Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1895-11-01

cavalry, with the loss Of only 100 men, over
threw the Roman army with theloss Of To-
900. In the same way the Spanish chtvairy |
drove back the Moorish hordes. The best !
way to keep peace In this country and I'm all |
countries Is to be prepared for war.and there
Is no success In such q contest unless there
be plenty OF light footed chargers. Our
Christian patriotism and our instruction
from the word of God demand that first OF |
all we kindly treat the horse, and then after
that. that we develop his feetness and his
grandeur and bis majesty and his strength.
But what shall l say of the effort being
made in this day on q large scale 20 make
this splendid creature OF God, this divinely
honored being, an instrument of atrocious
eviI7 I make no indiscriminate assault
against the turf, believe In the turf II 1t
can be conducted on right principles and
with no betting. There is no more harm in
Offering prize for the swiftest racer than
there Is harm at an agricultural fair In offer
ing prize to the farmer who has the best
wheat, or 10 the fruit grower who has the
largest pear, or TO the maehinist who pre-
sents the best corn thrashen or in a school
Offering 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, rewards by all means.
wards for all kinds Of we'll doing. Heaven
itself is called q prize, ''the prize OF
the high calling OF God in Christ Je-
sus." 80 what Is right in one direction is
right in another direction. And withoutthe
prizes the horses heetness and beauty and
strength will never be fully developed. Ifit
cost $1,000 or $4,000 or $10, 900 and the result
be achieved, It is cheap. But the sin begins
where the betting begins, for that Is gam
bling, or the effort to get that for which you
give no equivalent, and gambling, whether
on large scale or q small scale, ought to be
denounced Of men as IT will be accursed OF
God. II you have won fifty cents or $4,000
as a wager, You had better get nd OF it. Get
nd OF ii right away. Give it to some on6
reformatory institution, or II you do not like
that, 90 down to the river and pitch it of
the docks, You cannot AFFORD TO keep IL. II
will burn a hole in your purse, it will bum
hole in your estate, and you will lose all that,
perhaps 1000 times more-perhaps you viii
lose ali. Gambling blasts a man or 1t blasts
his children, generally both and all.
What a spectacle when at Saratoga, or Mt
Long Branch. or at Brighton Beach, or at
Sheepshead Bay, the horses start, and In a
fash 5000 or S100,000 change hands!
Multitudes ruined by losing the bet, others
worse ruined by gaining the bet; for IL man
lose q bet at Q horse race, he may be dis
couraged and quit, but IL he win the bet he
Is very apt to go straight on to hell!
An intimate friend, journalist, who In
the line OF his profession Investigated this
evil. tells me that there are three different
kinds OF betting at horse races, and they are
about equally leprous-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 he sits deducting his three or
| i've per cent, and slyly ringing mp" more
tickets than were sold ON the winning horse
| "a word to be written also on the brow
| OF every bookkeeper who NJ extra In
| ducement scratches horse of OF the race,
and on the brow of every jockey who slack
ems pace that, according to agreement, an
other may win, and writing over every
Judges stand, and writing on every board Of
the surrounding fences. That word is
| stsvindIer!" Yet thousands bet. Lawyers
bet. Judges OF courts bet. Members OF the
Legislature bet. Members Of Congress bet.
Professors OF religion bet. Teachers and SUI
perintendents Of Sunday schools, am told.
be-. 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 huzzas deafen, there viii be a multitude
Of people eajoled and deceived and cheated,
who will at the races go neck and neck, neck
and neck to periition-
Cultivate the horse by all means, drive
him ne fast az you desire, provided you do
not injure him or endanger yourself or
Others, bat be careful and do not harness the
horse to the chariot Of sin. Do not throw
your Jewels oimorality under the flying hooi
Do not under the prcte1t of improving tho
horse destroy a man. Do not haveyour name
put down In the ever increasing catalogue
Of those who are ruined for both worlds
by the designations Of :the American race
course. They say that an honest race course
II AZ al NA,k 1snAA ,ooh
race course IS a crooked" track-that Is
the parlance abroad-but I tell you that every
race track surrounded by betting men and
betting women and betting customs is q
straight track-I mean straight down. Christ
asked in one Of His gospels, "Is not q man
better than sheep2" Isay, yes. and he is
better than all the steeds that with lsthered
tanks ever shot around the ring at a race
course. That Is = very poor job by which a
man in order to get u horse to como out a
full length ahead of some other racer so
lanes his own morals that he comes out q
whole length behind in the race set before
him. -
Do YOU not realize the fact that there Is a
! mighty effort on all sides to-day to get
money without earning III That isthe curse
: Of sill the cities; II Is the curse OF America
the effort to get money without earning it
!! and as other forms Of stealing are not re-
spectacle, they 60 into these gambling prac-
tices. 1 preach this sermon on square old
fashioned honesty. have said nothing
} against the horse, ! have said nothing
} against the turf IhRve said everything
against their prostitution. Young men, you
I go into STRAIGHTFORWARD industries. and
} YOU will have better livelihood, and you
will have larger permanent success than you
, can ever get by a wager, but you get in with
some OF the whisky, rum blotched crew
I which see going down on the boulevards,
though never bet, I will risk this wager,
: Is, 900, 900 to nothing. you will be debauched
| and damned.
Cultivate the horse, own him IL you car
/ afford to own him, test all the speed he has
I IL he hsve any speed in him, bur be careful
: which way YOU drive. You cannot AWAY!
tell WIZ, direction a man Is driving in by tn
way hK horses head. In my boyhood VI
rode three miles every Sabbath morning t
: the country church. We were drawn by twC
r fine horses. My father drove. He knew
Z them, and they knew him. They wer
I | friends. Sometimes they loved TO go rapid
8 ". and he did not interfere with their hap
. piness. He had all OF US in tn
wagon with him. he drove to the countr.
[ ! church The fact is that for eighty-tw'
= wears he drove in the same direction TIL
roam span thar speak Of was long ago IN
4 hitched, and the driver put up his whip Il
}, the wagon house never againto take II down
0 but in those good old times learned some
: thing that never forgot-ihat a man ma
| admire a horse. and love horse, and b
proud of horse, and NOT always be Willing
TO take the dust OF the preceding vehicle
. and vet be Christian, an earnest Christian
o an humble Christian, & conSecrated CHRIS
a tian. useful until tho last, so that at hi
| Io.th tba ohu roh nf G0d cries ont no EliSh