The Opelousas courier., 1895-11-30
THESE GOLDEN NiNETiEs.
Tho Worlds Output of Gold Is Constantly,
Increasing.

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Ths Worlds Output of Gold Is Constantly
Increasing.
An unexampled increase in the out.
put of gold is coming into notice, and
the plain facts may well command con.
sideration apart from the relations of
these facts to currency discussions.
The California and eA%ustralian discov-
cries of gold (1s4s-5o) were followed by
a remarkable development. of pros
perity all over the world. If like
causes produce like events, the world
may anticipate prosperity for the years
just before us. For h is not only true
that the worlds output of gold in 1893
exceeded that offfny preceding year
and that Of 1894 fEas still greater-but
there was never before a tenth as much
gold in sight and not yet mined. Flu.
ture output has always hitherto been
uncertain. uncertain than any
other kind of production. There is now
also a large margin Of uncertainty; but
there is also a good basis of certainty
that the supply of gold will increase
year by year for several years
to come; and this basis for GER
tainty is a minimum estimate of output.
The expectation that this decade will
add &c. 600, 900, 900 of gold to the worlds
supply is very reasonable one. What
this can may be seen at a glance.
The production Of gold for 1898
amounted to more than $155. 500, 600.
Official figures for 1894 are not made
up, but probably the total output
climbed up to $3.50, 600, 600. a gain OF
IS per cent. over 1893. and of more than
100 per cent. over 1887. The simple
fact that in the year 1894 we were pro-
ducing twice as much gold as in 1887;
the simple fact that this product o.
the gold mining of the world last year
was greater than the total of both
gold and silver mined in the best year
ct the ifties-our famous gold decade
Aench facts are our data for an esti-
mate. The cause which have pro.
duced large crops of-gold since the dec
ade began are in operation and no ono
can reasonably expects decline in their
vigor. - d. H. Wheeler, LID, in
Chautauquan.
The Born Angler.
He was by nature and heredity one
of those predestined anglers whom
Izaak Walton tersely described as
born So" His earliest passion was
fishing. His favorite passage in Holy
Writ was that place where Simon
Peter throws a line into the sea and
pulls out a great fish at the first cast.
But hitherto his passion had been in
dulged under dificulties-with impro-
vised apparatus of cut poles. and fab
by pieces of string, and bent pins,
which always failed to hold the biggest
fish; Or perhaps, with borrowed tackle,
dangling q fat worm in vain before the
noses of the staring, supercilious sun
fish that poised themselves in the clear
water around a certain hotel dock at
Lake George; or, at best. on picnic
parties across the lake, marred by the
h~umiliating presence OF nurses, and
disturbed by the obstinate refusal OF
old Horace, the boatman, to believe
that the boy could bait his own hook,
but sometimes crowned with the. de
light of bringing home . whole basket
full of yellow perch and goggle-eyes.
OF ncbler sport with game fish, like
the vaulting salmon and the merry,
trout, as yet the boy had
only dreamed. But he had heard that
there were such fish in the streams
flowed down from the mountains
Lake George, and he wa at
the happy age when he could belle We
anything-f It was sufficiently inter-
esting,-Henry van Dyke, in Century.
The Asoostook. in Maine, wac