Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-04

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Job sets forth his strength, his
beauty, his majesty, the pantiug of his
nostril, the paving of his hoof, and bis
enthusiasm for the battle. What Ross
Bonheur did for the cattle, and what
Laudsser did for the dog, Job
WITH MIGHTIER PENCIL,
does for the horse. Eighty-sight times
does the Bible speak of him. He comes
into every kingly procession, and into
every great occasion and into every tri-
umph. 1t is very evident that Job and
David and Isaiah and Ezekiel and
jeremiah aud John were very fond of
the horse. He came into much of their
imagery. A red horse-that meant war;
black horse-that meant famine; a
pale horse-that meant death; white
horse-that meant victory.
As the Bible makes favorite of the
horse, the patriarch and the prophet and
the evangelist and the apostle, stroking
his sleek hide, and patting his rounded
neck and tenderly lifting his exquisitely
formed hoof and listening with thrill TO
the champ of his bit, so all great natures
in all ages have spoken of him in
encomicastic terms. Virgil in his Georges
almost seems to plagiarize from the
description of Job. The duke of Well
ington would not allow anyone irrever-
emily 20 touch his old war horse, Copen-
hagen, on whom he had ridden fifteen
hours without dismounting at Waterloo;
and when old Copenhagen died his
master ordered military salute to be
fired. over his grave. John Howard
showed that he did not exhaust all his
sympathiss in pitYing the human race,
for when sick he writes home: HHas
my old chaise-horse become sick or
spoiled?'
But we do not think that the speed Of
the horse should be cultured at the ex-
pense 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 flcti-
tious names, and it is called hSummer
Meeting, - almost suggestive of positive
religious exercises. And 1t is called
AN AGRICULTURAL FAIR
suggestive of everything that is improv-
ing IN the art of farming. But under
these deceptive titles are the same cheat
ing and the same betting, the same
drunkenness and the same vagabondage
and the same denominations that were to
be found under the old horse racing
system.
never knew a man yet who could
give himself to the pleasures of the turf
for long reach of time. and not be bat
tered in morals. They hook up their
spanking team, and put on their sport
ing-cap, and light their cigar. and take
the reins and dash down the road TO per-
dItion. The great day at Saratoga, and
Long Branch, and Cape May, and nearly
all of the other watering places is the
day of races. The hotels are thronged,
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 men and flashy
women. The bartsnders stir 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
norses riding around long before ar
ranged 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 pickpockets, who carry off the
pocket books and portemonuaies. Men
looking on 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 fiank-ars IN the ring racing with
inebriety, and with fraud, and with pro-
family, and with ruin-black neck, black
foot, black flank. Neck aud Eeck they
go in that moral EPSON.
All, my friends, have nothing to do
with horse-racing designations this sum-
mer. Long ago the English government
got through looking to the turf for the
dragon and light cavalry horse. They
found the turf depreciates the stock, and
1t is yet worse for men. Thomas Hughes,
the member of parliament and the
author, known the world over,
hearing that new turf en-
terprIse was being started in this
country, wrote a letter, in which he
said: "Heaven help you, then; for of
all the cankers of our old civilization
there is nothing in this country approach
ing in unblushing meanness, in rascality
holding its head high, to this belauded
VI lu6 DEllisH Au-
other famous sportsman writes: elbow
many fine domains have been shared
among these hosts of rapacious sharks
during the last two hundred years; and
unless the system be altered, how many
more are doomed to fall into the same
gulf" The Duke of Hamilton, through
his horse-racing proclivities, in three
years got through his entire fortune of
$3.50 900, and will say that some of you
are being undermined by it. With the
bull-fights Of Spain and the bear bait
ings of the pit may the Lord God ami
hilate the infamous and accused horse
racing OF England and America.
go further, and speak of another
temptation that hovers over the water
and this is the temptation TO
sacrifice physical strength. The modern
Bethesda was meant TO recuperate the
physical health; and yet how many come
from the watering-places, their health
absolutely destroyed!
NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN IDIOTS,
Boosting of having lmbibed twenty
glasses of congress water before break
fast. Families accustomed to going to
bed ct 10 O'Clock at night gossiping until
l or o. clock in the morning. Dyspep-
tics, usually very cautious about their