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I myself began life in Phila delphia as a boy, working for $2 a week in tho office of an importer of crockery. I did writing, carried bundles or turned my hand to any thing else there was to no. "After that I went into the office of a marine adjuster, but I was very anxious to go to sea. My grandfather was a sea captain of considerable note in the early days of Philadelphia. 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 old ship Hindoo, au East Indiaman of 500 tons burden. I sailed from right here in New York, leaving the foot of Thir tieth street, on North River, going to Melbourne and then to Calcutta. *'When I got back to Philadelphia after this voyage I was about sixteen years old, and I felt like staying at home a while. So I went iuto the printing office of King Sc 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 ft idea of going to California. I saw in the Delaware River a little side-wheel steamer that was being built for tho light-house service. She was to be taken to California, and I made up 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-3iow the squall drove the little cockle-shell now here, now there, now with this side touching the surface of the waves and now with that, while I and a negro deckhand worked together, throwing over bags of coal to lighten hei. Thc sailing master hung on to thc bridge, shouting to us through the speaking trumpet and barely able to make him self heard as he told us that the work we were doing was for life or death. "We came through safely, but con siderably damaged. Running along. Ave went into St. Thomas, then to Per nambuco and Rio Janeiro, and after ward to Mon tendeo. We did not go around the Horn, but through the straits of Magellan. It was a most im pressive sight-the deep clear water around us aud the snow-covered moun tains in the distance. We ran upon a schooner which belonged to English missionaries who were praying and working with the natives. We saw a number of Terra delFnegaus, and they were not at all attractive. I heard af terward that the Patagonians killed and ate those very missionaries who were trying to convert them. "Wc were short of coal, and in go ing through the straits we had to stop and cut cordwood. "I landed in San Francisco in 1857, after the close of this trip. I had in tended togo to Oregon, where I knew a family, one member of which was a niece of Governor Curry, but it was thc time of the great Frazer River gold excitement, and I have never been to Oregon yet. I left the ship and joined the rush for the Frazer River region. "I made my way in a topsail schooner to Victoria, which was then a Hudson Bay station. I found about. 10,000 miners camping there. I also found that the stories of gold were largely false. 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 io the mines in the interior of the Stale, aud having no other 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 in barns to save it and bad a rou.Lfh time generally until finally I made up my mind to return to San Francisco. "When I got back I ran acrosa Bond again, and again -went to printing. They paid seventy-five cents a thou sand, or $30 a week, but as I was still a minor I got only $12. George Thurs 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 first-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 foreman at $30 a week .and he used my name as his pub lishei' 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 thero was no telegraphic news to pny for, and so I was taken into partnership on the payment of a small sum-between $100 and $200, if I remember correct ly. "I worked trying to found the Jour nal until my clothes were in rags and the toes of my shoes were ont. I slept in the office and did the best I could to economize, but finally I ran into debt $30 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 ont. "It was whilo in these straits that'I first met thc lady who is now my wife. Her people did not regard me with favor under tho circumstances, and I HCMH 1 G,F. DR t, e . NH.