Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-21
horse-that meant death; a white horse

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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 a thrill to the
champ of his bit, so all great natures in all
| ages have spoken of him in ecomlastlc
terms. Virgil in his Georges almost seems
to plagiarize from the description OF Job.
| The Duke Of Wellington would not allow
| any one irrcverently to touch his old war
horse Copenhagen, on whom he had nd
den fifteen hours without dismounting at
Waterloo; and when old Copenhagen died,
his master ordered military salute fired
over his grave. John Howard showed that
he did not exhaust all his sympathics in
| plying the human race, for when sick he
writes home: HAS my old chaise-horse
| become sick or spOiled.'
But we do not think that the speed of the
horse should be cultured at the expense of
! human degradation. Horse-races, in olden
times, were under the ban of Christian peo-
| pie. and in our day the same institution has
come up under fictitious names, and it is
called Summer Meeting" almost sug-
gestive of positive religious exercises.
| And it is called an agricultural Fair,s'
suggestive of everything that is improving
in the art of farming. But under these de-
ceptive titles are the same cheating and the
| same betting, the same drunkenness and
the same vagabondagc and the same abom-
| nations that were to be found under the
| old hOrse-racing system.
never 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 perditon. 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 equip
age 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 fashy
women. The bartender stirs up the brandy
smash. The bet runs high. The green
horns, 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 horses riding around long be-
fore arranged who shall be 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
pickrockets, who carry off the pocket-books
and portemonnaies. 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 fanfare 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 morel EPSON.
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
infclicities of this country than all the
other things combined. Society is so arti-
fetal there that no sure judgment of char
acter can be formed. Those who form
companionships amid such 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 ballroom where the music
decides the step, and bow and prance and
graceful swing of long trail can make up
for strong common sense. You may as
we'll go among the gaily painted yachts of
a summer regatta to find war vessels as to
60 among the light spray of the summer
watering place to find character that can
stand the test OF the great struggle of
human life. All, in the battle of life you
want stronger weapon than a lace fan or
croquet mallet! The load of life is so
heavy that in order to draw it, you want a
team stronger than one made up of a
masculine grasshopper and feminine
butterfly.
If there is any man in tho community
that excites 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 summer in taking
killing attitudes, and waving sentimental
adieus, and talking infinitesimal nothngs,
and finding his heaven in the set of
a lavender kid glove. Boots az tight as an
Inquisition, two hours of consummate skill
exhibited in the tie of a flaming cravat his
conversation made up of "Ahs" and ''Oh's''
and "He-hee's." It would take five hun
dred of them stewed down to a make a
teaspoonful Of calves-foot jelly. There
is only the counterpart to such a man as
that, and that is the frothy young woman
at the watering place, her conversation
made up of French moonshine; what she
has on her head only equaled by what she
| Has ou ASA OoSh, uSCiSSS CNCE SluCc Sut
was born, and to be useless until she is
dead: and what they will do with her in the
next world do not know, except to set hen
} upon the banks of the River of Life for al
! eternity to look sweet! God intends us t.
admire music and fair faces and graceful
: step, but amid the heartlessness and the
imitation and the fantastic influences Of oul
modern watering places, beware how yol
make lifelong covenants!
Another temptation lowering all arount
our watering places is the intoxicating bev
erage. lam told that it is becoming NOR,
: and more fashionable for women to drink
care not how well woman may DRESS i
. she has taken enough Of wine to flush he
cheek and put glasses on her eyes, she il
! intoxicated. She may be handed into
$500 carriage, and have diamonds enough
to confound the Tifianys--she il intoxicat
ed. She may be graduate of a great in