Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 12 August 1895 — Page 3

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A COOL, KET11EAT.

Has Kvftry noiirable Facility for an Enjoyable Summer Sojourn. Persons desiring to combine recreation, entertainment, instruction and devotion with their summer outing will find Eagle Lake, on the Per.sylvania Lines, near Warsaw Ind the ideal spot. This pretty resort is site of Wii.ona Assembly and Summer school, the youngest of the Chautauqua Assembly.?. The grounds have been well and favorabley known as Spring Fountain Park. They constitue about two huudred acres of romantic woodland st etching nearly two miles alog the eastern .shore of Engle Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. Th^. grounds have been platted and pretty cottages constitute the summer homes of persons who here fiud rest and lieaTthgiviiis recreation in invigorating air, amid attractive surroundings. Some desirable cottage sites are y« obtainable. In addition to the portion laid out for building purposes. fine park lias been made. There is also a we track with overlooking amphitheatre furnishing splendid facilities tor outdoor athletic sports. The laige aud itoriuin has a seating capacity of 3,000, and the several college ills are use 1 fo Assembly purposes. A good hotel, lestaurants am? R'ipply stores furnish means of living at reasonable rates. A lnrge fleet of ro boats with two steamers will permit indulgence in boating, and persons ford of fishing may enjoy that pa-tim* to satisfactory extent, as the lake teems with fish. The low tourist rates over the Pennsylvania Lines place these pleasures within easy reach. The r*te will be in effeet all season from ticket stations ®n these lines In addition to the season tourist tickets, a low rate will also be in effect for round trip tickets good fifteen days. Ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Lines will furnish them, and they may be obtained from agents of connecting lines. The Assenbly Department opens July 1st and continues four weeks during which time prominent speakers will discuss live topics. During August there will be educationel work under Prest John M. Coulter, of Lake Forest University,in connection with the Assembly. For details regarding rates of fare, time of trains, etc., apply to nearest Pennsylvania ne Ticket Ageut, or address F. Van Dusen, Chief Assistant General Passenger Agent, Pittsburgh, Pa. Applications for information concerning the resort should be addressed to Secretary E. S. Scott, Eagle Lake, Ind.

July —D&Wlmo.

IM.KASUKI'I TlUF.-j,

Numerous lOxf'urslons tlx: Coniin? Snuimer at Reasonable Kates. Whether tin toivist's fancy directs him to toe New Ennland States or the Atlantic seaboard to the South or to the lake r-gion of the North or to the Rocky Mountains aud the. wonderland beyond the Mississippi, he will be given opportunity to indulge his tastes at a small cost for raiiroad fare this veav. In Aug exclusion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Linos to Boston, account the Knights Templar Conclave. The sale of low rate tickets will not. be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but tne public generally may take advantage ot them.

The Asbnry Park excursion will doubt less attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch and all die famous watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pennsylvania Lines, hence this will be a desirab.e opportunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion will be just the. thing for a. sigut-seeiusr jaunt thro' the far West, as tickets will be honored going one way and returning a different route tarnuzh the mist romantic scenery bevoed the Mississippi and S'-uri rivers. inable route privileges will also be aecor led Hoston exenr sionisr,-*. ^n i.blm^ ii,n visi' Niagira Falis. Vbnmval. TiioiHind Islands and St. Lawrence Rapids, the Winte Mountains, trie Hudson Riv-t territory, ami return *»v steamer on Long Island S, I in I. after sight,-sm ug at N-wtorl. Nan-.g uisett Pier. N mtiioker, aud the Cape Cod resorts to York smi thence tnrongh the agi'M'iiltii oil paradise if the Keystone State, .tloug the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, over the Alleghetne.s, around famoH Horse Shoe Curve, tbrougn historic Johnsto-vn aud t:ie coka and irn

regions of Western I'.-Minsylv una. It is •also expected that Riston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will be privileged to return via Baltimore and Washington if they so desire.

