HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-2-4, Page 7'clioors LUNCHEONS,
letetbers, did you ever stop to think
that during the echool torn yoer
boys and girls who attend soltool
regularly oat nearly one-fourth of
their meals M the forin of cold
lunches? And do you not readily See
how nutritioue, easily digested foods,
or thon possessing the reverse quali-
ties, may keep the stitclious little folk
healthy and happy, or sow the seeds
of indigestion and a long list of con-
sequent ills?
There aro three points to keep in
viesv in the preparation of the school
lunch—a quantity that will satisfy
the growing child's appepite, to servo
it in the most tempting form, and
to provide such combinations as :than
be thoroughly wholesome. The mod-
ern lunch box of pasteboard or other
unweelmble material, while appealing
to the eye beca-ase of its neatness, is
certainly no real improvement .0VOr
an old-time basket, or better still a
bright tin peel or box. Food placed
in a tin receptaele will keep sweet
and fresh, it may be closed securely
against duse, and after the contents
have been eaten the tin nia,y be eas-
ily cle,ansed, ready for the next time.
Surely a metal lunch -box is more
sanitary than one of paper or wood.
When the 'student opens the box to
find the contents daintily wrapped, in
a white napkin, the inviting appear-
ance of the whole helps to sharpen
the appetite. But those accustomed
to the eating of cold lunches XDOW
what care is necessary in the matter
of that napkin; a clean one is need-
ed almost daily to keep the lunch and
itS ap,pointments sweet and. clean.
xperience has shown me that para-
. in paper is preferable to linen as a
wrapper, and it is less troublesome,
too, for it may be renewed as often
as is desirable, without any of the
work of laundering.
• In packing the lunch any pie, cakes
or other articles disposed to be soft
or sticky should be inclosed in separ-
ate papers.
And what shall the children eat at
school'? Modern cookery has revolu-
tionized the school lunch, as well as
eothef methods of dining, and the bal-
anced ration is as easy to provide for
school children as for the animals at
the barn. There are cheese and nut
and fish and meat and fruit sand-
iviches, and recipes for their correct
formulation without number. With
thoahaady little meat and vegetable
choppers in many of our homes there
are various potted meats or vegetab-
les, to be easily prepared in pala-
table and convenient form for the
- lunch box. The always popular hard-
boiled eggs are now "deviled" or
"staffed," but they go just the same.
Recently we saw, a boy's grandmoth-
er prepare one by splitting it length-
wise, spreading the two pieces with
salt and popper, and pinning together
with a clean wooden toothpick.
Then we have in our stores at rea-
sonable-- cost the •many appetizing
kinds of biscuits and crackers, and
for dessert there may be made a
great variety of dainty and whole-
some custards in crust or cups, or
puddings which may be -nicely packed
in little cups.
Many of these luuch dishes, as the
cookenother knows, are DO real •,rou-
ble in the preparation, as they are
sot aside from the daily faintly cook-
ing, or else made from leftovers after
the meals. And so, by the exercise
of a little loving thought, the
school boys -.rend girls can be so
wisely and well provided with dinner
that the mother will never, never
hear them say, "I wish 1 could be
home for dinner to -day."
MEANING OF MENU NAMES.
The modern cook book has many
eahases quite unfamiliar to our grand-
mothers, and likewise recipes given
in current reagaiines have sauces,
dressiegs and relishes with unpro-
nounceable names that seem so for-
eign we are alit to deny ourselves
many delectable dishes through ig-
torance of their meaning, while tho.
hotel menu, or bill of fare, dismays
the timid soul who has no idea that
frappe is a delight to the palate
when one is weary. The following
list, while not complete, may help in-
experienced housekeepers to a better
acquaintance with many appetizing
dainties:
Au Bleu, a French term applied to
fish boiled in flavored white wine.
Au Gras, dressed with meat gravy.
Au Jus, in the natural juice or
gravy.
A bouquet of herbs is aarsley,
Collepta slicee of noised Melt fried
in tomato saw* er in better,
Consomme, strong, deer meat soup.
