NOTHING leads to unhealthy excitement more than horse-racing. Proof of this is given in the following incident. The Derby race last May was won by a horse belonging to the Duke of Westminster. “He is reported by a London paper to have looked for the winning number with quite a frenzied eagerness, and no sooner was it hoisted, and he recognized the winning horse as his own, than with three steps he was down the staircase and out on the course, waiting to lead the winner in. The duke was trembling with delighted excitement, and so agitated that he forgot to take off his hat in acknowledgment of the ringing cheers with which the victory of his horse was received from all quarters. It could not be on account of the money won, as the duke already has an annual income of four million dollars or over ten thousand dollars a day. It seems incomprehensible that the fact of possessing a horse of great speed should so move a man of sense.” This shows how dangerous it is to suffer the mind to become absorbed in such chances. Ruin is too often—nearly always—the consequence of such a course. And yet races are made the chief attraction of most “agricultural fairs.” Why will not “the honest granger” reform his habits?