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ANNUAL LOSS EY FIRE,
t» Has-Been Very Much Reduced by lm-
proved Methods of Fighting Fire.
Mr. Charles T. Hill, the artist, who
has been writing a series of papers for
St. Nicholas on the New York Fire
Department, has a final paper on "The
Fire Patrol.” Mr. Hill says:
The annual loss by fire in the United
States amounts to one hundred mil¬
lions of dollars, and fully one-half of
this loss Is caused by the water used
In extinguishing the fires Before the
introduction, in 1872, of controlling or
shut-off nozzles used on the fire-hose,
the percentage of loss by water was
even greater—at least two-thirds of the
total loss. Previous to the intrude' -
tion of this much-needed device, the:-"
was used what was known as an ‘open
pipe,” a plain open nozzle, with no
contrivance for shutting off thf waater.
When It was necessary to shut off, the
order had to be pased to the engineer,
sometimes a long distance from the I
fire; and unless the nozzles could he
thrust from a convenient window, the
water would go pouring out, spread¬
ing destruction in all direction;,
small fires, especially in "up stain, ..
fires In private dwellings, or in busi- I
ness houses stocked with perishable
goods, such as feathers, silks, etc., the '
unnecessary destruction of property
was very great.
To-day, fires are fought much more :
scientifically, and with a great deal
more system, than were those of ten j
or twenty years ago; and officer:; In
command of engine companies are usn- j
ally very careful not to use more i
any |
water than is absolutely nccerzary. I
Nearly every hose wagon in the New j
York Fire DepaiIntent to-day carries i
three sizes of hose the regulation size,
2 Vi inch, used at all ordinary ilm;;fl¬
inch (known as'Third-alarm hone,” I
and only used at fires of considerable
magnitude), and a small host carried
on a reel under the v.agon. This hone !
is IVV inches in diameter, and very j
to handle, of the :
easy and on account
ease with which any number of lengths
of it can he carried about, il IS that
oftenest used at small (ires in dwi-
«g tag-houses nouses, office-buildings office Duildlngs, and and flats fiat.,. I ,
With a controlling nozzle on the end,
the tne fireman nremaff can can dash dash up tin several several flirV ilu,.us ; i
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and extinguish a a .!f small n r fire before it 1 i
t,m e 10 f pr ead ’, UB n f the watf 7 I
To only where . it t , is absolutely , needed, j
drag the regulation size (il weigns
about eighty pounds to the length) up j
an< ,f?r 1 W I u nE K u rwayB ' eti; “ i
would take much , longer, and perhaps |
give a fire time to get just beyond the
point of easy control; besides, when i
the water Is finally started, a great j
deal more Is used by this hose than is
necessary, especially in the case of a
small fire, It has been practically l
demonstrated that a considerable I
amount, of fire can be extinguished ■
with a small amount of water applied
effectively, and the use of the small I
hose lias done much to reduce the !
damage by water at fires In dwellings
and fiats.
(live l's Kent,
This is the prayer of the. nervous who do
not sleep well. Let them uho lto«t*’tter*s
stomach Bitter* and their prayer will he
•peedily answered. Insomnia is the product,
of Indigestion and nervousm two uHsoclnto
ailments, soon rvmnl I ell l,y tiic Bitters, which
also vanquishes malaria, constipation, liver
coinplaint, rheumatism and kidney com-
plaints.
Man is made of dust or at least some wive,*
think their husbands are.
How*A This?
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any ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured bv
Hairs (’atarrh Cure.
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Ohio.
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would cause me to take cold. After I
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I have been strengthened and I am in better 1
health than I have over been before.” John j
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SMOKE SLEDGE
THE WORLD'S FASTEST RUWNER.
Bernard J. Wefers, the New Champion,
Weighs 185 Pounds.
j Of all the men who in running re¬
galia ever faced a starter on a cinder
track, Bernard J. Wefers, who a few
days ago broke the world's record by
running the hundred yards in it 3-5
seconds, K probably fulfills best the re¬
quirements of an ideal runner.
With depth of chest that bespeaks
ample lung room, his lithe body tap¬
ers to the waist, and his world-heat¬
ing legs, strung with tendons of steel,
are of a minimum weight. He has
nothing to carry save that which is of
eminent use to him in his task.