Croquettes, a base of cooked meat
or vegeteble, mixed with egg, batter
and seasoning, sheped and dredged
with egg aid bread crumbs, and fried
one minute in boiling fat..
Crouetacies, fried forms of bread
to serve Minced meat or eggs ort, •
Croutons, stale bread in. 'one-half
inch cubes, broivaed in a slow oven,
for uso in soup. -
Entree, a side dish served with the
first course,
GOOD RECIPES,
Escalloped Oyster—Roll crackers
and drain oysters as usual, but stir
the entire mixture moistened with
egg and stalk in a dila being careful
not to break the oyster. This may
be turned into a chafing disk' and
cooked until the oysters curl, er it
May- be fried in small cakes • oi a
soa,pstene griddle, like pancakes. Al-
ways -an plenty of butter with scal-
loped oysters.
Butter Scotch.—One pound bf gran-
ulated sugar, 1 teacup water. Stir
until dissolved; when It becomes a
dark straw color remove froni the
fire- and stir M 2 tablespoons of the
very best of \nutter just softened a
little. Set back over the fire a few
eninutes, flavor with lemon juice or
the extract, pour out into a butter-
ed 'dish and when cool cut into
squares.
Snuffed Apples.—Select sour apples
as nearly of a size as possible, in
order to bake evenly. Remove the
cores carefully and enough of the ap-
ple to make a little "cup," in which
place a filling of seasoned bread
crumbs and chopped meat. A. wal-
nut meat -or two may be added.
Lemon Mince Pie.—Take six large
lemons; grate the rinds, then squeeze
the juice into a larges bowl. To this
add two pounds each of seeded rais-
ins, currants, sugar and chopped ap-
ples. Add the grated lemon peel
and one and a half pounds of beef
suet chopped fine, with four ounces
of citron, or of citron and candied
orange and lemon peel mixed. Mix
thoroughly, our over it a glass of
rich fruit juice or syrup—the recipe
originally =Red fbr wine or other
liquor, which many prefer not to
use. The filling is then ready for
use bur is better to stand and mellow
for a few days.
• USEFUL HINTS.
If -boiling water is poured over po-
tatoes and they are left in the Wa-
ter 15 minutes they will bake in
about half the time.
Potatoes will bake nicely on. the
fop of the stove if covered with an
iron basin. 'If there is. a very hot
fire, place underneath an asbestos
mat. Turn the potatoes occasional-
ly.
Place a dish of unslacked linie
the cellar where the winter vegetab-
les are stored. It will absorb the
moisture given- off by, thevegetables,
brought indoors from . the garden,
and will prevent the unpleasant odor
arising from warmth and moisture,
Vegetables may be covered with dry
dirt and linie sprinkled over the top.
Leave the kettle uncovered after
you drop the biscuit dough into the
liquor for a potpie and they will not
be heavy. This antagonizes the old-
time custom of keeping the pot close-
ly covered, but try it and be con-
vinced.
Paint the brass fixtures of a hang-
ing lamp which have become tarnished
end unsightly, with white enamel.
They can then be made to take on a
'beautiful gilding.'
In winter, delicate 'fabrics are liable
to tear or ceack from stinening too
rapidly in a freezing atmosphere. To
prevent this, make a weak brine of
the last rinsing water by adding
three or four handfuls of salt.
A broken feather may be reaaired
by fastening fine bonnet wire under-
neath, using -silk the color of the
plemorewith ,a long buttonhole stitch.
WILD MAN OF MOUNTAING.
Great Discovery on Franco -Span
ish Frontier.
The dinovery of a troglodyte in
the Basque Provinces, near Fuenterr-
abia, on the Franco -Spanish fron-
tier., has arosed considerable curios-
ity. ' As a Customs guard, with his
dogs, was searching in a wood re-
cently., an extraordinary being in
the imege of a man was seen to rush
before him with a wonderful rapidity
and disappear into a hole in a moun-
tain. The guard followed, and found
the wild man had bleoked up the
entrance to his cave with pieces of
timber and -stones, wince; however,
were easily removed, and the man
was captured. He was absolutely
prehistoric in a.ppectrance, His Only
garment was , a ekin tied round the
hips.' His long and matted beard
thyme and green onions tied togeth- 'fell over bis chest like a cloak, while
er. his hair trailed down his back in a.
