The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-08-14

Cioi VI VIC idct lnaJ the horse is
something more than IL beast.
JOB sets forth his strength, his
beauty, his majesty, the painting of
his nostril, the paving of his hoof
and his enthusiasm for the battle
What Rosa Bonheur did for the cat
tie, and what Landseer did for the
the dog, Job, with mightier pencil,
does for the horse. Eighty-eirhi
times does the Bible speak Of him.
He comes into every lingly process
SION, and into every great occasion
and into every triumph. 1t is very
evident that Job and David and
Isaiah and Ezekiel and jeremiah and
John were very fond Of the horse.
He came into much of their imagery.
a red horse-that meant war; Il black
horse-that meant famine; u pale
horse-that meant death; white
| horse-that meant victory
AS the Bible makes Il favoritc of
the horse, the patriarch and the
prophet and the evangelist and the
apostle, stroking his sleek hide and
pattlng his rounded neck, and ten
dcrly lifting his eXquisitely formed
hoot and listening with thrill to the
ch imp OF his bit, so all in great na-
turcs IN all ages have spoken of him
iii cncomiastic terms. Virgil in his
| Georglcs almost seems to plngi ,rizc
| from the description of job The
duke OF Wellington would not allow
any one irreverently to touch his Old
war-horse, Copenhagen. on whom he
had ridden fifteen hours without dis
mounting 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 sympathics in pt
ylng the race, for when sick he writes
home: "Has my old chaiSc horse be
come sick or spoilcd?"
But we dO not think that that the
speed OF the horse shoulu be cultur
ca at The expense Of human dcgrt
datlon. Horse races in oidcn time
were under the ban of christian pco
pie, and III our day the same inStitu-
tlon has come up under fictitious
names. and ii is called "S,lmmpr
meeting, suggestive of positiv, re-
hGtouS exercises. Aud it i. called
an agricultural fair, suggestive Of
everything that is improving in the
art OF farming. But undcr these de-
reptvc titles arc the same cheating
and III" same betting, the same. the
same drunkenness, and the same Yau-
ubondagc, Anuthc same denominations
that were to be found under the oil
horse racing system.
| mover knew u man yet who could
give himself to the pleasures of the
turf for long reach of time, and not
be battcrcdin morals. They hook uD
their spanking team, and put on their
sporting cap, and light their cigar,
ana take the rcins, aud dash down
the road to p"rdition. The great
LAY at Saratoga. and Long Branch.
and Cape May, and nearly I'LL the
other watering places. is day Of the
!acHs. The hotels arc throngcl.
!l"arly every kind OF cquip;,gc is ta-
Ken up at an almost fabulous price.
! ind there arc many respectable ppn-
pic mngllny with Jockeys. and gam
oilers, and llbcrtiGcS, and foul noun.
ted and tlashy women. The Darten
der Htirs up the brandy smash. The
bets run high. The greecnhorns,
SupposinS 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 stccd to
bet their money. The two IN II on
the horses riding around long before
| arranged who shall beat.
Leaning from the stand or from
the carnage are men and women so
absorbed in the struggle of bone and
muscle and mettlc that they make a
grand harvest for the picllpockcts.
who carry of the pocket books and
portcmonnaics. Men looking on see
only two horses with two riders fly
ing around the ring; but there is
many man on that stand whose
honor and domestic happiness and
tortunc-whitc manc. white foot.
white hank-arc in the ring, racing
with incbricty, and with fraud, and
with profanity, and with ruin-black
neck: black foot, black flank. Neck
and neck they go III that moral Ep.
son.
All, my friends, have nothing to do
| with horse racing dissipation this
Summer. Long ago the English GOV
ernnent got through looking to the
turf for the Clrngoon and light cav
airy horse. They found that the
turf depreciates the stock, and it is
yet worse for men. Thomas Hughes
the membcr of parliament and the
author known all the world over
hearing that new turf enterprise
was Being started in this country.
wrote Il letter il which he said:
"Hcaven help you then; for of all the
cankcrs of our old civilization there
is nothing i'll this country approach
ing i'll unblushing meanness, in rns-
cality holding its hand high to this
bclaudod institution Of the British
turf. Another famous sportsman
writes: "How many fine domains
have been shared among those hosts
OF rapacious sharks during the last
two hundred years: and unless tho
system be altered, how many more
arc doomed to fall into the same
turf The Duke OF Hamilton,
through his hOrSp- -roriptr ,,roclivit;os