about and rested after my labors; glad to be with Father, who enjoyed
Boston and friends.

Home on the 10th, passing Sunday at the Emersons'. I have done what I
planned--supported myself, written eight stories, taught four months,
earned a hundred dollars, and sent money home.




HENRY GEORGE

(1839-1897)

THE TROUBLES OF A JOB PRINTER

Henry George was a self-helped man, if ever there was one. When less
than fourteen years of age, he left school and started to earn his own
living. He never afterward returned to school. In adolescence, his
eager mind was obsessed by the glamor of the sea, so he began life as a
sailor. After a few years came the desperate poverty of his early
married life in California, as here described. His work as a printer
led to casual employment as a journalist. This was the first step in
his subsequently life-long career as an independent thinker, writer,
and speaker.

An apparent failure in life, he was obliged when twenty-six years of
age to beg money from a stranger on the street to keep his wife and
babies from actual starvation. But his misery may have been of
incalculable value to the human race, for his bitter personal