THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editoi
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
Published every evening except Sunday by The Nome
Publishing Company, Nome. Alaska.
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MONEY IS BUT MEANS TO AN END—LIVING.
The queerest stories that ever get in the newspapers
are the ones which appear every now and then telling
how some miser has died of starvation or malnutrition
while hanging on to a hoard of cash that would have
bought enough food for a regiment.
Typical of these is a case that recently came to light
in New York. An aged spinster died in a hospital af
ter having gone without food for four weeks. The
medical examiner listed her death as “suicide by star
vation.”
As far as could be learned, the poor old woman had
been so obsessed by an unreasoning fear of destitution
that she had been unwilling to spend any money for
food. But she had $5,279 in the bank when she died.
What agonies of fear, distrust and anxiety preceded
this climax of tragic folly we can only imagine. It
must take tremendous pressure, long applied, to turn
a mind upside down so that money becomes more valu
able than the things it can buy—when those things it
can buy are the price of life itself.
But the beginnings of a thing like that are easy en
ough to understand. You can see them all around you.
Most of us have a hint of them in our lives.
What is involved is simply a natural confusion about
the primary object of living. Every man shares in it
who is too busy at his bread-and-butter job to spare
time for the fundamental joys of life.
Whenever we get so busy making a living that we
have no time left for the living itself, we are on the
same melancholy track that this deluded spinster fol
lowed—a long way behind her, perhaps, but still on
the same track.
For life is more than a mere process of getting and
spending. Its highest values are never found in the
pay envelope or in the dividend coupon.
These things—the bits of cash we are able to win
from a frequent stubborn world—are only means to an
end. The end is the greater richness and fullness of
living; the means are important only as they lead to it.
Everyone is perfectly well aware of this, of course;
but how often, how tragically often, do we get mixed
up about it! Who has not seen the busy citizen ambit
ious, energetic, and eager to “get ahead,” denying him
self time with his family, time for those unremunera
tive moments of relaxation and meditation that help a
man’s spirit to expand, plugging along through youth
and middle age—and then, suddenly, dying before he
has had a chance to turn his achievements into happi
ness !
The world, as Wadsworth remarked, is too much
with us. To make life mean what it should we have
to withdraw from it now and then; we have to get our
happiness as w^e go along.
If we put it off until some indefinite tomorrow when
we may have time, wb run the risk of doing at this New
York woman did—starving with money in the bank.
—Exchange.
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A Seattle movie fan sat 53 times .through the San
Francisco earthquake film. Maybe he was a graft
prober stenting a shakedown.
An unusually large skull was found in Alaska, but
l the archeologists failed to find the aspirin container.
— ■ —
One recipe for longevity, advises an Illinois judge,
is to keep out of .the courts. Or. failing that, get a law
| yer who can help you avoid the chair.
A Hartford, Conn., woman was arrested after spend
ing four hours in a telephone booth. It seems rude to
interrupt a description of a new hat.
ACCUSED OF VOTE INTIMIDATION
Victor Finch (left), a Michigan state highway department foreman
at Harrison, Mich., and Fred Bingham, a district superintendent,
were accused of dismissing three road workmen for refusal to sup
port Democratic candidates. They stood mute at their arraignment.
(Associated Press Photo).
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Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Generally fair weather with
sub-zero temperatures prevailed
at observation time over interior
Alaska and Western Canada.
Snow was falling at Cordova
while unsettled and rainy condi
tions obtained over southeastern
Alaska.
Barometer readings continue
low over Alaska and the north
Pacific Ocean with the lowest
readings observed south of Cor
dova and near Kodiak Island.
Very strong winds aloft from
the Northwest were recorded in
balloon ascensions at Nome.
The lowest temperature report
ed last night was -56 at McGrath.
Other minimums were as follows
Kaltag —45; Nulato —40 Unala
kleet —36; Ruby —43; Flat —44
Hot Springs —30; Tanana —34
Fairbanks —28; Deering —18.
The lowest Nome temperature
last night was —20 at 11:30 p.m.
the highest yesterday was —5.
| The Nome Daily Nugget
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oiaces of business :
The Nome Drug Store,
The Board of Trade,
The Nevada.
Pioneer Fountain Lunch
POLSON’S
Water Delivery
“Sanitary Service”
For Years Your Old Stand
By. Always at Your
Service.
Ed Bergstrom—Eric Nelson
Phone Black 44
Letter Heads & Envelopes
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Daily Nugget.
NEWS NUGGETS
OF OTHER DAYS
Taken from the flies of 36 years
Ago—October 6, 1900.
An Evening of Dancing
The management of the Golden
Gate Hotel will hold a social in
the spacious dining hall of the
hotel this evning. A full string
; orchestra will be in attendance.
Shipping Notes
All Aboard for Finals
Among the last sailings of boats
for the outside in October were:
The steamer San Pedro which
1 left for Teller City to discharge
; coal. On her return she will sail
, for the outside on her last voyage
\ of the season.
Steamship Valencia was two
days overdue on Thursday.
, The South Portland is due
here about the 6th of October.
The steamship Ohio is booked
to leave Nome on her last trip to
Seattle on the 15th.
The Senator will also get away
for the last time on the 15th.
The Roanoke is due here about
the 10th.
The Santa Ana will probably
be the last boat to leave Nome
for the outside. She will leave
about Oct. 27th.
The S. S. Centennial operated
by the Northwestern Commercial
Company announces the last sail
/
ing of that vessel for Seattle, on
October 20th, 1900.
Editor’s Note—‘‘The S. S. Cen
tennial was one if not the last
vessel to heave anchor in the fall
due to a storm brewing and the
captain being afraid of being
caught by the Arctic ice pack,
left in such a hurry that a Mr.
Huber, who was selling papers
and magazines on board ship,
before its departure, was unahle
to get ashore and was taken to
Seattle and returned at the com
pany’s expense on the steamer’s
first trip to Nome upon opening
of navigation in 1901. much to his
dissatisfaction.”
The Centennial was wrecked
on the beach a few miles west of
Nome a couple of years later,
during a storm.
.. The Elks’ Happy Smoker
The Elks’ Smoker, held last
night in their new Club rooms,
was as are all Elks entertain
ments, a howling success. About
fifty members of the fraternity
were present and these, together
with the invited guests, ran the
entire assemblage up to some
thing over a hundred.
Songs, speeches and stories
helped to wile away the evening,
the intermission being filled in
with refreshments, both solid and
liquid, that made those to whom
they were served think of the
old home in the sunny southland.
Altogether the affair was so suc
cessful that the guests, among
whom were some of the most
prominent gentlemen in the com
munity, are already beginning to
i ask when the next affair will be
pulled off—when it comes they
all want to be there.
NOTE—The McKenzie article
will probably appear tomorrow.
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