HYgER WEEKLY HERALD
. >' Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue1,Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford .Owner and Publisher
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Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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FARMER’S INCOME GROWS
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The estimate of the federal
farm loan commissioner that
$1,000,000,000 more will be
realized by the farmers of the
United States on their 1929
crops than on those of last
year may or may not be close
to the mark, but there can be
no doubt that it is representat
ive of a rapidly improving sent
iment regarding the position of
agriculture and of an improve
ment in the agricultural situ
ation itself..
It would be less than the truth
to say that all is well with the
farm, for such is not the case.
However, it is better off this
year than last—which means
that the trend is in the right di
rection.
A recent crop analysis asserts
that what the corn growers
lose from the predicted short
crop they will more than make
up from the sharp rise in price.
The wheat crop is said to be a
little less than last year but al
so has promise of a higher mar-1
ket. In the case of oats there is j
a bumper crop and a fair rise
in price. The year also holds
great promise for the cotton
growers, while hay, barley and
potatoes are plentiful at good
prices.
Given another year or two
like the past two or three and
the farmer will solve his own <
problems. Prosperous farmers
and industries promise another
year of great prosperity for the
country.
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LENGTHENING LIFE
Charts of the great life in
surance companies indicate
that the life span remains at |
about the Biblical three score I
years and ten, despite the re-<
markable advances of chemist-!
ry and science.
And yet, in spite of all the
talk of glands and operations,
and the comic attempts to
lengthen the life of man, the
idea that ope day folks may re
main on e^rth a hundred or a
hundred and fifty years does
pot seem ridiculous. But one
must wonder what would be
the advantage of it. Man may
prolong but cannot hope to es
cape the inevitable end; at
least in his present state of
consciousness. It will not re
move the hill of life to make
its slopes longer. And it will
not make its climbing any eas
ier to prolong the journey. So,
too, man cannot escape old age
by putting it off. And if he do
so, is he not robbing life of one
of its most charming phases?
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DECADENCE
The leaves on the trees are
beginning to take on the rose
ate hues of autumn and they j
will be most beautiful to be-1
hold a few weeks from now.
Most beautiful indeed; and yet
their very loveliness will be j
but symbols of decay and old
age.
So it is with man and his art.
Havelock Ellis, in his book on
Huysmans, says: “All art is the
rising and falling of the slopes
of a rythmatic curve between
classic and decadent extremes.
Decadence suggests to us go-!
ing down, falling, decay. If j
we walk down a real hill we |
do not feel that we commit a j
worse act than when we;
walked up it.”
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AVIATION'S NEXT STEP
Last year at this season there
were heard predictions that the
present summer would see the i
inauguration of transatlantic i
commercial airplane service.
So far that prediction has not
materialized but so much has:
been accomplished in that di-1
rection that the air prognosti
cators are now convinced that
their prophecies were prema
ture by only a year. It is con
ceded, however, that there is
not likely to be any serious at
tempt to carry passengers be
tween the United States and
England for some time after a
commercial service is estab
lished. Possibly for three or
even four y^ars the planes will
be run on schedule, carrying
only mail and express matter,
during which time the pilots
will experiment. They will
pick out routes and chart the
air currents, attempting to
find a pathway where they
will meet the least resistance
from storms. In the meantime
expert engineers on land will
use the data they collect in
perfecting motors and aircraft
for this service.
Experts in aeronautics say
that in less than a half decade
it will be as safe to fly across
the Atlantic as it is now to
travel by boat. While it would
be advisable to throw a trans
atlantic airline open to passen
ger traffic only after the haz
ards have ben greatly reduced,
it will not be necessary to
wait that long to get passen
gers.
M. Bleriot, the first man to
fly across the English channel,
recalled in a recent statement
that his epochal flight in
spired the erroneous observat
ion that cross-channel flying
would never be placed on a
commercial basis and it is not
unlikely that those who say
the same of transatlantic fly
ing are equally wrong.
