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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 196, 13 May 1908, Page 8

Tho American-of to-day, whatever his descent, has most of the characteristics of the .American' of yesterday .(says Brandor Matthews). Ideals endure,"and'aspirations liavo not boeii'bluiited by time'or turned aside by alien influences. >-' Lord Salvesen, in, delivering judgment in a'caso in the Court of. Session recently, called attention;to the remarkable case or a bricklayer. who 1 income amounted to 275. a week. On-tnat income lie. brought up six children, three of his sons qualifying for tho learned profession's. Notwithstanding the expense of bringing up his family, ho had accumulated a'few years before his death nearly £-100 of movable estate, besides owning the cottage in which ho lived. The life of this man, said the Judge, presented a picture of untiring thrift and remarkable industry, because the evidence disclosed that he had no income beyond his v.-«o!i!v wage. His active life o.\tjniVjJ quite until he vafi over SO years >of ago. • • i