The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
DRINKS OF FAMOUS MEN

ny savoyard. in Louisville courier-Journal.
 Mention has been made of the fact that Governor Folk takes his whiskey straight, and If it is straight whiskey he might do worse It is effeminate. unwholesome and nn-Chrtstian to drink your whiskey mixed.
 The Crescent warriors slipped their sherbet gpiced
 The julep is a provocative-even the real 5usep that they concoct in Virginia and Kentucky-but when they make smash oe 1t. as they do in New York and Philadei- phia. 1t is an abomnation. An honest punch may be sipped by fat women and tender children Eggnog is an odious mess and very deceptive. The saloon that has on hand some exceptionally execrable liquor disguises 1t fin eggnog and rom and Jerry"
 If must drink-and all of us would be better without it--let him get the straight goods" and drink 1t straight Nearly all the whiskey that is sold over tSe bar is 'blended"-that Is to say. poison d. The Government licenses this nefarious ougi- mesa. 90 promotive of sudden and premature death. The blenders will take barrel of real Kentucky bourbon. or real Pennsylvania rye. mix 1t with two barrels of that Peoria viieness. put a little burnt sugar and parch- cd. dried peaches in 1t to give 1t smoothness and flavor. and add to the concoction enough head oir' to give it countenance. and that Is what causes much heart failure" and Bright's disease that are co conspicuous in the obituary columns of the daily papers.
 GGUtB0 W&AninECOn drank the best llQuOH, and he drank 1t straight, and the same is true of Andrew Jackson. Jackson, how ever. preferred his rather young and would drink 1t new from the worm On one oc- casion 1t fell to me to so to Madison Coun- ty Kentucky. and interview General cassius M. Clay The old lion met me at the portal and gave me e hospitable welcome. He showed me his baronial hall his pictures. his books and his weapons. Then he fetched forth liquor Tine first was some brandy fifty-four years old. It was insipid. and the General only produced 1t as a curiosity. Then he produced brandy eighteen years eid.. and the gods of high Olympus never Suaffed mightier mead.
 Thou clears the head O dotted Liar:
 Thou cheers the heart O dropping Care:
 Thou strings the nerves O Labor sair.
 Ats weary toll
 Thou even brightens dark Despair
 WI gloomy smile.
 took a hog diver while the General turned his back. and though 1t was above proof. 1t was oily. mellow. grateful. Rencr- ous. Whatever of imagination had t awakened. all my mental energies 1t quick sned and caused to hang on the lips of the wonderful old man as he gave me hls impressions of Russia.
 It was not until the King of Day had nearly run his course in the heavens that I mounted my horse to return to Richmond, and am nearly ready to say that that brandy was about the best liquor I evar partook of
 There is tradition that James Buchanan kept the best whiskey of any of the Presl- dents. I have read the statement that he had in his cellar at Wheatland enormous quantities of the best rye whiskey in she world when he died. It was said and me the story was told with the precision and eircunistantiallty that gave it the impress of truth, that whiskey-that is. good Wh.s- key and such whiskey as he drank-had nc other intoxicating effect on James Buchan- an than gentle ezhilaration, and that he could drink a gallon of it a day without perceptible effect on his physique or the slightest disorder of his mind.