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a devoted Parrish was Catholic, her had instilled into sons mind, the days of his earliest infancy, all the truths and precepts of her holy a he was still While child, religion. heed to he paid a reverent her teach the bread but when his father ings was killed winner of the little family and he by a cave-in of the Avondale,
M rs.
STEEL
ALL
Dawn.
—
Sacred
the
Messenger
of
This
Heart.)
Machine
Daniel
Parrish and
Born
the
in
mouth,
was.
in
a
man, unlettered.
of
town
mining
of
Implement
kind
its
the
on
the
want
Best
RICHD.
Ply
coal of great region in the Wyoming Pennsyl Valley, he had -passed the greater vania, part of his life under ground. the.
us,
but
of age his years had to as a father work put him sorter in thebreakers Of the big at fourteen Avondale he had colliery ; to drive into a descended the tunnels he became a doormule; at sixteen tender at eighteen a miner's labour at
;
ten
with
a
twenty
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assistant
an
and
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WILLIAM
COOMBE,
& Co.. PivKTH.
KELT,
&
WOOD,
CO.,
LIMITED,
TIMBER
&
IRON JOINERY
STEAM
at
CEDAR, DOOR
LORD
MERCHANTS, WORKS.
Branches:
FREMANTLE BALTIC
KAURI,
taciturn,
and
he
under them
for
men
revile his
all
lu
an
spoke
rarely
faults
experienced, who could slackness in
ingly as
and unless to curse or carelessness their work. For, with an of temper, he was conscientious miner, not tolerate the least his those placed under
W.
some
a
man
unpopular
A.
should with his
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sympathy
but
was
ployed
him.
As
to
sullen
disposition
Black
Dan,"
his
him
"
associates him
a
appropriate they called and always with
name
inflection of the voice, threatening a resent which indicated smouldering ment that might at any time break a
out
into
a
280,
J.
etc.
etc.,
TO.
ATTENDED
ALL'S
CHARLES).
Reference,
PRIZE
Bank
of New
South
:
Wales.
for
OPTICIANS
KNAPP,
he
tragedy
and, as..he year, he became more
was
grew and
of a fatalist. in direct Living that with nature, and observing the of those around him misfortunes chastise from some generally sprang he ascribed ment of Mother Earth, that befell him to a blind, everything was inexorable It in vain destiny. endeav that his mother sorrowing un to him out of this oured argue happy mental condition. more
touch
If there is a loving God, as you " he would claim, mother," say, why me did He allow to be put to work ? before I had any schooling Why did He allow to be my poor father suffer so killed and you to many As these trials? have hap things that there God. is no pened, it is plain the world, and God an Fate rules is invention of the priests." then And he would to conversation another though it hurt him to see
change
the
topic;
for,
his
darkness, not bring
over
mother
his
spiritual he could
thing
one
in his
to will bend to her. Yet, turned that he a notwithstanding ear to her Mrs. deaf entreaties, the hope of Parrish did not abandon her son he back to the truth leading that in him scorned. She realised existed for good or great possibilites and to God evil, prayed earnestly the that the former in might prevail In the meanwhile he continued end. and morose to grow more more and the towards miners under his savage to until submission his authority, will became no pos arbitrary longer
a
was
Saturday
and
night,
to belonging were assembled gang tavern of a miner's in the sitting-room in Plymouth, their discussing griev
of
several " Black
"
the Dan's
men
"
this time, Jim," " too far saying, to be with. We're up entirely put not slaves to bq beaten by such a brute as " Black Dan."
SPECTACLEMAKERS,
AND
gone too was them
far
..
on cottage and every of Plymouth, hour he could spare from his arduous the was mine devoted duties in who kept mother house to the gentle her In his brow for him. society and his countenance put on cleared, his silence a cheerful expression, melted and he became positively gar to entertain rulous in his endeavours human the one She was her. being he loved, the the world whom in all he lived and worked one whom for even in relationship with her, he yet, subdue the dark not could wholly
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one
little
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Perth.
Arcade,
,
"Beaten?"
a
in dressed,' built miner
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nature.
much
so
ances.
you
of his
un
gentle,
stubborn
LIST
Free
"
neat
the time
It
the have realised good there was in the heart of " Black Dan Parrish, have to his must paid avisit
a
a
Ire
Providence
with
creature
his sixteenth man's estate,
this
flame.
in
a
against such
Wilful and passionate by this state of mind produced nature, in him a dogged sullenness of temper, the years rolled as which, by, ..gradu became chronic. ally
grieve
Perth.
Barrack-st.,
the dark side of So much regarding nature. now a few man's And its side. To words concerning bright
perversity
SIZES
Perth.
the
He lived the outskirts
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be exceed
who had taskmaster, with their grievances, devoted body and soul to the who em of the capitalists
no
interests
PROMPTLY
MONSTER
They regarded
natural.
rebel could Visit
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IN
Specialty.
TATTERS (C/o
tyrannous
a
a
,
habitual 1 to the
;
such
but
was
SHELVING,
IRON
ARCHITRAVES,
Telephone
and
authority. That
FLOORING-,
GALVANISED
him, in
negligence
wore
DEALS,
ORDERS
.
frown,
KALGOOELIE.
Timber
COUNTRY
gloomy
prevailing
and
MATCHBOARD, MOULDINGS, SKIRTINGS,
Building
BERTH.
STREET,
SASHES,
have been this continuous may vvith association darkness and the nether a .world which such gave His tinge to his character. morose
the
all suffering privation,
and
want
'
Office:
It
was
to
At
Head
a Thus he twenty-five mining boss. of his had spent most working hours in the bowels of the earth, and had seen of the sunlight. but little
mood his brow
began
in
miner,
full-fledged of his own,
of
complaining
;
er
mother
misery that
write
.
When
his
saw
affliction.
rough
and
surly
BEST
—
Market.
You rough
be the
to
PROVE
.
in
Bitter, the
;
CAN
Agents for John weather &
Merry
Danks Sons',
—
man
a'
ad
stoutlywith
a of middle age, of grey in his hair. "Surely lie hasn't dared to strike any of the men, has he ?"
Perth.
Street, &
FITTINGS
the
sprinkling
BBS,
BRASS
IRONMONGERY,
replied amazement
PLUMBERS
knocked Indeed he has. He Bob McGibney this afternoon a pillar in the while he was robbing south tunnel of No. 6 gallery. Bob was his his stick without shooting "
down GALVANISED STEEL
TUBES
GIRDERS
(All
&
FITTINGS, Sizes),
Melbeurne; & Son, Ltd., London, Fire Brigade Appliances.
Alston's
Windmill.
Telephone
358.
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