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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



If I understand you correctly, you will send me a 

 smoker if I will give up the awful habit; and as 

 sure as I put another pipe into my mouth you will 

 receive your 75 cents. Ci-inton Hoyer. 



Lima, Allen Co., O., Aug. 13, 1883. 



By the help of the Lord I have succeeded in quit- 

 ting the use of tobacco. Please send me one of your 

 smokers; and if I ever commence using it again 

 (which I never intend to do), I will srnd you the 

 money to pay for it. John W. Rowe. 



White Sulphur Springs, Mer. Co., Ga., July 24, 1882. 



I see by Gleanings that yovi give a smoker to all 

 who quit using tobacco. I quit the use of it in all 

 shapes and forms June 1, 1883, and if you will send 

 me a smoker I will pledge myself to pay you twice 

 the retail price of it, when I again take my first 

 chew, or smoke my first cigar. O. C. Holuoyd. 



Bradrick, Lawrence Co., O., Aug. 8, 1882. 



Send a smoker— the one you prefer, perhaps — not 

 the one that " snorts fire," but the one you can rec- 

 ommend. You must take the money for it, as I can 

 well ailord to pay for it, having left off the filthy 

 habit of using tobacco over forty years. At 10 cents 

 apiece it would pay for many smokers. But, enough 

 about the bad practice. I am glad to see one gentle- 

 man trying to reform mankind. T. P. Smith. 



Parowan, Iron Co., Utah, June 30, 1883. 



FROM OUR FRIEND WHO FIRST STARTED THIS DE- 

 PARTMENT. 



Perhaps you recollect that I was the one who put 

 it into your mind (or heart) to start the Tobacco Col- 

 umn. Well, I don't use any tobacco yet, and 1 am 

 glad to know that now and then a man has courage 

 to follow my example. I am also glad to know that 

 occasionally there is a man who is not ashamed to 

 say to the world that he has a conscience, and that 

 he lets it speak when he is making a trade as well as 

 when he is at church. May God bless you in your 

 business, also in your efforts to benefit your fellow- 

 men! H. M. Smith. 



Frankfort, Mich., July 13, 1883. 



Have you got a great big smoker to send me? I 

 have quit using tobacco. But, let me explain. I 

 have used tobacco for the last 25 years; commenced 

 fooling with it when ten or twelve years old, and the 

 last ten years, to great excess — so much so that my 

 life became a great burden to me, and my mouth 

 seemed hardly large enough to contain a good chew 

 for my craving appetite; and on the 17th day of last 

 April I threw out my last chew, and resolved, by the 

 help of God, it should be the last. Now, I have tried 

 many times to quit, but always in my own strength, 

 and failed; but this time I relied upon a higher pow- 

 er than my own. " Nay, in all these things we are 

 more than conquerors through him that loved us." 

 Now you can see that I did not quit the filthy weed 

 for the purpose of getting a smoker, and I do not 

 ask it. W. P. Turner. 



Hopkins, Nodaway Co., Mo., Aug. 8, 1883. 



Nevertheless we send a smoker, friend T., 

 and are glad of the opportunity. 



May God prosper the tobacco reform which you 

 have started, and may those who are being saved 

 from the pernicious weed join hand in hand in one 

 mighty armj" till our infiuence shall be felt from 

 center to circumference; and may the day speedily 

 come when a lady or gentleman can step into our 



stores, postolBces, or cars, without being annoyed 

 by the fumes of tobacco. I have not used the weed 

 for some 7 or 8 years (don't send me a smoker), and 

 to this day I look back with regret to my schoolboy 

 days when I thought it grand to smoke a cigar. May 

 the Lord enable me to so train my little Blue Eyes, 

 wJio is sitting bj' my side, playing with his toys, that 

 he will look on its use as an evil, and dishonorable. 

 Sellersburg, Ind., July 11, 1883. A. L. Crim. 



SOMETHING ABOUT SNUFF. 



An fild Irtdy, 76 years of age, has been a Christian 

 after the old Methodist type for years. For some 

 time her mind has been in a sad condition. She was 

 fearful lest she should at last become a castaway. 

 As her pastor, 1 called on her often. I was at last 

 convinced that the excessive use of snuff was injur- 

 ing her soul, as well as her bodily health. When a 

 favorable opportunity came I told her my convic- 

 tion. After much thought she made the following 

 pledge: "The Lord being my helper, I will never 

 take another pinch of snuff." Weeks have passed, 

 and she has not had the least craving for it. She has 

 been often tempted by old friends. One instance I 

 will relate: A friend sent her a quarter of a pound of 

 the delicacy. " I can't take it, I don't want it, and I 

 won't touch it!" was her prompt decision; then she 

 added, "Take it home; it will be good to put on the 

 calves when they get lousy." The effect of the 

 above pledge is very gratifying. The old light and 

 peace return. Surely, as Our Homes column was 

 headed last month, " It is not by might nor by pow- 

 er, but my Spirit, saith the Lord." 



C. B. Personeus. 



In Gleanings I see a Tobacco Column, which I 

 deem almost equal to the temperance cause. It was 

 not much trouble for me to become a temperance 

 worker, but the tobacco, I think, by God's grace I 

 have conquered at last. I ucd to chew it, and did 

 so for quite a long lime. I got "shut" of that by 

 smoking cigars, which proved to be the greater evil. 

 Often when I was instructing my class of youngmen 

 in Sabbath-school against the evils of intemperance, 

 I was compelled to say something about tobacco, 

 which 1 could not do with a clear conscience, as I 

 smoked the ugly weed. It came very handy to 

 smoke the little stingers back; but friend Root is 

 going to supply all the old tobacco veterans with a 

 good bellows smoker, and I hope he will continue to 

 add such to his list until there will not be one left to 

 use the filthy weed — who teach God's word, at least. 

 And I would say to all my fellow bee-keepers, that 

 there is more pleasure and honor in abstinence from 

 tobacco than to be its slave. I used it for five long 

 years, and once argued that it would be impossible 

 for me to quit its use; but on the last day of 1881 I 

 was thinking what sacrifice I could make for the 

 Master, or vow that would be for my good or for the 

 benefit of any one, to begin the new year with. I 

 looked upon tobacco as being one of my worst sins 

 and enemies, and resolved then and there to leave it 

 off, and to teach others the great evil thereof. I 

 have now lived almost seven months without, and I 

 feel much happier; and the "little wife," oh how 

 she rejoices! S. I. Smith. 



Goldsmith, Ind., July 35, 1882. 



May God bless the little wife, and her hus- 

 band too, in his determination to give up to- 

 bacco for her sake and for tlie Master's sake, 

 friend D. 



