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The Washington times., 1906-03-18

quarter OF d century, have DESTROYED
so many vineyards as TO seriously
cripple the industry in France. The
worst OF these-One warranted to
rum the most fiourishing vineyard
IN Two years-is a small insect. the
phyiloxera, which attacks principally
the roots of the vines. In 1875 il
destroyed nearly half the vines in
France.
Ihere are two ways of avoiding
the phylloxera-one is by planting
In sand soil, where he does not
flourish; the other is by submersion.
whereby he browns Experiments
following the season or 1875. which
ruined large number of growers.
proved that he could not stand long
suomersion. NJ Peyron's vineyard
was alluvial soil, such as the phyl-
ioxera thrives in. But his manager
mad found that thirty days submer-
sion killed OF a colony OF phylloxera
absolutely. So the v:nes-or. rather
their roots-must be Submerged. and
10 make assurance doubly sure thew
mad better be submerged for forty
hve days than thirty. SO now for
forty days each year. Usually be-
ginning in November and never later
than March, NJ. Peyron's vineyards
are kept flooded to a depth of about
TWO feet. This neees sItates a very
clever and elaborate system of CON
duits and bitches and drains. which
serve the double purpose Of drain
age and irrigation.
water is pumped into the con-
QUITS from the Rhine and convened
10 the land Each vineyard is sur.
rounded by two main dIkes. one on
a high level into which the wate,
is pumped and from which the vine
yards are flooded. the other on a
lower level into which the wafer
drains after submersion. Fifteen
miles OF such bitches cut the estate
IN all directors, while the vineyards
themselves arr undermined by a per-
fect network on drains-some two
hundred miles 9f them irrigating and
draining 500 acres or vines. and in.
volving the use of about a million
drain pipes-aI a depth of two feet
Since the first submersion the phyI-
loxera has never returned-the prob
lem OF growing the vines was solved
The Washington times., 1906-03-18

been increasingly the
dream of vine growers.
economists, and reform
ers-the vine growers
for purely commercial reasons, be
cause for the last decade the
wine business has been languish-
ing, and they have realized that the
temperance sentiment was growing
yearly stronger. and that the man
who produced a really good wine for
temperance folk haG q gold mine:
the economists, because the chief
feature OF vinous fermentation is the
conversion of the sugar into alco-
hol, carbonic acid gas, and glyce-
rine, whereby they figure that France
alone loses each year 100000 tons
OF grape sugar-a most valuable ar
ticle Of food; the reformers because
they realized that the announcement
of the discovery of a non-alcoholic,
consequently Notwithstanding wine,
which should be the pure juice of
the grape, unfermented, with all its
natural fragrance ana bouquet un-
spoiled, would indeed be glad tidings
OF great joy to the thirsty children of
men.
But grape juice is the most per-
ishable of all commodities until il
ferments. Fermentation can be ar
rested by chemicals or by heat Vine
growers have known that for some
time But neither chemicals nor
heat tend to preserve or improve
the flavor of the grape, Unferment-
ed grape juice in itself is not new.
There have been a dozen different
brands of ii on the market-each
one more loathsome, more disap-
pointing to those who sampled it
hopefully and in good faith, than
the last. Finally growers have come
TO regard wine without alcohol as
a contradiction in terms But now
at last, w T. Stead claims to have
found wine made at Aries. one of
the oldest and most interesting found
IN the South of France-a good
wine, which is free rrom the poison
OF alcohol, which will keep, and
which Will not intoxicate. He tells
about il in the supplement to his
magazine, The Review of Reviews.
London edition
The Washington times., 1906-03-18
Questions Neither AShed nor
Answered.

