The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-02
Horse Racing.

1t looks like the race-horse is nee
assarvevil. From the days OF PtolOmy |
to the rtseLt, men have raceu
horses in spite of everything. III
Wallace's ben Hur' he makes MS
description of the chariot race the
most beautiful and most lnteres!'hg
CHAPTER of his 81 ale OF the christ
He reserves for it cholcer Language
ard a more thrilling touch thau Tor
Tie rructfixiOn itself. TEis, however,
nav be an unfair comparison, as
Wallace il, uuquestiouabiy, writer
hIIiIt more closely on the pattern OF q
race tout than after the design Oh
either a Shakespeare or a GIODon. IL
would require forty million like MN
and rTalnIage TO do one tenth the
good that was accomplished by John
Knox ard Martin Luther:
Tie Egyptians, Babylonians ana
! AsayrIans raced horses; Cytus hAu
stable of grand ones so mad Solonah,
the Greeks, Romans, ali-"lln"u' az
pxreDtiOu, and without even the
sIi1htest degree OF abatement IN the
interest of the sport, it has gone on
down the centuries even to the pres
emt time. .,,
Fne close affinity existing between
MAJ, and his horse no doubt has 3
great deal TO do with this. 1et,
Chaser affinity exists between man
and his dog; and as some satlrlcai
writer once said, "between man anu
his wife"-aud yetthe lordiy genre
man, with the exception OF heIchu III
and his dog Doc, haS so far failed 10
TIiIiZa either the one or the other AS
81 vehicle to carry hiss enthu iasm or
, his almighty dollar in holly coG'
tested race. A..
Job,s best description is OF the
lhOrse-his very poorest OF his Wlie
And vet so far as we can learn' th'
odd fellows peculiar physical con
! dillon certainly required more assis'
tonce from the gentle touch Oh th'
tender female than from the wa
horse who suffeth the battle aIaT oil
y and snOrts out lew deIlslSe ne
has! at the captains ana III
soldiers
Soloman, too, had more horse
r han c0ncubines. From what we ca
y Learn, this vigorous gentleman, who's
= chief desire appeared TO be TO rails
u fine horses and thankless children
managed to always keep up aoou
three horses for evory new bride II
took unto himself.
Mankind has always been weak o
Ihorseflesh-and the faster 1t can z
- the weaker has been the human VIII
! DOs=eSSeO IL, anu LllO BlONtOA ho~
- mis- lJOIatrous love. This 1t eds II
: proof; not great man in history ca
< be touched by the zen OF to-day, Dt
/. that some pen may speak OF nj
:, tavOrite hOrse.
y, Darwin once said that man was al
III tinpuished from all other anlma
l1e in that be laughs; and we may
~ well add that IA civilized man
A' distinguished from all other men
that he will bet OH horse race.
is wrong, we admit; just as 1t
wrong t. bet on the price OF lott,
k, of wheat, or rattle off u ten cel
il cushion in the "grab bag" OF
p churcn festival, or make bill WI
u vour grocer when the chsnces a
he Steu 10 one" that you will never =;
al it-and a hundred other simll
a. kinds of betting. And having o
rived a. that point We give it up al
ask for the aid of the preacher.
can't stop tit came along WI
"Original SIM and the birth oil /
ID devil. and looks like it will last I
the trump of doom. But we m
:, do one thing-we may refrain r.
an betting ourselves, and, If people mt
bet on horse races, we may MS
~ III that the race be an honest o.
~ Honesty hides n multitude oil 81