The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-06-13
TIE LAND OF .aREA,E"
Where the People Live on Ham-Fat nnd
Hot Dread the Year Round.
Correspondence to The SENTINEL.

Correspondence to THE SENTINEL.
To northern man, who when at home
is used to living at a irrational" diet, a
few months boarding in the south
usually ends with his being laid up with
the prevailing complaints-chills ana
fever or 'yeller jaunders," aud some-
times right smart o. both"
A person unfamiliar with the climate
would naturally suppose that vegetables,
lean meats, ETC., would form the prlnci-
pie diet, but such is not the case, that is,
among the natives; northern people live
different, at least when they first go
there.
Hot biscuit three times day, with
sorghum and 'little sop or 'Diana
dope" together with ham fat or bacon,
forms the living of the average ''cagen"
or white trash" Sometimes this is
varied by turnip greens cooked IN grease
No doubt the living Is one of the causes
of so much sickness. Another is the
way the houses are constructed. The
writer saw hundreds of houses with no
opening for light except the door. Plenty
OF air, however, came In through the
cracks in the walls. Sometimes some
thing besides air comes in through these
openings, for l was told by several resi-
dents that 1t was no unusual occurrence
to get up IN the morning and tnd u rat
tier coled up in the ashes of the fire.
place, stoves being scarce article.
In Missouri the Democrats are becom-
ing as few and far between as the
proverbial hens teeth, the Populissic
doctrine having received great impetus
within The past year or two. Upon
questioning one rabld old populst as to
the cause OF his change OF politics he
replied: "We'nns have to give too many
bushels OF corn for a dollar nowadays.
Voted the Democratic ticket for
forty years, but won't do 1t any more.
We'uns are gwine to make change il
we can"
Ii the soil was improved and cultivated
as 1t is in the north man could soon
amass a fortune. However, as the
greater part Of the male population are,
as a ru s.afflicted with the disease known
In the upper peninsula lumber camps as
| the ''yrllow dog,' 1t will be some time
| before money will be very plentiful.
| The women do most OF the farming, and
| the men sit around and chew twist"
Prices On most commodities are about the
same as here, on account OF sc little be-
Ing raised. When man can get eight
cents pound for pork and raise hogs
for SO cents piece-the porker feeding
on acorns In the woods until abeut tao
weeks before selling, when little corn
is fed them-there would, even II man
did nothing but conduct a pig ranch, be
a large profit 10 it. aud be can always
find ready sale.
The upper peninsula river drivers
would have picnic" in Arkansas, the
rivers in many instances rising sixty feet
In day. have known the Little Red
river to rise twenty-four feet in an hour.
or course hundreds of miles of bottom
land is overflowed and thousands of dol
lars worth Of property destroyed. have
seen cotton and driftwood lodged thirty
feet from the ground 10 the trees
When such overflows occur the in
habitants get a move GU themselves for
higher ground, where they have to stay
until the water subsidies. The people
say 1t is like what the eel said when he
was being skinned, nothing when you
get used to it," FRANK +. WEBB