HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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1870. . i
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
The mule is holding his own. |1
■'ays a contemporary; yes, but |;
he rl vays finds something top
kick about. ji
A De’nit woman robbed a 1
rrr.r and gave the money to <
her h i'.band, but they are hard 1
to train that way. (
A good man grows, expands 1
rml rises to higher positions. ‘
The other kind just swells up
and ‘ busts.” '
L' u 11 • the half that has not ,1
be'1”' io’'1 of most people is the i
better half. 1
a deferent world this *
w 1 1 ■ e Jf people would only !
magnify their blessings the
way ihev do their troubles.
-o-i
'rv'o-p who conceive that the 1
prl r>n*-»''>oe served by a local ;<
”n"r --’H^afion is the ‘‘boost- i
the minerai resources, i
shv l 1 retail that there is such }
n th n? as too much boosting. 1
JTpw■‘V'r meritous a proposit- t
’’on oiav ho it can be ‘‘boosted” j
to tho oo;ot. where boosting f
not cn'v fnh to achieve a pui*- l
no-.e "♦ which it is aimed but i
r-‘.,oi „ nroduces a contrary ^
efrect Especially in the case it
of a m‘*”'ng district, unwise or (
cv"”"0"lous boosting is very
1'kel ■ to result in much dam-,i
age through the creation of t
’""'"'.’i impressions. For in- t
stan-’p persistent publicity con-1(
ce'-n'n? alleged “rich" lodes t
v/h'*'h or investigation t
rrov°r to be not nearly so rich p
as represented, can hardly fail
to pr^do-e a decidedly bad im- !
pras-ion ip fhe minds of mining. *
ipve who know what they i
are •',0"f Seeing repeated ex- ■<
ambles of such tales in a local ,
P»b!;ootiop. and. realizing that!
Hi" oMrppj is the mouthpiece 1
ce '‘ppipiMnity and presume :5
«blv cop^r-iled by regard foril
its 1 p'f ipterests, the discern- j
’'p~ TV'‘":"~ man or mining in
ve’’s liable to not only lose j
cpp"'"op ;n the newspaper, s
b,f -1 o i ’ the district as well !*
yinr-,;r the publication of i
p-w- "tories which suggest t
that mining proposition i
in a d:-trct is a vertable bo
” ''"w apt to induce (
lt,ot ’m^rp-sion popularly de-;J
por’hpd *«" “something rotten in ic
Denmark” among those who r
are that even the great- i
est m’nipg districts seldom |
ho” * ’T’oro +b*n a half dozen
roi] • ’f matters rot that r
th- Scores may be truthful re- r
lations of actual facts; they
are not likely to “go down”
with those who are conversant
with mining conditions, for the
reason that previous exper
ience has shown the unlikeli
hood of such conditions. Tales
of this character may serve
to boost the nefarious schemes
of fly-by-night promoters who
batten upon the gullibility of
inexperienced investors. But it
is not this class of people that
develops a.mining regon. Those
who are in a position to really
develop mines usually are wise
enough to discount by half at
least whatever may be said by
a local newspaper regarding
the resources of a mining dist
rict, experience haying taught
them that most journals of
this class are more or less in
clined to exaggerate, from an
excess of enthusiasm, if for no
other reason. Write-up’s de
tailing rich resources and ex
tensive development work on
mining properties which con
tinue indefinitely n the “pros
pect” class in spite of alleged
extensive areas of high grade
ores will hardly impress the
man who knows the mining
?ame well enough to protect
his pocket-book. About the on
ly people who are really at
tracted by such colorful yarns
are the jobbites, seeking new
fields for the excercise of their
brawn at so much per day. To
invite an influx of this class
without the means to provide
them with jobs is the height
of folly.
Therefore we fail to agree
with the element that holds
:he view that pei*sistent and
constant blatting about the lo
’al mineral resouces should be
the one essential function of
the local newspapers. What
they seem to want is not a
newspaper but a weekly min
ng prospectusr. Furthermore,
if their remarks on the subject
are indicative, most of them
would consider it good boost
ing if the information dispen
sed was as unreliable and mis
leading as that contained in
many publications of that type.