In’a n.nm'Ms ‘land ”T WefeuTrcc-
ord of victories over famous competl-
tors were not i efficient proof of his
grit his face with its square Jaw firm
set mouth piercing eyes and plainly. aggr-i-
slve nose, should tcdl the storv
He halls from Lawrence, Mass. His
flec-tness was inherited His father
was an athlete of skill and a runner
imed to heal
Tim present champion Is but o; {
years of age, and has been running
for four years. He is six feet fall in
his stockings and weighs 585 pounds.
When lie first made Ills appearance on
the cinder track good judges saw no
future for him. His waB a weight un¬
heard of for a runner to carry. The
years Unit have Intervened have prov¬
en that the critics did not know.
Unlike most runners Wefers in mo-
Uon, is straight as an arrow, ills stylo
is very graceful and with to' his long
elastic stride he seems travel al-
most without effort. He gathers speed
as he goes, and Is famed in the athletic
world as a strong “finisher.”
No picture could convey more of
tension and alertness than does that
which represents Wefers crouching for
the start.. Every nerve and fibre la
him are strung like a piano wire. And
It Is not for the gallery. He is prob-
ably one of the quickest starters in
Hie world. lie never in a race Las
permitted any competitor to pace him. |
He takes the lead from the start, and
h I(1 UlP „ vnRt with maJorllv h aisplnv of hi of « m lms i
„ m „. speed ' as i
,, 118 . ">•'<’« „ , the whole , , world wonder.
Aholher l»hcnJe„ phenomenal thing about
n i man la that m mar-
vo j ooa f ,ff orfH do not socm to a (f eet
ldm after the manner of most, athletes
pf , j|s clagg> It , g a f am n )ar B i ?ht 0 n
athletic tracks to see runnersr after
breasting (he lane, utterly collapsed,
and half carried to the clubhouse bv
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the ; r f r!en(li
Not so with Wefers. After break 1
ing tho world's records ho has amazed
Ilio onlookers by jumping a jig o.i the
greensward for joy and trotting off
to the dressing room with ihe alacri¬
ty of a colt.
It will he a long day before anybody
roori Dig like.—New York Journal.
Dynamite for Icebergs.
Polar expeditions are to carry Ice¬
breakers and to deal destruction lo
icebergs in future, if the plans of Vice-
Admiral Makarof, of tho Russian navy,
r.iicceed.
He proposes to use a machine called
an ice-breaker, which will force a pas-
smite through frozen Arctic seas and
make tin trip for a strong steamer as
cl tsy as a voyage across the Atlantic
is for the ordinary vessel. Admiral
.VTakarof’s Invention is said to be pow¬
erful enough to crush through ice
twenty-two feet thick, and as the
average thickness of ice in the polar
regions is considered to be not over
twelve feet, he is thought to have an
eaty way before him. Tho nature of
the mechanism of the ice-breaker has
carefully . ., kept , but . . j
"■ou secret, it is
thought that dynamite is used. The j
vessel used will probably be construct¬
ed with a double hull. By means of j
a series of steel tubes the dynamite ;
will be exploded as soon as ilie ram I
touches tho ice.
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"F Pluribus Unum " !
,,, vvc are Indebted . to John Adams for
^ wi\i vV hue lie was Minister , ?" ,rtbus to
® ir ,,re8twick 8U ^ 81 - :
°d P to Mr. Adams us a good motto j
10 ,n<1icat0 submitted ll,e ,,nion <lf ,he colonies, j
* was to Congress, and
adopted by net of Congress June 1782.
'Ihe eagle in its beak bears a iib- j
bon, on which is tlie motto. In die |
early days of its use the eagle bore
also in its talons a bundle of thirteen
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' * Weh had X oC °™ worn - only * ix
y,4 Ji "?7<° '! !U °' 1 ” <lu ' ,u,on8 i
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” "l* ,“ S ' . S T k "°} Was or ‘L Tho crort old by
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far . ’J bark " ” as> ' liBu ™ on T tho Gentleman n , " nd », 8
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Magazine.” St.. Nicholas.
Will Falso Teeth Grow?