In addition to the above, there will be plenty of other cheap excursions over the Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As these js is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not been consummated, but it is certain that no railway will oiler better inducements khan the liberal concessions in rates and privileges that may be enjoyed by travelers over the Pennsylvania Lines. This fact may readily be ascertained upon application to any passenger or ticket agent of these lines, or by addressing F. VAN DUSKN, Chief Assistant Gen. Pass. Agt., Pittsburg, Pa. apr6wd-t-s-tf

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THE EVIL OF RACING.

HOW TO UGE A HORSE IN A CHRISTIAN WAY.

Rev. Dr. Talmage Discusses a Timely Subject—The Atrocious Evils at Race Track Gambling—A Common Sense View of an

Agitating Question.

NEW YORK, -. 11 —In his sermon prepared for today Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent in the west preaching and lecturing, has chosen as his theme, "Dissipations of the Race Course,'' the timeliness of which all will recognize. His text was Job xxxix, 19, 21, 25: "Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thon clothed his neck with thunder? He paweth in the valley and rejoicetli he goeth on to meet the armed men he saitli among the trumpets, ha, ha! and ho smelletli the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and tho shouting.

At tliis season of the year, when there come long columns of intelligence from the race course, and multitudes are flocking to the watering places to witness equine competition, and there is lively discussion in all households about the right and wrong of such exhibitions of mettle and speed, and when there is a heresy abroad that the cultivation of a horse's fleetness is an iniquity instead of a commendable virtue—at such a time a sermon is demanded of every minister who would like to defend public morals on the one hand and who is not willing to see an unrighteous abridgment of innocent amusement on the other. In this discussion I shall follow no sornionic precedent, but will give independently what I consider the Christian and common sense view of this potent, all absorbing and agitating question of the turf.

The Horse In Scripture.

There needs to be a redistribution of coronets among the brute creation. Forages the lion lias been called the king of beasts. I knock off its coronet and put the crown upon the horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape or spirit, or sagacity or intelligence or affection or usefulness. He is semihuman and knows how to reason on a small scale. The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse is something more than a beast. Job in my text sets forth his strength, his beauty, his majesty, the panting of his nostril, the pawing of his hoof and his enthusiasm for the battle. What Rosa Bonheur did for the cattle and what Landseer did for the dog Job with mightier pencil does for the horse. Eighty-eight times does the Bible speak of him. He comes into every kingly procession, and into every great occasion, and into every triumph. It is very evident that Job and David aud Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jeremir«i and John were fond of the horse. He comes into much of their imagery. A red horse—that meant war. A black horse—that meant famine. A pale horse —that meant death. A white horse— that meant victory. Good Mordecai mounts him while Hainan holds the bit. The church's advance in the Bible is compared to a company of horses of Pharoah's chariot. Jeremiah cries out, "How canst thou contend with horses?" Isiuaii says, "The horse's hoofs shall bo counted as flint." Miriam claps her, cymbals and sings, "The horse and tho rider hath he thrown inro the sea.

St. John, describing Christ as coming forth irom conquest to conquest, rejiresents luni as seated on a wluie horse. In the parade of heaven the Bible makes ns hear the clicking of hoofs on the golden pavement as it says, "The armies which were in heuvc.n followed luni on white horses." I should not wonder if tho horse, so banned and

bruised aud beaten and outraged on I earth, should have some other place where his wrongs shall be righted. I do not assert it, but I say I sin mid not be surprised if, after all, St. John's descriptious of the horses in heaven turned out not altogether to be figurative, but somewhat literal. I Great Natures l'rafcc Him. I I

