HENRY GEORGE'S OWN STORY OF HIS CAREER. Was 'Once a Sailor, Printer, Tramp, Editor, and Always an Anti-Monopolist. Thin is Henry George's own story. He dictated it to a New York World reporter a few day before his death, and revised it carefully. "I was horn iu Philadelphia in 1839," said Mr. George. "My fntlier owned ft bookstore nnd was a publish er in a not very large way. After wards he was a clerk in the Cnstom House And remnined there quite a while. I myself began life in Phila delphia as a boy, working for 82 a week in the office of an importer of crockery. I did writing, carried bundles or turned my hand to Any thing else there was to do. "After that I went into the office of A marine adjuster, but I was very anxions to go to sea. My grandfather wan a sea captain of considerable ' te In the early days of Philndelpv He followed the sea from the time he was eight years old. He had taken part in the war of 1812, and had been cap tured by the British. I suppose I in herit my love of the sea from him or from hearing my father talk about him. At any rate I went to sea, ship ping as foremast boy on the ol .i ship Hindoo, an East Indiaman of COO tons burden. I sailed from right here iu New York, leaving the foot of Thir tieth street, on North Iliver, going to Melbourne and then to Calcutta. "When I got back to Philadelphia after this voyage I was about sixteen years old, and I folt like staying at home a while. So I went into the printing offioe of King & Baird. There I learned something of the trade, but soon afterward I went to sea again, going to Boston and back in a small coal schooner. "It was on this trip that I got the idea of going to California. I saw in the Delaware River a little side-wheel steamer that was being built for the light-honse service. She was to be taken to California, and I made np my mind to go in her. "As a matter of fact, I did go. Off Hatteras we were struck by a storm, which came near being the last of us. I remember it very vividly how the squall drove the little cockle-shell now here, now there, now with this side touching the surface of the waves and now Willi that, while I and a netrro deckhand worked together, throwing over bags of coal to lighten her. The Bailing master hnng on to the bridge, shouting to ns through the speaking trumpet and barely able to make him self heard as he told ns that the work we were doing was for life or death. "We came through safely, but con siderably damaged. Running along, we went into St. Thomas, then to Per nambuoo and Bio Janeiro, and after ward to Montevideo. We did not go aronnd the Horn, bnt through the etraits of Magellan. It was a most im preiisive sight the deep clear water around ns and the snow-covered moun ( tains in the distance. We rau upon a ' aohooner which belonged to English missionaries who were praying and working with the natives. We saw a number of Terra del Fuegans, and they were not at all attractive. I heard af terward that the Patagonians killed and ate those very missionaries who were trying to oonvert them. "We were short of coal, and in go ing throngh the straits we had to stop nd cut eordwood. "Handed in San Francisco in 1857, after the close of this trip. I had in tended to go to Oregon, where I knew a family, one member of whioh was a niece of, Governor Curry, but it was the time of the great Frazer Biver gold excitement, and I have never been to Oregon yet. I left the ship and joined the rush for the Frazer Biver region. "I made my way in a topsail schooner to Victoria, whioh was then a Hudson Bay station. I found about 10,000 miner camping there. I also found that the stories of gold were largely tali. After working in a store for a while I made my way back to San Francisco as a steerage passenger. There I found Dave Bond, a Philadel phia printer whom I had known. He told me of work I could get to do at the printer's trade in Frank Eastman's establishment. It did not last very long, and afterward I worked in a rice mill as a weigher. "When this failed I resolved to go to the mines in the interior of the State, and having no othor way of reaching them I started out to walk. I was, in fact, what would now be called a tramp. I had a little money, but I slept iu barns to save it and had a rough time generally nntil finally I made np my mind to return to Han Francisco. "When I got back I ran across Bond again, and again went to printing, They paid seventy-five cents a thou sand, or 830 a week, but as I was still a minor I got only 812. OeorgeThurs ton, who is now a captain in the regu lar army, was my foreman. "As soon as I became of age I joined the printers' union and so became en titled to full wages. After that I did fii'Rt-rate. I worked as a substitute, doing what printers called 'subbing' on daily papers. Then I went to work on a paper which Duncan was then editing. I got to be foremau at 830 a week and he used my name as his pub lisher until he sold the paper. "Then I subbed on the dailies un til four