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The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18
A CONDITION, NOT A THEORY.

TIE NrGGEr has always consistently advocated economy in the administration of municipal affairs. From time to time. during the past two years or ever since the town was incorporated, 1t has advised the city councils to cut their coat according 10 their cloth. The consequence of wearing long-tailed frocA coat small youth is evident At last it s found that the coat must be of the seymour var- etv or the town will be irretrievably bankrupt. We take little stock in loud-mouthed reormers and ire sponsble demagogues and their promises, but there s always safety in bringing little common sense to bear any proposition. It costs about sl ,SS5 a month to maintain the different departments which constitute the municipal government That amount
 is one-hai too much. An expenditure of $l0,O0Q per year even less should give this town all the 'gov. ernment' that it needs for the present There are fixed charges that must be met, such the re- ;emption os city warrants and the repair of the streets. These charges paramount. In order to put the city sound financial basis the strctest economy must be followed. There can be no costly staff of city officials Thege will be little need of city attorney and, it seems o us chief of police might be dispensed with. This town is but village and its business must be conducted along business lines. Its record for the preservation of law and order is excellent. Nome has been fortunate in the past in having efficient police officers and then the isolation acts deterrent of crime. There does not promise to be great influx of people from the out side, and certainly but few of what known the criminal class will come hither, simply because there are no Inducements to bring them. At any rate, in emergency the police force be easily increased. \ saving may also be made in the administration of the fire department. As it is the department is ef-
 cient but it, too will have to suffer temporarily at least if the strictest economy is to be carried out
 The practice of economy is not always pleasant, and sometimes it is not altogether profitable, but so far Nome's financial condition is concerned a con liton, not theory, confrorts it. That condition is either strict economy in the management of munich pal affairs or hopeless bankruptcy So there you are.
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18
TAXES ON BUSINESS.

The !ordinante to impose and collect license Oil business conducted within the City of Nome" pas, ed the last meeting of the city council 1t would sce.. meets with the strenuous opposition of the cit! coun- celect As understand the ordinance 1t simply puts into effect the license tax schedule of last year, with the addition that it permits the payment of such
 license taxes n city warrants whereas all license lax money collected last year pay able in cah IL h because license may be paid in city warrants in lieu of cash we believe that the pr,nca objections are made. We are frank to state that n our opinion all license taxes of whatsoever nature should be paid in cash but so long the city has its promises to pay (City warrants) outstanding, we do not see how those warrants be refused cash when presented in payment of debt due the city. No provision has been made for the cashing of city warrants in their rotation b. either of the two city councils which have legisated for Nome. This being the case, it would be good law that if the city smith, and Smith owes the city, when the latter presents its b to the former, he may with much reason present his own for liquidation. But if an ordinance pass. ed compelling the payment of warrants in their order of issue then smith, if he have no warrants, or a warrant not then due must periorce put up his cash for any indebtedness that he may the munich paity. Of course we are assuming that the payment of warrants in the order indicated would bear the test of law. II not, then it would appear that rants of any date of issue would have 10 be taken in lieu of cash
 The present license tax ordinance also under stand designed favor if it avors any special class. those merchants who have permanent homes in Nome. If it discrmnates against any, the discrim- nation is against those transient traders who arrive, like wild fowl, iI the spring and depart in the fall with their gains, only to repeat their experiment the following year. We confess that this matter of deal ing with the transient trader is difficult He handicap ps the permanent business man, inasmuch as he arrives in the spring. rents building puts up tent at triHing axpense, reaps the cream of the summer trade, spends little of his profits where they made demoralzes prices, for he i- a travelling business bucaneer and small profits for a few months mean much to him, and then when the days grow short and the air becomes frosty, with q farewell of his hand he takes Il steamer to d more genial cline. The permanent business man he leaves behind to get through the long winter best he can. Such method of doing business should tend to make every man peripaetc pirate and des- troy all hope of building up permanent business community. which is the very of solidarity in any country.
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18

