The Nome daily nugget., 1914-02-06

There was once gentleman named NIicawber, he may UT may not be Ia miliar to all of us. but his principle distinction was that he spent his time waiting for something to turn up"
 "Watting for something to turn up" There are men with brilliant minds "a pable of wonderful ideas for the nd , ancement of themselves. CT tho world or for their communities. who grow old and pass on and leave no mark on the record of time simply because all of their lives they just sat around and waited for something to turn up.
 Probably the world has lost more in Advancement through this one very Ind trait in so many of it's inhabt- ,unts than on account of any other nc thing. Certainly towns or sec .
 ions of the country which are popu-
 tied by this class of men will never .,lyance above the dead level of me- .liccrity.
 We see the lazy peon of the Latin funtries indolently smoking his ci- sarette as he leans against the corner nt the hacienda He has not cent 1T the world or the prospect of one. ile does not know where his next meal is to come from. But he has no initiative. no ginger. no life. He is simply waiting for something to turn up. That is why his country Is !, hundred years behind where it ought l. he in development.
 We have seen the merchant who purchased his stock. or bought 1t on credit. arrange his display window. fix up his counters and then sit down on one of the isle stools and wait for to turn up. It usually didn't turn up and we have seen tho same standing sorrowfully ny while the sheriff sold his stock or some "l,ve man." who had had an eye to business and bought him out. put a fire sale" or some equally attractive pr, position through and cleaned up a handsome profit. The Hive man" did not wait for something to turn up. He got busy and advertised and he turn rl things inside out until hc MADE SC mething turn up.
 We have seen the man out of job sponging on his friends and hanging around places where he was not want rn while he was waiting for somethinc to turn up. And we have seen at the same time another man who was out ot a job and who instead of waitina fer something to turn up went out ant hustled around until he turned some thing up for himself.
 There is not a thing in this waiting game"
 This is not all confined to indivi' duals by any means. Towns and To- calities suffer from the same waiting fcr-the- other fellow to- -do-it" disease.
 We believe that there are still great rs ssibilities In the country around Nome. It is more than a belief. 1t is a certainty. Hardly man in thi. town hut will. admit that there Is a' much gold right around In this sectioi today as has already been taken out But there 1t stays in the ground ant there it will stay until "somethint turns up"
 "That something Is going to turI ur before very long. It is going t turn up in the-shape of outside capita which will quietly continue what 1 has been engaged in for years. tho nc ruisition of ground through its agent here. and when 1t Is ready tho some thing will turn up.
 When this happens Nome is boun to benefit to greater or less degre' Certainly the influx of money and tn development of the country by min ing activities is going to do . gres deal for Nome. And yet. it would hel n little if we could have some han in this ourselves. If the citizens (