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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rincii)lesof human development, but I have aconcrete reason besides ; for did I nothear Mrs. Barry remark to her hus-band, Oh, Terry, aint you glad wedidnt buy the parlor pajjer before wecame to the Fair ? A very different working-man thanTerence used to give me a passingsalutation on the Midway and in theArt Building. No one unacquaintedwith the man would have classed himas a working-man. He looked like theprofessor of a small but deeply religiousfresh-water college, where the patronageis not sufficient to justify the attend-ance of a first-rate butcher. He is aman of spare habit and the averageheight, would he hold up his chin ; but ingeneral he slightly droi)s his shouldersand inclines his handsome head to oneside, as in meditation. His hair is silver-gray, soft and curling. Not only hisblack frock-coat and the A^-isp of blacksilk tied neatly about his shining whitecollar bespeak the clerk, but still morehis long acpiiline features, his mild su-perior smile, and his complexion of a
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The working-man loves eloquence.— Page 105. studious pallor, uncheered b) so muchas a freckle ; while the critical glance ofthe class-room peers through his gold-bowed spectacles. But he is in fact amechanic, a carpenter, and a very goodone. He does as honest work of itskind as Terence does of his. But hehas none of Terences philosophy of life.He is a malcontent on principle. Fromhis youth he has read and pondered andagonized oyer the misery of the world.He is not a pessimist, quite the reyerse ;the loudest promoter of a shortcut tothe millennium for labor finds an eager 104 belieyer in him. He has, moreoyer, orig-inal notions, not in the main concep-tions, but in the details ; and he is proudto dogmatism of his dazzling elabora-tions. He belongs to all the laborunions and federations and alliances,and likes nothing so dearly as to makespeeches. Perhaps the speeches are toolong, perhaps his temperament is tooautocratic (for the more freedom he de-mands for the masses, the more intol

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