Gov-elect Bailey of Kansas has received 200O proposals of marriage because it was announced some time ago that he was willing. He refuses to say whether or no' he will take the plunge, but he does deny the re- port that he has committed himself to celibacy. "No man." he says, "can make such a decision without running the risk of having the de- clsion overruled. A man marrics when the spirit moves him and the girl is willing. In my case the spirit simply hasn't made itself fek Maybe l will marry, maybe 1 won't; hea ven only knows at this time." MT. Bailey is a wise man and a consistent man. Even a statesman is not sure of dying a bachelor until he is dead.
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18

A glance at, the ordinance inn pos.ng license taxes reveals the fact that while "barb"r shops" and "barber h ls and bath houses conhi,rd under single ownership" are taxed no pro,'.o .on has been made for the ,aXauon of bath house without any c"n.hi,,aiion at 'ached to it. This probably was an oversight and was not meant lo be discrimination in favor of the bath house.
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18
POLITICAL MERGER

A CermaL puhlicist ridiculcs the vulgar prating of politicians that theirs i> the party of claw and or der" He says that all parties are in spirit revolutionary and if they could would drive every other party oil the field Speaking of the grea, political parties in Germany he says:
 "The liberals would like to con- vert the supreme head of he empire into the first official of the state after the pattern of England and America. < The center would like to resume thc process of recon. verting Germany to CatholiciSn at the point where it wa- broken off in the 1Tlh century, < The junker party (''squirearch ") X \ would like 10 degrade the Ger man eml eror into the position of the first among his peers. x x The social democrats intend. or as- sert that they intend, to render the economic life Of the people indr- pendent of the private accumula- ton of capital, and that every one, without regard to what he contrib utes in the way of work, should re- ceive out of the big general pot the same quantity of soup as his neigh bors.'
 All parties being revolutionary, the conclusion which the publicist draws is that the only safety of nations is for them to unite. If this idea is followed, we may yet see the culnination of the trust idea in politics in the political mer- ger. But when all parties become merged into one, how stale, flat and unproftable the profession of poll tics will become.
 The publicist despairs of ever seeing any true representative gov ernments till the people are large enough 10 sustain minority repre- sentation." The party struggling for power feels DO manner of obi gation to the minority as soon as it gets it. We have certain forms that pretend to give the minority it's just representative weight, but it is largely q show The substance is absent. The political merger is most needed.
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18

In Nome. 1t seems, if you arc friend y to John Smith, you must be eriorce an enemy of all those who dislike Smith. In other words. ,o he on friendly footing with SmlIl means that you must make ur your mind to part com p,ny with your friend Jones There are mentally small people to be iouud al oyer this wide world bui there i4 none so small a. lha, kind who would compel all theil friends and acquaintances to look through their green spectacles.
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18
SOME STRANGE DELUSIONS.

A copy of the San Francisco Bulletin received by TnE NrGGEr has leading article an editorial hearing the caption: "Strandcd in Nome" As is usual with most newspapers published outside of AL aska the article is of transformation and misrepresentation. IL betrays ignorance of con- Nitions in Alaska such only be found in "the States" where to most people Alaska is terra in- caknita. The ignorant writer oi the article to which wA refer states that Nome is with unfortun atcs and indigents whose miserable condition has been brought about by their love for gambling; that the city makes provision for the of the sick; that many of these men die of pneumonia, of hunger, ofdisease brought on hy dirt and i'll nutrition and thewrter goes to ddacicaly state that stranded in Nome may eventually work itself in the language as general expression for condition of ultimate extremity of destituton and suffering the nearest approach to he'll on earth"
 Nome may bea near approach Co hell on earth; perhaps it is, but q man who has never seen it and who can possibly have knowledge of prevailing conditions is not competent judge In other words man who has not seen and experienced "hell' can
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18
According to a state ment pub

