CARNEGIE AND TWAIN.

Southland Times, Issue 14406, 2 May 1910, Page 6

CARNEGIE AND TWAIN.

Mr Carnegie, who is still finding the task of disposing of Ills millions the most difficult of his lifetime, was recently in San Francisco, and in the course of an interview with a newspaper reporter there, lie recited several anecdotes of Mark Twain that are apposite at the moment. He was explaining that the limp in his walk was not due to gout, but to a twisted ankle. “1 have some of the finest Scotch whisky that is made,” he said in the course of his remarks. “I once did a trifling favour for the distiller who purveys this whisky to a certain royal personage in Great Britain, and I induced him to let me have some of it originally to present to President Harrison. The whisky is eighty years old, and —but words can’t describe it. I don’t believe in smoking or drinking myself, but I am compelled to take two glasses of this whisky.with my meals each day on the advice of my physician. That, hy the way, is the only, circumstance under which I believe whisky should be drunk —only as m. medicine on a doctor's prescription. To return to Mark TVyaifi, however, I presented some of this nonpareil Scotch whisky to him when he was ill a year or two ago. Bike everyone else he appreciated its rarity, and when the supply gave out recently I sent him more of it. It was shortly after this that I happened to twist my ankle and fall. Twain heard about it. "Carnegie should have given me all of that Scotch whisky, was liis comment.