Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-26

An Understandable Attraction Wen Nigi
irrcaisilhie 10 the Spectator.

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Not every visitor to niagara falls has Tor
bis benefit a fuil moon every night and a
brilliant snn by day They tell me thatthc
grand time 10 sec Niagara is at midwlntcr
WHEN huge tons OF ice so laundering over
the cataract and the lower falls are one
mass Of sparkling icicles but one cannot
see everything, and Niagara In summer
time Is quite good enough for me. Arrlv-
lug IN the middle OF the night with the
moon at the full, it was impossible even
then TO resist the fascination Of Nlaeara's
deep dianason sound OF welcome
We wandered out, the night as HIGHT ~
day, under acres VI white blossoms to see
the upper torrent before it falls over the
prucipice This was 10 be all. The rrst
was TO 10 loit 20 the Imagination. You
cannot conceive the effect Of that midnight
ramhlr-the eternal thul Of tho cataract
emphasizing tho delicious silence o. tho
night Standing rs did on the udlc Of the
gruon farden on the American side, looking
oyerto Che dcon and somhcr belt Of pinra
on the Vppuaitc island watching and ctcis
nally watching these angry waters dashed
into foam aud hurrying to their downfall
below, Il did not scent TO me 40 first thar
this comparatively narrow course could end
IN a triumph Of maguihocncr
But there was no Nostigo or shadow Of
disappointment IN the lnornme How
should thorc be' The apple blossoms wofu
waNen, the grass OF cmoU,ld green, the shy
was blue, the sun was IN the heavens. AZ
last ], was all right with tho world. So /
took the picturo gradually, piece by picuc
like q misoe lifted the curtain gradually
aud peoped at thnwonderiul scene point hy
point and Bit by bit Tho plan was towHlk
by the side % tho torrent and TO pause az
every resting place first, Tho very rdge
wheo tho water hcaka from It's narrow
bed into !mmeasurahlo distance and be-
COMES mighty cataract, ncNt, little
lower down, where can be seen aio effect nf
the RreAt fall, tho majesty OF watch stcnia
incompatible, then u little further down,
where you Ind that The first falls arc incro
child'a play compared to tho misty majesty
Of che Horseshoe falls Tho proportions "
this indescnhable picture arr ~ equal Hnd
admirable that at first. as Nt St. PctOr'a In
Rene, you ntp apt 10 be little disnp
pointed, You cannot be convinced of tho
magniHconcu OF 81, Peters unless YOU 40
to tho top OF the highest dome. You eau.
not DO completely persuaded OF the aston.
ishing majesty VI Niagara unless you de.
scend 10 the very bottom.
Modern enterprise all0wa yon this expert
cuoc Formerly You had 10 stand ON a slim,
perry rock In machintosh and 20 literally
under the falls Nowadays plucky little
steamboat plungcs into tho very heart at
the torrent aud takes You 20 near the inll.
iug mass OF gllttcrlng and rainbow tinted
water that you gasp for breath. This cx.
petition should be missed by no one You
oannot nee the falls or understand them
without H.
You will ask me, what ~ tho oiIoct Of
NingDra falls on the spectator 10 mo they
have an Understandable attraction aud FMS.
olnntl0n, While resting there could not
get away from them The roar Ia the dis
tanoo seemed a call which I waa bound TO
answer Al day long was syruliiug about
Goat island or standing on the bridge, or
over on the Canadian sldo sitting aud look
Ing At the rainbow aud the waves Of tho
opposite fall, Try ~ would, / could not
tear myself away from tac attractive oata.
rnct. The most hlduously fascinating cor.
Nor of all iH the exact break where the rush
ing water falls sheer down the prcolpiea
Onehalf step here aud death would greet
You M less than second. This In u corner
that ought W bo barred from the sight, II
10 il necessary 10 hnighton tho bnrricra OF
Clifton suspension bridge " should bo
doubly right TO hide these fascinating cor.
nerB u Niagara where the roar aoothosand
the rushing watcr allurcs hut for all that,
hither suicides otcrnally come Niagara hna
been the ucpcutho Of many a weary soul
II were TO visit the place hundred times,
should htlll bof0Hnd all day long walking
round pnd round tho falls and rapids, aud
watching the everlasting rush from peace
Of lake 20 turbulence u whirlpool Nj
nsaru ~ 20 my mind one Of the moat fasoi.
mating spotH on earth, London Telegraph.