1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



611 



Hooker's Wigwam Tonic 20.7 



Hoofland's German Tonic 29 3 



Howe's Arabian Tonic, " not a rum drink" )3.2 



Jackson's Golden Seal Tonic )9.ti 



Mensman's Peptonized Beef Tonic 16.5 



Parker's Tonic, " purely vejjetable " 41 6 



Schenck's .Seaweed Tonic, " entireU' harmless " 19..5 



Baxter's Mandrake Bitters 1().5 



Boker's .Scomach Bitters 42.6 



Burdock'.s Blood Bitters 25.2 



Greene's Ner\^ura 17.2 



Hartshorn's Bitters 22.2 



Hoofland's German Bitters, "entirely vegetable "...25.6 



Hop Bitters 12 



Hostetter's Stomach Bitters 44 3 



Kaufman's Sulphur Bitters, " contains no alcohol " 

 (as a matter of fact it contains 20.5 per cent of 



alcohol and no sulphur) 20.5 



Puritana 22 



Richardson's Concentrated Sherry-wine Bitters 47.5 



Warner's Safe Tonic Bitters 35.7 



Warren's Bilious Bitters 21 5 



Faith Whitcomb's Nerve Bitters 20 3 



In connection with this list, think of beer, which 

 contains only from two to five per cent of alcohol, 

 while some of these "bitters" contain ten times as 

 much, making them stronger than whisky, far strong- 

 er than port or sherry, with claret and champagne far 

 behind. 



In connection with the above table, Mr. 

 Bok proceeds to score the religious periodi- 

 cals and the W. C. T. U. as well. I hope 

 the friends who read Mr. Bok's editorial 

 will also read the variotis replies made by 

 the W. C. T. U. in the Ihiion Signal. Had 

 not the W. C. T. U. paved the way, and 

 raised the standard of public morals to the 

 extent it is now, Mr. Bok would not have 

 dared to come out thus openly for reform. 

 Let me quote two sentences. 



There are no papers published that are so flagrant- 

 ly guilty of admitting to their columns the advertise- 

 ments, not only of alcohol-filled medicines, but prepa- 

 rations and cure-alls of the most flagrantly obscene 

 nature, as the so-called religious papers of this country. 



Beside me, as I write, lie issues of some twenty dif- 

 ferent "religious" weeklies, the advertising columns 

 of which are a positive stt nch in the nostrils of decent, 

 self-respecting people. L,et the Woman's Christian 

 Temperance Union officers counsel their publishers to 

 omit these advertisements; and if they refuse, let these 

 people discontinue their patronage of the paper. 



The first of the two extracts may be pretty 

 nearly right, except that I would not use 

 the words " flagrantly obscene. " A few of 

 our religious papers have given place to 

 ■medicine advertisements that might almost 

 be so termed, but not many. 



In regard to the second extract, the words 

 *' positive stench " are altogether too strong. 

 Did not Bro. Bok have a Police Gazette ly- 

 ing on top of those Christian weeklies? and 

 was not that the periodical he had in mind? 

 It would be a rather unhappy combination, 

 after all, to see the Police Gazette in such 

 company. 



I have said a good many kind words for 

 the Advance, of Chicago. I have quoted 

 from its columns in these Home papers; but 

 I have also written to them twice, remon- 

 strating against the character of their ad- 

 vertisements; and I have just about decided 

 not to take it longer in my home unless a 

 reform is made. They have so far never 

 made any reply to my remonstrances. 



Let me right here congratulate the edi- 

 tors of our agricultural papers. There is 

 no escaping the fact that, at the present 

 time, they hold up a higher standard of 

 morals in some respects than do our relig- 



ious weeklies. They reject advertisements 

 that are accepted by many of the religious 

 press. We must, however, make some ex- 

 ceptions. The editor of a periodical called 

 the Electrician, when he was helping me in 

 my crusade against Electropoise, told the 

 venders of the humbug toy he would give 

 them f 1000 if they would get their advertise- 

 ment in a single issue of the Sunday School 

 Times. It never got there; and, may God 

 be praised, we have at least one religious 

 paper whose advertisements may be read 

 aloud to the whole family every day in the 

 year. 



Now, friends, comes something hopeful. 

 Every few days a periodical comes out de- 

 claring that hereafter no medicine adver- 

 tisement nor any thing of that sort shall 

 thereafter disgrace their advertising de- 

 partment. Let me copy from Sticcess: 



We do not admit to our columns medical, liquor, to- 

 bacco, or other advertisements objectionable in the 

 home. 



You will notice that that includes tobacco 

 among intoxicants and patent medicines. 

 You ma}', perhaps, remember that I have 

 been urging our agricultural and home pa- 

 pers to refuse to accept articles describing 

 the cultivation of tobacco. The Rural New- 

 Yorker agrees with me in this, and there 

 may be some other agricultural papers; 

 and it occurs to me just here that I may be 

 omitting a good many clean monthlies and 

 weeklies; and I wish, dear friends, you 

 would help me when the editor of your home 

 paper decides to refuse to accept advertise- 

 ments of this class. Send me the name of 

 that periodical, and I will make mention of 

 it 1-ere; and especially should I like to get 

 hold of the periodicals that are taking a 

 stand against tobacco. Let us see how 

 many editors there are who will "dare to 

 be a Daniel," and, if necessary, "dare to 

 stand alone." I am well aware that, in 

 drawing the line on patent medicines, we 

 rule out some that eontain no alcohol what- 

 ever, and some others that are standard 

 useful and beneficial remedies; but it is so 

 hard to discriminate that we have, with the 

 Sunday School Times, Success, and other 

 periodicals, decided to refuse all medicine 

 advertisements. By the way, is it not a lit- 

 tle cheeky for some of these medicine men 

 to declare their stuff is non-intoxicating? 

 Whiskol, you will notice, is one of this 

 kind, and yet according to the table it con- 

 tains more than 28 per cent of alcohol. The 

 world is wondering — the mothers are won- 

 dering — why children seem so greedy to get 

 hold of drink. Bok suggests that the pat- 

 ent medicines taken by the mothers for 

 " that tired feeling " lay the foundation for 

 the craving for beer and alcoholic stimu- 

 lants, even before the child is born. Now, 

 the great strides that we American people 

 are making in the cure of disease is in the 

 way of prevention rather than of cure. We 

 are heading oflF typhoid fever by giving peo- 

 ple better water to drink; we are heading 

 oif consumption by giving the people better 

 air to breathe; we are heading off a host of 



