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The Record Newspaper 12 November 1898

Page 1

OUR

The

STORY.

Life

Equitable

Assurance

Society

and their

neer

in

OP

LANTERN. (FROM THE

"ANGELUS.")

good

one

moral the beginning wnen

tiie

of

'

moral

story

a

Such tern

it

it

as

at

the

to

skip

No

its

over

A

Large

never

to

The business of the the Policy-holders. A.

end

tallow bottom. shed of

bit

stuck

of

the the

Yermout, and

up the

valley lonely stood.

was

a

house

There and

where

spot

the

PROPRIETORS Telephone

467.

W.

A.

Newmarket

road.

the aud had in order over

the

to

ii

rl

l

WW.

PN

out

get

which

express, 51.1

11 1/

nn

ir

nnf.

m

tin

T7

milue

J

Through

the

the storm rushed,

the with

great

freight engine long, heavy train

behind,

that

cars

its

darkness

seemed

to

liiss

of

loaded

cars

culvert. like

4th

run

:

CHINA,

Hall,

236-238,

Are

the

and

best

Co.,

W.A.

Ironmongers

STEEL

ROLLED for

John

Merryweather

&

Agents

351

Importers,

Hay

TUBES

GIRDERS

Street,

and to

&

perfect the engi-

National Library of Australia

the

signal

I

came the express sweeping the last bend and down the It seemed as if the horror

!

of the

moment rise

"

which instant

next

crying

porch,

he

was

the

on

:

lantern

A

at

was

ou

the

and

his feet. In the foot of a the house stood,

winged

he

minute

a

!

lantern

Be

!

PLUMBERS

barn

in

the

had

left

it

no

Windmills; 3ob.

ell-phone

The

the

Jhle

down

SADDLER,PERTH. STREET,

the "

evening. Perhaps he there. But there was think no time to look. of the express whistle

time to shriek

came

SMITH,

BARRACK

the horror of hands had for Bub now they

astir.

grade

at

PIONEER

in

'moment,

a

Perth.

Alston's

;

ROBERT

in

be quick !" quick, rushed to the stable. The farmer was The lantern not in itsthere, accustomed .He lemembered place. to had it about the lower have

Sizes),

(All

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

Danks Sons',

was

little of

large assortment and Hotelkeepers reductions at great

FITTINGS & FITTINGS,

BRASS

IRONMONGERY, GALVANISED

GENERAL

REQUITES,

Perth, A

STUBBS,

&

DRAKE

vert

a

LONDON.

SYDNEY.

MELBOURNE.

and

,

Murray-st., in

him, as the cul the undermining save

water

of

In a moment the con of the freight train was over the and the fence speeding up could If he have titne slope. only a return to secure lantern and

IMPORTERS,

stocks

torrent

before around

&

assorted

to

impossible

was

the

ductor

Perth.

holding largest suitable for Store and Fancy Goods Earthenware, China, Glass, Goods hand. now ottered Private Families on being always now make for coming forward. room heavy shipments

puuh

a

!

were

ARE

& EARTHENWARE,

GLASS,

China

&

for

SPECTACLEMAKERS,

Arcade,

could

!

Wales.

DYNON

JOHN

BUILDERS'

1899.

Spectacles.

AND

what

see

to caboose the on train. A lan coming passenger tern The crash had broken every one on What was the train. to be done ? now A faint of light glimmer at the farm-house win appeared had been aroused dow. The inmates and. by the crash of the acoidenb,

1899.

1899.

KJN

to

all catastrophe, the express. gotten ran back madly to and get a lantern

Sight-Testing

A

their

be done. was Alas the fireman already dead, and the engineer lay pinned down the with his alongside boiler, the fire-box. legs pressed againt

For

March,

had

they shaking-up,

the

LIST

some

cars

before

standstill

a

was

rear

rapidly a it and iu few moments and crush must sink him upon emer him. But in his terrible the brave man nob thought gency but only of others. of himself " the express !" he cried. Signal is close us." "It behind

and

a into steam, Ou rushed the so wild many themselves upon

and piled animals, the engine in prostrate of ruin. Both mountain

5,

the

engine,

BROOK.

;

Monday, South of New

Bank

of

escaping

washed-out

DRAKE'S

so

after

to

shock and seemed to in the

three

crossing, piercing to

sprang the tallow Here

miles the

through tue

storm.

ana

siieu,

little old candle. take this

above,

caugnt lantern with IPs

!

all

I

'

grade

CO.

