The silver lance., 1897-11-19
OUR sALrED PLACER.
Washed From the Rich Deposits on The Lance
Exchange Table.

ting into war with the United States
what would she do? She would have to
be the aggressor in one way or another.
for our government shows great forbear-
ance and would do everything in reason
to avoid trouble. Spain has exhausted
her resources and reached the limit Of
her credit in vain effort to put down
the Cuban insurrection. What shape is
she in for attacking the United States?
Would she land her troops upon our
shores? If SO, what would become of
them? Would she lay siege to our sea-
ports? What would become of her war
vessels? As the result of mad effort
to fight this republic, Spain would lose
Cuba and Porto Rico and the last vestige
of her once glorious empire in the west.
She would lose what she has spent in
Cuba and become bankrupt at home and
abroad and probably tile wrath of her
discounted people would subvert her
very form of government. Oh: no!
Even the proud decrepitude of Spain is
not equal to the mad folly of getting into
a war with the United States. She is in
no danger of that.-Nesc York Journal.
William e. Curtis writes that advance
sheets Of the annual report Of the post
master general of Great Britain show a
remarkable gain both in the amount Of
deposits, and number of dspositors in
postal savings banks. His statement
furnishes the strongest kind Of an argu-
ment for the introduction of the postal
savings system in the United States.
The most striking feature of the report
is the table showing various classes Of
the population who patronize the postal
savings banks. More than half, or 50.41
per cent of the depositors throughout the
united kingdom are persons describing
themselves as married women, spinsters
widows and children; 15.43 per cent are
mechanics; 8.61 per cent are domestic
servants; g. IA per cent are tradesmen and
their employees. 38s per cent are classed
as commercial 2.96 per cent are rail-
way and shipping employees; 2.81 per
cent are employees Of the civil service Of
the government; 1.S3 per cent arc farm
ers; 1.55 per cent are professional men;
and 1.01 per cent3are school teashers.-
Chicago Record.
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In a letter from Lake Lindermann
newspaper writer says that there is chaos
on the Dyea trail. Thousandg of people
are struggling hopelessly on with damag-
ed outfits and thousands with no outfits,
clothes, food or shelter are beating back
against the storm, trying to reach Dyea.
For eleven days the storm has ragged,
the wind blowing gale and the rain
falling in torrents. To the 800 or 800
people cooped up between the mountain
lakes, high above the timber line, the
past has been a nightmare. Baking
powder is held at s5 per pound; horse
shoe nails being % cents each. One man
at Crater Lake went back over the trail
and gathered up 500 nails from the hoofs
of dead horses and sold the lot to one
man for $50. A stick of dry wood the
size of a mans arm sold readily for "a,
and green wood sold at the rate of 81 900
a cord.-Scientifc american.
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1t is possible that as the country has
grown and the newspaper expanded the
we'll meaning person who brings in to
the editor something Just to fill up" is
not as frequent a visitor as in former
days. He may have caught glimpse OF
the composing room when the final crush
comes upon the columns, or OF the matter
unavoidably left out because it was Of
the second and not the first Importance.
The scarcest thing in a well conducted
newspaper is space. Its editors most
anxious thought relates not to something
to fill up, but something that can be
safely lifted out and consigned to the
limbo OF what might have been, but
never was, because space is limited. The
value Of what goes into newspaper and
what falls on the breastworks is relative
and the editor spends his days in the
business Of discrimination.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Mr.. Earnest Stein a farmer resident OF
this city now living in Mexico, in a letter
to a friend here, has the following to say
on the silver question: Il suppose the
slump in silver very nearly fixed you up
there. 1t appears that loss OF 10 cents
an ounce would knock off all your profits
though the fall seems to make no difier-
ence here except to those who import, as
Mexican dollar buys Just as many
goods here now as it did before the fall
in silver" This is something for Mark
Hanna and his goldbug allies to cogitate
ON before they again assert that the
great American Republic is unable to
maintain free silver coinage when Little