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us with falso tooth which will grow
into the gums as firmly ns natural I
IHs method is to bore holes *
at Gie root of gutta-percha or poree- !
lain teetll and also in the jaw. After I
the tooth has been placed in the eavi- j
ly a soft granulated growth finds its
from the jaw into the holes of i
wav
tho tooth, which, ho claims, gradually
hardens and holds the tooth in posi- ;
•ibh- A number of American dentists !
standing at the head of their profes-
ston have, however, declared that the
Russian's alleged discovery Is a fraud.
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The hair is like a plant. What makes the
plant fade and wither? Usually lack of neces¬
sary nourishment. The reason why Ayer’s Hair
Vigor restores gray or faded hair to its normal
color, stops hair from falling, and makes it
grow, is because it supplies the nourishment the
hair needs.
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SOME FURTHER REMARKS OX THE
SUBJECT OF “HARD WOOD.”
PH'LOSOFHFR ri.LUOJrriLrV Hl'IGUftinO flNflWFRS H 5 P,R!TIP UfllllU
Su "‘ alns H, » Contention. Ily Quotation,
from Hr. Porcher’* book On
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Home ' how 1 ^ like insinuations,
A A correspondent from Mississippi in-
i 1 ‘ , ° n t ka ™ T
ft V° nt blaok 8 1 nn ‘ !U !' J ■J ,flafra that ? an, 1 bof!C P c >-
8,, “”‘ on * or *** ‘
w«o,ls were gootl for hubs and bows
a ’d gluts. Well,since I saw lus“ob.ter
your paper, I asked the fore-
° " !lr " a f n “"J 1 be
Bftl,1: Wo ,1K ? <1 to get all the black-
b'nrn we could for hubs, for it has no
grain, and you can’t split it, and it
; makes a very fine hub, but nowadays
| we buy all our hubs ready made, and
they are of postoak.” J)r. Porelier,
| who is the highest authority concern-
i the trees and herbs of the south, says
in his book: “The wood of blackgum
is extremely difficult to split, and is
much used for hubs of wheels.”
Tlie first rca * fine stringbow I ever
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ha<1 ' vas l,otl 8 ht «>» Indian, boy,
aIl d it was made of the heart of sassa-
i fras feathers - He Fanght me how to fasten the
in the arrows. That bow was
env 7 °f n) y schoolmates and could
i R01ld an arrow out of sight.
' A dead persimmon, or one cut down
aI)l ^ 8 easpned, makes a very hard, dur-
able glut or wedge. Dr Porcher says
that the grain is of such fine texture
that, lie has used it for engraving. I
used to saw rny gluts and then bevel
the edges, aud round the top, and my
boy Bob said “dem simmon gluts beat
d °IP'. ood !1 ‘^ 1° )ccccs.
1 “ lB is a ‘wonaerfnl hook of Dr I’or-
1,!"* description “ TOOpagcs,containing
a ot r every tree, plant and
ghruh hrui in in our out Rnnthpvn southcni lauil, and nn ,i then
practical and medicinal uses. It was
in 1869, aud it’s title is,
“Resources of the Houtberu Fields
a »<1 forests.” What patient and care-
fnI investigation was necessary to pro-
dnoe £mcl ‘ n Look! Twelve, years were
s P« nt i« n-ork, and the learned
doctor became a second Linueus in liis
devotion to it. Ami . ' yet this book is
hard to find, and I suppose is out of
l’ 1 '"F
And now tho time has come for me
*° P«t away the flowers and there’s
trouble on the old man’s mind. I have
cleaned out the pit and arranged the
shelves to my wife’s satisfaction, and
am now engaged in taking up tho
geraniums and repotting the various
plants. I have to go away down to the
lower part of the cow lot, where the
rich earth has gathered, and spado it
up and sift it into the wheelbarrow and
: roll it np (he hill like Ajax or Samp-
I sun. My wife has a great big round
: sifter like (ho plasterers use, and after
| I get n load of earth and turn it out
| in have the to broad haul walk load near of the sand pit, and then sift I
a
that, and then a load of wood ashes
and sift that, and then mix all to¬
gether. She told mo how. She watches
mo from the window, where she is
sewing, and encourages me by telling
mo not to work so hard, but to stop
and rest awhile. Yesterday she came
out to help me, and when she wanted
me to change the palm to a larger pot,
and the heliotrope to a smaller one, I
rebelled a little and asked her if she
had noticed that yaller jacket’s nest
under the stone step, not far from
where slio was standing. Tho little
hungers were just pouring out and in,
and as soon as A> saw them she shook
her skirtriCjfamd departed those
coasts wiillP alacril y- She wants
to know why I don’t destroy their
“C*’ when 'Veil, school I have tried. dident Time was
\^o ooys want any
1>ott «- 1,111 than to break up a yaller
jacket’s nest. Wo fought them with
brush ami brooms anil dii t, arid killed
the last one before wo quit. Of course
wo got stung sometimes, but there is
where the heroism mine in. Hut now
I have no boys—they arc all girl
and so I poured hot water in the hole
where the jackets went in, and it kill-
^ “ fe ' V ’ * U,t ' Ulere aro over ft 4hou8 -
and in Ihe colony, and they all got
mad with me and ran me into the house.
