, 1881-06-26
BEER.

Its Origin and Ant1quity-The Nature
OF Its ingred1cnt.-.Ehc Difference In
Color Accounted For-3low the Good
Cause OF Temperance HAS E:cen Ecno.
nted by It's Introduction into THIS
Gountzy-Good Reasons WAY PhyNi-
clans should aud Do Recommend II.
Une, Especially in Summer.
The modus operandi Of brewing beer was
probably discovered by the Egyptians, fol
uerodotus $50 years before Christ stated
that the Egyptians made their wine of bar
ley. Aristotle and Thcopilrastus speak VI
it very properly, and call it the wine 0f bar
ley. Other ancient descriptions BY 1sldorus
and Orosius Of the process in use i'll the11
time shows it did not differ essentially FROM
that now III USE, and how Is it known but
that tie wafer turned into wine b. our Sd
ElUr 1T the feast WIS not actually beer, Or
so.-called wine in tlluse days?
Beer is composed of barley, 1loDs, and
water: the principal ingredient is barley,
should be Of the earliest crop. full anu with
out blenSli; then this barley must be coil
yerttd into malt; to do this extreme care is
necessary anu considerable time Is required,
but owing to the inventive genius of our Ma
tion the mailing business has been REDUCED
to such n SCIENCE that it is tune to perfection
i'll much less time than the Old Dayarian
brewers used to take to arrive 1T the same
degree Ut excellence. 1t Is tile last stage IF
mailing that inlparts to beer its various col
oEs; the greater or less degree of heat eth
ployed in drying the malt the darker or light
er becomes tile beer,-tl1at is, the greater the
heat the darker the malt, consequently the
darker the beer.
Before the introduction of beer into Amer
lea intelllperance was TAR more common lu
proportion 10 tile population than now. Only
twenty-five years ago, when the strnng :les
and pOrttrs were uSct So much, iniemperanct
was 1l1ore noticeable on our streets than ut
this time. Beer is not inebriatln.. owing to
the very snail pefce1i;a9e Of alcohol enter
ln$ into it; but Is i'll summer tinle especially
i most healtlItul and uoulisnlllg beverage, rs
is shown lin Havaria) that with bread alone
it constitutes healthy diet, and 0wlilE to its
popularity it is now obtainablc at the fash
ioilable club and saloon as well us at
every. saloon in the city or country,
50 that it can always be procured.
Desides, who ever heard Of any intemperate
individual claiming that because he drank a
glass OF beer he had tu 20 to excess: - Fer
CONTRA" how often you hear slcll I'LL lndi-
vldnal claim it WAS one glass Of whisky that
sent him on. his prolongutd carousal
(althOugh We claim 4 1lal, Is not Il man wlltl
he has not tplt enough of his own to say
when he has had sufficient and say ''No'}.
Thus we claim beer las proved q great boon
strongest reason Of all which should induce
the entire population to indulge in
drinking q certain amount OF beer daily
during hot weather is the following:
Diseases Of the kidneys and dyspepsia are
the prevailing complaints Of this country.
aud, if we remember rightly, it was the cclc-
brated Dr. Beard. OF New York, who pro-
cured the statistical records from ail over
the world, showing that fully sevell-eigltls
of such diseases are in the United States.
What is tile cause Of such state OF things9
Simply the American absurdiiy Of indulglng
i'll iced water, lemonade, Cocktail creams.
glaces, etc.: these are the. causes, and
physicians will tell you so; besides, 1t our
readers will look ut the Mutter in c.'lIlnlun-