The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-16

vestment, the future is as easy to read
and interpret as the almanac.
TRAGEDIES OF NIAGARA
The Fear Of Poverty.
Another case Of suicide, attempted BY
female under nervous irritation, was
less fortunate. A woman living on the
spot became afflicted with malady IS
common and as fatal as consumption-the
fear Of perjury. That she had no good
reason for this fear her neighbors knew,
but it possessed her like secret and in
durable disease. Il can't bear it, she
used to say, land some day you viii SEQ
laughed at her, saying that people who
talk of suicide are in for length of life.
But one day she leaped off the rock at
Cedar place. A brave young fellow
named Davis saw her slip in, but was too
far off to catch her and draw her back
The lad was used to suicides. as everyone
becomes by living at the falls, but he
had laughed so often at her threats,
and come to look on them so much
as jokes that he was ready to do any
thing to save her life. But was she in
the tolls, beyond the reach. of helpt
Gazing ON her figure, as she bumped on
the rocks and turned in the rush he saw
that she would pitch against the ravine
wall, some ten or twelve feet under the
rock on which he stood. Peeripg over
the bank, he saw little shelf of earth,
just broad enough for q man to light on,
and no more he scrambled down mo-
ment ere the woman came rolling on, put
out his hand toward her, caught her
shawl and tore it from her body as she
foated down, and stared in horror as the
wooden rag hung dangling in his grasp.
The suicide had kept her promise, and es.
capped from her Imaginary poverty into
eternal sleep.
YET ANOTHER TRAGIC STORY
is that Of boat accident, in which three
Germans lost their lives. These men
were boating in the evening above the
rapids. Through negligence they drifted
down, and the boat capsized. All three
were speedily in the wash, each strug-
ling for lis life. Two of the men were
washed over; the third man caught q
stone, turned round and swung against =
rock, between the wooden bridge and the
American fall. He grasped spit and
CHING to it all night. Early in the morn
ing, persons on the bank perceived him.
and cry for help was raised. Seeing
how far he fought his way, now clinging
to ledge below the level, now climbing
to rock above the surface, hope
for him sprang up in many
hearts. A plank was foatcd toward him
by rope; the rope appeared too weak
for his support, and he declined to grid
it round his waist, but wrote his name
and his address, together with the names
of his companions who had gone over in
the night, The men had been abroad for
several hours, and he was weak for want
OF food. His limbs were cold. The Wa
tcrs buffeted and struck him in the face.
so that the effort made to breast them
slowly overcame his strength. Another
rope was tried, and canoe let down the
rapids with provisions, but the man was
too much worn to either eat or drink.
He got into the boat in hope of being
hauled ashore. Unhappily the boat was
driven against rock, on which
THE CABLE SNAPPED
and he had only time to leap into tho
breakers ere the boat rolled over. Once
again he caught rock and held With tho
tenacity of drowning man. For hours
he hung between life and death. The
town assembled on the bank. Trains
came in from Buffalo and carriages drove
over from St. GATHERINGS. Hundreds of
dollars were offered for his life. ATTEMPTS
were made to reach him, but the dav
wore out before raft, secured bv ropez.
could be guided through the eddies to tho
point. At sunset, by q lucky dart, he
grasped the raft, and swaying it round.
succeeded in climbing on it. A cry that
he was saved rose up! Gently. but
stoutly, pulled the guides and boatmen at
the ropes: Each haul brought him nearer
to the shore, when, to the universal hor-
ror, he was seen to reel and fall. Tha
plank had turned; his lashings were I'M
sound and, in the evening light, hun
dreds of spectators saw him shoot the
precipice and join his happier comrades
in the gulf below.
lndiscreet Flattery at n Banquct tn
the Prince acknowledgements Ror-
rows Some Money.
A letter from newspaper writer i'm
London states that the banquet to tho
Prince Imperial at Woolwich has given
rise to good deal OF criticism both here
and in France. The commander Of the
garrison, who presided, made an exceed-
inglY fulSOme speech to the Pr;nco .,.a