The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-15
PATIENCE WITH HOOK AND LINE.
Nervous People Said to Make the
Most Patient Fishermen.

Most Patient Fishermen.
From the Youths Companion.
1t is one of the curiosities of human ma
ture that the most nervous and excitable
people are often the most patient fisher
men with hook and line. This is true as
to nations as well as individuals. The
French. who are, of all people, perhaps
the most mercuriai or "tinderly," are also
of all races the most extravagantly de-
voted to angling; and Paris, their excita-
bic and revolutionary capital, is city of
fishermen. A recent Partisan writer de-
clares that the amateur fishermen are
more numerous now than ever.
They form double wreath of human
ity on both sides of the Seine" he de-
clares, reaching from Charenton clear 10
Maison-Lafitte For them were created
the fortunate isles of Saint-Cloud and
Croissy and the vedurous shores of Port
Marty and Chautou. Isolated there in the
midst of tumult, calm in the very bosom
of agitations, the passers-by smile at
their aspect and gibe at their attitude
and their immobility. They never catch
thing, the passing skeptics say. What
mistake! The vulgar laity know naught
of what these fishermen catch besides
fish; for fish are not alone the things they
go for" This means that the contempla-
ton which is in a manner enforced on
those who fish with hook and line, espe-
cially where no fish are to be found, Of
ten results in the apprehension of impor-
tant things which would never have come
If the fishermen had remained among the
distracting scenes of Partisan life.
A distinguished French academician Is
accustomed to declare that he fished his
academical chair out of the Seine with
hook and line; for the poems which really
won for him his literary crown came to
aim while he was counting the wary gudg-
con on the banks of the river. He is far
from being the only author who has work.
ed in this way. There are 300 and more
living dramatists whose works have, in
some shape, been brought out on the
boards of the Paris theaters; and out OF
these, thirty have declared that they
should never have had a single success il
they had not elaborated their dramatic
schemes while angling.
One of these dramatists once came back.
radiant with glee, from a session of seven
steady hours on the banks of the Seine
On his way home he met friend "Wen
did you catch anything?" asked the friend
Catch anything! Well, l should think /
did! l caught fifth act in three sab-
all PARISH
But he had not one fish, A somewhat
amusing story is told of a minister OF
the interior, M. de Corbiere, who was az.
customed to get up every morning yerN
early and go out with a hook and line
TO quiet his nerves on the banks of the
seine. Ihere came to Paris a man from
the provinces who had made application
for a certain office-a sous-prefecture in
the country. The office-seeker had no in
huence with the minister but in some
way ne learned where the spot was IN
wnlch the minister always went to FISH
PROVIDING himself with tackle" lie
rose sun earlier than the minister. and
when M. de Corbiere went to his favorita
place, he found a stranger installed tbara
paying no attention to the minister on5
apparently quite ignorant of his identitv
Inc minister went somewhere else ana
got up earlier the next morning. btt on
arriving at the place he found the same
man Installed there. Again and again tbis
happened. 1t was useless to try to forestaII
tne man. lie was at the spot before the
slightest break Of dawn. AT last the ,,1,,is9
ter approached the man and said noIitelv.
sir?" u Hsiiihs'
Il am SIR" answered the other. "and
for the present employ il as a means ~
passing the time while / am waiting a
response 70 an application which l have
MADE TO the minister Of the Interior"
you are looking for an officer"
"A small prefecture, sir, in the country
have waited long time, and NAV have
to wait still longer; but we fishermen cir
know how to be patient" 49,
win you kindly give me your name and
address. sir? have a little influence ner-
haps at the department and I SHAH he
glad TO mention your case. Between fish,
ermen, sir" ''''-
An, thank you'll Here is my card"
TlAt evening the -
his appointment and went no more ~ M
banks of the Seine. and the minister there
after nshed in peace in his accustomed