The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-17
NIAaARA's TEMPTATIoNs.

The influence of the Great Waterfa
{ over the Female mfnd-NOtabIe sui
cides at the Falls.
The sombre aspects of the NiagaI
charm all young and sentiments
hearts, a tender and romantic melaI
choly being the chosen property {
youth. Niagara is the pilgrimage c
love, as Stratford- on-Avon is the pi
grinlage of genius, Mount Vernon th
pilgrimage of patriotism, and Santiag
the pilgrimage of superstition.
AZ Niagara the happy lovers breath
their VOWS and pledge their treth, In
voking the lonely woods, the lashinI
water and rising clouds of spray, a
witnesses of their burning love ant
steadfast truth. At Niagara naples
swains and maidens, crossed in thei
affections, blighted In their prospects
wander by the isles and banks for on
last half hour of bliss, and then, will
arms entwined and hearts inseparablt
go headlong over.
DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE.
Not long ago q young man came
across from the American side accom-
panied by pretty girl, and by LITTLE
child. He hired boat not far above
| the rapids, put the lady and the child
into the stern, and throwing his oar!
into the boat, pushed off into the
stream, AR old boatman warned hin
to beware of going out too far. The
young man smiled and nodded, but
pushed out into the food. At once the
boatman saw that he lost control of his
little craft, and shouted to him to edge
about, as he was in the rush. The
rover raised an oar in answer to his
cries the shaft was snapped acrOss-bui
whether done by accident or design,
| the old man could not say.
"God help you sighed the boat
man ; in few more moments they were
| gone. When friends came to see the
bodies it was found to be a case of pas
sion and despair. Loving each other
madly, they had fed from home and
parents who opposed their union they
had sought Niagara, the cure of diEap-
pointed love; and in these waters they
had found their everlasting rest.
AwFE THAT WAS NEVER FOUND.
From Table Rock towards Lake On
tario sweeps a ehasm for many miles
/ through which the rapids race with a
velocity to make the eddies Of the
Danube at the Iron Gates seem tane,
/ the whirlpools of the Neva round the
rock of Sehlussel commonplace. This
chasm is the favorite grave of hapless
| lovers and despairing maids. The
mighty fissure has eaten il out, the
teeth gnawinR deeper in the rock from
age to age. No man has yet surveyed
! this bed and told us how far down into
| the earth these volumes of descending
water plunge. You dare not push your
/ boat into the foam. But on the outer
| edge of these great circles you may
/ drop your line, a hundred feet two
/ hundred feet and find no bottom.
Many persons drive into the deep, but
never rise again to tell the tale. Their
dive is taken once for all. The bodies
| are rarely found. Some months ago a
! lady came alone to hotel on the Amer
ican side-a pretty woman, young and
well attired, who gave her name as the
wife of a Chicago merchant.
For day or two she roamed about
| the falls, the cataracts and the river
| banks. No one noticed her, for pretty
women are seen at every turn, and at
! Niagara every one rOams about the
/ falls. the cataracts, and the river. In
/ the evening of the third day she was
missing at her hotel. A guide had seen
! a woman fling herself from the bridge
on one of the sister isles, but whether
! she was drowned or not he could not
say. A telee ram was sent to Chicago
| and by noon on the second Z ay a man
1 arrived who said he was the lady's hus-
band. The guide could not assure him
| that the lady missing from the hotel
was the woman seen spring from the
| bridge He had never noticed her be-
| fore The lady from Chicago might
have crossed the brige. When high
rewards were offered for her body,
men who knew every stone and gully in
the ravine as they knew the logs and
| ladders of their own shanties, searched
every crevice in the rocks, but not a
| trace of her could be found, and the
disconsolate widower had to leave Nj
agara without securing legal evidence
| that his wife was dead.
For some time she was speechless,
| but, on coming to her senses she told
! her mother that her husband had been
cross with her that morning, wanting
her to take a holiday when she had no
mind for it that shewas a little fdgety;
and that on seeing the water flow
| smoothly down, and looking SO lovely,
she sa.w a pleasant way TO end all her
worries. The water tempted her. But
she was glad they caught her in the
rapids. For, from the moment she be-
| gan to glide a helpless waif, the waters
| lost their power, the romance of heI
| life flashed upon her brain-her hus-
bands trust, her happy home, heI
parents doting and her children's love.
! The heart cried out for ife-fOr one
more trial of her duty. She was saved.
| Next year she came to Clifton with her
| child to look at the ledge from which
she had sprung, and thank the guides
once more for having saved her life.
| She never spoke of the affair again,
/ but every summer she returns to Niaga-
IA, and those who know her notice that
she fingers for moment az the ledge,
absorbed and grave, as though her heart
was beating with an insrticulate prayer
| BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.
Too often, it is thought. the motive
of suicide is little more than the weird
! and solemn tempting of the fall itself
| A lady came one day to Clifton from g
/ town on Lake Ontario, accompanied by
her mother and her child. She stood
/ on the Table Rock. listened to the
/ boom, admired the buffaloes and fed
the bears like other idlers on the spot
and seemed as her child, to whom these
sights and sounds were new. AS they
| were looking at a shop window. she
| turned toward the water, Razed at the
| falling sheet an instant, slipped away
from her companion. ran to the waters
edge at Cedar place and sprang into the
food. A cry of help was raised. Some
| guides were near at hand with ropes
and other gear, and one of them, crap
pied safely by the waist, plunged aftei
her, and by daring effort caught hel
as she rolled among the rocks, and car
ried her back to land unhurt.
FRoH MISERY TO ETERNAL REST.
Another case of suicide attempted b.
a female under nervous irritation, wa
! less fortunate. A woman. living on tn.
| epot. became afflicted with s inalady Al