Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-09-09
PURE /" PINE-TOP.
AN EXPERIENCE WITH THE PECULIAR
WHISKY OF THE SOUTHWEST.
A Natives Diagnosis Of the Article An
Irresistible Desire for Sky-Rocke:s-
Making the Village ked-Hot-A
aonstrous ContIpede.
New York Sun.

New YorsSuni
A gentleman WHO recently returned frou
the 'outhwest gave a reporter the following
graphic account Of his experience IN that
, region:
I'VE were twelve hours getting to Silver
City. There was no city there, so we 50!
. ut to t:ni the silver. To ge: rid OF this
part of my story, I'll just say that the mine
was there, but for some reason or other the
} silver bal gons somewhere Gle We
monkeyod around there for a day OF, two.
and then We found that our clmm;ssary de.
partm mt consisted Of two or three empty
flask. Then. OF course VIC had 10 forage.
asked n native if We couli get any whisky
in tho parts
Wall, l reckon if We can't git none
round h'yar', said he that tn hain't nc
dog-sone use yer totin' yer jug anywliar
elsar
=" Is it good! said We.
"'Gooin saii the native Cool: It's
pine-top whisky, it is, Why, doy-gone it,
it'll fire ye up like burnn' the hair off a dog.
Two drinks o: pine-.1p is better'n a gallon O
yer no-'count greasy rye OF b'urbin. Is pine.
top whisky goodi Wall, its got m ore tooth
nor cross-cut saw.
This native, by the way, ssp. saloon
at Silver City. We toll him we liked his
diagnosis Of pine-top whisky and would take
| gallon We did SO, and We drank it By de-
grees II left the dark brown taste IN our
mouths that you could see when we
breathed. When we so. back to Hot Springs,
i can't answer for the feelings of thu Others.
but l was seizei with Wild desire to either
| get up dog fight or set fire to q load OF hay
that stool in the strest l wasn't drunk,
but the pine-top was working Wh31 tho
train that was to take Us 10 Malvern juno
ton was ready, the steam escaping from t.,
locomotive suggested to me that life wo.,..i
henceforth be a burden unless had 100 or
so Of sky-rockets TO fire off there and the.
Some one said l could get them at Malvern,
and boarded the train with my friends, and
got off again three times to lick the con-
ductor because he wouldn't start the train
until his time was up My desire for sly.
rockets had awakened a similar desire for
sky-rocke.s in the others, and We asked enc
another how we had ever managed to 20.
along {. IS far without them. The trim
had hardly stopped at Malvern before VIC |
we're out Of IT A boy, innocent AMI uns'is-
pecting, stood with his mouth open, gazing |
at the train. Something said to me that |
this boy knew where there were sky-rocket, |
galore. l grabbed him by the arm and |
whirled him around and yelled:
Get n;e the ky-rociets, or I'll silica you !
up
THE boy was scared half TO death The
rest Of the party got hold Of him and yelled |
for sky rockets Pretty soon he broke away |
and tore up ths stree: like mad We tor,
after him He ran into a store and we FOL-
lowed him. Whether he led Us there on pur-
pose or merely ran in to escape US don't
Enn bot 4 l,,Ax . I, SI,
kept a little OF everything, and had fifty
sky rockets. We bought them all, AMI pro-
oeeded at once TO set them of. There is one
street in Malvern, and it is bull: right up n
bill. We set our ky rockets going plumb up
that hill as fast as we could touch 'em off !
When We commenced there were orse5 and
wagons tied in from. of every store in the
street
Z" 'F-s-s-s-s-h-h-b! Whizi Bangr would go
q rocket and snap would go halter strap
or two, ard in less than three minutes there =
was nothing to be seen in that town but run
away horses and mule. 1t was equal to n
stampede Of cattle on the plains The more
they ran the more ne bombarjel, until
there was stretch Of fire going up that hill
without break in it from one end 10 The
other. People were shouting and bowling
from windows. Storekeepers came out and
put up their shutters, and if ever
there was a red-hos town it was
Malvern about that time The train we
were to take was about due at the junction
then, and the agent Of tho company, who
knew me WELL managed to get within speak
ing distance OF me and make me understand
that they were organizing a committee of
citizens TO take US in and ride US out of town
in a way We didn't care to GO and we
gathered up our remaining rockets and
made for the depot The train didn't come ,
a minute too soon, for it had hardly pulled
out when tie committee cam, sweeping
down to the depot Then we fired rockets
at them from windows and platforms, AMI |
left the town in a blaze Of glory.
AFTER the rockets were gone l thought If ,
there was one thing that would make me ,
happy it would be to kill centipeies, and as
there were none on the train fully liz
tented 20 get of at tho next station and go ,
back south somewhere and kill centipede- ,
afterward changed my mind and said / /
would return to St Louis first, get my Two
dogs. and then 60 to Texas and spend vice.,
or SO at centipede hunting When got 20
st. Louis the pine-top WAS working off, for
l hadn't had a drop for two days ,
Still the centipede idea was strong within ,
me went TO my room at the Linlell house
and went to bed. As lay there with the gas
turnei very low ] saw ono side Of a sioping ,
roof obtrude itself through the window OF ,
my room. On tho roof lay a centjpede .
nearly two feet long-about four times the ,
usual size. 1t was working its hundreds of ,
hideous legs along, when suddenly it rolled
from the roof and fell with a sound ike q , 4
big sponge full of water on the floor in my
room. Instantly my two dogs, black-an..
tan and Skye terrier, tuckled into TIE Z
The centipeie struck tie black I
and-tan one blow, and LIE kee,ed over ike a
tenpin on the floor, and began to swell until
he looked like toadfish with a dogs heal
Then the centipede and the Skye had it hot
AMI heavy around that room, but the cent?
pc lie was too much for the dog, and min c
ute or so he was swelling up and be c
swelled up so much that he foatei up t. e
the ceiling, and went bobbing along against I
it like you've seen beetles on summer
night. After the dogs had been settled the
rose up on one end Of himself and q
made straight for me. l diln't wait for 7
him, but got out of that bel like flash, c
and cut out of the room just as quick
at is probably needless to say that there I
was no centipsde there at all IL was all :
pine-top whisky. forgot how many doses
Of bromide and stuff they fixed me up with,
but it took a good many. You can use your 9
own judgment. but il ever you so down to
Arkansas III go light on pine-top whisky if
were vou.'
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