The age-herald., 1901-05-16
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 ton. At one time Nellie A. held the cham pion yearling trotting record of 2:29%, and Adbe1l held the champion yearling trot- ting record of 2:2S two years later. If this little daughter of two yearlng cham pions doesn't take a champion mark then the laws of heredity will have received a solar plexus blow.
 Leone, 2:2S5a, another yearling cham pion foaled black colt at the same hour. Both mares have been bred to Adbell. It will be remembered that Adbell is the result of breeding the world-famous brood mare, Beautiful Bells, to Advertiser, 2:151a, at the famous Palo Alto Farm of Senator Stanford of California.
 Question of Heredity.
 The heredity aggregation have recently been proving that North Carolinians are non-sport-loving people because of their descent from a quiet, pastoral Quaker ancestry. The tar-heel citizen Is made to Illustrate point in the inherent force of heredity. The aim was merely to illus trate an idea of that theory in horse breeding that if mental traits are trans missible from sire to sire, through several generations, how much more certain Is the transmission of physical features and characteristics. Scientific breeding in the United States on the lines of heredity has produced the greatest road and speed horses, in the world in less than fifty years of effort. Pacing is an older gait than trotting, and does not this account for the fact that 1t is the faster gait. Dr. Younghusband of Detroit, who Is dusting the shelves of "crinhnology" with the view of reaching scientific dignity, evolves the principle that man cannot escape from. his own deeds any more than from his own nightmares and dreams. In other words, heredity fixes human char acter, environment, at the same time, welding potent influence. To illustrate: boy who has no genius for music practices under an expert teacher for years on the fiddle. It is claimed that two or three generations later, should the education be kept up, some of his pos terity would become f1ddlers almost by instinct. According to this theory, crim- inalB are liable to reproduce themselves This is what Dr. Younghusband and his school of theorists claim And surely, in the animal kingdom, where the animal largely dominates the mental equipment, the scientific law of heredity must have far greater force than in man. Unfor- tunately for Dr. Younghusband and his school of theorists they seem to have en- tirely overlooked a fact that has been staring the world in the face since Mother Eve committed her indiscretion in the Garden of Eden A moral doctrine of one sort or another has been the order in
 
 every cline since the beginning, and the teacher and preceptor of 'criminology'' has been the exception. hence, as civiliza- ton has come down the ages through it's wales of tears and it's vistas of tribula- tions the one criminal attribute. has been confronted by thousand moral precepts and teachings and If through evolution at all criminal is made, it is only in isolated and unnatural environments away and afar from the established and dominant order of the universe pr Younghusband is not a true horseman He Is jackassman.
 Priest Lover of Sport.
 The Rev. Martin Bowling. a Catholic priest who died in New York last week. left an estate of near a million dollars. He was not of those who are wont to say that the breeding of blooded horses Is business of moral and physical disas- ter. He was great lover of horses, and Is said to have been as fine a judge of horse flesh as any man in New York He took great interest in breeding horses. and at one time had score or more of his own. He always drove "a fast horse and was well known around Port Ches- ter as a driver
 It will be interesting to Alabama horsemen to know that circuit of at least two months will be arranged in South Carolina. Georgia and Florida. If Alabama breeders cannot exhibit the speed of their colts in their own cities under prohibitory law. they can take them into the Southeastern Circuit that commences at Atlanta; then goes to Co., lumbia, s. C., Savannah, Waycross, Val dosta. Jacksonville. Fla. and winds up at Charleston, s. c. What a pity that the Piedmont Farm at Huntsville. the Garth Farm at Courtlandt, and the McCurdy Farms at Downdesboro will be deprived of exhibiting the speed and beauty of their rarely-bred colts at our lovely trot- ting park in Birmingham.