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Old Romances *
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* • Mississippi River
Not long ago, in one of Chicago’s
gin ring, rushing, crowded, huge
| hotels, I found a wan who had made
I the trip from St. Louis to New Or
■ leans by river steamer. He lived along
tbp Mississippi years ago and had (
taken the water way only to revive
I the memories of his youth. He
mourned the decadence of a flourish
ing and romantic highway of travel.
He was disappointed, of cour e. Who
of us can go back to that which we
loved in the far past and flod it the
same? The curse of age is disillusion,
Only two things remain to us un
changed—the scent of flowers and the
••sound of old songs. Eyes that were
stars to us have grown dim. Forms
that were phantoms of delight are
misshapen. Old thoughts are meatless,
old passions dead, old delights have
»lost their savor. Even the mighty river
has changed. The banks that my
man sailed between were not the
banks he had crouched along, wait
ing in the old days for the fast flying
teal. The Shapes were altered. Snags
have been removed. Sand bars that
were had vanished. Op every conven
ient point the government had erected
lighthouses, whose yellow gleams
shone through the night. It was im
possible to get away from civilization.
The boat bad an electric searchlight,
and not once did the bld resinous
smell of the pine torch greet the long
ing nostrils of the voyager. “Any boy
ought to be able to pilot a boat down
there now,” he said, “All ho would
. have to do would be to keep awake
and stay in the river. ”
Time was when piloting was a won
derful science, as Samuel Clemens has
• wonderfully written, and the boats
that went plunging through the murk
of the river nights were marvels of
beauty and luxury. The life upon
them was peculiar to themselves. It
has gone never to return —slain by
Tail ways that have paralleled the
mighty stream. In the old times the
beauty, the fashion, the wealth, the
gilded sin of the South met upon the
river boats. It was the pleasantest
form of travel devised by man. To
the comfort of home and a table
splendid in its food and appointments
were added the ever-shifting pano
rama of the rapidly moving land and
a company that was gay, witty,
learned and luxurious There was no
smoke, no dust, no rising in the night
to “make connections,” no dre?sing
and undressing in bed, no frenzied
staggering dash for the solitary wash
bowl in the morning, none of the hor
rors of the wayside eating place, no
worried offensive conductor'and no
highway robber in the guise of a
Pullman portor, striking the victim
three strokes with a whisk broom and
demanding a half-dollar or his life.
It was fatally slow for this hurrying
age. That was its only demerit.
The passenger upon the river
steamer was not so many pounds of
bone, flesh and blood, to be slammed
. through to his destination like any
other bale of goods. He was emphat*
cally the captain’s ‘‘guest.” He ate
with that potentate. He drank with
him. He listened to his tales of the
strange stream. He played poker with
him. The ladies’ saloon was resonant
with music. The forward part of the
“boiler deck” was a vast smooth
floor, and an instinctively melodious
negro orchestra played the measures
of the dance. From the palatal vessel
that swept down the turgid and tur
bid waters of the stream light, laugh
ter and song floated out upon the
black night. No man who did not live
the life will ever come to realize the
poesy and beauty of the old South.
. The people who made the Mississippi
their highway w<?re cradled in the lap
of good fortune. Theirs was all that
stealth could buy. The men were
brave, cultured, gracious, and the
women were singularly lovely. They
4ook .no thought of the morrow. There
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was no need. In that day the cloud no
larger than a man’s hand had not
spotted the northern horizon. They
happily owned their slaves anA the
slaves were happy in the ownership.
They did not discuss the immorality
of it. That was left to the doctrin
aires. They took the goods that the
gods provided.
It was more than three days from
New Orleans to St, Louis, and the
trip up the river was, the pleasantest
part of the summer’s outing in the
North. The time passed in eating,
drinking, sleeping, flirting and gam
bling. Many marriages were made
upon tne steamers —marriages that
joined baronial acres to baronial acres
and hundreds in bondage to other
hundreds. Plantations were won and
lost as the cards fell silently upon the
green clothed tables, and not infre
quently the human chattels of the
loser went Jo the winner. Os those
poker.games many strange tales are
told. jjThe Mississippi river in ante
bellum days was a sinuous, rashing,
muddy MoateCarlo. Only the rich
could afford the risk, and the stakes
were high. Thousands of dollars were
heaped in the center of the tables.
The women did not play. They do not
play in the South to this day, nor do
they burn cigarettes, nor aspire to
vote. But they often hung over the
shoulder of husband, brother or lover
and watched him stake his bank notes,
sometimes sympathizing with his
losses, but more often laughing at
him. The losses and gains were trifles
to him and to her. Romance was in
the air then, and smiles were many,
and the passion of the land was
breathed under the sliding scars
Rivalry between the crack steamers
was strenuous and never ending and
partisanship was bitter. It has been
estimated that in the celebrated rate
between the Natchez and the Robert E.
