Show CAPTAIN TOI LEATHERS ell or nil OhlTiluc RuffleShirt Skdc 1jpSjSSiPP Steamboat Cnptuill retain T P Leathers of New Orleans of the few survivors of the old line is of one stcInlboa CalthiflS ofthe MiSSiSsippi C Cal > t lln Leathers is six feet four incheS riVer in height I with a round powerful Sure harmonizing well with 1 his great Attire His head is very large and masc st mas-c ind looks as if it were hammered sirc lt of copper His short irongray hair O vcrv crisp and strong being brushed back arclully from a low broad forehead lis eyes arc a clear gray blue deeply set finder cavernous eyebrows His nose is jroopini Koman Underneath it is the S fi Tcet of white grizzly moustaches His Ion ire vigorous jaw is covered with a white closecropped beard which is sot so-t nek that it looks like soft wool He dre5SCS with the greatest neatness Ills linen is of the linest character His broad chest t is decorated with the most delicate and finest of mules in 4It > folds of which appear here and there linv trleaming diamonds The Captain is the owner of the steamer Natchez on of the best boats on the Mississippi ricer lIe is one of the most desperate of fihters for the carrying trade of the Lcer Mississippi He would rather fight and run at a loss than to pool in with his exponents and make money He has run for f fortynine years this fall and during that time has never lost the life of a single sin-gle person intrusted to his care Although lIe is over sixty years of age he looks good for a hundred He makes s6me i very startling statements about the Mis J sisslppi river He says the day of steam f boating has gone by never to return The railronl have destroyed the waterways of the country The Mississippi is now being diverted gradually into the Atcha iibya river Each year more and more of its water runs into this stream It is only a question of a few years in his op1uiOfl when the entire Mississippi will bediverteJ into this channel of the Atcha bb1 lnd will leave New Orleans which 25 l now a seaport a dry inland town He thnks t the fate of New Orleans is sealed unless something is done very soon toward to-ward correcting this break of the Mississippi Missis-sippi He openly expresses his disbelief in anything being able to remedy it now although he thinks 110 harm may bo done perhaps in trying |