Spirit Of The West (Newspaper) - January 27, 1909, Des Moines, Iowa Vol 19 No 24 Weekly IOWA WEDNESDAY J W Thompson Editor 1100 West 131b Topeka Knn Five Cents the SOCIAL Al J 1 I rAt Xo elose observer of either human bi ography or if animal history will fail I have observed Unit where individuals of any class have demonstrated what is termed genius universal or spec ial endowment it has not been trans mitted to posterity manner to noteworthy The genius in painting science in vention mechanics in all kindred directions conies and a rule in single the i a rest exception embracing a sec ond generation strong talent or a gh average may indeed he found in a parent of he but is not intensified or even for an additional generation r rather than elsewise to itself prepare for reaction ami rel Ulp ed and passed in one fa ires I lower or richest fruitage of the topmost or crowning branch I bi ography of nations ancient or modern ami lind how many exceptions he to this The famines ol and Alexander the Julius and and Michael Anilo rendered conspicuous I a single genius one star hat attained a that none before or tier sanll ini louis was I he only one lie name horn to be a worlds conqueror Newton left no successor in and Daniel Webster ami in There was true an elder his measure never H ending there Rnl I liis is only as suggestive and not ive even intensive illustration in he sphere of the human It seems uilt some mil on the discernible ex plicable but highly Important and in dealing ill will it of may not reckon that else will obtain in domain V lf If I he is not in a menial or it is none in anin transmissible in general ions and In 1inging in Die of there have I dins ol very speed and cn and then have bdn t iem males ami females with adve powers lo t mie lik a great champion or nothing equal to with the same common not brilliant in came lay M Ti Phallus 21 Nelson 2 nao int givin to al conclusions in ii and many keep op s o he and I asses did it lore but he champions failed lo ap pear first troll ing champion ins dny had no son oven lo succeed him m tl i nn begot I enh temporaries many of then so far from Campions as to have record at all is s simply history or biography borse winch ever sec fit fo term and by in Mihoro of ho and others is our reading or observation luve Aol that rare ones were worthless lmt dnt and en powers and prowess were transmitted attainments made still left then wilt only I impart and coming after them And in female fine Iris from he champion trot V all Lady Suffolk down Upland Maid 27 Mora Temple Goldsmith Maud S Sunol Nancy thinks Alix riy Dillon to date none I brown a worlds record breaker or a champion ol any sort or an equal to herself with the aid of he and all the opportunity ami helps human ingenuity could contrive and the superficial minded are proclaiming that all hat is needed is lo breed speed lo developed alent to developed lo and the whole solution wl of by repetition ol the marvelous developed on sides and possessed in unusual de gree of he common ancestral If could scarcely and resolves itself a mai ler of record and licak or sporl would account Iron and Iron nol proving a champion champion and a phenomenon never pos or approachable bv I rum any union made However as upon rial and he experience ol Hie ages have demons rated the sily of such position ami the of such ami dependence is loll to work along nad to pursue up and building in by ami tons a class lib an creased and he ami through successive general a richer source from which all individuals belonging lo from which unusual brilliancy and prowess will cm Kirk a sure ami s cady advance And this accounts for inexplicable fact the champions successively appearing trace one class o order f tho but come from one unex quarter after another scarcely p much as twice the same It true of them hty nro or sports because they trace origin to he source whence all been derived though they are the endowed tlie rare spec sense possibly naturae hi I he diamond fields yot dis covered varieties in alld b ancy are found while all are pure There is the finest apple Z the live and he choicest ear of com in and sUlk no one has ever grown enough to explain is a reason doubt but a locked up scc icl wilh st far and possibly o i email so this is the very 011 and incentive held out o nil to discover and produce the and richest products to persist with whatever material is at hand if common order is not idle futile or hopeless to on i one Of course he at and he best in reach are to bo employed will of results meas determined by the quality of And yet even here are no mm rules for deciding tho best he dam of Maud S wis r dam of Alix die dam of with McGregor and tlie Sidney leu of breeding or of conceivable that would liave arrived at he conclusion would result doubt the of the winners and Allen Winter will his sne ICd Winter would have with the approval of some of he wisemen win so well the one and only method of breeding phenomenal I rollers and winners linl il was a suc all the same and lie largely leaped inlo with a bound equal to hat wilh eame forward Alix 1 harness world H would be as id space bring up very matins accompanied will an cHul than Hie healing of drums and of I1 w even of names s well when a famous if possessed al mimics him well for die si od lo employ him be is worth though llll assured bv anv means others and proven by actual There is dial a nee allis he thing in am and he phenomenal pcr speaks as much or more fur the ancestry thai produced bin Iliau for his own transmissible Tos of die qualities is certainly the mam thing and hat conies from in entirely and in measures dilli cull to explain and variable IX nK at resi oi lums for many years medical practitioner in his present Mich igan home writes pleasantly some Kan sas reminiscences and also sends an in terest from a brother concern ing the education of a trick horse both letters are given below W Thompson Topeka Dear theW t r of Spirit of Ibe West I drop you a line to say to von personally and toll you how very high y upon your weekly writeups appear in that groat horse paper as it is impossible for me to call unon von personally and tell yon how yen much 1 enjoy reading your articles I he groat yom itinerary around the good old Sunflower State or Kansas where t lived in Gov St Tohns home at from to and your poet C V Townley is an old and was present at my I am glad also to road what they are doing in old Missouri horse line John Mason Morgan the breeder that bred and flu great Smuggler and who srave Charley Marvin a in Smuggler to rain develop and mark him was an old friend and patron of mine whom r mot last at Independence Iowa in where 0 W Williams his groat horse moot there over his track when Nancy was queen of the bunch and a Hose second Alix John H Gentry and 1 were among he noted ones on that great occasion While I a in a great admirer and lover of a line highbred horse I never gambled a nickle in my life nn a horse race or any game of chance T have a son of the great 2 in 11212 sire of Gilty Lady Gilt wood whose T enclose also the of O Days old Onward stallion of Iowa T bought him under Hie hammer at one of The Horse Sale companys sales five years ago last T also en close you a letter received from my brother T Moseley of Warrens telling about a sun lie is raising among others of on bis large slock farm here is under for an rick horse by T TO who is to Gleason or any equine masters and T ever seen and if any of c lal or force of vost gel us far east ns be glad to have them at Warrens and lei 1 Prof n his great coll winch is a dapp four vears old a higher type ol Ihc human and equine races H Warren Tan li weather 1ms leen Monies to school 10 very tine Wisconsin if is colder now if being degrees below xero his morning Harry did not to DCS ward coll are taking lessons iron J who is one o I he great csf horse trainers and they are doing finely savs of all the horses ho has ever hand led his eott for 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