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The Gazette, 1893-08-17, Page 7PO WEE. Navy over the .4 Out That Brit eked by Land at sting and attrac- a1 the navy of the taxpayer of COO, OW per vast world wide Empire, amount- •0 in value every st over ;3:300,000,- e 00,000,- e merchant ton- abies the British ty from abroad, ago their people ood products. It supposed to do so e from having to ding armies. It- er and wherever aced, whether by ps in the Behring f -war at Bangkok, command instant t attaching to an d thoughtful arti• enth Century by L P. The writer fusion that Eng - only NATION, he believes that of the seas and hole, that a war would not seri- wer or commerce. apoleon is instane- hile British com- reased since then, `he necessity for ts of supply, has tion and made the Ole to us. From y -one years, the of France were ation of England n of her corn. ult that 11,000 captured dur- while the num- gaged in foreign om 16,875 in 1795 hose entering and of Great Britain And prize ships ed by our cruisers all that were seiz- h an extent indeed y in 1799 was con - not a single mer- arrying the French n concludes that once more be rea- avy is maintained and is efficiently hat strength is to bility of a serious my's port without mediately sent in believer in the the navy to the mer is sufficiently Iy be LAND nd India. Should attacked by the e would depend on rapidly and safely ould the latter be sh reinforcements eaply and expedi- ge—and he might an Imperial high. ps could be trans. t centres. For a r partially or hold or South Africa of at least 50,000 ditions their abil- afely would be nil esemble Napoleon citing on the Bon - two years a chance Channel. expenditures upon London, and upon protect Chatham, inks coaling places Singapore, Hong 's Bay, St Helena, those in the West protected against e or RUTSERS, ditnre is a waste. that of England's tself. Not neces- of British ships in e navy's ability to nfined to a narrow ax, Mr. Brassey h coaling station Australia, South omes between the ts in European alta require to be eld at any cost. d Hope. In the e fir. Brassey con. policy of Great ctive armies and ut in possessing : to command the large fleets which tfensive action. f a sufficient force ort of commercial to deal with any inst the Colonies principal fleets. ture of the enemies, ivies. The posses. Ina, Tonquin and e exception of Al- Lks, would fall an buthor of this most ers the navy is all - 1 instead of costing ompared with the ),000,000, the sit - 'Japan. of reproducing the feudal Japan, as despair of ice. guards of that tadition the teat sword was even Saladin's blades, r would cut in win pillow, thrown ie blade, suspend - tree, must sever mid accidentally weapon. Sue Received -TT AS o lJ Bros, Elsey Ass Small Means There Than Anywhere THE POOR IN LONDON. The Impeennions Man Can )3o Better With at the �7i I N C H A inn MEN AND WOMEN. Antique Precedents in Force in Creat tain Today. tie the country the poor man is bound ' The laws of be allednd " n?en s lawws,"st so what might =� » In London he is free ; there is no street he I equal is the justice they deal to men a may not tread ; there- is no form • of enjoy- women respectively. went he may Not share. In public places For instance, a man is eligible for ev he is the equal of the millionaire. He must office in the kingdom, and is under no be a strictions as to voting. On the other hand, there are manyeoffi a woman cannot fill, such as member Parliament, county councillor, etc., though she may be dueen. She can vote certain municipal and school elections, b for nothing higher:'. She cannot serve on jury except in one special case. All English temporal peers sit and vo in the House of Lords. A woman may be a peeress in her ow right, but she has no seat or vote. The is one recorded case of female baronet. All professions are open to a man. A woman may not be a clergyman, so dier, sailor, barrister, or solicitor. S may not even drive a cab or 'bus for hire London. But women have been paris clerhighkssheriand ff.sextons. A woman was one The law relating to inheritance of lan prefers males to females, In nearly ever case an eldest son inherits to the exclusio of all other children. When daughters inherit land they shar it equally. As regards personal property, man is his wife's heir, but a widow is he husband's heiress only to a limited ex tent. When a man survives a wife possessed o Iand, he will, in certain cases,. own it all fo his lifetime. In similar cases when a wif survives her husband, she will have a lif interest in only one-third of his lands. A -man's domicile is not altered by hi marriage. A woman has to adopt her hus band's domicile for her own. A husband is prima facie entitled to the custody of his children. A wife has no such right, nor will the courts readily grant it. A man has the right to select the religion of his children. A man has full rights over his own prop- erty. A woman married