The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-27
A RKANSAS CITY
n LOST ITS HARBOR
Through One Of Those Ornery Fools
Who Think They Know
Everything.

fldI hiNc"e
IN, what they does know they don't KNOW
or sartain. You on most gently spot en-
I'm hearin' 'em contradict their betters,
Ion't make no difference what's SAID. II
man was TO say tho sun riz In tn east an
one o. them all wlss gazaboe was 70 near IL
le'd butt In 18th one o them madoenin
,ontradictions I'm telin' about. He'd say
ike heard q fool preacher say one Tina,
y ali depended on what time o. year twas.
sometimes the sun d raise q leetle TO the
,o',heast, an sometimes . Ieetis to the
southeast. An he'd toll about books ga
ead it into, Just a. II any old He Z o'd %
.old d be true II twas printed into poon.
There amt no uss argyin' 18th Q man hk
hat. nor you can't tell him nothsn' tn do
10 good. II you was to Explain a. how the
am al'ays has TO rise in ths east. pein ~
q, east on account OF h sun Ttstn' there
you couldn't make him onoerstano as nov
. stands to reason ina can't Z" no'''"
Else but the east.
"Hit's Just hke tho 5000 nooH ~.
When a fool brays, you On stomp aim INTO
\ mess o mortar, out heh Keep on gin
4 fool The on'y way ever knowea o.
gettin' any sansiacuoh ou'en ~ ~
and is to back him up on erahHo~u "aon
an tell him there's . tram comm "
course. bein' tho sort OF mule no H. neil
swear there amt no TRAM. Anen yoon
near the scrunch OF his oones' an you n0'o
a little peaoe comm your way.
There was a man like that come to Ar
kansas City some years na,ne YIN
Foster. Como ashore some suooen' .ov.
Pears he'd been q engineer. an Uoi Ao,e
good one. but he never ca get aione WIN
--. &n nD~ ~ HhA hO0lA- D4ln IA
he couldn't taxe orus's n,S n". I;.p -,
an argyin' till the old man'd hre MN. IN
ne went I'm q ooat 10 ano.ner y, %s
all the cap'ns on the river Ano"o" "n
100 we'll ever TO hire MN.
"Cap'n Witherspoon. { run .no sioN
burg one season mssen. navih oousn'
ner. he was short oil q engineer ono UP
an he took Foster IN on a pihoh. Foa.
ne was drivin' the vicksourS solnS 'ne
rip FIR a record an IL also Peai' R''o''
got some xcited overn. -
The cap'n he steered up tords the eve
here to Arkansas City. reckmn on nnaIiu
a landin'. an when the ume come AK sisc
he signal to slow down. OUT rosoer Aep
her goin' full speed. not pawn no ten'ion
70 signals. an not answerip ho'nin JUG
cap'n was sayin' though tne pipe.
so the cap'n he turns tne ~noe, oVo,
70 the pilot m tells MN 10 Aoep 'ioato
the shore an he went down 70 the enslne
room for to say things 500 a. ne GOV
here he went up in the ar suooSn wiz
all four feet. Pears Foster'd naiieo enc
safety valve down. an was holerin 70 enc
rousters at h furnace ior 70 pu. "ore
wood IN the fire. the furnace oe'h req
hot then, an he had the steam up
pin' like 700 an tn innca'or nh''in Wy
higher every minute.
The oap'n he yelled: '"hats INC mia.ee.
with your Are you drunk, e'
the biler in a minute or Two. Du. Hosov,
said, Bust nothin.' l know VIVA. sne
stand. You said you was ~,Shia ~ ~
make a record with your ooo saetou Wv,
boat. an I'm maxim. II ior you --,-
lust then tho biler did oust. IKE INC oapu
rad said, an Foster was oiowe up .niou
,wo decks, nigh a quarter OF . mile up In
"e - ,.n r,sht 1ongside o. the levee
"se ssh.d rim ont
an The roustefs nsno' mn ...s;.;.,
He sure was In a scan iouS oon.f',on'
helm as the clo'es was mostly tored omen
~, xosr, through them decks, an he were
nim' sotn ssr,nu. beside.. More'n
nurveu 20, S;ad on,v the doctor thew
likely he'd oleu, ony ~ 60.
fetched fer to look MIN over sa'o wan
No use. he'd die fr sure.
.D,dr,t .eem ike Foster OF a heer'd
-..t ba aid, helm, he was all tore up an
stunned like he was, but No neero u al
right. m he says, like ne mad 10 say peih
the kind he was, he says: Not on your life
7 cent die. An he didn't. Pears like
.r.r cot ot,ten that con-
the CIV COCO no oseI soV =. -, 60,
try disposition o hisn VAST no w. 'o0
crossways TO die when he'd oughter.-
aOb I don't know" said Mr.. Owen Pep
sSa. - r...or y his time had
ger oan - ~, a;.J rein, a. \.
came Ter TO Die ne1 oio| -"
didn't die, shows his time hadn't came
Srain't, altogether clear what his contr'y
d,snosition had to do with It,"
-TIN-- - ,h;r.. amt cIesr IN xou
ineres nho,e mn. IL o.S =
nor there 10 TO De founo IN noiy
said old man Greenhut. angrily. III you
uas To slip I reckon you wouldn't see your
uay clear to fall down. More'n likely T a
nan was to take a little slate an pencil an
sr;ts down every single dodgasted thing
- Lnnw - avsr did know " aver will