HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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1879. _
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WHAT MAKES PROSPERITY
Prosperity means good busi
ness, and good business means
active buying. Buying moves in
a circle.
There are four factors in
the circle of buying-the manu
facturer, the jobber, the retail
er and the buyer. Together
these factors constitute the
public. The manufacturer, the
jobber or retailer is in a sepa
rate class from the buyer only
so far as his business is con
cerned. In every other relat
ion in life he is one small in
dividual in the great mass
called the public, and he is af
fected by the same living con
ditions that affect the latter.
Outside his own business he,
too, is a buyer, so he joins
with the public in starting the
buying impulse that sweeps
around the circle. He buys the
comforts and necessities of life,
and he wants reasonable prices
the same as the public does.
Not all Hyder merchants are
using the local papers to un
load their shelves. But it can
be depended upon that the
ones who are, are the ones
who are anxious to join hands
with the public in bringing
about prosperity and keeping
the community prosperous.
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HOUSE ORGANS
UNDER FIRE
The following from the Den
ver Mining & Financial Rec
ord conveys a timely warning
against that too frequently
misrepresentative and often
wholly unreliable class of pub
lications known as the “house
organ.” Local readers need
look no farther than the recent
unwarranted depression in
Premier stock to find a glaring
example of the damage that
may be done by one unscrup
ulous publication of this class.
The Record says:
“The Northern Miner, a well
edited publication that accur
ately informs its readers re
garding mining conditions in
Canada, suggests that the Can
adian government bar from its
mails the Wall Street Icono
clast, Financial Debater, “and
others of the same breed of
Boston cats.” The Miner says
these sheets are causing men
tal disturbance among experi
enced investors and quite poss
ibly grave money losses. The
concluding remark of the Can
adian mining publication is
that those house organs “are
worse than trash.”
“The Record has constantly
warned its readers against tak
ing house organs too serious
ly. Some of them are design
ed to fool investors-into trad
ing good stocks for the quest
ionable promotions of the pro
moter or broker who is pub
lishing the house organ. The
investor who knows their
methods does not “fall” but
the beginner who believes ev-1
erything he sees in print may
became a victim.
“The Wall Street Iconoclast
“put the yeast” under four
different stocks and they soar
ed. The experienced buyer
took his profit? before the
shares took their recent tum
ble. There is an old saying
"hat speculators will not sell
an a rising market. That is
he reason that the publisher
}f the Iconoclast and his imi
tators have been successful.
“It is unfair to legimate pub
lications to have house organs,
disguised as legimate inde
oendent publications, in com
petition with them. The house
>rgan should be plainly label
id so that no on will be fool
id. Then when the projnoter
publisher may, for instance,
idvise you to sell your Nevada
Consol,dated Copper and buy
Idaho Copper, you will know
that the suggestion comes from
"he promoter of Idaho Copper.
Investigate before you invest
and remember that no one ev
er went broke taking a profit.'
BOOSTERS WANTED.
A town has no place for the
knocker. A knocker is hardly
a man without a country, but
his country, his town, or his
community has little use for
him.
The thriving city is filled with
boosters-boosters who so out
number the knockers that
their knocking does not count
for much.
We like the boosters. Some
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times they are super-enthusi
astic, or, rather, over-enthusi
astic is the better word. But
they are always entusiastic for
their home town or the cause
in which they are interested,
and they are never to be found
hanging around somewhere
knocking this and knocking
that. A booster is not built that
way.
We must have boosters; they
are just as necessary to the
sucessful enterprise as day
light is to the earth. A town
has no place for the knocker
it matters not whether he
knocks the town, its enterpris
es. or its citizens. Show us a
man who knocks his fellow
| citizen and we will show you
| the poorest excuse for a citi
zen extant.
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HAND CLASPS.
Nothing so eloquently reveals
1 character as the hand-clasp.
