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THE ftome ©ally ‘Itugge Published dally except Sunday by AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPEI NOME PUBLISHING CO. E. C. DIVINE 01:0. S. MAYNARD Sole Owners ami Publishers RICHARD HATTON. Editor. tUMORIPTION RATES (In advenes.) ' Noma Dally Nugget. I month _f j p Noma DaUy Nugget, < months ..(Id.* Noma Dally Vug rat. 1 year _m.« Noma Weekly Nurr*t. 1 month .. la, Noma Weeklv Nurrat, I year . Il.p NUGGET MINING AND ORBDGINC MAQA2INB < Issued Annually In October.) Price per copy.IS Prlc# par copy mallet) II Rates for advertising space In aiy of (ha above publications will hematc knsvn on application. PHONE MAIN NO. 4< Kntered as second doss matter.Peh H. IPO?, at tba poatofflca at Nome, Alaska, undar tba Act of Oongr-s of March I. 187*. Oopy for regular advertleero-ntc inuat ha In by Id o'clock on tba 1jt • t loiMlcatlon. FlftC ALARM SIQNALC II. Standard o|| Co *3- <’ar»tens '’old Stnrag • A John J. Sc anon Co. .,fH,-e !•. Hewdpuarters Saloon 31.. . Recorders ' iflot •A Plow era Ljl <> 33- Ktr- laepari aetit •*- lUo< over* dalu.ii •3. YorkeV Clnr St r 41. Pacific Cold St -age Sandapi’ 43. Th. j Ava. an’ l-nne# tVi* Engine I use Phone Mat;. *7 w Mil lex eater Thro* hr*- nu' Official Paper NOME, ALA8KA, DEC. 31, 1913. All over the country the newspapers are today telling their readers Just what they should and should not do about this New Years business. Not only the newspapers but a good many earnest men In the ministry of a great many different denominations are burning the midnight oil In order that they may show to their flocks Just how terribly bad they have all been during the year that Is about to end. After the newspapers and the min isters and all the rest of the good people have shown their friends all of the mistakes of the past year, just how everyone has o.ffended and stumbled and done a lot of wrong to themselves and to everybody else. They will deliver themselves of some thing like this. “Now is the time of solve to turn over a new leaf, to re solve to forgo the pleasures and the evils of the past and to resolve to lead a bcliir >'fc In the future Resolve will he used more than any one word in the English language to night and tomorrow, and next to re solve will come that other hackneyed Nerw Year expression "swear off." Of course thoy are good words these "R&golve" and “swear off." But they arc worked to death and have Itecome bo terribly familiar that they have lost much of their original meaning. This is especially so on the beginning of the New Year. Just to be a little different from everything that Is expected of a news paper the NUOOET is not going to say another word about "swearing off and b^T'i nii:g all over and resolving to lead a higher, nobler life." What's the use? Every man and every woman Is going to do just as be or she in v virtually feels about It anyway anld as a matter of fact al most every Individual has that right. Ary way "swear offs" and ‘resolves" that -have been put off until the new year arc not worth very much. Tf •here Is M'yOnng In the life of man or woman that needs correcting It does not have to wait until the first of January' rolls around to be corrected. If there Is m fault or a habit that should he discarded, the sixth of May, or any other arbitrary date when the ■ valuation of the evil or the fault or habit is bom la the time to "awear off.” If {One la sincere in the desire to be bviter, to live better, to turn over that ntyich worn “new leaf one does not wait for January first to turn it. The |i|)#a Is flopped right over the moment itje. realisation comes that it Is rather a disgraceful page to be showing to New Veer's resolutions and Net [ A ear’s 'swear offs" are not worth muo «s a general rule. They are merel the result of a hit of emotion or be cause "everybody's doing It" or fo * some other equally absurd reason, Th man who is sincere in a desire to Hv< better <|uits his e\ j) way's the motncn he realizes them and he never doe: "swear off." He just naturally goei along a cleaner, smoother path am tries harder to he charitable to hi! fellow man and to exhibit a inert bn therly spirit And this is just at liable to happen) In July as in Jami , ary If it Is any help to a man to "sweat off’ something while “everybody’s do ing It" why, go ahead and "swear off.’ ( It may last a month or so. but that kind of n “swear off" Isn't usually wirth much. Probthly the NUGGET lo one of the • few papers In the land that Is not to 1 day advising people to give up some I thing, to make « set of New Years resolutions and to turn over a new leaf. The reason that It Is not doing I s.. is because it believes In Indivltl J uality. If thi‘ individual offends against the laws of God or of nature the Individual will suffer and will pay. There is no escape from that and it is within each man or woman individ ually to live the life that suits best. "Swearing off" will not change the heart or the desires. But whether there Is any "swearing oft or not. the Nl’OOET desires to t.ike this opportunity to wish its ad vertisers and its subscribers and every I one else in the community and the I ci untry a very happy and a very pros ! perous New Year, and it confidently believes that that is just the kind of a New Year that is coming to Nome. This would seem like a good time t< take a look back over the past merely for the sake of old times, for it is not wisdom to look back regret ting the glories that are gone or the opportunities missed But It matters not what the past has been there is bound to have been some good in it and Some experience In It which has leant its strength and taught its lee s' n For the sake then of these old times it will not do any harm to glance tack at the glories which once were Nome’s and which seem to have de p.ned from her 1’retly good old picture that past, up to a certain point, anil one that those who were here In the good old days may love to dwell upon, up to i « ertain point Well, when that "certain point" Is reached why look any longer? The picture begins to grow dim and i to become rAuddlcd and It hurts tho eyes to attepmt to make out all of the causes that brought about the effects The effects are hero before us plain cnought, but In the picture they do no’ show up so plainly. Oh well, put the old eromo of the past away, chuck it into a corner, or out of the window of the mind. It has served Us purpose uni’ has adorned the walls of memory ! long enough. There is another picture sitting on the easle in the corner. It is by an artist whose name is not unknown to most of us and It is one of his best works. The title of the picture is "future prosperity" and the name of the artist Is Hope. Let ns take that picture from the easle and hang it In place of the old noul irl.vrlou dull IlfiQt Tima pcrlty that w<* have chucked into tiic rubbish heap. It Is a bright picture, full of color, and \\t mean tlmt both ways, and full of life and vital energy anil hustle and the fulfillment of desires. It W the sort of picture that spurs a man’s lagging energies on to one more trial, to one more effort to reach the goal of his emhltlon. to continue the fight for the attainment of happiness. There arc. a number of figures In the group in the foreground of tho paint ing and they are all cheerful figures with smiling happy faces that it heartens a man up to simply gaze at. . Development Is there with shovel and pick, and the strong armed build er with compass and rod and chain. There is the Spirit of Immigration with hand pointing to the long line of people waiting for the opening of the country to surge In and rceate mere opportunity where opportunity already is. There is the Spirit of Hard Work and of Accomplishment and of Overcoming, and weaving in and out among the group are the fairy* of Love and Desire. In the background, over shadowing all. are the heroic figures of Alaska and Success. That is the picture which is sitting in the corner waiting to be hung in place of the old discarded chromo of the past and it is the picture that we would all do well to get fsstenedf to the wall as soon as possible. It is a good picture to begin the year 1914 with and to look at and think about every day until by our united efforts we have made the profiilse pictured on the canvass by the hand of the great artist Hope a reality and the figures in the painting real, actual, living spirits of Alaska and of Home. It has been reported around Nome * for several daVs that Aspholm, an ' Alaskan, known to many in Nome is >’ either los( or dead some place In thu neighborhood or Kliseovich's roml • house. The man's wife Is at the roitd ‘ house and ll Is said that efforts have ' liven made to tiud or. if he Is dead us I seems likely from the length of time 11 that he has been missing, to find his 11 body. I >><( ll i r i.-s have liven made us to where aid van I*.