HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Published Ever" Wednesday..
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aska. as secono .ass matter, un^r the Act of March 8,
1879. _______
Chas. F. Sandford. Editor.
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Deve*^' nents during the past
year show beyond doubt that
ii.c camp is fast outliving th'
i wrertain reputation created
for it in the early days by
snap judgement geologists and
shady promoters and is fast
coming into its own. Probably
no mining camp in history has
been more excuselessly ma
1 jncd, and misrepresented
than the Portland Canal dis
tinct First the utterly unwai
ranted and inaccurate esti
mates of its resources and
possibilities by the geological
and r ining experts, and then
the long continued operations
of a Hock of stock peddling
promoters, who had no othei j
aim o^ object than to use the
district as a means for mulct
ing the unsophisticated public
of it~, loose dollars. It is hard
to say which did the greater
harm; the geological sharps
who condemned without even
the semblance of reasonable
investigation, or the unscrupu
lous promoters who bled the *
outside public for years and
devoted the money to develop
ing, not mines, but the booze
resources of Canada. It is
certain, however, that be
_ tween the two, the camp wat ,
given a most ornate and whol
ly undeserved “black eye"
which has until very recent
years caused capital to look
askance at even the most
promising local mineral offer
ings and also created an lm- i
pression in the minds of the
general public that the main
resource of the districa was the
unstable commodity known as
bunk. Laboring under such a
handicap as this, it has been a
slow and difficult task to dis
sipate the widespread prejud
ice and ignorance concerning
the district’s resources and de-:
velopment possibilities, ana
harder still to induce reluctant
capital to invest, in what it
had so long believed to be a
hazaidsus field. The district
has practically been compelled
to prove itself, which, thank
fully it has been able to do
in a manner that leaves no
doubt as to its potentialities,
first through the wonderful
success of the great Premier
mine and latterly through
the development of other pro
ductive properties.The Porter
Idaho, L and L and Riverside
have long since joined the Pre
mier in providing incontrovert
ible evidence that the district
s neither “the bunk” nor yet a
“one mine camp,” while the
Dunwell, Mountainview, B. C.
Silver, Big Missouri and fully
a half score of other propei
ties, altho not yet on a produc
ing basis, have reached a stage
of development during the
oast year which leaves no
doubt that they too will short
ly pour a stream of wealth in
to the world’s coffers. Further
:ndication of the passing of
he old days of scanty capital
and slow development, is the
fact that practically all of the
major development opei’ations
now in progress are not de
nendent upon stock sales for
capital but are mainly the
work of large mining concerns
backed by ample funds.
The days of the week are
known by proper names. Holi
days and holy days alike bear
lames that are pregnant with
meaning. They are neithei ,
lumbered nor lettered in the |
irder of their occurrence or
for any other reason. There is
me outstanding exception. One
lay—the day of all days in
each year—is sadly miscalled,
disgracefully designated. It’s
ip to the newspapers to coi
ect the evil that is crowded
into that one little expression: 1
“XMAS.”
It’s bad enough for Christmas
:o be written Xmas on any
flimsy pretext; but now, large
ly through free use of the |
abortive abbreviation in news- ■
oapers—chiefly in advertisi
ng—that day that is so dear i
to us is being given widespread j
rronounciation in accordance
with its shortened spelling.
Christmas Spirit doesn’t mean
near so much when it is called
Ecksmas Spirit. The “X” is
sorrowed—or stolen —from
the Greek, in which language
it is a symbol equivalent to the
name of the Saviour.
X in algebra equals the un
known. Perhaps it’s all right
for unbelievers to whom Christ
is unknown to call it Xmas;'
/
but people who prefer to bt!
known as Christians rather i
than as Xians should keep
Christmas sacredly known by
its right name so that none 01
its significance be lost. It might
be O. K. in shorthand to ust
X to designate Christ; but a& ;
long as we’re not writing
short-hanS, it’s neither nice,
necessary nor appropriate.
Let’s forget the lazy, irrevt
rent abbreviate mixture 01
Grecian symbolism and Saxon
suffixism and stick to Christian
English. It’s Christmas we are
preparing to celebrate. It
hasn’t any other name. Don t
write it “Xmas.” Don’t call it
Ecksmas.
Newspapers are guilty of the '
malpractice chiefly by omis
sion rather than commission.
