Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-02-14
wv wHIsKEY WAS DISCOVERED
story That It Was First Made in Ire
land by an English Monk.


| land by an English Monk.
/ ,m the New York Star.
some quaint characters can be found In
odd places of this great cosmopolitan
/ now and then. l met one Of them
| wing street car on the Eighth avenue
! last night. He is q Welshman named
| 'an Jones-little iron-gray old man, with
/ en- black eyes and highly roseate nose.
\ was school teacher In his own coun-
/ \, revenue officer in Ireland, an ac-
\ iintant in Bombay in an English ship
l ng house. and now drives his car with
I 3 profane and cynical cheerfulness which
| aracterizes old drivers, old printers and
| l night watchmen.
Il learned a new thing about whisky
I It night" he said to me yesterday as l
/ ,pped on the front platform of his car.
] ''What was it," asked.
why, how IL was made first" he re-
J led, as he pulled his old water-p proof
oak through the guardrail in front and
off piece of plug. ut was q monk
:, no first invented it. He lived all alone
ia little hole in the rocks. For years he
ety and learning. He could read the
ars and foretell eclipses and storms and
.rd winters. He knew every herb and
! ,wer in the fields and could concoct some
I Iwerful cordials and medicines. He
uld set broken bones and cure diseases,
I
ID never harmed as much as field
ous 70. All the same, the people would
n I'VE nothing to do with him. They
! ,oi led him, except now and then, when
! me mischievous lad would roll a rock
,wn the mountain side against his hut or
20 stone his old shaggy dog. No one
-er said kind or to him, and he might
I'VE died and no one would have been nj ar
IN. Then he invented whisky. First
Q people smelled it, and they used to hang
ound to see what Ii was, and one day the
onk found poor fellow sick and cold
I'd gave him q drink, and then little
ssk to carry away. In q week the monk
.d more friends than an alderman with q
lill. The people almost took his arm off
baking hands. They built him q fine
tile stone house, and he could have
unded a monastery and grown rich, but
/, wouldn't, but kept on making the
hisky until he died.
I"Where did learn that ?" said the old
IAN, AFTER he had paused minute to say
tanted the car to stop on the wrong side
the crossing. "Why, there was two old
ucks got on the car late last night and
pth were pretty full. One was an English
ban the other an Irishman, and it was the
Inglishman who told the story about the
Aonk, and he wound up with: And this
hppened in Ireland, an the monk was an
ham is ever friend to tan Englishman Is
Then the Englishman has the bottle
l |" 'Ah,' said the Irishman, be of wild yc.
ihe first time Irishmen ever saw whisky
|as at the battle of Ballymacleugh, where
he Saxons put up a bad Job on 'em. It was
hut short time after the days of st. Pat
lex, an 5000 Irishmen came down upon
he English and would have ate 'em but
BIZ their thricks. The English filled the
renches with buckets OF whisky and the
Fishmen drank 1t an got to lighting among
themselves, and that Is the way the Eng
Eshmen first bate us and brought throuble
N Ireland
/" Yes, said the Englishman, you give
|n Irishnlan drink an he'll fight his own
|ather.
"An If an Englishman offers man
rink look out for him, for he wants to do
I'm, moind that, said the Irishman.
AN that's the way they kept it up all
he way down from Fifty-eighth street to
kbingdon square,, said the driver. They
gere both good natured, and when they
lot off it was to take a drink and wait for
he next car. 4"