining the best re
sults in his own shipments by
turning them over to the postal
forces early enough to avoid
the inevitable rush of the holi
day season, thereby having
reasonable assurance of
prompt delivery.
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“XMAS.
Now that . Christmas is just
around the. corner again, one
; expects to encounter the abbre
viated “Xmas” in many places,
and to hear many complaints
and adverse comments from
those who object to the short
ening of ths word “Christmas.”
One objection to the shorten
ing of the word to Xmas is the
pitfall of pronunciation. With
the use of the brief form has
grown a tendency to read it
“Exmag, a n unpardonable,
barbarism. So pronounced, the
word is quite open to the crit
icisms of it which' clergymen
and others express.
X, however, as an abbreviat
ion of Christ, has a history al
most as old as’Christianity. In
catacomb inscriptions it stands
for Christos, the first letter be
ing chi. The letter X, the Eng
lish equivalent of chi, meaning
Christ, has the sanction of an
cient usage unquestionably.
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
include Xmas among the abbre
viations of recognized stand
ing, also Xn for Christian.
They do not stigmatize it as
colloquial or vulgar. Still, there
is a feeling for words that im
pels most persons with a verb
al conscience to spell Christ
mas out full. To many Christ
ians Christmas is a beautiful
word, while Xmas is not. On
the score of good taste the ap
peal for the disuse of Xmas is
persuasive. However, circum
stances can alter cases, per
tainly not even the ministry ob
ject to use o* the contracted
form in the newspaper head
line, where space is as precious
as it was on the tablets of the
catacombs. Xmas is a respect
ful term to those who look up
on the X as symbolical of the
Christian cross, and it is un
likely any would object to its
use if this symbolism were uni
versally recognized.
Just for Fun
Man's three ages: Hates work,
works cheerfully as a matter
of duty; wishes he could work.
After all, the man who knows
it all wouldn’t be so objection
able if he’d keep it to himself.
If he ha9 begun to think he
looks distinguished, he is a lit
tle past forty.
Virtue is relative. Most of the
people who boast of their self
control haven’t much to con
trol
Still, we imagine that these
intellectual birds doubtless en
joy life when nobody is about
to watch them sneer.
The hardest thing a kid faces
in this world is the job of learn
ing good manners without see
ing any, according to the Blue
berry Kid.
A correspondent wants to
know which are smarter, girls
or boys. Well, which are the
more successful at dodging
work through life?
We understand that the col
lection of antiques at the Brit
ish Museum has been enriched
by a perfect specimen of the
hairpin of the pre-shingle ep
och.—Exc.
Change of Heart
Rastus: “Heah’s dat quatah
Ah borrowed from you last
yeah.”
Bones: “Yuh done keep it so
long Ah don’t know ef hit’s
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vyuff while fo’ me to change
mah opinion of yah fo’ just
two-bits.”' •
Johnnie (to new visitor): “So
you are my grandma, . are
you?"
Grandmother: “Yes, Johnnie,
I’m your grandma on your
father’s side.”
Johnnie: “Well, you’re on the,
wrong side. You’ll soon find
that out/’
Mother (severely): “When I
was your age I never dreamed
of doing the things you do!”
Modem daughter: “Mother,
I Wouldn’t worry about that;
I suppose you did the-best that
you could with what you did
think up.”
ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
A departmental order recent
ly issued by the department of
the interior transferred to Gov
ernor George A. Parks the re
sponsibility for the welfare of
the Alaska reindeer, which
have been under the jurisdict
ionf of the Bureau of Educate
ion for almost forty years, at
which time the few reindeer
which since have increased to
hundreds of thousands, were
imported by the government
from Siberia,
King Salmon have been found
spawning In the streams ad
jacent to Ketchikan and are
believed to be a return of pome
of the king Salmon fry released
from the Ketchikan fish hatch
ery three and four years ago
W. D. Flanagan, former pro
hibition enforcement officer,
who is now engaged in running
a trading station on the upper
Tanana River, waa arrested re
cently on a charge of having
shipped 27 marten skins and
with transporting skins of land
furbearing animals without
proper markings on the pack
ages containing them. He was
released under $500 bonds, af
ter pleading not guilty to both
charges.
Talking motion pictures will
be heard for the first time in
Cordova, Anchorage and Fair
banks next month, it was an
nounced recently by Capt. A.
E. Lathrop, proprietor of the
Empress chain of theatres,
Capt. Lathrop is now in the
States purchasing the necess
ary equipment for talkie^ for
his theatres in the three towns.
A general speeding up of
mining operations at the Healy
River Coal Mining Corporat
ion's coal mine at Suntrana,
has resulted from an increased
general demand for their coal.
The company is now producing
an average of 300 tons daily
and is preparing for an even
greater output in the future by
installing two 125-h. p. boilers
at a cost of $15,000.
Shrimp canning, an entirely
new industry will be launched
in Seward in the near future,
if plans of the Seward Fisher
ies reach fulfillment. It was re
cently announced that shrimps
had been found in large quan
tities in Resurrection Bay and it
was said that klmoat a ton of
the crustaceans’ were harvested
but in hauling in the catch the
net burst, spilling part of the
contents. The dompany is said
to 1)6 going ahe&d -with plans
for handling the shrimp, an in
dustry which will be active for
at least ten months of the year.
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 29 Jewel.
Hamilton It and 21 Jewels
Eight 7 and IS Jewels_
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin A Hofes, $12.50 to $25.00
Jewelry made to order, repair
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Come
In And Look Them Over.
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