HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Published Every Monday
Application made for entry at the post office at Hyder, Al
aska, as secona wlass matter,un^r the Act of March 8,
1879. _
Chas.F. Sandfgrd. .. Editor
' SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
By Mail tc Canada (Except Stewart, B. C.)....$ 6.00 per year
By mail, postage prepaid, at the following rates:
One year in advance... $5.00
Six months in advance—.$2.50
One month in advance..—..50
Single copies .10
ADVERTISING RATES.
Transient Display Advertising, per inch, per issue.$.50
Minimum Charge.. 1.00
Reading Notices, per line, per issue . 20
Notice of Forfeiture, single claims, 13 issues, $15.00
Notice of Forfeiture, additional claims, each $2.50
Applications for Patent, 9 issues, per line, .60
Other legal advertising not specified, per line, .16
Unless otherwise agreed, all transient advertising is pay
able in advance at specified rates.
Note—Extra charge will be made when unusual compos
ition is required.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
Changes in Display Advertising for current weekly issue
must be presentednot later than noon of the Saturday
preceding the day of issue (Monday) or insertion will
be delayed until the followin g week.
Subscribers will confer a favor by reporting any fail
ure or irregularity in the delivery- of their papers.
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
A NEWSPAPER’S FAITH.
There are certain critics of
newspapers who apparently
have little conception of the
work that the newspapers are
doing in the world. There was
a time (our grandfathers can
recall it) when there was com
paratively little in the aver
age newspaper to arouse a
man from his dreams, make
him look with a wideawake
and seeing eye at the world
around him, and--THINK.
This is what the real news
paper does today. It is not
greatly bothered by the per
sons who say that most of the
news should be supressed
because it is so “awful.” The
newspaper which believes in
mirroring life as life really is
shows greater faith in human
nature than the critics-that is
all. When they call this or that
piece of news “awful,” they
often mean seductive rather
than awful. They wrongly fear
that human nature instinctive
ly craves rottenness and that
exposure of a vile career will
prove enticing.
It is no more enticing than the
picture of an insane asylum is
enticing. It shows as nothing
else can show how terrible a
thing sin is.
Every line of the picture
thunders with a power denied
to speech. The memory of it is
burned into the soul with a
quenchless fire. The reader,
old or young, serious or gay
gay, can never misunderstand
can never forget. It is a lesson
that lasts. It is the truth ir.
flesh and blood-the truth act
ing itself out before our very
eyes in real life.
■o
“GOOSE BONE” PROPHETS.
During the winter the weath
er prophets were about equal
ly divided in “early spring'
and "late spring” schools.
Now that spring is started 01.
its three months’ journey somi
goose-bone prophets foretell a
*
cold, wet summer and others
see a hot and dry season ap
proaching. About next Sep
tember the public will know
which guess was the best.
It has been predicted that
this is to be “a year without
a summer,” like 1816. A New
York state diarist in 1816 re
corded snow on June 6 and 8,
freezing weather up to June
14, frost on June 28, backward
crops in July because of un
seasonable weather and frost
on August 24.
There are many “signs” on
which this unpromising pre
diction of a cold summer is
based but the one most fre
quently cited is the recollect
ion (its accuracy is not vouch
safed) that six exceptionally
warm summers preceded the
frigid summer of 1816 and
chat during the last six sum
mers temperatures east of the
Rocky Mountains have been
?enerally above normal. The
.heory is entertained that to
compensate for the high tem
peratures there must be a
season of unusually low ther
mometer readings.
There is too little known of
he sequence of weather con
ditions over a long period of
/ears to warrant the forming
of such conclusions as the
one-in-seven theory of the long
distance weather forecasters.
Much is said about “weather
■cycles,”-but the “prophets”
?eem to be unable to agree
lpon the time it takes to com
plete that cycle.
• - o
EASTER
Sunday, April 17, is Easter,
me of the most important of
church festivals throughout
he Christian world, owing to
being commemorative of the
crucifixion and resurrection of
Christ.
Historians tell us that the
origin of the day is found in
" even more remote antiquity
:han the period of Christ’s
earthly existence; having been
observed by the Jews to com
memorate the Passover of
Pesach, when “the destroying
angel passed over the houses
of the children of Israel when
he smote the Egyptians.” The
Jews observed Passover on
the 14th day of Nisan, or the
lunar month of which the 14th
day falls on or next follows
the day of the vernal equinox.
There appears to have been
some confusion among the
early Christian churches as to
what date to observe and the
council of Nice in 325 A. D.
ordained that Easter should be
celebrated on the Sunday
celebrated on the Sunday
which follows the full moon
on or next after the vernal
equinox. The equinox is fixed
as occuring on March 21, when
as a matter of fact it may comt
as early as March 19. How
ever, the rule is that if full
moon occurs on March 21, and
that date falls on a Saturday,
the next day March 22 is
Easter Sunday, which is the
earliest it can occur. On the
other hand, the first full moon
after March 21 may not occur
until April 18, and if this date
falls on a Sunday, Easter is
then observed on the follow
ing Sunday, April 25th, the
latest it can occur.
Just for Fun
Life never looks so bad when
you keep in a good humor.
The bigger the bankroll the
tighter the rubber band.
Unless you are ashamed oi
yourself now and then you’re
not honest.
Its all right to have a loud
speaker in the house if you’re
not married to it.
Sometimes wisdom comes
with years and sometimes thfe
years come alone.
