Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-31

our brothers in the factories, listened 70
apostles who came across seas ana ia-
bored among US as III they ioVed oui
souls. The false religions and outgro"n
religions left Us in the dark; but the true
light came to US. Ny mates In the Lam
cashine mine Joined the church oy nun
dreds. / was still blind and careless. III
was not until long afterward that the
time for my conversion came.
"As my daughter grew up felt tEat
I ought 70 be by her. l had workeu
long time In the mine, and was known 10
have some education. The company gave
me a clerkship In their Office, ana there
l drudged again for years, asking no
help or favor. 1t was in another part Oh
the county from my old residence,
where nobody knew me. My dear child
she has always been q good chiid 10
me, except that she sometimes WISHES "
rule little too much--my dear ELe1
became almost woman, and all iacAeu
was the means OF giving her the posi-
ton of her rank. Education she gos
herself. We were not unhappy, she ana
| together, lonely as we might DC anu
out Of place" u-,.,
The old gentleman had been talking OF
himself In such cheerful, healthy way
and shown that he had borne such
brave heart through his troubles tnat
began to puzzle myself what could nave
again changed his character and maze
him the weakling | had recognized III
the interview with Sizzum.
1T is very kind of you," he said, ITO
listen to a garrulus old fellow. Your
sympathy is very pleasant, ont must
not test il too far. l will end my long
story presently.
81 supposed myself entirely forgotten,
as was quite willing to be. by ana oy
| was remembered and sought. lar
away kinsman had left me legacy. IL
was enough for quiet subsistence ior
us two, for Ellen and me. returned TO
the neighborhood OF my old home !
found a little cottage on the banks OF
Ribble within sight of my old friend,
Pendle hill There We lived
From this point Mr.. Clitheroe's man
ner totally changed. His voice grew
peevish and complaining. All the man
ly feeling he had showed In briefly de-
scribing his day laborer's lie passed
away. He detailed TO me how the new
proprietor at Clitheroe Hall patronlzed
him insufferably; how his old neighoors
turned up their noses at him, and In
suited him by condecension. How mis-
cradle he found 1t TO cramp himself ana
save shillIngs in cottage, with the
house In sight where he had lavished
pounds as lord OF the manor! How ne
longed 10 have his daughter as well
dressed as any OF the young ladies about
---her interiors in blood--for no one there
could rival the Clitheroe's lineage. How
he wished himself back in his mine, IN
his industrious clerkship, and how time
hung drearily on his hands, with moth
ing to do except TO dream OF oygone
glories.
l saw that he had sighed to be great
man again and had morbid sense OF
his inslgnifcance, and that this had
made him touchy, aud alienated well
meaning people about him. lie spoke
with some triumph Of his arguments
with the rector of his parish, who en-
deavored to check him when he len
what influence he had as gentleman to
get the Mormons hearing about Cllthe-
roe. He did not, as he said, as yet feel
any great interest IN JnelT uuCblihes,
but he remembered them with good will
from his coal pit days, and whenever an
emissary OF the faith came by he always
found friend in Hugh Clitheroe. They
had evidently flattered him. 1t was rare,
of course, TO find protector among the
gentry, and they made the most OF the
chance.
Poor old mani could trace the prog
ress OF his disappointment, and his final
fall Into that miserable superstition. He
had been free thinker; never indus
trious or self possessed enough to be-
come fundamental thinker. No man
can stand long on nothing---he must
think out a religion or accept the
ology. Now that busy days were over,
and careless youth gone by, Mr.. Clithe-
roe began to be uneasy and was ready
to listen to any scheme which promised
peace. II Jesuit had happened TO find
him at this period, Rome would have got
recruit without difficulty.
TO BE CONTINUED.