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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 2 October 1907, Page 1

It is well to remember, when people talk of the decadence of British industry, that the United Kingdom can still turn out the greatest battleships and the greatest , ocean liners in the world, and that', she can do., this in the shortest^ time ori- '.record-. For instance, recently the sister battleships to the Dreadnought, the Bellerophon and the Temeraire were turned -out of British dockyards. It is also noticeable in regard to Russia that IxtT orders for ironclads have so far been placed in British yards. ■: In \ the commercia] maritime the new Cinarder Lusitania. built on the .Clyde) is the largest and most powerful vessel afloat. " , •'■•-.' ■The Paris correspondent of the "London Telegraph" tells' a touching story of an old savant. He left everything in the way of business to his wife, never noticing;. . as she was invariably affectionate and. kind to him, that her intellect was not as bright as it had once had been.-'- He was in complete ignorance of . the - fact that bills were unpaid, and 'that when the taxgatherer called the door was slammed in his face, for was he aware that when a police inspector had asked to be admitted a revolver had been pointed at him by the lady through her window. Lately 6he was arrested, and conveyed to an asyluni/:' Two. ' offidals then appeared and proceeded to seize the vene•raMe i savattt's?,pi»perty. With a wistful Raze Ke asSed_( ''Are ray books to go "too?" TJh'erft-tqS; such deep emotion, mingled wtth'qrß« dignity, in his manner that the chl« "official wos touched: "You will "3*"peoV.-'the books," he said to his collec-fira.-,.