J11,011 1 l ,,Iel1 U P clcad B>'ass and old
^ ovcr the. grand entrance and
poured kerosene on it and set it on lire
and killed a few more, but still I
(ouldeut miss them. Then I got
stung on the ear and that made me
mad and I mixed tip a pan full of mor¬
tar and soused it down into the hole
I had them SUZtSt
sure fast and would starve
them to death, but next morning they
had a neiv hole and are attending to
business at the same old stand. I
have put a circle of empty flower pots
around the premises to warn the chil-
dren away and now I am waiting for
further instructions from my friend iu
Mississippi. . .
' * . Florida I pulled
" “ l ' n was as 111
a httl , ° *f rov * of oppoponax
lllu ^ , Drought it home ami planted it.
" 8 1< ? W oir llW,y n,ul ' vo 111
the pit last winter and transferred it
to the garden Inst spring. It is now
a beautiful little tree about eight feet
high with numerous branches, and I
think will bloom next summer if we
can save it. It belongs to the mimosa
family and its delicate leaves ai‘e quite
sensitive, though not so much so
as its humble cousin, the sensitive
plant. Like that plant, its blooms
are round tufted balls of different
colors, but unlike that plant, these
balls shed a delightful odor. When !
pressed into a piuensiou for a lady’s
bureau they will perfume it for :
years.
I am going to winter it outside of the
pit by protecting it with a barrel and
pine tops. Then there are the lemon
verbenas, or eitradoras, that are always olfn'e-
refreshing and delightful to the
tovv. We put the small ones in the
pit and leave the large ones out. Then j i
there arc a variety of pretty plants
whose flowers will glatldeu us all the
winter. A greenhottse eight by six- !
teeu feet can be built and glassed for
ten or fifteen dollars and it is always
pleasing and refining to the daughter's, family,
especially And to the wife and
now tho chrysanthemums arc
budding into beauty ' and tilling the
air with fragrance. There was a time
when the flowers were £<li golden, and
hence its name from crnsos, golden;
| but the art of the florist has developed
i Then nearly all the colors of the rainbow.
there are the tall and gaudy
Tesas pinks or cosmos, that, like the
sunflower or the morning glory, will
| spring up anywhere and everywhere
whether you want them or not. There
is nothing prettier than a bed of
mornln g glories, “ their frail and beauti-
fill flowe 8 resting npon the dewy
’
grass at sunrise. We have had a
wealth of lovely roses this summer and
are still enjoying the exquisite beauty
| °f I,a France, the bride, the meteor,
j.her majesty, the American beauty and
j b°aTo Haroce lin’wriulrX and .Fames Smith’s m?’ thfflowers! ode to flow-
! ers in sublime. Mrs. Homan's “Bring
I Flowers to the Fair Young Bride” is a
gem. Then there is “The Last Rose
i of Summer,” by Moore, and “The
.
| Kosc That Al, Are Braising.” and
ma!iy otherK . Flowers adorn the wed-
ding and the grave. They are akin to
mlllrio and both prove the love of God
to his creatures.-Bmx, Ane in Atlant.
! CVmtifutiou
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BRYAN ___1__1__ IV OHIO ’
i Nebraskan Begin, a short Campaign at
| William Montpelier.
