Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-03-06
BRENT
By THEODORE WINTHROP.
Copyrighted. 1891.
CONTINUED.

could give. / was hands without
head, or without any head that
could make my hands OF use. He
had head enough. and things in his
head, but his hands were never meant
for tools to get living. Gentleman
Hugh walked up my brains l knew
how 70 pick and dig, and sometimes
wondered if that was all l should ever
be az. But air and daylight seemed as
II they did not belong 20 me. l was
drudge and never thought OF anything
but drudging until Gentleman Hugh
came down into my shaft and began TO
tell me what there was outside OF coal
mines.
''He told me about himself; that he
was Hugh ChtherOe, gentleman, and
how be had been ruined by factories and
coal SpeculaJiOnS. IL was his losing
his fortune in a coal mine that set him
on coming into ours 70 make his bread.
and poor bread, too, for gentleman.
lie said he was sick OF daylight. 1t
was better 70 be d drudge, so he said,
down in the blacklist and wetteSt hole
OF any cOalpit in Lancashire than 10 beg
bread Of men that pretended 10 be his
AElEnuN MuEM LU Was AAAf AAAA oAANNANA
at him for his folly in losing his wealth.
found out that there were wrongs and
brutality above ground as well as under
IL.
BY and by, when Gentleman Hugh
and l had got TO be friends, he took me
one holiday and showed me his daugh-
ter. She was a sweet little lass. He had
left her with the rough women, the
miners wives But she had her own
way with them just as he had had with
US. They called her little Lady Ellen,
and would have cut up their own orats,
il they hadn't been too tough, if she had
wanted such diet. Little Ellen, sweet
lass, was not afraid OF me, Dwarf George
and Runt George as they called me. She
did not run away and cry, or point and
laugh az me as the other children did.
She was picking daisies on the edge Of
an old cOalpit when we first saw her-a
little curly haired lass OF five years old.
She was crowned with daisies, and she
didn't seem TO me 20 belong 20 the same
class of beings as the grimy things l
had been among all my days. She gave
me a daisy, aud asked me II knew who
made il. And when l said / didn't
know, unless IL came OF itself, she
named God to me. Nobody had named
God 20 me before except in Oaths.
do l tire you, sir" said Padtham,
''with this talk about mySelf?'
Certainly not; you interest me great
~"
The old gentleman will hardly be
ready 20 see you yet II is almost nine,
~ -. Of nina ha has his
breakfast. l always 60 up then 10
give him good morning. You can go
with me-"
Meantime, tell me how you found
them again"
Il found them by a drawing Of hers.
But 1 will 90 on straightforward with
my story.
Il couldn't stay a dolt, though I had
10 drudge for many day after l first
saw little Ellen, aud she gave me the
daisy and named God 70 me. Whenever
I could get away, and that was only
once 2 quarter or q half year, / went up
10 see her. She made friend Of me,
and told me TO take care OF her father.
He was very much down, quite broken
aud helpless, with just enough strength
10 10 AGAA MS NtkN'A-NNN~ w. -
helped him with the rest.
after a long time the owners found
out that he had education, and they
took him into the Office. All the men
were sorry 10 lose Gentleman Highland
when he went / lost heart and took 20
drinking up my miserable earnings with
the rest. There ! was, drudge in the
dark and getting 10 be drunkard,
when Gentleman Hugh came 70 me and
told me how some one had leit him
legacy, and l must get out Of the pit
and share with him. He said little
Ellen would not be happy unless she
had me.
$50 he took me up into the air and
sun and put me 20 school. But could
never learn much out Of books. Put
tools in my hands and can make things,
and that is what my business IS in the
world You see those arms, well made
as your own. You see those hands,
strong as a vice, and those fingers, fine
As q wOman's. They are tools and able
TO handle tools. The rest of my body
is stunted; my brain is stunted. I'm
no fool. but I'm not the man l ought 10
be. Every dGy l feel that l cannot put
my thoughts into the highest form. e"
Every man Of any power feels that,
I said, "by whatever machinery his
power finds expression.
perhaps so. Well, when Mr.. Cllth-
eroe had once given me start in the
open air. aud l had got tools IN my
hands, pretty soon they began to talk OF
me as one of the masters In Lancashire.
There's a great call In England for
thorough wOrkmen. | came 20 London.
I fell In with the gentleman who sent
YOU here, and l got on well. There's
as much good work goes out OF this lit
lie shop as out OF some big establish
ments with great names over the
door. People try 20 get me 70
start great shop and make
great fortune and have George Psdi
ham talked about But I'm Dwarf
George, born in coal mine and Stunted
in a coal mine, and Lamely court, with
nv little shop in the basement, suits
Inc best.
II never forgot how owed all my
good luck to Gentleman Hugh and my
dear little Ellen. II it had not been for
them I should have died under ground OF
hard work before thirty, as most OF my
mates did. Their help OF me gave me
kindly feeling toward broken down gen
tlefolks. owed the class my luck, and
when I got on and had money TO spend
having no one Of my own 20 spend II ior'
/ looked up people as badly of as Cen
tleman Hugh was when first knew him
and helped them. They are a hard class
10 help-proud aS Lucifer sometimes
with their own kind. / took this house
here. out Of the way as much rs any spot
I'm London. Whenever knew Of gen