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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE I One's culture Is measured by the range of his Interest They were loading cattle on a Mis-, sissippl steamboat. Some nr-m ro u.it-about.s u.it-about.s were doing the job. They wore a rough and Jolly bunch of plantation darkles. They were driving the poor beasts mercilessly up the chute, vixt-Ing vixt-Ing their tails, crowding them over, under, and through, dragging them, on their sides, beating, punching, and w through all thr ir maddening cruelty to the dumb cattle, chanting In unison a song, tho refrain of which was " Taln't my row ' What difference did It make how they loaded the beasts'." What If a horn was torn off or a leg broken, or a poor beast t rumpled to death? " 'Taln't my cow." There was no money out of their pockets They were not cattle klns They were Just roustabouts. They would draw the sami pft whether the freight went through alive, or dead, and tho pav was as wide as their interest ranged. Tain t my cow " They gave themselves them-selves uway The brutes were not the cattlo being loaded. They were the' cnttl loading. If the cows could have talked out their mini w hat a damning arraignment of tho human beast theyj could have made! Hut these negroes are not alone, i Th' re are people who affect the high-, est culture, but whose standard is crass selfishness They do not hesitate to! treat their fellowmen that way Their' range of interest ends with the radius of the ego ' 'Taln't m cow!" They are not civilized. They drag, inio trade and social life the creed' of the Jungle. Their manners are' faultless and their dress fashionable, but their hearts have never been born again. The golden rule Is the sin. ,,ja non of a gehtleman, Is the goal of trite chivalry People who have real iul-, ture espouse the cause of the weak. They are not wanton. Tho akvHnc alone limits their range of Interest. ' |