dination in the army could be traced to the wine ; and most of the crime and poverty in 

 tlie country, especially in the ■wine districts, to the same cause. 



J. Fennimore Cooiier says : " I came to Europe under the impression that there was more 

 drunkenness among us than in any other country, England, perhaps, excepted. A residence 

 of six months in Paris changed my views entirely. I have taken unbelievers with me into 

 the streets, and have never failed to convince them of their mistake in the course of an 



hour On one occasion a party of four went out with this object ; we passed thirteen 



drunken men within a walk of an hour — many of them were so far gone as to be totally 

 unable to walk. I once saw three men wallowing in the gutter before my window, a degree 



of beastly degradation I never witnessed in any other country In passing between 



Paris and London, I have been more struck by drunkenness in the streets of the former than 

 in those of the latter." 



Says Horatio Greenough, that eminent American sculptor, in a letter from Florence, Italy, 

 so long ago as 1839, to the writer of this article : "Many of the more thinking and prudent 

 Italians abstain from the use of wine ; several of the most eminent of the medical men are 

 notoriously opposed to its use, and declare it a poison. When I assure you that one-fifth, 

 and sometimes one-fourth, of the earnings of the laborers are expended in wine, you may 



form some idea as to its probable influence on their thrift and health How far the 



distinctive and poisonous inliuence of wine, as here used, is to be ascribed to the grape, and 

 liow far it is augmented and aggravated by poisonous adulterations, it would be difficult to 

 say ; for although the pure juice of the grape can be furnished at about one cent a bottle, 

 you, who have studied the matter, know very well, the retailers choose to gain a fraction 

 of profit by the addition of water and drugs, that will maintain the color, body, bouquet, and 

 intoxicating properties it original!// possessed.'^ 



Lord Acton (since Cardinal) while Supreme Judge of Rome, assured me, while I was in 

 that city, that "all or nearly all the crime in Rome originated in the use of wine." He 

 directed me to that part of Rome, which would well compare with the Five Points in New 

 York. I visited that district, and there I saw men, women, and children, sitting in rows, 

 swilling away at wine (making up in quantity what icas v-anting in strength), and such was 

 the character of the inmates of those dens of debauchery, that my guide urged my imme- 

 diate departure as I valued life. "And to-morrow," said Lord Acton to me, "I shall be 

 obliged to condemn to death a man who went direct from one of these dens to his home, 

 where, under the influence of wine, he butchered his mother and his wife. And this man, 

 when not under this malign influence, was a kind-hearted son, husband, and father." 



The evils of intemperance are now universally acknowledged to be so vast and over- 

 shadowing, that even our former oj^posers are seeking out a remedy — and that remedy, in 

 the manufacture and importation oi pure intoxicating drinks. It is now too late to waste a 

 moment on this idea as a remedy. It is out of the question to decide which is or M^hich is 

 not pure — all the chemists in the world could not give a correct analysis in one year of the 

 contents of a single wholesale liquor establishment that could be named. The only reason 

 why even pure intoxicating liquor is drunk, is for the poison in it — the poison, alcohol — we 

 do not want this poison, as a beverage, in any shape. 



Ohio is striving for the bad eminence of becoming a wine-producing State. If she suc- 

 ceeds, it will be a curse to that State, and through her to the nation. 



The only safety for us is in prohibition of the traffic of all kinds of intoxicating liquors, 

 as a beverage, in all the States, and the non-importation of the same from abroad. 



VINE BORDERS HEATED ARTIFICIALLY. 



The effect of artificially warming a vine border, has been seen in many instances ; 

 not the least instructive of which occurred to a Mr. Purday, an eminent and scien- 

 tific British gunsmith. In his garden, at Bayswater, a vinery was filled with wood, 

 and produced an abundance of excellent grapes, in little less than two years, by 

 merely warming the border. The first year, the vines made wood thirty-seven feet 

 long, strong, short-jointed, and well-ripened. But the plan was next carried out by 

 A. L. Gower, Esq., in Wales, and is described in the journal of the Horticultural 

 Society by his gardener, Mr. Hutchinson. "The bottom of the border," he says, 

 "is gently sloped from the houses to the extreme edge, where is built a box d 

 extending the whole length of the border, as shown in the accompanying secti 



