HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
LEADERS IN NAME ONLY.
There is a continuous obligat
ion owed by every individual
to the community and especial
ly by those most favored bj
fortune.. Enlightened self-in
terest should quicken accept
ance of the obligation. There i;
hardly room for argument
that what is good for the com
munity is, broadly considered
good for the individual in hit
work. Conversely, what is
good for the individual in the
best sense is good for ever}
other man, woman and chile
in the community.
Too much must not be ex
pected from politicians ant
parties, too often approachec
from both sides on the basi.
of a horse trade. Government
al agents must be supplement
ed by efforts of private per
sons who can envision thing:
as they ought to be, and a'; !
long range. Politicians and of
ficeholders, regardless of wha
they may say in their cam
paigns, are mostly concernec
with getting into office anci
staying in. That is why the}
are in politics. They are ir
politics to get into office or to
have a hand in putting others
in office, as other men and
women are in business or pro
fessions to make money or a
career, or both.
But the politician and office
holder is usually wise enough
to know that that which is
beneficial to the community or
state or nation will best react
to his benefit. His motives for
serving the public may be sefl
ish but the service is no poor
er for tht t.
No man can Ion f 'en3.ro in
pui’lic office or in political
power who consistently disre
gards the will and welfare ot
the people he serves. Public
«*m.c is the foundation t:»cn
which he must build his polit
ical power. Failure to give sat
isfactory service has wrecked
more political careers than
anything else.
Convince a majority of the
people that these in office are
not giving a fair return in serv
ice, and it will take more than
clush funds or political pull to
ceep them in office.
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SELF SERVICE.
Many good folks are lament
ing the passing of the era
-vhen men and women conse
crated their lives to unselfish
service and prepared them
elves to become ministers, mis
lionaries, teachers or country
loctors that they might ad
ninister to the spiritual, men
al and physical needs of hu
nanity without thought of
arge worldly gain. They are
lot in error when they charge
hat modern men and women
ire chooisng vocations today
n which they can do the
rreatest service to themselves.
People today are coming to
he belief that the best way
hey can help others is to pro
luce much that their profit
hall be large and that they
hall never become dependent
ipon society. The old idea of
ervice was direct. The new
ervice is indirect. Twenty
ears ago it was still thought
hat only ministers, doctors
ind teachers served humanity.
Today every workman who
carries his whole day’s wage
home is known to have earn
ed that wage in service to so
ciety.
Elbert Hubbard’s version of
he Golden Rule was, “Do un
o others as though you were
he others,” but an even more
jp-to-date version is “Do
/ourself much good and no
iad to others.”
Getting something for your
celf is reprehensible only when
t is gotten at the expense of
mother.
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HERE’S A WARNING
TO NON-SUBSCRIBERS
A woman who was too eco
lomical to subscribe for her
home paper sent her little son
co borrow a copy taken to her
neighbor. In his haste the boy
ran over a $4 stand of bees
and in ten minutes looked like
a warty squash. His cries
reached his father who ran to
his assitance, and, failing to
notice a barbed wire fence,
ran into it and broke it down,
cutting a handful of flesh from
his anatomy and ruining a $5
pair of pants. The old cow
took advantage of the gap in
the fence and got into the
corn field and killed herself
eating corn. Hearing the rack
et the mother ran, upset a four
gallon churn of rich cream in
to a basket of kittens, drown
ing the full litter. In her haste
she dropped and broke, past
all hope of mending, a $25
set of false teeth. The baby,
left alone, crawled through
the spilled cream and into the
parlor, ruining a $25 carpet.
During the excitement the
eldest daughter ran away with
the hired man, the dog broke
up eleven setting hens, and the
calves got out and chewed the
tails off four shirts.
And all to save a $4 subscript
ion.—Ex.
Just for Fun
Fat headed people are gen
erally thin skinned.
It would be interesting to know
just what is considered “lady
like’' these days.
Not being able to see is a
tragedy, especially these days,
but being blind to faults is a
blessing.
An old broker says the reas
on some stocks go up and down
so regularly is that being most
ly water they rise and fall
with the tide.
