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bonic acid gas is developed in the bottle by adding syrup and 

 aging it, and the artificial, by which the wine is impregnated 

 with it in about the same manner as soda or other artificial 

 mineral waters. Mr. Arpad Harazthy, I think, is the only 

 one who now follows the first in this State, his "Eclipse " is 

 well known and generally well received by the people, al- 

 though many assert that the artificial is just as good and pure. 

 I can really not see where the great difference is, as in both 

 cases the "liquor" is added artificially, and both are certain- 

 ly not pure wines, according to the true definition of the word. 

 As long as they contain nothing deleterious to health, and 

 the people enjoy them and are willing to consume and pay for 

 them, they are a legitimate branch of our wine industry, and 

 should be protected and fostered as such, whether made in 

 theso-called natural way, and sold at sixteen dollars pefcase, 

 or in the artificial, and sold at ten dollars. There are several 

 firms engaged in making the latter to a certain extent in this 

 State, and Mr. Werner of New York City is mauufacturing it 

 there from California wine, which is reshipped, and consumed 

 here to some extent. 



Grape Milk. The same firm has also put an article on the 

 market which is called Grape Milk. This is simply must in 

 which fermentation has been suppressed by a process best 

 known to himself, and which is sold for commercial and other 

 purposes, to those who think it inconsistent with temperance 

 and Christianity to use the fermented juice of the grape. 

 There are many methods of suppressing fermentation in must; 

 sulphuring, adding salycilic acid, etc., but I do not think 

 any of them entirely harmless, and all more or less injurious 

 to health. I believe if He, whose followers these men and 

 women profess to be, saw any harm in the moderate use of 

 pure wine, He would not have changed water into this bev- 

 erage, of which the master of the feast said that the best had 

 been kept to the last, nor would He have instituted it as one 



