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Show RIVER RUNS UP STREAM, Loot and Driftwood Will Float Dovm. Turn, and Start the Other Way, Muskogee, Okla. Ono of tho frea curiosities of Mcintosh county Is a liver that runs up stream. Peoplo who llvo ncor Kufauln, along tho banks ol tho North Canadian, often hnvo scon logs and driftwood running rnpldl down stream until they reached s point whero they waver and stop, and then turn round and run back up the stream as rapidly as they had gont down. j A fow days ago a farmer who had not lived long on tho Cnnndlan crossed (ho brldgo and, accosting a Eufaula man, said: "Which way docs that North Cann dlan river run?" "East, or nearly enst," replied the merchant. "I thought so. Docs thoro seem to bo nnythlng tho mnttor with mo?" Tho Eufaula man assured him that ho seemed to bo all right nnd of sound mind, "Well, thoro Is something wrong somowhere. Whero I enmo from there woro lots of rivers, but every one ol them runs down stream. When I crossed thnt brldgo n whllo ago logi nnd drifts wero going west fnstor thnn thoy ever went tho other wny beforo I think I'll see n doctor, anyway." The explanation Is simple. Tho con fluenco of tho North and South Cnna , illnun Is about flvo miles enst of Ku (aula. There Is little fall In clthoi stream. When there Is n big rlBo Ir tho South Cnnndlan tho watar rushn hack up tho north fork for mites, nnc has every appearnnco of n stream thai Is running tho wrong wny. |