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Show GOLD LOST TO THE WORLD Destitution of Precious Metal Practically Practi-cally Goes On Without Ceasing, Either Day or Night. Every ship that goes to the bottom takes with her a certain, amount of old. It may be only a few pounds' ivorth or as in the case of the famous fa-mous Lutlne a million may be lost in a minute. Every fire that occurs means a destruction de-struction of gold, and there is never a minute, day or night, when scores of human habitations are not burning. London alone has 2,-iOO fires yearly. Besides all this, there is the matter of hoarding. In countries where banks are not found in every town, the people peo-ple who have gold hide or bury it. In many cases they die without revealing reveal-ing the hiding place. In this way India alone swallows up more than r,00,nO0 worth of gold yearly, China more than this, while Africa is at present pres-ent absorbing gold in this way at a rate of more than a million pounds a year. The money is paid as wages to Kaffir laborers at the mines, and by them carried away to their kraals, whence it never returns. |