The Nome nugget., 1902-06-11
TROUBLES THAT WE ARE HEIR TO.


 and especially that portion of it which embraces Seward peninsula. The June shines brightly. and the wings of Night not folded the golden land. Strife and turmoil over it the only gloom Man strives with man. and dssensions rife where only peace and unity should be found. Yet we do not think that the people of Alaska any worse than their brethren in favored portions of this great republic. Speaking by and large are the same all over the world which we call cviized and 60 are women. All have their own small preiudices their petty jealousies, their contentious their vanities. All weddings. The greatest mortal that lived didn't amount to much after all He no doubt thought that he Something in his day and generation, but the world moved along without him, although perhaps in the After State he marveled greatly that it did not come to end upon his leav- ing it. And then the world immediately proceeded to forget him.
 "The evil that men do lives after them; the good i, oft inferred with their bones;" men are longe, remembered, as rule, by the iniquity they have wrought than by the good they accomplished The lnfamy of Nero stands out just pre-emnently to- day as do the achievements of Julius Caesar Alex ander, called the Great Jesus Christ is remembered by his wise teachings and his superhuman gentleness of spirit Judas 1scario too, has place in sacred history, and we venture to say. that there people, civilized people, who give intelligent account of the deed that made Iscarot infamous than there who repeat the teachings nculcated by tho Sermon the Mount That is the evil is remem- bered while the good is forgotten or becomes but hay memory.
 Alaskans, as a whole, have not much to be thank full or except perhaps, that most of them are alive They may have health, yet few are burdened bv wealth. they have not just and equitable laws, and the administration of those that they have is seldom satisfactory. Perhaps this is the fault of the laws and not of their administrators; vet, we submit the fact is unimparcd. We have our social differences and we have official and other differences, in which tongue plays an important part. Every man seems to have his hammer ready always, forgetting the truth of the adage that "they who live by the hammer shall perish by the hammer" Factions thrive and flourish and the country suffers. One man tries to pull down another, just to satisfy his innate devilishness and fendish maevolence for getting, worse than foolish man, that he who plots anothers undoing is digging his grave. Every politician who voices innuendoes and hints of base wrong about rival is backening his own character For time he may seem to succeed but the end is sure-t is defeat and death. The plotters of the French revolution, who worked the guilotine in double shifts at last dragged to the scaold and pushed under the knife. Some one has said that the hate we SOW finds Judgment in our hearts, and the crop is nettles that Fate unreleningy demands we shall gather" The man who cannot enjoy good position of kind without plotting to disodge some- else is laying fuse that will cause himself to be lifted into space very shortly.
 A malady that aflicts many people in Nome as we'll as elsewhere, is lint on tho lungs. They are perpetually chewing" No is right, except themselves; everyone else is barbarian or worse. Thsre arc too many of the touch me-not- Tam. hoiier-than-thou" class. They have beams in their owh eyes, yet they set out to discern notes in the eyes of their fellows They imagine that they are tAs people and that wisdom will die with them; in