The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-22
PURE PINE TOP."
AN EXPERIENCE WITH THE PECULIAR
WHISKY OF THE SOUTHWEST.
A Natives Diagnosis of the ArtfcIe-An
Irresistible Desire for sIxy-Rocxets-
Making the Village Red-Hot-A
AIOnstrOus Centfpede.
New York SUM-

tOo southwest gave reporter the foil owing
graphic account of his experience in that
region:
ave were twelve hours getting to Silver
City. There was no city there, so we sci
out to find the silver To get rid of this
part of my story, I'll just say that the mine
was there, but for some reason or other the
| silver had gone somewhere else. We
monkeyed around there for q day or two.
and then we found that our commissary de.
partment consisted OF two or three empty
| TASKS. Them Of course, we had to forage
/ asked native if we could get any whisky
in those parts.
Wall, reckon if ye can't git none
round h'yar', said he, that tn hain't mo
dog-gone use yer totin' yer jug anywhar
6lsep
is it goodp said we.
"'Goodr said the native. Good; It's
pine-top whisky, it isl Why, doe-gone it.
it'll fire We up like burnin' the hair off a dog
Two drinks of pine-tOp is better'n a gallon o
yer no-'count greasy rye or b'urbin. Is pine
top whisky good? Wall, it's got more toosh
nor crOsS-cut saw
"This native, by the way, kept saloon
at Silver City. We told him we liked his
diagnosis of pine-top whisky and would take
agallon. We did so, and we drank it BY de
grees 1t left the dark brown taste in our
mouths that you could see when wa
l can't answer for the feelings of the Others
but was seized with wild desire to either
get up dog fight or set fire to load of hay
that stood in the street | wasn't drunk.
but the pine-top was working When the
train that was to take US to Malvern Juno
ton was ready, the steam escaping from the
locomotive suggested to me that life wouli
henceforth be a burden unless had 100 or
so of sky-rockets to fire off there and then.
Soma said I
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 sky
rockets had awakened a similar desire for
sky-rockets in the others, and we asked one
another how we had ever. managed to get
along thus far without them. The train
had hardly stopped at Malvern before we
were out of it. A boy, innocent and unsus-
pecting, stood with his mouth open, gazing
at the train Something said to me that
this boy knew where there were szy-roekets
galore. 1 grabbed him by the arm and
whirled him around and yelled:
Get me the sky-rockets, or I'll slice you
upr
"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
aud tore up the street like mad. We tore
0ACOA hill LIZ ASbu luIO q SUOT0 StllO we IOl-
lowed him. Whether he led US there on pur-
pose or merely ran in to escape US don't
know, but l do know that the storekeeper
kept little Of everything, and had fifty
sky rockets. We bought them ALL and ppo-
ceeded at once to set them off. There is one
street in Malvern, and it is built right up a
hill We set our ky rockets going plumb up
that hill as fast as we could touch 'em off.
When we commenced there were orses and
FnYNc %In1 -
street
'F-s-s-s-S-h-h-bi Whizl Bangp would go
a rocket, and snap would go halter strap
or two, and in less than three minutes there
was nothing to be seen IN that town but run
away horses and mules It was equal to a
Of cattle on the plains. The more
they ran the more we bombarded, until
there was stretch of fire going up that hill
without break in it from one end to the
other. People were shouting and bowling
from windows. Storekeepers came out and
put up their shutters and if ever
there was a red-hot town it was
about that time The train we |
were to take was about due at the junction
then, and the agent of the company, who |
knew me well, managed to get within speak
ing distance of me and make me understand |
that they were organizing committee of |
citizens to take US in and ride Us out of town
II q way n0 QIuu CtkT6 10 90, anu we /
gathered up our remaining rockets and
made for the depot The train didn't come
4 minute too soon, for it had hardly pulled
)ut when the committee came sweeping
Town to the depot. Then we fired rocket
1t them from windows AM platforms AMI
eft the town in a blaze of glory.
After the rockets were gone l thought
here was one thing that would make me
Happy it would be to kill centipedes, and as
here were none on the train ! fully in
EN- led to get off at the next station aud g.,
back south somewhere and kill centipeda-.
afterward changed my mind and said
would return to st. Louis first, get my two
logs, and then go to Texas and spend week
II so at centipsde hunting When got to
st. Louis the pine-top was working off, for
hadn't had a drop for two days
Still the centipede idea was strong within
ne. L went to my room at the Lindell house
nd went to bed. AS lay there with the gas
urned very low saw one side of q sloping
oof obtrude itself through the window of
ny room On the roof lay a centipede
early two feet loRg-about four times the
sual size. 1t was working its hundreds of
ideous legs along, when suddenly it rolled
rom the roof and fell with a sound like
ig sponge full of water ON the floor in my
com. Instantly my two dogs, black-and-
an and Skye terrier, buckled into the
entlpede. The centipede struck the black
nd-tan one blow, and he keeled over like a
enpin on the floor, and began to swell until
9 looked like toadfish with dogs head.
hen the centipede and the Skye had it hot
nd heavy around that room, but the cent?
EIDE was too much for the dog, and min
to or so ne was swelling up, and he
welled up so much that he floated up to
ne ceiling, and went bobbing along ag ainst
like you've seen beetles on a summer
ight After the dogs had been settled the
entipede rose up on one end of himself and
lade straight for me. ] didn't wait for
inn, but got out of that bed like a fash
nd cut out of the room just as quick
at is probably needless to say that there
as no centipede there at all 1t was all
ine-top whisky. Iforgot how many doses
I bromide and stuff they fixed me up with,
ut it took a good many. You can use your {
Hn Judgment, but if ever you go down to
rkansas I'd go light on pine-top whisky if
were you"
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