Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — The Independent Mountaineer. [ARTICLE]

The Independent Mountaineer.

It is a strange fact, but nevertheless true, that there is less poverty in the mountains than in any other section of the State. While the mountain people are seldom wealthy they are rarely, if ever, in need of the necessities of life. Each man has his little patch of land on which he raises enough to support his family and by odd jobs secures enough money to buy their clothing. While the poorer people of the larger cities are suffering for fuel, the moutaincer is sitting by his comfortable fire smoking the cob pipe filled with “long green” which he himself lias raised. Although the winter has been exceptionally severe we have yet to hear of a single family in Leo County that is suffering. The Kentucky mountaineer, howjbver, is one of your independent fellows who will starve rather than beg and nd one knows of his sufferings until he is found stiff and cold in death.—[Beattyville (Ky.) Enterprise.