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I.
Awhile I left my glorious books,
And tramped about the shining hills—-
There listened to the mountain rills
Phat bubbled to the lowland br ooks,
From out their quiet. leafy nooks,
In quips and trills.
ll.
l‘he West wind kissed a sweet wild rose
That trembled in the summer sun;
"But one,” it gayly mocked. “but one.“
i braved the tangled bush with blows.
l fought a host of thorny fees,
The mocker won. 1.
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But plucked I grieved the rose was mine.
For it would die Within an ';hour
A nested thrush would miss the flower:
Maybe, its little heart would pine,
[ts beauty did no longer shine
Above her bower.
IV. ‘
l hastened to my Love, my Sweet,
And placed the wild rose in her breast:
My lips by other lips were prest,
My soul another soul did meet
My sadness perished in its heat;
Love's thanks were best.
—-Blackman’s Magazine.
CAPTURING THE CUP;
Rats!” said Bertie Wraggles flippant
ly, in reply .to my serious argument;
“the mare has plenty of pace, she is a
magnificent jumper, and can stay for
ever. If you don’t enter her for our
hunt cup you don't deserve the noble
name of a sports'inan.”
“Now, what’s the good,” I asked with
becoming 11 ritation, “of running a half
bred hunter against thoroughbred
steeplechase horses? Mine is a good,
honest mare in her class; she does not
know how to make a mistake and is
fast enough for hounds, but racing is a
different thing, my boy, and when I go
to the post I want something better
than a thousand to three chance.’
“Oh, yes I” replied Bertie derisively.
“you want toaquare the others before
you start, and back yours in town with
the S. P. merchants. Four runners.
two not trying and the third taken care
of, so that you may bet in peace and
comfort. That’s about your form.
What you like is to back certainties and
be paid in advance.”
Of course, having arrived at a re
spectable age, I could afford to ignore
these silly jibes. Indeed there was
nothing else to be done. It was no use
arguing with a man like Bertie
Wraggles.
Toward the end of the season our
hunt races were ‘duly organized, and a
valuable cup was given for horses be-
longing to subscribers which had been
regularly hunted with the North Blank-
shire.
At that time I had'in my possession a
bay mare that I had purchased for a
comparatively small sum from a local
farmer. Although she had never given
me the idea that she was speedy, she
was a clever junipei and rarely made a
mistake.‘
She was a bit 'short of breed but
such a leaperl She only gave me a fall
once, and that was meie my famt than
hers. We were getting toward the tail
end of a good run, and I was idiot
enough, in the wild enthusiasm, of com-
parative youth, to ride her, beaten as
she was, out of a heavy plough at a
hedge on a high bank that was not to
be played with. Of course she could
not get up, “kneed” the unyielding
verdure of the cop, and had a pretty ,
game with me in the next field. ' They
do seem to lie on your chest so long and
heavily when they are heat to the
world, as the saying is, and are a bit
short of breed.
Now, I never liked to race half-Z1 reed
ones, and when' in the course of our dis—
cussion on the forthcoming hunt race:
Bertie Wraggles endeavored to pur-
suade me to enter my mare for the
North Blankshire Lightweight Cup
there was on my part no effective re
sponse. It did not seem good enough
I. don’t mind being beaten, but I’c
rather not. It is no use winning in these
days unless one can bet, and though at
various stages of my career I have been
subject (with my contemporaries) to
seasons of mental disturbance, I have
never been quite demented enough to
back half-bred hunters to beat race-
horses. '
“Come, give your luck a chance for
once,” said Bertie, resuming the argu'-
ment with increased ferocity. “Never
mind betting; try and capture the cup.
Think more of the honor and glory.
less of the filthy lucre. Your mare has
a good outside chance despite the blood
uns, and she’ll be galloping on when
many of them have collapsed.”
