The Irish standard., 1892-09-10


his cattle branded with "boy" on one
side. and s'cot" on the other. The cattle
were treated alternately, SO that they
could not be driven without the whole
word "boycot'' being shown on both sides.
European LEGITIMACY.
The Popular Science Monthly for Au-
gust says:-"A table of statistics OF ille-
gitinacy in Europe, published by DR..
Albert Lefingwen, shows the Irish to be
the most yirtuous of all the peoples. the
ratio Of illegitimate births among them
being twenty six in every thousand. The
English rate is forty eight, and the
Scotch eighty two per thousand. Thus
we may roughly say that for every child
born out of wedlock in ireland two are
born in England and three IN Scotland
In Europe at large, Ireland is closely
t Flowed in it's place OF honor by Russia,
with the low rate of twenty eight per
thousand, and by Holland with the rate
of thirty two per thousand. The Italian
and French rates are respectively seven
ty-four and eighty-two per Thousand,
comparable with the rate in Scotland.
Among the countries that show the
highest proportions of illegitimacy are
Sweden, Saxony. Bavaria and Austria, in
which the rates range from one hundred
to one hundred and forty per thousand.
Austria is at the opposite pole from Ire
land, and takes the lowest place in NOR
ality among the European nations, with
the rate of one hundred and forty-slx
per thousand. The inquiry into the
causes of these varying rates OF lllegt1-
macy raises complicated aud interesting
problems. The causes generally sup
posed to be principal factors in the mat
ter are poverty, ignorance and the con-
termination of great cities. Examining
the influence of these, DIR. Leffngwell
finds it very slight In Ireland the low
est rates are in the poorest counties.
Russia, with one of the lowest rates, is
one Of the poorest countries; and the au-
thor affirms that ''there is nowhere such
uniform relation between the Indulgence
of a people and the prevalence of illegiti-
macy as to justify the hypothesis that
this phase of moral delinquency in any
district or country can be accurately
described as caused by it's poverty. AS
little can the influence of great cities &C:
count for the prevalence of LEGITIMACY.
Education and creed appear to have
little influence, We must seek the real
factors in race and heredity, legislative
restraints upon marriage, social usage,
and other like circumstances"
Father Barnum's Alaska Mission.
Rev. Francis Barnum, S. J.,the famous
missionary among the Indians Of Alaska,
has sent letter from the station on the
Yukon to friend in Boston in which he
says: s"Our labors are among the Esqui-
maux, and we have school with eighty
children under the care Of the Sisters OF
St. Anne at Kozvrevsky, on the Yukon.
I take the liberty Of sending you copy
book as sample of what our little Es-
quimaux can do crowded we can keep
the house warm enough to prevent the
ink from freezing on the pen). Only
once year we can hear from the outer
world. A steamer of the Alaska Com
mercial Company of San Francisco sails
about the end of May for st MichaePs,
on Norton Sound. We 60 there to meet
this steamer and get our mail and sup
plies. All letters, papers, etc., intended
for the Jesuit missionaries of Alaska,
should be addressed simply to the care
of the Alaska Commercial Company of
San Francisco, CAL I remember we'll
the famous east winds of Boston, but
they are only refreshing zephyrs COM
pared with what we meet here most OF
the twelve months. Sometimes we have
been unable to go out of our under
ground houses for four or five days at q
time on account of the terrific cold and
tempests. Our little Esquimaux, after
they have been c'eansed of vermin and
properly fed, soon became brilliant chill
dren. They love, above all things, to
look at pictures of the great unknown
world below. Many show great talent
for drawing, and they love to study, just
as our Boston College boys. They live
on seal oil and dried fish; besides we
have taught some of the larger ones how
to bake, and beans have been introduced
into the polar world, and the little Es-
quimaux shows the same allegiance to
beans as the little Bostonian.
Cut This Out for Future Reference.
Harvest Excursions will be run VIA
"The Northwestern Line" G. st. 2. NJ.
g. 0. Railway on September 9th,
1892, from st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis and stations East and North Of St.
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