The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-11-01

beast Sir Henry Ldwrence's
care Of the horse was beauti--
fully Christian He says; II expect
we onall lose Cohfad, though have
/ talsec 50 much care of him that he may
Come in cool. ] always walk him tie
last four or 1--WE miles, and, as / walk
| myself ti:e hrst hour, it is only in tie
middle of the journey we get over the
ground" The EttriclS Shephefd, In
his matchlesz "Anbrosial Nights"
speaks Of the Inaltreatment of the
horse as practical blasphefny' Go
not believe in the transmigration Of
souls, but can not very severely de-
nounce the idea, for, when !
see men who cut and bruise
and whaplt and welt and strike
and maui and outrage and insult
the horse, that beautiful servant of
the human race, who carries our burr
dens and pulls our plows, and turns
our threshers and our mills, and runs
! for out ductors-when / see men thus
beating and abusing aHd outrag-
| ing that creature, il seems TO me that
1t would only be fair that the doctrine
of trsnsmigration of souls should prove
| true, and that for their punishment
they should pass over into some poor
miserable brute and be beaten and
| whacl1ed and cruelty treated, and
frozen and heated and overdriveni into
an everlasting stage horse, an eternal
| traveller ON a tOwpath, OF tied to
an eternal post, In an eternal winter,
smitteh with eternal epizootics! Oh,
| is it not shame that the brute crea-
tiOn, which had the first possession of
our world, should be SO maltreRted 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 hui
man race not created until the even
ing of the sixth day? 1t ought to be
| that IL any man overdrives a horse.
| or feeds him when he is hot, or
recklessly drives a nail into the
| quick Of his hoof, or rowels him to see
him prance, or so shoes him that his
/ fetlocl1s drop blood. or puts collar on
a raw neck, or unnecessary clutches
! his tongue with a twisted bit, or cuts
| off his hair until he has no defense
| against the cold, or numerically alb
/ breviates the natural defense against
| insectile annoyRnce-thats such a man
as that himself ought to be made to
| pull and let his horse ride!
There is n delusion abroad in the
world that 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 a spawned,
| CALLED, glandered, spring-halted. blind
\ a1,
virtue in a Rosinante as in a Buce-
phulus. We want swifter men,
and swifter enterprises, and the
Church of God needs to get off
its jog trot. Quick tempests,
quick lightnings, quick steams; why
not quick horses? In the time of war
the cavalry service does the most exc
cution, and as the battles of the
world are probably not all past,
our Christian patriotism demands
that we be interested in equinal veloc-
| ity. We might as we'll have poorer
guns in our arsenals and clumsier
ships in our navy yards than other ma
tions, as to have under our cavalry
saddles and before our parks
| of artillery slower horses. From
| tho 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 Jack
son rode into the fray, this arm of the
military service has been recognized.
Hamilcar, Hannibal, Gustavus Adolf
phus, Marshal Ney were cavalrymen.
In this arm of the service Charles
Martel, at the battle of Poitiers. beat
back the Arab invasion. The Cartha-
genian cavalry, with the loss of only
seven hundred men, overthew the RO-
man army with a loss of seventy thou
sand. In the same Way the Span
ish 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 contest unless there
be plenty of light-footed chargers
Our Christian patriotism and our in
struction from the word of God de-
mand that first of all we kindly treat
the horse, and then after that, that
we develop his feetness and his
| grandeur and his majesty and strength.
But what shall / say of the effort be-
ing made in this day on large scale
to make this splendid creature of God,
this divinely honored being. an instru-
ment OF atrocious evil? / make no
indiscriminate assault against the
turf. / believe in the turf If it can be
conducted on right principles and
with no betting. There is no
more harm in offering a prize
for the swiftest racer than there is
harm at an agricultural fair in offer
in g prize to the farmer who has the
best wheat, or to the fruit-grower who
has the largest pear, or to the ma
chinist who presents the best corn
| thresher, or in n school offering a
prize of a copy of Shakespeare to the
best reader, or in a household giving
| a lump of sugar to the best behaved
youngster. Prizes by all means, re-
wards by all means. That is the way
| God develops the race. Rewards for
al kinds of well-doing. Heaven
itself is called a prize: "The prize
of the high calling of God i'm
Christ Jesus So what is right in one
direction is right in another direction.
And without the prizes the horses
fieetness and beauty and strength viii
never be fully developed. If it cost
81, 600 or 5000 or $4,000. and the re-
suit be achieved. it is cheap. But the
sin begins where the betting begins,
for that is gambling. or the effort to
get that for which you give no equiva-
lent, and gambling, whether on a
large scale or a small scale,
ought to be denounced of men
as il will be accursed of God. II