Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-03-19

banks for one last hour of bliss, and then,
with arms entwined and hearts iuseparable,
90 heldl0ng over. Not along ago, young
man came across from the American side,
accompanied 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 oars into the boat
/ pushed off into the stream. An old boatman
warned him to beware of going out too far.
The Young ~nan smiled and nodded, and
pushed straight out into the flood vt once
the boatman saw that he had lost control of
his little craft. and shouted to him eagerly
to edge about as he was running with the
rush The rover raised an oar IN answer 70
hi- cries the shaft was snapped across-bUt
whether done by accident or design the old
man couli not say. God help YOU i sighed
the boatman in moment they were gone.
" hen friends came To seek the bodies, IL
was found to be 2 case OF passion and despair.
Loving each other madly, they bad fled from
home and parents who opposed their union
they had sought Niagara, the cure Of disap-
pointed and distracted love- and il those
waters they had found their everlasting rest.
From Table rock toward Lake Ontario
sweeps a chasm for many miles, through
which the rapids race with with velocity
to make the eddies Of the Danube At the Iron
Gates seem tame, the whirlpools of the Neya
round the rock of Schussel commonplace.
This chasm Is the iayorte grave Of haple-s
lovers and despairing maids. The mighty
tisSure has been eaten out, the teeth gnawlng
deeper in the rock from age TO age. No man
has vet surveyed this bed and told uS how
far down into the earth these Volume, if de
sceuding waters plunge. You dare not push
your boat into the foam Bat on the outer
edge q thaSe great circle- you may drop
Your line 4 hundred feet, two hun udrei feet,
and find NJ bottom. Many persons dive into
tie deep but never rise acaIn o tell tie tale
Their dive Is taken once for all. The bodies
of tie dead are rarely found. Some month,
AGO, a lad, clIa- O. a hJiel on the American
side-a pretty woman young and well at
tired, who gave her name as the wife ui a
merchant in Chicago. For day OF two she
roamel about the falls, the cataracts and the
river banks. No one noticed her, for pretty
women are seen at every turn. and at Mag
+ ara every one roams about the falls, the cat
aracts and the river. In the evening Of the
third day she WAS missed "a; her hotel \
guide had seen a woman fling herse,fnto the
+ Isles. but whether she was drowned or not
De could not say. \ telegram was sent -
I Chicago aud. bv noon Of the second day. q
man arrived. who SAID he was the Indy $
husband. The guide could not assure him
/ lhat the lady missing from the hotel was the
woman he had seen spring from the bridge.
/ lie had never noticed her before. The lady
| from Chicago might have simply crossed the
bridge When high rewards were offered
for the body, men who knew every stone and
/ gully in the rayIne, a~ they knew the log
and ladders of their own shantles. searched
through every creyice in the rocks, bat not
q trace Of the lost woman could they find,
/ and the disconsolate widower had to leave
/ Niagara without securing .eEa. evidence that
/ his wife was dead
Too often, it IS thought. the motive OF sui
+ eide is httle more than the weird and solemn
tempting Of the fail itself \ Lady came.
one day, to Clinton. from town on Lake
/ Ontario. accompanied by her mother aud her
child. She walked about the village. stood
on fable rock, listened to the boom, admired
the bulaloes and fed the bears, ike other
/ i!ler- on the spot, and seemed as happy rs
/ her child - whom these sounds ana sights
were new. rs they were looking at Il shop
window She turned toward the waters. razed
at rhc f,llinr sheer an instant sIinped away
/ fr,rn Ler c79roniors ran IN the w',ter e1rc.
at Cedar place, and sprang into the flood. y
cry for help wa, raised. Some guides were
near at hand with ropes and other gear, and
one Of them. grappled safely bY the walst,
rlnnoed after her. and. Inv a daring effort.
.lsrc5. ber a. She rolied anon, the rock.
ana carried her bock IN land nnburt For
Sometimes she was sneebless bnt an COMING
=, L,.r '-.,sc. sbo toIt bcr ,notbcr ttot har
husband bo3 beer cross IN bcr ,b,t n,ornin,,
,,aot;nc, Lor r. t,kc a boli1,v Irbcn sho ba3
n, rn;,d far II tbo+ sbe wqs INST littlc
,,,oI a,l fi,o,r o,J tbot an see;,, tho
-. AN, =, 7.,co,tbI,- 5o1r, o,1 l,st 81
I,,eI,, os II G.u sbc sswa ,lc,.,nt way of
MIN, ali ber worries The water temuted
L,r Vot sba. vas ,,I,d tbcg boJ cap,,bt bcr
:, tho roriJ, For from Tho ,noTnen. She
- ~ , - lido beI,,e1s ,r,;r tb.. w,ters
/ l,.7 tbe;r rover-tbc romance If ber lite
g,sbod ON bcr b-,inNber Ln.h,nd,. trnst
~ bo,,,v bome bcr ,orert-s dotin, opJ
/ ber cbiIdysn's Ioyei Tho heart ,ried ant for
~, r,- ONO NOR, tr;oI or ber J,,r Sbe
was saved Next rear- She came 10 clinton
with her child IN look Mt the ledge from
which .be bod snrpng and thank the Guards
once norc fnr baving s,ved her Iif, Sbc
nevc sroke of the sff.ir ogain bnt eyerv
GUNNER .be ,e,,,rns "a N;s,o-a and tbnte
,vLo INV L..r not;re that sbe olravs fingers
for n moment At the lido obs6rbrd and
crave. as tbopob her heart was beating with
an ipartieulate rrayer.
Another case of suicide. attempted by a
tunate. \ woman. living on the SPOT, be-
came afflicted with malady as common and
AS fatal as consumption-fear Of penury.
That She had no good reason for this fear.
her neichbors knew but it nossessed her like
= secret and iucurable disease. Il can't bear
IT, she used 10 say. land. some day, YOU
will see me over the fall" Her neiphbors
launched. saving peopls who talk Of suicide
are in for length of life. But. one dav, Sic
leapt off the rock at Cedar place. i brave
. Young fellow named Davis saw her slip in,
/ ~ ,,-a, 70, c,r ~ % catch ord draw. La,
hack The lad was used 70 suicides ~ every
one becomes by living at the falls. He saw
tba, She wonld mitch acainst th, -av;ne vail
.,ne ton mr. twelve feet nnder tho rncl, ~,
which he stood peerinr over tho rocL he
saw l;ttle shelf of esrtb ms. broad cro,,b
for man r. I,bt on and ma No. Ig
scrambled down = moment ore the woman
came rolling ON mt ont his hand toward
her coucbt her shawl and tore if from he,
bodr A. ebc 0ostad down ord stored in bor.
~ a. ,l,o ,rooIen ror brn,, don,i;nr, :, hi,
rrasn Tho snicide had tent ber 5romise