“Oh, have it your own way 1” I said
at last, with some degree of asperity; I
hate dogged pertinacity either in friend
or creditor. “But in trying to make
my poor gee into a racehorse I shall
probably spoil a. good hunter, and then
you will be among the first to call me
names. Still, I’ll enter her, and what
ever the result, on your head be the
burden and the shame.
And so it came about that I entered
my bay mare Patricia; pedigree un
known, as a competitor for the Light-
weight Cup, about three miles and a
half over a fair hunting country, to be
ridden by those who “had never ridden
. for hire.’
The fateful entry having been made,
I resolved to start Patricia for the Cup,
and to train her on what I believed to
be intelligent principles of my own.
The chief problem that occupied my
mind was how to get her fit without
- getting her stale and dried up. Ac-
co dingly I, gave her plenty of long.
slow work, with a sharp five-furlong
gallop once or twice a week. She was
out two hours and a half every mm 11-
ing, and had another hour’s quiet walk-
ing. exercise before being done up at
night. She thins trained on. not off, and
when the eventful day arrived she was
fit to run for a man’s modest invest-
ment. “Matthew Dawson at his best,"
was the comment of one authority, re-
ferring to me, as the mare was stripped
for the fray.
There were eight or nine runners for
the cup, but I feared nothing seriously
except two thoroughbred horses which
had been duly qualified. These, ‘
\
was much appreciated by the, crowd.
. Old Bones.
‘one running in the same race.
-1lead settled. Old Bones was still on the
premises, galloping by my side just,
said Migson to me as we jumped into
,
thought, would beat me for speed. One
of them was favorite—a big bay horse
called Old Bones, belonging to Charles
Migson, who rode him, and who in-
formed me, in the paddock, that he
could fall twice and win it. Not to be
outdone in chivalry, I replied. that he
would probably fall down, but certain-
ly would not win it, and as Charlie
cannot ride for toifee the shaft went
home. He once rode in a race of this
kind, chiefly on .the horse’s ears, after.
the first jump had been consummated
in twice. Hence my genial sarcasm
After I had weighed out to, ride my
mare» (freely backed by those who knew
something, at sixes), Bertie Wraggles'
took me one side and said in a subdued
voice: “This is really and truly all
your own, a good thing for you. Lis.
ten and learn. You can beat ’em all
fair and square except Old Bones (the
other blood’ un makes a noise and don’t
stay), and I can tell you how to beat
He does not care to jump
without a lead, so when you and he are
left to fight‘it out let him go in front,
when it’s odds on his refusing. Know
.ng this, Charlie will try and wait with
him, but when the others are settled
be sure you let him wait in front."
My worthy friend also informed me
that he should have a pony on Pa-
tricia, and desired me to have fifty on
But I was firm in my determination
not to back a hunter againsta race
horse, for when I get an idea of this
sort into my head. believing conscien-
tiously that I know more than. all the
rest of the world, not even dynamite or-
destitution can remove it.
When we were going to the post I
meditated on the advice given by Ber-
tie, and recognized that under favora
hle conditions it might be practicable.
If we could only settle the others two
or three fields from home it would be
possible for me to pull back and see
whether without a lead Old Bones
would refuse. I resolved to Sadopt the
tactics indicated.
At fiagfall some of the more youthful
jockeys went oif at a tremendous pace
as if they were going five furlongs on
the flat, and I had difficulty in steady
ing Patricia, for the mare 'was a rare
handful when excited by company.
Still, without pulling her about, I‘ was E
able to keep her in the place I desired.
knowing the others would come back
to 11s. Old Bones was a beautiful horse ‘
to 1ide, not pulling an ounce. U He
kept striding along at my quarters l
with his head in his chest, as though
he could go on all day, and he skimmed
over the fences with ease. The pict
are was a beautiful .One to a sports
man, but not perhaps when he has
After the first couple of miles the
journey became eventful. A horse fell
here and there; a man ,or two slipped ',
off from. exhaustion and other causes.
