Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-08-26

the flesh md the devil" There are
Christians who in three or four weeks
in such place have had SUCH terrible
rents made in their Christian robe that
they had to keep darning it until
Christmas to get it lnended.
The health of 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 bc surrounded by gulfaw
and saturnalla. Keep holy the Sab
bath, though they deride you as a
bigotcd Puritan. Stand off from gam
bling helis and those other institutions
which propose to initiate on this side
the water the iniQuities Of Baden
Baden. Let your moral and your i'm
mortal health keep pace with your
physical recuperation and remember
that all the sulphur and chnlybeate
springs cannot do you so much good as
the healing, perennial food that breaks
forth from the Rock OF Ages" This
may be your last summer. If SO, make
it fit yestibule of heaven.
Turf AbOmlnntiOn.
Another temptation lowering around
nearly all our watering places Is the
horse racing business. We I'LL admire
the horse, but we do not think that its
beauty or speed ought to be cultured
ut the expense of human degradation.
The horse race is not Of such iInpor-
lance rs the human race. The Dible
inriulntcs that man is better than
sheep, and | suppose he is better than
n horse, though, like Jobs stallion, his
neck be clothed with thunder. Horse
races in oidcn times were under the
ban of Christian people, and in our
day the same institution has come up
under fictitious names. And II Is call
cd summer meeting" almost sug-
ccstiye of positive religious exercises
And it is called an agricultural fan"
suggestive of everything that is im-
proving in the art OF farming. But
under these deceptive titles are the
same cheating, and the same betting,
and the same drunkenness. and the
same vagnboniage, and the same
ahomiilation rhnt were to be found
under the old horse racing system.
never knew Il man yet who could
Give himself Y, the pleasures of the
turf for n long zach OF time and not
be battered in morals. They hook up
their spanking team aud pill on their
sporting cap an; light their cigar and
take the rcius and dash Down IN the
road 10 perdition. The great day ut
Saratoga aid Brighton Beach ana
Cape May and nearly all the other wa
tcrins places is the day of the races
The hotels are thronged. every kind OF
euupage is taken up 1T an almost fab
ulous price. and tllore are many re-
spectablc people mingli!g with jock
eys and gamblers and libcrtines and
foul mouthed men and iiashy women.
The bartender stirs up the brandy
smash. The bets run high. The
ss.ee informs, surprising all is fair, put
in their money soon enough to lose IT.
Three weeks before the race takes
place the struggle is decided, anu the
men in the secret know en- which steed
to bet their money. The men on tho
horses riding around long ago arrang-
ed who shall win. Leaning from the
stand or from the carriage are men and
wcmen so absorbed in the struggle OF
lone and muscle aud mettle that they
make grand harvest for the pick
pockets, who carry off the pocketbooks
and the portcmonnaes. Men looking
on see only a string Of horses with
their riders flying around the ring, but
there Is many man on that stand
whose honor and domestic happiness
and fortune-white name, white foot,
white nank-nrc in the ring. racing
with inebriety and with fraud and
with profanity and with ruln-black
neck, blnck foot. black flank. Neck
and neck go the leaders in that moral
EPSON. White horse of honor black
horse of ruin. Death says, IL will bet
on the black horse" Spectator says,
~ will bet on the white horse" The
white horse of honor n little way
ahead. The black horse of ruin, Satan
mounted, all the time gaining on him.
Spectator brenthlcss. They put on
the lash, dig in the spurs. There! They
are past the stand. Sure. lust as
expected it. The black horse Of ruin
has won the race, and the galleries Of
darkness "IIuzza. huzza"' and the
devils come in to pick up their wagers
All, my friends. have nothing to do
with horse racing d.ssipntions this
summer!
Timely Warming.
Long ago tile English government
got through, looking to the turf for the
dragoon and the light cavalry horse.
They found ont that the turf depre-
catcs the stock. and it is worse yet
for men Thomas Hughes. the MEM
Der of parliament and the author
known all the world over, hearing that
a ucw turf enterprise was Icing start
cd in this country. wrote Il letter In
which he said. Heaven help you, then,
for of all the cankers OF our old civ
ilization there is nothing in this coun-
try approaching in unblushlng menn-
ness. in rascaliiy holding its head high,
to this helaudcd institution Of the
British turf" another famous sports
man writes. Glow many fine domains
have been shared among these hosts
of rapacious sharks during the last
200 years, and, unless the system be
altered. how many more are doomed
to fall into the same gulf" With the
bullfights of Spain and the bear bait
;ngs of the pit may the Lord God an
initiate the infamous and accursed
horse racing OF England and America.
l 40 further and speak Of another
temptation that hoyers over the water
ing place, and that is the temptation
to sacrifice physical strength. The
modern Bethesda, just like this Bethes-
da of the text, was intended to re-
cuperate the physical health, and yet
how many come from the watering
places their health absolutely destroy
cd! City simpletons boasting Of hav-
ing imbibed 90 glasses Of Congress wa
ter before breakfast. Families accus-