The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 11, 1898, Page 20

20 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1898. Bpécial to the Sanday Call ASHINGTON, 9. Sept. The Government has just published a huge volume called -a Sta ical Atlas, which in. its . way its the most remarkable work ever fssued. Its price is large and the edi- tion so limited that few persons be- sides Congressmen and public librari- ans will be able to get copies Chiefly by means of colored maps and charts it gives an immense amount of infor- mation about the greatest variety of interesting matters connected Wwith this country and the people who in- habit it. For example, it is interesting to learn that the women of this country @o not bring as many children int6 the world as they formerly did. There has been a marked decrease, in fact, within the last few years. The size of the average family, since 1850, has WORK gives all the PARTICU- LARS . IN REGARD TO the most IMPORTANT SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, FINANCIAL and INDU STRIAL FEATURES of cur commonwealth HOW THE AVERAGE FAMILY HAS N TEN YEARS DECREASED diminished from a little over five and a half persons to a little less than five. Figures prove that people in the Southern States have the largest num- ber of children, while in New England the families are smallest. For an il- lustration, Louisiana has double as many children under five years as Maine, in proportion to population. Out of every 100 persons in the United States 51.21 are males and 48.79 are females. The excess of men over women in the entire country, there- fore, is very large. Ten per cent of the women and 1 per cent of the men marry between 15 and 20. In the total population the proportien of divorced to married persons is about one to 100; but among the native whites it is a little higher than that, and among the ne- groes it §s largest. The proportion of divorced people in the Atlantic States is less than half of 1 per cent; in the Mississippi Valley it is between one- half and 1 per cent, and in the far West it ranges from 1 to 2 per cent. Thirteen out of every 10,000 people in the United States are in prison. Sev- enteen out of every 10,000 are insane, the number being divided almost equally between the sexes. Race seems to have a marked relation to mental disturbances. Nineteen cut of every 10,000 whites are crazy, while only nine out of every 10,000 colored folks are similarly afflicted. Of the na- tive whites fourteen out of everv 16,000 are mad, and of the foreign-born 39 out of every 10,000 This seems to prove that = colored folks are much less liable to insanity than whites, and the foreign-born much more so than native Amerfcans. The tendency to insanity is greatest among the Irish and next among the Hungarians. It is comparatively small among the Germans and British, and least of all among the Canadians. Women go crazy later in life than men do, apparently. Fifteen out of every 10,000 people in this country are idiots ar feeble-mind- ed. Of these 55 per cent are males and 45 per cent females. Race again seems to have an important influence in this matter. Sixteen out of every 10,000 whites are feeble-minded and only fourteen out of every 10,000 col- ored. The tendency toward idiocy ap- pears to be greatest among those of Hungarian stock and least among those of Itallan origin. Seven out of every 10,000 inhabitants of the United States are deaf and dumb. Of these 55 per cent are males and 45 per cent females. The affliction is much less common among colored reople than among whites. Agafn in this case the Hungarians are the great- est sufferers, fourteen out of every 10,- 000 being deaf-mutes. The next in rank are the Russians, while the Italians are but little troubled with this sort of defect. Eight out of every 10,000 persons in this country are blind. Of these 55 per cent are males and 45 per cent females. The affliction is most prevalent among those of Hungarian, LOST HIS LEES SEARCH FOR GOLD ROUND an uptown hotel, where the returned Klondikers mostly gather, you will find many evi- dences of the wealth which this wondrous region has given up. | You will see the successful pros- pector, his bags filled with gold dust, taking his ease in an armchair, and en- joying the best which the pleasure- loving city of San Francisco can furn- ish. There is an air of well-to-do prosperity about the place. The men who are there have risked every form of danger and hardship, but they have made thelr pile, and are going to have a good time while they are about it. Life goes easily in this quarter. For these favored individuals there is no @aily routine of business duty, no tire- gome office hours. Their time is their own. They have nothing to do but to spend their money, and