HYDER WEEKLY HERALT)
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford a id Louise Sandford
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THE KINDLING TORCH.
The tumult and the shouting
on the Big Outside which ush
er the Old Year derisively out
and drag the New Year hilari
ously in is, after all, only a
spent hour of self-abandon.
For when the noise has died
and the little night is past, the
fact remains; and the fact is a
milestone set firmly in the fibre
of our living journey, and it
would come if we slept, or it
we kept vigil or, indeed, if we
passed into eternity in advance
of the event.
It is fatality we celebrate,
whether we recognize it or not:
it is human limitation we speed
into the night with the old
year, knowing that all things
are beyond our control; and
thus we play the bravo, daring
Time to do what he can and
will, since the dawn is not of
our numbering.
For some the night of caper
ing; for others the morning of
reflection. “Resist the begin
nings,” urges Ovid , but he
speaks of temptations. “Those
that with haste,” remarks Cas
sius, “will make a mighty fire,
begin it with weak straws.”
That is wisdom, and the weak
straws of our flame are the
gleanings of New Year’s Day,
left from the vanished har
vest of the dead year. Spen
ser was not the first, nor the
last, to discover that “each
goodly thing is hardest to be
gin,” but there is a quite com
mon discovery that even the
weakest of good intentions
leaves a reproach among its
ruins, and that is something.
Life is a succession of mods,
through which we pass again
and again; and, according to
our character, some grow
strong and some more faintly
marked as they revolve. The
coming of the New Year is of
all these moods the most ar
resting, because it conspires
with the seasons to symbolize
life itself. He is a bold man
who dares shut his ears to the
tolling of the summons this day
echoes; he is a foolish man,
.00, for if the bells monotoni
-heir warning they also pea*
their promise. Who knows oi
tomorrow? Of another such
day, a year hence, and whi\
-hall be written? Whither tht
trail! what the rewards? Som.
-hing stirs within as the dcyt
slide into the year; and that
profound element of high c l
venture, which shines through
the eyes of a boy for whom al
the earth awaits a conqueror
j flickers, perchance flames, and
, lights “a candle of understand
i ng in thine heart, which shall
I not be put out.”
Good intentions are not to b< j
! despised; they are their owi
1 benediction. Not all are wist
i enough to collect weak straws
j but the fault is born of zeal
j 3o long as we ponder the mat
and realize, if once a year
I ter and realize that it is bettei
; and more useful to live foi
: good ideals than to die foi
j them, each New Year holds to
ward us the kindling torch.
For these the peal of promise,
and the dawn after the night.
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PROGRESS.
Fifteen or twenty years ago
snow and mud prohibited the
operation of automobiles dur- j
ing some portion of the year in j
virtually every section of the <
United States. Many will re
member the practice then in
vogue of raising the car on
blocks and deflating the tires
for the winter. Those were the
days when trans-state touring
by motor in summer was more
adventurous than transconti
nental touring in winter is to
day.
Had there always been im
proved highways connecting
the East with the West and the
North with the South the auto
mobile would have been a year
round mode of transportation
from its inception. Today trans
transcontinental and interstate
touring is no longer subject to
weather conditions. If the sum
mer trend of motoring is from
the West to the East and from
the South to the North winter
travel points westward and
southward.
The winter motor caravan of
today has attained to gigan
tic proportions, causing one to
wonder what it will be when
the last of the trunk line or in
tersectional highways has been
completed. Although great
progress has been made in
highway building the long-dis
tance motorist will still, en
counter in some states stretch
es of dirt road which are hub
deep with mud in some months
of the year and on which snows
are permitted to accumulate
undisturbed by motor plow 01
shovelman.
Less than a decade ago prob
ably not more than one per
cent of the people of this coun
try had visited more than a
half dozen of the forty-eight
states of the union. Today a
much larger percentage ha:
traveled from coast to coast
and from Maine to Florida.
One can not overestimate thi
value to the nation of this do
meotic sight-seeing. Provincial
ism and sectional prejudices
are vanishing before the army
of motor tourists.
GOETHE’S NEW YEAR
WISH
Health enough to make work
a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support
your needs.
Strength enough to battle
with difficulties and overcome
them.
Grace enough to confess youi
jins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until
ome good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some
good in your neighbor.
Love ehough to move you to
be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the
things of God.
Hope enough to remove all
anxious fears concerning the
Uture.
Just for Fun
1929 HAS ARRIVED!
Another year hass just begun
It brings new hopes, new work,
new fun,
Whether its wishes all come
true
Is largely a matter that’s up to
you.
New Year’s consolation: It is
better to have resolved and
failed than never to have re
solved at all.
