Weekly journal-miner., 1911-05-10
DOES BLOOD TELL? IT DOES

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 "Does Blood Tell?" is the title of an elaborate article by Dr. Woods Hutehinsn in the Saturday Evening Post of last week, but the Doctor never answers his own question and he never tells us what blood might be expected to tell anyhow.
 His idea seems to be to demonstrate that there is no such thing as hered- ity among beings, that aristOeraey of blood is degeneracy, and that great men are reaks, lacking the power to pass their greatness on to a line of successors.
 Dr. Hutchinson is always an en- tertaining writer, but he has gang much a-gley before this and in "Does Blood Tell?" it is to be regretted to observe that the calm frame of mind of the scientific observer is ab- sent. The Doctor, sad as it is to say it, is becoming yellow.
 It is probable, in spite of the Doe tor, that blood does tell in human beings; great men may not trans init their intellectual superiority to their children, but some trait, of which the world takes no note in the one figure that looms large in a family tree. may be found in the most remote descendant. Surgeons, of all students, ought to be aware of this, and as a rule they are. We may not agree with the deductions of Lombroso, but in the enormous collection of family histories eOllated under his direction no truth can be more clearly demonstrated than the transmission of family qualities among the criminal classes, and, if among the criminal classes, why not among those that are law-abidingi
 Dr. Hutchinson speaks of racing stables and kennels. He says that the largest of these produce the greater number of prize-winners, as if their extent had something to do sith it. But breeders will laugh at such a statement. Half the stables that have been established in Eng land, France and America have been failures as far as producing win ners is concerned, despite the pur- chase of many stallions and brood mares, and, in California, we know that the great bBeeding farms es- tablished by Senator Stanford, by W. O'B. Maedonough, by Senator Rose and others, failed to establish a lasting reputation.
 But it is in horse families that we see the most positive proof that blood does tell. Let pr. Hutchinson, or anyone else who may be interest ed, sit down and trace the great racers back through their pedigrees. It will be found that no romance ever written contained a more in teresting story. Every great winner in the last century and more has gone back in the tail. male line to the famous Eclipse. The list of the Derby winners and their breeding can be had in almost any library or encyclopaedia. There were originally, when the English thoroughbred be came recognized as a distinct breed. three families. Taking those of Eclipse and of Herod, we find the Eclipse line dominating everything in England and America for a cen tury. Twenty-Five years ago J. B. Haggin imported from Australia the Herod sire, Sir Modred. Think of all the horse generations that had gone by since Herod s day, and vet there in Australia was a sire of that line demonstrating the prepo- tency of the blood-a prepotency that has endured in this country, as his get have demonstrated.
 Does blood tell? It is now over two decades since Salvador, MT. Haggin's unbeaten colt, was carrying away all the honOrs East and West. Salvador, though his splendid sire, Imp. Prince Charlie, traced in the tail male line to Eclipse Here in America we had been raising some thOroughbreds of our own all these years and we had pEodneed a few fgmilies of note Salvator's dam