rs. Howe, and the rest.

Saw young Booth in Brutus, and liked him better than his father; went
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
experience convinced him that the times were out of joint, and his
brain began to seek the remedy. The doctrine of _single tax_, already
on trial in some parts of the world, is his chief contribution to
economic theory.

From "The Life of Henry George, by His Son." Doubleday, Page &
Company, 1900.

Thus heavily weighted at the outset, the three men opened their office.
But hard times had come. A drought had shortened the grain crop,
killed great numbers of cattle and lessened the gold supply, and the
losses that the farming, ranching, and mineral regions suffered
affected all the commercial and industrial activities of the State, so
that there was a general depression. Business not coming into their
office, the three partners went out to hunt for it; and yet it was
elusive, so that they had very little to do and soon were in
extremities for living necessities, even for wood for the kitchen fire.
Henry George had fitfully kept a pocket diary during 1864, and a few
entries at this job-printing period tell of the pass of affairs.

"_December 25_.--Determined to keep a regular journal, and to cultivate
habits of determination, energy, and industry. Fee