HYDBR WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford and Louise Sandford
Sole owners and publishers
Chas. F. Sandford,.Editor and Manager
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aska, as second wlass matter,un^r the Act of March 8,
1879.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
A GOOD TOWN.
Put a peg of prosperity into
your community by staying
with it Always greet your
neighbors with a grasp of con
fidence. Criticize in the spirit
of Godspeed. Say a good word
if it hurts. Remember that
those who insist on hanging
themselves will do it if given
enough rope.
Give your neighbor a right to
an opinion as long as he keeps
it to himself. Discuss questions
involving your better welfare
instead of arguing with them.
Apply the Golden Rule regard
less of consequences. You will
feel better and besides are
setting a good example.
Let's have more handshakes
and arm in arm conferences
with a good will parting. It
adds to that day’s events and
does more than any other
thing to make a good town.
-o
JOYS OF LIVING.
Who has not wished that he
had lived in some remote and
happy time? The magnificence
of Rome, the glory of Greece,
the golden chariots, the ala
baster vases and the ivory
chairs of Tutankhamen fasci
nate and enthrall. Looking
about upon a sick and weary
world, nerve-shattered and
hungry, it is not difficult to
imagine how pleasant life
must have been in an easier,
golden day.
Yet, if we had been living in
the days of the pampered
Pharaohs, the vast majority of
us would have been digging
the irrigation ditches, sweating
over the great stones that went j
into the pyramids, of--if we
had been particularly clever—
perhaps hammering the gold
that went into the ubiquitous
statues of the king. The com
forts of life were only at the
top in 1500 B. C. and even the
hope for improvement had not
percolated to the bottom.
There may be some consolation
for the dissatisfied man of to
day in this thought-that his
lot would have been infinitely
worse 3,000 or more years
SLgO. •
Its easier to live today than
ever before. Nearly qll the
woes from which the world
suffers might have been pre
vented. But when an ancient
civilization was overrun by a
savage horde, or when plague
or famine decimated the popu
lation of the fairest cities, the
wisest of those peoples could
not help themselves.
Migratory tribes have since
been pretty well billeted and
ticketed, railroads and steam
ships have conquered famine,
and intelligent sanitation and
magnificently brave and curi
ous medicine is less respectful
of disease with each passing
year.
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VISION
Much is heard in these days
of man’s close kinship with
the animal world, and yet one
fact of daily experience denies
such doctrine and declares the
reality of the human spirit. It
is the human privilege and
duty to see not only with eyes
but with the higher sight
which is called vision.
Men are marked from one an
other and their power and use
fulness determined most of ail
by the clarity of this vision.
Teachers, leaders, prophets
and seers are those who see
clearly and know the thing
which is true and can judge
the thing which is false. These
men we call great, recognizing
that our human hope and the
future promise that sustains
us are vested in the realm of
the spirit, where men are free
from appearances that deceive
and necessities that distract.
The world of sense and ex
perience is full of delusion and
confusion, and no man can
find order or purpose in it un
less he knows the authority of
truth; unless he sees not only
with eyes that look outward
but with vision within.
The thing which is today’s
dream is tomorrow’s hope, and
the fact now proved was once
a fancy imagined. For our sal
vation as individuals, as a
nation and as a race, the realm
of free thought and inspiration
must remain real and present
to us, so that in its light our
old men may dream dreams
and our young men see visions.
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THE HICK TOWN BOY.
The so-called hick town has
lately become a source of great
inspiration to our professional
humorists.
A hick town, say the various
users of this convenient form
ula, is a place where a back
fire is never mistaken for a
pistol shot; where bedtime is
orthodox; where woodpeckers
eat up the depot; where cen
tal can tell you whether ii
was a girl or boy; where the
neighbors will supply you with
a conscience if you lack one;
where there is no parking
problem; where a curfew dis
turbs the'residents’ rest; where
fine cut tobacco is no handi
cap socially, and so on and on.
With no intention of becom
ing terribly heavy over the
matter, we want to add that a
hick town is a place where 26
of our 29 presidents were born
and where seven out of 10 of
the immortals in New York’s
national hall of fame originat
ed. A hick town that didn’t
have a name produced Lin
coln. Hick towns gave us most
| of our great literary figures
of the past and practically all
1 of those now living. Hick
towns produce our Edisons.
