Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-02-25
WOODBURY. n j, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1892

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made as your own. You see those
hands, strong as a vice, and those fin
gers, fine as womans. 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
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
great call in England for thorough
workmen | came up to London. Ifell
in with the gentleman who sent you
here, and got on well. There's as much
good work goes out of this little shop rs
out Of some big establishments with
great names over the door. People try
60 get me to start great shop and make
great fortune and have George Padi-
ham talked about. But I'm Dwarf
George, born in coal mine and stunted
in a coal mine, and Lamely court, with
my little shop in the basement, suits me
best.
Il never forgot how owed all my
good luck 10 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
kindly feeling toward broken down gem
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 first knew him
md 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 any spot
ID London. Whenever knew of gen
tleman or a 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
some work for them to do. Gentlefolks
are not such fools if they only had edu-
cation. I'll 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.
.'All tile while was getting on and
getting rich in small way, with some
small shares in patents | own. But |
kept my eye on Gentleman Hugh.
knew what would come to him, ard I
never took in ten shillings that did not
put away one for him and his daughter
] Il knew of his going to America with
the Mormons, damn 'elnl went down
to Clitheroe to persuade him to give up
the plan. He would not He quarreled
with me-our first hard words He for
bade his daughter to write to me.
81 knew he would come back some
time or other, stripped and needy.
4 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 name Of
that wornout shaft where Ellen had
picked the daisy fer me. 1t was a favor
ite spot Of his. Part of his money had
gone down 1t. and be used to sit and
stare into il lis ii the money was going
to bubble up again. | traced them by
that to London. Here FOR time | lost
them
ssHe got very low in London poor old
manlp continued Padiham.
Nothing dishonest, hope, said l.
s.No. no. Only gambling, with a crazy
hope of getting even with the world
again. In this way he spent all that he
had left, and EIlen's hard earnings be-
sides. 1t made him wild for her to re-
\ fuse him; so she was forced TO give him
all that she could spare-all except just
enough to pay for poor place to live in
and poorer fare. She never knew where
he spent the long nights; she only saw
him creep back to his garret in the early
morning destitute and half alive
But promised you to talk as short
as could. must tell you how found
them. The poor gentle folks that take
care of generally know something OF
ornamental work that they learned to do
for play when they were better off.
set them at doing what they can do best
and sell it for them. There is always
some one among my family can draw.
''It was by going to print shop with
drawings to sell that | found my dear
lass. She had painted me and sold the
picture to the dealer for bread !
wouldn't have noticed the picture except
for the dwarf in it, and now wouldn't
be a finished man for the world. Yes,
there | was, Dwarf George, picking
daisies on the edge of coal pitt there
was, just as | used to look, with the coal
dust ground into me, trying to make
friends with the fresh. innocent daisies
in the sunshine.
"By that picture found them just in
time. When got to their garret Ellen
was lying sick. i'll in body and tired and
sorrowed ont Their money was all
gone, for Gentleman Hugh had been
robbed of his last the night before.
brought my dear child and her father
here. What / had was theirs.
II 1Ab soon rs neT ldJHef was sale Will
me, his old friend. she got well. As soon
as his daughter was out Of the way OF
harm and want, and the old gentleman
had nothing to be crazy about and moth
ing to run away from, he stopped dead.
He fell into palsy.
''There he is now up stairs. Ellen
chose the upper room, where they could
look over the housetops and of clear
days sec the Surrey hills. I've got some
skill in my fingers for mending broken
men, but Hugh Clitheroe can't be
mended. It's as well for him that he
can't. He's been off track too long ever
to run steady in this world But he has
come to himself and secs things clearer
at last He lies there contented and
patient, waiting for his end He sees
his daughter, who has gone with him
through thick and thin, by his side, and
knows she win love him closer every
day. And he knows that his old mate
Dwarf George, is down here in the base
ment, strong enough to keep all up and
all together.
'sLet me be the one, Mr.. Padiham,
said |, ''to ask the honor of shaking
hands with you. | think better of the
world for your sake"