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PHONE MAIN 46.
Entered a* second-claBa matter Feb
26, 1907, at the postoffice at Nome
Alaska, under the Act of Congress of
March ? 1*78
Copy for regular advertisements
must be In by Ul o'clock on the day of
publication.
NOME. ALASKA, AUGUST 16, 1916.
(ini of the finest cxamjili-.s of ili*.
poouliar inconsistencies of I he law ma
chine, so often referred to nowadays
b> thos*' who have got over the idea
that is is ies majesto of the rankest
order to criticize the legal system,
comes to light in the decision handed
down by the New Jersey supreme
court not long ago in the case of Phil
lip Utilize against the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western railroad.
According lo the press accounts,
itemze*sued tile railroad for damages
based upon certain personal injuries
received and was awarded a verdict
in lh< sum of $!i,S15. As it happened
incapacitated, the railroad at once ap
pealed the ease on the ground that the
damages allowed were excessive.
Placed before the supreme court, that
bulwark of justice and liberty sus
tained lie* appeal and ordered a new
trial.
Everything was all right and regu
lar up to this point. The question
was purely one of whether the verdict
given to the injured party
was in excess of what strict justice
demanded. According to the extent of
t lie injuries received and disability
created, tin- verdict of the trial court
was i it her excessive or it was not. As
it happened to he based upon injuries
which did not place the plaintiff perm
anently on the crippled list, the su
preme court, as those courts usually
do when a railroad is getting a shade
the worst of it, held that the verdict
was entirely loo high. The case was,
therefore, remanded for new trial.
ill the second trial, the jury, more
leniently minded that its predecessor,
increased, instead of lowering, the
damages allowed. This time the in
jured party was given an award of
$11,300. The railroad very naturally
appealed, feeling entirely sure that the
court would sustain the contention
that U,e damages awarded ware out of
all i,i -poll.on, especially as the court
had lak* ii i xi > plioi. lo an even lower
award. After the usual wait of a year
oi so. th< supi cup- court handed d:ivn
gmt • h .-I and, of
* ,u, a sustained lie railroad conten
LUI '1 1 lie da in., gi well entirely
us, lugl Hut, w oi,d« -1 of wonders
' * urt h. I not onl> sustained the
* i* v. liial tla verdict was excessive
'■u. . 1 d* e la red that tli*- first award
of $0,845 entirely fitted the case and
that Mr. lleinze was legally and justly
entitled to that sum. It was lo lie
expected, of course, that the court
would hold tin second verdict exces
sive but that it should sustain the
first judgment, which it had previous
ly rejected, is as nice an example of
judicial inconsistency as can be found.
Decisions of this character may be all
very clear and very reasonable to the
legal mind hut to the layman it sure
ly appears that there is something
radically wrong with a system which
declares that its own decrees are Just
om day and unjust the next when the
same findings of law and fact are pre
sented in both instances.
WE I AN DO IT.
For first class work and prompt deliv
ery phone Main 151 and the People’s
Laundry will send and get your laundry. |
W. J. WILLIAMSON Prop
CHARGE OF THE “LIMB" BRIGADE.)
_
Half an inch, half an inch
Half an inch shorter—
Whether the skirts are for,
Mother or daughter.
Briefer the dresses grow,
Fuller they ripple now,
While whisking glimpses show,
More than they oughter.
I
Forward the dress parade,
is there a man dismayed?
No from the sight displayed
None could be sundered.
Theirs not to make remark,
Clergyman, clubman, clerk.
Gaping from noon to dark
At the four hundred.
Short skiits to right of them—
Shorter to left of them,
Shortest in front of them,
Flaunted and flirted.
In hose of stripe and plaid,
1 lued most exceedingly glad,
Sporting in spats run mad,
Come the short-skirted.
Flashed all their ankles bare,
Flashed as they turned in air—
What will not woman dare?
tThough the exhibits show
Some one bad blundered).
All sorts and shapes of pegs,
Broomsticks, piano legs;
Here built to walk on eggs,
Come by the hundred
When can their glory fade,
()—- the wild show they made,
All the world wondered,
Grande dame and demoiselle,
Shop girl and bowery belle*—•
Four hundred—H’m—oh, Hell—
Any old hundred.—Kx.
RELIANCE ONLY ON MEMORY.
