The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-21

God demand that we kindly treat the
brute creation, and especially the horse
but / go further. and say that Whatever
can De done for the developments OF his
neetness and his strength and his ma
lesty ought 10 be done. We need 70 STUDY
MS anatomy and his adaptations am
~Elad that large books nave been written
10 show how he can be best managed,
and how his ailments can be- cured and
what his usefulness is and what MS
capacities are. II would be a shame II
in this age Of the world. when the florist
has turned the thin flower Of the wood
into q gorgeous rose, ana the ponoloBlst
has changed the aCrid ana gnaTled fruit
Of the ancients into the very poetry OF
pear, ana peach, and plum, ana grape, ana
apple. and the snarling cur OF the Orient
has become the great mastin, and the
miserable creature of the olden times
barnyaru has become the Devonshire. and
the Alderney. and the ShOrthOrn. that the
morse, grander than them al. should get
no advantage from our science. OF our
civilization, Of our Christianity GrOOmed
TO the last point Of soft brilliance. his flow
ing name billow OF beauty, his archeG
neck IN utmost rhythm OF curve, let him
be harnessed in graceful trappings ana
then driven TO the furthest goal of excel
lence, and then fed at luXuriant oat-bins,
and hlanketed in comfortable stall. The
long-tried and faithful servant Of the
human race deserves all kindness. ali
care, all reward, all succulent forage and
sou Httef ana parddislacal pasture heiG.
THOSE farms In Kentucky and in differens
parts OF the north. where the horse IS
trained to perfection in heetness and in
beauty ana IN majesty, are well set apar..
There Is no more virtue in driving slow
than in driving fast and any more than q
treignt train going ten miles the hour Is
better than an express train going fifty.
Ihere lS delusion abroad in the world
tnat thing must be necessarily good and
Christian lf II IS slow and dull and plod-
ding. There are very few good people
VINO seem to imagine IN is humbly pious
70 Drive a spawned, CALLED glanderec,
spring-halted, blind-staggered Jade There
is not so much virtue i'm q ROsinante as
IN Bucephalus. We want swifter horses
ana sWifter men, and swifter enterprises
ana the church of God needs to get off
its jog trot. Quick tempests, quick lfehr-
nlngs' quick streams; why not quick
hoIsesE In the time of war the cavalry
service docs the most execution and az
the battles Of the world are probably
NOT an past, our Christian patriotism &C.
mands that we be interested in eauinai
NeIoclty. we might as well have poorer
guns in our arsenals and clumsier ships
~ our hdNy-yards than other nations as
70 nave under our cavalry saddles and
DeIore our parks of artillery slower
horses. From the battle of Granicus.
where the Persian horses drove the Mace
t nc IN infantry INTO the river, clear down
~ ~ HofseS on which Philip Sheridan
ana Stonewail jackson rode into the fray
TINS arm of the military service has bee,,
recognized. Hamilcar. Hannibal. Gustav
us Adolphus Marshal Nev were cavajr,-
men. In this arm of the service Charles
Martel a the battle Of Poitiers beat back
me AIab INVASION. The Carthaginian cav
aIIy, WIN me loss Of only zoo men, over
Threw the Roman army with the loss OF
lVVD. IN the same way the Spanish chfv-
airy drove back the Moorish hordes The
best way to keep peace in this country erd
IN an countries is to be prepared for war
anu there Us no success In such contes,
ulless theie be plenty of light-footed
chargers our Christian patriofism ana
our instruction from the Word OF God de.
hIlana that frst Of all We kindly treat the
morse ana then after that, that we devef-
op his heetness and his grandeur and his
majesty and his strength. - MS
D4t Mhal shall / say of the effort being
n n a ln -
TINS splendid creature of God This a.
Nlhely honored being an Instrument Of
aeroclous eyll? | make no indiscriminate
assauit against the turf. | believe in the
turI II 1t can be conducted on right prin-
clples and with no betting There Is no
saote naIIh IN oHering a prize for the
sWliteSt racer than there Is harm at an
agricultural fair in offering a prize TO
the farmer who has the best wheat. or
49,, 70 the Ifult grower who has the largest
pear, or 10 the machinist who presents
me pest corn thresher or in a school Of
Ieflhg a prize of a copy of Shakespeare
TO the best reader or in a household sIv-
ing lump OF sugar to the best behaved
youngster. Prizes by all means rewards
by an means. That is the way God de-
H ,,ai1 me race. Rewards for all KINDS Of
Wen doing Heaven itself is called
prize: The prize of the high calling of
COO in Christ Jesus" So what is right
IN one direction is right in another di-
rection. And without the prizes the
horses feetness and beauty and strength
VIII never be fully developed. If ii cost
aGhleNed, II Is cheap. But the sin be-
gins where the betting begins. for that is
rambling. or the effort to get that for
Whlch you give no equivalent and
or small scale, ought to be
denounced of men as it viii be ac-
cursed OF God. If you have won fifty
cents or 5000 as a wager, you had better
get rid of it. Get rid of it right away
GIVE IL TO some one who lost in a bet, or
give II to some great reformatory in
stttution, or if you do not like that. go
down to the river and pitch il off the
docks. You cannot afford. to keep it, 1t
burn hole in your estate and you will
loose all that, perhaps ten thousand
times more-perhaps you will lose all
children. Generally both and all
What spectacle when at Saratoga, or
at Long Branch, or at Brighton Beach or
at Sheepshead Bay, the horses start, and
IN nash nifty or a hundred thousand
dollars change hands! Multitudes ruin
ed by losing the bet, others worse ruined
by gaining the bet; for if man lose
in bet at a horse race he may be dis
| couraged and quit, but if he win the bet
he is very apt 10 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 differ
ent KINDS or oetung at horse races, and
they are ABOUT equally leprous; by "auc-
ton pools" by French mutuais . Inv
what is called "bookmaking''- all gam
! bling, all bad, all rotten with iniuuity
| There is one word that needs to be writ
! ten on the. brow of every poolseiler as
! he sits deducting his or 5 per cent
/ and slyly ringing up" more tickets than
/ We're sold on the winning horse-a word
/ to be written also on the brow of every
! bookkeeper who at extra Involvement
1 scratches a horse off of the race and an
the brow of every jockey who slackens
/ pace that according to agreement an
other may win, and written over every
/ judge stand, and written on every board
! OF the surrounding fences. That word
is, 'swindle!' Yet thousands bet. Law
yers bet. Judges of courts bet. Members
| of the legislature bet. Members of con-
/ gress bet Professors of religion bet
! Teachers and superintendent of SUNDAY
/ schools, l am 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 huzzas
| deafen, there will be a multitude of people
| caioled, and deceived. and cheated who
Will at the races go neck and neck, neck
| and neck to perdition. Cultivate the horse
| by all means, drive him as fast as YOU de-
sire, provided you do not injure him or en-
danger yourself or others; but be careful
| and do not harness the horse to the chariot
! of sin. Do not throw your jewels of NOR
| ality under the flying hoof. Do not under
| the preteXt of improving the horse DESTROY
/ a man. Do not have your name Dut down