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The Record Newspaper 23 April 1898

Page 1

OUR

LADIES

STORY.

NOTE!

PLEASE

I

i

THE

LITTLE

THE

;

SISTERS.

SECRET

A

OF

GRIFFITHS BROS,

SORROWING

HEART.

the

(From

Ave

Casey and

Mrs.

TEA,

Maria.)

I

Ire learned the machinist trade in land. We were repectable people in the old country where it costs money to or a business and learn a trade father did well their by them both. But times and he died. got hard it Sometimes, when I think over all,

COFFEE

Invite

very good and I enjoyed much an friends, very chat with Her occasional her. con were

where

was a versation of quaint blending and a beautiful simplicity gentle her within limi shrewdness, which, betokened her a keen observer tations, a of men and things while wise she said. characterised all charity summer in One pleasant morning, nod and smile, I vited by her kindly the took a seat beside her on south

PARTAKE

and

CALL CHOCOLATE

at

(gratis),

Retail

Parcels

at

of

CUP

a

Perth

their

of TEA

Depot,

often

piazza, soft

constant

"Yes," Retail

and

Office

wonder as

Depot

WILLIAM

thoughts

as

MELBOURNE,

"

?

for

room

I me

thing me

"

for

W.

A.

TAT

an

109

"

long Sisters

Close

"

eleven

on

have

"

WILLIAMS,

PREMIER

CASH

the

ma'am,

son,

one

dead by now." he doesn't And

isn't

C.

he

if

J.

to

see

Business

gained

.

doesn't

know

dead,

ma'am."

or

living

parently, pressing she said " 'Twas

my effect

here

a

am

I

trespass

ground,

I

refrained

her

further. had

no

had

courtesy her,

upon

of

for

:

(late

Foy

Teas,

DOHENY

Gallagher,

be

and

the

best

Mr. having succeeded conducted by Messrs. Hughes houses

with

in

And

will

Australia, HIGH

WILL entrusted

Order

them

to

QUALITY

OF

OUR

BE

HAY

314

Popular

whose cater

&

Produce,

to

us

will

receive

large experience, their and City

for

think '

A

a

of it often. heard it many is

son

a

son

But

daughter's

I've

had

till

I'll a

General

Special

he

gets

had

a

[?]

Groceries

attention.

PERTH.

Mr.

17

did

wife, all her

and when Katie

once,

Mrs.

Latest

daughter

a

and

she answered was. and Herself to America together, them four years after, ;

she

followed they had was-

you'll

of

when

you've

me

no

that,

is I

as

was

that

and

is

'Tis

Do

replied.

We Casey. and then." she so,"

now

Well,

"

I

!

Mrs.

not

make

all

rejoined.

saying,

my

husband

how

all

came

the

we same

to

story

many made

one

.

blood,

and

wrote

to

that but

John, month

me.

frightened received

;

I

no

1

a

milliner,

little

home

and

for

John

National Library of Australia

to our pay up the money travelling seen We hadn't him for expense. he met us at the ten years, and when -His wharf he was greatly changed. face was and peaked, and his long

spectacle

in

Novelties

Table

Decorations,

&

DRAKE &

and

GENERAL

Importers,

Agents

Merryweather

John &

FANCY AND

BOHEMIAN

When house the

happy working

WATER

&c.

See

at

351

Hay

GALVANISED

TUBES

&

Danks Sons',

&

GIRDERS

lie

of

a

the

(All

&

his

trade. went

wife

was

PLUMBERS'

and

Sizes), ;

Windmills Telephone 358.

Alston's

look when

home

to

evening a

common

so

he

was

his

fine

very stiff. ribbons and

silks summer's

was

near

She for to look. —

but

with

my sweet, soft-voiced Katie. She took us pale, us and told to go to up to our room, she would a of tell bed, as couple But was children. fine, the, night

FITTINGS,

Melbourne Son, Ltd., London, Fire Brigade Appliances.

days

we

he

though

didn't

mind she had She couldn't compare

Perth.

Street,

FITTINGS

STEEL

'twas

Prices.

in

all

was

STUBBS, BRASS

ROLLED

our

JUGS

and,

;

my

IRONMONGERY,

REQUISITES, for

grey

dressed, in as

Co.,

STREET.

EARTHENWARE, VASES STANDS,

FLOWER

Ironmongers

was

finely

"

GLASS,

BUILDERS'

&

MURRAY

me.

had

'

Perth.

