HATS, CAPS, GLOVES, Umbrellas, Valises, Carpet Bags, etc. GO TO S. P. SANDT, Southeast cor. 4th & Northampton Sts., Easton, Pa. Silk Hats & Class Caps made to order at short notice HEADS MEASURED FOR SILK HATS WITH THE PATENT sept72- SHIMER & FRANKENFIELD, MERCHANT TAILORS, AND DEALERS IN CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, &C., S. E. COR. 4TH & NORTHAMPTON STS., EASTON, PA. Also, a Large and well-selected stock of GENTS' FUR- THE LAFAYETTE MONTHLY. Editors for September-C. E. BURNS, W. C. ANDERSON, N. G. MOORE. VOL. III. SEPTEMBER, 1872. NUMBER I. FROM A NIAGARA LETTER. * * But the waterfall itself, in another aspect, is the central object. These measurements and cold surveys of local surroundings which I have given you first, are really the last things that one thinks about here. The first impression is one of intense surprise. The elements of it occur at once-disappointment, admiration, relief. The first conscious effort is an effort to expand. The powers of perception falter. The senses least of all seem prepared for the object, and do not at once adapt themselves to its nature and magnitude. But when one by longer looking has enlarged this objective capacity, how effectually does the real Niagara sweep away all the stereotyped impressions of form derived from pictures! Here is sight and sound. Nor are the lines and shapes motionless, but life-like, or I should rather say spirit-like. There is abiding performance and constant change; the rocks, the abounding floods, and the ceaseless sway of the rising mist, the waters ever dancing to the edge and ever falling, the throbbing roar, and even the color, impalpable, leaping and vanishing, a thing of life and motion. One feels a new and subtle influence stealing over him, as the control of a pervading spirit of which the canvas gives but a vague hint. |