The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27
SNATCHED FROM NIAGARA.

eyes. stranger, it is mighty fine fall.
I guess Niagara beats creation for bigness.
You curiosity hunters cant find q dip of
water better worth cycling over in all
your jaunts any where. Well, you see,
its Just an ocean, as it were, rolling over
that limestone ledge. Foam, spray and
thunder-one dull, eternal, awful roar,
spanned by shifting rainbows-that's it.
''I hate it, but I calculate the sights
nuts to you You think that Nature
got it fine u for you to stroll down to
after breakfast at Folyth's.
OTIS like an entertainment provided
for those Who house at our hotels; some
thing to draw customers and tot up q jol-
ly return for the4capital invested. That's
1t, isn't it? 1t gives you a pleasure to
talk about and pay for, and brings dollars
to those that let you lodgir gs. Come, it
is up 20 your notions, is it not, stranger?"
The doliar.giving asses of this sublime
cataract had not, 1 must own, occurred to
me. I looked with some natural wonder
atspe speakSr WHO tool this yieWfof per-
VIVA Of ora ea rs ubia inhe cay T sa1s
its deep, dread roar throb5iug through
my very brain and blood, I heard the
suggestion with no little disgust. The
sprayclouds ever steaming up from the
abyss which received the punging sea,
the overflow Of the vast American lakes,
failed altogether in my mind to associate
themselves with cash calculations. The
twenty miles OF river rolling the drainage
Of continent to its giant leap did mt
bring With their mighty mass Of doomed
waters ideas of profit that better suited q
New York counting house than the shud-
dering surface Of Table Rock.
My manner, as | replied, ! dare say
smackets Of surprise and candor, but nv
American friend took it with that self
possessed GOODNESS which showed him to
be quite careless Of my estimate OF bis
want Of What our fine old Sou ptor Mol
lel1ene used to call ''entus: musy.''
Cant you see some hing beyond dol
lars and cents ii this wonder of won
ders?" ! said. "l know Familiarity
breeds contempt towards most things,
but rather expected to find Nisgra BE-
yond this customary result
CIV ell, to say the plain truth, Britisher.
I dona 60 in for any outlandish bowling
about this roarer; but when you talk of
my having any sort of contempt for it, I
tell you my fancies about Old Thunder
are something particularly different to
that. Shall tell you why? Are you in
a listening ft2 Yes? Then for once IN
let out story have in my memory,
and no living man, native or foreign. has
anything to pair off with it as respects
this lumber below u.s." So, with the
dread music in my ears of this mighty
mass OF flashing down waters, listened
to a tale that has ever since formed part
OF my recollect1ons Of Niagara.
"Why do get savage at travellers
spoonty raptures about this awfulest
work that the power OF God Almighty
has turned out? This is why: They are
so much Brummagem tinsei-not got up
we'll. You come here not just to feel as
this would naturally make any creature
feel, but to froth and fuss about what
you do feel and what you don't. That
rifles me. like to sneer down such bosh.
This thing was not made to be talked at.
1t wasn't made to be raved over. It's too
.darned real, too horribly grand for tnat.
You're quiet one-not one OF the mouth
ing sort, see; my dander isn't riz by
you. You're genuine, you are I saw
that; that's why 1 mean to give you a
real scare with this tale of mine. If your
wool doesn't straighten before I've done
you're cooler card than I give you cred
it for being. ~
"I'm toughish still, you see. Oldish
rather, for sixty. odd years I've lived.
hereabouts, for here I was born. I know
this place pretty well, Iguess; every foot
of every rock, of every track for long
miles away-up to Erie and down to On
tario. Field and forest know my shoe
leather all through these parts.
"When I was thirty, or Whereabouts, I
hutted up this river some four miles or
so away. You've tracked it down may
be to here. You'd hardly think we were
coming upon this. The country up river
Is fattish: The river slides along quiet