THE OIIECON SUNDAY JOUilNAi, OR"LAfD, SUlttMY '&0tlING, OCTOBER M, iC3
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., ThU : atoppod tho battlo ttmporftrllr. ' WhlJo . hit
emrftdof woro romorinc th woundod offloor tho .
"moonfthinora" oopod.' Tho covornmont ofllolaU waro
looking- for tham at laat aooounia. ,
But thla la not tho only woman "mooaahiaar who
baa bravad tha offloara. In Polk oounty, North Caro
lina,' lri of tl ran a atUL. It waa ,wmy up In a
taolatad mountain taction, far, It waa thought, bayond
tha raaoh of g-orarnmant atoutha.
' From tha mountain oamo a ateadr atraam of corn
brow. Jlavanuo offloara acratohad thalr haada Clua
after elua'waa run out, but atiU Batay Blmma dla
-tlUad nnmolaatad. It la tho euatom of offloara,' whan
all othar cluea fall, o follow mountain atraama A
till muat bo whiri thara la planty of running watar.
They wandad 'their way up tho mountain,
tart ad. about, examining hollowa, aeemlngly In vain.
But ono day they a aw amoko curling beyond tho
tree. , Tboro." aald ono. They looked-and at that
moment, a girl appeared, ."Give chaae." ahouted tha
deputy. ' Thoy ' ran. Tha girt turned and with tho
agility, of a flying Daphne led tho way through tha
foreat A cry rang out. It waa har algnal for help.
, A moment, and nvo men, armed to the teeth, ap-
, paarad. , , ,
"Don't ye lay a hand on that gal," ono aald. "It'a
all right Tou've got . tha goods; but we'll give you
tit. and ahe'll turn up at Columbua to 'pear at tha
next court term'
chool Children
AGENTS OF ILLICIT STILLS
IN KENTUCKY HIGHLANDS
TT1ROM a cloudless sky poured the xgold
Mi en morning sunshine. It penetrated
" the widest glens of the Cumberland
mountains and danced over the rugged moun
tain roads. ,
Coming down the road, on this particular
ttornmg, were two typical Kentucky moun
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MakiJitiiliaii
vo In their lnatlntfta and thirsty enough to violate
tain girls who might have been anywhere the law, ready to buy the liquor when there la a
from JO to 14 years old. Evidently they nock t the door, and a child stands there, school
no sooner stopped In ona section than other stills,
tn. trhnr,! Rlunv nvsr their shoul- b or,T the ahouldor-nalbelt school bag that saga
'den were coarse burlap bags, such as the -pJciou.iy with w.ight
, ij .l rnm; This, tho naweat and most startling development
school children of the section use for carrying of th- mopn8hlM trafflo ,n mounta!n fa8tnesses.
their books and lunch. follows what the government officials thought was a
V The tWO were poorly dreSSed and bare- virtual euppreealon of mo0nshlnlng." Last fall they
. . ,1.x, ,.tU ftanounced that they had stamped out the Illegal busl-
foot, for even in the mountains the warmth nMJfc But hav. fouad tbat mega, dtotuila, ls
of summer still lingered into jai. i neir caiico
gowns were patched and not overly clean.
Swinging along up the 'mountain road,
meeting them, came a tall, broad-shouldered
man,, also roughly dressed. As he near ed the
girls' the elder stepped in front of him and
audacious little creature boldly winked.
JThen she tapped the bag on her shoulder
significantly.
"Ehf he said, surprised.
"S-s-h. Want some?" she tapped the
"bag again.
"Yes," he replied, "but whatf" Raising
herself on tiptoe, she whispered in his ear.
In a moment the deal wasr completed;
she had taken the money he gave and he had
been given a quart of "moonshine" whisky.
''But wait there not so fast, my little
miss didn't know I'm a government inspec
tor, did yout lust come along with me and
show me where this stuff came from."
mushroom-Uke, spring up almost over night In an
other. During recent years a number of women have
been arrested on charges of "raoonshlnlng." Some
of them had evaded tha search of revenue agents
for many moons.
High up in the fastness of the mountains, hidden
by trees and often behind a fortress of rocks, ona
who knows may find the still. In a little shed there
Is all the apparatus for making whisky. There are
the great still of sheet copper, tha tubes, or "worm,"
and barrala standing In rows. There, with a lira go-
ing, a visitor might aee a woman, gun In hand. Per
haps daughters are about her; probably there are men
helpers.
Not long ago a woman named Fouts hefd a posse
of government officials at bay. X woman of 27. good
to look upon and of undoubted pluck, she defied all
the authorities of the law.
4he ran her still In the heart of the Beaver Creek
district on tho Knott-Floyd-Letcher line. When a
child she spent most of her. time In the small shanty
along the creek where her father distilled whisky.
