APPENDIX. 



human song and story. Romeo was neither the first nor 

 the last man to discover that a mere name may prove 

 an insurmountable obstacle; and what has proved so true 

 in human affairs has not been without influence upon 

 the destinies of other of God's creatures. Those who have 

 in their keeping the character and reputation of one of the 

 most useful of all known breeds of domestic animals 

 the type of cattle represented in the herds of the mem- 

 bers of this association have attached at all times much 

 significance to names; justly so in many instances but to 

 their own grievous injury in others. The question, there- 

 fore, of the extent to which you, as Short-horn breeders, 

 shall lay stress upon mere names as contrasted with more 

 substantial attributes is one of more importance than 

 would at first appear. 



Entering within the walls of the Short-horn world, we 

 are struck at once by a multiplicity of names. We are 

 told that within the memory of those still living there 

 was civil war among factions ostensibly claiming allegiance 

 to the same flag. That those warring clans taking each 

 the name of some great leader sought by every known 

 means to grasp supreme power and hold their brothers 

 in subjection. It was in many cases a war of extermina- 

 tion. Whole families once recognized as the very flower 

 of the race are gone from the roster rolls forever vict ms 

 of the feuds of long ago. The stranger within the gates 

 hears the names of Bates, of the Booths, of Knightley, of 

 "Alloy," of Towneley, of Cruickshank, of Renick, of Dukes 

 and Duchesses, of Ohio and Kentucky Rose of Sharons, of 

 Princesses, Josephines, Marys, Phyllises, "Seventeens," 

 "Cox importations," Red Roses by Ernesty, "Woods" and 

 hundreds more. He hears of strange combinations of these 

 and other names, such as Bell-Bates, Torr-Booth, "pure" 

 this and "straight" that; he hears of a half dozen different 

 varieties of Young Marys, Leslie, Red Rose, Flat Creek, 

 Xalapa, etc., etc. He hears that Duke of Airdrie (12730) 

 was all right but that Duke of Airdrie 2743 was all wrong. 

 He, therefore, imagines that he is in a labyrinth from 

 which only a learned antiquarian can extricate him. Hap- 



