THE ENCOURAGING WORD.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 120, 19 September 1885, Page 7

THE ENCOURAGING WORD.

Wliile trembling in the flush of youth, Upon the threshold of our fame — Just starting out t mid hope and fears, To gain a Btanding and a nttne — How good to have a cheery word, And feel the earnest loyal clasp Of some strong hand that tikes our own Within its true and gentle grasp t Cheejgd on, how small the dangers, seem, The poßsibilites how great, Though clouds may sometimes hide the nun Aud we may have to watch and wait ; And, somehow, if along tho way Kind words shine out like beacon lights, Though '• few and fur between " they be, How glad thej- make the days and t * nights. The skies take on a deeper blue, Reflected in the streams and rills, And greener seems the emerald sod That mantles all the vales and hillsGrand, steadfast hills, that nobly stand As monumeuts of power and might, So like this changeless friend, who speaks The needful «vord that rules aright. And as this friend hath been to us So may we to some other be, And grudge not kindly words and acts To voyagers on life's stormy sea. A word to cheer, a timely lift, A look, a smile, a helping h&ad. Muy bless full many a doubting soul Between this and the better hand.

Thk richest stake over competed for on the ourf, a prize of £10,000 % mile and a quarter, weight for age, is announced to bt ••un for in July, 1886, at Sandown Park. The date is distant, but that is part of the scheme, for the directors propose that foaU ;hall be entered, and they may be scratched it different times on payment of increasing forfeits The entries are to close an December 11, and if struck out by the first Tuealay in February next year, the animal can )e freed by the owner paying £10. If left m till the date fixed for the race, the fee.<will amount to £110, and a little investigation will show that the offer of the £10,000, with £500 for the second, and freedom from payment for the third, does not constitute so generous an offer as at first sight appears. There are to be 300 entries, or the race will be void. Thus if the 300 entries are made, and only half the possible liability of £110, that is t'ss, is paid by each competitor, the receipts would bo £16,500, which would leave a very comfortable balance for the Sandown Park Company. This is overestimating the probable receipts ; but reducing them stiU more, and supposing that a considerable proportion of owners .strike out their entries in the course of 1884, which they can do for 30 guineas, the margin remaining is large. Practically, as it has been pointed out, the Company bet owners £10,000 to £110 against their aniI mals, providing them, however, with a i means of escape which was not at the disposal of speculators who made "yearling books" and laid owners 100 to 1 to £100 igainst their Derby nomination. Never theless, a • 10,000 prize is given and cuu U won at a risk of £110.—" standard." i.>i. (...uiw.u^ii^ octuw luive bei iacted on the Liverpool Landing-sta^ id many remarkable instances have Of •irred of runaways being caught there b\ •. vigilance of the Liverpool police. On< thtjfao strange captures occurred on tin a^eone Wednesday in September. Onthe officers who has for a long peril >t •ne duty on the stage id Police- constabk ». 54G ( Wiggans), an old member of tin y force. While watching the departure r America Wiggana noticed two youths, evident respectibilty, strutting about >c stage, flourishing heavily - mounted lcka, and whose extraordinary bulky aparancc about the waist attracted the en officer's attention. He put a feu legtiona to them, from which he a*oer«:ned that they had come from Lancaster, . al that io was their intension to proceed o America. There was something sus>icioua about the youths, and Wiggans ook them into the river police station on be stage. He there searched them, and ound tliat each youth was wearing a '• bushraan's belt," to which was suspended a six-chambered revolver (loaded) and a formidable bowie knife* The officer ascertained thai the youths had been reading romantic stories of life in the backwoods, <«eh as are depicted by Fennimore Cooper jn the "Last of the Mohicans," and Cap* ,am Mayne Jleid in his description of adventures on the prairies. The youths, who ifeVg - about 18 years of age, and qjimed Jewitt and Wilson, were respectably and belonged to Lancaster, One , j| them Kaii. taken twenty-six sovereigns |elp|jging to his j father.; They Had run wj»y potA^ home/ oomeito Liverpool, and j|^qhased^an- ] ittcl udiiW^the: rhtolf t {ff^iihaaii Mtion/aTid bovridfkriivesi :*siii{able? %-tpl •wfilctilife df,ad venture ;that;tfiey;h'ad^ ;|^\|y.cd.for^fche^aselllQB.^ I They^Ka^t^kesV iiwklerablef>urnvfS|

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