When competition critises
your plans, look for the colored
man in the woodpile.
The only thing some barbers
should use after shaving you
are words of apology.
“He claims he’s in close touch
with the heads of many organi
zations.”
“In a way, yes-he’s a barber.”
The money that pays for oc
casional advertising is money
spent, but the funds put into
continuous advertising is mon
ey invested.
Reporter: “I suppose that as
the plane fell all your sins
flashed before your eyes?”
Movie Actress: “Oh, dear,
no! We only fell two miles.”
Some one asks us if women
really do wear fewer clothes
now, why is it that a husband
still never can find a vacant
hook in the wardrobe?
More wardrobes is the answer.
• Mr. Gaddis was playing golf
alone. A strange boy kept fol
lowing him around the course,
At the seventh hole he became
impatient and turned to the
boy, saying, “Son, you’ll never
learn to play by watching me.”
“I’m not watching you,” the
boy replied. “I’m going fishing
as soon as you dig up a few
more worms.”
Little Emily had been to school
for the first time.
“Well, darling, and what did
you learn?” asked her mother,
on Emily’s return.
“Nuffin,” sighed Emily, hope
lessly. “I’ve got to go back to
morrow.”
“He was a man who had in
deed suffered much,” says a
country paper in a short obit
lary notice; “he had been a
ubscriber to this paper since
ts first number.”
A London taxi driver, putting
m a spurt to reach a railway
tation at a certain time, ran
iown a cart, upsetting the con
ents.
A policeman, confronting the
caxi driver, demanded his
name.
“Michael O’Brien,” came the
reply.
“Indeed,” said the policeman.
That’s my name too. Where do
ye come from?”
“Cork.”
“And so do I. Now just stand
here a moment while I go over
ind charge this man with
jacking into ye.’ ’
"Should I marry a man who
ies to me?”
“Lady, do you want to be an
>ld maid?”
The man who declares “every
man has his price” has his also,
■vhich is about thirty cents.
He who kisses and runs away
.vill live to kiss another girl.
Any credit man can tell you
that it is the man who pays;
the woman merely buys and
buys.
There is more or less bad
rzi
Chamber
of
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
blood in every family-except
yours. '
Rich Suitor (rapturously):
“You accept me! Then its a
bargain ?”
She (calmly): “Certainly. I
houldn’t have considered it if
t wasn’t.”
They tell about a Hyder wom
an who changed doctors. There
was nothing the matter with
her but she got mad at her old
ioctor for telling so.
Hyder Sheik :“The first time
/ou contradict me I’m going to
kiss you.’ ’
She: “You are not.”
It was after the opera. The
expensively dressed woman
approached the broad should
ered man.
“If I am not mistaken,” she
:aid, “I have the honor of
speaking to the renowned
basso, have I not?”
He felt flattered. “And what
’an I do for you, madame?”
he asked.
“I can’t find my car,” she
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jewels
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewels
Elgin 7 and 15 Jewels
Standard 7 and 15 Jewels
Ingersolls
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.
THE NUGGET SHOP
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
GEORGE B. GRI6SGY
Attorney - at - Law
KETCHIKAN. ALASKA 1
answered pleasantly,
you be so kind as to
‘Charlie’ at the top of
voice?”
“You look so pale and
says Ma,
“Did you take your iron
day?”
“ I bit my nails,” her daugh
ter said,
“Now may I go out and
play?”
A preacher was explaining ti
the crreat un- .
his congregation the great un
happiness caused by divorce,
and urged husbands to be
more attentive to their wives,
to kiss them more frequently.
Arriving home, one of the hus
bands, who evidently had
chosen to go to church rather
than be helpful in many do
mestic problems, rushed into
into the kitchen where his wife
was laboring, and kissed her.
Breaking into tears, she cried,
“the baby is sick, the furnace
fire out, the plumbing leaking,
and now you come home
drunk. Its too much.”
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PROFESSIONAL
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JVttorocg at ^atai
Jlyirer, ^laaka
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL ft MINING ENGINEER
». S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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Dr. C. D. Carter will be at hi*
office in the Reichenbaeh Bldg.
Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday of each week. For ap
pointments at other times
phone Northern Drug Co.,
Stewart.
CHAS. F. SAN0F9RD
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
NOYES BOAT COMPANY
Operating M. V. Fairbanks, Carrying U. S. Mails
FREIGHT and PASSENGER SERVICE BETWEEN
HYDER and KETCHIKAN
Leaving Ketchikan 9 A. M. Tuesday
Leaving Hyder 2 P. M. Wednesday
Hyder Dock Company, Hyder Agents
A. J. MAYER
P O BOX 123
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