According to a state ment pub lished by a local paper President Roosevelt is a man without the least vestige of discretion, and ono who drags the dignity of his high office in the dust. It is needless to say that we do not believe Presi- dent Roosevelt is this kind et a, man. The statement referred to is just another bit of irresponsible islander.
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18

and Nnly assertions have been made by irteresled publications. THE NtaoEr today prints interviews with the mcmbers-elect of the next city council, which state that no Coercion" or even an attempt at coeYc on has been used by the United States marshal m the mat ter of appoin ing city officials.
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18

nnrtIy r,,mber. iGil of deadly poi son, working mischief" It is q pro- vision of nature, however. that the same tongue that works deadl
 mischief is always i,s own undoing.
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18

If the United States marshal or any federal official attempted to influence the result of the late mu- nicipal election, or to dictate the appointment of any man as chief of police, censure would bc in order. But mere asscrtion'is not argument,
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18

first arrival was on May 24: The little steamer Elk was the first to. reach Nome last year, arriving on the morning of June 2. Two days later the Nome City reached port. What will he the date of arrival of the frs, steamer this spring?
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18

Another Hawaiian public official has gone wrong, and the scandal of it is food for goss,p. When the island territory Ina grown older in the complacency of American ways such tlifles will not furnish enter. tainment even for an idle hour.
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18

The builders of warships for our government seem to have received hurry-up orders, probably because of Germany's hellicose attitude in the Venezuelan affair
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18

In the spring of 1900 the first steamer from the outside" arrived in Nome on May 21; in 1901 the
The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18
PROFESSIONAL.
PHYSICIANS
TYR. k. NJ. RININGER

Oftice and Residence. White Drug Store. Of flee hours to and to P. m, Calls answered promptly day or night. Telephone No. 1.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-30
New York Produce Market.

New York. Dec 90
FLOUR-Receipts, 42,312; exports, 1851
sales, 127O0; market was quieter but I'M
changed and steady.
WHEAT-Receipts, $500; exports, IA,
759; sales, 2.97O,000 futures; spot weaker
No. 2 red, nominal elevator No. . red,
81 o b afloat; No. l northern Duluth,
95ls f o b atioat; No. 1 hard Manitoba.
nominal b afloat.
CORN-Recepts, 5000; exports. 40, $50;
sales $4,000 futures; spot steady; No. 2.
52A elevator and $40 f b atloat; No. 2
yellow, So; ungraded mixed, 541a.
OATS-Receipts. $500; exports, 1902;
spot steady; No. 2, 81.
HAY-Dull.
BEEF-Steady.
LARD-Nominal; western steamed, 7.25:
December closed 7.25 nominal; refined
steady
PORK-Firm.
BUTTER-Firm; extra creamery, 90;
state dairy. 1id20.
EGGS-Strong; state and Penna. nearby
average finest 81.
POTATOFS-Steady
SCGAR-Raw nominal: fair refining. 8;
centrifugal 96 test, 81; molasses sugar,
% refined quiet.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-30
Pointed Paragraphs.

An ounce of practice is better than a
ton of theory.
OF the many human buds but few
ever bloom successfully.
Beware of the individual who is lost
to all sense of shame.
Be sure of your, fatted calf before es-
saying the prodigal role.
Who ever heard of an actress seek
ing a divorce without publicity?
Some people are like parrots-they
talk too much and say too little.
The actors fur-lined ulster doesn't
always protect him against a frost.
Somebody is always getting in the
way of the man who is in pursuit of
happiness.
A man seldom poses as a confirmed
bachelor until after some woman has
confirmed him.
The man who is blind to his own in
terests usually has four eyes for his
neighbours affairs.
1t is easy to distinguish cut glass
from the other kind; the other kind is
found on bargain counters.-Chicago
News. "@A
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-30
GRIP CONVALESCENCE

There's nothing better
than SCOTS Emulsion after
the grip. When the fever
is gone the body is left weak
and exhausted; the nervous
system is completely run
down and vitality is low.
Two things to. do: give
strength to the whole body
and new force to the nerves.
SCOTS Emulsion will do it;
contains just what the worm
out system needs.
Rich blood, healthy flesh,
resistive force, more and bet
ter nourishment are what
SCOTS Emulsion supplies to
the convalescent. w.
We'll send Won = sample free uron reouest
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-30
MARKET REPORTS.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features Of the Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks.

