Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-03
RECREATION.
The Nature of a Man is Shown by
the Amusements He Chooses.
BASEBALL AND HORSE RACING.
Fishing Must be Charming but Its Inno-
cence is Questionable.
MINISTER'S AND THEIR CR0QUE7
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. ]

is usually esteemed Of vast value in the way
OF health. 1t is supposed to store up sur
plus of energy and to restore what has been
lost in enforced toll and overwofk for long
days and weary nights in narrow streets and
dingy houses amid the busy hauRts Of men.
It is season to be spent in the pursuit OF
happiness at the option of each ones own
sweet will and natural bent.
The ideas of men as to happiness and
holiday are queer. Some incline to baseball.
Wherever they 60 to spend their vacation
they want to see ball game. The most
enhancing delights may be presented in
other lines, but ball game to them is the
most alluring felicity. Others pursue hap
piness at horse races, where, with hearts full
of hope, they find joy in prancing steeds.
in lowered records, in well-placed bets and
in successful pools. Many an offset to their
felicity falls in, but the hits and misses be-
long to the chances and delights of the game
and the risks must be run to enhance the
happiness of raking in a pile and downing
the opposition.
EvERYTHING's A LOTTERY.
How odd and ridiculous it seems to raise
q great hullabaloo over the immortality OF
the Louisiana lottery, when in every city
on the continent horse races. baseball con-
tests, church-tair schemes, oil stocks and
grain deals are made subject to the laws or
chance. Men find in these diversion and
delight; they engage in them as holiday
pleasures, and pursue them with
an ardor and enthusiasm that are
amazing and confounding when
contrasted with the regulation
idea OF the chief end OF man: Lotteries
by name are denounced as sinful and de-
moralizing, but when disguised as business
deals and covered by charity they become
legitimate enterprises, and sweet uses Tor
adversely, as well as popular mode for ex-
tracting money from people who could not
otherwise be reached by the demands Oh
benevolence.
Lille is lottery say some. There are
those who, born with silver spoons In their
mouths, find everything IN lie that is lovely
and luxurious, while others seem born to
hardship and misfortune. People who pro-
fess to know say this is matter of disclp-
line and preparation for another and bet
ter world. But where the discipline comes
in for those whose lives have no shadows of
poverty. no drawback in the way of disease,
nothing to distress them or make tnem
airaio ls so"e"ha' nafu W 'e
AN EXPLODED IDEA.
The old nraver for the masses was for faith
ord oroca 10 make them content in the low
stat;ons I'D bord conditions tn which thew
wers assioned bv inscrutabIe decree: but
,'aar1a - : Jsros s,tent have ontlived this
ddoctr;ns Tbev viii mn longer accent the
;do. that for some mon the blessings and
inYnr;as of 1bis mortal life are reserved by
suao;aI dsorea uhils others no less worthy
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nraved with sincerity to be content in the
station of log cabin rail splitter he would
never have become lawyer or President.
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to which he had been ostensibly called BY
birth and education. Men never are salts
fed when there is a height to reach, an enc
my to down or an aspiration to be realized.
FISHING FOR RECREATION.
IT.. o+nrs of man is shown bv bis amnse-
ents The real man crops out when he Lets
b;n,seIf go in order To nlav. He delights in
III ,uonser of fights to see which Hbins
Har.a r.ces hall Games Contests whether
- Ss+s ~ tennis or innocent croouer to
,,.h;ah ~ oIsrrvmsn mostly incline fiji nm a
,,aasnre ~ 6iiss in most men bolidavs Then
Ssn;naNob 6shinyI-6sbinu seems to fiji
,han, fnII to overfowinp with delight.
E;sh;,a ia What Presidents SUPREME
I"Sna ,,Iurar. oisrovmen-everv Find oF
nsn 1on couI5 m.ntiou~seem heartily to
an;ox Ths man sworn to administsr Justice
10y. '.L;nn ,-rona In a convenience 10 in
veipls % innocent fishes to sudden death.
Ths man who nreacbes unon the horror,
of crneltv To animals sees in fishing only a
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