Bain-amrie is either a bath of wine,
spices and vinegar gEnglish term), or
a French double boiler for keeping
sauces hot.
Becharnel, a sauce to serve hot with
xneats, made of butter (or drippings),
flour, white neck and herbs.
Bisque, a clear soup, made of shell-
fish.
131a,zer, a dish under which is a
receptacle for coalto keep it hot.
Bouillon, the common, delicate,
• clear soup of 'Prance, ,
BordeleiSe, a, satin similar to Be -
clime', with the addition of half it
glass of claret.
• Braised Meat is meat stewed in a
closely covered pan with bacon herbs
or Oleos.
Cafe a lait, ne-Italf black coffee
and one-half hot milk.
Cafe Noir, black doffed, usually
drunk clear at the Close of a meal.
Canapes are stripe of stale bread
friee end spread with seasoned fish
or Meat 'Mete, .0
Casserole it a baking dieh, thouglt
sorrietitnes a form of potatoee �r rine
surrotincline a Meat, or oyet,er etcw
is ternied a eassetole.
Chartreuse, wineli, has a conering
and breVened in the oven,
thick mass. In 'bus cave were found
numerous bones of sheep, 'deer, and
other animals which he had eaten, a
sling, a club, and a stone axe. A
bed of moss was his only furniture,
• The guard brought his troglodyte
to Fuenterrabia, eviler° his apPeare
duce created a sensation. Before the
magistrate he explained that his
name was Prudencis; he was 28
years eld, and had been when an in -
fan) .6,1-1, inmate of a, fondling hospital
.nan Sebastian. He had formerly,
acted ea farm hand, but two yeare
ago, beitig unable to find work, and
being in great 'distress, he took to
the forest. There he lived on acerns,
hazelnuts and birds' eggs. Little by
little be learned to ,use a !ding and
the an, and *as able t� kill 'deer
and sheep winch had strayed. As he
had ho fire he ate tkte flesh of these
animals raw.
'And do you really beife me,
George?';'" shq naked. 'Love reel"
repeated Oeeerge, feevently.
'While t Was bidding you gdod-bye
Met Sunday night, dear, the dog bit
a large chunk out of ity leg, mid It
none noticed it Mail I, got home.
tovo youlq
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IT 13 A . CITY OFROSES II t ore 0 dre', Plehtiful, fuel, free
ITA $11101ce or dirt of every 'ki
trite underneath, On all important
GRAZIPUR, IND1A, NOTED EQU pncasiens, when any reeponsiele work
rrs GARrIENS, ihansassumtOe sh egai ns, ehlenntrdeumionnsitair emtiovoe
ae if there I o presenn to be Oro-
pitiated. Roses end religion, in fact
flowers of all kinds, have a aeceneref
relation to the Made mind, and he
hesitated te tread son—Men, °Yen
to touch with his foot—a bright,
blooming flower, as if it had a life
and a eniesioal Puny 1,000 rows
are eranunecl and crushed into the
boiling. pot he an almost saerificial
spirit, while we all silently stead
around, and the heavy 114, is pressed
clown and pasted_ round thickly and
firmly, It seems nice a menu° ef
the innocents, but the fragrant steam
soon makes its way through the coin-
plicatea tubes of tbe Otill into an-
other 'huge pot frinnersed in cold wa-
ter, All day the distillation goes
on; the next day another thousand
roses are put in the already distieled
water; the day after another thous-
and again. After this third distinct-.
tion is concluded, the real Ghazipur
rose water is bottled and sent to the
market. If, instead of the rose Wa-
ter, attar, the essential oil of roses,
has to be extracted, the tbriceedis-
tilled water is exposed over night
in shallow, wide -faced basins, and by
the morning the cream, in a Yore'
thin crust, floats on tne surface. At
the very break of day it is gathered
carefully with a soft downy feather
and the scanty, golden semi -fluid is
stored in a crystal phial. It is a
ghastly sight at the clon of day to
lookeet the colorless lump cast out
of the boiling pot—thatis the only
remnant of the thousands of bright,
beautiful roses crushed into it. But
their beauty, sweetness, life and use
are now che,rigad into new, higher,
and more ethereal forms for larger
and better use. Sacrifice, hard, hot,
cruel sacrifice, is the only process by
which mortal virtue can ever be per-
petuated in immortal life.
