The Nome nugget., 1925-04-25

science mad the antitoxn that is in Nome to- day but science could not get it there. All the nec lanica transportation r,aryels modern times faitered in the presence ef the clements Man has made wonderful machines speeding the eartH and sea in the air and under tba wat srs, We have locomotives and motor swiftness. We faee million dollar balloons am powerful airplancs N have steamers. submarine. aad that gigantic al of navgartan tle ice breaker. None of thesa could reach N,me the point more than 6oeE luJe~ away Vhers the healing Even tle plane which has covered the distance in les than two haar- failed fn tha hour of need.
 But there were two machines that did fail Man and his dog. prehistoric companions in strug gle answered the of Nome. They assisted by the crudest of all devices of transport. the sled went through with the job Other engines might freeze and choke. but that oldest of all motors, the heart whose fuel is blood and whose spark is cour age, stalls but
 The eyes of all this continent this con test in which the musher and his huskies were faced by the overwhelmins odds of pitiles North From Nenana. the last point to which the train could bring the serum. Nome is 665 miles, That is farther than from New York to Detroit. Mch gan. It is stretch of unbroken except by the glaring of the rivers It is a wilderness O blizzard which winter whips the face with thousand thongs of ice. It 50 degrees below zero when shannon with his dogs and the sled and the precious twenty-pound package of anti make relay of nearly half the distance between New York and Albany
 There rest. for rest meant the stihenins of and dogs There was no sleep. for sleep death There guide en for men were to be only at the relay points The far north little daylight and that daylight of small against the blinding Light dark there could be no back nothing but struggle. hour after hour, in of cold and under cruel burden of fatigue
 What shannon faced the outset what all nine heroic travellers bore-except when their task The great Seppaa mushed forty miles his relay point and then, without took the the long lap to which he had been assigned. Two other mushers waited for two days without sleep-for sleep in the Arctic s traitor-until their carry with the package.
 Gunnar Kaasen. whose happy fate make the victorious entry into Nome, missed in the storm the relay that to relieve him and had make a double run but completed his ffty-four miles in less than eight hours. We can hear the gods in Valhala crying "Skoal!" to this greater Eorseman.
 Nor shall the glory fade of the dogs who made this against death in faster time than ever wolf husky sped in the mushing contests for sport Frozen, hungry. urged the last ounce of their energy, so fayed by the winds that their lungs scorched if by fire, these creatures held tn path of torture if they knew what their errand went in the spirit of Bato, who when Musher kaasen lost in the blizzard kept his mates headed for Nome and saved the day
 So potent the combination of and dog and courage that mercess winter could pre- vent it from doing it's fine errand In five and half days the relays covered ground that had never before been crossed in less than nine days. Men thought that the limit of speed and endurance had been reached in the famous dog races of Alaska But race for sport and money proved to have far less stimulant than this which humanity was the and life the prize.
 And there again find science playing minor part For there is nothing in science which tells why should imperil his own life to save another. particularly when as in the race to Nome, the person to be saved is a stranger No Laboratory extract the essence of self-sacr flee; biological formula explain the willingness and magnifcence of the act of these Alaskan
 These and their dogs have written epic of the North. Only other historic episode of the iceland matches their unselnsh heroism That is the story of Captain Oates of the Scott expedi-