The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-01-24
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SNATCHED FROM NIAGARA.
FROM BRLGRAvIA MAGAZINE,

Yes, stranger, it is mighty fine fall. ]
guess Niagara beats creation for bigness
You curiosity hunters cant find dip OF
water better worth cycling over in all your
jaunts anywhere, Well, you see, it's just
an ocean, as it were, rolling over that lime
stone ledge. Foam, spray, and thunder
one dull, eternal. awful roar, spanned by
shifting rainbows-that's it.
Il bate it, but l calculate the sights nuts
to you. You think that natures got it up
fine for you to stroll down to, after break
fast at Forsyth's.
IT'S like an entertainment provided for
those who house at our hotels; something
to draw customers and tot up jolly return
for the capital invested. That's it, isn't it
1t gives you pleasure to talk about and
pay for, and brings dollars to those that lei
you lodgings. Come, it is up to your no.
tions, is it not, stranger p
The dollar giving uses of this sublime
cataract had not, must own, occurred to
me-. looked with some natural wonder al
the speaker, who took this view of perhaps
the most marvellous scene that this world OF
ours has to show. Indeed, with its deep,
dread roar throbbing through my very brain
and blood, heard the suggestion with no
little disgust. The spray clouds ever steam
ing up from the abyss which received the
plnnging sea, the overflow of the vast Amer
ican lakes, failed altogether in my mind tn
associate themselves with cash calculations,
The twenty miles of river rolling the drain
age of continent to its giant leap, did not
bring with their mighty mass of doomed
waters ideas of profit that better suited a
New York counting house than the shud
deriug surface of Table Rock -''
Ny manner, as | replied, l dare say some
what smacked of surprise and candor, but
my American friend took il with that self
possessed GOODNESS which showed him to be
quite careless of my estimates of his want of
what our fine old sculptor Nolekens used
to call "entusymusy.'
Cant you see something beyond dollars
and cents in this wonder of wonders p l
said. 4 know familiarity breeds contempt
towards most things, but rather expected
to find Niagara beyond this customary re
suit f, r......rr .ce
We'll, to say the plain truth, Brltisher, l
don't go in for outlandsh howlings about
this roarer; but when you talk of my having
any sert of contempt for it, l tell you my
fancies about Old Thunder are something
particularly different to that. Shall / tell
you why 4? Are you in listening fiti Yes.
Then for once III let out story L have in
my memory, and no living man, native OF
foreign, has anything to pair off with it as
respetcs this tumbler below u.s. So with
the dread music in my ears of this mighty
mass Of flashing down waters, listened to
q tale that has ever since formed part of my
recollection of Niagara.
| why do get savage at travellers spoony
raptures about this swtulest work that the
power of God Almighty has turned out
This is why They are so much Brummsg
EN- tinsel-not got up we'll. You come here
not just to feel as this would naturally max,
any creature feel, but to froth and fuss sbou
what you do feel and what you don't Tha
rifles me, like TO sneer down such bosh
This thing was not made to be talked at
1t wasn't meant to be rsved over, It's to,
darned real, too horribly grand for that
You're quiet one-nOt one Of the mouth
ing sort, see; my dander isn't rix by you
You're genuine, you are. SAW that
that's why mean to give you a real scar
with this tale OF mine. If your wool doesn'
straighten before I've done, you're coole
card than Igive you credit for being.
Pm toughish still you see, Oldish rath
er, for go odd years I've lived hereabout,
for here was born. know this place pref
ty well, guess every foot of every rocl
OF every track for long miles away, up I
Erie and down to Ontario field and fores
know my shoe leather all through thes
parts. .t 'r-
when l was 80, or theresbouts, hutte
iup this river some four miles or 10 ava,