The Iola register., 1899-08-25

hold their fans, you know that they are
not so much impressed with the heat as
with the picturesqueness of half dis
closed features. Four puny souls stand
in the organ loft and squall n tune that
nobody knows, and worshipers, with
So 900 worth of diamonds on the right
hand, drop cent into the poor box, and |
then the benediction is pronounced,
and the farce is ended. The toughest
thing | ever tried to do was to be good |
at watering place. The air is be-
witched with the "world, the flesh and |
the devil" There are Christians who, |
in three or four weeks in such place, |
have had such terrible rents made i'm
their Christian robe that they had to
keep darning it until Christmas to get
il mended.
The health of a great many people
makes an annual visit to some mineral
spring an absolute necessity, but take
your Bible along with you, and take an
hour for secret prayer every day.
/ though you be surrounded by guifaw
and saturnalia. Keep holy the Sab
| bath. though they dcride you as big
| otcd Puritan. Stand Off from gambling
! hells and those other institutions which
propose to initiate on this side the wa
ter the iniquitics of Badcn-Badcn. Let
Your moral and your immoral health
keep pace with your physical rccupera-
ton, and remember that all the sui
phur and chalybcate springs cannot do
you so much good as the healing,
perennial flood that breaks forth from
4 /. / s.,ttt
last summer If so make it fit vesti-
bue of Heaven.
Another temptation lowering around
nearly all our watering places is the
horse racing business. We all admire
the horse, but we do not think that its
beauty or speed ought to be cultured at
the expense of human degradation. The
horse race is not of such importance as
the human race. The Bible intimates
that a man is better than a sheep, and
suppose he is better than horse,
though. like Jobs stallion, his neck
be clothed with thunder. Horse races
in olden times were under the ban OF
Christian people, and in our day the
same institution has come up under tic-
titious names. And it is called a sum
mer meeting" almost suggestive OF
positive religious exercises. And it is
called an agricultural fair" suggest
i've of everything that is improving in
the art Of farming, but under these de-
ceptive titles are the same cheating,
and the same betting, and the same
drunkenness, and the same yagabond-
age. and the same abominatiou that
were to be found under the old horse
racing system.
| never knew a man yet who could
give himself to the pleasures Of the turf
for a long reach of time and not be bat
tered in morals. They hook up their
spanking team and put on their sport
ing cap and light their cigar and take
the rcins and dash down on the road
to perdtion! The great day at Sara
toga and Brighton Beach and Cape May
and nearly all the other watering places
is the day of the races. The hotels are
thronged, every kind of equipage is
taken up at an almost fabulous price,
and there are many respectable people
minglug with Jockeys and gamblers
and libertines and foul-mouthed men
ana lbSNN Nhllflls I llN btll N'llNNl oNil .
! up the brandy smash. The bets run
/ high. The greenhorns, supposing all
9 is fair, put in their money soon enough
to lose il. Three weeks before the
race takes place the struggle is decided
and the men in the secret know ON
which steed to bet their money. The
, men on the horses riding around long
7 ago arranged who shall win. Leaning
. from the stand or from the carriages
, are men and women so absorbed in the
! struggle of bone and muscle and mettlC
: that they make grand harvest for the
o picllpockets, who carry off the pocket
h books and the portemonnaics. Men
looking on see only string Of horses
with their riders flying around the
o ring. But there is many man on that
= stand whose honor and domestic hap
a piness and fortune-white name, white
foot, white flank-are in the ring
G racing with inebriety and with fraut
G and with profanity and with ruin
black neck, black foot black flank
: Neck and neck go the horses in tha
7 moral EPSON. White horse of honor
. black horse of ruin. Death says: %
. will bet on the black horse" Spec
+ tator says: 81 will bet on the white
= horse" The white horse of honor {
y little way ahead. The black horse o
+ ruin, Satan mounted, all the time gain
I ing ON him. Spectator breathless
s They put on the lash, dig in the spurs
= There! They are past the stand. Sure
n Just as l expected. The black horse o
s ruin has won the race, and all the gal
g leries of darkness "huzza! huzza!' anC
l. the devils come in to pick up theil
= wagers. All, my friends, have nothing
to do with horse racing dissipation
O this summer.
IT Another temptation lowering arounC
q the watering place is the formation o
d hasty and lifelong alliances. The wa
n tering places are responsible for more