The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-08-19

# Trip On The Mississippi

| the boat. The world is the same
two days out as II was when you
leh Memphis, so far as news is con-
cerned. Sometimes you would give
your ears to see late paper. This
was illustrated recently on the Ferd
Herold.
The boat was going along the
Tennessee side, along in the after
noon nobody on the boat watches
the time--your fine appetite for the
fine meals fixes the daylight into
three periods A small town show
ed up ahead. The passengers we're
gathered TO that side. The toat
seemed TO be heading for landing
Presently man, carrying a suit
case, was seen running down a hill
toward the landing. He was wav-
Ing a handkerchief frantically
Everyone was "for him" They
hoped his run in the hot sun would
be a success.
As he neared the river, another
man showed up on the hill. He.
too, was waving for the boat 10 stop.
Then a third appeared.
Just behind the third came a crowd
Of men and boys. The first man
was overtaken. A revolver was
thrust into his face and he stopped.
dropped his grip and held up his
hands. The crowd gradually over
took the other two men. The first
one by this time being on the bank
OF the river.
A man in the cwd waved his re-
volver for the boat to 60 on and he
was heard to say; 1--WE will take
care Of them"
/ OF course the boat continued its
journey without stopping. There
was nothing for it at the landing.
II intended to take the men until the
nature Of their haste became APP
parent.
For two days the episode was the
great theme of talk on board. Prob
ably the interest will be forgotten
soon in the town. By the time the
passengers could get a paper, if il
was big enough news for the city
parers. II would be too late. All of
them would like to know what all
the row was about.
Occasionally a little pathos and
humor will be thrown into a boat
landing, both at the same time.
Such was the case at one place. A
boat will stop almost anywhere. and
il will stop at any regular landing
for anything, as was shown this
time by it stopping for half-grown
big. The pig was Loose. BY its
side was small boy. BY the boys
side was a grown man. The boy
was wailing, the pig was granting
and the man looked determined.
The nearer the boat approached
the bank, the louder the boy walled
and the less the pig grunted.
AS the gang plank touched the
bank the man motioned for the boy
to step aboard. He did so under
protest, his walls turning into great
sobs. The pig grunted, looked
around, then at his young master,
grunted again, and stepped bravely
on the plank 1t was soon on the
boat. The negroes closed the exit,
after the boy got off, the plank was
lifted, and the boy soon left far be-
hind. standing on the bank rubbing
dirty fists into wet eyes. and the pig
was on its way to market.
Incidently, at the next landing
the gang plank swung around into a
tree and the boat lurched as it pull
ed away from the bank. The ne
groes said there would surely be an
accident before St. Louis port would
be made, but there wasn't.
There are some pilots who now are
running boats who say that each
year the floods are getting higher
and that in the years to come there
will be a great food that will do
much damage. They blame the
new dikvs.
One pilot said the food in the mid
die OF July Of this year was UMPIRE
cedented. In 1908 the high water
lasted from February until July.
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