News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-07

spoken of him in encomiastic terms.
Virgil in his Georges almost seems to
plagiarize from the description OF job.
The Duke of Wellington would not al
low any one irreverently to touch his
old war horse Copenhagen, on whom
he had ridden fifteen hours without
dislnounting at Waterloo; and when old
Copenhagen died his master ordered a
military salute fired over his grave.
John Howard showed that he did not
exhaust all his sympathy in pitying the
human race, for when sick he writes
home, HAS my old chaise horse be
come 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 people, and in our day
the same institution has come up under
fictitious names, and it is called a
summer meeting" almost suggestive
of positive religious exercises, and it
is called an agricultural fair" sug-
gestive of everything that is improving
in the art of farming. But under these
deceptive titles are the same cheating
and the same betting. the same drunk
enness, and the same vagabondage, and
tie same denominations that were to be
found under the old horse racing sys-
tenn.
RACING sPoILS MORALS.
| never new 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 Sara
toga 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 almost fabu
lous price, and there are many respect
able people mingling with jockeys
and gamblers and Hbertines and foul
mouthed men and fiashy women. The
bartender 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 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 before arranged
who shall beat.
Leaning from the stand or from the
carriage are men and women so alb
sorbed in the struggle of bone and
muscle and mettle that they make a
grand harvest for the pickpockets, who
carry off the pocketbooks and porte
monnaies. 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 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 moral
EPSON.
HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
All, my friends, have nothing to do
with horse racing designations this sum
mer. Long ago the English govern
ment got through looking to the turf
for the dragon and light cavalry horse
They found the turf depreciates the
stock, and it is yet worse for men.
Thomas Hughes. the member of parlia-
ment and the author, known all the
world over, hearing that q new turf en-
terprise was being started in this coun-
try, 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
unblushing meanness, in rascality hold
ing its head high, to this belauded insti-
tuition of the British turf !"
Another famous sportsman writes:
Chow many fine domains have been
shared among these hosts of rapacious
sharks during the last 200 years, and
u1.l less 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, 600, and l will say that some of
you are being undermined by it. With
the bull fights of Spain and the bear
baitings of the pit may the Lord God
annihilate the infamous and accursed
horse racing of England and America!
| go further, and speak of another
that hovers over the water
ing places, and this is the temptation
to sacrifice physical strength The
modern Bethesda was meant to re-
the physical health, and yet
how many come from the watering
places, their health absolutely de- |
stroyed New York and Brooklyn |
idiots Boosting of having imbibed TWEEN
ty glasses of congress water before
breakfast. Families accustomed to GO |
ing to bed at 10 o'clock at night gossip |
ing until or 2 o'clock in the morning. |
Dyspeptics, usually very cautious about |
their health, mingling ice creams and !
lemons and lobster salads and cocoa
nuts until the gastric juices lift up all. |
their voices of lamentation and protest. |
Delicate women and brainless young
men chassezing themselves into vertigo
and catalepsy. Thousands of men and |
women coming back from our water |
ing places in the autumn with the |
foundations laid for ailments that will
last them all their life long You know
as well as l do that this is the simple |
truth.
GOoD-BY, GOOD HEALTH
In the summer you say to your good |
health; "Good-by; am going to have
a good time for a 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 Health |
will come and say, 'Good-by am GO
ing" You say, Where are you GO
ing" oh" says Good Health, Il |
am going to take vacation!" 1t is a |
poor rule that will not work both WAYS.
and your good health will leave you
choleric and splenetic and exhausted.
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 Paul's
charge to the jailer would be an appro-
pirate inscription for 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 life long alliances. The
watering places are responsible for