The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-08-18

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All the world goes o fishing. The
preacher fishes for the souls OF
men; the broker and man of busis
ness for the money of his neighbor;
the gallant for the love OF his
enamorata; the ambitious for the
adullation of men-and the angler
for fish. In whatever calling men
are found, they are found fishing.
Always batting with the bait most
suitable to their case. The preach
er enlarges upon the glories OF the
Heaven beyond and pictures the
terrors of the hell beneath. The
broker appeals to the cupidity and
selfish desire of the seeker after
gold, by nicely tabulated figures of
stocks. The gallant with soft
words and appealing gestures.
seeks to gain the heart of his
choice The ambitious man '.is all
things unto all men," To the
Greek q Greek, to Jew Jew,
and all that he may gain the more.
ALI these are stern, real modes of
fishing in which our whole natures
are engaged, and we spend our
years in the pursuit for veal or
for woe.
But angling for fish is pastime
intended as a relaxation from the
tolls above noticed, and it is re.
Taxation in which all may engage
with perfect propriety and deco
rum, while it has greater tenden-
cy than any other recreation, to
draw from our hearts hard and
selfish thoughts and unholy de-
sires.
It is the first sport which the
boy engages in with a hearty earn
estness. How many of us may
call to mind even now, after the
lapse of years of buffeting with life,
the real happiness we had in fish
ing in the meadow stream, with q
crooked pin for hook and the
swift darting minnow for victim.
No matter if we did not succeed in
hooking the finny game, the bob
bing and nodding of our 'dipsy"
was real pleasure, and we never
grew tired of watching it. How
many of us have cheerfully done
our half days extra labor, that we
might thereby gain holiday for
fishing, and how that toll has been
sweetened by the sweetest of all
cordials-anticipation.
There are various ways of fishing.
There is cold calculating method.
in which the angler having reduced
the sport to lines, angles and set
rules, fishes with the deal certain
ty of overhauling his game. There
is no sport in this. Half the zeal
of fishing, like that of gambling,
lies in the uncertainty of the thing.
Then there is the fault finding
fisherman. who is forever cursing
his luck, tangling his lines, losing
his bait, and burling anathemas at
the unfortunate fish. To be in his
society for half hour is to rob
fishing of half its pleasure. But
the real jolly fishing is where the
participant bats his line in glee,
and as he casts it into the stream,
casts away every care and burden
of life, and gives himself up wholly
to the enjoyment of the hour. The
beautiful surroundings, the green
woods, the fragrant odor of the
decaying leaves, and the laurel, the
noise of the gurgling and purling
stream, are delights calculated to
soothe the tempest tossed soul of
the most troubled, and to clear the
brain and smooth the brow of the
overworked intellect No matter
what the game. It may be the
sparkling trout and heavy bass, or
it may be but the minnow of our
boyhood-the pleasure is the same,
Only go fishing for fiishing's sake,
and the end is gained.
Men are often called machines,
and oftentimes the appellation is
too true. But machinery will wear
out by constant friction, and so
will men. The constant rush and
strain and surge of business, fills
our cemeteries with wrecked lives.
our asylums with. wrecked brains
and our homes with desolation
The remedy is simple and the pre-
ventive within the reach of all. It
is, go fishing Leave the fishing of
real life for the pastime exercise.
Relax a little once or twice in the
year, and forget for time that the
chief end OF man is to collect dol
lars and dimes, or to hear the null
titude cry Hail! hail! to the chief
tain The money expended for
your tackle and your leisure day, is
better invested than if loaned at :
per cent. and doubly secured.
Therefore we say again, go fish
ing.