THE gold excitement of the present day is unparalleled in the history of the world; for it is not to one place that men are flocking, as they did to California or Australia, but to many places. From California, from Nevada, from Alaska, from Vancouver, from Australia, from Africa, from Siberia, and elsewhere, come news of greater gold deposits than were ever before realized. It would seem that just as the "financiers" of the world thought to corner the money of the world by reducing it to one metal, a kind Providence for the sake of a suffering humanity is uncovering the gold deposits of earth, and increasing the circulating medium. And men grow reckless and drunken and mad in quest of the yellow metal. Hood's words should be intensified for these days:—