The Nome daily nugget., 1912-11-23
OFFICIAL PAPER.
NOME, ALASKA, NOV. g. 1912.
VILLAGE FAME.

Julius Caesar IS quoted as hayi1.
 said that he would rather be tse urst
 man in village than the second ma,
 in Rome. Whether he said so OF r,o,
 hardly matters iu the least for tn.
 wisdom contained in the uFrasr Is
 greater than Julius ever was ..tl ne
 ided will be presented tu the .un. m
 mind long after the memory ut l.r
 Caesar has passed away. fo Tit s
 undying truth.
 To be monarch of ell he surv,,,.I. "s Robinson 'rusoe IS said to !-.vs
 been by the librettist. seems r.lt ,,. d poor consolation but the line Is use. Il as sort of burlesqued cxpressI ,n af the same thought.
 IL IS more than likely that the spit Eskimo extracts more pride from al blubber catch that creates envy in tbe breasts of his brothers than he Noul Il 1T he were exalted to the cmineucg il a president of the Nome Chamber ,f| Commerce or chic fof police. He sees
 '''o "'"S Idlttte SiltHllnS the meaness of his humble shed and an upturned skin boat on the bah..s of classic Penny river has the inyi.,il ie| Tuilleries skinned to death.
 AS il is with the Eskimos so is it| with us lords of creation. In all sm,.,lI towns. particularly in isolated ones. each calling has it's preeminent votary. and his local pre- eminence means to all intents and purposes. so far as his little world is concerned, pre-emin- ence universally.
 Charles Dickens took one mean ad- vantage of America when writing about it by dwelling upon the factI that each little settlement visited con- tained at least one of the greatest ment In the country according to the opin- ion of the remainder of the popula- l tion. But Charles Dickens need never have crossed the Atlantic to observe | this. Living in London most of his life even he had failed to learn that every village on earth has it's own hall of fame-its own French academy
 Opie Reed tells about the naughty daughter of a man who ran a little bank some place in the South, and about a humble lover who took satis- faction for her contemptuous rejection of him by declaring that she would be t mighty small potato in New York.
 This was very unsatisfactory. not to say ungentlemanly, revenge indeed, for New York was far away and as long as it was the lady's father reign- ed supreme.
 It comes mighty hard on many from time to time who leave the small communities where their words wereI law and their talents were calledl genius to find on entering a large cityI that their lights have not yet reached the world beyond. There are stars in visible yet to this earth although theirI lights are travelling toward us at thel rate of something like thousands of miles per second. and the space be- tween those stars and the earth isl hardly greater than the difference be- | tween the talents that give us villageI lame and the talents required for realI greatness. Of course the lights of new stars ar i've from time to time and villagel | 'tars sometimes take leading parts 2 'n the universal stage. Shakespeare anne from a small town, and Napol- ! on was not born in q great center of 2 population. Lincoln came from theI ountry. This shows that men may be yil- agers and yet possess the clements of N