1 As the Bible makes a fa von to of the I horse, the patriarch and the prophet and the evangelist, and the apostle

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Htroking his sleek hide, and patting his rounded neck, and tenderly lij ting his exquisitely formed liooi, and listening with a thrill to the champ ot his bit, so all great natures in all a« es have spoken ot hi in in encomiastic terms. Virgil las (*eorgics almost, seems to plagiarize irom liis description the text, so much are the descriptions alike—the description ui Virgil and l.Iio description of Job. The Duke ot Wellington would not allow any one irreverently to touch his old warhorse Copenhagen, on whom ho had ridden fifteen hours without dismounting at Waterloo, and when old Copenhagen died his master ordered a liulitarv salute fired over his grave. John Howard showed that he did not exhaust all his sympathies pitying the human race, for when sick he writes home, "Has my old chaise hor.se become sick or spoiled?" There is hardly any passage of French literature more pathetic than the lamentation over the death of the war charger Marchegay, Walter Scott has so much admiration for this divinely honored creature of God that, in "St. Ronan's Well"' ho orders the girth slackened and the blanket thrown over the smoking flanks.

Edmund Burke, walking in the park at Beaconsfield, musing over the past, throws Ins arms around the wornout liorso of his dead son Richard and weeps upon the horse's neck, the horse scorning to sympathize in the memories. Rowland Hill, the great English preacher, was caricatured because in his family prayers he supplicated for the recovery of a sick horse, but when the horse got well, contrary to all tho prophecies of the farriers, the prayer did not seem quite so much of an absurdity.

Cruelty to the Hume. ?,($!§

But what shall I say of the maltreatment of this beautiful and wonderful creature of God? If Thomas Chalmers

in his day felt called upon to preach a sermon against cruelty to animals, how much more in this day is there a need of repreliensive discourse 1 All honor to the memory of Professor Bergli, the chief apostle for the brute creation, for the mercy he demanded and achieved for this king of beasts. A man who owned 4,000 horses,and some say 40,000, wrote in the Bible, "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.'' Sir Henry Lawrence's care of the horse was beautifully Christian. He says: "I expect we shall loso Conrad, though I have taken so much care of him that he may come in cool. I always walk him the last four or five miles, and as I walk myself the first hour it is only in the middle of the journey we get over the ground." The Ettriclc Shepherd in his matchless "Ambrosial Nights" speaks of the maltreatment of the horse as a practical blasphemy.

I do not believe in the transmigration of souls, but I cannot very severely denounce the idea, for when I see men who cut and bruise and whack and welt and strike and maul and outrage and insult the horse, that beautiful servant of the human race, who carries our burdens, and pulls our plows, and turns our thrashers and our mills, and runs for our doctors—when I see men thus beating and abusing and outraging tliut creature, it seems to me that it would be only fail that the doctrine of transmigration of souls should prove true, and that for their punishment they sshould pass over into some poor miserable bruto and be beaten and whacked and cruelly treated and frozen and heated and overdriven—into an everlasting stage horse, an eternal traveler on a towpath, or tied to an eternal post, in an eternal winter, smitten with eternal epizootics! Oh, is it not a shame that the brute creation, which had the first possession of our world, should be so maltreated by tho race that came in last—the fowl and the fish created on the fifth day, the horso and the cattle created on the morning of the sixth day, and the human race not created until the evaning of the sixth day? It ought to be that if any man overdrives a horse, or feeds liini when he is hot, or recklessly drives a nail into the

quick of his hoof, or rowels him to see him prance, or so shoes him that his fetlocks drop blood, or puts a collar on a raw neck, or unnecessarily clutches his tonguo with a twisted bit, or cuts off his hair until he has no defense against the cold, or unmercifully abbreviates the n-itural defense against insect annoyance—that such a man as that bimself ought to be made to pull and let his horse ride!

The Question of Speed.

