Moonshiner In Real Life

The Kentucky moonshiiier in real life does not resemble his counterpart, described in novéis and impersonated on the stage, in the least. He does not wear top boots and a slouch hat. As a rule he is too poor to possess the former, and he is more apt to go barefoot or to amble along in a pair of wornout brogans than to wear top boots. His hat is usually a torn straw "Jimmy" and his clothes are yejlow and faded with age. Eegularly, on days when the grand jury meets in Louisville, a dozen or more of the moonshiners are presented for indictment. They present a woebegone appearance as they pass along the streets in charge of the marshal. In their own poor homes in the mountains they are hospitable, but of the stranger ever suspicious. The latter may make his bed in the one room where the entire fainily sleeps, but his request for a taste of liquor brings forth a statement that none is to be had this side of "the store." At the same time a still may be in operation within ten feet of his whereabouts. "The store" represents to the mountaineer all civilization. On winter mornings he will tramp to it through cold and snow to sell a few stiffi rabbits and swap yarns not overbrilliant. One of the rnountaineer's chief sources of income is his honey, and this finds ready sale at "the store." The moonshiner seldom receives money in pay for his wares, but is paid in a bit of bright calicó for his wife or a shoulder of bacon. If he can add to this a few pipefuls of tobáceo, he is well satisfied with