before January 1, 1883, has only limited rights over property whish was hers before that date. All these points are decidedly favourable 1 to the man. But he does not have it all his own way, as the following facts show :— Any adult man may be made bankrupt or imprisoned under the Debtors Aet. .A married woman can be made bankrupt mill if trading separately from her husband. She cannot be imprisoned under the Act. If a man orders goods in his wife's name, he must usually pay for them. A man must generally pay for all necessary articles his wife orders. He is even responsible to certain extent, for debts she has incurred before marriage. A man is responsible if his wife commits libel or slander, or does any wrongful act for which damages could be claimed. He is responsible in this case also, to a certain extent, for such acts committed before mar- riage. A wife is never responsible for her husband's wrongful acts. A man may be compelled to allow his wife sustenance money while she is carrying on a suit against him, or is forced to live to concrete form, he still is thankful that separately from him. Br! es, un- nd ery re- ces of al - in ut a to n re t- he in h e d y n e a r f r • e e 6 poor man indeed if, in dirty weather, be cannot ride in carriages. For a few -'~ Stone . where. coppers he can ride anywhere and every- WORKS very- WORKS - A fine Assor'tmeut of well Granite Monuments of every style. Also a large amount of the BEST NEW YORK MARBLE. We are therefore prepared to furnish Monuments and Headstones at GREAT- LY REDUCED Prices. It will pay you to call before placing, your order. VANSTONE BROS. WHAT Y80 DON'T SEE, ASK FOR; Stair Carpets, . Window Carpet. Window Holland. Lace Curtains; 40c. to $5 per set. Art Muslin, bleached and colored. Tabling. Cretonnes, Salisbury Cloth. Verona Cords. Printed ebonies. Wool Delaines. Pink and cream Cashmere and every other shade • .. i + Nuns' Veilings, ct? Net Veilings. 4-, CO Navy and •b]'k Dresaserges 1) s"' Lawn Victories. � Lawn checks. Blouse stripes. . -, Flannelette -17 patterns. Shaker Flannels. -4.+ �A Weaving t warp. . '• • Black Dress Silk. Black Sateens. tn Velvets and plashes. Brown Holland. Valises. Lunch Baskets. �� Churns - (A Butter Trays and Ladles. c Washtubs. 0 Crockery. (Glassware. Hardware. rt1 Patent Medicines. • ,.� Top Onions. cd 0 DuPotch sets.to ons. ri) Cd Garden Seeds ,.v Brushes, all kinds. Washing Soda. tCl w Whiting. Raw Oil. Lye. �-1 Turpentine. Castor Oil, by the lb. j Stone Crocks. Earthenware Crocks. r�+' +' Milk Pans. 'Fie -C Milk Pails. . b 0 Tea Kettles. Wash Boilers. do copper. u) Dish Pana ct • Felt Hats, just to hand. O • Straw Hate for 500 heads. L+ tr, Lace" Frillings. fd �+ Ties and Collars. rn ,.d Top Shirts. Dress Shirts. im+ Scissors. fCi Knives and Forks. Spools. Teapots. C CaeGoods. r� ]Glow Tines. Bed Cords. Marbles. Wire Clotheslines. Baby Carriages. Croquet. 0 Spices. vu, as regards means of locomotion, as the man who spends a thousand pounds a year upon his stables. The pleasures of the palate are not cut off from him. He is not restricted - in his choice of foods. All the produce of all the seas and countries of the earth is offered in the London streets, in good condition, and at prices which bring it within the reach of all but the pauper. The artisan has the choice of innumerable diningroonis, in which a constant variety of well -cooked meats and vegetables may be obtained for sums which are well within his means. There is, in London, no hour of the day or night in which he cannot obtain something to eat or drink, and something which is just the thing he wants. As for the poor man who, in social positicn, is supposed to be just above the artisan, for a shilling he can hare a sumptuous hot dinner every day of his life ; and he has his choice of ten or a dozen dishes every time he sits at table. He is always welcome, every whit as wel- come as the millionaire, and he receives ex- actly the same treatment which would be meted out to Sir Aaron Moses, if Sir Aaron fMorosesaswerehilling. to take it into his head to dine Palaces are kept up in London, not only especially for the rich man but for the boor man first of all. To how many places of free public resort is he invited—an invitation of which he very rightly does not scruple to avail himself whenever be is in the mood. Think of the constantly increasing numbers of free libraries, of art galleries, of museums, of recreation grounds, in which he is solicit- ed to make himself at home. He gets there for nothing, what he could not get in the country in exchange for the whole earnings of his life. It is getting to be more and more understood that a great city is practi- cally, an aggregation of poor men, and that, therefore, it behooves a great city, before all the other portions of the world, to be he poor man's paradise. .A poor man need know no monotony in London, and to realize what that means it s necessary to know something of that out - r darkness of monotony which imbrutes he countryman. A bewildering variety of ntertainment is offered to him on every and. For nothing at all, or in exchange or the most trivial sums, he can become cquainted with all art, and science, and terature. He can listen to the best of uusic—and the worst. But his perennial, and his cheapest, and erhaps his best entertainment may be de- ved from the mere presence of the great ty itself. Few of the wise men seem to alize—is it because they themselves have ue of them ever been poor ?