Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-15

bets run high. The greenhorns, supposiny
all is fair, put in'thsir money soon enough
TO lose il. Three weeks before the race
takes place the struggle il 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 car
rage are men and women 30 absorbed in the
struggle OF bone and muscle and mettle that
they make a grand harvest for the pick
pockets, who carry of the pocketbooks and
portmonnaies. 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 for
tune-white name, white foot, white flank
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 go in that moral EPSON.
All, my friends, have nothing to do with
horse racing designations this summer. Long
ago the English Government got through
looking to the turf for the dragon and light
cavalry horse. They found the turf depreci-
ates the stock, and it is yet worse for men.
Thomas Hughes, the Member of Parliament
and the author, known I'll 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 I'M
blushing meanness, in rascality holding its
high head, to this belauded institution Of the
British turf"
I go further and speak of another tempta-
ton that hovers over the watering places,
and this is the temptation to sacrifice physi-
cal strength The modern Bethesda was
meant to recuperate the physical health, and
yet how many como from the watering
places, their health absolutely destroyed
New York and Brooklyn idiots boasting OF
having imbibed twenty glasses Of Congress
water before breakfast. Families accus-
toned to going to bed at 10 o'clock at night
gossiping until or 2 o'clock in the morning.
DYspeptics, usually very cautious about their
health, mingling ice creams and lemons and
lobster salads and cocoanuts until the gastric
juices lift up all their voices Of lamentation
and protest. Delicate women and brainles5
young men chasSezing themselves into verti-
20 and catalepsy. Thousands of men and
women coming back from our watering
places in the autumn with the foundations
laid FOR ailments that Will last them all their
life long. You know as we'll as do that this
is the simple truth.
In the summer you say to your good
health: Good by; lam going to have good
time for little while. l will be very glad
to see you again in the autumn" Then in
the autumn, when you are hard at work IN
your Office or shop or counting room, Good
going" You say, where are you going?'
''Oh," says Good Health, II am going to take
a vacation It is a poor rule that will not
work both ways, and your good health will
leave you choleric and splenetic and ex-
hausted. You coqUetted with your good
health in the summer time, and your good
health is coquetting with you in the winter
time. A fragment Of Paups charge to the
jailer would be an appropriate inscription
Tor the hotel register in every watering place,
'Do thyself no HARM"
Another temptation lowering around the
watering place is to the formation of hasty
and lifelong alliances. The watering places
are responsible for more Of the domestic in
feicitieS Of this country than all the other
things combined. Society is so artificial there
that no sure judgment of character can be
formed. Those who form companionships
amid suca circumstances go into lottery
where there are twenty blanks to one prize
In the severe tug of life you want more than
glitter and splash. Life is not a ballroom
where the music decides the step,
and bow and pranca aud graceful
swing of long trail can make up
for, strong common sense. You may as
we'll go among tho gayiy painted yachts Of
summer regatta to find war vessels as to go
among the light spray Of the summer water
ing place to find character that can stand the
test or the great struggle Of human life.
All, in the battle Of life you want stronger
weapon than lace fan or a CrCquet malleti
The load Of life is 50 neavy that in order to
draw II you want a team stronger than one
made up of masculine grasshopper and
feminine butterfly.
1t there is any man in the community that
excites my contempt, and that exctes the
contempt of every man and woman it is the
soft-handed, sOft-headed fOp who perfumed
until the air is actually sick, spends his sum-
mer in taking killing attitudes and waving
sentimental adieus and talking infiuitesimal
nothings, and finding his heaven in the set of
lavender Kid glove. Boots as tight as an
lnQulSlClOn two hours Of COQSummata skill
exhibited in the tie of flaming cravat, his
conversation made up Of ''Ah's" and
'Oh's" and ''He-hee's" 1t would take five
hundred of them stewed down to make
teaspoonful of calves'-foot jelly. There is
only one counterpart to such a man as
that, and that is the frothy young woman at
the watering pace, her conversation made
up of French moonshine, what she has on her
head only equaled by what she has on her
back; useless ever since she was born, and to
De useless until she is dead; and what they
will do with her in the next world do not
know, except to set her upon the banks of
the River of Life for all eternity to look
sweet! God intends US to admire music and
Ialr races and graceful step, but amid the
hear tlessness and the imitation and the fam
tastlc influences of our modern watering
places beware how you make life long Gov
enantsi
Another temptation that will hover over
the watering place is that of banefu Iitera-
ture. Almost every one starting off for the
summer takes some reading matter. It is a
book out of the library or off the book stand.
or bought of the boy hawking books through
the cars. I really believe there is more pes
tferous trash read among the INTELLIGENT
classes in July and August than in all the
other ten months of the year. Men and wo-
men who at home would not be satisfied with
book that was not really sensible 7 found
sitting on hotel piazzas or under the trees