Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-04

| lbary salute fired over his grave. John
Howard showed that he did not exhaust
all his synipathies in plying the human
race, for when sick he writes hOme "Has
| my old chaise horse become sick or spoiledr'
YOU CANNOT BE CHRISTIAN THURMAN.
But we do not think that the speed of
! the horse should be cultured at the ex-
pense 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 summer meet
! ing" almost suggestive of positive relig-
ious exercises. And ii Il called an "agri-
cultural fair suggestive 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 drunkenness and the same vagabond-
age, and the same denominations that were
to be found under the old horse racing sys-
| tenn.
never knew n man yet who could give
| himself to the pleasures of the turf for a
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 rcins, and
dash down the road to perdition. The great
day at Saratoga and Long Branch and
Cape May, and nearly all the other water
ing places, is the day of the races. The
hotels are thronged, nearly every kind of
| equipage is taken up at an almost fabulous
! price, and there are many respectable PEG
| pie mingling with jockeys and gamblers
and libertnes AMI foul mouthel men and
fashy women. The bartender stirs up the
brandy smash. The bets run high. The
| grecnhorns, supposing all is fair put in
their money soon enough to lose it. Three
weeks before the race takes place the strug-
| gle is decided, and the men in the secret
| know on which steed to bet their money.
| rhe two men on the horses riding around
long before arranged who shall beat.
| Leaning from the staIi or from the car
| riage are men and women so absorbed in
| the struggle of bone and muscle and met
| tie that they make a grant harvest for the
! oickpockcts, who carry OF the pocketbooks
md portmonnaios. Mon looking on see
| only two horses with two riders flying
around the ring, but there is many man
III 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-bncI neck, black
| foot black aank. Neck and neck they go
IN that moral EPSON.
KEEP AWAY FROM IT!
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 depreciates the stock, and it IS yet
worse for men. Thomas Hughes the mem
Der of parliament and the author known
all the world over, hearing that new turf
enterprise was being started in this cUun
try, wrote a letter in which he said:
"lIeaven help you, then; for of all the
cankors of our old civilization there is
nothing in this country approaching in
unblushing melnness, in raS3ality holding
It's head high, to this belluded institution
of the British turf. l."
Another famous sportsman writes Glow
many fine domains have been shared
among these hosts of rapacious sharks dur
ing the last two hundred years; ana unless
/ the system be altered, how many moro are
doomed 10 fall into the same gulf" The
Duke of Hamilton, through his h orse rae,
ing proclivities, in three Yeas got through
his entire fortune of $4,000, and 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
annlhilato the infamous and accursed
horse racing of England and America!
go further and speak of another temp
taton that hovers over the watering places
and this IL the temptation to sacrifice phys
zeal strength, The modern Bethesda was
meant to rgcuperate tla physical health,
| a nd vat IA w
ing places, their health absolutely de
stroycd! New York and Brooklyn idiots
boasting of having imbibed twenty glasses
Of congress water before breakfast. Fam
lies accustomed to going to bed Mt 10
o'clock at night gossping until | or 2
o'clock in the morning. Dyspeptics, usu-
ally very cautious about their heSlth,
mingling ice creams and lemons and lob
Ster salads and cocoanats until the gastric
juices lift up all their voices of lamenta-
ton and protest Delicate women and
branless young men chassazing them
selves into vertigo and catalepsy. Thou
sands 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 well as do that this is the simple
truth.
A POOR RULE THAT WILL NOT WORK BOTH
WAYS.
In the summer you say to your good
health: "Gool-by; | am going to have II
good time for little while will be very
glad to see You again in the autumn"
Then in the autumn, whcn you are hard at
work in your Office or shop or counting
room, Good Health will come ana say,
49, I 4, AN hnt
are you g1iny?n "Oi,n says Good Health
81 am going to take II vacationI' 1t Is u
poor rule that will not work both ways,
and your good health will leave you
choleric and splenetc aud exhausted, You
coquctted with your good health in the
summer time, and your good health is
coquetting with you in the winter time.
A fragment of Pauls charge to the iailer
would be an appropriate inscription for
| the hotel register in every watering place,
"Do myself no harm"
Another temptation lowering around
the Watering place Is to the formation Of
! hasty ana lifelong alliances The water
| ing places are responsible for more of the
domestic mfclicitics 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 such circum
stances go into lottery where there are
| twenty blanks to one prize In thesevere
| 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
mp Tor strong common sense. You may as
| vol % amnnpr the ravlv naintpd Yachts of
u summer regatta 10 find war vessels as to
| go among the light spray of the summer
watering place to find character that can