If we may, then we would
like to suggest that a hick
town is a place where a boy
\ has an excellent opportunity to
I lay the foundation of future
I greatness.
i
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1 Just for Fun
i
We have to laugh when we
’ hear some birds call them
i selves “Mister.”
I Did you ever hear Lincoln
! called Mister?
A newspaper in Mexico City
has the righ idea abouts news.
A top head in a recent edition
of El Sol related that a night
S had passed without a murder
| or a robbery.
j The oil game may be a crook
i ed one, as some assert, yet ev
erybody seems willing to play
it if given half a chance.
The graduate of the school of
experience can show his grati
tude only by endowing an ac
cident ward.
They tell you to laugh and
grow fat, but if you take their
advice you get laughed at,
Discontent: The sad state of
those whose soft jobs leave
them time to feel sorry for
themselves.
New York may be the chief
patron of the drama, but Chi
cago has her beat in melo
drama.
Historical dates do not i nter
est boys as much as present
dates.
When it comes to Newspap
ers, most people take every
thing for granted until the
newspaper says something they
don't like. Then nothing is too
mean for them to say.
Tommy—“I’m awful hungry
I didn’t get half enough for
dinner.’’
Willie-—“What did you have |
for dinner?”
Tommy—“Company.” • i
—
Pete Wilson says a sailor may
have a girl at every port, but
it takes a college boy to have
a girl on every davenport.
THE HIMS
On Sunday she has many
whims,
She goes to church to free
them;
She doesn’t go to hear the
i hymns,
! She goes to church to see them.
Just why is it you can’t walk
home with a new phonograph
without meeting three people
you owe?
The old time editor used to
have writers cramps because
so many of the people who
took their papers paid for
their subscriptions in green
! apples.
B. B. Smith says the spirit
with which we serve is quite as
important as the service itself.
Lady in extreme decollete
gown to a physician present:
“Doctor, what shall I do? It
have such a fearful cold!“
Doctor: “Madam, you had
better go home, dress yourself,
and go to bed.”
A pessimist is an optimist
who expected too much of love
or a surgical operation.
Every man, when he knows
he is in the wrong, assumes an
air of great dignity.
Its darned discouraging to do
your best and then find out it
isn’t good enough.
The ugliest wrinkles are those
made in the face from smiling ;
when you feel like cussin’.
Subscription Agent—Would
you like to subscribe to the
local paper?
Lady—No, we have newspap
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
era all over the house.
Agent—How about some good
books?
Lady—We’ve got books in ev
ery corner.
Agent— How about a maga
zine or two that
Lady—Sorry, but we are
swamped with magazines.
Agent-Well, then, what about
a good paper baler?
Every man knows he could
cook and manage the house.
GOLD EXCITEMENT
AT ELKUTNA
Excitement is running high at
the Elkutna camp of the Anch
orage Light & Power Com
pany, as the result of the dis
covery of a gold quartz lead
in the tunnel which is being
driven into the mountain to
bring water from Elkutna Lake
to the power plant. Reports
vary as to the size of the lead,
but all agree that it is rich,
particles of gold being visible
to the naked eye in pieces of
the rock taken from the lead
where it was taken from the
WATCHES! WATCHES!
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.
THE NUGGET SHOP
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
6E0R6E B. GRIGSBY
Attorney - at - Law
KETCHIKAN. ALASKA
tunnel .Some say the lead is
five feet thick, while others
claim the gold is confined to
stringers of very limited pro
portions. At least ten claims
have been staked, and the
staking is still in progress, with
the promise that the entire hill
will soon be covered with lo
cations.
GIANT EARTH CRACK
BELIEVED DUE TO QUAKE
A crack of unknown depth, ex
tending across the Richardson
Highway, up the hillside and
down a gulch, as far as the eye
can reach from the road, was
encountered recently by Lewis
Laska, who made a trip along
the highway. Mr. Laska be
lieves the break in the earth’s
crust was caused by an earth
quake. Its length and general
appearance made it appear
unlikely that the crack was
due to frost, he said. It was
about six inches in width. Mr.
Laska put a six-foot pole into
the opening without finding
bottom. The break was found
just three miles north of Rich
ardson. At the Fox Farms he
wa3 informed that quakes
have been of almost daily oc
currence ever since January
21, when the recent big earth
quake occurred.
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