Show DYING OUT our readers will remember that a short time since dr leonard bacon wrote and published a scattering article arl I da the in marital a rita relations odthe of the people of new england in which he lie exposed the corruption of their social system the easy m manner an in which they could procure a dissolution of marriage W bonds and ana enter into them again agaid wit hother parties immediately immedi atly after the bissol dissolution U of the first tic rendering their several inter courses almost promiscuous cohabitation lie showed that such practices had already led to physical as well as mental and social degeneracy now comes dr alien allen a new england physician who ii in another article in tho the popular science monthly shows that the new E englanders ng arc are actually ayi dyma ng out physically the writer compares the new E englanders glanders li fate te in this respect to that of tho the sandwich islanders whose population has been dewind ling ever since since or shortly after modern civilization and christian i was first introduced among them by christian missionaries the new york sin sun bommen commenting ting on the in the monthly makos makes the following remarks which will bo be perused with interest by all who read them it is well known that sinco since their people islands have hare fallen off rapidly in numbers auders tho decrease within tift fifty tifty years has been two thirds in ili 1830 when the first census was taken th the e population was that wasten was ten years ears after the american miss missionaries ionar les began man their work according to the last census censul the total was only about or leas less than one third as many as fifty years ago i tho the trouble is that civilization has ca carried aried into the sandwich islands deceases dece asea induced b by y licentiousness and intemperance which have lave caused a physical degeneracy among tho the people the ladof law of propagation has been violated to such an extent that it threatens the extinction of that people says dr alien allen the numbers among tb the strictly native new engenders how ever is attributed by dr alien allen who has long made a special study of the subject to some ci hange lange in physical organizations in the lat last century the colonists ofner england made up mostly of english block stock multiplied rapidly their natural increase was so great that the they y doubled in number in twenty five live years malthus regarded thorn them as the best specimens in this respect of any people or race and based upon facts from this source hia his great principle of population but within the last hundred years a remarkable change has taken place carefully kept records show that the average number of children to each family has decreased with every generation they alley commenced wit with large families averaging averaging eight or nine but it is now doubtful whether the ayer aver age will exceed three children to a family scarcely enough to keep the original oriz nal inal stock good in numbers and thia this change baa has occurred in the same places with the same people daviti having the same game climate and plenty of food the main cause says dr alien allen is is that the men are not BO so strong and vigorous aa as their grandfathers and ance ancestors storsand and the women lavede have deteriorated teri orated physically in in a su surprising rising degree A I majority of them reave have a predominance of nerve tissue with weak muscles and digestive organs the roost most marked change in this ono one hundred years in organization is this loss of balance or harmony in the organs organ sand and especially in women it is far more striking they have been diverging more and more from that normal standard upon which the law of propagation is based only about of the new england englana women can properly nurse their offspring and this incapacity for nursing is constantly increasing this dr alien re gards garos as very significant t of some change in organization to which the natural decrease is due the facts on which dr alien allen bases his conclusions are known to everybody who he is familiar with the present new englanders af the old stock we mean those who mile are still to be found in the region inhabited by their an ans castora tho new englanders who have remained at homo home their famil les ies arc aro small they are not physically as vigorous as their fathers the women are not symmetrically metrically devel ped and their nervous organization is apt to be morbid of course there are exceptions but the they generally generall occur curshen when some other I blood T has been aerl mixed with the native new now en england land the best beat of the new england stock to ck has his not lit lat home it has for generations gone to regions vider wider opportunities where there was more chance for vigor tiger and enterprise the strong men and handsome women hayo haye emigrated and while the tho physical basical force of new england lias his MR been declining its intellectual strength r eng t h has also fallen off perceptibly and nd I inevitably ile stably boston and massachusetts chu are not what they were intellectually a generation ago vigor and courage originality and power id ili literature have been succeeded by and timidity timidity Y emasculation imitation and dread of all spontaneous expression Dun the fiscal year 1314 mineral patents were issued by the general land office of these montana na received utah ULA arizona 62 colorado california dakota 35 nevada nevala 94 84 new mexico oregon 19 washington ty wyo balasi ing |