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sible. Tbo opponents of methods for 

 perfecting wine and making it plenti- 

 ful, the monopolists or Puritans, are 

 often at the trouble of citing author- 

 ities. After correctl}' understanding 

 a subject I make very little of author- 

 ities. But I would call to the remem- 

 brance of these gentlemen, that not 

 only Liebig, who, like all other chem- 

 ists, is distrusted by them, has ex- 

 pressed himself for the admissibility 

 of the method, but that even the most 

 celebrated writers on wine — Mulder, 

 Maumene, Yon Babo, and Bronner — 

 have warmly taken the process under 

 their protection. These men, who 

 have a deeper insight into the essence 



of wine, than all the so-called produc- 

 ers taken together, and are moreover 

 wholly free from self-interest, have 

 recognized in the properly conducted 

 method for perfecting wine, a step in 

 advance and a gain for humanity. 

 Now where rests the fancied wrongs 

 of the proprietors of choice vineyards? 

 Just here : that in bad years it is no 

 longer they alone who can produce 

 drinkable wine ; that they can no lon- 

 ger obtain the ridiculous prices they 

 demand for the object of their mono- 

 poly ; or, as they say themselves, they 

 can compete no longer. 



{To he continued.) 



From "Scraps" gathered from " Wiue and Fruit Reporter.' 



TEMPERANCE. 



Ovid gives the following prudent 



advice ! 



"I own, I think of wiue the moderate use, 

 More suits the sex, and sooner finds excuse. 

 It warms the blood, adds Ulster to the eyes' 

 And wine and love have ever been allies. 

 But carefully from all intemperance keep 

 Xor drink till you see double, lisp or sleep." 



Another poet sings in a similar strain ! 



Three cups of wine a prudent man may take 

 The first of them for constitution's sake 

 The second to the girl he loves tlie best 

 The third and last, to lull him to his rest 

 Then home to bed. But if a fourth he pours 

 That is the cup of folly, and not ours. 

 Loud noisy talking on the fifth attends; 

 The sixth breeds feuds, and foiling out with 

 friends; 



Seven begets blows, and faces stained with gore; 

 Eight, and the watch patrol breaks ope' the 



door; 

 Mad with the ninth, another cup goes round 

 And the swilled sot drops senseless to the 



gi'ound. 



The following piece of sound logic 

 was certainly compounded by "the 

 partaker of Avine as he should be," 

 namely temperate. 



Good wine makes good blood 

 Good blood causeth good humour 

 Good humour causes good thoughts 

 Good thoughts bring forth good deeds 

 Good deeds carry a man to heaven. 



Ergo. 

 Good wine carrieth to heaven. 



THE ZYMOTECHNIC NEWS. 



Mr. Fring's informs us that he is 

 unable to continue the publication of 

 that monthl}^, as he found it a losing 

 business. To those who have remit- 

 ted their sitbscription, he offers either 

 to refund seventy-five cents, or send 

 them a receipt to make white wine 

 from red wine grapes. They will 

 please correspond with him, and let 

 them know which the}^ prefer. His 



post office address is Centreton, Cen- 

 tre Township, St. Louis Co., Mo. 



We are sorry that the enterprise 

 has met with so little success, but we 

 know from dear experience, how hard 

 it is to keep up a Journal devoted to 

 a specialty, and think that it would 

 have accomplished much good if con- 

 tinued. P^DITOR.] 



