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The
STORY.
Life
Equitable
Assurance
Society
and their
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in
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LANTERN. (FROM THE
"ANGELUS.")
good
one
moral the beginning wnen
tiie
of
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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
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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
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the
signal
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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).
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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
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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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