HIGH COLLARS : HEADACHE.
Moreover, They are Bad for One's
Bewildering Nass of Cialer--7eatie
vaters of the Poorest ,
'Within 500 miles of the reeld,,, and.
steamy moisture of Calcutta there are
historical and picturesque spots en
both banks of the Ganges, fine, dry
toWaships and meaclowlands Ma of
the wealth of old. associations, Ohazi-
pur is just MIA a township. It is
450 miles to the northwest of the
metropoliee high on the riverside,
built hero and there on heaps of
brick -red ruins, some of the old walls
and structures still remaining intace.
It is a Mohaunnedan town mostly,
the name Ghazipur signifying the city
of the martyrs. An ielamite fanatic
and martyr is a Ghazi, who still
flourishes in tho frontier provinces of
the northwest, rushing oecasionally
into British territories to kill or to
be killed, which means the same
thing to him, and to be translated
into paradise immediately by an bre
mediate downrush *of ferishtas (ang-
els) both mele and female. The
Ghazi is a very shaggy and fierce in-
dividual, with hair beard mustache
full length, dressed and turbaned,
carrying no other weapon but a
eharp.knife, which never fails of its
deadly purpose. He is not tobe
net with at Ghazipur now, or, in-
deed, in any settled British province',
but he is atilt extant and held in
great reverence by every faithful fol-
lower of the Prophet. When the
0 -had founded Ghazipur no one can
tell.
The town is sparsely populated,
having large fields .and pastures,
large mosques,in every stage of de-
cay, big :teas half dry and gardens
ancient and mediaeval, ,growing wild,
but still inclosed in crumbling walls.
In the interspaces of the extensive
meadows dividing groups of popula-
tion they cultivate roses and one or
two other flowers, the roses always
predominating. No less than 1,000
acres are under rose cultivatilm, yield-
ing 'daily about 1.00,000 roses per
acre. The cultivators are almost all
of them Hindus, men, women, boys,
girls, who . stir very early in the
morning, before the first gleam of
sunshine has dried a drop, of dew on
the petals of the flowers.
CULTIVATORS OF POOR CLASS.
The flowers are not large, nothing
like the traditional rose of Sharon,
or the product of the gardener's hot-
house; they being to the species
known as the Rosa Da.mascona; but
the scent Is so sharpas to be almost
intoxicating, and penetrates the at-
mosphere, noteto speak of the house
or the place of manufacture. It is
quite a scene to find your way into
one of the plcurtations in twilight in
the genial months of March or April.
The roses never bloom_ before or af-
ter those Spring months. The loud,
piercing notes of the papia„ the bird
of. the Spring, are in' the air, besides
other minor choir; the morning breeze
creeps up from the west; the swaying
, shouts greet your nes froni all sides
and as you are in the middle of the
fields heaps of crisp, fresh roses are
bef'ore you in baskets, in swelling
waistcloths, or still unplucked on the
dark bushes around; the color and
perfume almost bewilder you. Re-
member, no Amnion beings under
civilized government are so crushed
with poverty as the Indian cultiva-
tor, especially in the western and
northwestern provinces. Millions of
them never have a full meal in the
day, and whenever drought occurs
and famine '‘breaks out they are the
first victi.ms, dying by thousands.
