The American Race-Course.
By Talmage
They say that an honest race-course is a "straight" 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 costumes, is a straight track—I mean straight down! Christ asked in one of his gospels, "Is not a man better than a sheep?" I say, yes, and he is better than all the Dexters, and the Luke Blackburns, and the Hindoos, and the Glenmores, and the Old Paroles that with lathered flanks ever shot around the ridge at a race-course. That is a very poor job by which a man in 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 whole length behind in the race set before him.—Talmage.