Answered.
A special commissioner, whom Mr.
Stead sent TO investigate this wine
without alcohol, tells Of arriving at
Mas-de-la-viIle late Saturday night
and of having TO defer his visit to
the vineyards until Monday Moth
ing relating 10 business is tolerated
there on Sunday. L is a day of rest
combined with a great deal OF re-
ligious activity Salvation Army rep
resentatives swarm over the place:
prayers follow breakfast-prayers at
which they sing French salvation
songs to English popular airs. A
more ineongruous combination It
would be hard TO inlagine-and yet
the earneStneSs. the spirit that
underlies the thing borbids that one
allow oneself to see the funny side
or it In the evening more services
crowd the barFack room. But not
until Monday may one ask or answer
questions as TO the vineyards and the
wine making.
The vineyards themselves are like
many other vineyards, vast fields
with rows upon rows of luxuriant
grape vines-not grown as in the
north OF France. where the plants
are trained on sticks and cut back
severely that the grapes may have
as much sun as possible, but allowed
TO grow freely so that the leaves may
fall down and give the grapes the
shade they need; rich soil. deep
straight dykes, and the grape gather
ers working in rows along the rows
Of vines. their quaint costumes add
ing color TO an already gorgeous
landscape.
The juice which is TO make unfer-
mented wine is pumped Immediately
through an apparatus where il is
gently heated to a temperature
which will destroy all germs of fer
mentation- At the same time care
must be taken that the heat is not
sufficient to give il the peculiar
iavor of cooked wine.
Naturally the atmosphere Is satu-
rated with the germs of the vineyard
and there is scarcely an inch of the
flooring that is not teeming with
them So that extraordinary care
has TO be taken in handling and
casking the delicate juice. and there
have been many failures and disap-
pointments for those who have non
alcoholic wine. NJ Peyron seems TO
have succeeded. His wine, on the
authority of Mr. William T Stead's
special commissioner is perfectly
free from alcohol and will. if left in
tact, keep indefinitely At any rate
the story of its maker and its max
ing is a picturesque one and the
motive back of it would appear to
be as pure as the product is said e
be.
The Washington times., 1906-03-18
Realized 'fhe Curse of Drink. -

Moreover, he accepted unquestion-
inSly the cardinal doctrine of the
organization, which requires works
personal service-as well as faith.
Almost Immediately he placed his
vineyard at their disposal that it
might help in the salvation of sonls
and bodies In 1895 an orphanage
was started and relief works open
ed Adult schools. classes of all
sorts. Salvation meetings, the form
alton of an army corps and the train
ing of its band. made TIE hours af-
ter the work of the day was sup
posed TO be done more strenuous
than the so-called business hours.
The neighbors complained that Mas
de-la-ville was becoming the Mecca
of tramps. Salvationists called it
the hope of the destitute Certainly
it was the by-word of the respecta-
bic.
The Washington times., 1906-03-18

His turning his attention to the
production of nOn-alcoholic wine is
the direct result of his joining the
Salvation Army, some twenty years
ago II was in 1884. a few years
after his establishing himself at
Mas-de-la-yille, that he attended a
Salvation Army meeting, conducted
by La Marechale Booth" at Mines.
She noticed hun in the audience and
sent one of her aids to ask him to
the platform. His innate French
mans gallantry-the desire to help a
woman in distress. for the Saliva
ton Army mad a hard row TO ho
in France in those days-led him to
accept an invitation which was en-
tirely against his instincts and incli-
nation
He presided over the meeting, and
10 the horror of his neighbors. he
and his wife. and two of his chill
dren shortly afterwards Joined the
Army IL was terrible step for
Frenchman of repute and influence
to take. The Army. with its travesty
on military operations, with its Eng
lish origin and its English aggres-
siveness, was offensive TO every
French instinct. More, II was ridic-
thousand of all things. a French
man hates 20 be made ridiculous.
1t took a whole lot or courage on
the part of Alvin Peyron to join the
Salvationists-but he had the cour-
age.
The Washington times., 1906-03-18
Eouqht q Double Battle.

Before he faced and solved the
problem of making non-alcohOlic
wine NJ. Peyron had to face and solve
the problem of growing grapes, and
making wine at all. The fight against
the wine disease, fermentation, was
preceded by a fight against a dozen
vine diseases. which. during the last
The Washington times., 1906-03-18
Both Economist and Retoymey

The man who makes this non
alcoholic wine, which Mr.. Stead
seems to think is going to make
glad the heart Of man without at
the same time making beast OF
him, is one Albin Peyron, of Mas
dA-la-yille. about five and one-half
The Washington times., 1906-03-18

Land which had been worth scarcely
so cents an acre had been redeemed
and was now valued at about $3.50
an acre.
The Washington times., 1906-03-18
Civilization Has Al
ready Been Blessed
With the HorselesS
Carnage, SmokeIess
Powder, and Wire
less 7 elegraphy,
dRd Now Comes the
AlCOhOlleSs Wine.

n 7 ON-ALCOHOLIC wine has
~ been increasingly the
~ dream Of vine growers.
economists, and reform
erS-the vine crrnuere
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30

After telling them who and he
warmly wrapped disappeared the edge the hill before
could But ringing
mery after he had Little Growing
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30
But no one was hurt. only

hr nrnA4 into f gsm yduenon- But noou hurt
M3@
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-07
vvnere Cnristinnity Began.