— what a a Ii crii rr re no " (1)happy hunting -ground to the poor man are the London streets. They are always with him, and though he may not put his thanks 0 • tx1 O • CO ern they are. They are all in all to him ; they In some cases married women may testify ase° , are much more to him, for instance, than privately as to whether their signatures to d the countryside is to the countryman. And documents were made without fear or fav - there is a reason why this should be so. our. Equity will assist a wife if her hus- That reason is that not only the proper, but band has made some mistake in executing a the most engrossing, study of mankind is Power of appointment in her favour. not inanimate nature, but man. Rich folks There seems to be some manifest injus- meet each other in each other's drawing- tice on both sides, but the wheels of legal rooms. Society is all the world to them, reform move slowly, and probably a dozen and society is a good part of the world to Dickenses may write a hundred "Bleak the poor man, too ; only his drawing -room House" arraignments of the powers that be is the London streets, and I am not sure before any changes will be made for the that his drawing -room is not almost as good benefit of either party. a one as the rich man's. At any rate, it i serves his purpose quite as well.—[All the ADVANTAGES OF SLOW TRAVEL. Year Round. WE KEEP EVERYTHINS, AND SELL CHEAP. ciNO, BRETH OUR, FIRE AND STOCK InsuranceA en t► a REPRESENTS : Wellington Mutual Fire Insnran ce Co. Waterloo Mutual Fire lnsuraLce Co. `Perth Mutual The Insurance Co. Economical Mutual Fire Insuranee Co. Mercantile Inaurance Co. - Etna Insurance Co. Give John A. Call. PETER HEPINSTALL, Fordwich. General Insurance Agency, -tel and get your Will InStlef Or Call and geit4 .. . D. Wilford Trail's Hygienic pamphlet : ' 11Ie1..; De1ous Triannph_ Over Disease Without Medi.' cine."athaif former cost. ,tufyfwgz.P.40 Proms on vjuage or fai�at; Elil r!erNt,eatateat the lowest rates... P. REPIIrISTAT, ,, English Power in the Egyptian Army. The Egyptian is not a natural fighter, is the Soudanese, who fights for love of i but he has shown lately that when prope ly officered and trained and well treated, can defend a position or attack boldly if le boldly. I suggested to the Khedive that h should borrow some of our officers, tho who have succeeded so well with the negro of the Ninth Cavalry and with the Indian for it seemed to me that this would be benefit to both the officers and the Egyptia soldier. It was this suggestion that calle forth the Khedive's admiration for th American officers of his army ; but, as matter of fact, the English would never al low officers of any other nationality than their own to centrol even a company of the Egyptian army. They cannot turn out those foreigners who are already in, hut they can dictate as to who shall come here- after, and they fill all the good billets with their own people ;. and. if there is one thing an Englishman apparently holds above all else, it is a " good billet!'" I know a good many English officers who would rather be stationed where there was a chance of their taking part in what they call a "show," and what we would grandly calla " battle," than dwell at ease on the staff of General Wolseley himself ; but, on the other hand, if I were to. give a list of all the sub- alterns who have applied to me for " good billets in America," where they seem to think fortunes grow on hedges,. half the regimental colors from London to Malta would fade with shame. And Egyptisfullof " good billets." It is true the English have made them good, and they were not worth much before the English res;,ored order, but beeause you have humanely stopped a runaway coach from going over a precipice, that is no reason why you should take pos- session of it and fill it both inside and out with your own friends and relations. That is what England has done with the Egyptian coach which Ismail drove to the brink of bankruptcy. It is true the Khedive still sits on the box and holds the reins, but Lord Cromer sits beside him - and holds the whip,—(Harper's Weekly. The Old -Style Transatlantic Journey and Thae of the Racing Liner. The slower -going steamer, say 300 to 350 a miles a day, has decided advantages over ' the racer. To attain a high speed enormous h epropelling power is required and the ocean d greyhound is like