| Show A SUNDAY EVENT on sunday in this city great crowds lined one of the principal streets running east and west to see an athletic performance somewhat out of the common por for a wager a man undertook to carry a keg of beer weighing a little over pounds a distance of eight miles without resting or stopping the affair was made a proceeding of some consequence there being no little formality and ceremony attending the commencement and progress of the difficult task the day was exceedingly warm the keg at an early stage of the onward march became very heavy and rapidly increased in weight and as a natural result the vulnerable points in human nature soon began to manifest themselves with irresistible force the result being that after one third of the space was covered and two thirds of the time was gone the keg was thrown down and not taken up again at least rot by the one who had essayed to carry it through in all this there may be nothing essentially senti ally criminal as there certainly is nothing beneficial from any point of view and having occurred on sunday should have been stopped instead of encouraged by the police it is simply another contribution to the growing disposition to treat the sabbath as though it had no special sacredness distinctive tive from other days and imparts a feature of new mining camp or fran tier town life to this well settled and populous metropolis that Is not in the least degree creditable to those who are responsible for it carrying a heavy keg of beer a great distance on a wager with side bets galore on sunday or any other day is about as nearly antipodal to anything intellectual progressive or beneficial as could be devised physical pastimes involving skill and leading to development of the he system or any wt thereof are or may be very useful things when not carried to excess and not made the means of gambling these exist in sufficient quantity and variety one would think to satisfy all classes of appetites but it seems that such to is not the case while making due allowance lowance for the well understood rule that hat one mans meo may be others an ano thees poison it still follows that there are some things in life which poison all without distinction and they are toot bot all to be found in the bottles or packages of a drug store either the great majority of the inhabitants of this city and state have a due regard for the sacredness sacred of the sabbath Sab balth day dary and it cannot but be deplored that there are people who think nothing of wounding a sentiment that la Is go 90 eminently proper it should not be possible to carry on such a performance as that referred to in any place where the christian religion is bell believed aved in and revered bythe by the people |
