The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-06-16
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costly reading = piLer called the Gazette, whiu
startled out Of me sate ty article which adyo-
Gated the Introduction 81 sJuISes into these imeralIs
Of the West Ii il be thrue that the unholy and ban
isheI rjptiles, 10 be forceI upon the country
then, be,itd I'll pack up and be off ouIi Ireland
again, for there i no other land where this curse
and memory Of mans first sin does not abound.
But IN the Grst place permit me To pay respects
the very SGDieut writer Of the article il question
- Fair Play" - a rale jewel broth Of boy.
lie spakes larEedly OF s;hnakes though he
TiveT trJi the hogs, -tneit the smoke OF pate fire.
snuHe1 the OdOur Of Il JrOi!ing rasher, or glUwed
his chops with a smack Of the mountain dew. But
It's saying, 81 osd as Dermott McMoTTough's
Jrayson. that '' one rinigide l. woorse than tin
Toorks,'' and whin an Immigrant from the Gem Of
the Say, deserts the tachings Of his patron saint.
aul bids def his great anti sthnlke and toad
fat, thin may well behave that he LEFT his cOun-
thry tor his cOuuthrys good, anI not surprised
all, at all, that he should iulist in the Of
the devil 20 bring the vile slrprnt into the Alden Of
these beautiful islands For the Great Author Of
all, whiu he formed the land Of IL birth, in the
symmetry and harmony Of the mernIi gem, found
that he had Of the same sod left, and ne
planted it in the great Western Ocean. and il grew
up into these Islands of delight, with nayther a
bloody sthrake 4 spalpeeu OF a toad upon thin;
If he anticipated the Sarmut St. Patrick preached
the Hill of Howth, and saved his Siintship any
further trouble.
We are here in pace. pliuty and barmony-we
have the blessings Of the great saint in the total
absence OF all these nockshus ripties and may his
curse and that of God visit him who INTRODUCES
thin. But if - Fair Play will take quaif his
pOteeH light his dliseH, and rade what its meself
that has assiyerate, ne will nver raise his durty
pin agin-
Spakiug of the Jayva aud Saylon rat-kiIling
sthnakes, ne says the OBJECTION of me unknown friend
:. Out>poken," is only to the of the haste.
'Tis said. - rose by any ither name would smell
swate,' and stbBake will he sjhnake, disguise
hini as ye will, Misthur Eiirhur. lie says IL Is
proven be- perfectly iuuockshus by other imminent
travellers, like DUcthOr Hiilebrand. Och. blather-
skins ( suppose lac names tine dementei Don Quix-
otte, running fall tilt upon the windmiils. which
their crazy flncIes have cOuJured up The madness
OF the dOcthOr, however, not OF the chivalrOus,
but of the grOveing kind. lie sakes import
those bastes which under the curse Of heaven,
doomed crawl upon the dust foriver and again.
The travellers alluded to, including the docthor
belong that class of ghntry, who roam about the
country catching aies and bugs-I behave they call
them intimOloEists, natural phOOlOgists,
thing iIse Of the kind, and the Ducthor appears
be running quick from bumbug To- another,
If the diviI had kicked him eend Bad cess
the hour, when he strayed from other humbugs
pick up stbuakes. !. indade, If he y spared 10
return. and Is not charmed aud gObbled down by
his catchers, i would Tdvi-e his being STINT
TO the Hawaiian Bedllm, in n sthraight jacket,
carefully preserved a specimen IN the HOrti-
cultural garden, for the purpose of frightening off
Inthrudng rats
Fair Play" SAYS the rat killing sthuake is
G,stered and cared Tor By many millions of inhabi-
tants-bay thens-the lowest Of the ow,-illiterate.
and most probably - sthnake wOrsbiPpers." Ii IL
mot mesef that shes To the people Of these
islands into Indian juggers and sthnake tanners, and
If - Fair Play wishes 10 practice IN that line. lit
him immigrate away for his kind, and deluge
these islands With the Pisiiierous riptiles. IT
Arab makes a stable of his tent, or the Saylonese
make pIaythng- Uf sthuakes Ike young kittens, Is
that any Tny-ou that should 10 the like!
Again - Fair Play" says, that the rat-caiching
sthunke IL devoid If the fang. belonging other
rirtiIes Of the same family. Beiai il devoid Of
flngs how could he make such terrible de-thruc-
tion among the rats: If lie bolts them whole with
out salt mastication. what would become Of our
chickens and turkeys Especially the young ones
Even q good sized IutIut might be mistaken trlOne
Of his rttships But upon this crazy yHgraucy
I'll yinturc pound Of whisNey, against the head Of
the very furst imported sthnake that me bull ter
rer pup will kill rats in five minutes. than AL
the D1cthor's celebrated importation Of Jayvanese
and ty1ue-e rip;iies III one year
The gintlemau taik- ot getting up agitation,
as me triad Daniel O'ConneII would say. Bejrbers
I;'s me-eIt that says Cgifiiet GyifHfe! till the
s;huake notion IS bIH.>hed before the inp1Or alton
arrives and when it does let the people rise
in their might, the UntIXa5le Yankees did, when
they threw the tag into the say IN Boston Harbour;
and before they throw the shnakes overheard, just
take of their tails right behind their eyes, for fear
they might like salt water and try to swim
ashore. That's the way, Alishur Eithur, 10 destroy
their horrible attributes
The gintIeman may prate superci!i0usly Of the
beautiful liIte lizards and make categorical
llusiurs 10 the domestic f4ues. hut he has failed
convince me that the Is the alligator of ponde-
rous i1w or that the other Is the Bengal tiger Of
ferOcious that ayther the one or the other IS
the TipfIiiJUS rat catcher OF the follower OF the
igaiS frfuuS HiIIebraud.
EeiId a sthnlke Is a sthnake, and where the
God Of nature did put the ugly baste. may man
not arrOgate His Iower aud introduce him, 10 the
ANNOYANCE Of all persons candidates for insane
asylum Me word FOR it, - Fair Play would be
bineitted by a few sthnabes in his boots" It
would thin give n lift, Of u hclve to his nerv
Gus system and drive him Of the muddy pool Of
intellectual stagnation through which he has houn-
dereI III his whole article. lniade, he IS throuOed
with disase-a new Oue-that of - rat-destrOyer'
en- the brain.
He SAYS that the Z" rat HUiSuHcs,' has caused the
loss Of many thousands in - rice and sugar cane
Without drawing me immagInation At all, am
sure Fair Play will bear me out In saying that
T0fS the only OF loss IN cane SpecuId-
fiOHS, or tobacco uyther, beiai
rs To rice. they not more destructive 10 II,
than the squirrels the whate and barley crop OF
California IN early days, yet the farmers there are
pretty well rid OF them without any stnnake imPoor-
tations the Authorizations Of such paes as - Fair
Play Their TiHiiftss more settlers, more
cuIfirGfi0H-ierTisys. cats and SthTychHiEe.
And here. Nlr. Edithur, | have been told by
an oud friend, that in the year 1880 in California,
he has seen more squirrels one large farm, than
there are rats on all these islands. Their burrows
were thrown thick as dog towns the Western
plains; but they are nearly exterminatei, and
so will the rats be IN these islands, by increased set
Element and the names indicated, JrifTOUf committing
rioIeace against the prgudices Of the Psopie,
or 6y frviag TO G8iHd the Jrorks Of Col, IN iHiTo
duciHg HOriOuS reptiles
Agsiu, will add, it is not so certain that innO1-