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than that of settled peoples. Their houses are 

 tents, they have no furniture, as that term is 

 commonly understood, and their dress is more 

 or less primitive. See CIVILIZATION. 



NOME, nohm, a city on the southern coast 

 of Seward Peninsula, the westernmost projec- 

 tion of Alaska. Nome is not only the largest 

 of the peninsula, but is the commercial, 

 educational and judicial center as well. It is 



LANDING AT NOME 



Vessels cannot reach the shore at Nome during 

 rit storms, which often prevail, and an aerial 

 tramway ha* been built to facilitate speedy re- 

 lease of cargo and passengers. 



situated in a prosperous gold-mining district, 

 and occupies an exposed position on Norton 

 Sound, an arm of Bering Sea (see colored map 

 of Alaska in Volume I). Seattl. . \\ 

 2371 miles distant, and the two cities enjoy 

 steamer connection only between June and Oc- 

 tober. Nome began as a mining camp, the first 

 settlement having been made in 1899, win n 

 valuable beach deposits of gold were di- 

 ered. At the present time it has substantial 

 office buildings, hospitals, a courthouse, a post 

 office, modem sewerage, water and elec 



light systems and telephone service, and enjoys 

 railway connection with Shelton, eighty-five 

 miles distant. The city is completely organ- 

 ized. Population, about 2,600. During the 

 early rush of gold seekers, when discoveries 

 were made in the Klondike region, Nome had a 

 population at times of 12,000. 



NONCONFORMISTS, nonkonjorni'iat*, the 

 name applied in a general sense to those who 

 refuse to conform to the regulations of an 

 established religion. Specifically, the term is 

 used most commonly in connection with the 

 Protestant dissenters of England. In 1662, two 

 years after the restoration of Charles II, an 

 Act of Uniformity was passed which expelled 

 from churches and schools throughout England 

 every minister and teacher who did not within 

 a stated time declare his assent to the Book of 

 Common Prayer. As a result fully 2,000 cler- 

 gymen and teachers, known as Nonconformist*, 

 vacated their positions. Other repressive meas- 

 ures followed, but relief was obtained by the 

 Toleration Act of 1689, passed after the down- 

 fall of the House of Stuart and the accession 

 of William III. Since that time there has been 

 a gradual advance in religious toleration, and 

 at the present time Nonconformists in Eng- 

 land, such as the Wesley an Methodists and 

 Baptists, have full religious and civil rights. 



NONES, nohnz, one of the three divisions 

 into which the Romans divided their calendar 

 month, the others being the Ides and Kalends. 

 The Nones were the seventh day of the months 

 March, May, July and October, and the fifth 

 day in the remaining months. The Ides (which 

 see) were the fifteenth day of the four months 

 named, and the thirteenth of the others; and 

 the Kalends were the first day of each month. 

 Days were reckoned, not as the first, second or 

 third day of the month, but as the* days before 

 the Nones, if between the Kalends and the 

 Nones; and the days before the Ides, if be- 

 tween tlio Nones and the Ides. Tin- remainder 

 were the days before the Kalends of the n \t 

 month. The Nones received their name from 

 being the ninth day before thr Ide> (from the 

 u nonua, moaning ninth), both days in- 

 cluded. See C.M.KMIMJ. 



NON-INTERCOURSE ACT, in American 

 history, an act passed by Congress in 1809, as a 

 satory measure against France and Eng- 

 land during their wars for their interference 

 with American commerce. It prohibited trade 

 \\i'h both countries, but permitted American 

 ships to visit ports of other European coun- 

 tries. The causes leading up to the passage of 



