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The Herald extends to its
readers and friends its best
wishes for a Merry Christmas.'
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To those who would know the
merriest Christmas of a lite
tfme we say. you can gain it by
showing it to some one else.
Co personally, not along the
high wavs but in the bywaye,
and find some one who needs
Christmas cheer; not that you
may g’ve them goods or money,
but lov.'ng kindness and ser
vice. Not merej?erfunctory giv
ing gift-’ of gauds and gegaws,
but something of yourself, that
bit of good which alone makes
us worthy to be called akin to
God.
Kemember Abou Ben Adhem,
who ~«nVed ag f|rst among the
blest because ^ he loved his
i -llow men. This is not to say
that when you have found
some truly worthy ones you
should refrain from bestowing
upon them, some of the mater
ial thi gs of life. Give them if
yon w 'l the full basket, toys
and tr'nkets, or bid them share
your Christmas feast. But
test of all give them the kind
ness a d personal interest that'
endu. e not for a day alone
but through all the year.
The way to achieve happiness
is to give happiness. To
achieve the full joy of Christ
mas, our Christmas celebration
should be truly Christ-like, we
should begin our worship with
the merry day and continue it
throughout the year, not giving
in material things alone, but
giving of self and service.
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Pant and rave as one may
about the nonsense of Christ
mas, the rush of the holidays,
there is something suggestive
of kindness and gladness and
good cheer in that greeting.
‘ Merrv Christmas”—it gets at
one whether he really starts
out with the intention of being
merry or not.
And its a grand good thing
that it does get at one. Consid
ering whot a really good place
this world is to live in, how
j fortunate even the most un-;
fortunate of us Americans are,
there are an astounding lot of j
people wljo try terribly hard
to be confirmed grouches.
They really don’t want to en
joy life, and keep themselves
! 30 busy hunting up unpleasant
things that they actually nev
' ?r see the pleasant ones.
But this habit we have of
greeting each other at Christ
mas time with that jolly little
! word "Merry” just knocks
i those gloomy folks awry.. One
, simply can’t grunt and frown
n return to a “Merry Christ
mas.” And if he gets enough
such greetings in a day, he
'oon gets over the desire to
frown, and begins to “Merry
Christmas” a few folks him
self.
i
The big trouble liesin the fact
hat the greeting is not used
ill through the year. If it were
hen perhaps each day’s journ
y would bring fewer and few
er of those glum sour folks i
vhom one hates to meet, and |
• nd more of those pleasant, in
eresting people whom one de
ights to know.
The best solution probably
vould be the suggestion that |
.veryone carry the Merry
Jhristmas spirit into his year
ound greetings even though
le can’t use the words'. No use
naking oneself a village joke
jy calling Yuletide greetings
luring July but one can say
rood morning in siiph a man
ner that the person he is meet
ng knows he rather likes the
, .vorld. And if he does hie will
>e keeping the old pledge, “I
i will honor Christmas in my
mart, and try to keep it all the
| /ear.”
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A saving of nine million dol
’ars a year on an average total
-if sixty million dollars worth
>f gol<J used in arts and crafts
n the United States alone is
iredicted as a result of the de
velopment of a process of
treating gold whereby it is
made lighter but of consider
i ably greater volume, accord
ing to the New York World,
j This does not mean that the
I volume is increased by the ad
dition of alloys, but rather
that the density of the gold
is reduced in such a way that
the bulk is increased in due
; proportion. In other words the
j metal is “swelled” or “stretch
I ed” to the degree that the
mass becomes greater than it
j was before treatment. Thus a
given quantity of pure gold in
i' tended for use in the commerc
! ial manufacture of jewelry j
! can be made by this process
j into a considerably larger
number of finished articles1
, than was formerly possible
I without lessening its purity. j
| The process, although new to
our day, is in reality one of
the so-called lost arts, having
been used in the 14th. century
by the famous Italian gold
mith, Benvenuto Cellini. Cel-,
iini, however, died without
•evealing the secret, thereby
depriving posterity of an im
mensely important benefit.
