Show TRADE TRADE ON S SOUTHERN ERN RIVERS I ir Queer Looking Flatboats Used by 45 Peddlers on Water Queer looking flatboats varying In size and capable of carrying many f tons of freight having on board a rude home for the owner are again oj beginning to ply up and down the bro broad d' d expanse of the Ohio river andr and r its tributaries One in particular has 1 attracted the attention of the farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers through whose lands it occasionally occasional occasional- ly wends its way It has been fittingly fitting fitting- ly named The American Trader in that it is a veritable floating store and According to river men the life me of the water trader Is far more pleasant I i II III I I II II r r r- r f W Wf A Trading Boat than that of the average peddler whose vocation necessitates the frequent frequent frequent fre- fre quent cleaning and continual looking aft after r horse a Then again there are enough residents along the larger rivera rivers rivers riv- riv ers era to make an inland trip altogether unnecessary 1 The trading boats are supplied with i groceries and provisions of all ll kinds and take in exchange suc such 1 jj as aa butter eggs Iron wool an and aim een r When laden it puts off to some hIt It I an and there sells its accum accumulation af Rt t t tj j stock Th I It Is said that long before the the flatboat t was used to take 5 down i th rl the rivers s b but that t that with its p passing came the modern barge now almost a novelty yet often a useful J one As a general rule these traders trad Y era ers keep to the smaller streams like the Wabash and White Whit rivers that hat fJ are n not t so easy of navigation by the thet Jf t larger steamers |