The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-10-30

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lasting stage horse, an eternal traveller
on a towpath, or tied to an eternal
winter, snitten with eternal epizoo-
tics,
Oh. is it not a shame that the prute
creation, which had first 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
human race not created until the even
ing of the sixth day? 1t ought to be
that if any man overdrives horse, or
feeds him when he is hot, or reckless
" drives nail into the quick OF his
hoof, or rowels him to see him prance.
or SC shoes him that his fetlocks drop
blood. or puts collar on raw neck,
or unnecessarily cluthes his tongue
with twisted bit or cut Oft his halr
until he has no defense against the
cold. or numerically abbreviates the
natural defense against lnsectlle an
noyance-that such a man as that
himself ought to be mace to pull and
let his horse ride.
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 60 farther and say that
whatever can be done for the develop
ment of MS fleetness and his strength
and his majesty ought to be done. we
need to study his anatomy and his
adaptations. lam 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: 1t
would be a shame if in this age OF the
world, when the florist has turned the
thin flower Of the wood into a gorge
Gus rose and the pomologlst has
changed the acried and gr.arled fruit OF
the ancients into the very poetry OF
pear and peach and plum and grape
and apple and the snarling cur OF the
orient has become the great mastltf,
and the miserable creature of the olden
times barnyard has become the
Devonsnire, and the Alderney, and
the Shorthorn, that the horse, grander
than them all, should get no advant-
age from our science or our civilization
or our Christianity. Groomed to the
last point of soft brilliance, his flowing
name billow of beauty, his arched
neck in utmost rhythm, OF curve. let
him be harnessed in grecefu4 trapplngSS
and then driven to the farthest goal
of excellence and then fed at luxurl-
ant oat bins and blanketed In comfort,
able stall. The long tried and faithful
servant of the human race deserves all
kindness, all reward, all succulent TOR.
age and soft letter and paradlsalcal
pasture field. Those farms IN Ken
tucky and in different parts OF the
north, where the horse is trained to
perfection in deetness and IN beauty
and in majesty, are well set apart.
There is no more virtue IN driving slow
than in driving fast, any more than a
freight train going.l0 milesthe hoNr IS
better than an express .rain going 30.
There is delusion abroad in the
world that thing must be necessarily y
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 drivea spawned,
CALLED, glandered, spring halted blind
staggered jade. There is not so much
viture in a Rosinante as in Bucer.
halus. We want swifter horses and
swifter men and swifter enterprises,
and the church of God needs to get OIL
its log trot. Quick tempests, quick
liehtnings, Quick streams; why moi
| quick horses? In the time OF war the
cavalary service does the most eNecu.
ton, and as the battles Of the worlo
are probably not all past, our Chris
tian patriotism demands that we be in
terested in equinal velocity. we
might as well have poorer guns in our
arsenals and clumsier 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 Grenlcus,
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 Adol
phus, Marshal Ney, were cavalrymesn.
In this arm of the service, Charlie:
Martel at the battle Of Poitiers beat
back the Arab invasion: The Cartha
ginian cavalry, with the loss Of only
700 men, overthrow the Roman army
with the loss of 10000. In the same
way the Spanish chivalry drove back
the Moorish hordes. The best way tc
keep peace in this iscountry and IN al
! countries is 10 be prepared for war
and there is no success in such a con
test unless there be plenty OF light
footed chargers. Our Christian patrl
| otism and our instruction from the
Word of God demand that first OF al
we kindly treat the horse, and ther
after that. that we develop his fleet
ness, and his grandeur, and his maJes
", and his 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 ipstru
ment of atrocious evil? l make no in
discriminate assault against the turf.
| believ in the turf If it can be con
Quoted on right principles and with nc
betting. There IS no more harm IN Of
! fering a prize for the swiftest race?
than there is harm at an agricultural
fair in offering 3 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 thrasher, or in a school offering
a prize of copy Of Shakespeare to the
best reader or in household giving
| lump of sugar to he best behaved
youngster. Prizes byall means. That
| is the wav God develops the race. Re
wards for all kinds of well doing
Heaven itself is called prize, the prlzf
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