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IND LATH York. H.\' 3 YEARS' .PERIENCE. Iway P. 5"! tul- Which duo 'NG DUNE. I Tu cup CONx if idea. of the valub of money, gave so 131‘ as it represents expensive dress, jeW- els, and other luxuries. \Vhat is the real ground of this insistence it is dif- ficult to say. It cannot lie wholly in the diffetent mental constitutions of men and women. for that difference is not sufficient to warrant so sweep- mg a charge. There are many women who rival men in their knowledge of mathematics, and who know perfect- ly well that a su'pply of blank checks does not indicate a balance in the bank. There are many. also, who do transact res-mess quite as suaessfully as do men who have not originally been trained to it. Look at the successful keepers oil boarding houses. at the milliners and; dressmakers, the proprietors of select al'hools. etc. In many of the larger stores in this country the heads of spe- rial departments. the cashiers and hookkeepers, are women, and are said to be quite as assiduous in their duties quite as competent and more honest than the majority of men. In Europe half of the m'cupants of such positions are women. It cannot be charged, moreover, that “omen are less desirous of accumula- tiun than men, nor that they have any special repugnance to money-getting by methods which do not distinctly lnwer their social caste. As a rule, they are quite aseconomical as are men. and they often display a capacity for the care of property, or at least for holding on- toit, unequalled by men. Statistics show that there are fewer failures among women engaged in bus- iness than among men. which shows that they are more careful and less , willing to take risks The fact is that unless her instincts are interfered with by her affectionâ€"for women have an incurable disposition to trust those ! whom they like-a woman is, nine times but. often a better guardian of property than a man. She is more timid and therefore more suspicious and cautious, her caution often amounting to a fev- (‘1' of anxiety as to possible consequ- ences. in investments she looks to pre- ventin-g losses rather than to making profits, and prefers four per cent. inâ€" terest with absolute safety, to six per cent. with any risk. She is always scenting possible disaster, and will not recognize any margin between perfect safety and danger. It is this different business view-point that often makes her a better guardian of property than the man. Again, in the matter of thrift, which is as much a business quality as mak- ing gain, the woman is far ahead oil the man. She may be deficient in arith- metic, as the man declares she is, and unable to foot up a column of figures three times in succession with the same result. But all the same, she does keep an account of her expenditures through the year. while the man’s resolution to do so goes to smash three weeks after New Year's day. And though she may habitually postpone adding up her ao- counts, she knows Instincuvexy that she is keeping well within limits. She has had charge of household finance for generations, the habit has come down from mother to daughter, until stew- ardship has become a second nature to difficult to write calmly upon this phase of feminine finance. In the majority of cases the man gives the woman absolute control of the house- hold expenditure, and in doing so throws .upon her in very large degree cumulate. He knows little of the pet~ ty details of expenditure. and nothing at all of the manner in which saying y results of the woman’s thrift, while jeering at her lack of business capac- ity. He really believes that he made the money. and that if it had not been for his firm grasp on it, the woman would have spent it all. And, more singular still, the woman seems inclin- ed to think so too. Which 18 only an- other illustration of the magnammnty. of they pamper their husbands. . . But some men must know which 13 the real business partner in the do- ' wonders why the real business partner in we uuâ€" memo concern. and one wonders why knowing it, they still keep up the old cry about women's ignorance of finance. Why do they habitually re- fuw in making their wills to name their wives, whom they have all their lives held responsible for their sav- ing. as executors of their estates? “'hy do in *em Wtbo consult their own wives about their investments, and who take their advice so constant- 15' warn their clients against leavmg their property in the undisputed con- n-nl of a. woman? W311 ‘onr laxfs ings, as. execuinrs 01 Why do lawyers W111 own wives about th and who take their ad 13' warn their clients their property in the Lrol of a woman? W31 about property no 1'] preveqt women from o” â€"--‘..