The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-25

for the truth of ID that in all of those
| slXty-seven or siXty-siX years he has new
er once seen the falls. Any one who doubts
| this can verify it for himself Silas, who
/ Is sun quite a bright and entertaining
old fellow, lives to the right of the road,
4 about hundred yards from it, three min
/ utes after you pass the turn beyond the
! Devils Rock, on the road to Lewiston.
/ You will probably ind him reading the
New Testament Of it be evening" with
/ his fingers, for q should have mentioned)
/ he lost his sight completely when he was
only three months old.
| l consider the most remarkable attrib-
ute of the falls is their disappointment,
/ They don't comply with the bill-of-lad-
/ ing at all. Goat Island is there, all right,
| though with the exception of the presence
I of one donkey-Fitz will please take my
word for it, that / do not mean any per-
sonality-1 saw no stronger reason for
giving it this name. l admit, too, that I
/ found there was an American side and a
/ Canadian side; furthermore, the guide
/ book was correct in saying that many
/ times as much water went down on the
/ Canadian as on the American side-aud
any one who knows The condition of the
British moral linen will readily appreciate
/ this hint of Providence. Also 1 grant
/ there is a precipice from which water
comes down; though, considering the laws
J
doctrine failed to affect on this continent,
l really see nothing very remarkable
about that. Likewise there is a river be-
/ low, the most noticeable thing about which
| is thai 1t runs between the banks and is
| crossed by a bridge and a trolley car
and an intermittent stream of grumblng
strangers.
/ If you have not been to the falls think
/ you may have a fair idea of them when
I say that they are about as big and as
II
buildings in New York city; they are nos-
Ter than the twenty-frst round of a prize
fight, and not so noisy as six women at
an afternoon tea; they kick up a spray
as dense as the wits of the stupid fellow
that differed with you last night l do
not now recall how many hundred thou
sand tons of water come over the falls in
a minute; but I do know that at the time
| reduced the immensely of the thing to
/ the level of my understanding, by calcu-
lating that there was sufficient to wash
the consciences of the government of
ficials at the astonishing rate of two per
I fifteen minutes, 1 reckoned that if the
citizens of the United States arranged to
keep the whole government shebang
penned up on the banks and every morn
ing haul them forward and back beneath
the falls on a wire cable, comparatively
clean administration would be the result
if they survived. If they did not survive,
! foresaw that the immense reserve of
philosophic resignation possessed by the
I American nation, would enable it to bear
the shock with superhuman calmness.
The awed whisper with which. when
you have crossed the bridge to the Cana
dian side, the name of Victoria is mem
toned, makes an irreverant Irishman
dixie MYSELF smile aloud. The carriages
ION this side of the bridge have one other
equal on Garth and that is the carriages
on the American side. In a weak moment
/ allowed myself and Fitz to be trapped
into one of them, to be given to Table
rock. This said the driver, lis Victo-
| ria's Park that I am going to take you
through" Victoria Park" said 1. then
please go around it, or under it, or jump
over it," He leant back to me and said
with bated breath but it's named after
Queen Nictoria-Queen Victoria II
know, | know" said l, Il have heard of
the lady. She's all right-till the rains
coming; but when the corn on the top of
her small toe begins to whisper the hir-
ed girl has got to stand around and look
out for the poker and other portable aids
TO domestic felicity" The poor fellow
turned up his eyes in horror. But it's all
right" | said, IF there's no other way.
scoot through Nic's park; and perhaps
she'll never hear ii was l." And as we
slid over the holy ground, I entertained
the driver with an account of a crow
picking which the Queen owed Fitz, be-
cause of some of her family's employees
for sheep-stealing Fitz did not strike me,
for fear of confirming the thing in the
fellows eyes. And again, at the govern
Tnent building the young lady in charge
of the visitors book, seeing me sign my
name in Gaelic. drew me into a political
discussion, that necessitated me quoting
some history to her, with the result that
she accused me of being a Fenian, to
which l blushed a modest assent. She
threw up her hands, and fled; and by-and-
by | observed her where she had drawn
about her a group of sympathizing Of
ficials to whom she was with trembling
finger pointing out the geological speci-
men. Fitz, who is normally as inoffensive
as babe, has a craving for being
thought something as bad as an anarch-
list. II do believe, he said vainly, chose
people think I'm as bad as you, even if
did not say much" Yes, Fitz," / said
they think you are my dupe."
At the government buildings. wherein
you take ticket for a descent by the side
of the falls they love 10 encourage in
strangers the pleasing fiction that they
are entering on a perilous undertakings
and whilst an attendant encases you in
water-proofng from the crown of your
head 10 the tips of your fingers and toes
your guide does likewise 10 himself. Then
that in case the worse does happen, there
may be some memento of the lost for the
loved ones left behind, fellow thrusts un.
der your nose pictures of other idiots taxi
en- in their descent suits. q did not say
deceut-it would be a gross untruth), and
informs you that you need to have the
same thing done And il you reply mo
slrl'' with indignant decision. he says:
"Well. that is a remarkable coincidence
and backs away. ] do not know how he
came by the phrase. but he evidently fesls
| assured ia Is one not 10 be ASHAMED of