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ON TAKING PROFITS.
The question of when to take
profits from speculative share
investments is one that often
disturbs the minds of investors;
hence the following well
grounded advice on the sub
ject by “The Mining World
and Engineering Record,”
probably the most widely
known of British mining journ
als, will be of interest to many
local readers.
“Contradictory as it may
seem, many losses in mining
are sustained through profits
not having been taken when
opportunities for doing so were
presented. Shares have been
bought at a certain price; a
substantially better quotation
is subsequently quoted, but, in
waiting for one that is still
higher, the profit that might
have been had is missed—per
haps forever.
“On a speculative share a
profit of 25 per cent, should
all things considered, be taken
without hesitation. Let the
buyer take his chance of the
further rise that may, or may
not, take place.”
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A MINERAL POLICY.
(From Mining Truth)
Feasibility of formulating a
national policy looking to the
maintenance and most effect
ive use of the store of minerals
with which nature has endow
ed the United States is one of
the questions upon which the
Natural Resources Department
of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States will focus
attention during the coming
year.
The War Department has list
ed a number of “strategic min
erals”—such as manganese,
nickel, mercury—necessary
from the view point of nation
al defence.
Many others are equally nec
essary from the view point ot
national economic develop
ment.
What can be done to assure
an adequate supply of minerals
upon which industry depends,
what measures can be taken
to conserve the vanishing min
eral resources which canno'
be replaced, what methods car
be devised for the more eco
nomical use of those of which
the amount is limited and whal
steps may be taken to deter
mine the availability of exist
ing deposits are some of the
questions to be weighed in the
formulation of a national min
eral policy.
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CHRISTMAS IS COMING.
There are those who com
plain that Christmas has beer
‘‘commercialized,” whatevei
that may mean. But if spend
ing one’s money for the happi
ness of somebody else is com
mercialism, then the soonei
he whole world, all its insti
tutions and all its people be
come “commercialized” the
better for all concerned.
It is an elevating experience
(.his preparing for Christmas
it adds something to the joy ol
living and removes even the
most callous from the dead
evel of existence and lets hinr
lwell for a little while in the
rarified upper air where the
■piritual is placed above the
material,- where selfishness
rives place to generosity and
.vhere the divine and the hum
in are so commingled that the
•ymbol of divinity in the per
son of the Child in the manger
ind that benevolent figment oi
luman imagination, old Sants
Claus, are spoken of in the
-ame breath even by the mosl
reverent.
It is a time for sweet secrets,
or whisperings and consultat
ons, for yearnings for others,
’or little sacrifices to the hap
piness of those we love.
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MAN’S FIVE SERVANTS.
When one has a cold nothing
eems to taste right. The wife
nay have done her best with
the apple pie, the mashed po
tatoes may be as fluffy and
smooth as your desire, but its
a task to down them.
There’s a simple reason for
it. A cold obstructs what sci
enlists call the olfactory epi
thelium, located in a little
niche in the skull just above
and behind the nostrils. Its
your smeller.
The senses of taste and smell
are so closely linked it is almost
impossible to say, .sometimes,
which is which. Sugar and salt
are exceptions. We cannot de
tect them by smelling as a rule.
Take your nose out for a
walk some day. As you pass
the grocery, the meat market,
the hotel, the bakery and the
books store, note how your
memory and your sight are
helped out by the sense of
smell. Each place of business
has its distinctive odor. Every
human has five wonderful ser
vants. They are sight, hearing,
touch, taste and smell. Learn
to use them all with intelli
gence.
Just for Fun
Some men borrow trouble,
some buy it, and some run a
newspaper expecting to please
everybody.
They call him Saint Nick be
cause he puts the “nick” in
pocketbooks.
Any old vinegar ihay know
its mother, but it takes a good
cork to know its own pop.
In the round world you’ll find
no substitute for being square.
“What’s the proper way of
fixing a cantaloupe?”
“Well, four out of five halve
it.”
CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE
How can the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour?
There are no shining ones and
we
Have nought but cloud and
shower.
You don’t have to be deaf to
succeed, but the man interest
ed in his job never hears th<e
whistle.
AN INVITATION
Little Girl to Santa'(very con
fidentially) “Say, Santy,> do
you think your mother would
let you come over and play
with me after you’re through
work?”
The hen that sits on a china
egg is better off.
Needs are easily satisfied, but
its different with wants.
Husband—Did you have a
busy time at the sewing circle?
Wife—We did until the wom
an arrived that we were talk
ing about.
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’Your father was a college
man, wasn’t he?”
“Yes, but we never mention it.
The college he went to had a
rotten football team.”
“You’ll come home cry
ing when your last scent is
gone,” said the mother skunk
to her wayward son.
Men who have no religion can
at least quarrel about whose
watch is right.^
Jimmy R. says: “If a girl gave
her boy friend a lock of her
hair now:a-days she’d be bald
headed.”
Tailor (having measured cust
omer for suit): “An how
would you like the pockets,
sir?”
Scot: “Weel—just a wee bit
leeficult to get at.”
The pessimist will not hang
up his stocking Christmas Eve
tor fear Santa will run away
with it.
The Inspired Compositor—
“The party will begin at ten
o’clock.”
Another good way to cure the
sleeping disease is to monkey
with the stock market.
Americanism: The pet faiths
and perjudices of the man who
happens to be defining it.
The old lady was looking for
something to grumble about.
She entered the butcher’s with
the light of battle in her eyes.
“I believe you sell diseased
meat here?”
“Worse,” replied the butcher
blandly.
“What do you mean worse?”
demanded the astonished pat
ron.
“The meat we serve is dead!”
confided the butcher in a stage
whisper.
When dad gets the Yuletide
bills he is curious to know why
’hey call it “Merry Christmas.”
A lot of today’s chills were
not caused so much by the
weather as by Christmas bills.
Bill: “There’s an awful lot of
girls who do not want to get
married.”
Tom: “How do you know?”
“I’ve asked them.”
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
Patches still serve as an indi
cation of poverty, but they’re
on casings now.
There’s a lot of moonshine in
phady places.
A wife should be like roasted
lamb-tender, nicely dressed
and without sauce.
You can’t judge a man by the
company he invites but by the
company that comes.
The amen comer in church is
now only a corner.
THE DEAR OLD SAINT.
Come along, Santa Claus,
Come along, my honey,
I love you even though, my
laws,
You take all my money.
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jewelt
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewelt
Elgin 7 and IS Jewelt
Standard 7 and IS Jewelt
Ingersolls
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.0(
Jewelry made to order, repaii
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
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Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
GEORGE B. GRI6SBY
Attorney - at - Law
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
LATE AND EARLY
Woman does her Christmas
shopping:
Early, and I do believe
She frets more than man,
who’s hopping
To his buying Christmas Eve.
He glanced at the beautiful
woman beside him, his look
heavy with anxiety and
humble pleading, but she was
unconscious of his appeal. For
long moments he watched her,
struggling with his emotion,
desiring, yet afraid, to ask the
question that trembled on
his lips. At last he spoke wist
fully, yearningly:
“Ma, C’n I have the little
piece of pie that was left over
from dinner.?”
PROFESSIONAL
^ttorncg at 'pater
Jigber, .Alaska
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
John Hovland
MINING
Hyder, Alaska
Dr. C. D. Carter will be at his
office in the Reichenbach Bldg.
Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday of each week. For ap
pointments at other times
phone Northern Drug Co.,
Stewart.
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NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
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