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with their front feet. Some bite, and some 

 watch their opportunity and grab their vic- 

 tims with their teeth, kneel on them and kill 

 them. 



I went into a sales stable yesterday 

 and the owner called my attention to a very 

 valuable mare. "Look out for her," he 

 called, as I entered her stall, "she belongs 

 to such and such a family. ' ' 



Now, men who amount to anything have 

 peculiar family traits, just as they have dis- 

 tinctive physical features, as the shape of 

 the nose, the ear, the mouth, the teeth, 

 the chest, etc., etc. These they transmit to 

 their offspring just as surely as do the stal- 

 lions to their colts. Others have family in- 

 clinations to consumption, to cancer, to con- 

 stipation, to asthma and mental troubles, 

 which can be outbred by judicious mar- 

 riage. 



All have heard of the Indian baby that 

 was reared and educated from birth in a 

 family of culture and refinement; and, 

 when the first opportunity came, heredity 

 prevailed and he took to the woods — and of 



