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must of course pity such as have not been blessed with a collegiate educa- 

 tion, but that is no reason why they should oppose graduation from a 

 college as the standard ; the}^ themselves will always be just as highly 

 honored as they ever were, but we, nevertheless, must regret the fact that 

 they would necessarily have been even brighter lights on the pharmaceu- 

 tical horizon had they received the benefits of college training. 



To make it compulsory for every person practicing pharmacy in this 

 State to be a graduate, must be our watchword, we must nail this to our 

 flagstaff and defy anj^one to tear it down. We must labor to enlighten 

 our benighted brother so that he will at last see the light and swing over 

 to our standard, and once he sees the light he will wonder how it was 

 possible for him to remain in the dark so long. 



Join your alumni association boys and help those who are helping you. 

 Join the N. Y. S. P. A. and help the pharmacists of the State to find how 

 to benefit the majority. And above all be at the meeting in Newburgh 

 this year. 



For the past few j^ears the Alumni of the C. P. C. N. Y. have become 

 factors in the State Association and we must become even more so. 



Do not let the few do all the talking, but come to the meeting 

 and talk for yourself ; you no doubt have many good ideas which the 

 members will be only too pleased to listen to and even act upon, so make 

 up your mind noxu to be with us at Newburgh without fail. 



Your President, 



Charles S. Erb. 



The Toothbrush Plant. — The genus Gouania embraces upward of 

 twenty species of climbing shrubs, most of which inhabit the forests of 

 tropical America. The most interesting of these is the G. domingensis, a 

 common creeper in the West Indies and Brazil. In Jamaica it is called 

 chaw-stick, on account of its thin, flexible stems being chewed as an 

 agreeable stomachic. Toothbrushes are also made by cutting pieces of 

 chaw-stick to a convenient length and fraying out the ends, and a tooth 

 powder to accompany the use of the brush is prepared by pulverizing the 

 dried stems. 



The Candle Tree. — In the Isthmus of Panama the Parmentiera cerei- 

 fera is termed the candle tree or Palo de Velas, because its flesh}^ cylindri- 

 cal fruits, often four feet long, having a striking resemblance to yellow 

 wax candles, and a person entering the forests which are composed of this 

 tree might almost fancy himself in a candle factory, for these fruits are 

 suspended from all the stems and older branches. They have a peculiar 

 applelike odor, which communicates itself in some degree to the cattle 

 fattened upon them, but which disappears if, a few days previous to kill- 

 ing, the food be changed. — West. Drug. 