! short Jennings Bryan lie ran n
j nesday campaigning tour in Ohio Weil-
private morning. He traveled in a
f car.
j The first meeting was at Montpelier.
| where an audience of five thousand per-
\ sons from all parts of the country as-
sembled.
j Mr. Bryan questioned the honesty of
i ike vote of Ohio last year, and then
took up the silver questi on.
j “I wish to submit some propositions for
j ! republicans to talk about, for the democrats
are with us,’’said he. “It is only necessary
j to talk to republicans who wore wrong last
j | fall, bad in my judgment. The gold standard is
a thing for the United States, and we
should not submit to it, because the finan-
CUTS Of Europe want it.”
He said the republican party up to
(his time had never declared that the
go i ( ] standard was a u o good ouu lilin thing 11 it
promised &*
last year, he said, to
what standard? it could to ^ get rid of the gold S
He then reviewed the work of the
monetary McKinley commission which President
mission sent to Europe, and said its
had failed because the money
changers were opposed to it.
Mr. Bryan attributed the improved
financial condition of the United
States to the discovery of gold in
Alaska and to the famine in India,
which, he said, the republicans were
rejoicing over.
From Montpelier the train was
hurried to Defiance, where an after¬
noon large meeting was held. There w:*s a
crowd at the depot as the train
arrived in Defiance, and crowds had
assembled at the stations along the
way. An audience of live thousand
people, a majority of whom were re¬
publicans, it is said, listened to the
Defiance speech, which did not differ
materially from that delivered at
Montpelier.
WOMEN AS CAMPAIGNERS.
They Crowd Cooper Union Hall in the
Interest of Seth Low.
A New York dispatch says: Cooper
Union was never before the scene of
such a strange political meeting as
that which took place there Wednes¬
day afternoon. The majority of those
at the meeting were women from Mur¬
ray Hill and Riverside drive and West
Fml avenue at that. The women were
adherents of the Women’s Municipal
League, which advocates the election
of Beth Low, and the meeting they got
up was designed to show what they
could do in a political tray, even if
they did not have votes. The men
who came in for hisses were princi¬
pally Crokcr and Platt.
Colonel George E.Waring,the street
cleaning commissioner, called the meet¬
ing to order and introduced Mayor
Strong ns chairman.
Mayor Strong said heivas a dyed-in-
the-wool republican and had always
voted the republican ticket, but it was
because ho loved the republican party
that he proposed to vote against the
republican ticket,clean out the Augean
.stables and place that party on a firm
foundation.
ELEVEN DEATHS.
The Fever Record In New Orleans !
The ’Wednesday weather Fifteen which New Cases. |
at New warm Orleans prevailed ]
preciable Wednesday had an ap- j
effect on the yellow fever
situation, there being a high death
rate; but, despite this fact, the situa¬
tion as compared to that of Tuesday,
which was not reassuring, is about the
same. There were fifty-two new cases
and eleven deaths reported for the
‘lay-
The increased daily death l'ate is
convincing the unbelievers that the
prevailing fever is genuine yellow
jack. The fumigating corps is being
worked as hard as it can go, being
sent from one end of the city to tho
other.
Sl’AIN WANTS MONEY.
MinUter of Finance Declares Another
Loan Is Absolutely Necessary.
The Frankfort Zeitnng (Berlin) pub-
lislies a dispatch Irom Madrid which
quotes the Spanish minister of finance,
Scnor Fuigeerver as saying that a
fresh, large loan is necessary, as tho
Linds of Spain will bo exhausted iu
Tune, 1898,
The Cuban war, the finance miuis-
ter is said to have added, puts his
country to a monthly expense of
45,000,000 pesetas, and the civic and
military departments of Spain are be-
hind iu their payments,
MUST ( El)E TEN FEET.
Government Having; Trouble with La ml
Owners at Fhickanm;iy;a Dark.
1 hmknmauga . park . .
10 commission-
Uvo be » n notlbe<l by tIlc " nr lb '-
T nrtme “ t that unless the property
°' vn *” >u a,ker county, Georgia,
abn t,n « tbe T ro P osed government
!. "°'T m ° construc-
hol ' J® Lafayette, , cede the , govern-
‘" ont l tbe a,blltlona ' '/’> required
0 make tbe ^ad forty feet, in uni-
ornuty with , all the other roads ap- ,
proaeliing the park, the work cannot :
MKV0(H • ^ ar ^° wiunher of owners
ba ' e ceded necessary right of way,
bu ‘ many of tliem are holding back
ana nave declined to do so.
