The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-11-21


nattles Of the world are probably not
nil past, our Christian patriotism. y de
manJs thatwe be Interested inequina
velocity. We might as well have poorer
gnns IN our arscnals and clumsiei
sbips II our navy yards than other ma
tinna as 10 have under our cavalry
saddles and before our parks aof art'l
lerv 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 fray, this arm
of the military service has oeen
recognized. linmilcar. Hannibal
iustavus Adolphus, Marshal Ney were
cavalrymen. In this arm OF the ser
vice Charles Martel, at the battle Of
poitfers. beat back the Arab INVASION
The Carthuginian cavalry. with tn Gloss
OF only zoo men, overthrow the Roman
army with the loss of 10000 men In
the same way the Spanish cavalry
drove back the Moorish hordes. The
best way TO keep peace in this country
and in all countries, is to prepare Tor
war. and there is no success in such
contest unless there be plenty of light
footed chargers Our Christian patriot
ism and our instruction from the Word
Of God demand that first of all we
kindly treat the horse, and, then, after
that, that we dcvelope his tleetness
and his grandeur and his majesty and
his strength.
But what shall I say of the effort be-
ing made in this day on large scale
10 make this splendid creature OF God,
this divinely honorCd being, an instru-
lncnt Of atrocious evil? | make no in
discriminate assault against the turf.
| believe ia the turf If it can be con-
Quoted on right principles and with no
betting. There is no moro harm in Of
fcring 4 prize for the swiftest racer
than there is harm at an agricultural
fair in offering n prize to the farmer
who has the best wheat, or to the
fruit.grower who has the largest pear,
or to the machinist who presents
the best corn-thrcsher, or in school
Offering prize OF copy Of Shak-
spearc TO :hc best reader, or in n
household giving n lump Of sugar
to the best behaved younTstcr.
Prizes by all means. Rewards Oy all
means. That is the way God de-
vrlOpes the race. rewards for all
kinds Of wcll-uoing. Heaven itself is
called prize: The prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus" SO
what is right in one direction is right
in another direction. And without
the prizes the horses tieetness and
beauty and strength will never be
fully developed. If it cost 81 900, or
s. 900. or $40 600, and the result be
achieved, it is cheap. But the sin be-
gins where the betting begins. for
that is gambling, or the effort to
get that for which YOU give no
and gambling, whether
on large scale or small scale, ought
to be denounced Of men as it will be
accused of God. If you have won fifty
cents or S., 900 as wager, yOu had bet
ter get rid of it. Get rid of it right away
to some one who lost in bet, or give
it to some great rcformatory institu-
zion, or if you do not like that, 90
down to the river and pitch it off the
docks. You can not afford to keep it.
1t will burn a hole in your purse, it
will Ourn hole in your estate, and
yOu will lose that, perhaps ten thou
sand times mOrc-perhaDs YOU will
lose all. Gambling blasts u man or it
blasts his children. Generally both
and all.
What a spectacle when at Saratoga.
or at Long Branch, or at Brighton
Beach, or at Sheepshead Bay, the
horses start, and in flash fifty or a
hundred thousand dollars changes
hands! Multitudes ruined bv losing
the bet; others worse ruined bv gain.
ing the bet; for if man lose in a bet
at horse race, he may DC DISCOURAGED
and quit, but if he win tho bet he is
very apt TO go straight on to hell!
An intimate friend, a journalist, who
in the line of his profession investi-
gated this evil, tells me that there are
three different kinds OF betting at
horse races, and they are about equally
IeprouS by auction pools" by
French Mutuals," by what is called
'bookmaking"--all gambling, all bad.
all rotten with iniquity. There is one
word that needs to be written on the
brow of every BOOKSELLER as ne sits
aeducting his three or FIVE per cent,
and slyly ringing up" more tickets
than were sold on the winning horse
4 word to be written also on the
brow OF every bookkeeeper who at
extra inducement scratches horse off
Of the race, and on the brow of every
Jockey who slackens pace that, accord.
ng TO agreement, another may win.
inf written over every judges stand,
Ind written on every board of the sur.
fences. That word IL gtS,,,;,,