But. not only do our humanity and mr Christian principle and the dictates Df God demand that we kindly treat the brute creation, and especially the horse, but I go further and say that whatever ian be done for the development of his fleetness and his strength and his majesty ought to be done. We need to study his anatomy aud his adaptations. I am 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, aud what his capacities are. It would be a shame if in this age of the world, when tho florist has turned the thin flower of the wood into a gorgeous rose, and tho pomologist has changed the acrid and gnarled fruit of the ancients into the very poetry of pear and peach and plum and grape ivnd apple,_ and the snarling cur of the orient has become tho great mastiff, and the miserable creature of the olden times barnyard has become the Devonshire, and the Aldernoy, and the Shorthorn, that the horse, grander than them all, should got no advantage innn our science, or our civilization, or our Christianity. Groomed to the last point of soft brilliance, his flowing mane a billow of beauty, his arched neck in utmost rhythm of curve, let him be harnessed in tjraceful trappings, and then driven to the farthest goal of excellence, and then fed at luxuriant oatInns and blanketed in comfortable stall. Tho long tried and faithful servant of the human race, deserves all kindness, all care, all reward, all succulent forage aud soft litter and paradisaical pasture field. Those farms in Kentucky aud in different parts of tho north, where the hor.se is trained to perfection in fleetiioss, and in beauty, aud majesty, are well set apart. There is no more virtue driving slow than in driving fast, any more than a freight, tram going ton miles the hour is belter than an express tram going 50. There is a delusion abroad tho world that thing nmst bo necessarily good and hristian if it is slow and dull and plodding.

There are very few good people who seem to imagine it is humbly pious to drive a spavined, galled, glandered, spring halted, blind staggered ."jade. There is not so much virtue a Roeinante as in a Bucephalus. We want swifver horses and swifter men and swifter enterprises, and the church of God needs to get off its jog trot, (juick tempests, quick lightnings, quick streams why not quick horses? In the time of war the cavalry service does tlio most execution, and

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world are probably uot all past, our Christian patriotism demands that we be interested in equinal velocity. Wo 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 ai .illerv slower borsos. From the battle of Granicus, where the Persian horses drove the Macedonian infantry into the river, clear down to the horses oil which Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson rode into the fray this arm oi the military service has been recognized. Hamilcar, Hannibal, Gustavus Adolphus, Marshal Ney were cavalrymen. In this arm of the service Charles Martel at the battle of Poitiers beat back the Arab invasion. Tho Carthaginian cavalry, with the loss of only 700 men, overthrew the Roman army with the loss of 70,000. In the same way the Spanish chivalry drove back the Moorish hordes. The best way to keep peace in this country and in all coun-

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trim is to be prepared for war, and there is no success in such a contest unless there be plenty of liglitfooted 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 fleetness and his grandeur and his majesty and his strength.

An Atrocious £vil.

But what shall I say of the effort being made in this day on a large scale to Liake this splendid creature of God, this divinely honored being, an instrument of atrocious evil? I make no indiscriminate assault against the turf. I believe in the turf if it can be conducted on right principles and with no betting. There is no more harm in offering a prize for the swiftest racer than there is harm at an agricultural fair in offering a prize to the farmer who has the best wheat, or to tho 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 a copy of Shakespeare to the best reader, or in a household giving a lump of sugar to the best behaved youngster. Prizes by Ml means, rewards by all means. That is the way God develops the race. P.eI wards for all kinds of well doing. He-av-en itf-elf is called a prize, "the prize of ihe high calling of God in Christ Je.'•us. So nat is right in one direction is right in another direction. And wit hout tho prizes the horse's fleetness and beauty and strength will never be fully developed. If it cost yl.000 or $5,000 or WJ0.000, and the result be achieved, it is cheap. But tho sin begins where the betting begins, for t'.r.t is gambling, or the effort to get that i- which you give no equivalent, and aanitiiiug, whetner on a large scale or a small scale, ought to be denounced of men as it will be accursed of God. It' vi.u have won 50 cents or $5,000 as a wa ,'er, you had better get rid of it. Get rid of it right away. (-Jive it to some one who lost in a bet, or give it to some great reformatory institution, or if you do not like that- go down to the river and pitch it off the docks. You cannot afford to keep it. It will burn a hole in your estate, and you will lose all that, perI haps ten thousand times more—perhaps you will lose all. Gambling blasts a man, or it blasts his children, generally both and all.