One may train his voice to ex
press courage and a cordiality
unpossessed; one may acquire
a poker-face; one may feign
pleasure at meeing and dis
pleasure at parting; but the
j offered hand neither conceals
nor deceives. A blind man.
! deaf and dumb from birth,
j can read this message of the
! hand.
Is it a strong hand that func
tions with the irresistible de
termination of a vise? If it is,
; it belongs to a he-man--i-go
, getter~or to a true friend. Its
warm and sturdy clasp belongs
to a frank countenance and a
feeling heart.
Is it a hand that gives a quick
slight pressure and at once lib
erates itself? That sort be
longs to the busy man and is
born of independence and in
dividualism.
Is it a limp hand? Then it be
longs to a limp man, to one
who is too tired to be interest
ed in persons and things. To
him If'and shaking is an unnec
essary formality in which no
energy should be wasted.
Is it a lingering hand which
caresses rather than clasps and
which refuses to liberate its
prey-is it a predatory hand
until it has accomplished its
purpose? This is the practiced
hand-clasp of the politician,
the swindler and the cheat. It
belongs to the man with a
“mission” or a “message.”
Grasp the hands of those
you would have show their
“hand.”
Just for Fun
Although it is not generally
known,, snails seldom use as
bestos brake lining.
A young man from Kansas
writes to ask how long girls
should be courted: We should1
say just the same way as the i
short ones.
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Pete Wilson says he knows
the meanest man in the world.!
H<rgave his wooden legged
aunt one garter and a box of
tacks for her birthday.
Lots of people fail to recog
nize the fact that if you talk
much or write much, you’ll be
disliked much.
The Blueberry Kid declares
that where there is no hand- i
bag you will find a shiny nose.
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A son at colleg wrote to his
father:
“No mon, no fun, your son.”
The father answered:
“How sad, too bad, your dad.”
Isn’t it funny so many of us
blame nature for our badness
and take personal credit for
our goodness.
First Townsiter: “Your flower
beds are a paradise, old man.” j
Second Townsiter: “Garden
of Weedin’, I call it.”
Modern Ad:—“For rent, |
handsome bungalowette with
a garagette, kitchenette, bath
atte, parlorette and porchette.”
Cut Where Babes Are Men. .
Murdo, South Dakota, Febru
ary 23.--A one-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Hathaway,
living near White River, had
his jaw-bone broken when a
tractor he was cranking back
1 fired and threw the crank
against his jaw.--Aberdeen
(S. D.) paper.
Pray, What Are Eyes For?
Short-skirted girls pretend
I they hate
' The way men gaze--gadzook 1
Does not the Bard of Avon
state
“Men’s eyes were made to
look?”
Death is no more mysterious
than life, and no more under
standable.
We think that the word “won
derful” is almost as badly
overworked as “listen.”
There are no goose-stepping
stones to greatness.
The larger a man’s hat, the
less he talks through it.
After all, a hypocrite isn’t
guilty of anything except syn
thetic piety.
Courtesy springs from a good
heart, discourtesy from a bad
•liver.
The inventor of the mirror
made it possible for us all to
see the one perfect man.
You have no doubt observed
that most of the get-rich-quick
advertisements appear in the
fiction magazines.
Man: An animal with suffici
ent intelligence to defend his
meanness.
March may come in like a lion.
It may come in like a lamb.
But it always comes in like a
collector.
E. M. Reynolds says polite
ness is acquired, rudeness is j
natural.
Jens says life TsToe fooT thing’
after another; but love is two
fool things after one another.
So far as we can see safety
razors only seem to make the
barbers more prosperous. \
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Chamber
jof
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
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Professor (after trying first
hour class’—“Some time ago
my doctor told me to exercise
early every morning with
dumbbells. Will the class
please join me tomorrow be
fore breakfast?”
“And when are they to be
married?”
“Never, I’m afraid.”
“Why?”
“Well, she won’t marry him
until he pays his debts, and he
can’t pay his debts until she
marries him.”
John Hovland
Assay Office
H y d e r, Alaska
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
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