Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-10-25

until the evening Of tho sixth day? 1t
ought to be that If any man overdrives a
horse, or feeds him when ho is hot, or rock-
lessly drives a nail into the quick Of his
hoof or rOwels him to soc him prance, or
SO shoes him that his fetlocks drop blood,
or puts a collar ON raw nook, or unneces-
sarily clutches his tongue with twisted
bit, or cuts of his hair until he has no de-
Tense against the cold, or numerically alb
hreyiates the natural defense against in
soctile annoyance-that such man rs
that himself ought to b. made to pull and
let his horse ridel
A Question OF Speed.
But not only do our humanity and ou-
Christian principle and the dictates of Sod
demand that wo kindly treat tho brute
creation and especially the horse, but so
farther aud say that whatever can DO done
for the development Of his feetness and
his strength and his majesty ought TO he
done We need to study his anatomy and
his adaptations. I 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 arc. 1t would be
shame II in this age Of the world, when
the florist has turned the thin flower of
the wood into a gorgeous rose and the
pomuloglst has changed the acrid and
! gnarlcd fruit Of tho ancients into the very
poetry Of pear and peach and plum and
Crane and apple and the snarling cur Of
/ tho orient has become The great mastifl,
and the miserable creature Of tho olden
times barnvard has become the Devon
shire, and the Attorney, and the Short
I horn, that the horse grander than them
all, should get no advantage from our sci
ence or our civilization or our Christian
ity. droomed To the last point Of soft bril-
lance, his flowing name billow Of beau
/ ty, his arohcd neck in utmost rhythm OF
curve, let him be haruessed in graceful
, trappings and then driven to the farthest
goal Of excellence and then fed at luxuri
ant cat bins and blanketed in comfortable
stall Tho long tried and faithful servant
of the human race deserves all kindness,
all care all reward, all succulent forage
and soft litter and paradisaical pasture
field Those farms in Kentucky and in
different parts of the north, where the
horse is trained to perfection in 1eetness
and in beauty and in majesty, are well set
apart. There is no more virtue in driving
slow than in driving fast, any moro than
freight train going 10 miles the hour is
better than an express train going 90.
There is delusion abroad in the world
that thing must DO necessarily good and
Chrisiian u it is slow and duh and plod-
ding. There are very few good people who
seem to imagine 1t is humbly pious to
drive a spawned, CALLED, glandered, spring /
halted, blind staggered jade There is not |
so much virtue in u Rosinanto as in a Blu /
cephalus. We want swifter horses and 1
swiftcr mon and swifter enterprises and /
the church Of God needs to get off its jog .
trot. Quick tompests, quick lightnings, (
quick streams; why not quick hCrsesg In (
the time Of war the cavalry service does .
the most execution, and Us tho battles OF
tho world are probably not all past, our .
Christian patriotism demands that we be /
interested in cquinal velocity. We might I
as well have poorer guns in our arscnals
and Clumsier ships in oar navy yards than
other nations, rs to have under our cavalry
saddles and before our parks of artillery
slower horses. From the battle Of Gran
icus, whore the Persian horses drove the
Macedonian infantry into the river, clear
down to the horses on which Philip Sheri-
dan and Stonewall jackson rode into tho
fray, this arm Of the military service has
been recognized. Hamilcar, Hannibal,
Gustavus Adolphus, Marshal Ney, were
cayalrymen. In this arm Of the service
Charles Martel at the battle of Poitiors
beat back the Arab invasion. The Car
thagiuian cavalry, with the loss of only
zoo men, overthrow tho Roman army wi I
tho loss of 10000. In tho Same way the
Spanish chivalry drove back the Moorish
hordos. Tho 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 unless there be plenty of
light footed chargers. Our Christian patri-
otism and our instruction from the Word
of God demand that first of all we kindly
treat the horse aud then after that, that
we develop his fleetness, and his grandeur,
and his majesty, and his strength.
An Atrocious Evil.
But what shall I say Of tho effort being
made in this day on a large scale to make
this splendid creature of God, this diyinely
honor5d being an instrument of atrocious
evil? l mako no indiscriminate assault
against the turf I believe in the turf if it
can be conducted on right principles and
with no betting There is no more harm
in Offering prizo for the swiftest racer
than there is harm at an agricultural fair
in Offering a prize to the farmer who has
the best wheat, or 10 the fruit grower who
has tie largest pear, OF to the machinist
who presents the best corn thrasher, or in
a school Offering a prize of a copy Of
Shakespeare to the best reader, or in
household giving a lump of sugar to the
best behaved youngster. Prizes by all
means, rewards by all means, That is tho
way God doYclops tie gace Rewards for
all kinds of well doing. Heaven itself is
called u prize ''1'he prize Of the high call
ing of God in Christ Jesus. So what is
right in one direction Is right in another
direction And without the prizes the
horse's fleetness and beauty and strength
will never be fully developed If it cost
81, 600 or s., 600 or SO, 600, and the result
be achieved, it is cheap. But the sin be-
gins where the betting begins, for that is
or the effort to get that for
which you give 10 equivalent and gam
bling, whether on "A large scale or a small
scale, ought to be denounced of men as 1t
will be accurscd Of God. If you have won
80 cents or 50, 600 as wager, you had bet
ter get rid Of it. Get rid Of it right away.
Give it to some one who lost IN bet, or
give 1t TO some great reformatory institu-
Iion or if you do not like that, go down
10 the river and pitch It OF the docks.
You cannot afford to keep it. 1t will burn
a hole IN your purse, it will burn hole in
your estate and you Will lose all thut, per-
iaps 10, 900 times more-parhaps you Will
lose all. Gambling blasts a man or it
blasts his children. Generally both and all. Z
What a spectacle whel It Saratoga, or !
It Long Branc, or at Brighton Beach, or at :
shoepshead Bay, tho horses start, and IN q
lash $50. 000 or Sl00.O change hands
ruined by losing this bet, others
worse ruined by gaining the bot, for II
man lose in bet at a horse raco be mny
DO discouraged and quit, but II no win the
bot he is very apt to 90 straight on to hell
An intimate friend, journalist, who '
IN the limo Of his profession Investigated I
his evil tells mo that there nre three diff J
leront kinds of betting at horse races, and 6
hey are about equally leprous by 'auc- '
ion pools" by French mutuals, by {
what is called "bookmaking "-all gam 1
bling, all bad, all rotten with iniquity
There is one word that needs to be written e
On the brow Of every bookseller as he sits s