What a spectacle when at Saratoga, or at Long Branch, or at Brighton

Beach, or a. Slieepshead Bay, the horses start, and in a flash $50,000 or$100,000 change hands! Multitudes ruined by losing the bet, others worse ruined by gaining the bet, for if a man lose in a bet at a horse race he may be discouraged and quit, but if ho win the bet he is very apt to go straight on to hell!

A Race to Perdition.

An intimate friend, a journalist, who is the line of his profession investigated I this evil, tells me that there are three I different kinds of betting at horse races, and they are about equally leprous—by "auction pcols," 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 pool seller as he sits deducting his 8 or 5 per cent, and slyly "ringing up" more nckI ets than were sold on the winning liorse —a word to bo written also on the brow of every bookkeeper who at extra inducement scratches a horse off of the race, and on lie brow of every jockey I who slackens pace that, according to agreement, another may win, and written over every judges' stand, and written on every board of the surrounding fences. That word is "swindle!" Yet thousands be!:. Lawyers bet. Judges of courts bet. .Members of tho legislalure bet. j\i ilibers of congress hot. Pro-

fe.'-.'-orM of religion bet. Teachers and supcrmtondents of Sunday schools, I am told, bet. Ladies bet, not directly, but through fcgenn-'. 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 bo a multitude ot peop'o cajoled and deceived and cheated, who will at tho laces go neck and neck, neck and neck to perdition.

Cultivate the horse, by all means, drive him as fast as yon desire, provided yon do not injure linn or endanger your.-c.f or oth( rs, hut ho eareiul and do not harness the horse to tho chariot of sin. ho not throw your jewels of morality under the flying hoot. Do not under the pretext, of improving the horso destroy a man. Do not have your nanio put down in the ever increasing catalogue of those who are ruined for both worlds by tho dissipations ot Die American lace course. Uiey sav that an honest race course is a "straights' track and that a dishonest 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 a straight track—I mean straight down Christ, asked one of

his gospels, "Is not a man better than a sheep?" I say, yes, and he is better than all the steeds that with lathered flanks ever shot around the ring at a race course. That is a very poor job by which a man order to get a horse to come out a full length ahead of some other racer, so lames his own morals that he comes out a wliolo length behind in the race set beforo him.

The Curse of America.

Do you not realizo that thero is a

Young men, you go into straightforward industries and you will have better livelihood and you will have larger permanent success than you can over ?et by a wager but you get in with some of the whisky, rum blotched crew which I see going down on the boule-

mighty effort on all sides today to get. venieutly crowded, continued to pedal money without earning it? That is the slowly along behind that vehicle, which, curse of all the cities it is the curse of America—tho effort to get money without earning it, and as other forms of stealing are not. respectable, they go into these gambling practices. I preach this sermon on square old fashioned honesty. I have said nothing against the horse, I have said nothing against the turf. I iiave said everything against their prostitution.

vards, and though I never bet I will risk this wager, $5,000,000 to nothing, you will be debauched and damned. Cultivate the horse, own him if you can afford to own him, test all the speed he has, if he have any speed in him, but be careful which way you drive. You cannot always tell what direction a man is driving in by the way his horses head. In my boyhood we rode three miles every Sabbath morning to the country church. We were drawn by two fine horses. My father drove. He knew them and they knew him. They were friends. Sometimes they loved to go rapidly, and he did not interfere with their happiness. He had all of us in tho wagon with him. He drove to the country church. Tho fact i#, that for 82 years ho drove in the same direction. The roan span that I speak of was long ago unhitched and the driver put up his whip in the wagonliouse never again to take it down but in those good old times I learned something that I never forgot, that a man may aifmiro a horse and love a horse and be proud of a horse and not always be willing to take the dust of the preceding vehicle and 3*et be a Christian, an earnest Christian, a humble Christian, a consecrated Christian, useful until the last, so /hat at. his death the church of God cries ut, as Elislia exclaimed when Elijah went up with galloping horses o£s file, "My father, my father, the chari-ss otri of Israel and the horsemen thereof!"