Nearly 150 years of British rule have
not improved their lot. And these
nen cultivators of Ghazipur bel.ong
to that unfortunate class. But the
first and most significant thing you
find on entering the plantation of
anmorning is the wonderful good hu-
mor and remarkable courtesy of tho
people. There is no glooni of the
foulest on their fame, there is no
evil -snorting squa,lor of pauperism
about thorn. Pleasure and enthusi-
asm mark their movements. Is it
the adaptation that ie natural be-
tween trade and temperament, or is
it tbevery genuis of the Hindus of
all classes? Why should the civiliza-
tion of free and, wealthy races teach
us wants which :then do not care to
supply, aud which ive, hard workers
as we are. cannot find the means to
remove? Leave us alone with our
hmnble cheerfulness, that is enough.
These cultivators strive to explain
every. detail of their work in their
simple, rude patois, ane make liberal
presents of their rosebuds. ' The
plants stand in long rows in a light,
loamy soil; they are not manured,
but kept scrupulously clean and plen-
tifully watered from the open wells
that lie in their midst., ,Practically
the harvest time is the two Spring
months. If the wind steadily blows
from the West, the flower unfolds its
petals slowly 'and _economically, and
yields the right amount of attar (es-
sential oil). But if the east wind
nati,kes its unwelconie vent, the flow-
ers open prematurely in large manes,
nor is the yield of attar up to. tbe
mark.. The cultivator'has little trou-
ble with the plants which would
stand on the ground for years' he
,
has only to keep out the weeds, and
purstp out the water.
MANUFACTURE OF PERFUMES.
My host, one of the first men at
Ghatipur, was a manufacturer of
rose tater and attar. I, was some-
timee invited to witnees the process-
es. The dietillation, like theegather-
ing in the fielde, Must commence very
early hi the morning, before the mn
is ib the sec, bad when everything ie
ft Pureness and eocilnesta The lady
of the hoase really presides over the
operation the gentle:nip only minor.
si,vtitee, :wilt% hgastmtenntath:4874 leheteril:
oot titi a 10W to befell tleiletPleulnOe
boiling pot, which is Om rod tip to
the neolt wfti e. 044 # #t
eleanA finely ground eartlit Ike
Nerves, This llitan Says.
"You ina,y not know it, old fellow,
but there is t very intimate connec-
tion between the high collar and the
headache," said an observant man;
"and I have proved my faith in tbe
statement by refusing to wear col -
tarp of the high sort. It is a bad
business, my boy. High collars
choke up the veins and arteries and
interfere to s.onie extent with the
circulation of the blood in the neck
and head. Do not understand me
to be knocking any particular brand
of high collars. So far as the ap-
pearance of ,.the.high collar is con-
cerned, I cOnfese that I like it.
Ii my own case it has been a
great blessing i,n at least one way,
for 'felows with long necks, you
kno'w, do not look ao well when you
harness tbem up in low collars. My
neck is bong, long as a crane's, and
the high coalar has kept me from
leaving too much of it exposed.
Why, I've get s,o much neck that
whin I first began to wear low col-
lars I was ahnost ashamed to ven-
ture out into the street. I felt like
wa,s but half dressed, and the feel-
ing Was not so far wrong at that,
for the losv collar does leave a good
part of my anatomy open and above
board; as it were. But this fact
does not bother me now. 1 simple
'don't care at all. Exposed neck is
a whole lot better than headaches,
and you know, old choppy, I was
speaking of headaches just now,
Thai's what I wanted to tell you
about. The high collar 'does some-
thing more than interfere with one's
circulation. It swatches and irri-
tates the skin, keeps one's chin at
an unreasona,ble, uncomfortable and
unnatural 'eagle, and causes one to
acquire a nervous frigidity sort of
'When you meet Your friend who
Is in the habit of wearing a high
collar pay particular attention' to
the way he moves and 'holds his
head. It isn't at all natural. It
is all due to the high collar. Mark
you, there' are high collars, and, high
collars. Some of them approach
rationalism in neck dress. Others
are about as far from it as it is 'pies-
sible- to get without engulfing the
whole head. But,of course, every
fellow,- to his own liking in these
matters. 1 wear low collare because.
they are comfortable, and because I
-believe the high collar is a producer
of headaches, and a, bad thing for
one's nerves generally.
SCHOOLS TO TEACH CRIME,
New
Secret Society Discovered in
Italy.
