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lowed here with similar advantages to 

 our people, but this will hardly ever 

 suit those restless minds infatuated 

 with the aberration of total abstinence. 



As a people progresses in numbers 

 and civilization, its government has new 

 duties to perform. This will apply to 

 our countr}^, and laws which might have 

 been endurable thirty years ago — when 

 we had but limited orchards, no A'ine- 

 yards, no hop plantations, nothing to 

 brag about — may be worthless and 

 tyrannical to-day. No one who is in- 

 capable of grasping this truth is fit to 

 lead or direct public opinion. 



The real problem now sought to be 

 solved, I take it, is not to strike at the 

 root of one of the most important 



branches of our agriculture and of our 

 commerce, b}^ laws equivalent to a com- 

 plete prohibition of the manufacture and 

 sale of any kind of beverages contain- 

 ing more or less alcohol, but to so 

 regulate their sale ; to so prevent their 

 poisonous adulterations ; to so punish 

 all offenders, saloon-keepers and drunk- 

 ards, in such a wa}^ as to materially 

 diminish their numbers. To seek for 

 more is to seek for the impossible ; per- 

 fection is not of this world. 



I shall in mj'^ next examine what gave 

 rise to the notions of temperance and 

 total abstinence, and what good pur- 

 poses they serve. 



Dr. Ampelos. 



Golden Hill's Nineyah]), i 

 Xauvoo, Illinois. i, 



AIR TREATMENT AGAIN. 



New York, Nov. oth, 1870. 



Geo, Husmann, Esq., Bluft'ton, Mo. : 



Bear Sir — Dr. F. AV. Assmann, of 

 Chester, intormed me of his results as 

 early as end of August. I communica- 

 ted that part of his letter to Mr. H. N. 

 Jarchow, of the Deutsch-American 

 Farmer Zeitung, who published it Oct. 

 I5th, with a letter of an importer of 

 Rhine wine, in relation to his success 

 to restore, by air treatment, some sickly 

 wine. I enclose this part of the said 

 paper. Mr. E, O. Thompson, of Cin- 

 cinnati, O., who stated he would make 

 this season some 50^000 gallons by this 

 process, writes me of 29th ult. as fol- 

 lows : ^' I complied with your request 

 of Oct. 8th by sending samples of my 

 air-treated wane to your agent at At- 

 lanta (Mr. A. C. Cook, of Covington, 

 Ga., for exhibition at the Georgia State 



Fair) — some only S (?) days from the 

 press, yet it was clear, and all fermenta- 

 tion over. I am now selling this fall's 

 vintage in m\' wine-house, and it passes 

 for one year-old wine — good judges have 

 been deceived by it," &c., &c. Ac- 

 cording to prior information, Mr. T. 

 had inaugurated the introduction of air 

 treatment at his vine^'ard about Sept. 

 lOth or I2th, and Mr. Cook informs me 

 that he received from Mr. T. a letter 

 with the highest encomiums on the pro- 

 cess, and its obvious advantages to 

 wine makers. Mr. Cook carried off 

 over half of the wine premiums of his 

 fair by wines air-treated, and one special 

 premium in an essay for the best meth- 

 od of making and preserving wine. He 

 had also made Sorghum syrup by air 

 treatment, and says it was admired by 

 every one for its superior clear and 