‘. ‘A [101 OI. 5 WW .._- about property no "rféigiljf dawn to prevent. women from dmsgpatmg pro- pergy'? We refuse to behave that if. UL JU’UO Wt parféEcel 156 80 3‘ imprudent that they are m" nkim care 01 boolrs, that they insist upon putting their loose ehange in these books. and. them carrying them in their hands. But wnsxder that they have no other way to.carry them, not being sup- Dlied With pockets like a. man, that the-y must lay them down at times» be looked for elsewhere, and will be found, we think, partly in the ex- cessive mution’ of Women, partly in their inclination to act upon instinct rather than upon reason, and partly to their liability to be deceived through the affections. As a rule. men want |the property they leave n'ot‘only to - â€".~â€"-..n.. Ar t'hA have become so accustomed in house- hold expenditure to giving an account of the money committed to them. that they cannot rid. themselves of the ham- pering effect of the ' cline to wrap their talent in a napkin 'if only it is secure. Again, when they are tempted to invest for profit, they do so from akind of sex intuitioln. \mtnan’s reason -V Ibecause; and 4 they are from the same imh : pulse very likely to turn back Just ‘ the first two of these defects might. be largely eradicated through training, and for many reasons it is eminently desirable that women should be taught at least the rudimentary princxples 0‘ finance in the course of.their educa- omy requisite to a c . but which leaves girls Ignorant of the business use of money. But when that is done, we fear that woman will still be open to attack on her weakest Side, and that her affection, which makes her 7 the best possible guardian of the for- tune which her husband is accumulat- ing, will always tend to make her an untrustworthy custodian of it after 1118 3 death. Pecuniary Trl lm les of Some of the "envy the Vic-Mrs. Modern Times Imposed by Turkey’s original demand £T10,000,000, but now may reduce it to i £T5,000,000. The heaviest war indem- nity of modern times was, of course, that paid by France at the close of the war with Germany. The hostilities last- was for £3{5,000,000 and 290,000 men. The her-- 068 was set down at 45,000 men. who either were killed in battle or died of wounds or sickness. Besides the ces- sion of Alsace and Lorraine; France had to pay Germany five milliards of ‘ francs, £200,000.000, in instalments which were allowed to extend over three years. The original demand of Germany was six milliards, or £40,000.- 000 more. Thiers strove in vain to save Metz. but _it was to his exertions that the reduction in the amount of the in- In 1111.56 '. Au MWAWuv' -. _ tan’s Wis es, however, and in consider- ation of the financial embarrassments of the Ottoman Empire. the Czar mag- ..p fifths of the total sum the various ter- ritorial cessions sanctioned by the Treaâ€" ty of Berlin. This left a balance of 300.- 000.000 rubles due to Russia by T‘ur- key, and with the exception of some 17,000,000 rubles the indemnity is ow- ing still, the amount in October. 1889, being nearly £31,000,000. - now f orty-eight. Henry Irving went on at fifteen and is now fifty~n1ne. Ellen Terry at eight, and is now for- ty-eeven. Mrs. Scott-Siddons went on the stage at the age of eight and lived to be for- ty-eaght. . Neilson went on at fifteen. and Patti no no in nnblic at the tender age of nine. Neilsb'n went on sang 111 public at ti PCETAL (‘ARD'S LONG JUUKLVLI. A postal card that required 15 years ,avel 99 miles breaks the record tar slow postal delivery. It was post- ed in Leicester. England. June. 1881, eceivedgn London. 