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, seemingly, indeed, to make a persona
matter OF the struggle and to lo"k OF
it as anything but pleasure or i sol
ace. His eyes are cool, quiet gray
his lips under the bitten moustacht
are straight and firmly closed his face
is thin, with strong jaw; his nose is
medium sized, strong and bony; from
either side of the no.trils there runs
down the cheek that scanned line of d
wrinkle so often noticed in the faces
OF very earnest men who have thought
hard or worked hard.
The man dresses as you would expect
a man to dress who WAS reared in West
Virginia; who was = country school
teacher and lawyer, a western real es-
tate speculator, finally heading for
Chicago. He wears dark clothes cut
by tailor, but not fashionably cut; a
double-breasted sack coat, soft hat,
wide shoes, a turn-down collar, black
tie. Sometimes, when standing, and
suddenly interested in converse ton, he
has a habit OF running his fingers
down the front OF his coat, quickly
buttoning all the buttons, and then
throwing his shoulders back as ii to
receive a sudden fire from some antag-
onist. Intensity, on basis OF common
sense, is the color-tone," so to speak.
of his manner.
Harvey was born in Buffalo, w. Va,
near Charleston, and his father was of
Scotch-English extraction, and de-
scended from the Harvey who discov-
cred the circulation OF the blood.
The author of the Coin books was
asked how he came to write them.
"In this way" said Harvey, latter
having been in Colorado, Utah and
California for some time along in
1S9O-9l, was practically taking a
rest, not devoting myself to business
or to my profession. l was fairly well
OIL. Indeed, | never had any trouble
making money--aud could afford to
stop for while and look around. /
attended several conventions of the
Trans-Mississippi Congress, notably in
New Orleans and Ogden, and grew in
terested in the money question, which
was largely discussed in these sessions.
The first thing that struck me was the
exceedingly vague and indefinite tone
OF these discussions.
l knew it would be folly to expect
the masses of the people to read book
ON the money question presented in
the usual form OF such books. Yet
knew that it was imperative for them
to know the great basic facts of that
question. / determined to devote my
life to educational work on this ques.
ton; to 90 present it to the people
that they would be led to read, if only
through interest, in the form of les
sons. Two ways offered themselves
book in the form Of n novel, and
discussion of silver as though carried
on in school, where the lesson began
with the A B G of the subject. |
adopted both, and going TO Chicago
established Coin, q weekly paper
which had on its first page a picture
of Coin, as that young finsncier now
appears i'll the books; then l brought
out Archbishop Walsh's Bimetallism
and Monometallism, and managing
my paper through the day, began
writing Coins Financial School and
"A Tale Of Two Nations, at nights. l
published Archbishop Walsh's book in
December, 1888; Coins Hand Book
in March, 1894; "A Tale of Two Ma
tons in September, 1894; Chapters
of Silver by Hon. Henry G. Miller, of
Chicago, in that same year, and Coins
Financial School Up to Date in March,
1895"
Harvey has had no literary training
and is not much of reader. His IA
vorite study is history, but he says that
ha do
common spectacular features OF all
history, but on the lookout always for
the words that give hints as to the in
side causes Of the prosperity or down.
fall OF nations, etc. He is not a
church-goer; he has no fixed religious
convictions. He wrote the book at
night with pencil after the toll OF
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