He says he wishes the Almighty had given him such an opportunity; he thinks he would have done just as you have done.

It was a little strange that Uncle met a great Manchester banker the other day, and while they were talking of the trouble, now so nearly over, this man said, "Gentlemen, a great many of us have done well, but there is a cotton-spinner in the Yorkshire wolds that has excelled us all--one John Hatton.

He mortgaged and sold all he had and kept his looms going till the war was practically over.

His people have not been idle two months.

What do you think of that ?" Some man answered, he did not think it was extraordinary, for John Hatton of Hatton-Elmete was of the finest blood in England.