The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-11
Niagara's Temptations.

Niagara's Temptations.
The influence of the Great waterfall
Over the Female nInd-NOtRbIe Sui
cides Z the Falls.
The sombre aspects of the Niagara
| charm all young and sentimental
/ hearts, a tender and romantic melan-
choly being the chosen property of
youth. Niagara is the pilgrimage of
| love, as Stratford-on-AvOn is the pill
| grimage of genius, Mount Vernon the
pilgrimage of patriotism, and Santiago
the pilgrimage of superstition.
| At Niagara the happy lovers breathe
| their VOWS and pledge their troth, in
| voking the lonely woods, the lashing
water and rising clouds of spray, as
witnesses of their burning love and
| ste&dfast truth. At Niagara hapless
swains and maidens, crossed in their
affections, bighted in their prospects,
wander by the isles and banks for one
| last half hour of bliss, and then, with
arms entwined and hearts inseparable
| go headlOng over.
DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE.
| Not long ago a young man came
| across from the American side accom-
panied by pretty girl, and by a little
child. He hired boat not far above
the rapids, put the lady and the child
| into the stern, and throwing his oars
into the boat, pushed off into the
stream. AR old boatman warned him
to beware of going out too far. The
young man smiled and nodded, but
| pushed out into the flood. 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-but
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 disap-
pointed love; and in these waters they
had found their everlasting rest.
WIFE THAT WAS NEVER FOUND.
From Table Rock towards Lake On
! tariO sweeps a chasm for many miles
| through which the rapids race with a
velocity to make the eddies of the
Danube at the Iron Gates seem tame,
| the whirlpoOls of the Neva round the
rock of SchIussel commonplace. This
! chasm is the favorite grave of hapless
lovers and despairing maids. The
mighty fssure has eaten it out, the
teeth gnawing 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, q 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
lady came alone to 8 hotel on the Amer
lean side-a pretty woman, young and
| well attired, who gave her name as the
wife of 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 ay a man
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 ID
the ravine as they knew the logs and
ladders of their own shaRties, searched
every crevice in the rocks, but not q
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 speechIess,
. but, on coming to her senses she told
, her mother that her husband had been
cross with her that morning, wanting
, her to take q holiday when she had nc
mind for it that shew little fidgety
and that on seeing the water flow
smoothly down, and looking so lovely,
she saw a pleasant way to end all bel
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
s lost their power, the romance OF hel
life fa,hed upon her brain-her hus
bands trust her happy home, bel
2 parents dotiUg and her childrens love
The heart cried out for hfe-fOr one
D more trial of her duty. See ~ IS sa.vou
e Next year she came to Clifton with hel
a child to look at the ledge from which
t she had sprung, and thank the guides
g once more for having saved her life
o She never spoke of the affair again
5 but every summer she returns to Niaaga
S "a. and those who know her notice tina
she fingers for a moment tat the ledge