Knowing my mare was sure to stay the
whole distance, I began to. send but
along, and although about half a mile
from home most of the competitors were
as freely and comfortably as when he
stai ted.
‘ You are going really well, old chap,"
the lastbit of ploug and had the race to
ourselves, “but of course you know you
have no earthly chance; I have never
yet asked my horse a question. and
when I do, he’ll leave your cocktail as
though she was standing still.”
“Well, ask him the question now,” I
replied, hoping to get him riding, “and
see how I shall go with you.”
"Not until we. have jumped the‘last
fence. my pippin,” said Charlie, wink-
mg .11 me in a manner which I consider-
:«d 1211151 olfensive, since I dislike famili-
drily umler any circumstances, and es-
pumally when I look like losing.
There was no doubt, too, that C harlie
was right; his horse, as I anticipated,
was much the speedier, and if it came to
:acin g on the flat was sure to beat
mine. So not wishing to, give him a
lead ary longer, I pulled back and he
{manlplily did the same. He would not
go to the front while there was anything
to he jumped. My position thus be-
;ame an embarrassing one; victory
~carcely seemed within my grasp. But
11 is at such crises, as students of human
nature are aware, that men of unscru—
I mean of a great—mind rise equal to
the emergency, and adopt effective
measvues impossible to weaker mor
.1115 of this wo1ld. .
[11 the hour of need my spirits rose.
and at the last fence Ihad recourse to e
stratugem conspicuous alike for it:
boldness. and simplicity. My mare wan
exceedingly handy. and I could do any-
thing with her. As we approached the
final obstacle I deliberately ran her out
and Old Bones 1o.lowed me! In 11 fev
stridesl stopped her 'and turned he
round. popping over the fence almost a!
11 stand while the favorite, [a big, lurch “
lug animal. could not be turned so eas-
ily, and lost a lot of ground. Indeed
nefnre he could be got over the fence, 1
nad obtained a lead of five or six
1e11gths. and was making the best of my
way home. It was ,a grand race up the -
straight! I could feel that Old Bone:
was catching me, and was horribly
afraid that he would do so before Pat-
ricia could push her nose past the post.
'l-‘irst I saw his head at my girths, then
level with the mare’s neck. and I gave
her e severe "one-two" to assist her
progress. She contested every inch ol
the ground with the utmost gameness.
and ran in as straight as an arrow.
l‘hat was what won us the race, for Old
Bones could neve1 quite get up. and was
beaten by a shoit head —Holly Leaves
Lack of Steadiuess.
Mrs. Wickwire sat up and shook
oer sleeping husband’s shoulder vigor-
ously.
“What IS it?” he mumbled. ..
“I want you to shore either in bass,
soprano, alto or tenor, and confide youi
self to one tone. You keep switéhing
from one to the other so rapidly that I
can: sleep. ”—Tid- Bits.
- l'or.
1 by being left open to dry; thexsilk be-
. sooner split thus cared for.
Business 'andQMarriage.—|
In the occupations which _,women
have invaded in the largest numbers,
those of teachers, salesmen, book-
keepers, stenographers, typewriters,
etc., the ratio of increase has been
about the same with the two sexes.
Taking allthe. gainful occupations, al-
though'the ratio of increase for wom-
en is 47.88 per cent, and formen only
27.64 per cent, the women were in 1890
but 17 per cent. of the total as against
15 per cent. in 1880. It is a-fair con«
clusionthat while many more women
earned their own livings in 1890 than
in 1880, they had over the whole field
to a very slight extent only displaced
the men. The change in the proportion
of .women who now earn an income,
and presumably a living, is the im-,
portant point. About one in three of
the total population are engaged in
gainful occupation, and only about one
in twenty of the female population.
The proportion to females of marriage-
able age is, of course, much larger, and
it is this percentage that produces the
effect noted as to the necessity of mar-
riage to women as anneans of support.
