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Show REMARKABLE PERSONALITY OF HARDIE from the man's eyes. Warmth and Istics. Snowy-haired, deep-chested, power ful, keen-eyed, Keir Hardie, leader o: millions of British working men, has just finished his third visit to America. Amer-ica. The chairman of the Labor part; in the house of commons is a strik ing personality picturesque and unforgettable. un-forgettable. He came to attend the wedding of his son, who is in business in Brooklyn. At the age of seven Keir Hardie was set to work in a mine. His father had been a miner before him, hia mother a working woman. In the mines he stayed for seventeen years. Today, fifty-six years old, he is the leading figure in Parliament in the fight for improving the condition ol working people. The muscular hand grasp with which he welcomes his caller Is a reminder re-minder of the days when he used to swing a pick. There is warmth in it as well as strength, a warmth that bears out the steady, kindly gaze strength are Keir Hardie's character- His countenance is patriarchal, a mass of white hair, like shredded wool, sweeps back from an astonishingly high forehead, a tremendous dome above the dark thatched brows. His face and forehead are ruddy with glowing health. His figure is not tall, but is erect and powerful, and tho whole man radiates personality. 1 A full-blooded man. His face suggests a dozen other great men: Tennyson, Lord Salisbury, James J. Hill, the railroad rail-road builder; Longfellow men of great vision, great force, great human sympathy. His clothes are as simple as himself: a dark gray suit whose wrinkles show how friendly it is to its owner; a soft, white shirt, a soft collar, a soft dark blue tie, polka dotted, loosely knotted. He smokes a briar pipe. |