The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-11-02
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hole In your estate, and you will lose
all that, perhaps ten Thousand times
perhaps you will lose all. Gam
bling blasts man or 1t blasts his
children. Generally both and NIL.
What n spectacle when at Saratoga,
or at Long Branch, or at Brighton
Beach, or Mt Sheepshead Bay, tho
horses start, and in a fash fifty thou
sand dollars or one hundred thousand
dollars change handsl Multitudes
ruined by losing the bet, others worse
ruined by gaining the bet; for II n man
lose In n bet at horse race, he may be
discouraged and quit, but IL he win the
bet he is very apt to go straight on to
helll
An intimate friend, journalist, who
in tho line of his profession investi-
gated this evil, tells me that there are
three different kinds of betting Mt
horse races, and they are about equally
leprous; by auction pools, by French
mutuals, by what is called "boolsmak-
ing"--all gambling, all bad, all rotten
with iniquity. There is one word that
needs to be written on the brow of every
| pool seller as he sits deducting his
three or five per cent, and slyly ring
ing up" more tickets than were sold on
the winning horse--a word to be writ
ten also on the brow of every book
keeper who Mt extra inducement
scratches horse off of the race, and
on the brow of every jockey who
slackens pace that, according TO
agreement, arother may win, and
written over every judges stand,
and written on every board OF
the surrounding fences. That
word is. "swindlew Yet thousands
bet. Lawyers bet. Judges of courts
bet. Members of the legislature bet.
Members OF congress bet. Professors
of religion bet. Teachers and super
intendents of Sunday-schools, ain
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 hnzzas deafen,
there will be a multitude of people
cajolcd, and deceived, and cheated,
who will at the races go neck aud
neck, neck and neck to perdition. Gull
tivatc the horse, by all means, drive
him rs fast rs you desire, provided
you do not injure him or cndhngcr
yourself or Others; but be careful and
do not harness the horse to the chariot
OF sin. DO not throw your jewels of
mortality under the flying hoof. Do
not under the pretcNt of improving
the horse destroy II man. DO not
have your name put down in the
ever-incrcasing catalogue of those
who are ruined for both worlds by the
designations Of the American race
course They say that an honest race
course is straight track, and that
a dishonest race course is CROOKED"
+, traclt-that is the parlanee abroad;
but tell you that every race track,
surrounded by betting men and betting
women, and betting customs, is
straig t traell-I mean straight
down. Christ asked in one of His Cos
pels. SIS not man better than a
Sheep" l say, yes, and he is better
than all the steeds that with lathered
TANKS ever shot around the ring at
race course. That is n very poor job
by which man, in order to get a horse
To come out n 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.
Do you not realize the fact that there
is q mighty effort en- all sides to-day
to get money without earning it?
That is the curse of all the cities; it is
the curse of America-the effort to get
money without earning it, and as
other forms of stealing are not respec-
table, they go into these gambling
practices. 1 preach this sermon on
square, old-fashioned honesty. l have
said nothing against the horse; have
said nothing against the turt. have
said everything against their prostitu-
ton. Young men, you go into straight
| forward Industries and you will have
better live hood, and you will have
larger permanent success than you,
can ever get by wager; but you get
| In with some of the whisky, rum
blotched crew which see going down
on the boulevards, though never bet,
l will risk this wager. five million to
nothing, you will be debauched and
damned Cultivate the horse, own
HIN IL you Cdu hHOEu 10 own MIN,
test all the speed he has, II he have
any speed in him; but be careful
which way You drive. You can not al
ways tell what direction a man
is driving in by the way his
horses head. In my boyhood we
rode three miles every Sabbath MORN
ing to the country church. We were
drawn by two fine horses. My father
drove. lie 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 coun-
try church. The fact Is that
for eighty-two years he drove in
the same direction. The roam span
that l speak of was long ago un.
hitched, and the driver put up his
whip in the wagon house. never again
to take it down; but in those good old
times learned something that never
. forgot: that man may admire horse
and love horse, and be proud of q
, horse. and not always be willing tc
take the dust of the preceding vehicle
, | and vet be Christian an earnest