The Nome nugget., 1902-05-21
THE DEAD ONLY HAVE HONOR.

The race for wealth and the for what men call honor great deal alike. Of the two we are prone to confess that the for wealth seems to present allurements than does the race for honor. This should not be the case but it is The men who have piled up vast fortunes are remembered when many who acted nobly and thought best and who achieved honor and fame forgotten These rise, we are told from, condition. Achievement of both lies simp in acllng we'll ones part in life Yet this is plain duty that man alike to himself and to his fellow man. There is no especial honor distinction in doing ones duty in life All of us not undmindful of honors either achieved or thrust upon us. The trouble with most men is in the fact that they do not bear their honors molestly. They think their greatness will always be ripe and will never rot or mildew, and therein they make a grievous mistake.
 Men have achieved greatness and honor upon fields of battle in civil e ill the pursuit of the arts and sciences, in ameorating conditions existing in the age in which they lived; and it is noted that those who remembered men who accomplished real good for their contemporaries and for suc- ceeding generations. In other words they are known by their works. Here is the kernel of true greatness What man accompishes during his life for the betterment of mankind is the lasting criterion bv which he will be judged not in his own, but perhaps in after times.
 So today men trample each other down in the mad pursuit of wealth, which, perhaps if they attain it, is to them dead fruit; they seek the bubble reputation cen at the cannon's mouth that is they are after honor" and gory, which after all is as unsubstantial as dream; the honor which comes to men who seek 1t simply for honor's sake is often q deluson and a snare; honors to be we'll must be deserved; and their achievement is not born of a mean gnoble sordd spirit; they are the product of the heart and mind.
 How many thousands of men who achieved ."fame" and "distnction" are long remembered |? Even the names of "mghty heroes" in many walks of life and in all times become but shadowy memories Ye would not discourage the attempt to achieve both. It is not always the best men and women, however, whose names are enrolled in the annals of fame. Whether they deserved the dis. tincton, won by means or other, is doubtful, and, if honor won history is full of instances where it was ignobly won. It is vastly easier how ever, to win infamy than fame especially in these latter times. Honor, and by that term we mean that intangible something which, as we have said, many men strive for, is not easy to obtain Men, as a rule, like to have the good opinions of their fellows they like to think that they occupy pedestal just rihe higher than that of their neghbors. This is the unreal, the superficial honor such as conten- poraneous history deals with for the most part And 1t is an empty bubble. All are very much alike; of course some have advantages denied others; some have the ability to sec and seize opportunities to which others blind, perhaps through no fault of their own, their "blindncss" being an inheritance from their forefathcrs. The greatest men are made of common clay after all clay that is easily moulded perhaps, and as easily broken. It is. therefore ludicrous to see man "puffed up with an undue sense of his own inportance his greatness his honors his wealth. intellect other attributes. If he have goodness of heart and righteous cast of mind he will not think that he is something when he is nothng" His honor will fade dew upon the grass; his great ness will not long be remembered unless he has something that will keep his memory