printers started a little daily paper called the Journal. Setting the type was the main thing then, as there was no telegraphic news to pay for, and so I was taken into partnerehipon the payment of a small sum between 8100 and 8200, if I remember correct- "I worked trying to fonnd the Jour nal until my clothes were in l ags and the toes of my shoes were out. I slept in the offioe and did the best I could to economize, but finally I ran into debt 830 for my wash bill. What final ly broke us up was the threat of civil war, which created great excitement and made the news which came from the East by pony express an absolute necessity. As we did-not have it we were forced out. "It was while in these straits that I first met tho lady who is now my wife. Her people did not regard me with favor undor the circumstances, and I hardly blame thein, but the young lady liked me, and promised to marry me. I had nothing, but my frieuds fixed everything for the wedding, and a boarding-bouse, where I was ac qnainted, agreed to credit us for two weeks' board. As soon as we were married my wife and I went there Next morning I got np At 6 o'clock and started out to find work on an afternoon paper. I did not get it, but I finally found work on the morn ing ' papers, and we paid our board, "My next move was to Sacramento, where I worked on the Saoramento Union and did well. I sent for my wife, and it was there that my first child, Usury Ueorge, Jr., was born. I disagreed with the foreman of the offioe, and after doing so returned to San Franoisoo and with two other printers started a' job offioe. I came near starving to death, and at one time I was so close to it that I think should have done so but for the job of printing a few cards which enabled us to buy a little corn meal. In this darkest time of my life my seoond child was born. I gave up the job offioe and went baok to subbing, man aging to make a living that way until I began writing. "The first thing I ever wrote for a newspaper was a story sent back to Philadelphia of how we bad buried a man who died of yellow fever on the voyage when we were near Monte video. About this time Lincoln was assassinated, and I wrote an article on it for the Alt Californian. They printed it as an editorial and were as tonished to nnd that it came front one of the printers. I became a sort of reporter, but left that to work as a printer at Sacramento on State work for 5 a doy. There, by the way, I invested my savings in a mining ven ture and lost them. "On niy return to Ron Francisco I wrote an article for the Times, which resulted in my being mado news ed itor, and I afterward became chief ed itor a place I held for !a year or so. From the Times I went over to tue Chronicle, of which I became manag ing editor, but I did not like Charles De Young, and I went to the Herald. It was a new paper, and I came East in its interest. My wife had already come ahead of me to Philadelphia. "Thin was in 1HGH, if I do not for get. At any rate it was just before they had completed the transcontinen tal railroad, nnd I crossed the plnius in a four-horse 'mud wagon.' I slept many nights sitting at the driver s side, and I was all the more impressed therefore when we reached the rail road and got a sleeping-car. We had to sleep two in a berth, however. "I had come East to make a fight to get the Associated Press despatches for my paper. I hey were refused, and the Western Union finally gave orders abrogating an Agreement it had made with me. It afterward Attempt ed to keep my matter off the wires. I kept np this fight for the San Fran cisco Herald, both from New York and Philadelphia, until finally the paper V'MW i.v..wT,o- JJl f ipiwWJfiffl S 111 Vi,Htf " SCENES AT HENRY GEOUOE'S HOME, FORT HAMILTON, BROOKLYN. V got into bad'flnancial Btraits and I re turned to California. "It was during my stay in the East that I wrote for the New York Tri bune an article headed 'The Chinese on the Paoiilo Coast' the first article I ever wrote on political economy. " hen I returned to Sap Francisco I found the Herald dying, and, as the printers were the only ones on it who could get money to live on, I went to work at the case. "After this I edited the Oakland Transcript, and made a friend of Pro fessor William Swinton. Governor Height, who was fighting the Pacific Railroad, offered me charge of a Dem ocratic paper, the Recorder, and I took it. It prospered, and I used the money I made from it in starting a penny papor in San Franoisco. "The articles I wrote, supporting Haight in his anti-monopoly tight, at tracted attention, and about this time I also developed the idea which was afterward worked out in 'Progress und Poverty. "I published it first in a pamphlet called 'Our Land and Land Policy,' of which a thousand copies were sola at twenty-five cents each. More might have beeu sold, but when the edition ran out I determined to wait nntil I conld develop the idea in a way I thought more worthy of it. "Our penny paper was