Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-10-26

is right IN another direction. And with
out the prizes the horses feetness ani
beauty and strength will never be fully
developed. If it cost 81, 900 or So, 900
or $40, 900 and the result be achieved
1t is cheap But the sin begins where
the betting begins, for that is gambling
or the effort to get that for which yor
give no equivalent, and gambling
whether Oh large scale or small scale
ought to DO denounced of men as it will
be acoursed of God. If you have won 81
cents or So, 900 as wager, you had bet
ter get rid Of it. Get rid Of 1t right
away. Give 1t to some one who lost il
a bet, or give 1t to some great reforma
tory institution, or If you do not like
that, go down to the river and pitch il
of the docks You cannot afford to keep
it twill burn hole in your purse, il
will burn hole in your estate, and you
will lose all that, perhaps 1000 times
more-perhaps you will lose all Gam.
bling blasts a man or 1t blasts his chill.
dren, generally both and all.
'Bookmaking."
What spectacle when at Saratoga,
or at Long Branch, or at Brighton
Beach, or Mt Sheepshead Bay, the horses
start, and in a fash 500, 900 or 500, 00C
change hands Multitudes ruined by
losing the bet, others worse ruined by
gaining the bot; for if a man lose in 9
bet at a horse race, he may be discour-
aged and quit, but if he win the bet he
is very apt to go straight on to hell
An intimate FRIEND a journalist, who
in the line of his profession investigated
this evil, tells me that there are three
different 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 bad, all rotten with in
iquity. There is one word that needs to
be written Oh the brow of every poolsell-
er as he sits deducting his OF 5 per
cent, and slyly ringing up" more tick
cts than were sold On the winning horse
"a word to be written also Oh the brow
of every bookkeeper who at extra in
ducement scratches horse off Of the
race, and on the brow Of every jockey
who slackens pace that, according to
agreement, another may win, and writ
ten over every judges stand, and writ
ten Oh every board Of the surrounding
fences. That word is "swindlerl'' Yet
Thousands bet. Lawyers bet. Judges Of
courts bet. Members Of the legislature
bet. Members Of congress bet. Profess
ors Of religion bet. Teachers and su-
perintcndents of Sunday schools, I am
told, bet Ladies bet, not directly, but
through agents. Yesterday and every
day they bet, they gain, they lose; and
this summer, while the parasols swing,
and the hands clap, and the huzzas deaf
en-, there will be multitude of people
cajoled and deceived and cheated, who
will at the races go neck and neck, neck
and neck to perdition.
Cultivate the horse by all means,
drive him as fast as you desire, provid-
ed you do not injure him or endanger
yourself or others, but be careful and
do not harness the horse to the chariot
of sin. Do not throw your jewels of
morality under the flying hoof Do not
under the prete1t Of improving the horse
s5 5e.t ~ PCT aage as az slasaaa'
logue Of those who are ruined for both
worlds by the designations of the Amer
lean race course. They say that an hon
est race course is straight" track, and
that a dishonest race course is a "crook-
ed' track-that is the parlance abroad
but tell you that every race track sur
rounded by betting men and betting
women and betting customs is a straight
track-1 mean straight down Christ
asked in one of his gospels, lis not
man better than sheep?" say, yes,
and he is better than al the steeds that
with lathered tanks ever shot around
the ring at q lace course. That is very
poor job by which man in order to get
a horse to come out a full length ahead
Of some other racer so lanes his own
morals that he comes out whole length
behind in the race set before him.
a Current Evil.
Do you not realize the fact that there
is q mighty effort on all sides today to
yet money without earning it? That is
the cnrso Of all the cities; 1t is the
curse of America-the effort to get
money without earning it-and as other
forms of stealing are not respectable,
they 60 into these gambling practices.
! preach this sermon OH square old fash
toned honesty. I have said nothing
against the horse, I have said nothing
against the turf. have said everything
against their prostitution. Young men,
you 90 into straightforward Industries,
and you will have better livelihood and
you will have larger permanent success
than you can ever get by a wager, but
you get in with some Of the whisky,
rum blotched crew which l see going
down on the boulcvards, though 1 never
bet, will risk this wager, S., 600, 600
to nothing, you will be debauched and
damned.
Cultivate the horse, own him If you
can afford to own him, test all the
speed no has, If he have any speed in
him, but be careful which way you
urlve. You cannot always tell what d.
rection a man is driving in by the way
his horses head. In my boyhood we rode
three miles every Sabbath morning to
the country church. Viewer drawn by
two fine horses. My father drove. He
knew them, and they knew him. They
were friends. Sometimes they loved to
go rapidly, and he did not interfere
with their happiness. He had all Of US
in the wagon with him he drove to the
country church The fact is that for 81
years be drove in the same direction.
The roam span that I speak Of was long
ago uuhitohed, and the driver put up
his whip in the wagon house never
again to take it down, but in those good
old times I learned something that ]