all around them is abundant facility. But the Klondike has its wrecks ag well as its successes. Some there are His Legs Wers Frozen While Drowsing in Camp. » | casin footgear. IN THE who come safely to shore, their pockets lined with gold dust; but more have fallen by the way, or have only reached | civilization in a erippled and exhausted state. There are those whose feet have been frozen and who limp painfully about on crutches, wearing soft moc- Others have left fin- gers of ears In the bitter north as traces of their gold hunting adventure. But of all the physical wrecks which the Klondike has sent to San Francisco the most remarkable is the boy who lost his legs in the search for the pre- cious metal. Withal he is the most cheerful spirit in the quarter. He can dance a jig or sing a song with any man who still retains his four members. The loss of his legs does not worry W. E. Byrne a little bit. He is naturally of a modest and retiring disposition, and does not desire publicity. “There, I hope you fellows will let me alone after this,” he said when the artist had fin- ished his sketch. “I don’t want to be made an awful example of."” Byrne is a wonderful instance of Cel- tic pluck and energy. He is a Chicago boy, of Irish parentage, and is only 19 years of age. Yet he went into Daw- son a couple of years ago and did well W. E. BYRNE, @laskan Miner theré. » It was when coming out over the 1koot last year that he met with his_terrible mutilation. “I vas with my uncle, Mr. Maguire, and a large party,” he remarked. “We had been working hard all day and when we camped at night I sat down, worn out, before the fire. 1 was sound asleep before I knew anything about it, and when they woke me up both my legs were frozen from the knees down- ward. “What did it feel llke? I didn’t feel anything at first, my legs were simply numb. It was when they thawed out that the trouble began. My friends Carried to the Surgeon, 000000000 C000000Q00000 0000000000000000000C000000000000000D O0OOOCOO0OO00COOO REMARKABLE REVELATIONS OF UNCLE SAM'S NEW ATLAS. Consumption causes twelve out of every hundred deaths each year. American women are not bearing as many children as formerly. Marriage is on the decrease. One person in every hundred is divorced. Less than half of our population are church goers. The Catholic Church has the largest percentage of members, One p:rson in every ten thousand is in jail. QO0QCOO00000000000000000 0000000000000 0000000ITOOOOOOONO0000 0000000000000 0C0GCY Irish and ' French origin, and least common among those of Scandinavian and Italian stock. Consumption kills nearly 12 per cent of the people of the United States sooner or later. Pneumonia is the com- plaint next most fatal, carrying off nearly 9 per cent. Diarrhaeal diseases destroy 8.5 ner cent, and dinththeria and croup account for 5 per cent more of the deaths, ' Enteric fever is re- sponsible for 3 per cent, and cancers and tumors for 2.4 per cent. Malarial fever wipes out 2.2 per cent of the in- habitants of the country, and child- birth 1.3 per cent. Measles is account- able for 1.2 per cent of the deaths, whooping-cough for 1 pmer cent, and scarlet fever for three-quarters of 1 per cent, The greatést mortality from con- sumption occurs on the Pacific Coast and in the eastern part of the Upper ONE PERSOM (S DIVORCED | O FOO WO ARE NOT PORTION OF THE KE. %‘E‘VE!‘ UNDRED 'és‘géubal LATIOMN CHURCH GOERS | £ & Zidilo z % Tl a vz R PR o a u) < g0y [ RTR G o 010" o [$Xo 3 % o ¢ ) T 3 ] Z PROPORTION OF CHURCH GOEBRS AND'NON-CHURCH GOERS rubbed me with snow, the only thing you can do for frostbite, but it was eight hours before the circulation com- menced again. Then it was too late. My feet felt exactly as if some one was pouring molten lead through my veins. It was an awful torture and it was use- less. Nothing could save my legs. Mor- tification set in and they took me back to Five Fingers, where there was a doctor who amputated both my legs, about six inches below the knee. I was all right in a month and then I went back to Dawson and came out down the Yukon. “Kind to me? I should say the boys were. Every man's bag ot dust was open for me to take just what I wanted. And when I left they made up a purse for me. I am not going to say just how much it was.” ¢ Popular rumor_has it that Mr. Byrne's generous Klondike friends col- lected no less than $3700 for him and probably this estimate is not much out of the way. At any rate, in spite of his terrible sufferings, he i€ at his ease now and free from all financial worries. Though his complexion i8 somewhat pale he seems perfectly strong and is able to hop about on_his stumps with surprising agility. . He does not need any crutches, only a couple of diminu- tive walking sticks which aid him in keeping