What the effect is upon society it is not
now proposed to discuss, but the facts
show that it is becoming clearly easier
for the average women to earn her live-
lihood without marriage in the United
States—if she so choose—The Forum.
Care of Umbrellas.
After coming out of the rain let the .
umbrella down and stand it on the
handle, that it may dry in this position;
the water will thus drip from the edges
of the frame, and the cover dry unis
formly. W'hen placed with the handle
upward, as is' frequently done,,, the
water runs to the top of the umbrella,
and the moisture is there“ retained in
the lining underneath the ring for some
length of time, causing the silk or fab-
ric with which the frame is covered to
become tender and soon rot. Ordina-
rily, the top of an umbrella .wears out
sooner than the other part of it, and in
most cases may be thus accounted
A silk umbrella is much injured
comes snatched and stilf, and would
When not
in use let the folds lie loose, and not
fastened down; the creases are less
:.)’1t to split from this usage. Dispense
11 ith an umbrella case, except in trav-
eli ng, as piotection £10m dust and cin-
dcrs.
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD-
It is said if camphor gum is put in
the drawers in which silver is kept
that .is but seldom'use'd that the cam-
phor will prevent'the silver from be
coming tarnished.
Put a piece of horseradish root into»
each jar of pickles. The vinegar will
retain its strength longer and the
pickles will be less likely to become
soft and mould.
It is positively ascrted that to drink
a half pint of hot milk or hot water will
have the effect of producting sleep in
eight cases out of ten.
In making green-apple sauce, pit a
few dates, cut them into quarters, and
add them to the sauce just before re-
moving from the fire. They will be a
great improvement to the sauce.
If a clean cloth wrung out of water to
which half a teaspoonful of ammonia
has been added is used to wipe off a
carpet which has been recently swept,
it will remove the dusty look and
brighten the colors.
Do not throw away old preserve jars
which have lost their covers or whose
edges have been broken so that the
covers will not fit tightly. They are
excellent for holding pickles. When
.filled tie a piece or cotton cloth over the
top ,to keep out insects, and put the
jars away in the storerobm closet.
To keep a jacket in good shape it
should be kept on a hanger when not
in use. If it is hung by a loop at the
back of the neck, it will soon give the,
garment a dragged appearance. It
loops are used they should be. at the
armhole and the two ends of the loops
fastened together, not having a two-
inch space, as is a common custom.
Then hang the jacket upon two hooks.
Following is an excellent substitute
for cream to eat on fresh fruits: Beat-
together the whites of two eggs, 3 level
teaspoonful of sugar, a piece of butter
the size of a hickory nut, and one tea-
spoonful of corn starch. Stir in" half
a cup of cold milk and beat very hard.
Put one cup of milk over the fire, and
when it boils pull the dish to a cooler
part of the range and’mour in the egg
mixture. Let it simmer until the milk
thickens a little. When cold, strain
through a sieve.
If an unexpected lunch box has to be-
prepaxcd and them is no 11 out avail-
able for sandwiches, take the yolk of'a
hard-boiled egg and mash it smobtn
with a tablespoonful of melted butter;
add half a tablespoonful each of salt.
White pepper, and mustard, and one
quarter of a pound of common cheese
grated. Then stir in a scant tubu-
spoonful of vinegar, and spread [:11
tween thin slices of bread. Suci
sandwiches will be hailed with delig'm.
If you have not a cool storeroox:
Where any amount of butter can 12-.
kept su'ect and firm, c‘bver the butl’e-
with brine. First make theE butter int.
rolls and wrap them in pieces of 111115
lin. Make :1 brine of six quarts 0‘.
water; using so much salt that an eg:
will float in it. Add. two tablespobn.
fuls of granulated-sugar and half 1' .
tablespoonful of saltpetre. Haw m
brine come to a boil, and when it i>_
cold strain it over. the butter.
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brine should more than cover it. A
weight can be put over the 10115 t 3
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