The hills of Bethlehem are full Of
caves, natural and artificial, and
many of them have historic signi1i-
canoe. There is the milk grotto, in
which Joseph and Mary are said to
have concealed themselves before their
fight into Egypt to escape the evil de-
signs Of Herod. The snowy wilderness
of the soft chalk out of which it Is
hewn is ascribed to the spilling of II
few drops of the Virgins milk when she
nursed the infant Jesus. Another grot-
to is pointed out as that in which ST.
Jerome for more than thirty years led
the life of a hermit when bitter fac
tional dissensions had forced him to
leave Rome. On a western hill rock
strewn plateau, around which stately
terebinths stand guard, marks place
where the ancient Hebrews brought
their sacrifices unto the Lord. 1t is a
solemn place, we'll fitted to excite de-
vout thoughts-a place where a man
might well keep communion with his
Maker. In it's broader features Bethle-
hem is almost unchanged since the days
Of David.-Four Track News.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-07
A LU[L At COURT HOUSE
DUE TO WARM WEATHER
Commissioners Allow Claim for $1.76
and Then Quit Lahors, Board of Re-
view Waits Patiently for a Kicker
But None Comes.

Yesterday was the nothing doing"
day at the Court House. and although
business was solicited, the officials
sat all day in their offices waiting for
some one to come in and start some
thing. The County Commissioners
met but there was nothing for them
to do aside from allowing claims
amounting to about $1.76.
There was no circuit court and the
treasurer's Office was as quiet as a
tomb. No money is due to come in
now, and nobody pays when they
don't have to. The Board of Review
who was not pleased with the assess
ment which had been handed" him
to come in, the Board adjourned.
The County Auditor finished work
on the tax sheets in the morning and
after that, it was an idle day in that
office. But few deeds Were recorded
the sheriff had nothing to do and the
Clerk and his deputy rested. The hot
weather ruins business at the County
Building.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-07
CURRENT COMMENT.

Optimism Is fine quality. Never
say die" is the motto of San Francisco.
and her people will live up to it--San
Francisco Chronicle.
Speaker Cannon prefers his present
job to being president. Doubtless he
feels that he has a better control OF
congress where he Is. - Philadelphia
Press.
The fire chief of st. Louis says he
could save that city in case of earth
quake and fire. Now let us hear from
the other fire chiefs.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
good many modern novels would
be of more lasting value IL their au-
thors only devoted more time to think
Ing what to say instead Of how to say
it-Boston Globe.
The latest recorded figures Of John
Bulls national debt look sufficiently
formidable. At S3,944, $4,000, 1t Is
more than four times as large as Un-
Gle Sam's.-Boston Herald.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-07
NOW THE SNAKE STORIES
GOOD ONES BEING TOLD
Large Mexican Black Snake Was Kill
ed at Gaar's Yesterday and Two
Reptiles Were Killed in Apple Tree
at MiddIeboro.

Richmond and Wayne county have
nual snake stories that make their ap-
pearance about this time of year are
noted for their great variety and for
the wide range of the imagination of
the person starting them. ,.
Yesterday reporter was called to
the Office of the Gaar. Scott & Co.,
from the Palladium, to find that a
large Mexican black snake. over six
feet in length, had been killed immedi-
ately in. the rear of the main Office
building. How the snake came to this
part of the country was a question,
until some one CHANGED to look into
an old separator, which had been
shipped from Mexican state several
weeks ago. and found, beyond all
doubt, that the reptile had come via
the railroad. 1t was killed by carpen-
ter, just as was about to secrete it.
self in a large wooden box.
Again. A dispatch from Middle
boro yesterday gave the details of an
exciting battle a boy named York Lit
tie had with two large black snakes
which he found in an old apple tree.
He had to call his grandfather and
finally the snakes were conquered.
Each of them measured nearly five
feet in length.
The story of the snake on the tow
err of the Reid Memorial church is
still being discussed and many would
like to know for certainty, whether
or not there really was snake there.
No thorough search was ever made
for it.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-07
BASE HITS.