It seems strange that those
who profess so much knowl
edge about the next world
3eem to know so little about
this one.
The girl of yesterday who
could dress on so little lives
now anew in the girl of today
who can dress with so little.
The biggest monument does
not mean that the man under
it is going to wear the biggest
crown in heaven.
The happiest people are those
who have never heard of the
superior beings who call them
boobs.
With so many soft people in
it, this shouldn’t be such a
hard world.
It has been our observation
that more gray hairs and
flesh than wisdom come with
age.
Chambers: “My wife and I
have never quarreled. What
do you think of that?”
Clarke: “That’s great! Now
I’ll tell one.”
“Your Lordship/ said Pat to
the judge, “its a divorce I’ll be
afther gettin’ from me wife,
Norah. She talks all night and
she talks all day.” Why what
does she talk • about?” “Ah,
that’s what’s the bother. She
don’t say.”
Money, like men, talks loudest
when tightest.
Some of our neighbors are
permitted to live because it
takes all kinds of people to
make a world.
A cynic is a humorist with a
misfortune to be born with a
smile a trifle to one side.
There, little convulsion, don’t
you cry; you’ll be a dance step
by and by.
A little boy having just be
gun to learn French, was doing
his home exercise.
“What part of speech is wom
an,’’ he asked his father.
“Part of speech!” roared his
father. “She’s not a part of
speech, she’s the whole of it,
my boy.”
Teacher (to class in arith
metic)—“John goes market
ing. He buys two and a quart
er pounds of sugar at seven
cents a pound, two dozen eggs
at forty cents a dozen, and a
gallon and a half of milk at
fifty cents a gallon. What does
it all make?’
Smallest boy—“Custard.”
Two fathers of growing fami
lies were discussing the rear
ing and upbringing of children.
“Yes,” said one, “a great deal
depends on the formation of
early habit.” .
“It does,” said the other. “My
mother employed a woman to
wheel me about when I was a
baby, and I have been pushed
for money ever since.”
A gentleman one day walk
ing down a street in Belfast
saw an old Irish woman beg
ging.
“Could you spare a copper for
an auld woman, sorr?”
The gentleman taking pity up
on her gave her sixpence.
“God bless you, sorr, said the
old woman, “and may every
hair of yer head be a candle
to light you to glory.”
Taking off his hat and show
ing a bald head, the gentle
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man said drily:
“It won't be much of a torch
light procession, madam!"
Father, mother and little Tom
my were in a tramcar. Mother
and Tommy had secured seats,
but poor father had to stand.
Mother: “Tommy, doesn’t it
pain you to see your father
reaching for a strap?”
Tommy: “Only at home, ma.”
A man was going home one
day when a bus drew up near
where he was standing.
“I suppose your ‘Noah’s Ark’
is full?” he cried to the con
ductor.
“All except for the ass; jump
in,” was the conductor’s quick
reply.
Times change. Long ago men
fought for their religion in
stead of about it.
There is a vaccination to pre
vent almost everything in kids
except the desire to answer
back.
There never was a cavity in a
tooth that a man’s tongue
wouldn’t fit.
Ain’t nature grand?
Mother—“That brazen Miss
Vamp boasts that she has been
kissed by every married man
in town except one!”
Father (absently)—“I won
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GEORGE B. GRIGSBY
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
der who he can be?”
Mrs. Jones could only find
two aisle seats in the theater—
one behind the other. Wishing
to have her sister next to her
she turned and cautiously sur
veyed the man in the next seat.
Finally she leaned over and
timidly addressed him.
‘‘I beg your pardon, but are
you alone?”
The man without turning his
head the slightest, but twist
ing his mouth around and
shielding it with his hand,
muttered:
“Cut it out, kid—cut it out!
My wife’s with me!”
PUFFED UP.
A lung tester was recently set
up on the main street of Edin
burgh. You dropped a penny
in the slot, blew into a tube
and it measured your lung ca
pacity, and if you could blow
hard enough to force the hand
clear around the dial you got
your penny back. The first
morning after the tester was
set up on the Edinburgh thor
oughfare 8 Scotchmen were
found dead on the sidewalk
beside it.
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