Show TO RULER the death of sir henry parkes ex jepter of new south bouth wales which on OB sunday april 26 removes aft a notable figure in aus AUB hUl hurdlin dlin ni history story sod and one whose career carder rAtes what may be my foot aho vho from boyhood die pity itlay tte nerver nerve and ad emerey to make victors victora lo in the battle ol of life sir menry henry parkes was the lather istler of the laws law for free schools and popular suffrage in new south and as much euch will be hold held in honorable remembrance in the history of the colony of which he had bad been five clam tl premier and with whose public affairs he be had been identified for half a century henry parkes was born in warwick shire england eighty one years year ago at the age of twenty seven he began his bi career in now new south wales in the ranks of life prom from a common laborer at about fifty cents cento a day he be advanced to a newspaper newa paper publisher a legislator and to the high est eat political position in the colony it was wa stated of him I 1 in a the sydney ney herald a short time since that fifty three years ago be landed a friendless and almost PO penniless ODilOn immigrant in what was then the more mere hamlet of sydney he began ble bis colonial career aa a farm laborer at 30 a year with one and a halt hair rations consisting mainly or rice he was in turn an ironmonger s assistant a laborer in a foundry a he never made a speech on a public ques quei tion ion till no ne was over thirty yo years a re of age but by dint of pluck industry audacity native wit a rare faculty of absorbing knowledge and an almost napoleonic belief in himself and his hie star sir henry parkes at 80 years of age aee after having helped to makel make history bi atory is able to sit alt down and write it and his ni book arrests the attention or the empire this was waa with reference to hla his memoirs the herald continues continue this ex farm laborer who nev never er went through a university and has never made a fortune for himself is here depicted as chatting on art to the prince of wales discussing free trade with richard cobden Im wapping poems with tennyson and sharing oatcakes oat cakes and views on literature with carlyle all this surely is an object lesson in the sort eon ot of career which pluck wit and industry open to every one in the colonies and might well furnish a now new and shining illustration to some future dr smiles for some now new volume on sell self help or men mea who have risen all young men may not have the opportunity to rise to such political distinction even it if possessed of ability equal to that of mr parties parkes and it ought might not be advisable for them to do BO 90 but there to is room in other depart cuentas of life as well and every young man who will bend bead his energies to the work with intelligent methodical determination may make tor for himself a place among yale hla follows fellows auleb will bring as touch much satisfaction in his declining days daja for or good and noble work K as did the success of the rugged stat stateman ebman whose body is laid to rest refit this week in mother earth |