The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-23
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BLOOD TELLSi

BLOOD TELLSi
Text, Visiting the iniauities OF the IA
thers upon the children. EXODUS TX, Q.
The longer live the more believe
in blood-good blood, bad blood; hum
BILE blood, proud blood; honest blood,
thieving blood; heroic blood, cowardly
blood. The tendency may skip a gen
Grafton or two; then out II comes. /
know n little fellow who doesn't look
like his father or mother-both could
deny him easily-but stand him under
the portrait of his Revolutionary great
grandfather and you are startled by
the resemblance. There's n law writ
ten in your blood that determines your
height, weight and girth. 1t tells the
very form of your toes and shape of
your fingers, color Of your hair, bril-
lance of your eye, quickness OF your
step and tone of your voice. We call
II heredity. When you've said that
you've said nearly all you know. You
can't locate 1t. No man can say 10,
herew or 40, therew We hear Of roy
al blood and common blood, patrician
blood and plebeian blood, but the biol
ogist with his microscope knows no
such things. He simply finds red and
white corpuscles. Yet we know we
are the heirs Of the ages. Past gen"
erations are living In our veins. Man
is an omnibus in which his ancestors
ride"
"What's Born In the Bone
Life is a loom. I'VE are hit and
miss rag carpet, made up of the va
rious yarns Of our forefathers and fore
mothers, woven in the loom OF heredity
by the weaver Time with a warp OF
our own individuality" Blood tells!
Four seeds dropped into same soil,
same sun, same dew, same air, same
care-one a lily to please the eye, one
q crimson rose to please the nostril,
one an apple to please the taste, one
thorn to prick the touch. Same soil,
rain, heat, moisture, but all different
Like begets like. When you say Of
girl, "How she favors her grandmoth-
ersr' or Of your boy, Hes a chip Off
the old block or you say, Her
mother had consumption" His father
drank himself to DEATH" you are sim
ply saying, blood tellsw ECLIPSE,
the racer, sired 1884 racers, which won
$500, 600" Herod sired 497, which won
over $1,00O,OOO. Only another way Of
saying BLOOD tells" with horses. II
blood makes one horse worth $25 and
another $4,000 it's time we began to
study man blood. We have horse
shows, dog shows, chicken shows. The
| crowd attends. Newspapers give col
umns Of space. Society approves. A
baby show Is a matter for "ridicule.
Society with poodle on its lap bushes,
looks shocked, thinks it isn't more
than half decent
Men Versus Sheep.
A gardener studies laws Of heredity
when he plants cabbage head. Isn't
| human head as interesting as a cab
bage head? More attention Is given
to improve the strain Of the hen that
| lays the egg than the child that eats
It. There is more said and written
about how to improve the wool on the
back Of the sheep than to improve the
said How much better is a man
| than a sheep" Is not man better
than a COW? 1t might be as well for
our women's clubs to study the inf1u-
ence of the notorious luke family with
its generations OF criminals and pau
pers and the Jonathan Edwards fam
fly with its generations of learning and
culture as the influence of Ibsen or
Browning. One of the saddest pages
of literature is in Barrels "Sentimen-
tai Tommy" where the little girl Gri-
eel, daughter Of the painted lady finds
out there's a faint in her blood and
rushes to the doctor crying: 1.-THE bad
thing that's in my blood. Oh. please
cut 1t out! / shan't scream! l prom
Use not to scream" He tells her 1t
can't be cut out; she must bear it al
ways. It's indescribably awful. Young
man. see that your child doesn't rise
after you screaming There's some
thing bad in my bloodw Don't damn
your innocent children.
Are We Fated For III?
The world is stuffed with drugs. The
pantry shelf Is lined with medicine
bottles. Sanitariums spring up like
toadstools after shower. Every pi-
geon, every butterfly, looks up and
says, How perfect are thy works, o
Lord Of hosts!" Man coughs apollo
getically and asks, "Who hath sinned,
this man or his fatherY' Any hope?
Yes! Man has two creators, God and
himself. Heredity and environment
do not decide your destiny. How was
Eden for environment? Who were the
ancestors Of Luther, Lincoln and
Shakespeare? Know anything Of the
parentage Of Moses or Paul? Ever
hear of John Bunyan. Jerry McAuley,
John G. Cough? And you and I?
Mixture of good and evil-neither
sheep nor goat half virtuous, half vi
cious? All right. Even the half breed
has a chance to make good. No man
ever committed a sin that he did not
feel afterward that he need not have
done It; 1t could have been otherwise.
Any man or woman in your town who
can compel you to sin? No. by the