The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-15
MIS-. MOHL,s LETTER.

\ llbts mo- MS W Luo UrlSll anu Chussb Va thseS
phenomena all agreed that cyclones and
sand.spouts had hollow cylindrical centre,
within which perfect calm regned supreme,
and which winds and waters and sand never
penetrated. WE'LL feel like | was in the
charmed center ofs cyclone up here in this
quiet height. Around me the dirty sea OF
politics ia dashed to muddy foam. The mir is
thick with foul missiles, ugly vituperation
abuse and SANDER. Wrecks of once bright
homes are floating on every side, and frsg'
ments of noble names hurting through the
air but hithyr they do not come. A fishing
party is of more interest TO the
twenty or thirty collected here than
the great Democracy or powerful Republican
organization. Inc gentlemen get the morn
ing papers from Washington atnoon and read
and discuss them languidly for time, and
then some one proposes trip to London
| flights, or a ride on q canal boat, or trip to
Maryland Highta, or fishing party, and le'
politics retire from the scene, routed ever by
"mute little fish,"
We did take some interest in l'r. Tanner;
it gave US III appetite, or rather increased
what we had, to read of his prolonged fast
But now he has eaten his watermelon, and
drunk his milk and is no longer useful to us
and we have lost interest in him.
SO far the bass fishing, which is placed on
the cards OF the Lockwood house rs ono Of
the attractions of the place, has proved
fraud, regular electoral commission. | an
gled patiently an entire morning without a
single bite. | had u hideous little reptile,
called q helgomite, for bait, which, am told,
is favorite petite moroccan with epicurean
bass. The little crature interested me great.
ly. 1t was wonderfully tenacious of life, End
wrigeled on the hook the whole morning.. In
the afternoon tried my luck again. This
| time | actually caught bass about eighteen
inches long, but lost it otf the hook.
Six fish are called . big string
here. Some of the town-folks being 'native
and to the manner born, are more successful
than we are, however, and yet even they often
fail to get bite for days together. My favor
ite method of fishing is to fssten my fishing
rod securely in a cleft Of the rock, and then
| find a shady, NOISY bank neara great sweet
britr bush and lie down and look at the
great mountains, the dashihg, bubbling, sing
ingFiver and the blue sky. A sort Of dreamy
delight steals into my being that comes nearer
| the, "nepenthe' our great poet longed for
| than anything know Of. You don't think
nor remember, nor even dream, you simply
are, and yet are scarcely conscious of
being. Into this existence a
breath Of air brings sweet odors from
the sweet-briar, or from some distant clover
field lately mown. This sort Of angling
admire vsry much.
Last week attempted to write some sta
tistics. In loading my canal boats made a
slight mistake one hundred tons to the boat.
I should have given each boat 1l2 to 1l5
tons. Well, il served me right. ] hate sta
tistcs-anybody can set down row of fig
urss--but me. make this correction, and
promise to leave figures to somebody who
| likes them.
Washington is about the omptest looking
plec, | ever saw. Whole rows of houses
hermetically closed, streets deserted, theatres
shut up, shops selling off a. cost sttgnation
everywhere, except al political headquarters,
Didn't the Republicans stir up no,nsts
rest when they got ovr standard hearers no
bic letter TO Sherman published? They re-.
mind Inc Of an old ,mar who stock or Il
setting her and found q great biz snake
coiIed IN in the nest. she would have
gladly put the hen back but she couldn't,
and 50 She left that nes, disguised. THE
! pbladclph' Times saws that letter is the
best esr13igu document tbe Democrats
have.
The Bgaish lion viii have to wake IN
again and rebuke those unyulg hfgh.ns,
Meanwhile Lord Besconslold can congra,u
la,a himself that this reverse to British ironns
did NJ occur during his rule, and the pres-
eat minis, " are LAYING ali she
blame upon II, "late ministry" and
saw this disaster is the iuey.
table result of Beaconaeld's policy. I ike
to see old England aroused occasionally. lust
to know she is the greatest and grsndest
country on our planet. We are ant 10 forget
there is British lion, SO quiet and snpIne
does he lie on his leland bed. but thsre ia no
mistaking his roar when he does wake.
A correspondent of the Galveston News
thinks Mr.. Sheppard will be beaten in his
district, hope the correspondent is mistaken.
for better Democrat or truer man would be-
| hard TO find. Mr.. Jones made pretty fair
record, but was apt 70 Nv "A
at A tangent ON political questions. q, Il
he broke the Democratic solidarity Of r .
state. II is especially important that y q
solidarity be moi broken at this time WI,
| wrote YOU long sgJ as to the efforts Of IVA
| Radicals to c.pture the house neyt concr' 4
| Ntsai' "