Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-22

speed of the horse should be cultured at the
expense Of human degradation.
Horse Races

expense Of human degradation.
Horse Races
in olden times were under the ban Of Chris
tian people, and in our day the same insita'
ton has come up under fictitious names.
And it is called summer meeting, al
most suggestive of positive religious exer.
clses. And it is called an agricultural
fair," suggestive of everything that is i'm
proving in the art of farming. But under
these deceptive titles are the same cheating
and the same betting, and the same drunk
enness, and the same ysgsbondage and the
same denominations that we're to be found
under the old horse racing system. never
knew man yet who could give himself 10
the pleasures of the turf for a 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
perdition. 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; snd there are many respectable peo'
pie mingling with jockeys and gamblers
and hbertines and foul mouthed man and
fashy women. The bar tender stirs 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 strug-
gle 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 Lean
ing 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 grand harvest for the pickpockets
who carry of the pocketbooks and pormou-
naies. Men looking on, see only two horses
with two riders flying around the ring; but
there is many a man on that stand whose
honor and domestic happiness and fortune
white name, white foot, white
asnk-are in the ring racing
with inebriety and with fraud and with pro
family and with rum-blacknsck, blackfoot,
blackfank. Neck and neck they 60 in that
moral EPSON. White horse OF honor;
black horse of ruin. Death says: II will
bet on the black horse" Spectator says:
IL will bet on the white horse" The white
horse of honor q 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 s'and Sue. just as
expected it. The black horse or ruin has
Won the race, and all the galleries Of dark
hess crv, "huzza huzza!" and the devils
come in TO pick up their wagers. Oh, my
friends, have nothing to do with horse rae
ing dissipstions this summer. Long ago
the English government got through look
ipg TO the turf for the drsgoLn and light
cavalry horse They found the turf depre'
ciates sthe stock and it is yet worse for
men Thomas Hughes, the member Of
Parliament, and the author known all the
world over, hearing that a new turf enter
prise was being started in this country,
wrote letter in which he said:
Heaven help you, them for OF
all the cankers Of our old civilization there
is nothing in this country approaching. IN
upblushing meanness, in rascality, holding
irs head high, to this belauded institution
of the British turf." Another famous
sportsman writes: "How many fine domains
have been shared among these hosts OF rapa.
cious sharks during the last two hundred
years and unless the system be altered how
many more are doomed to fall into the same
uuIfi' The Duke of Hamilton, through his
horse racing procliviues, in three years GOT
through his entire fortune of E70.00O, and
will say that some of you are being under
mined by il. With the bull fights OF Spain
and the bear bairings Of the pit, may the
Lcrd God snnibils,e the Infamous and &C
cursed horse racing Of England and Amer
iC8.
90 further and speak Of another tempta'
ton thSt hovers over the watering places,
and this is the temptation to sacrifice physi'
cal strength.
The Modern Bethesda
WAS intended to recuperate the physical
health, and yet how many come from the
watering places, their health absolutely des'
troyed New York and Brooklyn idiots
boasting of having imbibed twenty glasses
of Congress water before breakfast. FAM
lies accustomed to going TO bed at ten
o'clock at night, gossping until one or two
clock in the morning. Dyspeptics, usual
ly very cautious about their health, mlngling
ice creams and lemons and loOster salads
and cocoanuts until the gastric juices lft
up all their voices Of lamel,ation and pro-
test. Delicate women and orainless young
nen chascezing themselves into vertigo aud
c. e'epsy. Thousat ds Of men and wo nan
coming back from our watering.places IN
he autumn with the foundations laid for
ailments that will last them all their lite
ionp. You know as we'll as do that this
is the simple truth. In the summer you
s..y 10 your food health: Good oy; | am
,oing to have a good time for little while
[ will be very glad to see you again
in the autumn" Then in the
autumn when yo1 are hard
at work in your Office or store or counting
room, Good Health will come in and say
Coed by, am going" You say Where
are YOU goingY oh" says Good Health
Il am going to take vacation" 1t is
poor rule that will not work both ways, and
your good health will leave you choleric and
splenetic and exhausted. You coqletteo
with your good health in the summertime
and your good health is coquettiug with You
IN tue Wlnter-Ume. n lTdRIcut Va eu'
charge to the jailer would be an appropriate
inscription for the hotel register in every
watering place: "Do thyselt no harm.
Another temptation lowering around the
watering place is to the formation OF
Hasty and Lifelong Alliances.
The watering places are responsible to-
more of the domestic infelicities Of thu
country than all other things combined.
Society is so artificial there that no SUR
iadement Of character can be formed
those who form companionship1 amid such
circumstances, go into lottery wher'
there are twenty blanks to one prize. II
the severe tug Of life you want more thar
glitter and splash. Life is not ball room
where the music decides the step and boz
and prsnce and graceful swing and long trai
can make up for strong common sense. 1oT
might as we'll 20 among the gsiiy painted
Yachts OF a summer regatta 10 find wal
vessels, as to 90 among the light spray o
the summer watering place to find charsc
ter that can stand the test of the grea
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