Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — A Calamity Howl. [ARTICLE]

A Calamity Howl.

The political calamity howler is hard put for instance and proof of the direful things he pretends to see and apprehend. Indeed, he becomes lugubriously ludicrous in his dismalnes*. The following excerpt from the Kansas correspondence of the Northwestern Miller, is n humorous illustration: "With granaries full to bursting, and general prosperity in the land, there are still u few calamity howlers left. One from Kansas. Whose attention was called to the big wheat crop raised this year,responded with a doleful whine, ‘Yea, it is a big crop, but these here big crops is mighty hard on the .land.’ ”