... WORKMEN'S TOPICS. By MABON, M.P. THE POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE OF LIFE AND LIMB. Two English Workmen do not Equal One French Schoolboy. What is the legal valne of a man is a. point on which English law is silent. When it does occasionally speak its voice is so full of con- tradiction that men of short patience with the law would keep silent for ever. If you happen to be a labourer at ...