He Doesn't I^iice 11OOIIK rs. A farmer in Delaware county has pufea his consort ati\e sentiments on record's 1\\ aflixing io a tree on his premises a notice that, "any idiot, of the new woman species found riding or walking on these premises will be. arrested." Interviewed as to his precise meaning, Agric-«-* oLi di clares that by "any idiot of the new woman species" he means "one of these tools in bloomer costume on as v, heel. Three things, then, are necessaiy to expose a woman to his menace: (1) She must be a fool, (2) in bloomers, (3) on a wheel. It will be open to any woman against whom the rustic undertakes to operate his terrors to plead that she was not intended by the injunction, because she was not on a wheel, was not in bloomers or was not a fool, and the burden of proof will then rest upon the farmer. It seems that his specific grievance against the new woman is that she scares his horse, but it would not. be practicable to produce the horse before the justice of the peace and to note the effect on him of the culprit. Meanwhile the best courser of a woman who doubts whether she is an idiot of the new woman species is to keep off the old man's land.—New York Times.

King of Dahomey In Exllv,

That interesting king in exile, Behanzin of Dahomey, seems to accommodate himself fairly well, by all accounts, to circumstances in his enforced residence at Fort de France in the French possession of Martinique. A traveler who visited him only tho other day describes him as having been surrounded by his wives and daughters, according to the etiquette of his country. Ho stood in the highroad and was about to return to his quarters. In answer to a salutation from his visitor the black monarch made a profound bow. Up to the present time, itseems, he has learned very little of the language of his captors. Ke only knows a dozen words or so of French. However, he contrived to convey the information that he considered the surrounding country very pretty, and that he and his suit, "were good health and spirits. He is extremely iond of European music and never neglects an opportunity of listening to tho playing of tho band of French marines.

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road to his resi

lience is a, steep one and covered with loose stones. It, is about, 20 minutes' a 13c from the harbor, wliero a French man of war, the Duquesne, is stationed. —London Xe"Ws.

Cheating In Uridine riuilUiij. surprising discovery has resulted

from piers

the investigation mado of the of th" aqueduct bridge over the Potomac ri/er, which is crossed daily by pimple Irom all parts of the United States on their way to the National cemererv at Arlington. Yvhilo making excavations down to solid rock, with a view to improving tho defective pier, it was loniid the old masonry had not started Irom solid rock, but upon riprap stone, apparently thrown in without, removing the debris upon this rock. Above this insecure foundation the masonry was ot tho poorest quality iinaginable, and the wonder is that tho bridge did not collapse years ago. Stones were apparently put in as they came irom the quarry, without the slightest reterence to being set on end, and few traces of mortar or cementing material wore lound. A project tor removing all defective parts of the pier will be prepared, with an estimate of cost, whicliv will bo submitted to (lio Filtv-fourt.lt congress.—Washington Letter in Clucago Tribune.

A Bicycle Tragedy.

Battersea park was last week the scene of a bicycle tragedy unsurpassed in its cycling annals. A lady, famous7 for the smartness of her appearance, rode into the park behind an L. C. C. water cart, and, finding the road incon-

it is needless to say, was not in activeoperation. Suddenly t.lie driver applied! his foot to the lever, and out spouted the water. Tho lady tried to turn quickly, but her bicycle slipped on the wet road, and down slio came in such a position as to obtain the full benefit of the cold water douche. A pedestrian, horrified at the accident, shouted to the driver, who at once brought the cart to a standstill. This only made matters worse, for, being absolutely unconsoiooff of what had happened, he continued to keep the water pouring on his victim^ and several seconds elapsed before tltt Vormity of his offense could be OE* plained to hiiu.—London World.