Year: 1873

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came up from the boat, and paused 6
few moments, looking steadily in that
direction. Whether the young mar
at the oars was at the moment toe
much engaged ia looking into the
pretty face directly in front of him OF
not it is impossible to say, but the
old gentleman remarked that he was
very unskillful in his management OF
the boat.


OUT IN THE CURRENT.


While the old gentleman was look
ing, the boat, floating with the cur
rent, though little 4mpelled by the
oars, passed out into the Niagara


Now, at this point, less than three
miles from the cataract, it is possible
to row across the river. Not only
is it possible, but, as a matter of con-
slant occurrence, it is considered
comparatively safe. But in crossing
from the American side, leaving the
pier near the Erie depot, it is neces
sary to row up the river as far as the
end of Grass Island, and then to cross,





still pulling diagonally up the stream
and bending to the work for dear life
when in the dark-looking waters
pointed out from the shore.


THE CHANNEL OF THE CURRENT.


On the other hand, rowing from
the Canada shore, you still pull a
long way up the stream before you
venture diagonally across.


Down below the mouth of Chippe-
wa Greek, some twenty rods away,
there is a "river fence" beyond which
the current sets with fearful force to-
ward the rapids.


The old man watched the boat
moving along in a direction diagonal
ly down the stream, and heading for
outside of the ''river fence" He tot
tered back and caught at the railing
of the bridge for support, his face
grew deathly pale, and he trembeled
like an aspen leaf A little child
crossed the bridge and looked at him
curiously. Then an old woman fol
lowed, and he asked each of them if
they knew who was in the boat that
was going


TO GO OVER THE FALLS.


The woman looked scared, as
though she thought he was crazed.
The little child ran away crying.
This man was one of the three who
saw the boat after it left Chippewa,
and while it still retained its form.


IN THE RAPIDS.


AS the water fence was passed and
the current was bearing them about
swiftly, specks of froth dotted the wa
ter. The girl looked from these be-
yond, and caught a glimpse of the
white foam and mist thrown now and
again high in the air along the crest
Of the first rapids. She uttered
cry and pointed in the direction of the
first line of descent above Goat Island.
Her lover looked over his shoulder,
and an expression of horror must
have setteled upon his face. There
was doubtless none of the bright col
or in the girls cheek that had made
her the admiration of the rustics in
the village she was leaving behind
only short half hour before. Her
lover grasped one of the oars with
frantic haste, and with both hands he
thought to turn the boat in the mid
die of that currentrunning like mill
race. He looked then apparently, for
the other oar-looking in the bottom
of the boat and on every side frantic
ly. He had lost the oar in the mo-
ment of his first appalling horror
BE HAD DROPPED ONE OAR IN THE WATER,
and it was carried away in second
beyond sight and beyond sound, down
in the depths of the foaming abyss of
the rapids now yawning beneath them.
The boat darted down the first crest
of rocks, the stern swinging about;
moment she was lost to view, and
then came swinging on, seeming to
point toward Cedar Island. Then
she rose on the point of great foam
covered rock and carried was down bow
foremost, as though steered by invisi-
BILE hands. From the new tower the
poor wretches, who had gone so gaily
forth in the frail cockshell, were seen
clinging closely to each other in the
bottom of the boat Then a cloud of
mist and spray yelled the whole from
sight, and for an instant only, just
under the arch of the rainbow over
the cleft of the Horseshoe Falls, the
boat protruded from the foam and
mist another instant, for the space
of the ightnings flash, two black
fragments of the breaking boat were
seen, and that was all The waters
hid all else, and have continued to
hide all, save few fragments of the
boat, which washed ashore beneath
the cataract


The Milwaukee News, which procured
the assent of the Wisconsin Democracy to
the Greeley nomination, now says:


'It is an easier labor to elect an able,
firm, honest, patriotic Democrat as the
nominee of the Democratic party to the
first Office in the State or nation, than it is to