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to 50 per cent of alcohol, probably in the form of 

 brandy. The Department states that alcohol is a 

 medical irritant, dangerous in many cases of kidney 

 disease. There seems to be no doubt that these so- 

 called remedies are merely substitutes for rum. 

 They are practically worthless as remedies, and actu- 

 ally harmful, not only because of the amount of al- 

 cohol they contain in its effect upon the system, but 

 because they establish the taste for liquor. A case 

 is reported to us where a man died after several 

 years of ill health, and it was found that he had 

 swallowed three barrels of one of these remedies, 

 and paid for it at the rate of nearly one dollar a 

 bottle. There is no wonder he died, and the wonder 

 is that his heirs had anything left after he passed 

 away. 



Tf the above winds up some of the malt 

 whisky ads we can all rejoice. 



CIGARETTES BARRED FROM THREE GREAT 

 PERIODICALS. 



The following letter, written to one of 

 the employees of The A. I. Root Co., I am 

 sure will cause rejoicing by all well-inform- 

 ed good people : 



Mr. DeForest M. Olds, Scoutmaster, 



Dear Sir: — With the exception of a few adver- 

 tisements heretofore accepted, and which we are 

 under obligations to print, no cigarette advertise- 

 ments will hereafter appear in any of our publica- 

 tions. 



Not only will we exclude cigarette advertisements, 

 but after January 1, 1916, except in one advertise- 

 ment previously contracted for, all reference to 

 cigarette uses will be excluded from tobacco adver- 

 tisements in our publication. 



In spite of the fact that this policy will result in 

 a reduction of several hundred thousand dollars in 

 our annual advertising receipts, we believe we have 

 taken the right course in this matter. 



For the reason that several men connected with 

 your organization have made inquiries about our 

 advertising policy, we believe that you too may be 

 interested in this announcement. 

 Very truly yours, 



The Curtis Publishing Company. 



The Ladies' Home Journal 



The Saturday Evening Post 



The Country Gentleman 



M. E. Douglas, 

 Manager Sales Division. 



Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 30. 



CIGARETTES — SHALL THEY CONTINUE TO BE 

 FURNISHED FREE TO " CREATE AN APPETITE?" 



I believe ii; is true generally, or at least 

 T hope it is true, that .the boy who is look- 

 ing for a job stands no chance at all if his 

 prospective employer discovers he uses 

 cigarettes. Nobody wants him. I believe 

 our oldest gTandch'ild, Leland I. Root, has 

 never before furnished anything for Glean- 

 ings ; but while attending school at Leban- 

 on, 0., he forwarded the following clipping 

 from the Commercial Tribune: 



GIRL OR CIGARETTES? OAN'T CHOOSE BOTH IN TOWN 

 IN KANSAS. 



Lewis, Kan., May 8. — " Fingers that handle 

 cigarettes shall never hold ours." " It's nix on 

 nicotine," so far as cigarettes and the girls of 

 Lewis, Edwards County, Kansas, are concerned. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



The Lewis Anti-cigarette Club now numbers in 

 its membership virtually every girl in the Lewis 

 High School, as well as many of the young women 

 of the town outside of schools. On the membership 

 roster are all of the leaders in the social younger set. 



The avowed purpose of the club is to drive the 

 cigarettes from Lewis. It was getting a foothold. 

 High-school boys and young men of the town gen- 

 erally were taking to the habit. 



Lectures from the pulpit, pleadings of parents, 

 sober advice by physicians, failed to check the cigar- 

 ette fad. So the girls of the town took it up. At 

 a meeting held recently at the home of Miss Lottie 

 Crabtree the Anti-cigarette Club was formed. It 

 started with but six girls as charter members. 



Before the week was over, virtually every girl in 

 the high school was enrolled. The next Sunday the 

 membership roster was swelled at the Sunday- 

 schools. Now there are but few girls under 20 

 years of age who are not members. 



The girls take a solemn pledge to shunt cigarette 

 smokers, and keep it. 



At first the boys regarded the club as a joke. But 

 it wasn't so funny when revival meetings started 

 in the town Sunday night, and after church every 

 blessed girl deliberately cut the escorts lined up at 

 the doors and struck out for home alone. 



.SOilETHING FROM A MISSIONARY ABOUT THE 

 BEES OF SOUTH AFRICA, ETC.; ALSO SOME- 

 THING AEOl'T THE MONKEY THAT WAS 

 STUNG TO DEATH BY BEES. 

 Dear Mr. Boot: — For some months we have been 

 receiving Gleanings, and are very much interested 

 in many of the articles. We often wonder to whom 

 we are indebted for the paper. I believe that if you 

 were here you would not be in the bee business very 

 long. However, in Abyssinia, some 250 miles from 

 here, there must be great quantities of honey pro- 

 duced, for every year there are tons of beeswax 

 brought down the Sabat. The bees 'of this part have 

 stings and tempers too. Sometimes a swarm will 

 occupy a place about our premises in which it is 

 not welcome. I remember that once a swarm of 

 bees found a box to their liking; and so, after some 

 months, one of our missionaries thought that there 

 might be some honey, so he rigged himself up with 

 mosquito-netting and lifted the lid. That was as far 

 as he got. Some flew so hard against the netting 

 that it was driven against his face, and he got 

 stung. He took refuge in the house; and during 

 the rest of the day, when any one showed himself 

 at a window the bees came dashing against it. 

 Chickens were stung to death; a monkey died from 

 the effects of the stings it received. Another time 

 the box was opened and a little honey removed. The 

 honey here is made from the blossoms of the ai'acia 

 and other trees, and is quite strong. It is very dark 

 in color. 



The people here live on dura, a sorghum ; but it 

 does not produce from suckers after the first head 

 is removed. ■ C. B. Guthhje. 



American Mission, Doleih Hill, Sabat River, P^gyp- 

 tian Sudan, Sept. 11, 1915. 



Why, my good friend, almost ever since 

 the time Gleanings was started we have 

 been sending it free of charge to foreign 

 missionaries like yourself. All we ask is 

 to let us know at the end of the year that 

 I hey read it and are glad to have it keep 

 coming. We shall be pleased also to have 

 vou tell us about the bees in different parts 

 of the world where they may be located. 



