Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-08-13

Muskrats came out OF the river OF
nights and ate my corn this year, and
my shoes are worn and broken, and the
sun Is hid from me at times, but behind
the clouds there is q low priced lining
OF coin silver quoted az y cents, for In
the valley IN my North Carolina home
there are nine acres OF mint waving in
the Wyn6.
Tomorrow I will go home. To think
that South Carolina, the home OF q
proud people, a people whose governor
once said TO the governor OF North
Carolina that time was dragging be-
tween drinks, should now be forced TO
drink out OF the governors jug or not
al all is sad.
I have been making some msthemati-
cal calculations after visiting kaneas,
Iowa, Maine, South Carolina and other
States which claim to have throttled the
rum power, and find after covering
Famlng's bridge with figures that the
force used in evading the law In those
States would raise a middle sized planet
two miles in two seconds.
But let Us pass on.
I have missed recently from my desk
a literary publication that came to me
al the spring. IL was started not
many months ago with the following
salutatOry;
"a callow birding nestles among
you, IT'S unfsdged wings eager for
flight, eager 10 penetrate the mysteries
OF the bright, faroff canopy Of blue and
revel amid the dreamed OF beauties OF
the wide, wide world Whispering
faith and hope IN each vocal breath,
what shall be its fate? Shall 10 mingle
its Joyous carol with the spicy odors OF
OF It's native groves? Or will you cast
it out 20 seek refuge in some alien
woodland, there 70 MARBLE out its
early death lay, unloved, forgotten and
alone?"
Can lt be that It has been cast out?
Oh, hope not.
I once knew callow birding like
that, before its eyes were open, 10 hold
its mouth aiar for worms all day at the
edge OF its cunning little nest, and one
day while its eyes were closed and its
mouth open a large and pizen yellow
Jacket came along and stuDg the CLOTHS
OF the calloW birding, and it never sang
any more.
Avast there, birdlingl
See that your eyes are open a good
deal OF the time aud your mouth shut.
Oily Pod Of South Mercenary, n. j.,
asks In a nice letter aud a schoolgirl
hand III would mind writing to her
something Of the zoology OF New Jersey
for her scrapbOok.
The flora aud funda OF New Jersey
are well worthy the attention OF the
careful student. She not only leads the
Union in the peach, pear and small
fruit industry, but counts among her
successful tropical fruits the Ben Davis
pumpkin and burglar proof Mother
Hubbard squash.
The zoology Of New Jersey gives the
thinking mind much to think about,
aud what is more pleasing 70 the think
log mind than 10 have something to
think about? Dr. c. @. Abbott has cat
alo:ued many mammals aside from the
MOSQUITO which belong TO New jersey.
long them are seven species or bats,
e1 lusive Of those found az the clubs.
DR.. Abbott names five varieties OF
moles, nyether OF whom sing, however;
several varieties OF shrews who do sing;
tue wildcat, now very rare, red and
gray fox.
or the mtstelidde there are the fisher
weasel or stOat, mink, otter and skunk.
The latter wings his way as far north
IN summer as WeehaWken, but at
autumn time, when the cream candy
on the corner OF Park row and Broad
way has by reason OF exposure turned
10 chocolate caramelS, when the
maple SUGAR from New Orleans
has been put back on the shelves
20 wait for another spring and
the sassafras has turned to gold,
when the boat hands put big green bags
on their harps and begin TO sell chest
nuts on the street, when the hand
organ man wraps his cremOna and mon
KEY 10 ID flannel and goes forth buy
ing secondhand bottles and rehaoili-
Eating hats, the glad thrill Of the
skunk's night song is no longer heard
IN New Jersey, but far TO the south
ward, along the banks OF the Potomac,
YOU will find him piercing the gloom or
the November night with his sad but
searching song.
The woodchuck, dolphin and Goldfish
are natives Of New Jersey. Also the
turkey buzzard, low necked clam and
politician. People who think that the
MOSQUITO is the only mammal Of New
Jersey know little Of our fauna.
Rider Haggard, who visited New Jer-
sew 10 his mind several years ago, said:
cat the kragl In Hohokus we provided
ourselves y q supply OF biltong and
elephant secured 20 or 80 natives