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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Alaska, under the act of March 8, 1879.
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interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
formation relative to local mining development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
THE PERENNIAL PIONEER
There is unfailing romance
in the story of pioneer ventures
into new fields of life and
thought and human endeavor,
and its heroes come out of the
past clear-cut and picturesque.
We are disposed, in fact, to
measure an age by the pioneer
spirit of its men and women
and their bold challenge to un
known dangers and chances.
But, while most of us are liv
ng in a time now considerably
removed from the true pioneer
days of the North, we lack no
opportunity or incentive to be
ourselves pioneers. Not of the
old trail-blazing type, whose
courage and daring carved
through the Northland wilder
ness the paths we follow with
easy steps, but pioneers in de
veloping the resources and op
portunities they, in their coura
geous wanderings have made
accessible to us. On every hand
are to be found new world’s to
conquer. There is ever before
us a recurrent challenge to our
powers—the challenge to cre
ate new work for ourselves out
of the rich resources of the
great, new land in which we
dwell. There are new uses for
our energy and new fields of
labor and happiness every
where around us.
The fascination of the past is
made up of perspective and the
miraging mists of time and
distance. Lacking these, we
may miss the inspiration of the
pioneer spirit that is always
making the world over. Yet it
dwells among us, in every man
and woman who matches wits
and work against the chall
enge of their own future; who
hazard a new mining enter
prise, a new business venture,
who perfects a new invention,
preaches a new gospel or
writes a new book.
The pioneer spirit, if we but
realize it, is the perennial ex
pression of vigorous human life
and it demands no favor of
time or circumstance.
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FRIENDS
Listening to a local party ex
patiate on the failings of his
friends the other day, memory
suddenly recalled the aphio
ism that friends are people
who have seen each other at
their worst and can still toler
| ate each other.
It is commonly assumed that
as relations are born to one
1 and friends are of one’s own
making there is a premium on
1 friends. The unfortunate part
about this is that while people J
; are not responsible for their re-;
lations they are responsible for
their friends, a responsibility
that is often unbearable.
Friends are supposed to be
people to whom one may turn
for help in time of trouble or
need, and yet a true friend is
never supposed to impose upon
. his friends. Often “friends in
deed” strike from their lists of
i friends those who are “friends
in need.”
| Though not always available !
I in a crisis, friends are frequent-1
I ly exceedingly conscientious j
about the minor functions of j
their office. They repeat to us 1
all the unflattering things oth
ers say behind our backs and
make us the butt of jokes, crit
icisms and admonitions. All
with friendly intent, of course,
and in a spirit that would re
' sent deeply any implication of
a lack of true friendliness.
!
Friendships are, so to speak,
acquaintances which have
“taken.” Or perhaps it is more
correct to say that friendships
; represent a survival of the fit
I test, for few persons can long
survive the punishment friend-j
ship imposes. Yet, withal, j
there are some things that can
be said for friendships and j
friends. One need not live in !
deadly fear of insulting them,
nor must one forever be striv
ing to make an impression up
on them. And at all times one
feels perfectly free to impose
upon them. And that is a great
deal, when one stops to thin?:
about it.
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HAPPINESS MUST
BE TRICKED
The older we get the more it
seems to us that happiness is
nearly always a rebound from
hard work. It is one of the fol
lies of men to imagine that
they can enjoy mere thought,
or emotion, or sentiment! As
well try to eat beauty! For
happiness must be tricked!
She loves to see men at work.
She loves sweat, weariness and
sacrifice. She is found oftenest,
not in palaces, but lurking in
cornfields and factories and
hovering over littered desks;
she crowns the unconscious
head of the busy child. If you
look up suddenly from hard
work you will see her, but if
you look too long she fades sor
rowfully away.
Just for Fun
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About the only time it does
not pay to advertise is when
you advertise your ignorance.
They say cold baths prolong
life. But pshaw, that only
means more cold baths!
Ed. Reynolds says old age is
that period when an ankle is
just a shank.
“What would you do if you
had a son like that?”
“I’d work hard to disprove
the theory of heredity.”