As an instance of the way secret
societies like the Mafia, 'are organiz-
ed in Southern Italy it is worth
reporting that the Italian police
have arrested 71 persons, all mem-
bers of a secret organization called
the "Malavita,," in the City, of Fog-
gia.
It was discovered that the society
was organieed to commit all salts of
crimes, from highway robbery to
kidnapping. Two schools were
found, one to teach the wase to use
the knife and tho other for pick-
pockets, An admiseion fee 02 11 few
francs was charged, and the mem-
bers were 'divined into tbree elasSes,
and promoted from one to ihe other
by a sent of supreme cottet, with
headquarters at Barletta.
The dietbictive uniforms of the
members consisted of a red scarf to
be worn as a belt and a lohg curl
hanging down the forehead, or a
green scare for those Of a lower dee
gree in the society, If any ono of
the meMbers wee arrested other
inembers volunteered to give perjur-
ed, testimony ID hie behall„ evhile
few rn,ore took change of the witnessa
'es for the prneecution, whom they
seared by threats int() refuSihg to
tastily. A apticial recruiting 'depart-
ment Was alfio a feature of the so-
eitetY.
To meet, ereeene it Bean Of Oblige -
teen 111 JO l4gottable. Dowere
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HORSES 4311110 FEATSPt in afen:
hounele. A boree !tarried °elver -
GREAT; imar 001KANCES 11 thorn° Is Said to have. jernPed. 89,
Tax LAST 100 ygAits, feet at Whiesendene, but ,there does
not appear to be any trustworthy
L rnbertai GreatLeat—Chandler's recerd of the leap. At the close of
ea___ ee, 1887 Mr. Muute, It iunePed into
eilep es or, PeCIF chasm 40 feet deep, and one of
beaten, the "leading cansr • • en this style al
rrom uma immemorial great juniPleg' is the felliees ehsik pit
teativenture of leateet St, John, who
xnegoinrgses, tantds whhailee hnexaennyPer70°0711,444 in 1783 unintentionally jurneed bite
the majority are genuine. Snus
latte7lnkeiephietr 2115or4e7no7intoUni snir lelantS7107-
:,111: uroll:enielia•bleelatIss4, aroend whieli Yet ieeet and Jest a twelyeenentb
open to queseion,
02 Down Hants, aty a great good
Jater
the oft mentioned leap ef Black Bess
hovers a breath ot rontentitism, is tbe same pale won a aeatoes, race,
the horse being entered it the name
rerhuerptite.lersrsh:tieneadroofisthe outlaw Diek
seed to h aye 311-0111-1bi "Bewarellotf az'af 1.1.10sinPit." ecOetie 0
the n3,t•a,f
cleared_ e Hornsey toll gate on the
eut9kirt's of London with TurPin °a John's e'7'qt)ili°ettinsacripultio%luing°1.hvting
obveerntbaecylce.r llappened it alostiniesupcolestslirbt,aeini! telebic.tttieeleearoliorjsa:Lisatasted,
now to 'determine, but long buried uader-
Tureen /sassed aiyiey tbe Ilorusen 11°,21'
acertain extent history eepeat_
toll gate was pointed out. It was en itself 114 years later, in march,
0 feet 10 inches high, and on the 1847. when :Barton wallop, limiting
top bar was a cheveaux de frisei but
with. the Harsley hounds, jumped a
however 'daring this jump, there are
newlsr made stake -and -barred fence
dozens of a much later date and un -
and landed in a, Pit, the bottom of
questionable which cast Black Bees's
which was fifteen feet below the top
completely- in the shade. Hunting
counties produce great junipers, of the fence. A young gentleman of
, One of the most historic horn LEsirlerftshil° earned a niche in the
y
leaps known to the Old Wg„iieyof . notables bjumpiag
orld is
the battleraent of Egremont Drid0fene
"Lambere's Leap," which took place
near Whitehaven and dropping twera
in /759, near New -castle -on -Tyne.