> STUOY hardly blame them, but the young lady liked me, and jn'omised to marry me. I had nothing, but my friends fixed everything for the wedding, and boarding-house, where I was ac quainted, agreed to credit us for two weeks' board. As soon as we were married my wife and I went there. Xext morning I got up at G o'clock aud started out to fiud work on nn afternoon paper. I did not get it, but I finally found work on the morn ing papers, and wc paid our board. "My next move was to Sacramento, where I worked on tho Sacramento Union and did well. I sent for my wife, and it was there that my first child, Henry George, Jr., was born. I disagreed with the foreman of the office, and after doing so returned to San Francisco and with two other printers started a job office. I came near starving to death, aud at one time I was so close to it that I think I should have done so but for tho job of printing a few cards which enabled us to buy a little corn meal. In this darkest time of my life my second child was born. I gave up the job office aud went back to subbing, man aging to make a living that way until I began writing. "Tho first thing I ever wrote for a newspaper was a story sent back to Philadelphia of how we had buried a mau who died of yellow fever on the voyage when wo were near Monte video. About this time Lincoln was assassinated, and I wrote au article on it for tho Alta Californian They printed it as an editorial and wcro as tonished to find that it came from 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 day. There, by tho way, I invested my savings in a mining ven ture and lost them. "On my return to San Francisco I wrote an article for tho Times, which resulted in my being made news ed itor, aud I afterward became chief ed itor-a placo I held for a year or so. From tlio Times I went over to the 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 ab cad of me to Philadelphia. "This was in 1363, if I do not for get. At any rate it was just before they had completed the transcontinen tal railroad, and I crossed tho plains in a four-horse 'mud wagon.' I slept many nights sitting at tho driver's side, and I was all the more impressed therefore when we reached tho rail road and got a sleeping-car. We had to sleep two in a berth, however. "I had come Fast to make a fight to get tue Associated Press despatches for my paper. Thc}' 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 tho wires. I Kept up this fight for the San Fran cisco Herald, both from New York and Philadelphia, until finally the paper got into bad finar ;ial straits and I re turned to California. "It was during my stay in tho East "that I wrote for the New York Tri bune an article headed 'The Chinese ion the Pacific Coast'-the first article T ever wrote on political economy. "When I returned to San Francisco I found the Herald dying, and, as the grinters were the only oues on it who ?could get money to live on, I went to .work at the case. ;: "Alter this I edited the Oakland /Transcript, and made a friend of Pro fessor William Swinton. Governor Haight, who was fighting the Pacific ^Railroad, offered me charge of a Dem ocratic paper, the Recorder, aud I took it. It prospered, and I used the money I made from it in starting a penny paper in San Francisco. I "The articles I wrote, supporting Haight in his anti-monopoly fight, at tracted attention, and about this time T also developed the idea which was afterward worked out in 'Progress and Poverty.' "I published it first in a pamphlet called 'Our Land aud Land Policy,' of which a thousand copies were sold at twenty-five cents each. More might have been sold, but when the edition ran out I determined to wait until I fcould develop the idea in a way I thought more worthy of it. j "Our penny paper was printed on a flat press of the old style, and we found we could not get off enough popies to supply the demand or to inake it pay. A man was very anxious |o buy and we sold to him. One of my partners went to Paris with the proceeds of his venture, but I re mained in San Francisco and was finally induced by the purchaser of the paper to take au interest in it for nothing, as bo had lost hope of suc ceeding with it. We got the first Bullock perfecting press ever used in California, but just as we were start ing a morning and Sunday edition the Bank of California failed and brought SCENES AT HENRY GEORGE'S'HO] on a disastrous panic. "We were pressed for the money which had been borrowed to buy tho press, and the sacrifices we were com pelled to make determined me to re tire. I held a small political office in San Fraucisco, by appointment for four years, and during this time wrote 'Progress and Povorty.' "I could not find a publisher in the East or in England. The publishers laughed at thc 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 olliee in San Francisco, de termined to risk it, however, and ho printed au edition which sold for $3 a copy. "In January, 1S80, I came East after the Appletons bad agreed to re publish tho book here. I carno on borrowed money, and left my family in California, but 'Progress and Pov erty' was a success from the start. I have no idea how many copies have been sold. I think considerably over half a million. There were threo edi tions in German alone, and there have been editions in Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian