ds leisure for other
interests--books, pictures, bronzes, horses. He has a
beautiful country home, where he goes daily by special
train, and then puts up the bars against business, bores,
and all intruders.

In his talk with me he ran a remarkable gamut. He spoke of
business like the shrewdest and readiest of practical men.
Then in the midst of some story of stock-market guile, such
as he is exposing in _Everybody's Magazine_, his face,
voice, and hands conveyed amusement, anger, disgust. With
his good looks and gift of expression he would have made his
way to the top of the stage. I do not know if he has done
any public speaking. But when he got into the full tide of
denunciation of the crimes of Amalgamated I regretted that
he was not addressing a great audience, for it was real
oratory--strong talk, ardent, electric, manly. His eyes
flashed, his teeth came together with a snap and he shook
both fists under my nose. He has enthusiasm, capacity for
righteous wrath, and the spirit of battle. But he doesn't
lose poise for a moment.

HIS CONFIDENCE IN HIMSELF

Cheerfulness, gay confidence in his own powers, is his
predominant trait.

"You are firing hot shot into these people," I said. "They
have endless money, and you are in the stock-market, taking
chances every day. Aren't you afraid they will dig pits for
you?"

"Well, what can they do to any of us in this world except to
send us to the poor-house or the grave? I don't fear them. I
know them and all about them. You must remember this is not
a new occupation with me. For twenty-five years or more I
have been in the habit of picking up a brick without looking
to see how many corners it had or whether it was round or
square and hitting the first head I thought I had a good
reason to hit. I have been doing these things regardless of
how they liked it. It's upward of a quarter of a century
since I had my first wrestle with a corporation in the
newspapers. I have tried not to be a common scold and
avoided being vicious when I could. I have only attacked
when I thought some fellow had done me a deliberate wrong.
And when I have felt that way I have started after him. Then
it has been vicious, hard fighting, you know; vicious, but
not malicious.

"With