Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — Tracking Snobs. [ARTICLE]

Tracking Snobs.

I have—and for this gift I congratulate myself with deep and abiding thankfuliiess—an eye for a snob. If the truthful is the beautiful, it is beautiful to study even the snobbish—to track snobs tl rough history as certain little dogs in Hampshire hunt out truffles; to sink

shafts in society and come upon rich veins of snob-ore. Snobbishness is like death, in a quotation from Horace, ■which I hope yon have never heard: “ Beating with equal foot at poor men’s doors, and kicking at the gates of Emperors.” It is a great mistake to judge of snobs lightly, and think they exist among the lower classes merely. An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is t-o be found in every rank of mortal life. You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of snobs; to do so shows you are a snob. I myself have been taken for one.— Thackeray.