Lee more than $3,000,000 changed
bands along the river. These contests
were debated and their details settled
months beforehand, and the crews of
the boats bet as heavily as the owners.
Specially cut and seasoned wood was
piled up at stated places on the banks,
and in emergences barrels of pork and
lard were burned. Not an ounce of
ex.ra weighs was carried, and the craft
was relieved of. all superfluous trim
ming Only the intimate friends of the
captains ware taken as passengers,
These were the arranged races, but
trials of speed that were impromptu
occurred on every trip, and the fear of
being blown sky.»ard did not deter the
Southerners from imploring the captain
to put on more more steam, or crowd
ing to the taffrail and yelling wageis
and defiance at the men on the other
beat.
I stepped across de Richmond,
An’ I stepped acruß > de Lee;
I step ed across de Natchez,
An’ she flew from under me!
So sang the negro roustabout in mel
low chorus, his muscular, lithe figure
perched upon the capstan, his red flan
nel shirt open at the throat, his white
teeth gleaming in the fiery light cast
from the rows of furnaces and his dark
face upturned to the stars; but the Lee
was the faster boat.
My friend of the glaring, rushing,
crowed huge hotel recalled these mem
ories of a long past time lovingly and
reverently. They seemed the brighter
by contrast with* the prosaic present,
snd he sighed because they were and
are not.—H. S. Canfield in Chicago
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THE LONGSTREET MARRIAGE,
The Charleston New» and Courtsr Scores the
Couple In Caustic Terms.
We published yesterday Gen. Long
street’s letter to the New York World,
explaining why he married Miss Ellen
Dortch, and we publish to day her
letter to the New York Journal, ex
plaining why she married Gen. Long
street, says the Charleston News and
Courier. This correspondence is some
thing entirely unique in literature,
and appears to be in .the worst possi
ble taste. How the groom and bride
could have consented to take the pub
lic into their confidences and parade
their most delicate and sdcred senti
ments and aspirations, passes ordinary
comprehension. It is hoped that the
happy couple will be spared to each
other.long enough to make them re
gret “rushing into print” about a
purely personal and private affair.
But we judge that they do not ex
pect to live very long together. In
THE HOME TRIBUNE. SUNDAY. SfcPfEMBER 19 1897.
spite of his statement that “there is
too much bounding of the pulse, too
strong a pumping “of the heart, too
great wealth of affection to allow of
me drying up like an old “mummy,’’
Gen. Lonstreet in view of his ap
proaching end reflects that—
“ Daring the years that are left to
me I can be to her such a husband
that not all the young men in Christ*
endom could equal, and the memory
which she will carry down the years
when, in the order of nature. I may
not be present, will be to her a sweet
dream to be treasured add transmit
ted to children’s children ”
In giving her views as to why old
age should not be regarded as a bar
to the marriage of a young woman to
an old wan, Mrs. Longstreet says—
“ Though in the natural order sm h
a husband might leave her a widow
early, is it not better to have been the
wife of one acceptable and compan
ionable man than to be tue lifelong
slave of one whom her soul held in
aversion?”
We would suggest to the enterpris
ing newspapers that obtained the
opinions of their feelings towards
each other, that they should keep a
close watch on the happy pair and
publish from time to time their im-
Fressions of married life as they see it.
t would be a good story if they could
get Gen. Longstreet when he is on the
point of dying to tell an interested
public how it feels for an old man to
die and leave a young wife behind,
and the momentary impressions of
the widow es to the desolateness of
her estate just before the funeral.
Why not publish the Longstreet cor
respondence before the wedding?
Wh t is the use of suppressing any of
the facts connected with this notable
matrimonial event? As the New York
World says, what we want is Publicity!
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dash for the pole next summer. Undis
couraged by his failure of three years
ago, when unusual weather conditions
and perhaps a lack of experience forced
him to return without accomplishing
his aim, he again visited Norway this
summer and held a long conference
with Nansen. It was not until the great
Norwegian explorer had warmly ap
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actually decided to make another trial.
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pole by making rapid marches over the
ice cap at the first favorable opportuni
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American scientific men, but the rest of
his party will be Norwegians. He will
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not long ago by the recently returned
English explorer, Dr. Jackson, who did
not get as far north as Nansen did.
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Wellman expects to throw out a second
station two or three degrees farther
north.
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the following spring, before the weather
is warm enough to melt the surface of
the ice and make it impassable, he will
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60 or 70 dogs and sledges for the pole.
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H. W. Edmoanaon I July Term,
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