Cuthbert Lamberts mare took ty feet into about one feet of water,
with no worse coneequence than a
fright, and, on reaching a bridge the
sprained ankle. Another mark while
parapet of which was 8' feet Man,
hunting. in the year 1790 dropped
jumped u'pon a.nel off it, clearing a
thirty feet Into an old shaft, The
barn below and covering a distance
horse was killed, but -the rider es -
of a6 feet, the actual height of the
drop being 36 feet. The bough of a caped c'.a*
tree broke the fall; but though the wrracrur A s RATrzt.
rider was unhurt the mare died, and
Foreigners often *ender that Irish
the shock was so great that all the
horses are such adept junipers.. The
joints of her back were dislocated. reason is plain. In the olden Jinxes
To connnemorate this exploie
In Ireland a country stallion " was
"Lambert's Leap" was carved on prized not for his good looks, make,
one of the coping stones tho conforruation or breeding, but for
bridge. Curiously enough thie•
the manner in which he could acquit
stone was knocked away in 1767 by
himself over a, country. At the old
another horse, ridden by a man name spring country fairs in Ireland it
jetclimpNeidchoovlseoef Newcastle, which'
over 11
was no unusual sight sixty. or seven-
__ ty years ago to see a string of about
THE PRECISE SPOT. twenty stallions' all ridden by their
a owners or owners' sons, careerists
More' curious still, there was
aboue madly and taking sensational
third leap the same spot in 1771,
jumps.
the rider being the servant of Sir For it was well known that
John Hussey Delaval.
As already he that got through the most sensa-
mentioned, Lambert escaped unhurt,
tional performance was sure to cora-
while in Nicholson's case etee seaa mand the largest share of patronage
it was that died," and both Sir from the onlookers, and hundreds et
John's horse and rider were killed. intending breeders used to at -
There is a substatiated record . of tend such fairs for the purpose of
-
a horse having jumped a wall six judging for themselves as to the
feet high and one foot wide M the
merits of the representative cantle -
neighborhood of Paisley. The late dates for stud honors.
„Oen. Wallace once made a. bet with The fair in the County Waterford,
Cunningham of Craigends that a
he on May 1, was a great place for
horse belonging to one of the officers snowing stallions, and several. not -
of the regiment would jump six feajumps were made. A groaet. e:hie
many years ago a. horse named Sky -
The bet was accepted, the horse was
owned by a Mr. Predergast.
named, and ,he won the mone3r easily lark,
for the General. The trial took place and ridden by Mergin, a groom.
jumped into the pound over a wall
over a well bounding a cottage gar-
b, 6 feet 1 inch and jumped out of it
den, and before the horae could
again. At the fair of Glynn, hale in
pulled up he cleared another wall
the southern limits of Tipperary,
le- feet high. Alongside of these re -
stallion's jumping was greatly
cords it seems nothing out of the this
in vogue. On one occasion great .
way to learn that on Now Year's
competition was being carried . on,
Day. 1877, wnen the Duke of Beau -
and two brothers of the name of
fort's hounds met at Colcat Barn
ei Walsh from Kilkenny, with their
Major Bayley-, riding a pone-,
etallions, were in it. Fielding thee'
bands high, cleared a wall 5 feet 6
inches in heightThe merit of ±o could not best their oppenenes, one
.
of the Walshes laid flat on the top
leap is, however. enhanced when it
is remembered that it took place of a live -bar gate while the other
jumped the stallion over him. Lord
with hounds and that the pony was
Waterford, father of the present Lord
not brought fresh. out at the stable.
Charles Beresford, rode a horn over
A still better jump with hounds is
a
that taken by one •Peekins, wilip of six-foot wall after a long run with
the East Sussex hounds in 1823. Af-
the hounds.
ter a good run the fox made for But a jump of real daring was
performed in 1870 by John Ryan,
Lord Chichester's seat, Stammer
oldest brother of the Ryan of S'car-
Park, near Brighton and scrambled
over the wall with the pack at his leen, on his mare Steal -a -Way. The
deer and hounds had got into Crok-
brush. Perkins was in a, good place
the er's domain Ballinagande, around
and evidently carried a,way
et whites there was a stone wall
excitement of the moment rode
and cleared a wall
TEN FEET HIGH.
