Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-13
SHUN BIACKTHORN COCKTAIL
is ADVICE OF ONE WHO KNOWS

a knot ana rose to the top Of my head.
All sensation except within the radius
Of IN inch or two seemed to have en-
trely disappeared. n 7 rubbed my
head or face the feeling was confined
solely 10 the hand and resembled that
Of touching a corpse.
II seemed to have an unusual ca
pacity for the drink, and I don't be-
lievc that sleep ever occurred 10 me.
saturday and Sunday I took several
glasses Of the cocktail. Sunday night
I left my friends and started to walk
out home.
II had gone only a short distance
when something snapped like the re-
port of a gun. In the next instant
| saw huge ball of fire come crashing
toward me with an angry hiss. I tried
to run and 1t passed me. That was
the beginning. Beings with bodies like
fishes and with heads like birds, with
horrible large pink bills. grasped me
by the hand and talked to me.
II seemed to understand what they
said and I must have answered them.
They were cordial and simply passed
on like any Of my friends would A
tree, at least that is what it must have
been, resembled a huge octopus. and
everything I passed took OH some
awful shape.
Children Look Like Toads
children playing in the streets
looked like differently colored over
grown toads, some with large heads
Of animals and some with heads and
hands almost invisible. Horses and car
riages looked like prehistoric animals
II was the most horrible experience [
ever had, judge, and mercy or no mercy
from you, l am certain of one thing,
that / will never drink another drop
of any kind of liquor"
he"blackthorn cocktail is the inven-
ton of Rol King, proprietor of the IIol-
lenbeclI bar. a simultaneous discovery
and invention of It was made by n
prominent connoiseur of New York
city. A tremedous demand has been
created for it with those who have
tasted it.
But to drink more than a glass or
two of it will produce the most strange
sensations. According to several per-
sons who have made it's acquaintance,
the description Of the mental condition
of the prisoner, as given by himself, is
the true effect that it has upon the
brain. The brain seems to gradually
decrease in size and grows into a small
hard knot. The most weird and un-
cOuth forms which in reality are sim
ply human beings are flashed upon the
mind of the "backthorn drunk" And
all who deal in this delicious drink al
ways advise a halt after the second
glass.
How Drink Is Made
"1'he cocktail is made of ne-third
each of French and Italian vermouths
and slow gin with dash of orange and
pychaud bitters," said d bartender.
"All is poured over ice and thus diluted.
THE hallucinations are produced by
the combination of the vermouthS and
the slow gin. Vermouths are in them
selves brain stimulants of a milder
form and gin is a more violent stimu
liant. A reaction is formed, producing
the hallucinations.
THE name is derived from the black
thorn bush, as the coloring of the slow
gin is obtained from the sloeberry
which grows on the blackthorn bush.
Slow gin is redistilled gin. 1t is from
the hlackthorn bush that the shillalah.
carried by all the natives of Ireland, is
made. The backthorn cocktail is de-
licious. but take the advice of the bar
tenders and beware"