Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-06-19
WHEEIING w. VA MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 49, 1882.

much cannot be done. His anatomy ano
/ aptitndes need to be studied. am glat
| that books have been written pointing ou
| his utes, his best management, his capaci
| ties and the cure of his ailments. Il would
4 be u shame in an age of the world wher
botany is turning the thin. wild flower int
| gorgeous Lose, and pomology rs transform
| ing the curled and gnaried fruit Of. the
| ancients into the very poetry OF grape. and
| pear, and plumb, and apple and peach, and
| the snarling cur of the Orient Is becoming
( the great niastiff, and the runt OF the barn
| yard is becoming the A,derney, and the
| Devonshire and the short-horned Dur
ham. that at such time the horse
| which is grander than all, should
GET no advantages of higher civilization and
| Christianity. Groomed to the last point Of
| soft brilliance and his flowing name q
billow of beauty and his neck arched in ut
most rythm of curve let him be harnessed
with graceful trsppings and driven on and
up 10 the furtherest goal OF excellence and
then fed from luxuriant oats bin and
blanketed in most comfortable stall So
faithful and long enduring servant of the
human race deserves all kindness, all care,
allreward. all succulent forage and safe
litter and paradisaical pasture field. Those
large farms in Kentucky and here and
there in the North entirely devoted to the
raising of the horse in his perfection or
| fullness of strength are we'll. There is
No More Virtue
in driving slow than in driving fast any
more than freight train that runs ten
miles an hour Is better than an express
train that runs fifty.
By sort of delusion many have sup.
posed that anything that is good and
Christian in proportion as tits slow and
dull. They seem TO think that there is
something piously humble in spawned,
CALLED, glandered, sprung.halted, blind
staggered jade They prefer Rosinante
to a Bucephalus. AT the rate at which
many drive it would have taken Elijah
behind his flying steeds three weeks TO get
into heaven. We want sWifter horses,
swifter men, swifter enterprise. The church
of God needs to get of this "jog trot-"
Quick lightnings, quick clouds,
Quick tempests, quick streams. Why
not quick horses. In time of war the
cavalry service generally makes the most
execution. AS it is possible that not all
the battles of the world are yet passed,
our Chris tian patriotism must be interest
ed in eauinal velocity. We could as well
afford to have in our arsenals poorer guns,
and in our navy yards .clumsier vessels
than other nations, as to have in our sad
dies, and before our parks of artillery
slower horses. bNeT SlnCt, dt Tue IlNSIS,
down to the horses which
Philip Sheridan and stenewall Jack.
rode into battle, this arm of military SER
vice has been recognized. Haimlcar and
Hannibal and Gustavus Adolphus and
Marshal Ney were cavalrymen. With this
arm of the service Charles Martel at
Poictiers beat back the Arab invasion,
at Carmac, the Carthageman cayaly, with
loss of 600, scattered the Romans with loss
of 10000, and the Spanish cavalry con.
quered the Moorish hordes. The
way to keep peace is to be ready for
war, and an indispensable part
with such equipment is plenty OF light
looted chargers, So you see our patriotism,
as well as justice to the horse, demands his
complete development OF strength and
speed.
But what shall say Of the effort now be-
ing made on large scale to make him
The Instrument OfEvil:
make no indiscriminate assault upon the
turf am in favor Of the turf il it be con.
Quoted on right principles and with no bet
ting. There can be no more harm i'll offer
ing a prize for the swiftest racer than there
is harm In giving to the farmer prize at
the agricultural fair for.the best wheat or
TO the fruit grower prize for the largest
pear or to the machinist prize for the best
cOm-thresher or in the school volume OF
Shakespeare TO the best reader, or in the
household lump OF sugar to the best be-
haved youngster. Rewards by all means.
They are Gods way of developing man.
There are rewards for all well-doiRg. Why
not rewards for strongest and graceful or
swifteSt animals when only in that way
can the full beauty of power and value OF
the horse be called out. One thousand dol.
lars is not too much, nor $1,000, nor $1,000
for such results. But the
Evil Begins When Betting Begins.
This is gambling or the attempt to get that
for which you give no equivalent, and
gambling whether on small scale or large
scale ought to be denounced OF all good peo-
pie as it will be accursed of God. Whether
YOU made S., 900 by betting or fifty cents,
better get rid of the money. Hunt up
somebody who lost that amount and give 1t
to him, and if that be impossible make a
present of it to some great reformatory in
stitution, or if you do not want to do that,
some day pitch it into the East river. Get
rid of that wager some way for it will at
some unexpected time burn hole in your
| pocket or your estate, aud knowing what is
| the matter you will lose ten times that,
perhaps all, Gods eternal justice is sworn
| that no man who shall permanently make
| the ten thOusandth part Of farthing by
gambling, whether at faro bank or billiard
| saloon or horse race.
Gambling always blasts either the man or
| his children, and generally both. There is
| now in this region
Great Horse. Betting Craze.
! There is great danger that our beautiful
most beautiful watering place on the con-
tinent, and Gods benediction to Brooklyn
| and New York, into a pandemoIfum oi
gamblers and scoundrels. There are ten
thousand young men who have already
| taken long stride on the down grade
through the Brighton Beach and Sleeps
head Bay race courses There are many
stores in these cities where monies have
been subtracted from the employers in
order to buy pool tickets. Last summer
there were on Barclay street, New York
three pool shops open, where lads could get
| tickets on the race courses for twenty and
twenty-five cents, and the crowd OF boys
around there was so great that the police
stood there to clear the way for those who
wanted to purchase. Hear it, all We good
citizens. the police defending the pools fol
betting. / am told that there is now such
pool open on Willoughby street, Brook
lyn. Hunters Point is headquarters fol
|
Gle, when at Saratoga and Long Branch
and Sheepshead Bay, and Brighton Beach
the horses start, and in flash $4,000 OF
100000 change hands and many are ruined
by their losses, and others worse ruined by
success.
| it's q Misfortune
to lose, but it is calamity to gain. He
who loses may De discouraged and quit
! but he who gains is apt to 60 right on 70
hell. There are three modes OF betting and
il is hard to tell which is the worst, by
auction pools" by French mutuals, v
and by book making" There ought to be
one word written on the brow of every
pool seller as he sits deducting his or
per cent. and slyly running up tickets on
his own account on the winning horses
and on the brow of every book-maker as
the owner of the horses, by extra induce
ment has his horses scratched from the
race, and on the brow of every jockey who
slackens the speed according to agreement
that another may win. and upon the judges
i 4 - he md AiF1e