George Lachance will make very
good man for Providence, z. /.
It Is said that Henry Medicus, who
Is deeply interested financially in the
Brooklyn ball club, is sorry that he
ever broke In.
1t looks as IL President Pulliam has
instructed his umpires to give every
close play at first against the base
runner, says a newspaper.
Pittsburg's young outfelder, Bob
Ganley. Is beginning to look like the
brightest and best thing picked up by
National league club In many moons.
There ought to be lots of ginger in
"Bleacher Bill" Clarke's Toledo club.
He certainly is in a game for all there
is in 1t ard keeps bis team on the
move.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-07
Vegetable Renneta.

Those who would like to make cheese
on very small scale are often trou-
bled to get proper rennet to produce
coagulation of the milk. A scientist
says that if the leaves of the common
butterwort are placed in a strainer and
the milk fresh from the cow is poured
over it the milk will soon become thick
and has a most delicious flavor. The
yellow bedstraw also possesses the
properties of curdling milk, and the
natives of Cheshire prefer it as rem
net to all other sorts. The leaves and
flowers are put in the strainer, and the
milk is slowly poured over them. The
flower heads of the garden artichoke
also possess the property of coagulat-
ing milk. In view of the carelessness
sometimes noted in people who prepare
rennet in the ordinary fashion this
vegetable rennet is worthy Of atten-
ton. The leaves, properly cleaned and
prepared, would be very much safer
and more hygienic than animal sub
stances which may go through chem
ical changes that unfit them for food.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-07
WHY WOMEN OUGHT
TO Be SOCIALISTS
Mrs. Gertrude Hunt Talks of
Place Women Should
Have in Politics.
THEIR INTEREST VITAL
SPEAKER HOLDS THAT WOMEN
SUFFER MORE THAN MEN
FROM EVILS OF MIS-GOVERN-
MENT-SPEAkS TONIGHT.

An even larger crowd greeted Mrs.
Gertrude Breslau Hunt, the socialist
lecturer last night than on Tuesday
evening. She spoke at the Odd Eel
lows hall.
The subject of the lecture last night
was "Why Women Should be Social
lists" and was in part as follows:
Women suffer even more acutely
than men from all the evils growing
out of a capitalist system of produc-
ton, the private ownership and opera
ton of the public means of life; hun
ger and cold in the door ways almost
OF bursting granaries and warehouses,
war, crime, strikes, enforced idleness
of strong men and enforced toll of
tender children, the making of wom-
anhood an asset of great industries,
where over worked and underpaid
women are crowded into a life of sin,
ignorance, preventable disease adul-
terated food and poisoned drinks, the
exploitation and servitude of the
toilers, their LONELINESS, anxiety; the
degradation of marriage where money
is it's basis instead of mutual love and
respect
1t is thought by some that women
should not be interested in politics,
but women are half the race, moth
| ers of the race and stewards of racial
progression. If by politics is meant
corrupt deal between the public ser.
vice corporation privately owned, the
practical politician and the purchas.
either should be in such Infamous
deals but if you mean the collective
effort to give the ownership and man.
| agement of the collective means OF
| life, to abolish the wrongs and secure
to all the right to Industrial freedom
and to the wealth they produce then
no man or woman has any right to
cialist party stands for the collective
ownership and management of the
means of life-equal political and in
dustrial liberty for men and women
and when we have this all these evils
must disappear. To sum up every in
terest of women would lead her into
| this great cause socialising our means
of life. Woman's interest as a citizen
as a worker, five million women are
toiling in the United States today in
mills, stores and factories, as hu
man being, above all as mother, fol
until we own our means of life and
the wealth we produce we cannot pro
tect our children from toll, robbery
disease and adulterated food. crime
greed war and poverty. When woman
takes her part in this work the race
will enter in to its heritage of justice
and brotherhood for which ages O
pain have taught us how to have ant
to hold"
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-07
fhe First Description Given
Out of Horatio Walkers
Masterpiece.
POWERFUL COMPOSITION
THE WONDERFUL MYSTERY AND
THE MAJESTY OF THE EARLY
MORNING CLEARLY DEPICT.
ED.

.'Plowing-First CLEAN" the paint
ing from the brush of Horatio Wal
ker, which is to be the central feature
of the forthcoming Richmond Art Ex-
hibit, which opens it's doors next
week, has called forth the most en-
thusiastic praise from persons who
have been privileged to feast their
eyes upon 1t. Special attention has
been given with regard to the hang
ing of this large canvas 50 that it
shall have the benefit of proper light.
So much interest has been displayed
in this painting that the following
description will be of interest.
"Plowing-The First CLEAN" is in
every respect beautiful and majestic.
1t Is early morning in the fields; the
earth yet to be broken is hard and
gray and frosty. Four big oxen, types
of strength, climb the slope toward
the spectator Juggling the iron through
the soil, nahtdeir
the soil, and their brown bodies are
huge against the light that is be-
ginning to flood the east. A single
ray of the sun, which is just out OF
view at the right. strikes strikes their
rough TANKS and makes the beaten
grass CLINT and sparkle.
!, Against the growing day raises the
Gert figure of a driver, waving a
stick above his head to urge the crea
lures on, and more dimly seen is a
companion who holds the pillow. The
theme is simple, but in it's treatment
we have an epic. The mystery and
majesty of the morning are in these
laboring forms and the canopy of fire
and cloud. In the driver we see nc
man with hoe" dull, hopeless
dragging his way through an existence
that means no more to him than food
brother to the OK. feels joy and pur
pose in his work: man in whose
ir there are resolution and command;
man into whose life has come some
thing of the calming greatness O
nature. He is sprung from the earti
and the strength of the soil is in him
His environment is of splendor tina
ness and fragrance of the morning
are about him; the distances reced,
into glowing infinities: the immens,
sky, shot with rays and shadows, i,
pouring its light on a freshened earth
and the curtains OF the night are roll
ing away before the sun. Lite. powe
boy. are the meaning OF the picture.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-07
A BLOOD RED LAKE.
Peculinrity Manifested by N sheet o
Water In Switzerland.

Popularity Manifested by N Sheet of
Water In Switzerland.
Lake Morat, in Switzerland, has q
queer habit of turning red about two
or three times every ten years. 1t is a
pretty lake, like most of the sheets CT
water in that picturesque country, and
its peculiar freak is attributed to a dis
position to celebrate the slaughter OF
the Burgundians under Charles the
Bold on June 81, 1476, but the French
say that it bushes for the conduct of
the Swiss, who in that battle gave the
Burgundians no quarter.
This phenomenon, of course, has its
legend. The old fishermen of the lake,
who catch enormous fish called silures
that weigh between twenty-five and
forty Kilograms, say when they see the
waters of the lake reddening that it is
the blood OF the Burgundians. AS a
matter of fact, some of the bodies of
the Burgundians killed in the battle
were thrown into the lake, while others
were tossed into grave filled with
quicklime. This historical recollection
angered the Burgundian soldiers of the
victorious armies of the republic in
1TaS SO much that they destroyed the
monument raised in honor of their
compatriots who fell heroically in that
battle, and Henri Martin very justly
reproachcd them for that piece of van
dalism.
1t would hardly do to attribute the
reddening of the waters of the lake TO
the blood of the soldiers of Charles the
Bold. The coloring is due simply TO
the presence in large quantities of little
aquatic plants called by naturalists Os-
cillatoria rubescens. The curious thing
about 1t is that Lake Morat is the only
lake in which this curious growth is
developed
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-07
Normal Work at EsrItan cohrse.

A special feature OF the Summer
School work at Earlham College will
be the work in the common branches.
Grammar, Physiology. History, Arith
metic and Reading. Each class will
be in the hands Of an expert Stu
dents viii becomA familiar with the
new text books, rAcently adopted for
use next year. FIVE dollars will pay
the tuition in all TIM subjects above.
for the entire term Oh six weeks. The
summer term begins June 10.
Apply for information to President
Kelly, EarIham College. Richmond.
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