taking a rest when fatigued and worn ont 

 will do a lot of good ivitliuut any electrc- 

 poise? 



WHISKY AND BKANDY NOT MEDICINES. , 



The following, from the Oliic Messengi^ 

 for September, is important: c 



PHARMACOPOEIA DROPS LIQUOR. 



The National Pharmacopoeia Committee, composed 

 of fifty-one of the leading physicians of the country, 

 has cut whisky and brandy from the new edition of 

 the United States Pharmacopoeia. 



This means that whisky and brandy have been 

 declared officially to be neither drug nor medicine. 

 The new edition of the pharmacopoeia will be issued 

 about .January 1, 193 6, and after that time brandy 

 and whisky cannot legally be sold by druggists as 

 medicine. 



It will then be necessary for the druggist to meet 

 the local requirements — i. e., take out a saloon li- 

 cense if he wishes to sell " nips " behind the 

 counter. 



This decision as given above is far more 

 reaching than I supposed. If it is really 

 true that no druggist can in the future sell 

 intoxicating liquors without taking out a 

 saloon license, we can praise God for an- 

 other advance in temperance legislation. 



"robbing sick people;" hog-cholera 



CURES. 



I hold in my hand a pamphlet of 8 pages 

 sent out by the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Iowa State College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts, Ames, Iowa. This 

 pamphlet gives in detail the results of ex- 

 periments with six so-called hog-cholera 

 cures. I^'rom a summary at the close of 

 this bulletin I extract the following: 



All tests above indicate that none of the prod- 

 ucts entering into the tests protected hogs against 

 attacks of hog cholera except hog-cholera serum pre- 

 pared according to the general plan worked out and 

 recommended by the Bureau of Animal Industry of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



I have several times of late seen notices 

 in agricultural papers that the hog-cholera 

 cures, like mut-h of our advertised patent 

 medicines for the human family, were 

 worthless, or worse than worthless, because 

 they prevent the poor suffering farmer 

 from availing himself of the remedies ad- 

 vertised by the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. There is a big moral here — do not 

 touch or listen to anybody recommending or 

 selling any cure for domestic animals unless 

 it has the indorsement of the experiment 

 station belonging to your own state or the 

 indorsement of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture at Washington. I grant that some- 

 times the venders of these medicines are 

 honest, but they are mistaken. Our several 

 stations have competent men to advise and 

 safely direct in all these troubles that uiflict 

 the fanner. 



In the experiments detailed in the bulle- 

 tin mentioned above, all of the pig's died 

 when treated with the six different reme- 

 dies, and not one died when treated by the 

 authorized hog-cholera serum. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



BY A. I. ROOT 



" THE STOKY OF ART SMITH." 



The above is the title of a paper-bound pamphlet 

 of 94 pages. It was f-ent me by my grandson feel- 

 ing sure I would be interested in it because of the 

 fact that I was with the Wright brothers when they 

 made their first flight that succeeded in bringing the 

 machine back to the place of starting. The book 

 interested me for two reasons: First, because it 

 was all about experiments with flying-machines; sec- 

 ond, because the boy started out when he was only 

 15 years old — nearly the same ase that I was when 

 I started out giving "lecturesC ?)" on chemistry and 

 electricity. There is still another reason why the 

 book took a mighty hold on me. This boy. Art 

 Smith, it seems to me, had more mishaps and dis- 

 coaragemerits and failures than I ever heard of 

 falling to a single human being; and yet he is now, 

 at the a2;e of only 21, turning somersault after 

 somersault awav up above the clouds, leaving a trail 

 of smoke by day and a trail of fire by night, to 

 show the patli that his machine actually made 

 through the sky. 



I think that when I first opened the book I was 

 standing up; and in a little while I got off by my- 

 self where nobody would interrupt me. As it came 

 dinnertime I felt I could not stop for dinner nor 

 anything else ; and I am afraid I was unfeeling 

 ejiough to get off with the book where Mrs. Root 

 could not nsk vhij (for once in the world) I was 

 cot ready for dinner. I doubt if I ever before got 

 hold of any book that held my attention as did that 

 one. Here is a brief extract from page 4 : 



" Of course, there are only a few of us now who 

 feel at home in the air — really at home, knowing the 

 air and its ways, so that we can roll about up 

 among the clouds like a kitten in a basket. Be- 

 cause we are pioneers in the air, with difficulties 

 and dangers to overcome, it is interesting to know 

 how we do it, and what it feels like. 



" The story of how I learned to do it is doubly 

 interesting to any one who is trying to do anything 

 difficult in the world, because I think no one can 

 have a harder time realizing his ambition than I 

 had in learning to fly." 



In the middle of the book we read of the way his 

 machine turned over sidewise and was going cra.sh- 

 ing into the ground with the heavy engine, etc., 

 and when wilhin twenty feet of the earth it sudden- 

 ly righted and skimmed off like a bird, unharmed. 

 When his good mother (a praying mother, by the 

 wsy) saw that death to her venturesome son seemed 

 iviecitnhle. she fell on her knees and said, "O God, 

 save my boy I" and, while she was praying, the ma- 

 chine righted itself in a second of time, and her boy 

 was saved. Below is the finishing paragraph of 

 the book: 



" The world is carried forward by man's great 

 dieanis. The greatest dream of all is the conquest 

 of the air. What it will mean to human life we 

 know no more than Watt knew when he watched 

 the lid of the kettle and dreamed of the first steam- 

 engine. Aerial navigation will mean, as the steam- 

 engine did, more than we can imagine now. 



" Big men are working on it. Big men will some 

 day conquer all the difficulties which we are fighting. 



■' We are only pioneers, but we are pioneers witli 

 a great idea. .Some time in future centuries the 

 whole woild will be revolutionized by that idea. 

 Then it will know the value of the hope and the 

 thrill we feel as our aeroplanes rise from the earth, 

 pa.ss throifgh the clouds, and fly high in the clear 

 upper air." 



The price is 2.) cents postpaid: but every one who 

 sends us $1.00 for Gleanings may have the book 

 for 15 cents. I aui well aware that some of my 

 good friends may criticise me for encouraging what 

 has cost so many lives already; but my reply is 

 that the book will help to gave life; and it will also 

 encourage patience and perseverance among the 

 young inventors now growing up more than any 

 other book' that I have ever read or heard of. The 

 book is not fii tion, because every event mentioned 

 occurred out iti the open air in the plain sight of 

 Iiundreds and thousands gathered to see Art Smith 

 fly — the boy who wa.s born and brought up in Ft. 

 Wayne, Ind. 



