HIS LIFE AND WORK 



pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive 

 those who trespass against us." 



His fame and honors and intimacies with 

 people of rank never made him less democratic 

 in his sympathies. He always had a profound 

 respect for the man or woman who did useful 

 work, if the work was done well. Once, when 

 a poor woman went to him for advice about some 

 trifling thing that she had invented, he turned 

 from his work and explained to her, with the 

 utmost patience and courtesy, the things that 

 she wished to know. With his trusted employees, 

 too, he was usually kindly and sometimes jovial. 

 "I had only one brush with him in thirty-five 

 years," said one of his cashiers. "The last 

 time that I saw him, he met me on the street 

 and said, 'Hello, Sellick, have you got lots of 

 money ? Can you give me a hundred thousand 

 dollars to-day ?' 'Yes, sir,' I answered. 'Well, 

 I'm glad I don't need it,' he said with a laugh." 



The loyalty of his workmen and his agents 

 was always a source of pride to McCormick. 

 It was one of the favorite topics of his conversa- 

 tion. He would mention his men by name and 



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