With other children she went to the mountain school,
and she grew up to be 'a tall, brave, determined
woman. '
Several years ago her father died. The young
woman took charge of" the home. She knew how to
distill whisky, and she began a career as '"moon
shiner." It was not long beforo her whisky, like a
certain city's beer, became famous. It was the best
whisky made in tho mountains, all declared. Business
boomed
She took pride In her whisky and made money. It
Is aald that the production from a still of eighty
gallons a week averages the distiller about ISO.
Week by week the woman counted her $70 profit
And then th government . learned of her. She was
warned to quit "moonshlnlng," but sent back a defiant
refusal. . ,
So one morning last summer. Just as the sun over
the mountain peaks was reaching out his arms of
flame, a determined body of men marched up the
mountain. Along the rugged road . United States
Marshal Blair led the way. In time they reached the
neighborhood of the still. Everything was quiet
Cautiously they orept forward. Then bangl bang!
They were li earnest besides they were armed
The deputies took their word. True to the agree
ment Betsy did turn up. Th investigations revealed
such an extent o4.tra.fflo on her part that tha Judge
sentenced her to Jail for four months.
Abont this time last year Mrs, Adallne Rose, one of
the most notorious "moonshiners" in southeastern
Kentucky, was pardoned from prison by President
Roosevelt
Women of the mountains In the "moonshinlng" belt
have long been noted for their braveiw. Often they
have atood by their men, and they handle a gun as
well aa their lovers, husbands or sons. Handsome and
lithe-limbed when young many are, but hard work
soon effaces tho beauty bestowed by 'the beneficent
mountain air and sunshine and they soon show the
slgna of age. '
"Moonshiners' are taking more pains than aver to
conceal their stills," declared-ft revenue officer in tho
Kentucky mountalna recently. "These cost from 110
to $300; the men will undergo arrest without fuss,
but they mind the loss of tha still. The 'moonshiner'
believes that ho has a right to make whisky, and
that his children should sell it He cannot under
stand a law which would prohibit htm. Many chil
dren, on tne waty to school, will offer bottled
amne- tor sale, ti
are doing wrong.
'Moonshine.'
" 'Moonshinlng must he suppressed by impressing
the children as they grow up that the business is
wrong and illegal. The parents are unconsciously un
scrupulous. They do not realise the harm they are
doing to their children and the children become as
daring and defiant as the boldest distiller."
Phey seem to have no sense that they
They coma up to one and whisper.
THERE'S our great and good friend, th kaiser.
Many of us believe him a genius; many others
believe him a near-genius. But nature seems
to us her hallmark on both brands, whether
the specimens be the late George Francis Train, with
his bitter, antipathy for all hats, or the British par
liamentarian, who would hesitate between his head
gear and the Magna Charta, if he were forced to
choose between them.
- Have you ever seen a photograph, or any other
likeness, for that matter, of Kaiser Wllhelm which
failed to hid to aome extent his left arm? Can you
recall any othar man of prominence who stfll clings
to th antiquated Spanish cloak, or uses a muff In
seems, is not ex-
daring extremes
npSj HIS Instance, amazing aa it s
I art-prated, and shows to what
' I the Kentucky "moonshiners" have gone to dis
pose of the whisky they make la the moun
tain fastnessea
"Moonshiners," according to reports of United
States government agents, have actually put their
children to selling their illegal stuff. Uttle girls on
their way to school in the Kentucky mountains traf
fic "th hair-raising liquor. Sometimes they make a
mistake in approaching strangers, just as related
abov. Thea a "moonehlar" stUl ls apt to be raided.
United States Marshal W. M. Mays, who caught
aeveraj young offenders a short time ago on the
Breathita-KJiott line, declares that the people are be
coming mors lawless than ever.
Children, with the belief Instilled into them that
thla frame ls honorable and that government agents
are persecutors, solicit trad In the mountain reitie
ments and along the mountain roads. On their war
to school they carry the drink, dispensing it to
whomsoever will buy, suaft after school, according to
reports, they art ant Out to deliver It to.viUag cus
tomers. , Whether th "mooaehiaers" bellv that by mak
ing their child re a th purveyors of the whisky taer
may ex-ap detection. r whether they result that
if- tittle ones win mora custom. Inspectors ay that
r or chldra are sent oat aad c day laere ef the
uleiral liquor Is sold.
Althousa government sleuths fcav drive the wily
"moi-BitiMrf- t sack straita, the sympatky of their
-.ithbor la th taeaaialas ete net decreased. By
m -or,iDr." and ' enaay meaatala villager alike,
"mnorshtntea" ts reaareed as a legitimate bailees.
