The mirror., 1919-10-23
Blonds Threatened With Elk
tinction

ward l 200 miles; if he goes to New Or
leans, he moves more than 1.700 miles.
A Norwegian going to Texas moves south
1000 miles. and 6fty years ago a largs
Norwegian colony was actually foolish
enough to try this experiment. To-day
there is not a single male or female de-
scendant of that colony in existence.
DR.. O'MalIey furnishes many instances
showing that northern man can not thrive
anywhere in the south. "The Yankee
he says, 'sgoes down to Georgia to take
charge of a cotton-mill there, and for six
months he awakens the sleepers; then he
joins them." Further:
The most outstanding piece of evidence,
because it is available for the study of ev-
cry one, is the record of the American Re-
volution. According to record of the
testimony given by Major-General Robin
son, the English commissioner sent to this
country during the Revolution for the ex-
change of prisoners, General Washington's 5
army consisted of s'one-half Irish, one
fourth natives, and the rest were Scotch,
German and English"
"During the war of the American Revo-
lution," says DR.. O'Malley, "almost the
entire Pennsylvania and Maryland line in
the American Army was made up of Irish;
there are now almost no Irish names among
the Daughters of the Revolution, the Gin
cinnati, and similar societies made up. of
persons who had ancestors in the Revolu-
tionary War, because the Irish of the Kevo-
luton are extinct. recently examined
fifty Irish families in northern Pennsylvan-
ia who are now in the second American
generation.
''.rhese families were of the best immi-
grants that came here just after the famine
in Ireland of 1847. They gave their chill
dren the best example; they all succeeded
financially, so that their children were well
fed, well housed, and educated; nearly ev-
cry family was able to send some of their
sons to college. In the first American gen.
Grafton there were little over FIVE children
as the average to each family-276 in all.
If these 276 people had the number of chill
dren their parents had, they would now be
represented by at least thousand descend
ants.
They are actually represented by less than
two hundred delicate, neurotic children.
These families will be extinct in few more
generations. One group of seven familie:
in this list had forty-nine children in the
first American generation, of which 9 pei
cent. became insane, but the second Amer
ican generation Consists of six delicate
children, and there will be no more. Instead
of progression in the second generation
there is retrogression by more than 86 pei
cent.
'The Lombards went from what is nov
Hanover and the Altmark of Prussia dowr
to middle Italy. Their kingdom began il
Italy In 568 and ended in TIA; it lasted two
hundred and six years, and the name alone
remains; the people and their speech hav,
disappeared. The Teutonic Goths, wht
most probably came originally from th'
south coast of the Baltic, were important il
the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries. They
took Italy, Sicily, and Dalmatia and ex
tended their power over large part O
Gaul and nearly the whole of Spain. The.
lasted in Italy sixty-two years. They los
Spain in 534, and by COL the Gothic Ian
guage began to 60 out of use in Spain.
''The Vandals went down from Branden
burg and Pomerama, and about 428 SOM
$4,000 OF them passed over into northern
Africa, at the level of Virginia. By $50
that is one hundred and eight years afte
they had left Spain. the vaDdals disappeared
from history, annihilated, not by war o
pestilence, but by the climate. Early il
the thirteenth century body of Burgun
dians a9d Germans invaded Greece. Tw
generations after the conquerors had sc
foot on the Pepoponnesus many of thei
leading families were extinct. There al
ruins of old Frankish castles there now, bu
nothing more.