The Nome nugget., 1902-01-29

'i'N-'' "'NAi Nlit NotiIS I-' II VI tue ' I.' , iares, whom We made our cUmpanitl : and our mates. We played and laug he'd with them; we Wrestled and took paIt n all their other games and dance s.
 We went with them on lcn4 hunti Q } trips and lived with them fer day .
 and, hOtheadcd as we were. We w0l q
 at times lose our temper, and ti9l |
 with them and hurt them, and the next morning the injured native would
 always come over and bring and offer
 u- a present. This was nut for want of
 courage: that was above question. and
 had been tried by Us on numerous occa-
 sions. Still there must have been d
 lack of force. We gradually learned
 to control ourselves and to keep our
 tempers down, and in great approval
 the old natives would come to Us and pay Us the highest compliment they
 knew of by saying that we were just like Innuit. Their self-esteem and pride. their cOnceit of their own per- itNtlOli anu tiIV pCl VI lllCli liNCS and morals, their standards and their customs were so strong within them that they never had the least doubt of
 their stability nor ever lost their con ! tidence in their own superiority, even win le we were, like worms, gnawing at
 the roots of a strong tree. But. little ! hU lii tla Wit hnnt fnnsninnc pffnct
 on our side, we weaned the young na-
 tives from their standards and beliefs. ! They commenced to look at things
 with our eyes and to adopt our ways more and more. They ceased to value the accumulated stores of their fathers.
 consisting of anc .ent beads and jade implements and to fear the occult powers ascribed 10 them, and they lost their venefation for the rules and rites of their forebears. The old men tried to shut their eyes to the fact as long as they could, but at last they had to give in. They always had treated our ridi- cule with pitying contempt, but they wlnced unuer the ridicule of their own children. The pathos in the questions Of the old natives is ringing in my ears tocay. "Wny did you white men come to this country" "Why did you not stay in your land of sunshine and sum- mers and let us Innuit alone amongst the snow and ice ?" And they became like men who had lived too long. Their
 hearts broke at last, and they laid down to die, dying sadly like men who,
 after a strenuous and apparently sue
 ceS,ful life, on their deathbeds learn
 that they had been wrong all the time
 Thus were the last bright tllckering>
 oi race older than the lands they
 were occupying. 1t was the final sur
 render of the remnant of a great and
 dominant nation that had once peupleu
 a vast empire, and that, after it had
 fulfilled its destiny ages ago, had been
 shattered and become scattered to the
 tarlhest reaches Ol the Arctic region.
 The ep.c of the EskimOs has to be
 written yet, but it has been lived out
 to the last StanZa. 1 heir morals anC
 customs point to a great past ano
 q history of many ages: the
 perfection of their garments anC
 implements tells of thousands O
 years of evolutiOn; their pride and self
 cunceit speak of race and d long line
 Ol aucestUrs, and tneir death Wa, tht
 death ot hOary old age. The old mer living today will die away; the youn. will be peacefully absorbed by the new } civilization spring ing up around them
 It IS all so different with the people ) we had just left, the Chowchuan. The. are d young and strenuous people, jus , starting out in life. With them thu process of amalgamation and assimil , atiOn of many different races, types ant 1 tribes into one homogeneous body ha ) just abuut completed itself. Thei simple and anarchical conditions arr crying out today for the strong mal l and for leadership. Under such the. , would soon grow into strong nation l which, if lett alone, in time would be l come the hotbed of cOnquering hOldes the like of which in bygOne ages hav' 3 been reared time and time again in thu 2 quiet of Asia, and then have burs l forth with irresistible force, changin, . the map of the world. The ChOwchual F will never peacefully submit to b f absorbed by the new and strong civil g ization; they will gallantly struggle an t die, and their dying will be like tn Q death of young man violently slruc t down on the threshold of his future n So nations die like men; some live or
 ,heir full span and die withou 2 struggles; others are taken long befor - their time.
 e We had found in the new world tn n old and in the old world the new, an $ so it must have been, and so it will h through the endless cycles. Th e merciless wheel of time will crush wha