BETTING TIPS AND "Rh QUAKER PRESS. [To Tao Eorros or
TUX "Srscrrroz."] Sts,—Yom• correspondent " X.," referring last week to various daily papers owned by members of the Society of Friends, says he does not know what the Sheffield Independent does in the matter of racing tips. May I say that in to-day's issue (May 25th) of that paper may be found nearly three columns devoted to racing news, including a list of tips by " Observer," details of London betting, and a lengthy list of " Selections " from the London morning papers ? It is not easy for the pulpit to practise what it preaches, but apparently it is most difficult for the Press to do so.
May I thank Dr. Walsh very heartily for his remarks in the same issue on the advertising of quack medicines ? Whilst human credulity continues what it is, and princely incomes can be drawn from what he justly calls "an infamous traffic," he will, I fear, be as one crying in the wilderness.—I am,
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