Just For Fun
It’s just as hard to keep a
dead town up as it is to keep
j live one.down.
The bank of contentment has
; no interest for us until we have
made in it a deposit of service.
“Eating too much is bound to
shorten your life,” observed
;he doctor.
‘That’s right,” agreed the
farmer. “Pigs would live a
jood deal longer if they didn't
make hogs of themselves.”
What a pity, we can’t find I
out how fine the dead are be- i
fore they are dead and tell
them so.
Oren F. says the weaker sex
is that portion of the human
race which goes down town in
zero weather in a half-masted
iace waist and pumps to buy a
muffler and woolen socks foi
'ner husband so he can go to
work.
The Village Nut says we
could all all get ahead much
faster if we had as much will
power as a sitting hen.
The young people of today
are lazy, chiefly because they
are youQg people of last night.
“Poor man,” sympathized the j
lady visitor, “so you are to be I
hung to-morrow! When you '
think of your impending doom jj
does not your memory revert \
longingly to the days of youi
innocent childhood?”
“Well,” answered the prison
er slowly, “I surely would like
to skip the rope.”
There are men who like long
skirts and men who like short
ones; so it seems to us the only
way for the women to suit
each individual taste is to wear
their skirts on rollers so that
they can raise and lower them
lik^ window shades.
The difference between a suc
cess and a failure is that the
former lives on last month’s
income and the latter lives on
next month’s.
This country has turned out
some great men, and there are
quite a few others not so great
j that it ought to turn out.
“Tijnes aren’t what they used
to be,” sighs Paddy. “It used
to be that the weather was run
by the almanacs.”
I
The fellow writes for money
but he’s no author. He’s the
store’s collection manager.
i Others you may include
; among the idle rich are the
| plumber and his helper.
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A village is a place where
^one can be a sheik on $18 a
week.
Ragson Tatters had just
whipped his youthful off
spring, Herbert, for lying. It
remained for Mrs. Tatters to
discover the silver lining of the
cloud. "Ragson,” she remark
hopefully, “don’t you think
Herbert would make a splend
id Congressman?5’
FAMOUS CANS
“Oh, say-you see?”
-of beer. (Obs.)
The
-taloupe.
The one the boss tied on us.
Our neighbor’s car.
A hick town is a place where
the people feel superior to
the world at large. Perhaps
you have noticed that about
New York.
Fond Mother (from regions
above) : “Winnifred, you ask
the young man to turn on the 1
light and shut the front door
from the outside.”
My dear, I want to frolic!
And yet, sure as I do,
I know I'll get paint-colic
That comes from kissing you. i
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
at 8 p. m.
Sunday Schooj at 11 a. m.
f'V H-nnr. Welcome
Rev. C. T. Hatten, Pastor
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
A local man insists that leaky
fountain pens run pinchy shoe&
: a close second when it comes
i to traceable causes for in
temper and nervous indigest
ion.
Women are funny creatures,
| says Ben. Many of them who
I never eat breakfast insist on
having a breakfast room.
| That’s to eat dinner in. The
other meals they take in the
kitchen.
—
Old-fashioned words: Victu- j
als, obey, decorum, blush.
Most relatives are distant
relatives, snaps Paddy, when
you are broke.
“Certainly not, Oswald, mar
riage is not pronounced 'merry
age’.”
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FACTS WORTH KNOWING
(Collected hither and thither)
1. Cube sugar doesn’t grow
from cube roots.
2. There is a man in the State
of Kentucky who can sing tne
! Star Spangled Banner.
3. Elephants in Siam do not
wear front-laced corsets.
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No, the people do not rule;
they only vote bonds.
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Job Printing Neatly Done At 1
The Herald Job Shop.
The shingles used to be con
sidered the best board of edu
cation.
Fete Wilson says relatives are
people who expect to pay n
back, but die before they get
around to it.
A village, says Walter B., is a
place where Central tells you
there’s no use ringing Mrs.
Jones, because she’s out.
John Hovland
Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
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