, 1876-03-18
SOMETHING FOR TEMPERANCE
SOCIETIES.
{ From the Jamaica Gleaner.)

"RAw CANE JUICE, unless treated by
some counteracting agent, soon ferments
and makes vinegar If termented Ouly for
as.few hours, it makes a very pleasant bever-
age. The best mode is to fill a gourd to
the top, it will then fermeut over and
clean itself. 1t is constantly sold in the
streets in the Spanish towns, as is done
with ginger beer in Kingston. II pine APP
pie or other fruits, particularly the mango
or the china plum, are bruised up ID il
and termeuted it equals orsurpaSSes cider
We commend the above extract from an
article on the distilIation of rum by Il II,
Burton in the Sugar Cane Of December
last to the notice oi the friends of temper
ance IN Jamaica. These gentlemen form
Il BODY numerous, Influential and eurhusi-
astjc, but alas not practical. They are
too apt to forget that they cannot inocu-
late the general pubIic-whose welfare
they profess to seek-with thar exalted
spirit which enables them III their own
persons to triumph over temptation.
We do not speak of the temptations
arising from the Solicitations OF good
fellowship, bus rather of those physical
p|romptiugs. far harder to resist, which
commeuca SO jns'lioa Y and end 50 dis
astrous.v.
There is no daay..-i. . from the unaa-
turaI confinement preventing proper d.
g%esti0n, aud the stimulating and unWho'e-
some nature OF the diet sought by the deli
cate appetites due to such deprivation #
natures best aid I'm the assimilation OF food,
active exercise, the manners and customs
of the present day give rise to habits Of
body, whose painful and disagreeab.e
effects cannot be got rid of without a re-
sort of an excess of stimulant, at first slight,
but rapidly augmenting.
A hasty meal Of highly seasoned food,
followed probably by the hurry and worry
of some business transaction often pro-
duces an uneasy feeling accompanied by
thirst which cold water rather increases
than alIeviates. IT the cold water was
stuck to resolutely the result would be
the best in the end, but Immediate relief
is what the sufferer naturally seeks.
To gain this relief he goes into a Liquor
Shop. II he is a beginner aud has not
yet learned to love rum, he feels that q
slighter stimuIant would satisfy him !:
but in jamaica he seeks that sIighter sti-
mulant in vain. Although cIaret OF fair
quality and at a low price is imported by
some OF the wine merchants, none is to be
obtained at retail stores, except at an
exhorbitant price. Lemonade is hardly
better for his purpose than water for it
does not possess the slightest stimulating
quality which his unstrung system Graves.
Bitter beer at ninepence a glass is also be-
yond many purses but if there was a sub
stitute for cider at once sparkling refresh
ing slightly stimulating and cheap, many
young men might so prolong the process
of giving way to drink that old age might
overtake them before they had accom-
pIished their purpose. We take Mr..
Burton's description of the liquor he
speaks of for granted, as he must OF course
have had many opportunities of tasting it
for himself, and is not speaking on mere
hearsay., If it be equal to cider, and pre-
pared with no more expense than he des-
it's sale should be attended with
large profit, but whether prof.
table or not, those interested in the cause
of temperance would further their end by
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