text:  What a contrast to the Mississippi which flows along broad powerful and majestic like some barbarian conqueror bursting forth at the head of his stinking hordes to overrun half a world! The Red River on the other hand which we are accustomed to call the Nile of Louisiana--with about as much right and propriety as the Massachusetts cobbler who christened his son Alexander Caesar Napoleon--sneaks stealthily along through forest and plain like some lurking and venomous copper-snake