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I RU< | Make you ^ those prettj ^ your selecti i=? a Furni v>uwe in a y fact, we ha"v ^ and can pies sS nicke sectio ? | tAN( In our lin< I Vi o tto if mo rl ^ X4C* V \J XV XUUlVA Niagara Falls A Graphic Description of this Great Natural Wonder-Mayor Wylie's Address before the Library Associa tion. The public meeitng of the Library Association last Friday night was well attended, quite n number turning out to hear thr able addresses of Mayor 11 K Wylio and I)r B ddridge, pas'oi of the First Baptist, chuicii Mayor Wylie'ssubjeci was, "S >iut Im pres-i mis ol ni> Recent Trip t< Niagara Falls and Canada"'; and that ol l)r. Boldridge, '"What i? a Book."' The address of the latter will appear in our next issue. The remarks of Mr Wvlie, as kindly reported tor Tne New? by Mr. Prei-sley Robinson, were as follows; Accompanied by my daughter I boarded the train at Lmcaeter on tli3 l(.)lli of June last en route for t tie International Sunday School Convention at Toronto, Canada. Wo took tiie Seaboard Air Lino at Chester, where we were joined hy others aiso bound for the convention. At Hamlet, N. C., we were joined by the parly from Columbia and othei points in S. C. Dr. Pelham, President of the South Carolina Sunday School Association, head ed the South Carolina delegation. The North Carolina party also joined us here and we all went together to Norfolk, Va., and w 'I ? II r sitting and living r new Bugs just re on before they are ture! ,nd see the handsoi re any and all kind i j _ /? ase any Kina 01 poc nal Book Cases P e, for it will pay y< b of Carpeting you e all ready to put < from there to Baltimore by boat. From Baltimore the North Caro Una party went by the Fen nay 1j vania Railroad to Buffalo. New York. We took the Baltimore and Ohio and thence the Lehigh Valley Route lor Buffalo also. The Lehigh Valley Routo travers es some of the most beautiful scenery in Fennsylvania. We stopped over at Buffalo| principally to see the great Nia gara Falls. The most impressive 1 sight I have ever seen is these ''great falls. I had visited Niagara | Kails once at a time when my mind was plastic, and strange to |say I did not have the faintest | idea of what 1 saw then; the , reason was, 1 was hut six months old at the time, hut I won't say how long that, has been. 1 have heard of tlie talis on the Canadian side and on the American side and the Three Sister 1 Isies, and 1 had about the idea of it that a lady told me of the impression it made on her?a whole lot of water falling down?this is about the idea I had of it before ' 1 saw it. We got to Niagara in the after noon and went down the next morning. The first thing that attract ed niv kIIpiiIwh. umu rhn! terrible roar of the waters coming down. We went down through Prospect L'ark to the brink of the rapids above the falls. Niagara Palls were lit teen or twenty years ago noted only for their scenic wonder, but. electric power has been developed there, and now Niagara is a city of commercial importance. The shredded wheat biscuit that is found on many of our breakfast tables is manufactured there. The entire process of ! If J I : room look fresh ? ceived They are all gone. ma ne new Chairs, Be s of Furniture, fr ;ketbook. Do you Come in and ask t 3u to keep up witi Yours lor MERC, can select any pal iown for you. manufacturing the biRcuit ia done by machinery, the hand not touch 1 l\ fV if nil it n i 4- ?. .. ? I- A. I 1^ IV mi, nn ll ^OCCi lliruu^ll tilt) various stages from wheat to biscuit. As before stated the first tiling that attracted my attention was the terrible roar, it was like a thousand nulls. We went over to Greet) Island from Prospect Park. Fortunately I did not go below the falls in going over to Green Island, I went above. We crossed above what is colled the American Falls, and to see the water plunging down is a wonder ful sight. To give some idea of the rapidity with which the water descends, I will mention that the water which goes over the falls comes through the four hikes? Superior, Michigan, Union anil Erie. It enters the falls from Lake Erie, and is the only ave one through which the water i from all those lakes is conveyed to the Atlantic ocean. 