The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-15
- s5Is o. ssas s.l! !lIl 49,

~snusnuU every triumph.
evident that Job dnd Davids
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: u black
horse-that meant famine: n pale
horse-that meant death; white
horse-that meant victory. .N
AS the Bible makes a 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 ten
derly lifting his exquisitely formed
hoof aud listening with thrill to the
champ of his bit, so all in great ma
lures In all ages have spoken of him
in encomiastic terms. Virgil in his
Georges almost seems to plagi ,rize
from the description of Job. The
duke of Wellington would not allow
any one irreverently to touch his old
war-horse, Copenhagen, on whom he
had ridden fifteen hours without dis
mounting at Waterloo; and when old
Copenhagen died, his master ordered
II military salute fired over his grave,
John Howard showed that he did
not exhaust all his sympathies in pit
wing the race, for when sick he writes
home: Has my old chaise horse be-
come sick OF spoilcd?"
But we do not think that that the
speed of the horse should be cultur-
ed at the expense of human degrn
dation. Horse races in olden time
were under the ban of christian peo-
pie, and III our day the same institu-
ton has come up under fictitious
names. and it Is called summer
meeting, suggestive of positive re-
hglous exercises. And it is called
an agricultural fair" suggestive of
everything that is improving in the
art of farming. But under these de-
.ceptiye titles are the same cheating
and Sne sSihs betting, the same, the
same drunkenness, and the same vag-
abondage, and the same meabominations
that were to be found under the old
horse racing system.
never knew n 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 perdition The great
day at Saratoga, and Long Branch.
and Cape May, and nearly all the
other watering places, is day of the
races. The hotels are thronged,
nearly evetN kind of equipage is ia
ken lat ap almost fabulous price,
lnl there are many respectable peo-
pie mmglihg with Jockeys, and gam
blers, and fibertines, and foul ul-moun-
ted and Aashy women. The barten-
der stirs'up the brandy smash The
bets run high. The greeenholns,
supposing.all is fair, put in their
money soon enough tolosc it. Three
;weAks. beftlre the race takes place the
sstrakgle Xydecided, and the men in
the secret know on which steed to
bet their money. The two m n on
the horses riding around long before
MHangsa who shall beat.
- Lea[Mg from the stand or from
the Carriage are men and women so
in the struggle of bone and
Musl5e and mettie that they make a
gsh harvest for the pickpockets.
WHO carry off the pocket books and
portemonnaies. Men looking on see
only two horses with two riders fly
ing around the ring; but there is
'maRy man on that stand whose
henor and domestic happiness and
fort6ne-white name, white foot,
white f1ank-aro i'll the ring. racing