printed on a fiat press of the old style, and we found we could not get off enough oopies to supply the demand or to make it pay. A. man was very anxious to buy and we sold to him. One of my partners went to Paris with the proceeds of his venture, but I re uiained in San Franoisoo and was finally induoed by the purohaser of the paper to 'take an interest in it for nothing, as he bad lost hope of sue oeediug with it. We got the first Bullock perfeeting press ever used in California, but lust as we were start ing a morning and Sunday edition the Bank of California' failed and brought on a disastrous panic. "We were pressed for the money which had been borrowed to buy the press, and the sacrinoes we were com' polled to make determined me to re tire. I held a small politioal office in San Franoisoo, by appointment for four years, and during this time wrote 'progress and .Poverty.' "I oould not find a publisher in the East or in England. The'pnblisherg langhed at the Idea of there being a sale for a work on political economy written in San Francisco. My old partner, W. M. Hinton, ' who had, a printing office in San Francisco, de termined to risk it, however, And he printed An edition which sold for S3 a copy. "In January, 1880, I came East after the Appletons had Agreed to re publish the book here. I came on borrowed money, and left my family In California, but 'Progress nnd Pov erty' was a success from the start. I have no idea how many copies have been sold. I think considerably over halt a million. There were three edi tions in Oerman alone, and there have been editions in Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian and even in Japanese and Chinese. From many of these, of course, I have never received anything at nil." When asked about the trip to Eng Innd nnd Ireland which he made about the height of the Land League agita tion, Mr. Qeorge recalled the fact that he was twice arrested as an enemy of the English Government. He was in Connemara when the first arrest took place. This was at Lochrea, And the second was at a miserable straggling village fifty miles further on. It was this second arrest which moBt im pressed Mr. George. I "The charge against me," he said, "was being a stranger and a danger, ous character who had conspired with certain other persons to prevent the pavment of rent. The police surround' ed me and forced me into what in some parts of this oountry would be called the hoodlum wagon. I was carried to the police station under a formidable guard, and after being cross-examined was locked np. "From the window of my cell I oould study the misery and squalor of the village, illustrated specially by the fact that it had thirty-two policemen, but only one pump to supply the en tire population with water for all pur poses. The police searched my trunic and fonnd a copy of my book on the Irish land question, whioh they con sidered dangerous matter, I suppose. "At any rats I was taken to the man sion of tho squire for examination. I shall never forget the contrast it pre' sented with the misery of the village, Well-dressed peopie were playing lawn tennis on its beautiful grounds. It had stately trees around it and an air of the utmost respectability and com fort. The squire sent me back to the subordinate magistrate and I was re committed to the lock-up. Iu the mean time a tolegram had been sent to London, and Mr. Gladstone I think it was, had ordered my immediate re lease. So I was turned out. "I wrote a letter to the President, detailing the oircumstanoes of the ar rest, and on my return Secretary of State Frelinghujnen sent for me. He told me that the English Government was willing to pay me damages, but I did not want them. All I wanted was to make it as plain as possible just how things were usually done in en forcing English authority in Ireland." The Muslim's Bible. The Koran, as pronounoed by the Muslim, is "Al Kuran," "the read ing." It is also called "The Book," or "The Bible." It is not a large book; it contains 113 chapters, about 6225 verses, 80,000 words, and 838, 606 letters. The proportion of letters to the number of words seems small, but it must be remembered that in the Arabio of the Koran the vowel points are not indicated. The name of the chapters are seleoted from some word in the text, just as the Pentateuch was divided by the Hebrews. ' The language of the Koran is Arabio, and when it is translated into any other language by the Muslims the original always accompanies it, . U0VllowOWOUOuawuBiwuua I THE REALM Tn unite nf its lonir season of norm- Inritv. savs Mnv Manton. the little jacket still holds its place. The oos- tume given in the illustration Has trie IIISSES' WAIST WITH JACKET. merit of being singularly well adapted to youthful figures while it is so sim ple as to be easily made. As shown the material is light-weight novelty oi CIRCULAR CKTE OF HEAVY silk and wool in a rich blue color. The trimming consists of fine black mohair braid Arranged in straight