As the poor whites of the South were fifty years ago, so they are to-day--a careless, ignorant, lazy, but withal, arrogant set, who add nothing to the productive wealth of the community because they are too lazy to work, and who take nothing from that wealth because they are too poor to purchase.

They have graded human wants to a point below which man could not go without starving.
They live upon the poorest land in the South, the "piney woods," and raise a few potatoes and corn, and a few pigs, which never grow to be hogs, so sterile is the land upon which they are turned to "root, or die." These characteristic pigs are derisively called "shotes" by those who have seen their lean, lank and hungry development.

They are awful counterparts of their pauper owners.

It may be taken as an index of the quality of the soil and the condition of the people, to observe the condition of their live stock.

Strange as it may appear, the faithful dog is the only animal which appears to thrive on "piney woods" land.