1 he fall of the water is about one foot to the mile for about six miles, ami then for a mile before it reaches the ocean it is eighty feet to the mile. It is not the rocks that make the rapids, it is the narrow i channel through w ncli the water 11 >\vs and the rapid descent. 1'he water fairly revolves and rolls i the whole time. On this trip we did pot see the falls at alt from helow but on tne return trip I we did, and that is where it presents the fine view, (t.ie ( strange feature is that the river i at Niagara runs about east and west, although the general course ?t> iu/iii k'uiii m norm, estrange to Hay after the water falls over i the cataract, instead of continu i ing the course hm before, the channel of the river turns abrupt- i ly, at right angles to its former ; course, and flows directly north % Rl w md inviting by b i beauties, so con Furr d Room Suits, Ob om the cheapest know we sell the 0 see them. Kee 1 our offerings' business, stern you want i to Lake Ontario. We went from Green Island over to Goat Island, the main island that divides the river. The northern shore iR the American side of the river.About nine-tenths of the water that goeH over the falls is on the Canu dian side. The contour width of American falls is about 1060 ft, depth 167 The contour width of the Horseshoe or Canadian Falls is about. 3000 ft, depth 158 ft. The American Falls have a greater elevation than the Canadian Falls for the. rpusun it cooma that the greater volume of water is on the Oananian side, hence it has worn the rocks more on that side than on the American side. On the return trip 1 saw it on the western side, and there you can see the whole fall at once, in front of you and on the left you Hee the American Falls. After the water leaps over into the gorge it turns to the right,angling a distance of seven miles and empties into Lake Ontario. A number of pleasure bouts ply on the river, below the falls, one of which is called the ''Maid of the Mist." We took a trip up under the falls on this boat, after enveloping ourselves in a rubber coat and hat to keep from getting wet, and then went on around ll,? f-ii_ f * 1?*> Ui>inn miun 1HIIH. II 11 W('[6| not for those rubber suits one would get wet. It is not dangerous at all. The boat fairly rocked as it pissed through the foamy waters. The great thing about the gorge is that the falls have been graduaiy nuving up the river for ages. It was once seven miles nearer Lake Ontario than now. Geologists have tried to compute the wear during a year, and estimate that it is from two to four feet a yeur, bo that it j ==r? JGS I s uying one of | ae and make (a l 6 liture! & V LlUUIliei'S 111 gj to the best, 0 i Globe-Wer- A p your eyes g| __ l } CO. I md we will I J must have taken ages to have * reached from lake Ontario to its present site. One curious thing receded is the geysers. You stand there and hear explosions. You see those spouts of water, those things are constantly going up, sometimes higher and sometimes lower. As the water falls air is carried down by the water for a hundred or a hundred and fittv fpof ot..l bubbles tire formed which unite under the water and as they come up to the surface they explode and the water is thrown high into the air Hnd is perfectly while, its white appearance being caused by the air. The Horse shoe falls is in the shape of a horse shoe, or rather it once was in that shape. The nature of the erosion has caused I1IIPY 1(1 h-lf.imu iviooo ? w --V v,w?,o 1IIWAO * nun ped. Nine tenths of the water going down on the Canadian aide wears the rock more than on the American side. As the geyfcers burst, water is dashed against the base of the cataract over which it falls, thereby eroding the soft shale underneath, undermining the rock above and k this being softer than the rock above is eroded and then in the course of time the bedrock of the river breaks <id" ???'! 011? 'l"" ~ y w w.. Mil XM I nun UUV> II ' below. This is the cause of the falls gradually receding from their original position. t I had always somehow had the ?/ idea that the Niagara Falls'was considered one of the seven j wonders of the world, but I learned this summer that it is v only one of the seven wonders of the United States, Uuray Caverns and the Natural Bridge in Virginia and the Mammoth Cave in I Kentucky being among others of yft.. .