and even in Japanese aud Chinese. From many of these, of course, I have never received anything at all." When asked about tho trip to Eng land and Ireland which he made about the height of tho Laud League agita tion, Mr. George recalled tho fact that he was twice arrested as an enemy of tho English Government. Ho Avas in Connemara when the first arrest took place. This was at Lochrea, aud. tho second was at a miserai)!o straggling village fifty miles further on. It was this second arrest which most im pressed Mr. George. "Tho charge against JUC," he said, "was being a stranger and a danger ous character who had conspired with certaiu other persons to prevent the payment of rent. The police surround ed me and forced mc into what income parts of this country would be called tho hoodlum wagon. I was carried to the police station nuder a formidable guard, and after being cross-examined was locked np. "From the window of my cell I could study the misery and squalor of the village, illustrated specially by the fact that il had thirty-two policemen, but only one pump to supply tho en tire population with water for all pur poses. The police searched my trunk and found a copy of my book on the Irish land question, which they con sidered dangerous matter, I suppose. ' \ '. t any rate I was taken to the man sion oi the squire for examination. I shall never forget the contrast it pre sented with the misery of the' village. Well-dressed people 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. In the mean time a telegram had been sent to London, and Mr. Gladstone I think it was, had ordered my immediate re iease. So I was turned out. "I wrote a letter to the President, detailing the circumstances of the ar rest, and on my return Secretary of State Frelinghuysen 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." FEET 2 1.2 INCHES LONG. They Are tho Smallest in tho United States and Belong to a Chinese Woman. The tiniest feet in the United States aro the property of the wife of a Chin ese merchant of Philadelphia. They aro just 2j inches long, or less than the length of the ordinary man's little finger. A few days ago the Oriental super stition regarding modern inventions was so far lulled to sleep that the owner of the Lilliputian feet permitted an X ray photograph of her right foot to be taken. No more misshapen thing was ever seen. In her most freakish mood nature never dreamed of any thing like this. "No curvature of the spine ever approached this curvature of the foot. It looks for all tho world as if it were part of tho frame of one of those grotesque prehistoric mons ters that the paleontologists tell us about. If little girls in China are pot killed SIE, FORT II LTON, BROOKLYN. at birth-a idly fashion that pre- j vails in Chi -their feet are placed in compress? ., should they happen to bo of fairly high caste. These com presses are never taken off for any length of time until the girl has reached an age where her feet grow no more. In Chinese eyes her feet are perfect. In the eyes of others she has become a hopeless cripple. These deformed feet of the Chiueso women of aristocracy are a potent fac tor in keeping slavery at high tide. Unable to walk, they must be con stantly waited upon, and for this ser vice slaves are necessary. Fortunately, . the female slaves have feet such as na A CHINESE LAOY'S FOOT. (The Lower Picturo Shows the Bones Are Beduced in Sizo by Compresses.) ture intended, and yet this very fac* makes them bondwomen. To be free aud au aristocrat a Chinese woman must be a cripple. If she is left free to grow as nature wills she is almost certain to be condemned to bondage. Attempts have recently been made m several parts of Franco and Ger many to introduce tho American lob ster, as it has been found that it es? capes diseases that destroy the Euro pean varieties. J HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. How to Carve Tnnpiie, A tongue should be carved In very thin slices, ita delicacy depend ing on this. The slices from the cen ter are considered the most tempting, and should be cut across and the slices taken from both sides with a portion of the fat at the root. Roasting .Coffee. In Norway, where superb coffee is made, a bit of butter is added to the beans while they are roasting in the covered shovel used there for that pur pose. In France as well a piece of butter the size of a walnut is put with three pounds of coffee beans and also a dessertspoonful of powdered sugar. This brings out the flavor and, more over, gives tho slight carmel tasto which is so greatly admired. Old Fashioned Gingerbread. To any one in whose breast there still linger haunting memories of the topography