1191) the as fifteen. Lotta. went THEIR DEBUTS. insist upqn putting THE DURHAM CHRONICLE, July 8, 1897 on at eight"; and she is LONG JOURNEY The New French Rattle Ship Receiving ller Armament. The new French battleship, the Bou- vet, has this month entered'into her final stage, that of armament. She is the most recent and the most powerful battle ship in the French navy. The extreme delimcy of her water linesâ€"a necessity in order to insure the speed ot 17.5 imms promised by the builders -givves to this great mass of steel of 12,000 team displacement, a rare stamp of elegance. ‘ 0 . . It is more especially dprlng thl‘s pen- 0d of armament, that the vessel, un- ballasted, rising high out of the wat- er, shows the beauty of her outlL‘nZs, and the immense strength of her de- metres wide. extends entirely around who vessel from bow to stain, and is forty centimetres thick. enclosing the immense hull. This formidable war engine is further protected from a. torpedo shodk or any severe strain by its double bottom and the multiplicity of its airtight compart- ments. The ship is entirely encased in a. protectiNe deck. At the Kiel fetes foreign officers were filled with admir- ation at this extreme beauty of the French ships, but criticised the danger presented by the 14-cen-t1metres batter- :m n; mm Hmhp. amd remarked hqw I lated. The pieces of twenty-seven and thirty centimetres, which form the most important part of the armament, are enclosed in turrets. Our ancestors would certainly be as- tonished could they see with what ra- pidity these immense guns, weighing ‘45.? tons are litted and deposited in thirty centimetres calibre, fourteen metres long, as though it were a ques- tion of a simple little old fashioned gun and then. turning oomPlaoently, ad- i just the cannon vis-a-vis to the narrow iope'nimg of the turret. \ ____ .. ‘ Jinan... AF fivinn‘ the gun HOISTING GUNS ON BIG SHIPS. self, this enormous bulk of 12,000 tons, until the breech" of the gun enters the turret. \ The batter of the Boa-vet will consist of two {SO-centimetre amd two 27â€"centi- metre gums, eight 17-centimetre rapid fire gums and thirty smaller pieces scat- tered there and there. She will have .two torpedo tubes. aHer crew will be loom-posed of thirty-one officers and six Hundred men. ENGLAND’S WAR Plans [or the Summer Advance by "If AIIgla-I-lgyplaln Forres Against the Khallfa. All the British officers in the Egyp- tian army now on leave in Englandfi says the Pall Mall Gazette, have re-; ceived orders to be at their posts by the end of June, in readiness for this year’s Soudan advance. A great con- centration of the Khalifa’s forces is taking place, and there are no fewer ‘ than 16,000 camels at Omduzrman. There is every indication that he means to fight to the death. The only doubt is wwwâ€" advance will be opposed en route. great council war was held at Omdur- man about the middle of J une, to de- termine the plan of campaign. The de- cisions then arrived at will be known by the Egyptian lnteflligence Depart- ment a fortnight later, and until the details of the advance cannot be settled. Meanwhile, it is known that the Der- vish army from Darfzur. which the la axe echelonnea along we new no...» of the Nile so as to command all the approaches to the river from Omdur- man. Metammeh and Berber. As soon as half the length of the \Vady. Halba- W uuu n-uu LAW ........ as the immediate objective, an advance to Berber is in contemplation, but this has not been finally decided upon. There is little doubt that. the Khalifa. will strengthen the garrison at A‘bu Hamed for the purpose of preventing the completion of the rallway. This will entail the necessnty of capturing LLA -n:‘."fl‘f “on “'lll cumu L110 vwâ€"â€"-,, Abu flamed wig!) the railvéay haIs reashed a point at whlcb the dervishes could interfere with it. Cyclists who; from hyglemc n sternly deny themselves a drink parched with the thirst of exerti the dust of the country road, ‘ comforted 'by the views of Dr. vainnniere, of Paris, an e authority 90 the subject, who ent exercise. he dec . ~ portarnt to drink. a d m the body is no good condition the only result of even repeated “quenchers” is a decrease m weight. French cyclists. are said to be im want of a. patron samt. (Dr. Qinmâ€" pionniere ought. to suit them to a. meety. to Chinese law, unless he confesses .hfixmeelf guilty, wd_comfessmns are often extracted from prnboners b aid of the ‘ “ '__ «AKIN kn hm‘um- ADVICE FOR CYCLIS'FS. vuu operation. of fun mg the gun back as far as E1 Obeid. xrdered to move to Om- : earliest date that the at is to say, about the lune. 1 troops now in Bongo- ned along the left bank as to command all the the river from Omdur- eh and Berber: As‘ soon from hygienic motives, emselves a, drink when 9 thirst of exertion and . muntrv road. \Villl be IN THE SOUDAN. an eminent by "I0 the T. H. WINGIIAM. 0.8 . Montreal ‘3 0 50c. and 3| per Bottle 0 was uwneuca co., m, Momm O OOOCOOOOOOOO FROST WOOD, WILKINSON, MAXWELL, Buggies, Road Harts, Wagguns, Stoves, and Musical nstruments Ehafles McKinnun, â€"â€"â€"w‘__ article are most manucst. 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