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against whom there is nothing and their progeny mostly 

 moved to another neighborhood and are lost sight of. 

 Very likely they have married into stronger strains and are 

 founders of reputable families. 



The progeny of Erne Juke and the son of Max (a thief) 

 show to the fifth generation a different aspect. Some larceny 

 and assault there are, and not a little sexual immorality, but 

 pauperism is the prevailing trait. 



Thus, in the same environment, the descendants of the 

 illegitimate son of Ada are prevailingly criminal; the pro- 

 geny of Bell are sexually immoral; and the offspring of 

 Efne are paupers. The difference in the germ plasms deter- 

 mine the difference in the prevailing trait. But however 

 varied the forms of non-social behavior of the progeny of 

 the mother of the Juke girls, the result was calculated to 

 cost the state of New York over a million and a quarter of 

 dollars in seventy-five years up to 1877, and their proto- 

 plasm has been multiplied and dispersed during the subse- 

 quent thirty-four years, and is still going on. 



The Ishmaelites. As another example of a great family 

 tracing back to a single man may be taken "The Tribe 

 of Ishmael" of central Indiana, as worked out, under 

 the direction of Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch, of the Charity 

 Organization Society, Indianapolis. The progenitor of this 

 tribe, Ben Ishmael, was in Kentucky as far back as 1790, 

 having come from Maryland through Kentucky. One of 

 the sons, John, married a half-breed woman, and came into 

 Marion County, Indiana, about 1840. His three sons who 

 figure in this history married three sisters from a pauper 

 family named Smith. They had altogether fourteen chil- 

 dren who survived, sixty grandchildren, and thirty great- 

 grandchildren, living in 1888. 