bands. The full bodioe is mounted on a fitted lining which is composed of the usual pieces and shows the usu al seams. On it is arranged the plain yoke below whioh falls the full portion which is drawn in at the waist in gathers. The closing is effected in visibly at the centre-back and the neck is finished with a straight collar show ing an upstanding frill of lace at the baok. The sleeves are two-seamed and snug fitting except for the slight puff at the shoulder. The jacket is made entirely separate and has rev ere which are self-faoed, and curved epaulettes whioh add breadth to the shoulders and so greatly enhance the effect. It is lined thronghout with silk, both the revers and epaulettes having an entire lining of light-weight tailor's canvas. At the waist is worn a pointed bodice of the material close ly banded with the braid. The skirt is cut in the latest style and is five-gored .with the now fan back. It is fitted smoothly across the hips and front, and laid in deep un derlying plaits at the back to give the necessary spring. The trimming is arranged in hoop effect, but can be varied to suit the taste. The skirt is lined throughout with percaline and has an entire facing of hair cloth six inches in depth. To make this waist and jacket for a miss of fourteen years will require two and one-fourth yords of forty-four-inoh material. The jacket alone calls for seven-eighths of a yard. The skirt will require three and seven-eighths yards of the same width goods. Ladles' Circular Cape. No other model, according to May Manton, ever entirely supersedes the simple, circular one for the cape of gen eral wear. The one shown in the double column picture is slightly longer than those of last year and has a high Medioi oollar as a finish. The material is heavy black astrakhan cloth whioh is quite plain and nntrimmed. There is a single seam in the cape proper and one in the collar, both at the cen tre baok. The closing is effected invis ibly by means of coat hooks and eyes. The model is lined throughout with satin. The edges are simply seamed and turned. Cloth, both with plain and rough surface, is appropriate. - Silks of all sorts, plaids, Roman tripes and figures, as well as plain aatin, are nsed for linings. Where plain cloth is chosen the flnirfh may be OF FASHION. braid stitched or in rows or simple machine-stitched bands of the same. To make this cape for a lady in the) . medium size will reqnire one and one half yards of fifty-four-inch material. Neckwear. HAt' The fancy ribbon tied ronnd the neck in a bow at the back is pretty and becoming, but with stylish women is a fashion of the past, says Toilettes. For ordinary wear a puckered band of silk ronnd the neck, with two pointed ears of silk embroidery falling over each side, or a frill standing out all round, is a becoming finish. A plain band with a velvet frill cut in a circle about three inches deep is a durable finish j the inner line of the circle should fit the collar, then the frill sets in flutes all round without any extra fulness next the throat; this may have a fine wire inserted in the edge so that the flutes may be arranged and kept rcgnlnr. The velvet must be lined with silk either of the same or some pretty contrasting color, nnd a smarter effect is obtained if the edge is fin ished with a nnrrow jeweled passe menterie. A full rnffie of Ince or dou ble chiffon with a rosette of the same, or a small bunch of flowers each side the neck, from which fall fan-shaped pleatings, is dressy and becoming; as uIho are ruffles composed of narrow velvet, finished by a jnbot of lace in front. I.ona- Cost For a Clillil. Long coats are undoubtedly the fa vorites for wee tots' wear. In common with the wraps and gowns of their mothers, their materials are remarka ble for richness before all else, but BLACK ASTRAKHAN CLOTH. the general style and cut is simple.' The model shown is of pale pink ben galine with collar and epaulettes of velvet bound with ermine. With it is worn a bat of the same materials with -trimming of ribbon- and quills. The back of the coat has a pointed yoke to which the full portion, which is laid in three box-plaits, is seamed. The fronts, on the contrauy, are cut in one piece with the plaits laid from the shoulder. The simulated yoke of vel vet is faced onto the silk and the epau lettes Are sewed beneath the outer fold of each plait. The closing is ef fected by pearl buttons and button holes, the latter worked in the edge of the right front which laps over onto the left. The seoond row of buttons down the right side is for decoration only. The sleeves are two-seamed and show sufficient puff at the) shoulders to support the epaulettes. The entire coat is lined with whit silk and interlined with wool wadding. Velvet, corduroy and cloth are all suit able materials. The trimming may be child's coat. velvet, as shown, or the epaulettes may be of the material either far ot braid, bound.
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