THE JUKES. 27 



TABLE V. 



Illegitimacy. 



Total number of children 



Of legitimate birth 



Of illegitimate birth 



Per cent of bastards to total number, by sex 



** " " " legitimates, by sex 



" " " " total nimiber, both sexes . 



23.50 



The above table shows an excess of girls over boys among the 

 legitimate, while there is an excess of boys over girls among the il- 

 legitimate, and, when we compare them by percentages, the illegiti- 

 mate boys are twice as numerous as the girls, 33.61 per cent to 17.36. 



If the object of our inquiry rested here, and a generalization 

 upon the above figures were made, based on the conventional and 

 generally accepted effects of illegitimacy on the question of crime 

 and pauperism, the conclusion would be inevitable that the above 

 figures explain the cause of pauperism and crime. The facts being 

 at hand, it is perhaps safer to enter into a more minute inquiry, and 

 pass from the consideration of aggregate numbers, to analyze par- 

 ticular cases. 



Of the five " Juke " sisters, three are known to have had illegit- 

 imate children, Ada, Bell and Delia. 



The two bastards of Delia were lazy ne'er-do-weels, who never 

 married, and are not known to have had children ; but little has 

 been gathered respecting them. Of her legitimate children, one, a 

 girl, was the mother of criminals, and is the only line in the legiti- 

 mate branches in which crime is found. 



Of the children of Ada (see charts I. and II.) the oldest was the 

 father of the distinctively criminal branch of the family. Two of 

 his sons, though never sent to prison, were notorious petty thieves 

 and the fathers of convicted criminals, while two of their daughters 

 were the mothers of criminals. None of the legitimate children or 

 grandchildren of Ada are known to have been criminals. 



But while the children and grandchildren of Ada's oldest were 

 criminals, the majority of them were legitimate. Thus we find 

 forty legitimates and five illegitimates among the descendants. 



