Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — What Makes Calamity of Life. [ARTICLE]

What Makes Calamity of Life.

When a long-suffering fisherman accidentally and unexpectedly finds- a big trout has actually grabbed his hook and shows fight and darts around and pitches and cavorts, and lashes the water, and bends the pole almost double, and you brace yourself far the great occasion with hope in your eye and your heart in your mouth, and liegin to draw him in and up and out, and just at the inexpressible moment of success and triumph he gives a l.irt and fails back—oh, what a fall was that, my countrymen! What goneness, what helplessness, what crushing, subduing feel ngs come over a man. He couldn’t smile if he Avas going to be hung if he didn’t. It is worse than tohaveaeoAV die, or to be left by the train. I have experienced that, and gone home as humble as a wet dog. It is a SU) grief over the loss of a half dollar fish. —Bill Arp, In Atlanta Constitution. Thebe in a steady tendenoy to the ctyle of dress of fifty years ago.