I WHY HE CAVE UP HOME.
I
A Settler’s Reasons for Civing Up His
: Claim.
Some time ago the register of the
United States land office at Wa-Keen-
ey, Kan., called upon a settler to show
I cause why his claim should not be
forfeited. The settler had abandoned
i his homestead claim in Kansas and
moved into Tennessee. His answer
is now preserved as a valuable relic
among the archives of the general land
office here. It follows:
“Answering your favor of the 3d
instant, referring to my entry No. tfi,-
005, under the homestead law, will say,
that I have no cause to show within
«>e Prescribed thirty days (nor weeks,
™r months even) why my claim
of s ^ lanfl uld , not in that be arid for cited region to where said rams piece
are as scarce “ tb e Proverbial hens
teeth , and as between as angels
visits; where water is more precious
t]lan 'hamonds; where the lean and
hungry coyote harks ever to the ma¬
J estlc sl,enpe of the lonel y anfl un-
Peopled prairies; where the festtverab-
bit wanders unmolested, lordly mon-
arch of all he surveys, and mourns for
his lost companions, the Indian, buffa-
lo and settler, who are not.
“I voluntarily surrender all my right,
title and interest in said land forever
an <J irrevocably to the eminent domain
: of our Uncle Sam. Blest be his mas-
nanimous great heart for that benefi-
I cent homestead law, that plants the
settler on his lonely claim, forty miles
, from nowhere,
: and out of God's ltnowl-
! ed se, to delve to the tune of blizzards,
cyclones, grasshoppers and chinch
Lugs, and after a few short and fitful
J’ ears full of sorrow and hard work he
seeks hi3 last and only rest in the
bosom of that same mother earth, his
on,y companion in his isolation,
I congratulate his excellency, the
President on this magnificent addition
to the public domain. I thought it for-
feited years a S°ue-”
H!S LAUCH WAS HIS FORTUNE.
An Arkansas Steamboat Captain's Jollity
Made Him Famous.
“Ever hear of a man who made a
fortune out of his laugh?” said a guest
of the St. Charles as he looked over the
1,e S ister - “ 1 llave h ” ard of S ir5s whoso
faces were their fortunes, but I knew
a man whose laugh was positively his
fortune. That, name—Sam B. Adams —
on the register there reminds me of a
man who made a fortune out of his
laugh. His name was John D. Adams,
and he was the father of Sam, the
gentleman registered there. John D.
Adams was a typical steamboatman of
Arkansas, and inaddition to his steam-
boating was a planter of extensive
interests, and was connected with
other business enterprises. He was the
first man to run a steamboat up the
Arkansas River, and his name in that
State to-day is a synonyme for genial¬
ity, courage and business success. He
was very successful, and his friends
used to attribute his success to Ms
wondrous laugh. It was not boister¬
ous, yet loud, and was so musical and
jolly that one could imagine old Kris
Kringle was personified in him.
Other river men would say that his
laugh got him all the Government
mail contracts. He would go to Wash¬
ington, get acquainted with the man
who had charge of the contracts, and
he, like all of Adams’s new acquaint¬
ances, would soon come under the in¬
fection of his magnetic laugh, and
form a genuine admiration for the
grizzled old steamboatman. He was
known at the hotel by everybody, and
was pointed out for years by a colored
porter, to whom he once gave a $5
gold piece as a tip in a fit of jollifi¬
cation over the closing of a big con¬
tract in his favor.
‘Amazing tales were told of his cour-
age and his steamboat experiences. On
one occasior, when an accident hap¬
pened to his boat and the passengers
became panicstrickcn, he calmed them
as if by magic by calling them child¬
ren, and laughing at their fear—his
famous laugh impelling confidence and
mirth by its very melody and jollity.
He even used his laugh when very
much angered; but it was of a very
different character, and death lurked
behind it. In a steamboat quarrel with
three desperadoes once he denounced
(hem with a laughing accompaniment,
a cynical, chilling, dangerous kind of
laugh, his eyes glittering like a
snake’s, and his forefinger on his re¬
volver, ready to dash out the life of
the first one who made a move. One
of the desperadoes said afterward in
speaking of the occurrence that he
never felt so queerly before in his life,
He said he felt as though the very
marrow in his bones was being fro¬
zen.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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