Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1887 — A Good Story of Henry Clay. [ARTICLE]

A Good Story of Henry Clay.

In Yan Buren’s time a fire broke out in the kitcken of the White House while the President was giving a dinner. A servant came to him and whispered that the house was on fire. He excused himself, and on going to the kitchen found it in flames. A few buckets of water, however, soon extinguished these, and he returned and told the company what had happened. Mr. Clay, who was scheming at this time for the presidency, took this occasion for one of the happy remarks for which he was noted. Said he: “Mr. President, I am doing everything in my power to get you out of this house, but I assure you Ido not want to see you burned out.” —LippincotVs Magazine. Mr. Geo. Deuterman, New York City, suffered nearly a month with a severe cough, and, having tried several remedies without relief, finally used Red Star Cough Cure, which, he says, proved “speedy and effectual.”