The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-21

trade grew into immense proportions. He
experimental further. He made his own
kegs and charred the inside of the slaves
He filled them and set them aside. The
sunbeams chased the shadows of the moon
away for year and Jim Crow tapped a
keg. From a white liquid it had turned to
semi-red fluid that beaded and smiled and
sparkled at his touch. To his SURPRISE
too, he discovered that it had materially
evaporated. His experiments led him fur
ther, and in little while he placed upon
the market the first bourbon whisky of
mans creation.
Henry Clay heard Of 1t and bought
gallon. No sooner had he tasted OF 1t
that he ordered a keg. The great whig
statesman introduced it in Washington,
and Crows reputation was established
His whisky became famous. His distillery
got larger and his whisky got better. It
found its way to Nashville, and Andrew
Jackson loved it. William Henry Harri-
son drank Of 1t and went into ecstacies.
1t was shipped across the high seas ana
crowned heads We're made dizzy by its in
huence. 1t sold in those days for a quar-
ter Of dollar per gallon Two coon skins
would buy a sufficient quantity to make
an entire neighborhood drunk
Horse racers wagered Crows whisky in
stead of money. A quart of it would be
incentive enough to make men swim riv-
ers, wade through Doggy swamps and
fight Varmints. It would also make men
stand on their heads. Some of the Ken
lucky brands will do that now 1t drove
skeletons from feasts and made threats
that swallowed it sing songs of joy. Sweet
er was 1t than wild honey and its smell
was more perfumed than are the lilies
that grow in the valley of Hebron. It's
fame Travelled over mountains so tall that
small boys could stand on the tops and
tickle the feet of the angels; across .pla-
teaus where tine willow and honeys1ckle
grew side by side, over billowy fields Of
grain, through meadows and marshes.
down through the cotton fields and pine
forests of Georgia and of Mississippi and
laid its merit and its fame at the feet Of
the barons of the south. Orders poured
In upon the distillery, and Crow whisky
was scattered over the county BY stage
coach and steamboat. by rail and by road
wagon. IN few years other men estab-
lished whisky mills, but they could do
no business as long as Jim Crow had
any Of his liquor on the market. There
are more than 100 of the other kind in
Kentucky to-day.
Crow was peaeeable man. He loved his
adopted country. He fought with the dis
tinguished Longstreet, who married the
other day, all during our war with Mex
leo. Even il Henry Clay did buy his
goods, he voted with the American party.
He never uttered an OATH He loved his
Iou ana prayed az the presbyterian altar.
AS | stood over his grave / thought Of
the eulogy Of $. S. Prentiss at the grave
of Lafayette. who said:
Let no monumental marble or sculp-
tured art deface with its mock dignity
the patriots grave. But rather let the
wild flower. the unpruned vine and the
free song of the uncaged bird, all thai
speaks Of freedom and Of peace, be gath.
cred around 1t"
MIR. Prentiss often used Mr.. Crows wbis-
Ky, wonder what sort of a song he
would sing over his. grave If he were
living and could see It today