The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-22


| ing OF his hoof and his enthusiasm for the bat
tie What Rosa Bonheur did for the cattle. and
what Landseer did for the dog, job with mightier
| pencil, does for the horse. Eighty eight times
does the Bible speak of him. He comes into
every kingly procession, and into every great oc-
casion, and into every triumph. 1t is very
| evident that Job, and David. and Isaiah, and
Ezekiel, and jeremiah and John were fond of the
morse. lie comes in muchcf their imagery. A
| red horse-that meant war black horse
| tnat meant famine. A pale horse--that meant
death A white horse-that meant victory.
| food Mordecai mounts him while Haman holds
| the OIL The churchs advance, in the Bible. is
| compared to company of horses of Pharaoh's
| chariot jeremiah cries out: GLOW canst thou
contend with horsesl' Isaiah says: .sThe horses
hoofs shall be counted as flint Miriam claps
her cymbals and sings; The horse and the
| rider hath He thrown into tho sea- St John.
describing Christ as coming forth from conquest
to conquest, represents him as seated OH white
horse. In the parade of heaven tho Bible makes
| US hear the clicking of hoofs on the golden pave
| ment as it says: The armies which were in heav-
en- followed Him on white horses" AS the Bible
makes favorite of the horse-the patriarch and
the prophet and the evangelist and the apostle
stroking his sleek hide and bathing his rounded
neck, and tenderly lifting his exqnisitely formed
hoof and listening with thrill. to the champ of his
blt-so all great natures in al ages have spoken
| OF him In encomiastic terms. Virgil IN his
"Georgics, almost seems to plagiarize from the
| description of Job. The Duke of Wellington
| his old war horse Copenhagen, on whom he had
| ridden fifteen hours without dsmounting at Wa
terloo and when old Copenhagen died his mas
ter order military salute fired his grave.
! John Howard showed that he did notexhaust all
his sympathes in plying the human race for
| when sick he writes home HAS my
old chaise horse become sick or
| spoedFn There is hardly any passage of
tation over the death of the war charger Marche
| gay. Walter Scott has so much admiration for
| this diviney honored creature of God that in
| 'St Romans Weln he orders the girth slackened
| and the blanket thrown the smoking
| tanks Edmund Burke, walking in the park at
| Beaconsfeld, musing over the past, throws his
| arms around the WORKOUT horse of his dead son
Richard, and weeps upon the horses neck, the
| horse seeming to sympathize in the memories.
Rowland Hill, the great English preacher, was
caricatured because in his family prayers he
duplicated for the recovery of sick horse, but
when the horse got well, contrary to all prophe-
cies of the farriers the prayer did not seem
quite so much of an absurdity
NO PIETY IN DRIVING SLOW HORSES
Those farms in Kentucky aud in different parts
of the North where the horse is trained to per-
lection in feetness, and in beauty and in M a1es-
ty, are we'll set apart There is no more virtue
in driving slow than in driving fast, any
more than freight train going ten miles the
hour is better than an express train going fifty.
There is delusion abroad in the world that
thing must be necessarily good and Chris
tian if it is slow, and dull. and plodding There
are very good people who seem to imagine it is
humbly piouS to drive a spawned CALLED, CLAN
dered spring halted blind staggered Jade.
There is not much virtue in a Rosinante as
there is in Bucephalus. At the way some peo-
pie drive, Elijah, with his horses of fire. would
have taken three weeks to get into heaven.
We want swifter horses and swifter men, and
swifter enterprises, and the church Of God needs
to get off its jog trot. Quick tempests, quick
lightnings, quick streams; why not quick horsess
But we do not think that the beauty or speed
of the horse should be cultured at the expense Of
human degradation. Horse races in olden times
were under the ban of Christian people, and in
our day the same institution has come up under
fictitious names And it is called summer
meeting" almost suggestive of positive religious
exercises. And it is called agricultural
fair" suggestive of everything that is improving
| in the art of farming. But under these deceptive
| titles are the same cheating, and the same bet
| ting and the same drunkenness and the same
| vagabondage, and the same denominations that
were to be found under the old horse racing sys-
| tem never knew man yet who conld give
| himself to the pleasure of the turf for long
| reach of time and not be battered in morals.
| They hook up their spanking team and put on
their sporting-cap, and light their cigar, and
| dash down the road to perdition. The great
day at Saratoga and Long Branch, and Cape
May, and nearly all the other watering places is
the day of races The hotels are thgonged, every
kind of equpage is taken up at an almost fabu-
| lsus price, and there are many respectable people
minging with jockies, and gamblers, and hier-
tines, and foul-mouthed men and iashy
women The bartender strs up the brandy
| smash. The bets run high. The greenhorns
| supposing all is fair, put in their money, soon
enough to lose it. Three weeks before the race
takes place the struggle is decided, and the men
in the secret know on which steed to bet their
| money. The two men on the horses riding
| around long before arranged who shall beat.
Leaning from the stand or from the carriage are
| men and women so absorbed in the struggle Of
| bone, and muscle, and mettle that they make a
| grand harvest for the pckpockets who carry off
| the pocket-books and portmonnaics. Men look
| ing see only two horses with two riders flying
| around the ring, but there is many man on
| that stand whose honor and domestic happiness
and fortune-white name, white foot, white
| dank,-are in the ring racing with inebriety, and
| with fraud, and with profanity, and with ruin
black neck, black foot, black flank. Neck and
neck they 60 in that moral EPSON. White
| horses of honor; black horses of ruin Death
says: 81 will bet the black horse" The
white horse Of honor little way ahead.
The black horse of ruin, Satan mounted all the
time gaining on him. Spectator breathless
Put on the lash. Dig in the spurs There!
They are past the stand. Sure. Just as I ex-
pected it. The black horse of ruin has won the
race, and all the galleries of darkness 'huzzah!
wagers. All, my friends, have nothing to
do with horse racing dissapations this
summer Long ago the English government
| got through looking to the turf for the Dragon
and light cavalry horses. They found the turf
depreciates the stock and it is yet worse for
men. Thomas Hughes, the member of Parlia-
ment, and the author known ali the world over,
| hearing that a new turf enterprise was being
| started in this country, wrote letter, in which
he said Heaven help you then, for of all the
cankers of our old civilization, there is nothing
in this country approaching in unblushng mean
ness, in rascality holding its head high, to this
| belauded institution of the British turf" An
| other famous sportsman writes: "How ma ny
| fine domains have been shared among THESE
hosts of repacous sharks during the last 2Q0
| years; and unless 1.-The system be altered how
many more are doomed to fall into the sameN
| gulf!' The Duke of Hamilton, through his
horse racing proclivites. in three years got