The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-19
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UnenN " American Neutrality-suspicious. Ol0ATl
none Of the passengers are commercial. tray
ellers. II IL more interesting to watch tn,
passengers than TO study out the lntrioacies o
Here !. tho Gr.t one: not in order Of arrival
but in evident Importance. He is a large man
%4 sS,y hut +. T %s. is,'9 hat at n az S9 Ss Ss. S S.Sl
all comes through the cabin door with him;
servant follows him, carrying two guns II
Now, 9eoreer, says he to the e%1peetapt
porter, I've got two dog, on the lower deck,
and ID ! II put q them ,Ps IN yG 'S5. chsrs :, g.t SEQ So yGq n TAX X,
night move them up nearer the boilers. Tn.
derstand2 And IN the morning | want a nice
I'm not lone YET; See YOU put plenty of gravy
with all tho confidence 81 nm old friend.
merchant OF S"alSohicSo'iisaI; and. what is mSre,
proprletor Of the independcnt line Of steamers;
There Is nearly always an Independent line of
sorrowful life, for the three or four rail ronG
lines make existence q burden to II. The wink
'?@a aio ing N huntins "A s0' man ASKS
tahooch' for a little shooting"
There ought to be plenty of good shooting
Plenty Ct big game" Mr.. GT,es, answers.
many birds down here so near the coast"
lard. next morning at "Chattehooch'.'''
Now tl;eni boys" says he, as he .tep,
nshorst Bring tho dogs, George. These my
three barrels OF ~oysters? Here, you fellows.
get these sSo% oysters up there in tho shade, and be
In mournful contrast with this breezy pas.
.enger is the wlthered old woman with tho big
Women sr ea6in, and if tS1s s you Sr 'h man S Selects iS sh q
comfortable rocking chair and leans toward
casIonSily. tho Old woman walks out Into the
mems cabin and wrings her hands and groans,
ONE 0nsFs more OF " ssoaas and Py m saS s'eY Pressstl1 Sr Ing
meaning Of all this misery becomes manifest.
r., Gentlemen" she en- mqtters, g2ing up 70 one
pore eAS old d'o womsnF' '' There %S 'I is story 70 Of Ns woe a
m%pttered too lndistinctly to ie understood,
might have been made that she put her big
lubherly grandson to work. But these men
hand in his pocket and gives her a coin. At
some mysterious Harding In the night the old
woman and her escort disappear.
Then there Is the invalid from so somewhere In
the interior. who, as subsequent conversation
reveals, l. convalescing from u long and dan.
gerous illness. and has been down on the coast
for sea air. His wife is with him. giving him
wisely care. and everybody knows him Cap
s si,s down p%nSS and P tafSs to nim or sNdi c sna sii1ana
the man Is dosed from sundry small bottles,
come and go at night most mysteriously.
The little man who insists upon discussing
tic sllNtT NutbllOl. Ilt OIUtI hltl ntIItTh TtSSOu
little man who must be either a local preacher
or a schoolmaster: the planter who has been
three men who are too Quiet and commonplace
to deserve separate mention. comprise the re-
mainder Of the PASSENGERS at the start. The
removed from the routes OF 'tourist' travel.
Not y single soul aboard has one Of those famll-
cars a dozen times a day and 70 board in tie
best hotels at full rates. A public conveyance
plier aboard IA almost bnyOnd he reach of the
imagination. but here is one.
No smoking outside the cabin. says a big
printed sigu; but It hangs harmless In the
purser's oflce, and for the present it means
nothing. The purrer explains that It. is for
ton bales. The cold night air keeps everybody
inside, and there Is no smoking outside the
cabin. But much tobacco is consumed around
At II O'Clock or 30 there Is a gentle bump,
and this Is lola. whero once were wharvcs and
and steam cars to carry them to st. Joseph for
shipment; No waTrshousgs loom up now
mud and sand. and the river hullt It. The
whistle that blew is not from a locomotive. but
When the whistle blew. half a NILE from
the, landing, a strange thing, happen"d. ono
looks on these shallow river boats, with their
for the big, wire basket Allied with. blazing pine
knots. a giant tGrch to light the deck and the
blowing before there shot out u glare of Light
that made the black river q sheet Of gold, and
Threw weir hnduONs NM tuo .mueS-IunE
Expresses on shore. 1t was the .Apalachee's
electric search light, that llumined every land
ton bales are no longer rolled aboard under the
light OF the old pine torch, Every Chatta.
hoochee River steamer carries an electric
by ,nlght as by day. II is not as poetic a lishs
a. its PREDECESSOR, but far more effective; and
under its, rays as ever he did under the blaz.
Somewhere back OF lola are lakes and springs
that arc locally celebrated for their curative
powers and their excellent fishing. with u small
hSetel T TRa S o,hsr sSSo int :. ,Sesed f"r '9 BE- p on.
young man who has been down to the springs
for his health: and now f. going hoTs quite
the o9thoer and stewards know him, for he
came down In the same boat.
worthy Of DIES %,ription; a type found often In
tall. 1.-THE. graceful young fellow ~ perhaps
twenty-five, with good, broad forehead and a
fine fine, Henry dtd,Tss Clay SyS so ri. Of tr fass; " t1Sk fsdpG 'yt shirt, IT.
tops OF leather-colored boots. with little tassels
dangling, down their sizes; With good man
and In schools, and with no apparent lack in
lis makeup but that indescribable something
which comes only from contact with the world
as 1t is found in big cities.
The few passengers who linEer about tho
mans anairs-for he has not the least hesita-
tion about taking the public into HIS confidence. |
he has been I'm business niea for himself n for
Cl1II w VI lN'fSN ~ kie
and Alabama. The woIk broke him down ard
no sold out. and he started ON this river trip all
used up. |
"He don't know how bad he was" the pur-
srr gays later. 'He fell over in a faint here ny |
the stove, and We had TO carry him into his
stdteroom." |
Hui a few weeks OF the springs and baths
have put him on his feet again, and lie Is as live.
Nv as a cricket. lie tells OF his wife and chill
dren. and OF the long wait he e1 oects to have
for a rain. Ten minutes later no and The
Sun man are discussing more authors, living
and dead. than are often. mentioned on the
Chattahoochee River. A Latin or Greek quo
tation comes as easy TO the young man as eat;
authors can bo mentioned that he 10 not famil-
lar with. He admits. however, that he has
not read HopkinsOn smiths Colonel Carter OF
Cartersyile," and when i Is suggested that
out a little notebook and makes a memoran-
DUN, and says he will send for 1t as soon as he
reaches home. He knows how TO distribute
coins freely, and next day the stewards are
In his ,ase, also. time may bs logged alonxa
little. He IS to land al some point on the upper
river, there TO take IA train for home. Two
nights later that point is approaching, at 9
O'Clock in the morning, and 80 pleasant a COM
nsuicn has tho young man been that THE SIN