Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-11-01


| roce deserves all kindness, all care, all re-
ward all succulent forage and soft litter and
naradisaicaI nasture field. Those farms IN
| kentucky and in different parts OF the NORTH,
| where the horse is trained to perfection in
neetness andin beauty and in majesty, are
we'll set anart. There is no more virtue IN
| driving slow than in driving fast any more
than freight train going ten miles the
hour Is better than an express tram going
fftv.
There Is a delusion abroad in the world
that thing must be necessarily goou anu
Christian if it is slow and dull and ploddlng.
There are very few goo people who seem to
imagine it is humbly pious to drive a
spawned. CALLED, glaudered, spring haite1,
! blind staggered JADE. There is not so mucn
| virtue in n Rosinante as IN Bucephalus.
| We want swifter horses, and swltter men:
aud swifter enterprises. an the churcn Oh
| God needs to get of its jog trot. Quick tenn
pests. quick lightnings. quick steams; why
not Quick horses? In the time OF war the
cavalry service does the most execution, ana
AS the battles OF the world are probably not
| all past, our Christian patriotism demands
! that we be interested in equinal velocity'
We might rs we'll have poorer guns IN our
arsenals and clumsier ships in our navy
| wards than other Nations rs to have under
| our cavalry saddles and before our PARKS OF
| artillery slower horses From the battle OF
| Granicus, where the Persian horses drove
| The Macedonian infantry into the river.
! clear down to the horses on which Philip
| Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson rode into
| the frav. this arm of the military service
| has been recognized. Hamilcar. Hanni-
| bal, Gustayus Adolphus. Marshal Ney were
| cavarymen. Ia this arm OF the service
Charles Marte at the battle OF Poitiers beat
back the Arab invasion. The Carthaginian
cavalry. with the loss Of only 7U0 men, over
threw the Roman army with the loss OF TO-
900. In the same way tho Spanish chlyalry
drove back the Moorish hordes. Inc best
way to keep peace in this country and in all
countries is to be prepare for war AMI there
| is no success in such contest unless there
be plenty OF light footed chargers. Our
| Christian patriotism AMI our instruction
from the word of God demand that first OF
all we kindly treat the horse, and then after
that, that we develop his feetness AMI nus
grandeur And his majesty and his strength
But what shall l say OF the effort being
made in this day on a large scale 10 make
this splendid creature OF God, this dlvlneIy
honored being, an instrument OF atroclou5
evlI2 1 make no indiscriminate assault
against the TURF believe in the turf IL it
can be conducted on right principles and
with no betting. There Is no mora harm IN
Offering prize fer the swiftest racer than
there is harm ct an agricultural fair in offer-
| ing a prize 20 the farmer who has the pest
| wheat, or to the fruit grower who mas the
largest pear or to the machinist who pre-
sents the best corn thrasher, or in school
Offering q prize Of copy Of Shakespeare to
the best reader, or in household giving
lump of sugar to the best behaved youngster.
Prizes nv all means. rewards by all means
That is the way God develops the race. Re-
wards for all kinds of we'll doing. Heaven
itself is called a prize, "the prize OF
the high calling Of God in Christ DE-
sus." So what Is right in one direction Is
right in another direction. And wjthoutthe
prizes the horses feetness and beauty and
strength will never be fully DEVELOPED lit
cost $1,000 or $4,000 or SO, OOJ and the result
be achieved, it is cheap. But the SIN begins
where the betting begins, for that is gam
bling, or the effort to get that for which you
give no equivalent, and gambling, whether
| on a large scale or a small scale. ought to be
denounced OF men as II WHY pc accursed OF
| God. If you have won fifty cents or S6OOJ
as a wager. YOU had better get rid OF 1t. Get
rid of it right away. Give it to some one
who lost in a bet, or give it to some great
reformatory institution, or IL you 90 not ike
that, 60 down to the river and pltcD II on
tho docks, You cannot afford to keep u. Ii
will burn a hole in your purse, it will burn a
hole in your estate, and you will lose all tnat,
perhaps 1000 times more-perhaps you VIII
lose all Gambling blasts a man or 1t D astS
his children, generally both and all.
What spectacle when at Saratoga, or at
Long Branch, or at Brighton Beach, or at
Sheepshead Bay, the horses start, and IN q
flash $4,000 or 100000 change hands!
Multitudes ruined by losing the bet, others
worse ruined by gaining the bet; Tor II man
1 ~ hn Do dis
couraged and quit, but if he win the Der ne
is very apt to 90 straight on to hell
An intimate friend, a journalist, who IN
the line of his profession investigated TINS
evil, tells me that there are three dlnerent
kinds OF betting at horse races, and they are
about equally leprous->by "auction pools,
by "French mutuals," by what, IS called
'bookmaking gambling, all pad, all
rotten with iniquity, There IS one woro
that needs to be written on the brow OF every
BOOKSELLER as he sits deducting his three OF
five per cent, and slyly ringing up more
tickets than were sold on the winning hors
"a word to be written also on the brow
of every bookkeeper who at extra III
ducement scratches horse of OF the race
and on the brow Of every jockey who slack
ems pace that, according to agreement, an
other may win, and writing over ever,
Judges stand and writing On every poara o
the surrounding fences. mat Word ]
"swindler!" Yet thousands bet Lawyer
bet. Judges of courts bet. Members OF tn
Legislature bet. Members OF Congress Der
Professors of religion bet. Teachers ana su
perintendents of Sunday-schools, am told
be-. Ladies bet not directly, nut throug
agents. Yesterday and every day they bel
thew gain, they lose; and this summer, whil
the parasols swing and the hands clap, anC
the huzzas deafen, there will be multitud
of people caioled and deceived and cheated
who will at the races go neck and neck, necl
and neck to perdit1on. :,
Cultivate the horse by all means, driv
him as fast as you desire, provided you az
not iniure him or endanger yourself o.
others. but be careful and do not harness tn
horse to the chariot of sin. Do not throw
your Jewels ofmorality under the flying hoo
| Donot under the prctext OF improving IN
horse destroy q man. Do not have your mann
put down in the ever increasing catalogu
| Of those who are ruined for both world
| bv the designations of the American rae
course. They say that an honest race cours
is "straight" track, and that dlshones
. race course is "crooked" track-that l!
: the parlance abroad-but 1 tell you that ever.
! | race track surrounded by betting men an
.. betting women and betting customs is
straight track-I mean straight down. Chris
j asked in one of His gospels, SIS not maj
better than Sheep" say, yes. and he
better than all the stee Is that with lathere
, fanks ever shot around the ring at rae
: course. That Is q very poor job by which
man in order to get horse to come out
full length ahead of some other racer s.
lanes his own morals that he comes out
whole length behind in the race set beior