The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-29
He DEALS WITH WHISKY AND
ANTIQUITIES
And Tells How q Bird, Had It Been .
Politician, Would Have Kept
its Mouth Closed.

SPoTTswooD CENTER, S. c., Aug.
Il am here in South Carolina for
time to see how the new liquor law
is carried out. Where 1 am it is
carried out most every day, to-
gether with from six to eight grown
up men who can no longer think
past a given point.
4 New York man who makes
property watermelons with water
proof Innings has supplied 25O,O 900
to this section. These watermelons,
I find, are like a great rock In q
weary land.
l have written four times to
Governor Tillman to inquire if he
would be open on Sunday, but, SO
far, have received no reply. At the
same time 1 sent him receipt for
spoopju and the option of nine
acres of mint growing on my place.
Muskrats came out of the river
of nights and ate nay 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 a low priced lining of coin
silver quoted at 70 cents, for in the
valley In my North Carolina home
there are nine acres of mint waving
in the wynd.
Tomorrow / will go home. To
think that South Carolina, the
home of proud people, people
whose governor once said to the
governor of North Carolina that
time was dragging between drinks,
should now be forced to drink out
of the governors jug or not at all is
sad.
/ have been making some mathe-
NAUTICAL calculations after visiting
Kansas, Iowa, Maine. South Caro-
lima and other states which claim
TO have throttled the rum power,
and find after covering Faming's
bridge with figures, that the force
used in evading the law in those
States would raise middle-sized
planet two miles in two seconds.
But let US pass on.
MISSING BIRpLING.
I have missed recently from my
desk a literary publication that
came to me all the spring. 1t was
started not many months ago with
the following salutatory:
A callow birding nestles among
you, its unhedged wings eager for
flight, eager to penetrate the mys-
teries of the bright, far off 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 it mingle its joyous carol with
the spicy odors of its native groves?
Or will you cast it out to seek re-
fupe in some alien woodland, there
to MARBLE out its early death lay,
unloved, forgotten and alone?
Can it be that it has been cast
out7 Oh, 1 hope not.
I once knew callow birding
like that, before its eyes were open,
to hold its mouth ajar for worms all
day at the edge of its cunning little
nest, and one day while It's eyes
were closed and its mouth open a
large and pizen yellow jacket came
along and stung the CLOTHS of the
callow birding, and it never sang
any more.
Ayast there, birding
See that your eyes are open a
good deal of the time and your
mouth shut.
OILY Pod of South Mercenary,
N asks in nice letter and
schoolgirl hand if I would mind
writing to her something of the
zoology of New Jersey for her SCRAP
book.
The flora and fauna of New Jer.
sew are we'll worth the attention oil
the careful student. She not only
leads the union in the peach, pear,
and small fruit industry, bu
counts among her successful trop
ical fruits the Ben Davis pumpkin
and the burglar-proof Mother Hub
Daru Squash.
A JERSEY MENAGERIE.
The zoology of New Jersey gives
the thinking mind much to thlnl
about, and what is more pleasing
to the thinking mind than to
have something to think about
DR.. C. C. Abbott has catalogueo
many mammals aside from thu
mosquito which belong to New Jer
sew. Among them are seven spe
cies of bats, exclusive of those
found at the clubs. DR.. Abbot
names five varieties of moles, nye
Their of whom sing, however, sew
eral varieties of shrews who d.
sing; the wildcat, now very rare,