WITH THE PROPHETS. 



" The ingenuity and industry expended on what 

 is called 'tipping' in connection with horse- 

 racing ought to bring good fortune in no halting 

 measure to the professors of the art, who appear 

 to spend their lives in trying to enrich everybody 

 but themselves." 



So wrote, some four or five years ago, an 

 essayist in the pages of one of the "superior" 

 magazines. 



That the business of tipping goes on as 

 briskly as ever, the experts in that line of turf 

 illusion being still busily occupied in benevolent 

 endeavours to confer benefit on their fellow- 

 men, can be ascertained by all who will take the 

 trouble to glance over the advertising columns 

 of the numerous sporting journals of the time. 



A point worthy of notice in connection with 

 these announcements is the style now adopted 

 in fashioning them. New and improved methods 

 of communicating with the public are constantly 

 being devised. Tipping nowadays is a " business " 

 of importance requiring large dealings with the 

 telegraph ; but long ago — say about the close of 

 the " thirties," and in the " forties " of the present 



