The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-07-01

the same runkennes5 and the same yaga-
bondage and the same denominations that
were to be found under the old horse-rac-
ing system. Inever knew man yet who
could give himself to the pleasures 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 take the
reins and dash down the road to topeldition.
The great day at Saratoga and Long
Branch and Cape May and nearly all the
other watering places is the day of the
races. The hotels are thronged; nearly
every kind of equipage is taken up at an
almost fabulous price; and there are many
respectable people mingling with jockeys
and gamblers and libertines and foul
mouthed mon and flashy women. The barr
tender stirs up the brandy -smashs The
bets run high, The greenhorns, supposing
all is fair, put In their money! soon
enough to lose il. Three weeks before the
race takes place the struggle is decided,
and the men In the secret kng.w on which
steed to bet their money. TIE two men on
the horses riding aroptld long before ar
ranged who should beat. Leaning from
the stand or the carriage are men and
women SO absorbed in the struggle of bone
and muscle and .@ettle that they make
grand harvest 1or the piokpockets, who
carry Off the p6cket- books and portmon-
naies Men locking on see only two horses
with two riders flying around the ring;
but there isfmany a man on that stand
whose hon& and domestic happiness and
fortune-white name, white foot, white
fiank--are in the ring, racing with ine-
briefly, and with fraud, and with profanity,
and with ruin-black neck, black foot,
blac'; flank. Neck and neck. they go in
that moral EPSON. White horse Of honor;
black horse Of ruin. Death says: &c viii
| bet on the black horse.v Spectator says:
az will bet on the white horse.D The
white horse Of honor a little way ahead.
TIE black horse of ruin, Satan mounted all
the time, gaining on him. Spectator breath
less. Put on the lash. Dig in the spurs.
Therel They are past the stand. Sure.
Just as expected 1t. The black horse Of
ruin has won the race and all the galleries
of darkness cry "Huzzal huzzaiD and
the devils come In to pick up their
wagers An, nv friends. have nothing to
do with horse.racine designations this
summer. Long ago the English Govern
mont got through looking to the turf for
the DRAGON and light cavalry horse. They
found the turf deprecates the stock; and
~ Is yet worse for men, Thomas Hughes
tne member oil Parliament, and the author
known all tne world over, nearing that
new turf enterprise was being started In
this country, wrote letter, In which he
said; "heaven help you, then; Tor oil oil
hppe cankers OF our old civiiisation there II
notning In TINS country approaching In
unblushing meanness, In rascality holding
It's head high, to this beiauded institution
Oh the BRUSH turt" Another famous
sportsman writes: show many hne DO
mains have been shared among these
hosts OF rapacious sharks during the las
two hundred yearsl And, unless tne sys'
TEN Do altered, now many more arr
doomed TO fall into the same gulfp Th'
Duke Oh Hamilton, through his horse
racing prociivities, In three years go
tnrongh MS en''ro ior.une Oh f'o,oVV' an'
l VIII say tnae some OF you are Deing un
dermined py H. Witn tne ouh-ngnts o
SPAN ana tne pear-oaiungs Oh 'ne PIT
may tne Lora ood anniniate tne iniamou
ana accurseu norse-racing OIL Engianu ant
america
PRESERVE fooh rhiSioAL srhhN'Th'
i 20 further, and speak Oh anotne
temptation tnat movers over tne watering
places, ana tnis Is tne temptation 10 sac
rince pnysicai sueng.n. Inc modern DO
tnesda was intended 70 recuperate TN
physical health, ana YET now many conn
from the watering places, tneir health ao
soiuteiy destroyed new fork ana BROOK
iyn idiots Doasting Oh naVing imoioe'
twenty glasses OF Congress water oetor
breakfast; iamiiies accustomed 70 gong =
ped at ten O'Clock AZ nignt gosSiping unti
ono or Two O'CLOCK In the morning; dyspep
ucs, usually very CAUTIOUS ABOUT incl
health, mingnng ice-creams ana lemon
ana lobster saiads ana cocoanuts until IN
gastric juices ntt up all tneir voices o
iamentation and protest dencate womel
and brainiess young men chassezing them
selves into vertigo aud cataiepy; thou
sands Oh men ana women coming bac
from our waterins-places In tn
autumn with tne foundations laid 10
ailments that VIII last them all Their III
: long. You know as wen as do that thi
Is the simple trutn'