HYDER 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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1879.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
TRUTH TELLERS NEEDED
In the midst of all the sophis
tries of the times, one is forced
to wonder if there has ever
been a time in the history of
this country when the nation
has needed truth tellers quite
as badly as at present.
Men and women who tell the
truth and keep their word are
among the most precious assets
a community can have.
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GOOD MANNERS
However much some may cav
il at the statement, it is an un
undeniable fact that about
eighty per cent of the recog
nized rules of etiquette are of
a distinctly superfluous type
and originated among drones
and non-producers. Really use
ful citizens are often too busy
with practical affairs to give
heed to all the nonsensical
niceties laid down as the prop
er thing to do on this or that
occasion.
Genuine good manners are
just simply the doing of those
little acts of courtesy that tend
to make things more pleasant
for one's associates; yet we
have many times observed
people who pride themselves
on their culture and refine
ment commonly doing the
most churlish things to those
who are forced to be in close
contact with them.
RICHER AND POORER
Throughout the centuries of
advancing civilization apostles
of unrest have noisily rung the
changes on the assertion that
“the rich are getting richer
and the poor are getting poor
er.” There have been alternat
ing periods of expansion and
contraction. In the good times
all shared in the prosperity of
the moment in some degree,
while in bad times the poor of
ten suffered greatly. But the
movement as a whole has been
persistently toward improve
ment. It is true that the rich i
have become richer, and the
number of rich and moderate iy j
well to do has increased one /- j
mously. But that the poor have
i have grown poorer is not tr j.
It is impossible for wealth . j ;
increase without its benefl.s I
! being distributed to every
| stratum of society. For proof of
the assertion one has but to
look around him.
In the seventeenth century in
England the accumulation of
wealth war; as noticeable as
has been the accumulation in
the United States in the last
few years. The rich got very
much richer in that time, but
i the number of people with es
tates increased by leaps and
bounds, these rising from the
! ranks of the poor, while the
condition of the latter class
vastly improved, as was shown
by their ability to gratify am
, bitions aforetime wholly out ot
: their reach.
And today the betterment of
the condition of all classes of
society, as evidenced by ability
to gratify material desires, is
; far greater than 300 years ago,
I or even 10 years ago.
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OPPORTUNITIES
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We are living in a world in
| which opportunities are almost
j endless. For it is one of the
paradoxes of civilization that
the more opportunities are util
ized, the more new ones are
thereby created.
The automobile, for example,
has created a new field for the
exercise of human ingenuity,
while the byproducts of this
invention are amazing in their |
reach and scope. It might seem
to the unheeding that every
thing worth while has been in- i
vented, discovered or utilized.
Yet there is not a thing that
contributes to human welfare
and comfort, not a stick of
furniture, not a household util
ity, but is capable of improve
ment. There is still a big field
for human enterprise in the tri
fles which others pass by. Men
have made fortunes out of the
commonest and meanest things
—scraps of leather, slag, junk,
grit and numberless byprod
ucts pf mine and mill.
Opportunities? -They are all
around us. There is power ly
ing latent everywhere waiting
for the observarjt eye and the
ingenious mind.
Unfortunately most of us are
lacking in the ability to discern
these opportunities or to make
use of them even after they are
perceived. The greatest hind
rance to advancement in life
ir the lack of observation and
the lack of inclination to take I
pains. The great things of the
world have not been done by
men of large means but by men
of large vision. And most of
them have started where they
stood, as Edison began his re
markable inventive career in
experiments in a baggage car
when he was a newsboy.
Just for Fun
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Tha man who delivers the
goods usually collects.
Many of us . are weakest
where wc think we are strong
est.
So far as we can observe, it is
not so much the first cost as
the accessories that dent the
pocketbook.
E. D. Haddon opines that suc
cour is just a matter of common
sense, common decency and
advertising space.
Our principal objection to
humble people is that they al-1
ways soem a little too proud of '
it.
There is one great difficulty
about the proposal to put weak
minded persons to death. It
might include too may.
IIow times change! In the old
days chivalry consisted in say
ing: “May I smoke?” Now it
consists of saying: “Have one
of mine.”
As a remedy for divorce a
Chicago judge urges men not
to marry until they reach the
age of reason. Sounds fine; but
it would bar so many from
marriage altogether.
