Connecticut western news., 1895-10-24

wnacked ana cruelty treated and frozen and heated and overdriven-intoa an ey erlasting stage horse, an eternal traveller on a towpath, or tied to an eternal post, in an eternal winter. smitten with eter- nal epizootics!
 Oh, is it not shame that the brute creation. which had the fi1st possession of our world, should be so maltreated by the race that came in last-the fowl and the fish created on the fifth day, the horse and the cattle created on the morning of the sixth day and the hu- man race not created until the evening of the sixth day? It ought to be that if any man overdrives horse, or feeds him when he is hot, or recklessly drives nail into the quick of his hoof, or rowels him to see him prance, or so shoes him that his fetlocks drop blood, or puts collar on raw neck, or un- necessarily clutches his tongue with a twisted. bit, or cuts off his hair until he has no defense against the cold. or un- mercifully abbreyiates the natural de- fense against insectile annoyance-that such a man as that himself ought to be made to pull and let his horse ride!
 Kindness to Brutes.
 But not only do our, humanity and our Christian principle and the dictates of God demand that we kindly treat the brute creation, and especially the horse. but I go further and say that whatever. can be done for the develop ment of his heetpess. and his strength, and his majesty ought to be done. We need to study his anatomy and his adap- tations am glad that large books have been written to show how he. can be best managed. and how his ailments can be cured, and what his usefulness is, and what his capacities are. It would be shame if in this age of the world, when the florist has turned the thin flower of the wood into a gorgeous rose, and the pomologist has changed the acrid and gparled fruit of the an clients into the very poetry of pear and peach and plum and grape and apple, and the snarhng cur of the orient has become the great mastiff, and the mis- erable creature of the olden times barn. yard has become the Deyonshire, and the Alderney, and the Shorthorn. that the horse. grander than them all, should get no advantage from. our science, or our civilization, or our Christianity. Groomed to the last point of soft bril- liance, his flowing mane pillow of beauty, his arched neck in utmost rhythm of curve, let him be harnessed in graceful trappings and then driven to the furthest goal of excellence, and then fed at luxuriant oatbins and blank eted in comfortable stall. The long tried and faithful servant of the human race deserves all kindness, all care, all re- ward, alrsucculent forage and soft lit ter and paradisaical pasture field. Those farms in Kentucky and in different parts of the north, where the horse is trained to perfection in feetness and in beauty and in majesty, are we'll set apart. There is no more virtue in driv- ing slow than in driving fast any more than freight train going 10 miles the hour is better than an express train go- ing 90.
 world that Q thing must be necessarily good and Christian if it is slow and dull and plodding. There are very few good people who seem to imagine it is humbly pious to drive spavined, gall ed, glandered. spring halted, blind stag gered jade. There is not so much virtue in Rosinante as in a Bucepnalus, We wantswifter horses, and swifter men, and swifter enterprises, and the church NE n<l lr, %n .nk Ofx fn TNrv trnt Quick tempests, quick lightnings, quick streams; why not quick horses? In the time of war the cavalry service does the most execution, and az the battles. of the world are probably not all past, our Christian patriotism demands that we be interested in equinal velocity. We might as well have poorer guns in our arsenals and clnmsier ships in our navy yards than other nations as to have under our cavalry saddles and before our parks of artillery ,slower horses. From the battle of Granious, 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 fray, this arm of the military service has been recognized. Hamilcar,. Hanni- bal Gustavus Adolphus, Marshal Ney were cavalrymen. In this arm of the service Charles Martel at the battle of Poitiers beat back the Arab invasion. The Carthaginian cavalry, with the loss of only TOO men, oyerthrew the Roman army with the loss of 10000. In the same way the Spanish chivalry drove back the Moorish hordes. The best way to keep peace in this country and in all countries is to be prepared for war, and there is no success in such a contest un- less there be plenty of light footed chargers Our Christian patriotism and our instruction from the word of God de- nand that first of all we kindly treat the, horse, and then after that, that ws develop his feetness and his grandeur and his majesty and his strength.
 An Instrument of Evil.
 But what shall I say of the effor, being made in this day on large scals to make this splendid creature of God this divinely honored being, an instru
 ment of atrociops evil? I make no in | discriminate assault against the turf. | believe in the turf if it can be conduct
 ed on right principles and with no bet ting. There is no more harm in oferint
 a prize for the swiftest racer than ther,
 is harm at an agricultural fair in offer ing prize to the farmer who has tn,
 best wheat, or to. the fruit grower wht
 has the largest pear, or to the machinis
 who presents the best corn thrssher, ol
 in school offering prize of a Copy o
 Shakespeare to the best reader, or in ,
 household giving a lump of sugar tt
 the best behaved youngster. Prizes b,
 all means, rewards by all means. Ina
 is the way God develops the race. Re
 wards for all kinds of we'll doing. Heav
 en itself is called a prize, "the priz'
 of the high calling of God in Christ Je
 sus. So what is right in one direction is rioht in another dirocfion And xv; f h