Perth.

Streets,

Free

irresistibly

gradual

Esq., Ohenhall.

the accident train-hands that it

rain

recovered from and ian forward

M.L.A.

Hooley, S. J.

Perth.

25, 000 at Easter

run

5,

8 Royal

forward down the the river valley. when nearly (Suddenly, opposite old farm-house on the slope, the locomotive with a the plunged, crash and the penetrating horrible it

25,000 at

Cup,

OPTICIANS

was

'behind.

of

.

a

T.

CHARLES).

[?]

going

behind time, certain junction of the way of

caboose, minutes

belongs

Merchants,

PRIZE

Reference,

was

reach

through n

It

over

come

BY

SPECIAL TO

above

The

APPOINTMENT

HIS will

business

in

future

The

stock and

Harness,

be

carried

on

under

&

SMITH

ROBERT

the

and

style

title

of

CO. L15,000 HALFworth THE or

aud is reduced, fully being materially Sundries will be offered at EXACTLY Saddlers'

PRICES.-

. ...

Mr.

rely conducted can

For

on

still Smith will being served, on

occupy as of and lines

improved

price

lists,

see

daily

a

prominent

position

in detail. old, every at reduced prices.

in

The

,,

the

he gasped.

!"

of the spluttering in the conduc at hands But tor's trembling was feeble flame last the little lit, hat beside the his aud, holding it from the lantern's side to shield down the conductor draft, sprang

Oh, the blue-ilauied

GOVERNOR.

THE

EXCELLENCY

find

can

new

repair

USUAL

firm,

so

customers

department

will

long

match

!

Saddler,

-

f.li

to

train

Surplus

'Canning

Handicap,

Sydney

a like wild reckless valley boy from school. who has run away That there was a night very

freight

all

;

26th, 5,000 at 5. Park, December Canning CuiD, Broken Jan. 10,000 at 5, run 2nd, Silver Hill, City Handicap, Perth Cup, 25,000 at 5, run 3rd January, 1899. 26th 1899. 10,000 at 5, run January, Anniversary Handicap,

in after night October, week of heavy rain, there was a tremendous freshet in the of the little river. The hills valley once to all at seemed empty all reservoirs into the brooks their down their sides. The that leaped

extra

Plan

&

Barrack-st., run

a

became and the brooks, swelled and every to'creeks, water-course bade defiance to its down the banks, and went rioting

any

T E E S ALL'S

T AT

CLARKE

rivulets brooks

of

and

Strength

Mutual

SAWMILLS,

MONSTER

the

One

heavy

STEAM

no

themselves.

nearly

OF

farm

old farm-house had been standing for so there that it many years to seemed have as almost grown and as venerable the hills grey

the

on

King

(C/o-j.

other house for solemn hills great, across the at each valley " as much as to What is say, this little that has upstart thing itself between us ? Shall planted we not send down a or a torrent and it ?" landslip, away sweep But and the little they did not, miles, looked other

and

107

was

of

that

Bonuses.

Timber

Wellington

up iu farm-house in far from a brawling railroad that woun(d the hills. It through

a

conducted

than

larger

»

cars crushed into eight each other before the train and in the black darkness or

stopped, and pouring terror of the the paralyze

It

old

an

Test

Future

£10,508,995

M'DOWELL Jarrah

in

ring

Best

of

is

Society

JOSEPH

lan

tin

a

the

or

IS97.) -

valuation

;

G. H.

hung high

It

not

river,

in

is

-

BRANCH: PERTH Chairman Edward Esq., F.R.G-.S, M.L.A., Johnston, Manager. Special Representative,

Forrest,

For good in the world. was it but a round nothing tin box full of holes, with a punched

U.J

Surplus

of

freight Seven

31st,

(December

standard

every

more

any

.

on

States. Surplus

Guarantee

wonder it had passed, be able to do

day

liabilities the world.

in

POSITION

£49,349,231

-

office

it.

old-fashioned

was.

that would

it

easy

life

know,

you

comes so

is

funny

a

thought aad

because,

-

Surplus other

however despair, or feeble he is, of doing in the world. This is the of my story, and I put it at no

United

FINANCIAL

Assets Let humble

the

of

A

down and

'

STORY

.

THE

fireman were pinned cab by the tender cars followed. which

be

the

slope

It

was

toward a

the

terrible

railroad.

minute.

Al-

papers.

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