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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



July 



I have used tobacco 26 years. I both chew and 

 smoke. Send mo a smoker, and I will neither chew 

 nor smoke until I pay you $3.00 for it. 



W. A. Owens. 



Brownings, Smith Co., Tex., March 11, 1882. 



I sec that you will give any person a smoker if he 

 quits using tobacco. I have quit about two weeks, 

 and have bought 3 scaps of bees. I have used to- 

 bacco about six years, and, God helping me, I in- 

 tend to quit for good, if you will send me a smoker, 

 and if I ever use tobacco any more I will send you 

 Ave dollars cash the day I put the stuff in my mouth. 

 Henry MarijAtt. 



Beloit, Mah. Co., O., May 23, 1882. 



I have been an inveterate user of tobacco for 40 

 years, but have quit it altogether, and, by the help 

 of the good Lord, I never expect to use it any more. 

 Please send me a smoker to do my smoking for me, 

 and I will let it suffice. May the God whom you 

 serve bless and guide you, friend Koot, and give 

 you grace according to your day and trial! May the 

 Lord bless you in all your efforts for the good of 

 your fellow-men, and reward you with everlasting 

 life, is my prayer. Jesse H. Wilt.tams. 



White Sulphur Springs, Ga., Jan., 1882. 



I wish Stella all the happiness possible in her new 

 relation to the world, and hope she may cleave to 

 the "Lion" (of the tribe of Juda). Now, friend 

 Koot, I think I deserve no credit, nor is there any 

 virtue in my quitting the use of tobacco; it was quit 

 or die, and I thought I would quit, and I feel better. 

 I thank you, though, for feeling an interest in me 

 and all other like depraved mortals. 



John H. Daniel. 



Cumberland, Ohio, April 3, 1882. 



Well, if it was quit or die, friend 1)., I do 

 not know that there was very much credit, 

 after all. ]iut come to think of it, I do not 

 know but that it is pretty much the same 

 with all. If it isn't quit or die, in a temporal 

 sense, I am inclined to think it is in a spirit- 

 ual one, especially with the present march of 

 progress before one's eyes. 



I have used tobacco for 30 years out of 42, and on 

 the first day of last September I resolved to stop it, 

 and am " still stopped," as the Dutchman said of the 

 balking horse; and I did not stop to get a smoker, 

 although I have saved enough to get half a dozen 

 smokers. All I ask of you is your prayers, that I 

 may never return to the filthy habit again. Besides, 

 while I did use it, I had, for a long time, the bloody 

 piles, and since I stopped its vise I have no piles. 

 William St. Martz. 



Martinsville, 111., Feb. 6, 1882. 



The above was quite evidently not intend- 

 ed for publication, but it is of such great 

 importance that our people should under- 

 stand how large a class of diseases is caused 

 by the use of tobacco alone, I feel I should 

 be doing a wrong by withholding it. To be 

 sure, you sliall have my prayers, brother S., 

 as shall every one else who has commenced 

 to battle for the right, and I know you will 

 " stay stopped." 



About a year ago I wrote you that I had quit us- 

 ing tobacco; that you should send me a smoker, and 

 I would pay for it in 30 or 90 days (I don't remember 

 which). You sent the smoker, and In a card said 

 you would make no charge. Being a little " hard 



up," I have let it run until now. I have not tasted 

 tobacco in any form since, and do not think I ever 

 shall. I wish it undei-stood, that I did not quit to- 

 bacco to get a smoker, but because I became con- 

 vinced that it is wrong in every sense. I think I am 

 physically and mentally better without it. I am 

 very certain that my breath will not intoxicate oth- 

 ers, and give them the headache. Here is $5.00 for 

 the smoker, and other goods below. 

 Unionville, Iowa, May 6, 1882. G. B. Replogle. 



Do you not see, friends, hew the bread I 

 cast upon the waters recklessly, as some of 

 you thought, is returning after many days? 

 Surely tliere is a God aljove who looks on 

 and brings all these things about in his own 

 inhnite wisdom. May he bless you, friend 

 K,., for your kind and encouraging words. 



The matter of tobacco is just what suits me; for 

 what an awful thing it is getting to be! I will say 

 of a truth, that I never used it, nor any kind of 

 liquors, nor played cards nor checkers, nor any such 

 games. I would much rather work in the garden or 

 with my pet-', the bees. How many people there ai'e 

 who will have tobacco and go without eatables; and, 

 too, what a dirty habit! The idea that it is good to 

 keep food from hurting any one! so will any poison. 

 We have men here who can not pay me for filing a 

 saw, who use 10 cents in tobacco each day. 



E. P. Churchill. 



West Minot, Me., April 15,1882. 



I guess you must be something like my- 

 self, friend C. I rarely enjoy any pastime 

 unless it leaves something substantial after,, 

 such as a nice-looking garden or apiary. 

 And of late I lind I have no relish for enter- 

 tainments or lectures, where they simply di- 

 vert, without any sort of a liftiiig-up of the 

 soul, or some effort to raise Iiumanity. It is 

 sad, friend C.,to see them working with dull 

 saws, and using ten cents' worth of tobacco 

 a day. Be of good cheer. I can remember 

 the day when women used to smoke clay 

 pipes. Another generation may remember 

 the time when 7nen used to do such things. 



I have been loaning Gleanings to some of my 

 friends. One of them, Robert P. Rawlins, wants 

 you to send me one of those smokers you keep on 

 hand for those who quit using tobacco. He has 

 been using it for a long time, both chewing and 

 smoking, and has quit both. He wants you to send 

 the smoker to mo, for he does not keep bees. If he 

 goes back to his tobacco, I will pay you for the 

 smoker. Bees have been quite lively with us for 

 about three weeks, bringing in some honey and 

 plenty of pollen. They gathered honey from peach 

 about one week; but when red-bud opened they 

 would not notice a peach-bloom. Red-bud lasted 10 

 days, and started them to building comb and queen- 

 cells, and yesterday I hived the finest first swarm of 

 blacks I ever saw. There was a peck of them. 



A. R. NiSBET. 



Doby ville, Clark Co., Ark., March 28, 1883. 



Thank you, friend N. We usually require 

 the abstainer to give us a promise in his own 

 handwriting; but in the case you mention, I 

 do not know but that it is even a better way, 

 for your friend puts himself in your hands, 

 and directs you to liold the pledge. I think 

 I see wisdom in it, and I am sure God will 

 bless you both. 