Arcade,

DYNON

86 GLASS

that,

for

Sight-Testing

opticiannd

Royal

M'Ness's

JOHN

life.'

of

ma'am,

good child the boy came a

I

maybe

"

Oh,

hair

CHINA,

a

Clarke,

Alfred

"

I

tell

though

;

;

Spectacles.

daughter sorrowful proof a

Casey ? "

woman

well

as

,

EAST, Free

you

engage time

ma'am. "You

old

may

reply or more. a Then he for us to come and make a wrote asking for he said the South visit with him be good for Katie. would She wasn't but I of her, and for going thought her her alone, and persuaded telling her 'twould So do no harm to try it. she I to at last consented. wrote John then that we'd go, and he sent

ADDRESS—

ST.

the

:

;

have

confidence erburdened

o\

" Kate and myself got on nicely she had an atbut one cold winter and it left her tBck of pneumonia, She delicate. began to spit lungs

Grocery

MAINTAINED.

NOTE

de

presently

above

Doheny,

enable

Dairy

Delicacies,

every

the

and Co, Adelaide.)

satisfaction.

entire

Table

Coffee,

Ap

sudden notion brought freak maybe you'd call it but I'd do it over again if I had I was to do. it busy and happy enough before I came, and I'm busy I am. The and happy enough where from a stranger bit and sup of charity as when half as hard to swallow isn't out to doled own, it's you by your own. or those that ought to be your I mind well. an old proverb There's I

sympathise

a '

;

me

I

then

an

money.

Crawford

of

(late

Doheny

clients

IMPORTERS,

DOHENY,

J. P. will in

Country

and

Agent.

Retail).

Gibson). P.

Wales.

Fremantle,

Street,

& and

THE

been

I

that Feeling ing on delicate from questioning

whether

High

J.

"

you ? "He

LIST

South

GROCERS and (Wholesale

P. HUGHES Mr.

come

of New

HUGHES

"

I

PRIZE

Bank

Reference,

with

was

years,"

Perth.

Barrack-st.,

run

I

?

I'm nearing seventy-three." have no relatives?

reply. "You "

been you inquired.

have

How Little

that

a

Cup, 2,ooo at 5. Run 23rd April. Cup, 25,000 at 5. Run at Adelaide nth May. at 5. Run at Perth, 5>0o Birthday Handicap, 24th May. at Foundation Run st June. Handicap, 3> 5at Port Port Augusta July 5. Augusta Cup, 12,500 at 5.

I a strolldown take little or give a hand in the garden, or if kitchen maybe they're busy, into the chapel for a visit. 'Tis steal to have a comforting Our Lord thing so near." but She smiled up at me brightly, the echo of a half- breathed I heard "

I

has to tell. The children home for me in R comfortable a week, Katie earned fifteen dollars or He was and John eighten twenty. a lad, promising always reading very he found machinery books; arid once a what was with machine wrong it After that when, experts up. gave the master sent him about the and ; mending and repairing country then by degrees he began to leave off his religion. Then he in practising vented some kind of a screw, and was a to one get some long time trying to invest it. a in He found money man Protes at last, and a bigotted tant he was, with a family of dashing was in This Memphis, Ten girls. nessee. The end of it all was that he married and prospered greatly. he didn't But write to us often after he did he was that though when a never without of sending gift a

ALL'S

Adelaide

the

the

rest worse

died,

Bunbury

"

?

"Oh,

sigh..

ADELAIDE.

CHARLES).

J.

MONSTER

I

into

AND

TEES

(C/o

a there's many woman old like

a halt on call them." do you do then And what

Casey,"

"I

mistakes "That

at

SYDNEY,

;

pleasant to sadden

Mrs.

said

America.

she replied. they are," " ma'am I think a great but I deal, with never let my thoughts get away, me Times when they're entirely. so

"

seat

the

on

ma'am,

it."

fear

as

inquired,

Mostly

not

think heard

"

your

hands

PERTH.

PREMANTLE.

And

the

you

:

STREET,

her are

some

you,

an

thoughtfully.

:

STREET, Warehouse

her.

beside "

if

your

made

she

143 MURRAY

the

knitting furnished

that

to

speak tire

mind."

employment.

I

busy

sat

stockings

grey "

she

to

like

relieves

;

where

I'd

if

;

Rates.

Wholesale

as

" Far from it, swered. "You know and with you

or

be obtained

may

feel

body, I hope I don't with my old talk."

MERCHANTS,

& COCOA

to

you

I

the ;

I

j

asleep,

I'd

I

thought garden I

stole

;

so,

down.

in say my Rosary was after Katie The

moon

and

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