his balance. At present he goes on his knees, presenting a curiously Mississippi Valley. Pneumonia is most prevalent in the Rocky Mountain re- gion and in Eastern Texas. Diphtheria is worst in the Rocky Mountain re- gion, on the plains and prairies, and near the great lakes. Cancer and tu- mor appear to increase with density of population, their victims being more numerous proportionately in New Eng- land and the northern part of the Miss- issippi Valley than elsewhere. Mala- rial fever is most destructive in Eas- tern Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Southern Missouri and the cotton belt. Measles range most persistently in the southern mountain regions, and whoop- ing cough is particularly fatal in the southern Appalachians. The danger from scarlet fever is greatest among the Rocky Mountains and in the plains region. Heart disease and dropsy kill most people in the upland country of New England and on the South Atlan. tic coast. The total wealth of the United States —Ii. e., the value of the property of the people and the Government—was $7,- 136,000,000 in Since then it has in- sed to $65,037.000,000. The wealth pita was $308 in 1850; it is now $1036—a very decent little sum for every man, woman and child in the country, if it were only allotted equally. New York is the richest State, being worth more than eight and a half bil- lions of dollars. Pennsylvania comes next with nearly seven ions, and Hlinois is third, with over five billions. Ohio has nearly four billions, Massa- chusetts more than three, and then fol- low in order California, Missouri, Iowa, Texas, Indiana and Michigan. Nearly two-thirds of the total wealth of the ceountry is in réal estate and improve- ments, and about 13 per cent is in rail- roads. New York Staté owns one-eighth of the entire wealth of the country. Penn- sylvania follows with about one-tenth and Illinois comes next with about a twelfth of the riches of the United States. The richest States, in propor- ticn to population, however, are those of the far West, while the poorest are those of the far South. In other words, the average citizen of the far West is best off, while he of the South is most impoverished. In Nevada the average human inhabitant owns $2220 worth of real estate and improvements; in Ari- zona he possesses $1600 worth; in Mon- tana, Wyoming and Washington he has only a little less. In New York he has nearly $1000 worth, and in Mas- sachusetts he possesses a little over $800 in this shape. In the Gulf States and the Carolinas he comes down to $100 worth or less. Nearly one-third of the church-goers of the United States are Roman Cath- olics. Considerably more than one- fifth are Methodists. More than one- sixth are Baptists. One church-goer in sixteen is a Presbyterian and one in seventeen a Lutheran. One in thirty- nine is an Episcopalian and one in thirty-nine a Congregationalist.- The balance of the church-going people is split up into minor sects. New Mexico is almost wholly Roman Catholic; Arizona is three-quarters Catholic; Massachusetts, Wyoming and Nevada are two-thirds Catholic; Connecticut, Colorado and California are half Cath- olic. Methodists are strongest in Dela- ware, South Carolina and Florida, numbering 50 per ¢ .t of the church- goers. Baptists are most numerous in Mississippl, Georgla and Virginia, claiming 50 per cent and upward in those States. Twelve in every thir- teen religious people in Utah prefer the Mormon faith. Two in three are Mor- mons in Idaho and one in eleven in Nevada. New Mexico is the most pious section of the Union, with 68 per cent of its HOW THE PERCABITA WEALTH HAS INCREASED SINCE 1850 ‘ south and more population church communicants. Utah comes next, with 62 per cent, for Mor- mons are first-rate church-goers, and think they know the best road to heav- en. Rhode Island, Massachusetts a_nd Connecticut are high up on the list, THE HARVEST OF DEATH. The accompanying charts show the percentage of fatalities caused by different Diseases every hundred Ei Deaths, E’ with over 40 per cent, but Vermont falls much below, and New Hampshire has @ record of enly 27 per cent. Maine drops.below 25 per cent. The really heathen States, however, are those of the Far West, wheré the percentage of church-goers drops off to a lamentably small fraction. _In 1790 the center of population of the United States was a point twenty-three miles east of Baltimore. In 1820 it was about sixteeen miles north of Wood- stock, Va. In 1840 it had reached a point sixteeen miles south of Clarks- burg, W. Va. 1In 1860 it was twenty miles south of ChillicotMe, Ohio. In 1870 it had reached the neighbor- hood of Cincinnati and to-day it is not far from Westport, Ind. The center of area of the United States is in North- ern Kaqsas. Accordingly, the