The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15
N ChARLES REA[

As a matter of truth, Il is more than that and less than that. Reade ar rsgns the employer Ssss,i as SittSssiy yoas tks union less than he does the agitator and the mischief-maker who ratteheo VI Charles h Reade was always much more of a fighter than an onsessseas He wrote at time when tne opern.t psnrn Ses nied education by the State and de- cent living conditions by the employer. Impressed by the ssvddsssg Sf tsg hsh he ssress sass on in s as faes nSasi thss at s snd dering. the blind cruelty snaaeenstomed ana ens orae force. the union, was the les.llHahse leslasshe fruit of generations Of blind heiHasn ness. blind cruelty and .sa Sana aeplovins Dsanasu classes classes and of ths state.
 Tn the great ancient dining room of Raby Hall, near Hillsborougn, tAelo was a strange gap In the line or an oestral and family portraits tnat al- ways aroused eager but unsausnsa curiosity among strangers wno Mers rs permitted to look at the me- hissOr'est r. was picture turned to the wall with these words written on the naeh' leone into trade"
 csuv Raby. s.the Squire" as every one called him, was not the man who wouIo eubrnit to inquiries about his anairs ana fhA neople of the country stood Tn s,,cb awe of him that even the usually daring tongue of gossip had ceased 70 wag about the picture.
 aia own hand had turned 1t many wears before. It was that of his sister Edith. She had married great oulio- er whom Squire Raby referred 10 as bricxiayer, and she had gone 70 uys tr Hillsborough, which Squire kaoy abhorred because it was beginning 70 become a manufacturing city. lie never entered the smoky circle or tHe hated tradesmenss town thereafter ex- cept under compulsion. ~
 Finally Edith's husband, MT. httle: was overtaken by misfortune. ae nso built too much and too fast and sud denlv found himself immensely ricn in brick walls and immensely poor Tn money. In his emergency. which soon became desperate, he turned to all corners for ready cash. At last ne even applied to Squire haby TOT loan of trust fund of fl 800 which had been left by the Squire's father in trust for Ediths children.
 The Squire was shocked at the idea of touching the little fortune. This money belongs to your little boy Hem ry," said he.'I am bound in honor not to risk 1t.
 Edith begged him to let her have It. The squire refused positively. Hut TOT all his hatred Of people in trade, ne was touched by their distress. lie arose and stalked out of the house. went straight to his own bank and drew fl 300 of his own money
 Re returned to the house with It. to find that James Little had killed himself, and that his sister, half mad. was accusing him of being her nus bands murderer.
 After the tragedy, Edith and her son disappeared from Hilisborough. James Little's brother, Joseph, small master cutler of Birmingham. had in vited them to make their home with him,
 Squire Raby wrote to her inviting her to live with him, for he loved his beautiful sister with all his heart and soul. She refused indignantly In let ter which repeated the charge Of mur- der when he received that letter he wrote to MT. Little that he would send the interest half yearly on the sum that had escaped bricks and mortar. and that he would never forgive his sister, alive or dead.
 Then he turned her picture toward the wall and wrote on it: Gone into trade"
 FIillsborough. busy with ever-increas- ing smokestacks and forges and shops, soon forgot the very name of LittIe. {. The Squire never mentioned 1t again and never heard from his sister. So more than fifteen years passed.
 Henry Little had become working man, but one of rare sort. He had de- veloped a perfect genius for wood carving. and, dissatisfied with the tools that were current, he learned to make his own. becoming master of all the mysteries of hardening, forging. grind ing handle making and cutlery.
 He invented tool after tool. One day a master cutler of Hillsborough saw some of these tools in London. He determined to get Harry's services. and after repeated offers, finally rose to the unheard of generosity of onering six pounds a week.
 Mrs. Little resisted Harry's desire for going to Hills0orouGh until she realized that her sons hear- was set on accepting the offer. Then she con- sented, with many tears and many fears.
 Her apprehensions were realized very quickly. The Edge Tool Forgers' Union of Hinsborough and the Handle Makers Union ordered Cheetham, his employer, to send him back to London. They followed this demand by warn ings, and when these in turn were dis regarded. Henry found note pinned to the door of his work room with a dagger threatening him with death un- less he left Hillsborough.
 He applied promptly for admission to both unions and offered each 1,50O pounds down. It was a bitter pill but he would not have left Hillsbor- ough for f1.500.
 He had met a girl who held him there. It was Grace Garden, daughter of one of the rich men of the town and a god-daughter of Squire Raby She did not know that the workman Henry Little, whom she had engaged through MT. Cheetham to teach heI wood carving. was a nephew of heI godfather and Henry was careful not to tell her. for he had grown up hat. ing the Squire.
 Ha knew that Miss Card-n. looked on him as far beneath her put from the moment he saw her he stermine6 to win her. As the first s, , D he re- solved to make himself master in' stead of a man as soon as possible He work ed every night at wood cary tnes which he sold at a good figure in London. He also planned improve rnents in existing grinding machinery that would be revolutionary if sue cessful.
 Though he did not know it, Grace
 7ked with anything but un'
 eyes on the workman whose language and knowledge were SC strangely at variance with his station in life. Though her English caste feel ing was too firmly implanted in hel -.a,.v,E& har fO VfaIA willing.