River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-28
syATCHED FROM NIAGARA.

SNATCHED FROM NIAGARA.
,Tes. stranger, II is u mighty fine fail
] cues, Niagara beats creation for b9ness
You curiosity hunters can't find dup 81
water better worth eyeing over n all
your iaunts any where. Well. You see
rs lust an ocean, as it we're, rolling oven
thar limestone ledge. Foam, spray and
fhnnder--one dull. eternal, awful roar.
spannen bv shifting rainbows-thst's it
Il bate It, bat [ calculate the sight 5
INST ta Won. You think that Nature ;
.ot il ducu ier you TO stroll down 70
after breakfast at FoFsyths.
ats like an entcitsinment provided
for those who house at our hotels; some
thing to draw cua.omers and tot up lol-
Iv return for the capital invested. That :
II. isn't it, Il gives y0G a ! leasure 10
talk about and pay tor, and brings dollars
10 those that let YOU lOdgH gs. Come, I
j. 10 to vour notions, is it not, stran9erl
The dollar giving Usts Of this sublime
cataract he'd not, ! must own. occurred 70
me. | looked with some natural wonder
nj the speaker who took this view OF per
haps the most marvellous scene that this
world Of ours has 10 show. Indeed, with
its deep. dread roar thTObJing through
NV very BRAN and blood, | heard tho
suggestion with mo- little disgust. The
spray clouds ever steaming up from the
abvss which received thc plunglng 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 Il contnyGt "a its giant Temp did
bring with t4Ci1 mighty mass % doomed
waters ideas Of prof. that better suited 8
New York counting house than the -aud-
dcriug surface Of Table Rock.
nv manner IS | repled, dare say
smacked o. surprise amt candOr, but my
American friend took il win that self
posi,ssed GOODNESS wliica showed him 10
rs quite careless Of my estimate o. his
want e what orr fine old sou Ptcr Mol
Iek,ns used to call "entus ymusy."
Can't SON see some hing beyood dol
lars agd cents IA his Haatier Of won
ders I said II know fsmlliarity
breeds contempt towards most things
but rather expected 10 tiad Ni3gr be-
youd tbis customary result.
SWELL % -ay the plain truth, Brltlsher.
] don't 90 in for any outiaLd.sh hoviing
about ths roaIer; but when sou talk Of
nv having any sort oi contempt for I, /
tell YOU my fancics about Cd Thunder
are som u ing particularly different 20
that. Shall / tel YOU why. Are You N
listening it} Yes Tucn for once 1T
let out story have IN my memory,
and pa living man, native ar foreign, has
ANYTHING 90 pair UG Win II as respects
This lumber bei1w US" 50, with the
dread music in my cars of this mighty
mass ct flsshiug down waters, ] listened
to a tale that has ever since formed part
Of my recollecuons OF Niagara.
"Why do ! get ssvage at travellers
eD0oufv raptuIas about this awfulest
work Jhat the power OF God Almighty
has turned ouil This is why; They are
so much Brummagem tiusej-not got mp
we'll. You come here not Just 10 feel as
this would naturally make any creature
ieel. but to froth and fuss about what
YOU DO feel and what YOU don't. That
rilts me. like to sheer down such bnsh.
This thing was not made to Re talked IT,
1t vast made to be raved over. It's too
damned real. too horribly grand for tAat.
Nou'rea Quiet uue-nOt one OF the mouth
ing sort. / see; nv dsudUr isn't riz ny
y1u. You're genuine, you are. | saw
that; that's why mean 20 give yea q
real scare with this tale Of mine. II your
wool doesn't straighten before I've done
yoR're a cooler card than give you cred
II for being.
"Tm toughish still, you see. Oldiss
rather. ter Sky odd years I've lived
hcreabouts, for here I was born. | know
this place pretty we'll. guess; every foot
Of every rock, OF every track for long
miles away-up 10 Erie and down to Ca
tario. Field and forest know nv sh le
leather all through these parts.
"Whtn / was thirty, or Whereabouts,
hut'ed up this river some four miles OF
- away. You've tracked it down may
be to here. You'd hardly think we were
coming upon this. The country up river
Is hatiisb The river sides along quiet
enough. 100 No Crags, no preciplCas
no darksome forests; all IS fertile J1t
gaod to the eye of man just peace enC
u.eutv. 1t IS different, trough, as tn,
sound 81 the thunder ahead Grows up0I
YOU, duU. aVtui, everlasting, that ma.
sounded On from creation, and will out
last You and me, stranger, ana thousands
of Scnatious YET to come
"Where | lived was, rs said, buta few
miles above this. Further down The Gala
flow of the river swiris into ripplcs, an,
whirlS and grows scared like ct whats he
tore II. Then If exercises itself FIR ID
he'll tits to pass through. 1t tastes puT
patorv. Its all foam and dash, aut
splutIer and grew, through the froth
rapids thar guugbeu it Tor awhile Tie
il settles Tor sts ady work. 1t braces il
self tor endurance, and then pluekil
smooJhs Itself % face its fate.
How grand that calw deep food
that pours along without stay or hurr
that You can see, TO its awful plunge
Bat. stranger. smooth and pesceable as
laaks. Its deep enough and strong enoug
to astonish weak nerves. or iron ones, -
know well, and you'll know before l'y
q lne II my tong ue does Its duty.
Just look across the fail. You see
hest from the British side Run yoy
eve round the great horse shoe near 20
THAT curve IS some tW3 thousand te
broad, ana some hundred and fifty #
deep. Then there's Goat Island, snug
the midst of the mighty p.ung
Can Won see a small. flat spcck of rec
not so many yards off It's sb8resl No
kIiO &ty - ANN a hfafe 1Ak 8AA4NEANf
fall beyond knuckles under little to th
nearer 10 US. But it's a mighty respeC
able WATERSHEDS, too. Twelve hundts
feet in the breath. a hundred and fif
fee. high. Your knowallg guess III
every passage minute some seven hu
dTcd thocsand nLs of good fresh nv
roll over that rock into sprays and foa
in the dim gulf below.
LAS boy, a-ei TO sec beauty as VI
as wonder in This Where its not .
white with foam see what clear *
Green the flo n Is IS it shoots over. y,
can measure the force Of the rush of "
tiers, for the curve Of the shining sheet
ffty feet from the wall Of rock it sli
down.
How does it strike youi You see it