San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-20
cOPYRlGhTED BY. AMERICAN: PREY A5yOeAIION 1891 ~

quarter or half year, went up to see
her. She made a friend of me, and told
me to take care of her father. He was
very much down, quite broken and help
less, with just enough strength to do half
his appointed work. So l 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 to lose Gentleman Hugh, and
when he went l lost heart and took to
drinking up my miserable earnings with
the rest. There / was, a drudge in the
dark and getting to be drunkard,
when Gentleman Hugh came to me and
told me how some one had left him
legacy, and 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 to school. But could
never learn much out of books. Put
tools in my hands and l can make
things, and that is what my business is
in the world You see those arms, we'll
made as your own. You see those
hands, strong as vice, and those fin
gers, fine as 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 ought
to be. Every day feel that cannot
put my thoughts into the highest form. T"
every man of any power feels that"
Isaid, "by whatever machinery his power
finds expression"
perhaps so. Well, when Mr.. Clith-
eroe had once given me start in the open
air, and 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 up to London. l fell
in with the gentleman who sent you
here, and got on well. There's as much
good work goes out of this little shop as
out of some big establishments with
great names over the door. People try
to get me to start great shop and make
a great fortune and have George Padi-
ham talked about. But I'm Dwarf
George, born in a coal mine and stunted
in coal mine, and Lamely court, with
my little shop in the basement, suits me
best.
II never forgot how owed all my
good luck to Gentleman Hugh and my
dear little Ellen. If it had not been for
them should have died underground of
hard work before thirty, as most of my
mates did. Their help of me gave me a
kindly feeling toward broken down gen.
tlefolks. | owed the class my luck, and
when got on and had money to spend,
having no one of my own to spend it for,
/ looked up people as badly off as Cen
tleman Hugh was when l first knew him
and helped them. They are hard class
to help-proud as Lucifer sometimes,
with their own kind. took this house
here, out of the way as much as anyspot
in London. Whenever knew of gen.
tleman or gentlewoman given out or
worn out so they could not take care of
themselves, brought them in here. If
they were only given out put stuff into
them again, cheered them up and found
some work for them to do. Gentlefolks
are not such fools if they only had edu-
cation. If found one that was worn
out beyond all patching packed him
into snug corner up stairs and let him
lie there. They like it better than pub
lie hospitals and retreats.
Call the while was getting on and
getting rich in a small way, with some
small shares in patents l own. But l
kept my eye on Gentleman Hugh. l
knew what would come to him, and /
never took in ten shillings that did not
put away one for him and his daughter.
81 knew of his going to America with
the Mormons, damn 'em! went down
to Clitheroe to persuade him to give up
the plan. He would not. He quarreled
with me-ousfirst hard words. He for
babe his daughter to write to me.
81 knew he would come back some
time or other, stripped and needy. /
watched the packets lists of passengers.
He did not come under his own name;
but saw last winter an old Lancashire
name on list of arrivals-the name of
that wornout shaft where Ellen had
picked the daisy for me. 1t was favor
lite spot of his. Part of his money had
gone down it, and he used to sit and
stare into it as if the money was going
to bubble up again. traced them by
that to London. Here for time l lost
them.
''He got very low in London-poor old
manl' continued Padiham.
Nothing dishonest, hope" said l.
"No, no. Only gambling, with crazy
hope of getting even with the world
again. In this way he spent all that he
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