Just because “you didn’1
know it was loaded” isn’t an
excuse for shooting off the
mouth.
The rising generation may
solve the problem of living
without sleep, but it hasn’t
made any progress in learning
to live without money.
About all that can be said foi
a rolling stone is that it gathers
no momentum.
In the old days, chivalry con
j sisted in saying: “May 1
| smoke?" Now it consists in say
ing: “Try one of mine.”
The hard part of raising
children is to make them un
derstand that your are the in
structor, not an example.
I ——.
Ability to mix well brings
more dollars than scholarship
an investor contends. The mix
er usually has need of more
I dollars, too.
-
The man next door doesn’1
drive on Sundays because he
| says the roads are not merelj
' thick with traffic, but actual
ly curdled.
A subscriber inquires where
the population of Alaska ii
the densest.
From the head up.
| One of the best things to have
up your sleeve is a funny-bone.
The “tired business man” oft
en gets that way from having
to contribute to all the Do
Good movements that come
! along.
_
j It isn’t wise to believe every
thing you hear--too much of it
is true.
You can’t always tell. A three
day growth of beard covers
many an honest heart.
Our pen is dipped to the
stork because he kids the
world and gets away with it.
What has become of the
old-fashioned girl who used
to lift her skirts a trifle when
crossing the street?
Oren F. says many a man
gets a reputation for being
good natured because he is too
timid to stand up for his rights
A girl may have a mind as
keen as a razor’s edge, but if
her stockings wrinkle at the
ankles no one will listen to her.
He who refuses to meet an
emergency may be overtaken
by it.
One reason there is so much
i humor in the world, says Ed.
I Reynolds, is because there are
so many persons who take
themselves seriously.
The person who reads most
discovers the most plagiariz
es.
Smith, the druggist, had lost
his wife-she ran away with
another man-so he inserted
the following in the newspap
ers: “This is to notify the
man who so kindly relieved
me of my wife, that I can sup
ply him with liniment, arnica,
-:alve, bandages, absorbent
cotton iodine, sleeping powder
and crutches at very low
prices.
Jones was talking to some
friends of a fishing trip he was
i contemplating on his holiday,
j “Are there any trout up
• there?” questioned one of his
; frifnds.
j “Trout? Thousands of 'em,”
I replied the other enthusiastic
ally.
“Will they bite easily?”
“Will they?” reiterated Jones.
“Why they’re absolutely vic
ious! A man has to hide behind
a tree to bait his hook.”
IDENTIFICATION.
“Shay, officer, gimme a mir
ror.”
“What do you want with a
mirror?”
“I wanna shee who I am.”
If you believe in such things,
says Pete Wilson, what’s the
use of knocking on wood when
your head is handy?
They say there is much
gambling in eggs now, but
j nobody does more of it than
I the man who eats them.
“A burglar broke into my
i place last night.”
i “Did he get anything?”
“Rather! You see my wife
thought it was me!”
What this country needs if
not fewer prohibition jokes
but better.
An executive is a man whc
thinks the lunch hour means
an hour and forty-five minutes
Chamber
. of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
Where there’s a wife there’s
no hope.
The good bird dogs die
young; the sorry ones have as
many lives as a cat.
Jobson and his young wife
were having their first \juar
rel.
“I wish I was dead,” she
sobbed
“I wish I was, too!” he ex
claimed.
“The I don’t wish I was!’%-and
the war continued.
John Hovland .
Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
JzxmBt p5lm
JVttnnu'n at |£atn
JHgbcr, JUaaka
HYPER FUEL CO.
DEALERS IN
WOOD, COAL, HAY and GRAIN
GIANT POWDER AND EVERYTHING NECESSARY
t-§ FOR BLASTING §-f
Hauling and Storage —o— General Dock Agent*
PREMIER AVE. NEAR FIRST
P BURNS 8c CO., LTD.
WE SELL ONLY GOVERN MENT INSPECTED
FRESH KILLED MEATS
SOLE AGENTS FOR BARTON'S CIRCLE W.
HAMS AND BACONS
Fresh Butter & Eggs Pure Lard & No. 1 Poultry
TRY OUR SUGAR C URED PICNIC HAMS
BEEF IS YOUR CHEAPES T FOOD; EAT MORE OF IT
H Y I> E R (JAR A (i JO
Plumbing Steamfitting B3achsm;th:ng General Repairs
Authorized Ford Agent
Genuine Ford Parts
AGENTS FOR FAIRBANKS, MORSE
ENGINES & MACHINERY
HYDER
ALASKA
i$RSSSiSSSSSiii!2!555!252!5i5!5«!532!!!!!5S!2<’*9illB,l<i",laaail"aaBaiB,iaaiaaiaaa||aBBBaa
“ ■■■■■■■■■aaBaaaaaaaMaaa,BliBaaaaaa"aaa**aaa*»B*BaaBBBBBlBBBBBBBBBBBBBaBBBBBB
[[ NEW BUSINESS FOR HYDERlI
WE HAVE INSTALLED AN UP TCf DATE PLANT
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
RUBBER STAMPS
ALSO A LINE OF DATERS, STAMP PADS, INKS
AND ACCESSORIES.
Work Guaranteed Satisfactory or No Charge.
THE HYDER HERALD STAMP WORKS
BB
IB
BB
BB
BB
BB
tHinsiKisiusiuisussuaiKii::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::-: