The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-17

poetry in praise Of English beer. In
1872 Josevin de Rochefort pronounced
| it the best beer in Europe. During a
visit to Cambridge this Frenchman
called upon a clergyman, and he says:
| ut was necessary to drink two or three
pots Of beer during our parley, for no
kind of business is transacted in Eng
land without the Intervention of pots
Of beer"
A century before the French visitor
had landed on our shore, Bishop Still,
| in his poem produced in 1866, had
| written his well known verses in
praise of beer, in which the following
lines occur:
can eat but little meat,
| My stomach is not good;
| But sure I think that / can drink
| With him that wears a hood.
| Though go bare, take We no care,
! I am nothing but cold;
| stuff my skin so full within
| OF jolly good ale and old.
| Back and side go bare, go bare,
| Both foot and hand go cold;
But belly, God send thee good ale enough,
| Whether it be new or old.
! Times have changed since Bishop
! Still wrote his well known poem. Com
| ing down to more recent times, we find
| that William Cobbett, the famous Rad
ical writer, allowed a man three pints
Of ale day, and pious Hannah More
| thought that a laborer should enjoy
| pint of beer after his days work and
his wife merited half as much
Pulling Down Signboards.
If tavern was loosely conducted in
the olden time the constable used to
I e;rrx nd To laoy
from the records Of the East Riding of
Yorkshire, under date Of April "a, 1913,
| that it was ordered by the court that
| William Clarke, of Aldborough, shall
| be suppressed for brewing ale or beare
| for three years because abuse offered
| by him to the constable and keep dis
ordered company, and the constable to
| give him notice thereof and pull down
| his sign, and certifie the court hereof
| at the next sessions" Similar orders
were recorded of other houses in East
| Yorkshire.
Two houses were closed at Chester
field in 1861 because the landlords suf
fered their assistants to tipple during
business hours.
Sunday Trading.
Sunday trading in Puritan England
was, if it led to giving pleasure and
neglecting to attend church, a sufficient
cause for pulling down an alehouse
signboard and closing the tavern.
Charles II. issued a proclamation, dat
ed Jan. 20, 1860, forbidding anyone to
keep an alehouse unless he attended
his parish church every Sunday, and
the proelamatio states, "and there
abide orderly and soberly during the
whole time of divine service, and shall
likewise produce certificate that he
has at least twice-in the year past re-
ceived the sacrament Of the Lord
Supper, according to the usages of the
Church of England"
DR.. Whitaker, the historian Of Whal-
| ley, wrote the following epitaph on a
model publican, whose conduct would
fully meet the requirements of the Sec
ond Charles proclamation:
Here lies the Body Of
| JOHN WIGGLESWORTH,
| More than fifty years he was the
perpetual Innkeeper of this Town.
Withstanding the temptations of the dan
gerous calling,
he maintained good order in his
House. kept the Sabbath Day Holy,
| frequented the Public Worship
With his Family. induced his guests
to do the same, and regularly
partook of the Holy Communion.
He was also bountiful to the Poor,
in private as well as in public.
And, by the blessings of Providence.
on a life so spent, died
possessed of competent wealth,
Feb. %, 1913.
aged II years.
Sunday legislation may be traced
back among historical records to an
early period. In 1448 the corporation
of Hull made an order for the obser-
| vance of the Sunday; no market was
| to be kept, under penalty of IS Sd for
sellers, and IS 4d for buyers; no butch
ers were to expose meat for sale, nor
cooks to dress or sell except to strang-
ers, and to them only before II o'clock;
no tradesmen to keep shops open;~
no winners nor alehouse keepers to
deliver or sell ale under the same pen
alties. In other places similar regula-
lions were in force.
The Wicked Weed Called Hops.
According to an old couplet:
Hops, reformation, bays and beer
Came into England all in one year.
or, as 1t sometimes said.
Turkies, carp, hopes, pickerell and beer
Came into England all in one year.
Many have been misled by this popu