It is said that the memory in sav
age or uncultivated peoples is often
trained to a degree very surprising to
,hose civilized men and women who
have grown used to depending upon
the written much more than on the
remembered word. The transmission
of while epics, like the "Iliad,” by word
of mouth no longer seems so incred
ible when one reads of the feats of
memory of which present day Zulus
are capable.
These people have no writing, and
are accustomed to transmit messages
and record events by memory alone.
I'his they can do because their mental
impressions are made especially dis
inherited habit of giving undivided at
ention to the subject in hand.
Communications between ihe Brit
ish authorities and the Zulu kings are
almost invariably conducted by means
of oral messages carried by natives.
A certain ultimatum addressed by the
British to Cetywayo was conveyed to
him, not upon paper but in the brain
•ells of the messengers whom he had
sent 80 miles to receive it from the
British commissioners.
Although the document contained
some 4,000 words, and was accompa
nied by some comment on the state of
tilings it was desired to remedy, the )
whole was repeated to Cetywayo with
perfect accuracy.
LEATHn.? •. O LD BE
An official of the library o, t on-I
gross was talking with a friend who j
had recently purchased a handsome I
set of leather hound volumes.
"You had,” said the expert, "better j
examine those books carefully to see;
whether the leather need* feeding. If '
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich1
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence.
OVER HILL’S PHARMACY.
Office houra: 2-5 and 7-8 p. m.
Phone Main 7.
| RESTAURANT j
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Now Open for the Season j
Home Cooking a specialty {
Nevl to Alaska Htrarnshlp t'o ♦
MEETING NOTICE.
THE NOME BARTENDER’8 UNION
Lecal 868, B. I. L. of A. (Affiliated
with the A. F. of L.) meets every first
Sunday In each month at IX a m.
AL. NICHOI-SON, Pres
it it new stock they will be all right
if left alone for several years, but if
thej have been on the shelves for
some time, the leather will have lost
most of Its natural oil and become
brittle. This applies especially to
books kept in private houses', which
are, as a rule, much better than the
book-stacks in large libraries. There
is nothing more attractive than a
fresh, well-preserved leather binding
on a volume, and scarcely anything
less so than a dilapidated cracked
one.
"You cun add years to the life of a
leather binding and 100 per cent to
its appearance by rubbing a little
vaseline with a piece of raw cotton—
not too much just as much as the
leather will thoroughly absorb. Where
the binding bends is where it is most
likely to crack. The leather will not
lie greasy, as the vaseline will he ab
sorbed. One treatment every year or
two is sufficient unless the books arc
unduly exposed to beat.”
OVERSTOCKED.
I'.l I lie public
We have just finished stock taking,
and Ibid Ihuf ve are heavily overstocked
so are making enormous reductions in
Hardware as much as .mi per eenl in
.■rniin lines Notwithstanding Immense
advances outside, especially In Hard
ware and M< tal Goods, we are still sell
ing on the basts of goods purchased the i
past two or three years.
We will sill for cash only at these
inn i s. and for a limit. . time, until we
bring our stock down to I lie reipiire
men Is ut the camp.
It you have an order In be tilled, let
us ttgure on it; we can save you money.
We have proved it to others, we can
prove It to you.
DARLING AND DEAN COMPANY.
NOTICE.
Have you sent your literature and
political cards to tho outlying districts
yet. Now ;s trie time to do it while the
mail boats arc running. The Nugget
will rush your order out Immediately.
Have the Dally Nugget do your
Job Printing—Reasonable rates as
sured.
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NORTH POLE BAKERY
ANVIL BAKERY
BEGINNING MONDAY, JUNE 7TH, THE PRICE OF BREAD
WILL BE 10 CENTS PER LOAF OR THREE LOAVES FOR 25
CENTS. THE SIZE OF LOAVES HAVE BEEN INCREASED
WHICH INSURES MORE AND BETTER BREAD FOR OUR
PATRONS.
CHAS. CAVEY, Prop.
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ments, bnvelopes, Legal Blanks, In
voices, Shipping Tags, Special Blanks.
Society Stationery
Invitations, Announcements, Programs
Cards. Menus
Posters, Hand Bills
Circulars, Brochures, Booklets, Pam
phlets, Folders, Placards.
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