4 isnnnttl lnp-rtor tr regarded, wbea It Is
t d v as marks for gQBa
i here -ar many persona la rack aUaa, yrlml-
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F SOifE effort or work of ycrart should, all f
ft iDddfn, xLMut good, ft iijron a Don Juan
rok him tip to cd kimself famous if tha)
world, tomorrow rnornimr. ahAnLl diiuvrvar
fcat yon us- s known all your life, that yxm ftr ft
real, til-wool, yard-wide genius, do jtn tluiik you
ewuJd resist tie fell texepution to ftdom your neyk
with a towii poet ti. as yron did; or to dftftli
into fc-reen clotbes, as Ehaw does; or to dire into
some one or more of th innumerable) eccentricities
which genius manifests in its attire t
) I Tra could refrain, the rold medal is await
ing" you. as one of the noble exceptions to ft frailty
such fts humanity lore, to dm u her hsilmArk
lot lianu
which to thrust bis baad?Thst defectiv arm Is th
kaiser's sensitive point, and has ba all his Ufa: th
passioa for its oncelinnt. with whatever subtarfur
ef drs his tngsnalty caa command, baa become n
f th raltag paselons ef the kaiser's cxlsteae.
Aar on who baa th aourag t brave th baa f
cholera, which Russia's Insensate croeity t her peo
ple haa pat upon that anguished land, eaa et1y at
c.ese ran re th eceotriclty of RarsU'a most Amen
ablert. Coant Le Tolstoy; th oobl whoa rore
ar mmipi tor u sag axxram ucus
yet whose consistent genius Impels him to wear
habitually the smock of the poorest peasant
There are very few geniuses,' rich or poor, who ar
willing to put their philosophies to the test of miser
able garb. Least of all. that human riddle, Bernard
Shaw, whose socialism in words is to be measuaed by
the acre. "When he was poor and h was very poor
Shaw was notorious aa having the most dlsreputabl
hat in England. Mow that he is rich, he wears th
finest he can And, a specialty that would link him to
th base level of mediocrity were Jt not for the cir
cumstance that he insists on wearing green clothes of
a peculiar rough text,ur and, not too well mad.
If we wander among the poets, even with Walt
Whitman dead and his open-neck shirt gone the way
of all eocontricitles, he left a successor in the plo
a turesqu person of Joaquin Miller, th Poet of th
' Sierras, who persists in adharlng to the slouch hat
of the frontiersman and the poet, and to the loos
shirt and th boots that typify the vagrant, untram
meled fancy of his muse.
For years Mark Twain, that Incarnation of th
humor of common sense, oould not b reproached
with any peculiarity of dress. But. as hs evoluted
into the Grand Old Man of American Letters, he went
the original Grand Old Man. Gladstone, on better in
choosing a hallmark for his genius in characteristlo
fashion
Gladstone. Twain concedes, did all th wood hop-
?ing th forestry servlc could approv of. Twain
hanks hi lucky stars be has hung on into this later
generation, when ther isn't any wood to chop, and
th overworked, physical-cultured world needs a
shining example of ease and comfort.
So ha wears, all summer Jong, only the Whitest of
white linen or flannel suits and he doesn't care who
likes it and who doesn't. Invite him to dinner som
evening, and see whether he doesn't turn up among
the black clawhammer In virginal white, from bead
to foot He says it's symbolical of hla Innocence or
ons-ht to he.
King Edward, until the last horn blew for hla
eoronatlon. waa the world'a foremost exponent ef
English tweeds. Reason: be resolved, years ago. to
- make that particular British industry a success; and
th hold that tweeds still have upon th fashion I
.ample proof of hla power and of the practical utility of
hla fad.
SULTAN WEARS MAIL COAT
The sultan of Turkey owns a fur-trimmed over
coat, which la th most familiar, and, th moat dls
reputabl overcoat In his dominions, for It never
changes and he wears It when Mark Twain would be
ready to shed even hie linena H likes It beeaus It
Is lined with chain snail, through which th bullet r
th dagger of th ablquiteu assassin cannot pae
trate. Th king of Italy, wboee bead scarcely reache bis
queen's shoalder. does bis beet to look rerL H is
distinguishable la any aeeembly. If ra look closely,
by bis very hifh-heel'd shoea It Is th earn fad that
characterised Louis XIV. th little grand saoaarao of .
Prawe eentarle ago.
rirall was eetertowa aa a very fop. a I Charles
Plekena. f all hi asreanejed eve for th Water,
was hlmeelf a marked maa wherever h went by th
Craborat rttres of h neekrlUia
A for ladv eatrs. th see'e t fsVw
baa been their saving vlrtve. Th exretrtloasf B-M
SW bar vitro Ua pens when yon get them real asad
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