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original. Would it not prove that 

 man is uttei"ly lost to virtue and hope, 

 were there no chords left to vibrate 

 fervidly in response to so lofty an ex- 

 pression of human sympathy ? It cer- 

 tainly would ! but such is not the fact j 

 "though dead Terence speaketh j'et!" 

 I am a man, and hold nothing for- 

 eign to me that relates to mankind, 

 therefore let none of my readers 

 imagine for a moment that m}^ pen, 

 in digging a few holes in the bushel 

 to let some of the hidden light out, is 

 a friend to intemperance; far from it. 

 Drunkenness, as a vice which lowers 

 man beneath the brute, has no greater 

 enemy. I am satisfied that it is an 



evil with which society should grap- 

 ple, to reduce or to hide it, but never 

 forgetting that man should be dealt 

 with as we find him, not as a few of 

 us should wish him to be. 



Friends of Temperance ! Soldiers 

 of a good cause ! I am one of yours ; 

 your desire is my desire. Whilst I 

 know that a glass of good wine will 

 sustain a man, I know that if he 

 drinks thirty, it will knock him down; 

 we are mutually striving at a result, 

 we simply differ on the means, let us 

 understand one another. My next 

 will make the attempt. 



Dr. Ampelos. 



Golden Hills Vineyard, Naiivoo, 111. 



CONCEENING WINE. 



By David M. Balcii, Salem, Mass. 



[We copy the following excellent 

 article from the Journal of Horticul- 

 ture, and, we trust, need not saj^ to our 

 readers that we indorse every word 

 of it. We have long been convinced 

 that only bj' rational improvement of 

 the must can we hope to attain that 

 perfection in our wines, of which 

 they are really capable ; and if here, 

 as in Europe, the cr}- of " adultera- 

 tion " has been raised, it has only 

 been by men who either have not the 

 slightest idea of the nature and com- 

 ponent parts of wine, or who follow 

 the practice of '' improving the must " 

 in secret themselves, and only try to 

 detain others from it, because if it be- 

 comes general, they can no longer 

 reap the sole benefit thereof. 



This article will show them, what 

 the most scientific wine-makers and 

 the highest authorities on the subject 



in Europe, think of the practice. — 

 Editor.] 



Of the immense breadth planted 

 with vines in the Northern, Middle 

 and Western States, between 1863 

 and 1867, thousands of acres are now 

 in bearing, and other thousands come 

 into bearing every season. As the 

 markets become fulh- supplied with 

 fruity and prices fall so that this 

 method of disposing of the crop ceases 

 to be remunerative, much of the 

 product will fulfil its ultimate des- 

 tiny, and be made into wine. The 

 art of propagating, growing and 

 training the vine is understood full as 

 well by us as by an}" other people ; 

 but with regard to wine making we 

 have much to learn, and need much 

 practice to arrive at the best results. 



It is no very difficult matter to pro- 

 duce 2:ood wine in those rare seasons 