New York, Dec. 29.-The rise in call
money rates to per cent. ma Ximum
today. marked the unmistakablc effect of
the preparation for the annual settle
ments, and made itself felt in the stock
speculation. An effort was made to re-
trieve the reaction in the late dealings by
some very vigorous advances in the Unit
ed States Steel stocks and in Southern
and Union Pacific, but the general list did
not respond effectually to this treatment
and prices fell back again. making the
closing weak and active. The days net
changes show some fair gains in the ac-
tive list and some striking gains in the
inactive specialties. But the highest
prices of the day were not held in any
case and the gains We're wiped out in
conspicuous stocks. The furry in the
money market had more effect in suspend
ing the buying and the bidding up pro-
cess than in inducing any extensive liqui-
dation. The feversh and excited tone of
the cotton market probably reflected also
a process of clearing up for the year-end
settlements. The fact that requirements
for January disbursements call certainly
for 0S0 and up to an estimated
maximum of s1500O0,00O, points to the in
evitableness of temporary pinch while
this huge sum is changing hands. West
inghouse Electric relapsed suddenly on
the announcement of note issues to the
extent of s., 100000 to provide partly for a
railroad purchase and the deposit of Chi
cago & Alton preferred stock with au-
thority to sell offered another prospect
of new security issues. The movement
of gold hither is still uninterrupted. a
small engagements having been effected
in London, today, while San Francisco
RENTED to New York over a million of
tive and firm Total sales, par value,
1856, 600. United States old As coupon adj
vanced a and the new As registered de-
clned Il per cent on the last call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-30

The closing days of theyear have seen
two of the greatest railway horrors.
which have shocked humanity in many
a day. The one in western Pennsyl-
vania. where about 20 persons were
killed. and that in Michigan, with over
a score of lives lost and half hundred
injured, are terrible to read about, and
even at distance of hundreds OF
miles, they thrill with horror all who
picture them. There is. however, one
pleasant side of the story in both
cases. Neither instance was the re-
suit of criminal negligence on the part
of railroad employees. One was caused
by ties upon the track which had
dropped from a passing freight train,
and the other was caused by the abb
sence of signal light which a high
wind had blown out.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-30

AS regards the future of Colombia,
the Providence Journal takes a par
ticularly optimistic view. Most people
have felt that the future of that re-
public was left behind it when it tried
the highwayman game on Uncle Sam
The Providence paper takes this very
hopeful view of Colombia's case: IF
the Colombian Government can get
enough credit from the printers to Sc
cure the making of enough paper
money to buy enough protection, there
may yet be a hostile invasion of Pana :
ma under it's direction
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-30
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
New Year Suggestions.
Lewiston SUM

