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Show and would have probably felt like saying say-ing it was an Infernal bore, only that the cloth would : have restrained him. Parson Amy's idea seems to us good. A grand, sacred horse race is, of course, a novelty, but this people has the facully of accepting novelties that are good. If more people would do just what their fancy moves them to and could put shams and false notions of position beyond and would be more contented in mind, they would digest their food with greater fluency. If more parsons would follow out the plan of the Rev. Amy of doing what seemed to them right, they would bo happier and the congregation would sleep more at home and less in church. THE FACTS IN FAR80N ARNY'S CASK. A prenchcr up in Michigan has had the courage to express a likiug for a good horse and not; only this, but has in a series of races shown the people that he knows what he's about when he mounts a sulky and seizes the lines. Parson Amy, while the congregation was woudering to what extent it would be expedient to be shocked, won every race in which his horses entered. There was no money up and it was just a bit of relaxation for him. It is a good thing for him, of course, that ho won, for had he lost the congregation would have been quite certain that his action was horrid. But the simple question as to propriety propri-ety briugs up another question. Why should not the parson be permitted to seek relaxation in speeding the horses he has trained? Is it a thiug evil to enjoy en-joy oneself and preach good sermons or is it better to carry around a pallid countenance and to grub up arguments dry enough to use for fuel? Were it better for this particular parson, who seems to bo a first rate sort of a fellow, to make a guy of himself in a lawn tenuis suit with a dozen yards or so of sash to it than to seok tranquility and peace of mind by coaxing his bay mare to everlastingly ever-lastingly paralyze the aspiratious of neighbor Jones' roan gelding with the blaze face? This parson did not care for lawn tennis or croquet or riding a bicycle. He would have chafed under the necessity of killing time that wav, |