Remember you can’t afford
to stand still, because he v/ho
stands still is already going
backward ; Neither can you af
ford to be a mere follower, for
he who is content to follow an
other is always behind.
“Well,” said the purveyor of
platitudes, “there are always
just as good fish in the sea as
ever came out of it.”
“You’re right,” responded the
disgruntled angler, “and I’m
the man who left them there.”
There is a class of people who
are unable to bear real trouble
because of always bearing an
overload of imaginary ones.
Fervent lover— “Darling, I
will love you perpetually,
ceaselessly, everlastingly.”
Dumb Dora— “Ye3, but how
long will you love me?”
The small son of a man who
took great interest in the Dar
winian theory, on visiting the
zoo and observing the monk
eys, asked: “Dad, do they let
them out after they turn into
people?” .
According to the Blueberry
Kid, every husband trembles
when his. wife loqks at him
closely and says, “I want to
talk to you about ’Something.”
“It says here in the paper that
Dr. Brown is a ‘ pathologist.
What does that mean, Pa?”
‘A pathologist, my boy, is a
doctor who invents diseases for
the other doctors to cure.”
Growing pains are sometimes
caused by growing from bad
to worse.
“Should Women be Educated
Like-Men?” inquires the head
line of a recent magazine art
icle. We thing not; for the
reason that- they’re most too
light for football.
“My girl,” the young man de
clared, “is a decided blonde.’
“Yes,” said the girl friend of
his girl-friend, “I wras with her
when she decided.”
A husband buys a ticket to
hear a lecture, and buys a box
of candy or a hat or a dress to
keep from hearing one.
Alfalfa—“I‘ve got to get rid
of the old horse. What do you
suppose I can sell him for?”
Corntassel— “Well, if he had
a hump, you might sell him for
a camel.”
For a girl to have a pretty
face and skinny legs is about
like having a nice check book
and no bank account.
The reason the other mem
bers of the family are willing
to buy a car on the instalment
plan is because they know if
anyone has to give up getting
new scenery to meet the pay
ments it will be father.
You can’t fool a woman by
lying to her unless it's a comp
liment, according to Jimmie R.
From the bottom of our heart
we say God pity the rich; the
poor can still enjoy wishing for
the things they cannot afford.
Clyde says that nobody has
vet told what love is, but every
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Chamber
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
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day we see some one showing
what it is’nt. •
FINDS EVIDENCE OF
NORTHLAND TRAGEDY
AI Dailey, an old-timer of the
north, arrived in Seward from
False Pass recently and report
ed the finding last October of
a human skeleton on the beach
near Cape Lappin. One sock on
the left foot, pieces of a
wrecked dory and portions of
a pair of oilskin pants, which
presumably belonged to the
dead man, were all he could
find which might identify the
skeleton. Everything indicated
the man had broken up on the
reef at the cape. Dailey re
turned to the scene later but,
owing to the shifting sands,
could not relocate the skeleton
but found the skull and buried
it.
CLAIMED SEA LIONS
GROWING NUMEROUS
ON ALASKA COAST
Sea lions are increasing in
numbers on the Alaskan coast
and trollers, familiar with their
depredations on salmon runs
are concerned over the situat
ion. It is impossible they say
to estimate the quantity of sal
mon destroyed by the ani
mals, but the total every year
is declared by the trollers to
be enormous. Estimates of the
number of sea lions between
Cape Spencer, and Dixon En
trance range from a few thou
sand up to 50,000 and extrem
ists say as high as 100,000. The
Canadian authorities have
been waging warfare against
sea lions off the coast of Brit
ish Columbia as a means of
protectiong salmon from their
depredations. At the same time
the American government
threw the mantle of protection,
around them. The result, ac
cording to those with some
knowledge of the situation
has l>een a large increase in
the number of animals to be
found in local waters.
Location Notice Forms and
Proof of Annual Labor Blanks
for sale at the Herald office.
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Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewels
Elgin 7 and 16 Jewel*
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.60 to $26.00
Jewelry made to order, repair
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Com*
In And Look Them Over.
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PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
PROFESSIONAL
GEORGE B. GRIGSBY
Attorney - at - Law
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
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?5gi»*r, Alaska
OHAS. F, SANDFORD
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HERALD OFFICE
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or reading, will be accepted
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FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. L MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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Operating M. V. Fairbanks, Carrying U. S. Mails
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HYDER and KETCHIKAN
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