a great machine shop, the e pulsations of the machinery jarring every se portion of the boat To double the speed, says the Baltimore Sun, of -a vessel at sea s the power must be cubed. The vessel to of plow through the water at twenty-four miles n per hour must displace twice as much water d in an hour as it does when going at twelve e + miles per hour. That would require twice a Animal Intelligence. Watts—I tell you, old man, I saw the most remarkable exhibition of animal intel- ligence to -day that could be imagined. Potts—What was it ? - Watts—A bridal party started from the house across the street from where I live, and<one of -the horses attached to the car- riage threw a,; shoe. Now, what do you think of that? No man who needs a mol:ument eve onght to Lave one. BUILDING OEATERIAL. suciT AS Faints, Oils, Glass, Putty Wrought, Out and Wire Nails, Spikes. Tools of ll kinds,din great Pr jfusi on at aster � Henry's o_rd-wich . .a.r dware e Sore, EA full stock of all kinds of Hardware. No need to go to the "big towns," for we have oeverything. Come and deal at a first-class house, where goods are way down cheat . Immense ,line of ALABASTINE for the walls, in all colors. Tinsmithing and Repairing a Speciality An -elegant stock of SOOTS AND P. H. SHAVER'S, GORRIE, SHOES Something choice in ;Gents' Walking Shoes, Ladies' Lace Boots, Boys' and Girls' Boots and Shoes. jh have the choicest leather in stock and make a speciality of ordered work. feet fits guaranteed. !REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. P. IuI. SMAVE,174i, E A} r 'YOU MOVING TO ? We are going to CIA P.PE`%A Co., Michigan, near Sault Ste Marie. WHY DO YOU GO THERE? Well, we have five boys, We have sold the farm for $5, the power. But in addition to this the water j • 000. we can buy 640 must be displayed in half th e time, agai that I acres between Pick - that the power to be doubled aean• So that a vessel which would consume five tons of coal in an hour going at a rate of twelve miles, would consume, allother conditions being equal, twenty tons per hour if the speed is increased to twenty-four miles. After all there are attractions in the old style of going to sea, with its leisurely gait, i its perfect rest, its absolute change -from all the conditions of life on land, which are superior, in the judgment of many people, to the five or six days of hotel life between New York and Liverpool on one of the " liners." Playing the Fool. Some years ago there lived in a village near Glasgow an old man named Ritchie who, in spite of a deficiency in intellect ford and the Railway Station at Rudyard, end have a ood farm for each of the boys and have money left. What can a renter do there?- He here?He can lhuy a farm on five years time rand pay for it with one-fourth of the (money he would pay for rents in that time, and own his own home. Is it good land ? As good as any in was remarkable for making very apt and Huron xcellent witty remarks. Co.,� On one occasion, he was just entering the , ttor Oats, Peas, Wheat gates of the drive leading up to the house of Clover, Timothy, Po - the squire of the village, who was giving a dinner party the same evening, when he was overtaken by one of the guests. The gentleman immediately greeted the old man with the words : " Well, Ritchie, I suppose you are going up to the house to play the fool to -night ?" Nay, Mr. George," said Ritchie • " i Per S. cOOK7 1301 E6'N&>On FORDWICH, ONT. 0 Money to Loan on Farm Se- curity at the Lowest Rate of Interest. 0 Good Notes di; counted. 0---0 Special Attention given to CONVEYANCING • s. cooK, North of the Post Office, FORDwICI:L wox ErI1F2 -PLANING MILL-, ::-::-:: .. .. SASH AND DOOR FACTORY, toes and all kinds ofIH. S. SMITH & CO. hoots. Prices are as good as any on the lakes, owing to the nearness of the Mines and Iumber woods to the west- ward. was a -going ; but now I may as well turn What class of people live there ? back, for 1 reckon master won't want two � They are nearly all from Huron Co. ofuR." Unreasonable. Mr. Foster Tightfst—Say ! let me have that five I loaned yon last night, will you ? Mr. Spender -Man alive,, I haven't had time to spend it Why SheTook Him. Charlie (in raptures) " So you will marry mel Tell me do you love me ?" aara : "No, I don't ; but Agnes Murray does, and I hate her.' Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. -You Iiaeet there so many old neighbors tthat you can hardly believe you have deft home. I want to see that land. Who has it tor sale ? Inquire of E. C. DAVI DSON, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Jno. MONTGOMERY.. FORD WICH, Ont. i13C•nlar For sMi�pis Circulars and fall par. . HAYS fitted up the Wroxeter PIaning Mill with new machinery throughout and are now prepared to furnish Sash, Doors, 1311i -ids and all kinds of House Furnishings. PLANING AND MATCHING DONE PROMPTLY, Only first-class work turned Plans made on application. Estimates Famished.