. Christian herald and signs of our times . ntages. I have recently visited this section incompany with three of the missionaries ofthe American Sunday School Union, whohave been working among them, one forfifteen years, and the other two for thirty-years. 1 found these mountaineers livingchierly in one-story cabins of two rooms,a kitchen and sleeping-room, in some casesdestitute of windows, the only light beingfrom the two doors, front and rear. Some-times a small shed outside is used forcooking purposes. The Moors are bare ofcarpets. The chimney is frequently madeof Hat pieces of wood, lath-
. Christian herald and signs of our times . ntages. I have recently visited this section incompany with three of the missionaries ofthe American Sunday School Union, whohave been working among them, one forfifteen years, and the other two for thirty-years. 1 found these mountaineers livingchierly in one-story cabins of two rooms,a kitchen and sleeping-room, in some casesdestitute of windows, the only light beingfrom the two doors, front and rear. Some-times a small shed outside is used forcooking purposes. The Moors are bare ofcarpets. The chimney is frequently madeof Hat pieces of wood, lath-shaped, andjoined with plaster. It is usually run upout-side the cabin, like chimneys at theseashore. Owing to the inflammable ma-terial, they sometimes take fire. Thereare several beds in the one sleeping-room,according to the size of the family. Theyretire early, soon after 8 , by the lightof the single tallow dip. They marryyoung, girls often at sixteen or families are the rule. « They live almost entirely on what they. NORTH CAROLINA CONVICT ROAD-MAKERS. raise on the small farms, which are oftenon the sides of steep hills, hard to ploughand cultivate. Those who live near thecreeks and forks of the river go logg- ing at the season when the streams areswollen. The timber previously hauled tothe river bank is then fastened together inconvenient shape and lengths to be han-dled, and is then poled down to thejunction of the streams, or to some placewhere the railroad has reached out afterit. The hardy mountaineer often standsall night long steering his flat craft, watch-ing for the turnsin the river, andkeeping a sharplookout for therocks. On dark,rainy nights it isnot an easy orpleasant task. Irode in the carsone day througha fine woodlandcountry, wherethere were fewinhabitants, to aplace w herethere were sev-eral saw the rail-terminated. It was evi-dently extended to this point to strikethe lumber trade. The passenger trafficcould not possibly pay
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