SEVEN FEET HIGH.
These leaps are not given as any-
thing approaching to an exhaustive
list of high jumps, but are merely
selecte'cl because they, are authentica-
ted.
One of the best performa.nces over
water is unquestionably that of Al-
exander Campbell of Menzies in
jumping the River Team. In 1856
Baker's hounds were running in the
neighborhood of Granborough, when
the Learn came in the way. Camp-
bell had no idea he was so near the
river, and even evaen he saw it had
but a poor idea of its width. How-
eeer, seeing that at last then Was
something to jump he held a eight
rein on his gray horse Deceiver and
jammed him at the river. The horse
just cleared the water, which, on be-
ing ineattre'd, proven to be 27 feet
7 inches. "Campbell's leap," as it
is now called, naturally caueed some
commotion and eventually a Mr.
Gibson backed five of his horses for
£50, to jump the Learn at the place
crossed by Campbell. The horses,
however, were entered to be sold at
Tattersalls, so the snatch wee aut.&
oonditional on their not being sold
One was disposed of and the wager
wan nodded with four horses.
The test came off. in May 1856,
Mr, Martin of Reglisabecking the
water. The horses were ridden by
a 126 -pound man. Ile terse tried a
narrower part of the river and all
got over with a scramble. Over
"Campbell's Leap" the :first horse, a
gray, felt on landing and thus- lost
the first £50; the others jumped in-
to tbe water mid Campbell's feat re-
mained unbea,ten, Three claya later
a dinner and a silver cup were given
to Campbell in honor of the One,-
SiOn, ,
'While huntieg with the Queen's
hounds about eighty years ago Lord
Villers cleared twenty-seven fbdt over
canal. But in poiut of distance
all these performances ere cast in
the shade by Chaadier's famous
jump et Warwiek in 1847, It is
stated that, the diseetice eleared. Was
39 feet, but ellen is nine inetinainer
IN vA.vort Or87 FEET.
The uncertainty entre; to Ileac
arisen from' two distitacee mentioaect
in Bell's Life of Wet itself the &S-
tance is given on 87 feet, but in a
paragraph in another part of the
paPer it was stated to be 80 feet,
Wililain;Arehen 'father of the jookey,
'Fred .Archer, save 'the junta, how -
over, and in later yefies testified 112
2tty,t4r of the lateen distance.
Leta Ingestre's horse tather 01100
All the horsemen started to go
around to the metre/ice gate, but no
such misportsmareike tactics for
Ryan. He had a man who was
carting cruel -len stones pull his wage
on within a few feet of the wall.
Then Wellies the mare around he
slapped her on the neck and , drove
her at it. Knowing what *as ex-
pected of her; Steal -a --Way, with the
agility of a fawn, hopped tip on the
box of etones and withanother
bound went over the. wall.
A younger brother of the same
famila,. named 'Clement, rade a huat-
er over an iron spiked gate 6 feet
6 inches high in a run with , the
Tipperary bounds in 1882. At thee
Charleville race in 1875 a chaser
named Sailor, owned by Capt. Stani-
ar Gubbins, brother of John Gub-
bats, owner of Ard Patrick, cleared
38 :feet over the water jump with
170 pounds on his beak. This horse
rale fifth in the Grand National of
1874, with 175 poinine up.
A horse named Cigar, owned by
Allen McDonough, jumped 29 feet he
a steeplechase in Englaud. W. Mee
Boaough, a -brother of the 00410 Mita
rode a horse called Perfection 'over
six walls; 6 feet high foe a big wage
er. George Low, owner of the
mighty Banal -thee, had a grey hierse
eaneed. • Jack Sorlue that jumped a
6 -foot wall at the Dublin horse show
of 1878, and repeated the perfor-
mance at Waterford. Jae* 8aring
was truly - a Wonderful hose, but
about the neose unmanageable brute
that ever was- reshing
devil that no one walla ride, and
y9t 1:13 conid jump 0 feet from a
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