in the financial firmament is Mr. Torah Hooley, who gives services of gold plate to St. Paul's, inaugurates geext schemes of benevolence in Manche-ter, buys ancient estates and country houses by the gross, purchases the Bovril business as a casual mornigg's work for a couple of millions, and ets fortunes from the pablic forwpy enterprise he may undertake. His judgment is wonderful, his sagacity never fault. He has made no mistakes, and others have shared in his prosperity. When the Boviil enterprise was developing, he went to Lipton—a man who twenty-five years ago Was earning ten shillings a week as a grocer's boy in Glasgow, who is now the largest tea-planter in the world, the third largest pork packer in the United States, and. who opens new shop somewhere in Hurop2 every week in the yeur—and he laid upon Mr. Lipton's desk a cheque for fifty thousand pounds. "This," hie said "shall be your little" present from me, if you will join the board of directors of Borril." "If it were double I could not do it," was the answer, because I never go outside my own busin-s." A good june is worth thousands, says the Old proverb; but most of us would find it difficult to realise upon the asset.
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