- procured to cnrrv i mi the search for a brother human j lieifig. \\ ho, if dead, should lie found i end who. if living, must be in sore j need of assistance. So far it has been j Impossible to find any department of ) the city or federal government under j which a matter of this klnld can be j dealt with. If, ns It seems, there are nowhere ; any funds that can be used for the purpose of saving a brother lost on | the trail or for the purpose of recov- ; erlng the body of one who has per ished on the trail, there Is a very seri ous lack somewhere in our govern ment. Certainly there must he relief sotnewher* for a i.me like this Ma> git *■ sell i ip< v to in,. C *iplnos. lion i>.-o i \fiskan Will llot let lit eillg fe lv. i loss border. That's light ,\l k. tl • go l ack and get kihed. It o . .-nd .go ;•*. iiliiTliin si Him i Call Itoi isotoll hate all' tldn 1 • .|o tt.11 tile series of ea I I tlipla I. ai I go out horn lioiuisidi ti Samoan disturbances .. , »<.;t n •’em. Itut Alaskan disturbances do lit seem to lie fip in tV isldngloii Perhatis Dial is furluigaP lor Wash ington. Man mined a million, is now a pan tier. Well, he hnd"*lho satisfaction of 1 gtlting it. , ( l*r»sitl«nt Wilson wmiis .1 ••.fimu* ' lir\ for rIn- Filipinos. .<n«I h»-‘s just nbout mm ••rioiiKh to m*t wh.it h»» wants You'll be sorry if you miss i». Base ball A. B. hall, Friday night. WHY EAT PJ)OR BREAD. Whan you can get GOOD. WHOLE SOME Bread at 5c per loaf. NORTH POLE BAKERY, ANVIL BAKERY. Excitement and pleasure for the whole family. Baseball in A. B. hall Friday night. Professional Cards i i THIS SPACE RESERVED. I THIS BRACE RESERVED. ! --' : t j . FRESH KOTZEBUE SALMON \\t ■ 8c per pound. ' 1 J I Or 7c per pound by the bundle •• j ■ OLD SALMON I ; ] > 5c per pound at 1,1 , Out Banking* By. Mad i Department ■ mod ere and A complete. No nutter i where you live you 004 dcpoilt with ut wrh per* (ter convenience. € Tina Booklet tells you of see i and esplaina die cueiuiala of aa(cly‘ieseet* it fcsda. It n arm without eepeete Op Established Jana 1900 / Alaska Banning jng Sale Deposit company Paid-Up Capita; *125.000 A Qanaral Banking Buelnaaa Trana aetad. Miners 8c Merchants Bank of Alaska NOMH. ALASKA Capital » - $100,000 (•old I) u s I Pimluisod and Assayed a i I __ ; HAPPY NEW YEAR j GIRLS i:j j. If HE doesn’t buy youLOWNEYShe i; r doesn’t buy you the best ■j i Bills Pharmacy !! , Front Street at Lanea Way | !! Nome, Alaaka ! Narks Roadhouse | THE PLACE TO STOP AT IN ! » COUNCIL ]; GOOD ROOMS & CLEAN BEDSI j PIR8T CLAM MEALS* R. M. MORRISON, Prop. ! ; COUNCIL, ALASKA J “BARREL'-BAT I HANDLING ; | OLIVER’S PRIVATE STOCK ! Bourbon, Maryland Puro Rye, ] | Straight and double stamp whis* ) [ kies. i i Sole Agents for ANGELES ' > ; beer. ;; i t "Barrel Bar.” < > Phone, Mela 44. Front Street, ! WHiiimiiHiiiwimf |AAhAAAAAAAAhAAAAANMMMV¥Mt board of trade j Restaurant ! and LUNCH COUNTER jl F. A. Daniels, Prop. ! THE MECCA The Best off Everything ' in the line off Liquors & Cigars JAB. WEST. Prop. OLLIE BOURRKT, Mgr. j tiReiKOKmwRnKiiKiiMmiKiniMa V \ ) iws * 'if - ,, FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. 'i | ’ \ wi.nl to I he wise is cutnclent.’ ' ’ Tills helna our Inst Xmu in ' ’ .Nome. It will pay you to inspect ' * . our stock and prices. < » ____ < « ~~ -..i -*-—. '* 1 '.TT-T - .. -- | ' ■■ — —. - P. A. Peterson Shoe Co. ' I iTfitij - - - ^ . . 1 * The ijfHord in candy WHITMANS CHOCOLATES BUTLER, MAURO & COMPANY THE REXALL STORE. PHONE BLACK 6S — « « « « • -tfriiiitiiiiii ♦- ... a > • hm h • » ■ •.«. Chas. W. Reed | Machinist A Blacksmith (lasoline Engine*. Holsts | j (toilers. Pipe and Pipe ! | Hitting* i ♦ « ..... I ! No. 5 Front St. *••* *•■* —« ■»— ■»<". ■■■«.« «nfc... FRESH BREAD l ! 5c PER LOAF | l FRUIT CAKE t pastry and different cakes at -| j NOME BAKERY * AND COFFEE HOUSE I , ACROSS THE STREET OPP08ITE NUGGET OFFICE GOAL AUSTRALIAN HEBBURN IN vakd delivered SACKED $20.00 $21.00 BULK $18.00 in yard. JOHN J. SESNON COMPANY . —. - —-p. i BoSrtrtTSg;'! A Retort for Gentlemen X A ■?!“?«»* .°.nA Poot &<*>» «" OtotAa. I ft RUSS DOWNING, PROH X i PURE WATER! + £ J 16 buckets for $1.00 £ + or 50c per barrel a/g,mr * u .—rr—rrm-'s.i Why is it to your interest to at the . Independent meat market ? W. H. WEBB, Proprietor. * • .u » » 4 C«^ * • . i ■ .' • ' When you eee your frienda boye, tell them that CHEAP brooking all p.Mt reoerda in Ho ia eelling tne loteat atyle Suite of the latent pattern* .... Qroat bargain* in broken linee of ■'M'i %■;