of the genuine old fash ioned New England '"'card ginger bread," that flourished during the early part of this century, there will come a feeling of thankfulness for this family recipe, handed down for uev eral generations from mother to daughter: Two cupfuls of Porto Eico molasses, ono cupful sugar, ono cup ful drippings (or half butter and half lard), one cupful coldwater, a dessert spoonful ginger, one tablespoonful soda, and flour to make a rather soft dough. It may be baked as of old, in sheets about two inches thick, barred crowsswise with the sharp edge of a tin, or rolled into cookies. In either case, it will be found an ad mirable concomitant to the morning cup of coffee; or an assuager of that "aching void" with which the small boy commonly returns from school. Washington Star. Removing Stains From Silver.' To remove stains from silver, especi ally such as are caused by medicine or by neglect, uso sulphuric acid, rub bing it on with a little flannel pad, then rinsing the articles most carefully at once. For less ingrained stains, the pulp of a lemon, whose juice has been used for lemon squash, may be recommended, as both efficient and harmless. Indian silver and brass are always cleaned by natives with lemon or limes. It may be as well to warn housekeepers in these days, when pretty serving is such a consideration, that, where one has to reheat food in a sil ver dish from which it is impossible to shift the eatable, a baking tin should be half lilied with hot water, a doubled sheet of paper should be placed in this and the silver dish stood upon it, after which it will take no harm from the "?.",.. ? . .- V-rf; A,.;.' -, .w ! >yer -ut? f ? . ' Chi J??'?tJ I ii.a v; i':, ?it?? <i ; : - ' wriiej xv./.' '?'??>r t?to fi'i"-" Tomato Preserve?-I toes. For each pound use three-fourths pound sugar, half cup raisins and tea spoon cinnamon. Make syrup of the sugar; add fruit and seasoning; boil half hour; skim out the fruit into jars; boil syrup thick and pour over. Lemon Cake-One cup butter, two of sugar, one-half cup milk, five eggs, beaten separately, four cups flour, three teaspoons baking powder. Mis butter and sugar to a cream and add yolk of egg, and beat; milk, lemon juice, a little salt, flour and baking j)owder, sifted; egg whites last. Bake in loaf one hour. Entire Wheat Puffs-Mix together two cupfuls o' entire wheat, o~e-half teaspoonful of salt and one table spoonf'.i of sugar. Add ono cupful of milk to the beaten yolks of two eggs, then add one cupful of water and stir this into the dry mixture. Add the whites beaton stiff and bake in hiss ing hot gem pans thirty minutes. Pickled Onions-Peel small white onions and put in salted water (ono teacup salt to gallon of water) over night. Binse in water several times, then drain for an hour. Then pack in jars with teaspoon each of whole cloves, peppercorns, allspice, and two of broken stick cinnamon. Celery seed or chopped celery, for each quart. Pour scalding vinegar over. Cucnmber Sauce-One peck cucum bers the size for slicing; pare and cut into dice. Slice and separate four large onions into rings. Sprinkle over the whole a pint of salt and drain seven hours on a sieve; add teaspoon black pepper, teaspoon (level) cayenne pepper, three blades of mace, eight tablespoons salad oil. Fill jars two thirds full, then pour vinegar over, put weight on; tie closely. Pickled Cabbage-Chop firm whito cabbage fine. To two quarts allow one bunch crisp celery and one onion chopped fine. Make spiced vinegar by steeping in cup vinegar half ounce each cloves and stick cinnamon, and teaspoon peppercorns. Set bowl iu hot water, covered, for an hour. Bruise the spices and pepper. Put the materials in jar, add spiced vine gar when cold to other cold vinegar aud fill over the pickle. Tie closely; keep cool. Hypnotizing hy Telephone. The wonders of the telephone never cease. The latest brought to the at tention of the New York Electrical Engineer is the hypnotizing of a young boy through the medium of the tele phone at Houston, Texas. It is need less to surmise, adds the Engineer, that tho subject was a pronounced cataleptic; but tho facts brought to light would seem to indicate more strongly than ever tho necessity for a stringent law against the promiscuous practice of hypnotizing. The engi neer does not imagine that many per sons could be influenced hypnotically over the telei^hone, yet believes it will be just as well to g ad against such practices by prom; and effec tive legislation.