The Forrest City times., 1912-08-23

anu ZS.l per cent negroes. Native whites represent 694 per cent of tho total purhber, and foreign-horn white. % per cent. Of the 9.71S foreign born white males of voting age, 5.284. or o4.4 per cent are naturalized.
 Age.
 or the total population, 14.7 per cent are under five years of age, PAT per cent from five to fourteen years. ia- elusive; 20.6 per cent from 15 to 24; 25,1 per cent from 25 to A, and 14.7 per cent are 45 years of age and over. The foreign born white population comprises comparatively few children, only pei cent of this class being uR- der 15 ydars of age, while more than fiye-sixths (S54 per cent) are 20 years of age apd over. The negro popula- tion comprises a somewhat smaller proportion of children under five than the native white population of native parentage.
 The urban population shows a small CT proportion of children than the rur- al, and a larger proportion of per sons in the prime of life. Migration to the city explains this at least in part. Of the urban population, 33.3 per cent are from 25 to A years of age, inclusive, and of the rural popu- lation, 23.9 per cent
 School Attendance.
 The census inquiry as to school at- tendance was merely as to whether the person enumerated had attended any kind of school at any time from September 1, 1909, to the date of enumeration. April 15, 1910.
 The total number of persons of school age-that is, from six to 20 years, inclusive-is 551,672, of whom 324 .035, or 5S.7 per cent, attended school. In addition to these, 4,324 per- sons under six and 5,436 of 21 and over attended school. For boys from six to 20 years, inclusive, the percentage attending school was 5S.7 for girls, 5SS. For children from six to four teen years, inclusive the percentage at- tending school was 701. The per- ceutage for children of this age was highest in the small group of native whites of foreign or mixed parentage, SIP, followed by native whites of na- tive parentage. TAT negroes, 5S.2, and foreign-born whites, 55.S. In urban communities the percentage of chi- dren of that age attending school was 82.3; in rural communities, 68.S.
 IIIiteracy.
 The census bureau classifies as il- literate any persons 10 years of aga and over, who is unable to write, re- gardless of ability to read.
 There are 142,954 illiterates in tho state representing 12.6 per cent of tho total population 10 years of age and over, as compared with 20.4 per cent in 1900. The percentage of illiteracy is 26.4 among negroes, 8.9 among for eign-born whites, and among native whites. It is Fl for native whites of native percentage, and 2.8 for native whites of foreign or mixed parentage
 Illiterates are relatively few in ur- ban than in rural communities, GA per cent, as against 13.6. This difference between urban and rural appears in each class of the population, although in other sections of the country the percentage for foreign-born whites, most of whom arrive in this country when past the school age, is practi- cally the same in urban as in rural communities.
 For persons from 10 to 20 yeans, inclusive. whose 4iteracy depends largely upon present school facilities and school attendance. the percentage of illteracy is 7.S.
 Marital Condition.
 In the population 15 years of ago and over, 343 per cent of the males are single and 23.7 per cent of the females. The percentage married IS 5S.9 for males and 64 for females, and the percentage widowed 59 and 11.3. respectively. The percentage divors- ed, 0.5 and 0.S respectively. are believ- ed to be to small, because of the prob- ability that many divorced persons class themselves as single or widow ed.
 That the percentage single is SO much smaller for women than for men is due largely to the fact that they marry younger. Thus, 21.1 per cent of the females, rom 15 to 19 years of age, are married. as compared with per cent of the males: and 65.2 per cent of the females from 20 to 24 years are married, as compared with 35.9 per cent of the males. For those aged 25 to 34 the percentages are S3.3 and 73.7, respectively. In the next age group, 8 to A years, the difference practically disappears. That there is a larger proportion of widows than of widowers may indicate that men more often remarry than women, but, since husbands are generally older than their wives, the marriage relationship is in fact more often broken by death of the husband than by death of the wife
 Dwellings and Families.
 The total number of dwellings in Arkansas is S27, ,625, and the total num-