The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-15
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4 thCt iulC every ufluul pn. wv -
evident that Job ;bld Davids ]
Isaiah and Ezekiel ana jeremiah and
John were very fond of tho horse
He came into much of their imagery
a red horsc--that meant war: black
horsc-that meant famine: pale
horsc-that meant death; white
horse that meant victory.
AS the Bible makes favorite OF
the horse, the patriarch aud the
prophet and the evangelist and the
apostle, stroking his sleek hide and
patting his rounded neck, and ten
dcrly lifting his cXquisitely formed
hoof aud listening with thrill to the
champ of his bit, SO all in great M
lures i'll all ages have spoken of him
in encoiniastic terms. Virgil in his
Georgics almost seems to plagi ,rize
from the description of job The
duke of Wellington would not allow
any one irreverently to touch his old
wnr-horse, Copenhagen, on whom he
had ridden fifteen hours without dis
mounting at Waterloo and when old
Copenhagen died, his master ordered
II military salute fired over his grave,
john Howard showed that he did
not exhaust all his sympathics in pit
wing the race, for when sick he writes
home: Has my old chaise horse be
come sick OF spoilcd'
But we do not think that that the
speed of the horse should be rultur-
eel at the expense of human dcgra
iatiOn. Horse races i'll Olucu time
were under tuC ban Of christian nro
pie. and in our day the same inStitu
iinu mas come up under fictitious
names. and II Is called summer
meeting. suggestive of positive re
li~lous exercises. And 1t IL called
;u ''aSriculturai fair. suggestive OF
everything that is improvin" in the
art of farming. But under these de
lccptivc titles are the same cheating
and The s4tr--bettinS. the same. the
same drunkenness. and the same vag-
abondagC. and the same mcabominationS
that were to be found under the old
horse racing system.
| never knew II man yet who could
give himself to the pleasures of the
turf for Il long reach of time, and not
be battcrcdi in morals They hook up
their spanking team, and put Oh their
5portiag cap. anh light their cigar.
and take the roins. and dash down
the road to pcrdition. The great
lay ut Saratoga. and Long Branch.
AMI cape May. AMI nearly MI th.
other Watering places, Is day OF the
lacc,. The hotels are thron@cd.
'lcarlN cvcty kind of cluipagc is IL
.,u ,Uat ap almost fabulous price.
"nlt there are many respectable pcO
pic n1nt:llfT@ With Jockeys. and gam.
Dlcrs, ilnI fbcrtlnes. and foul noun
ted and iiashy women. The balteu-
der stirs up the brandy smash. The
bets run. high The grcccnholms.
.supposing;all is fair, put i'll their
money soon enough olosc It, Three
weaks beihre the race takes place the
sHrelSClc IydCcidcd. and the men in
The secret know on which stccd to
/ bet their money. The two III II on
the horses riding around long before
ElnangStl who shall beat.
- LeaihG from the stand Or from
the CARRIAGE are men and women so
AbsolbcI IN the struggle of bone and
hggsa and mctti" that they mai" Il
Sl4N harvest for the pickporkcts.
WHO carry off the pocket books and
portemOnu:,ics. Men looking on see
only two horses with two riders iv-
ing around the ring: but there is
EmaHy Il man on that stand whose
honor and domestic happiness and
fortune white manc. white foot.
white tlauk--ar2 III the ring, racing