(LeWlStOn SUM
The day of good resolutions is at hand
Before purchasing elsewhere please eX-
anime these:
To swear not more than once a week
gradually reducing it to not more than
once in ten days,-not including cases
of extraordinary provocation-and a your
wife quite a number of times less than
you think she will stand.
To pay up your bills little closer this
year than last.
To wait till next week to treat to q
drink the friend who treated you today.
To pay your grocery bill before you
buy new necktic
To inspect with cold suspicious eye
that investment that promises you good
deal more than six per cent, with all the
security of government bOndS-and do the
inspecting before you invest.
Be not too ready to believe every time
you are sick that it is your last sickness.
you are probably not good enough to die
To reduce the number of cigars to seven
day, gradually, and then keep your
smoking within your income.
To wait as nearly twenty-four hours as
possible after you have sufficient evidence
that a man is a liar before you make 1t
your principal topic of conversation. And
occasionally refrain from saying he is a
TO use the superlative somewhat less
often
To put off endorsing a candidate for
public office until you have figured out
how large a note you would be willing to
endorse for him.
Several times in the course of 1904 to
stop eating before your appetite is salts
fed.
To sew up the hole in your pocket
through which the nickels and dimes and
quarters have been leaking.
TO read one great book in 1Mi-and be.
gin it at once
To vote for the public welfare at least
half as often as you vote for friend
10 refuse to sign petition You don't
believe in, even to please a friend as
carefully as you would refuse to sign a
bond.
To keep young till your dress suit is
Worn out.
To call spade spade when it is really
necessary; but to never try to make peo-
pie believe you think it is a silver ladle
To get somewhat better acquainted with
your own business.
To know more Of how others in the
same business manage, and keep your
mind open for better methods.
To give the other party to the convex
sation a better chance,-he can tell you
something.
To start into no large enterprise till
you have taken over night to think it
over.
To be more patient.
To keep better informed.
To do more exactly as you agreed to.
To be less depressed in finding yourself
in the minority.
To give larger share of your CONVEX
sation to subjects worth talking about.
To take measurements rather than go
by guess when important interests are at
stake.
Those soiled and twisted and shattered
ideals-don't throw them into the ash bar
rel. Brush off the dust, stick the places
together as well as you can and make
them do until you can afford better ones
To make a little more frequent and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-30

Every little while some Boston news
paper apparently starts out to initiate
the Olney boomlet, but usually finds
that it has not breath enough to raise
it from the ground. There are four
great facts which the Olney boomers
find themselves running up against
with a sickly thud. They are: Q)
that Mr.. Olney will be past the three
score-and-ten limit when the next
president is inaugurated; (2) that his
residence in New England makes him
impossible; (3) that he is too closely
allied with the Cleveland element OF
the party; and (4) that he has not the
personality which arouses enthusiasm
and wins support.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-30
AUGUSTA, WINTHROP & GARpl.
NER RAILWAY.

Change of time on the Winthrop & Togus
DiVlsl0ns' in ene 1s5s Tuesday, Dec. l.
Cars leave Augusta for Hallowell and
h ha1o hour f. from II A M to 10 p NJ. for
leave two hours later in the morning
Cars leave Augusta for Winthrop $50,
~ 80 q 1o, % a A. n, 125o 1.so. go $50.
lights ns '; Only 81 So p. " M And Saturday
Cars leave Augusta for Winthrop Sum
Gay days as follows 81 $50; 1850 A. NJ. 1256.
| Cars leave Augusta for Togus So $50
A. NJ. And commencing at leave every
hour on the hour to 10 p. y.
First car Sunday A. NJ.
Cars leave Togus, for Augusta where
and Winthrop lines and A. M. Com
mencing at $50 leave every hour on the
| half hour until $50 P. NJ. 1880 P. NJ for
da sy So a. an Il First car from r0sus Sum
Cars leave Winthrop for Augusta
where competitions are made for Hallowel
anS G Gaad IN H. ans 1 pS s S &c. 7 90 ss
Pr, M ! And q Saturday nights for August1
Sunday time from Winthrop as follows:
HSG; $780, hSo, A. NJ l5o' $50 $50, $50
The $50 A. M. car from Winthrop con-
meets at Augusta with early M c. trains
F'aSt and West.
The 1850 A. NJ. car leaves NJ. c. R. R.
station at Winthrop on arrival Of train
due at Winthrop from Portland and Lew
| iston at 1913.
The Winthrop line Is equipped with
large, easy riding. eight wheel cars ard
make the trip in one hour. Baggage car
| ried on all trips.
All cars run to. NJ c. station in Win
| throp week days until $50 P. NJ inclu-
sive.
Cars leave Gardiner for Augusta where
connections are made for Winthrop and
Togus lines every half hour fifteen min
utes before and fifteen minutes past the
hour from 6.15 A. NJ. to 9.15 P. M. Tbs
345 r. NJ. for Hallowell only. 10.15 P. M.
for IIallowell and Augusta only.
Sunday time same as above except that
cars start two hours later in the morning:
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