The Nome nugget., 1902-01-18
AlASkA'S TIME IS HERE.

'",ro every thing there s a season, and time te every purpose under heaven"
 These are the words of Solomon, and therefore are esteemed wise, inasmuch 'Soomons om was profound. But notwithstanding this it is to bt doubted if Solomon, the wise man, prohted as he should by the precepts which he laid down and which for ages past have been used to formulate rules o conduct for generaton after generation 1t is wise man who profits by the mistakes he has made, and Solomon's mistakes were not few. Solomon knew the human mind and the human heart the vagaries of the and tle waywardness of the other fully realized by him. It was because of this knowledge that he tells that he sought out and set in order many proverbs. And they're right good proverbs, too They have stood the test of three thousand years and although the modern wise men may think that ;Solomon's wisdom comparative quantity, nevertheless we find that none of them has given anything to replace it.
 The value of Solomons proverbs lies in the fact that they timely bits of truth which apply ak. to the beggar in his hovel the king upon his throne. No doubt the truth of the sentence quoted Ut inc beginning of this article. That it is true needs corrohorative testimony; hence if it was true when Solomon first enunciated it, it is true to- day. For great truths interchangeable, although there may be different methods of applying them
 These remarks are made simply for the purpose of leading up to the meat, what wish to coI,- sider such of this atice: Less than forty years ags Alaska was almost ayeritable terra incognita it had place the maps to be sure, but if one looked at
 it., was to shudder. The time for it's enancipation DO to speak, had not yet The of its redemption had not arrived. But the beginning came few years later, and from that time may date the birth of country, an empire within itself The Ia tko 1oro Cf c;,, 1867 has been slow be sure because the season of its development had not come Westward the Star of Empire had been taking it way for many years but it is only recently that the uttermost parts of the West have been seized and civilized Now, when there is West the eyes of the people begin to turn to the great northIand. To the people of the United States in their restessness of spirit there the South American countries left as fields of ex. ploitation there Cuba and the West Indies, not very desirable however; there are the Philippines and Alaska. Naturally, the American race take more kindly to temperate climate than to tropical or sub-tropical. Therefore, assume, ii only for this reason the time of the development of this great northern possession has arrived.
 'Eet us make contrast hy way of comparison: European peoples have steadily pressed nurthward, splantltg towns and establishing industries. Ham 'merfest, Norway is city of consider able sze it's latitude being II degrees north; Tromsoe, also in Norway, is town of several thousands of people, within the Arctic circle Archange in Russia several degrees farther north than is Nome has population of 50OOO; and Bergen, Norway, in about the same latitude as Nome is commercial city of importance. { Who then, will to say that in few brief years Alaska will be the wild, bowling wilderness it ronce was? There is such thing retrogression in these modern days. This world will last until nearly every portion has been reclaimed from it's nat ural state And Alaska is part of the world. ====