Just for Fun
He isn't a hardened reformer
unless he is wounded deeply
by the news that a good time
was had by all.
Faint praise never won fair
lady, either.
There was a time when you
had to read the fashion maga
zines to find out what women
were wearing, instead of just
watching them as they go by.
Pa.: “How are you getting
along with your Greek?”
Daughter: “Now, you leave
my boy friend out of this!’
Patient: “Doctor, how are my
chances?”
Doctor: “Oh, pretty good, bul
1 wouldn’t start reading any
continued stories.”
Professor: “What do you find
the hardest tiling to deal
with?
Student: “An old pack of
:ards.”
Eminent scientists claim that
man’s cycle of life will soon be
increased to 100 years. That
will sure be a great boon to the
installment business.
Any day now we expect to
see the advent of a combin
ation hip-flask and cigarette
lighter—the same liquid can
be used for both.
Life is like a deck of cards:
When you are in love it is
Hearts. When you are engaged
it is Diamonds; when you are
married it is Clubs: when you
die it is Spades.
The ladder of life it full of
splinters but they hurt most
when we are sliding down.
A druggist who was not par
ticularly successful was ap
proached by one of his clerks
who asked for an increase of
wages. “Nothing doing,” said
the druggist, “and let me tell
pou something. If you are not
;areful, I’ll take you into part
nership.”
ALASKA NOTES!
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
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Alaska’s salmon pack for
this year amounts to five mil- j
Uon, two hundred thousand j
cases which means something
like a case of salmon for
every thirty persons in Ameri
ca.
Ivan Grassness, ari*ested on
charge of destroying the nest
of an eider duck, entered a
plea of guilty before Commis
sioner Driftied at Unga, and
was fined $350. He paid the
fine.
James Archibad, pioneer of
the Dawson district, passed
away at Fairbanks recently at
an advanced age.
The entire crew of the
schooner Flisif. which was
wrecked off the Siberian Coast
early last month, was picked
up on Little Diomede Island
in the center of Bering Strait,
by the cutter Northland, and
taken to Nome. The craw
numbered 20.
Arrivals in Dawson from
Mayo and Keno City report the
recent sale of several proper
ties on Keno Hill and Galena
Hill to the Treadwell Yukon
Company. The price paid for
two claims on Galena Hill is
understood to run well into six
figures.
The biggest run of herring in
25 years appeared recently in
Chatham Strait in southeast
ern Alaska. The school of fish
is said to have formed an al
most solid mass for a distance ;
of twenty miles.
Rex Seymour, formerly of
Latouche, now now resides in
Anchorage, was declared of
unsound mind recently by a
jury in the Commissioner’s
court at Anchorage, and was
ordered committed to the
Morningside Sanitarium.
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
The Church school will re
sume its work on Sunday, Oct
ober 6, at 10:30 a. m. Parents
are invited to bring their child
ren and to assist in getting the
school in operation again.
Would we not all like to make
the poem of Miss Francis Rid
ley Havergal our sincere pray
er as we resume this work for
the children's sake?
“Lord, speak to me, that I
may Speak,
In living echoes of Thy tone;
As Thou hast sought, so let
me seek
Thy erring children lost and
lone."
We also extend a sincere wel
come to our first Worship Ser
vice of the Church year at 7 p.
m. Sunday evening. This ser
vice will be conducted with
this question in mind: “Our
place in God’s plans.”
“Jesus, Thy boundless love
to me
No thought can reach, no
tongue declare;
O knit my thankful heart to
Thee,
And reign without a rival
there!
Thine - wholly Thine alone -
I am,
Be Thou alone my constant
guide.”
Paul Gerhardt.
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At Inspiration Point, probab
ly the most inspiring point on
:he White Pass, route overlook
ing Deadhorse Gulch, a tab
let was dedicated recently in
memory of the three thousand
horses and mules that lost their
lives on the White Pass trail in
1897-8.
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Waltham 17 and 23 Jewels
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewels
Elgin 7 and 15 Jewels
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & 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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JUNEAU ALASKA
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