TIME
Diary of a modern Senator:
Selected, Detected, Elected,
Rejected.
An intelligent man has will
power, but an idiot has won’t
power.
Correct this sentence: “I
keep my troubles to myself,
but am always glad to listen to
those of other people.”
Tourist: “May I have a couple
of towels?”
Landlady: “Are you figuring
on staying here all summer?”
Anyway, a man can still take
a chew without feeling that he
should first offer one to the
lady.
The man who is full of hot
air usually finds it hard to
keep his feet on the ground.
“So Bill finally married the
Light of his Life?”
“Yes, and he’ll thing she is a
search Light when he finds her
going through his pockets
some night.”
There must be prosperity
somewhere in the country. It
is estimated that present day
Americans own over four bill
ion dollars worth of diamonds.
“You don’t love me as much
as you used to. Haven’t I al
ways played fair with you?”
“Yeh, your fair, all right, but
I like ’em warmer.”
Judge Fox says he has noticed
that plenty of people have a
good aim in life only a lot of
them don’t pull the trigger.
As Pauline’s mother was put
ting her to bed one summer
evening she said: “Now go to
sleep, dear. Don’t be afraid for
God’s angel3 are watching over
you.”
Shortly afterward, while the
mother was reading, the little
one called to her. “Yes, dear,”
she replied, “What is it?”
“God’s angels are buzzing
around me just awful, mother,
the child cried, “and one of
them has bited me.”
Pete Wilson says a girl gives a
man her attention, then her
hand and later on a piece of
her mind.
The “cullud lady” gave her
name, -address and her age;
and then the clerk of registra
ion asked this question:
“What party do you affiliate
with ? ”
“Does I have to answer dat?”
“That is the law.”
“Den you jest scratch my
nome otfen dem books. Ef I
got to tell dat party’s name, ah
don’ vote,das all. Why, he ain’t!
got he’s divorce yit.”
ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
Endeavoring to save $5, Louis
jSevehson, of Sitka, found him
i self out of pocket more than
$25 the other day. Severson
was arrested for refusing to
pay the Territorial school tax
of $5 and was fined $25 and
costs.
The greatest seal catch since
1921, totaling 988 skins, was
made this year by the Indian
hunters of Sitka. The former
record was 600 skins and the
normal catch is about 460. The
large catch is attributed to the
increase in the seal herds pass
ing Sitka on their way to the
breeding grounds on the Prib
loff Islands. It is estimated
■hat 8,50,000 seals passed thru
the waters of the Gulf of Alas
ka during the northward mi
gration this year.
Federal officers in Ketchikan
recently arrested 14 persons on
liquor charges over the week
end. A total of $1,200 in fines;
and 90 days in jail was im
posed by Judge W. C. Arnold
n sentences meted out to the
various offenders.
A peculiar form of paralysis,
which rendered their hips use
less, killed thousands of cari
bou in the Chandelar district
last winter, according to re
ports from that section. Calves
and cows suffered most and it
is thought that the condition
might possibly have been due
to the deep snow in that sect
ion. Moose in the Black River
country are also said to have |
suffered from the same afflict
ion, the toll among them being
heavy.
Frederick Harrison, former
district attorney of the Second
division and wTell known pion
eer of the North, passed away
in Juneau a few days ago, af
ter a long illness. Mr. Harrison
left Nome recently by airplane
with the intention of entering
the Pioneer Home at Sitka, j
After reaching Seward he.
sailed for Juneau on the steam
er Yukon and arrived at the
capital city in a state of coma.
He was taken to the hospital
at once but passed away a few
days later. Deceased was a ,\i
ive of California and was 60
years of age. He first arrived
in Alaska in 1898 and resided
at various times in Dawson,
Ruby, Iditarod, Marshal and
Nome. He was appointed U. S.
district attorney in 1921 and
retained the position until re
cently, when he reigned owing
Lo ill health.
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jewels
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewels
Elgin 7 and 15 Jewels
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.00
Jewelry made to order, repair
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Come
In And Look Them Over.
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