We are sorry for people of
such short vision. Like the vul
;ure, they would foul their own
nest because of their inability
lo see that th only kind of pub
licity that has weight with the
ane class of people who are in
a position to undertake the
costly work of developing a
mining district is that which is
neld within conservative limits.
As remarked before, too
much boosting is likely to over
reach the mark.
Just For Fun
It isn’t only the Recording
Angel and Central who know
everything that goes on in a
Hick town.
“Nearly all de folks dat
knows enough to give good ad
vice,” said Uncle Eben, “is
lawyers or doctors or some
body dat charges real money
for it.”
The happiest woman in the
world i3 a fat woman when she
runs across another fat woman
who is quite a little bit fatter.
An Ohio girl fell from a sec
ond story porch and sustained
injuries for which a jury gave
her $15,000 damages. That’s
falling into money.
The average age of flappers
has been altered. It is now any
where between eighteen and
eighty.
The Blueberry Kid asserts
that the illiterate deserve but
a half portion of pity because
of their inability to read. He
says only half of the stuff is
fit to read, anyway.
There will continue to be con
siderable unrest in this country
until everybody finds out how
so many persons of small
means raise the money to buy
closed cars.
Most married men wish they
were the devils their wives
suspect them to be.
joiner (wno iouna wooa in
his sausage)—Waiter, I don’t
mind the dog, but I bar the
kennel.
) Dora—I’m going to be mar
ried.
Cora—But I thought you hat
ed men.
Dora—Oh, yes, I did, but one
of them proposed to me.
When the feeling comes upon
you that you must talk, try
talking to yourself and see how
you punish others.
‘Pancakeandsausaging these
icool mornings?” asks Max. B.
Irate customer-‘‘This lfathing
; suit you sold me is a wretched
thing. I was in the water only
five minutes and it shrunk four
inches.”
‘‘Modest Clerk- Gosh, lady,
; it wa^ a good thing you came
lout when you did.”
The most disgusting thing
about paying rent is that it
wont stay paid.
i _
A noted professor says that
present day children are as
good as their parents.
—That ought to shock some
people.
After biting Noel, the Jingle
Bug apparently decided to
find a new victim in the sedate
person of Hubert T. Anyway
just look at what he handed us
the other day.
“A dairy maid milked a pen
sive goat,
And, pouting, paused to mut
ter;
I wish, you brute, you’d turn to
milk.
And the domed thing turned
to butt ’er.”
A girl who has reached six
teen gnd never been kissed will
in all probability, reach forty
in the same condition.
Clerk (driven to desperation
by bargain hunting boy) "List
en. young man, why don’t you
take that top? Do youj want
to get the world with a fence
around it for a nickel?”
Boy--“Dunno, Let’s see it.”
If men were as great slaves
to fashion as the women are,
doubtless by this time they
would be going around in
beaded trousers.
Merl says he knows a fellow
who thinks daylight savings
is a bank and trust company.
Little Jane was walking in
the country with her mother.
“Gracious! What was that
noise?” exclaimed the mother,
as a loud bellow rent the air.
“Oh, that’s a cow mooing,
; Mother,” Jane answered, “She
l is trying to sell her milk.”
, “Did you fall?” asked the
jman as he rushed to the rescue
|of a well known local lady who
Ihad slipped on the icy walk in
the up-town business section
| last week.
! “Oh, no,” she replied sweetly,
I just sat down here to see if
! I could not find some four leaf
| clovers.”
Relating the incident later he
remarked, “Gosh, I think she
must be getting a bit off in the
head to make such a funny an
swer.”
Mayor Tom Smith of Nenana
is authority for the statement
'hat the following effusion by
an unknown author was found
written on a board and tacked
■ o a tree on the Hot Springs
'rail about fifteen years ago.
“Damn the river and damn the
lakes,
Damn the trails we have to
take,
Damn the mountains and damn
the skies,
lamn the mosquitos and damn
he flies,
Damn the wind and damn the
weather,
I \nd damn prospecting all to
gether.”
Chamber
of
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Kyder, Alaska
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