It’s in the advertising columns
that Xmas most frequently ap- i
pears. But the newspapers can ,
correct that easily enough. Ed
itors contemplating editorial
calls to the public for elimi
nation of the undignified X
are cautioned to see that their
newspapers in entirety set the
example. Don’t permit a rept
tition of what happened last
year in one newspaper. The
editor published an editorial
calling for the public execut
ion of the X in Xmas. The edi
torial was very well received
by readers. Some of them said
o writing letters of commen- j
iation. But advertising in the
lext day’s issue had Xmas
uneared all over every page.
Exeunt X! It's a bad habit;
help to correct it. I
o
Now that it’s all over, one
.veil known local man has
found this out about Thanks
?iving:
“A Thanksgiving dinner, to |
re really appreciated, must be
orepared by a cheery-faced
oretty-aproned housewife or
rig sister. She need not be
beautiful’, for many actresses
ire merely that, but she must
'rave a big heart full of love
’or those she ministers to and ;
much of this will enter into the
viands she prepares. If poss
ble, a white-capped grand
mother should be allowed to 1
putter around the kitchen, now
rnd then filching some daini>
or prattling children. Pity the
poor man who sits down to a
!onely Thanksgiving dinnei, j
with no sunny-face.d woman .
opposite to pull the ‘wish- i
bone’.”
-o
There’s a lot of political j
bunk about 611 this talk or it- .
ducing taxes that is emanating
from Washington. It’s just an
other way of pulling the wool i
over the eyes of the great mass
of people who are not concern
ed with income taxes. This is
a great day for smoke screens.,
No special talent is needed to
criticize. It is the simplest
thing on earth to be critical—
to tear apart that which some
one has created.
-o
No one charges, howevei,
that the printing of wreck
news encourages wreckless
driving.
-o
It is always* better to mind
your speech, than to speaw
your mind.
Just For Fun
Even with a drum in each ear
not everyone has an ear for
music.
Most fellows never come to
life until their engines go deaa.
In order not to bother the
neighbors, the girls, in dress
ing, should use care in pulling
down the blinds.
Whenever we see an old
maid with bobbed hair we art
forced to think of the farmei
who locked his barn after the
horse was stolen.
“Say, bo,” said de Kid. “You
ain’ got nerve enuff t’ have «
toothache.”
It’s hard to get the best of
some men—they haven’t any.
A certain Hyder man present
ed a $20 bill and asked for
change, calling it a “William.”
He explained he wasn’t famil
iar enough with one of ’em to
call it Bill.
It seems unkind of the news
papers, opines Eddie Haddon,
when an ex-war hero marries a
widow, to refer to the fact that
he was decorated for braverj.
The man who. says, “Let us
eat, drink and be merry, for
to-morrow we may die,” evi
dently hasn’t much faith in his
bootlegger.
The softest job in the world,
says the Village Nut, belongs
to the guy who keeps the riv
ers from flowing up Pike’s
Peak.
The Blueberry Kid begs,
purely for the sake of prevent
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
at 8 p. m.
Sunday School at 11 a. m.
Everyone Welcome
Rev. C. T. Hatten, Pastor
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
; ing the congestion of the mails,
that all his friends who plan
sending him a Christmas pres
, ent please do so at once.
Jens says we will soon reach
the point where the canny
motorist carries a bicycle
| along so he can ride to work
after he finds a place to park.
—
I don’t see that it makes
much difference, sighs Frank
Reichenback. On the one side
lives a neighbor whose mar
riage ceremony included the
word “obey.” On the other1
side is a man from whose cere
mony the word was omitted.
Both husbands obey.
Seen in the ads of an illust
rious daily:
“A MAN MUST LIVE,” with
Jacqueline Logan, Edna Mur
phy, and others.
When boosters organize a
club to put their town upon the ;
map, you’ll always find a dub
who tries to hand them a slap,
He’ll ha, ha at their doing ana
try to break it up by sad ana
woeful wooings of any mon
grel pup. Any man who likes
his town won’t listen to such
bunk. He’ll set him down by
Job Printing Neatly Done At
The Herald Job Shop.
giving him a hunk of good
hard common sense that will
send him on his way in ugly
■ seif defense to bide another
day. When knockers come
around me yelling their awful
tale of woe, and with lies tr>
! to pound me, I can hardly let
'em go. I want to take them by
i the neck, wrench their tongue
: from their throat, then stand
back and say, “By heck, now
go ahead and gloat.”
” 1 i
John Hovland
Assay Office
H y d e r, Alaska
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
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