-Sau Francisco Chron icle. A Lighthouse Monument. Penmarch lighthouse, on the Brit tany coast, with ita 10,000,000 candle power electric light, 180 feet above sea level aud visible sixty miles away, is a monument to Marshal Davon st, Duke of Auerstadt, his daughter hav ing given the French Government 860.00? for the purpose. ' Quinine and other t? ver medicines take from 5 to IO days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. A MIGHTY NIMROD. A North Carolina Hunter Who Has Killed 400 Bears. Captain W. H. Basnight of Roanoke Island, who is on a visit to Roanoke, is the celebrated bear hunter of Dare County. He has helped to kill over 400 in his time. "The season for hunting bears ls near at hand," said the captain, "and it will bc a good season. I judge from tho berry crop. It is cut off back in the woods and there is plenty on the water. Thc bears will come out to get the guubcrries and then wc will kill them ar.d have fine sport. We ship the meat to Baltimore, after eating all we want selling it at 12% cents a pound; we sell the bear's skin for ?20 and bear oil sells well.'-' "How do you kill the bears?" I asked. - "I have a big double-barrel muzzle loading gun. I use that on account of shooting big load. You cannot use such lead as I want out of a breech loader." "What is the biggest bear you ever killed?" I next asked tho captain. "I can't tell you exactly. The largest I ever killed I could not weigh. I have killed bears weighing 500 pounds. They average perhaps something over 100 pounds. .'Are they hard to kill, I asked. "I have killed some that fell dead at first shot. But if a bear gets fully mad before he is killed you can hardly kill him by shooting him all to pieces. I bave been in some close p!ace3. J had a be?r once to grasp mc around the shoulders, and if my brother had not shot and killed him, the bear. vrould have killed me. I have never been hurt except a little squeezing and no man ought to mind a proper amount of hugging," said the captain. "Do you love the bear meat as food?" You ought to have seen the good captain's mouth water and his eyes brighten as visions of broiled bear meat came into his mind. "Eat bear meat," he said. "Why it is the best meat in the world. I can eat two or three messes of bear, and feel strong enough to jump ten feet high." Captain Basnight has charge o? Du rant's Island, which is owned by John E. Reyburn ol Philadelphia, win? comes down for hunting and fishing ".bo:.-, i '*!.:' > - - T'.i." 5?*?'*?* o,yn. : .'?.-i 4.'-'?i- tt*z<&, '?? . ?.!. rr.:'.: . *6 .-. .'. ' inc camp to ge* tut... ..._ Observer._ Johnson's Chili and Fe ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. Queer Catch of a Bass. A queer story of how a three-pound bass was made captive by a swimmer ist summer comes from Leeds, N. Y. . number cf men wer- bathing in the .acskill Creek, in the neighborhc d of Leeds, among whom was a profes sional swimmer. The other swimmers finally stopped their sport to watch ?ie evolutions of their skillful com .inion, when suddenly they saw him ive into deep water. . When he came up he made a com otion in the water and sank like a ummet. Some of them, thinking he d cramps, plunged in to aid him, but . that moment he rose to the top and itruck out for shore, and they saw that he had a large fish in his mouth Why take Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic? Because it cures tne most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DA Y. The secretary of the British Royal Geographical Society (Ravenstein) es timates that the fertile lands of the globe amount to 2i\000,000 squaro miles, the steppes to 14,000,000 and the deserts to 1,000,000. Fixing 2G7 per sons to the square mile for fertile lands, 10 for steppes and 1 for deserts as the greatest population that the earth could properly nourish, he ar rives at thc conclusion that when tho number of inhabitants reaches about 0.000.000,000. our planet will be peo pled to its fullest capacity. M present it contains about one quarter of that number. If the rate of increase shown by recent census statistics should be uniformly maintained, Mr. Ravenstein shews that the globe would be fully people about thc year 2072. But such calculations do not allow for unknown sources of error, and must not be tako.n trio literallv. Johnson's Chill and Fe* ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures thc most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. A nur ber nf fanners in Alabama pledged themselves to sow from five to twenty bushels of wheat this fall. "This is a movement," says The Atlanta Constitution, "which, if persisted in, will emancipate our pockets from the necessity of paying tribute to the West and our stomachs from the thousand and one brands of patent flour, in, .which the essence of the wheat has either been wholly destroyed or sub stituted for kaolin or some other mix lure of eaual weicht and fineness."