TROTWOOD PUBLISHING CO., Nashville, Tenn. Office 150 Fourth Ave., North. JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE, Editor-in-Chief. E. E. SWEETLAND Business Manager. GEO. E. McKENNON President. JOHN W. FRY Vice-President. EUGENE ANDERSON Treas. WOOTEN MOORE Sec’y. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year, $1.00; Single Copy, 10 cents. Advertising Rates on application. NASHVILLE, TENN., MAY, 1906. With Trotwood Human Registration. Mr. Thos. J. Moore, of Moore’s, S. C., writes: “Have you your family genealogy? You seem to be up on horse pedigree. I’d like to have it, if not too much trouble.” Alas and alack! but that is the trouble with most of us. We pedigree our horses and dogs, but we throw off terribly on our sons and daughters. Any old pedigree seems good enough for them. In the language of the Bible, “Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?” What a Book it is! “For I, the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me, and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.” There is authority for a pedigreed man. And the Book itself—chapters are given to the pedigree of one man. The Bible loves a good pedigree. It is a great registration Book of the Jews. Did you ever see Moses’ pedigree tabulated—Moses, the greatest man in the Bible except One? It tells a wonderful story. He was the most inbred man that ever lived. And so was the mother of the Christ. These things will do to study and think about. As for me, I am constrained to say that the quiet study of the pedigree of horses has taught me much. I have picked up a few of the great lessons of cause and effect in studying the lower animal that should apply to the higher one. That is the only way. Darwin reached the laws of his evolution by beginning with the lowest form of life. I hold it to be a crime for any human being to bring into the world an offspring which he knows will be inferior to himself. He owes it to posterity to breed up. The mother is what breeds up. The white man who brands his unborn child a mongrel deserves death at the hands of the rest of his race. Death, because, like the murderer, he is pulling down society. The murderer takes what he cannot restore. But this man does worse—he chains his own child for life to a dead body.