center of population is three-fourths of a degree than seventeen de- grees east of the center of area. To-day of all the States Rhode Island has the greatest number of inhabitants per square mile—320. Massachusetts comes next with 277 per square mile, and the next States in order are New Jersey with 190, Connecticut with 153, New York with 125, Pennsylvania with 118, Maryland with 105, Ohio with 90, Delaware with 87, Illinois with 70, In- diana with 63 and Kentucky with 48, RENE BACHE. dwarfed appearance, but there are brighter prospects in store. “I will have my feet next week,” he said, “and then I will stand five feat eight inches high, only one inch less than my original height. I am having false feet made by the best firm here. They are to have springs and all kinds of patent appliances, so that I can walk about in a natural manner.” The boy’s spirit is undaunted and if he does not come out of the Klondike a multi-millionaire it will not be for want of perseverance. He owns shares in three claims near Dawson, and all through this winter his partners wiil be busy in getting out the frozen gravel. “I am going in again in February and then we will have a big wash-up.” “But do you think you can stand an- other winter there?" “When a man has been through as much as I have,” he answered proudly, “he can endure anything. I will get over the pass somehow, even if I have to go in a sled. But I guess I can walk pretty well,” and he danced round the room on_his stumps to show his ac- tivity. “You see, I will go in before the snow melts, so that there will e no trouble in getting over the Chilkoot.” Mr. Byrne, while he feels pretty se- cure as to his own holdings, does not anticipate any* big rush to Dawson this year. “Everything is pretty well taken up,” he sald. *"All the payable ground on the creeks for miles around has been staked out, and the newcomer has no chance. I do not know how the newly discovered diggings at Lake Atlin and other places will turn out yet. But it is evident that the center of mining ac- tivity must shift from Dawson to fresh districts.” | J. F. ROSBE-SOLEY. —_——— AND HE DIDN'T. “I shall have to ask you for a ticket for that boy, ma'am.” “I guess not.” - “He's too old to travel free. He oc- cupies a whole seat, and the car’s crowded. There are people standing up.” “That’s all right.” “I haven't any time to argue the mat- ter, ma’am. You'll have to pay for that boy.” “I've never paid for him yet, &nd I'm not going to begin to do it now.” “You've got to begin doing it some time. If you haven't had to put up any fare for him you're mighty lucky, or else you don’t do much traveling.” “That’s all right.” “You'll dsay for that boy, ma'am, or I'll stop the train and put him off.” “That’s all right. You put him off if you think that’s the way to get any- thing out of me.”, “You ought to know what the rules of this road are, madam. How old is that boy?” “I don’t know. I never saw him be- fore. If you want a ticket for him you'd better ask that old gentleman down the aisle. He got on with him."—Chicago une. Berar. throw some of the barrack chimneys. the Grand Llama at Lhassa! an area 1500 miles long and 1000 mil The Government asked the station proximity to the railway line. long, Cherrapunji and Tura. was left standing on another. parachutewise. violence of the great earthquak SINGULAR WORK. OF AN EATHQUAKE UR illustration is from a photograph, and gives some idea of the e which visited India on June commencing at 5:10 p. m., and lasting from three to seven minutes, It was a far-reaching earthquake. have been felt even at the farthest extremity of Assam and Akyat in Burma; on the south at Masulipatum in Madras and at Ellichphur, in On the north it was felt at Khatmandu, the capital of Nepal; and at Gnatong, on the frontier of Sikkim, it was severe enough to over- 12, On the east it was reported to It was reported to have disturbed Thus the range of the shock extended over es broad, or 1,275,000 square miles in all. masters and railway men to report the damage done in their districts, and among the matter sent in in reply were the two photographs which we reproduce. earthquake on the rails; and the other shows gaps and chasms made in One shows the effect of the The destructive force of the earthquake reachéd its maximum in Shil- In Shillong it may be said without exagger- ation, that the Biblical curse was carrled out literally, and not one stone All masonry buildings in this place been leveled to the ground, and this not by overthrow merely, but by a bat- tering of the walls into fragments, on the top of which the roof subsided According to the seismometers while it lasted was at least equal to a backward and forward shake of 7 inches, repeated sixty times a minute. had at Shillong, the shock