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perance. At first it is a little thing. One 

 can put it away almost as well as to encour- 

 age it. ]jy and by it gets to be a fetter, and 

 requires an almost superhuman effort of the 

 will to break away from it. A sort of sleep, 

 or apathy, enthralls us, but it is the sleep of 

 death. Are the churches where you attend 

 awake and in their strength ? and are you, 

 my friend, lighting earnestly to preserve in 

 unsullied purity the beautiful garments of 

 the new Jerusalem V 



'§€bae§€ $€lnitin. 



HA.VE made up my mind, since reading Glean- 

 ings, not to use any more tobacco. 



R. U. Griffith. 

 Pittston, Pii., Oct. 5. 1883. 



I have been using tobacco for over 30 years, and I 

 am going to quit if you send me a smoker; and if I 

 ever use tobacco again, I will send you the 7.5 cts. 

 Vai-entine Latus. 



Goldsmith, Tipton Co., Ind., Sept. 10, 1882. 



I have been using tobacco since I was ten years 

 old, and I now give you my word that I will quit if 

 you will send me a smoker, and I will give you my 

 word that I will pay for it if ever I use the weed 

 again. Joseph Colins. 



Big Spring, Calhoun Co., W. Va., Sept., 1883. 



I have no smoker. I quit the use of tobacco years 

 ago. I am much better without the filthy weed. I 

 can be a better Christian, a better husband, a better 

 father, and a better neighbor. I made up my mind 

 years ago never to support a minister who is a slave 

 to the filthy habit. I am an unworthy member of 

 the denomination friend Heddon speaks about — the 

 Free Methodists, who make tobacco a test of member- 

 ship. I am in sympathy with all who work for Jesus 

 on the Bible line. F. H. Kennedy. 



DuQuoin, 111., Sept, 9, 1883; 



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I have been young, and now am old; yet have I 

 not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed beg- 

 ging bread.— Psalm 37: 35. 



Gleanings never stood before where she does now 

 in her subscription list. We are to-day, Oct. 30, 

 5371 strong. 



1 have been feeling so happy of late, that I am al- 

 most ashamed of myself while there is so much 

 trouble and sorrow in this world of ours. 



We have just purchased of D. A. Jones 100,000 of 

 his new honey-labels. They are giving the sale of 

 extracted honey a wonderful Impetus. Samples 

 sent free. 



In answer to several friends we would say, that on 

 supplies purchased before Jan. 1st, for use next year, 

 you may have a discount of 3 per cent. On many of 

 our goods our profits are so close we can not offer 

 more than this. 



A GOOD many Inquiries are coming In, In regard 

 to buzz-saw tables for hive-making, to bo run by 

 power. Next month we will give engravings, and 

 tell you all about making them, with dimensions of 

 all the dififerent parts. 



remindery. 

 Now is the time when beginners imagine their 

 hives are queenless, because the queens are so small 

 they can't find them, and because they don't find any 

 brood. Very few queens, except young ones, will 

 lay now; and many times they won't even if you 

 feed them, so don't worry. 



A LADIES' knife, white handle, two-bladed, a blade 

 at each end, is the latest novelty on the 10-cent coun- 

 ter. The first man to whom I showed one bought 

 two right away, and I do not know but that nearly 

 all of j'ou would do the same, if I should hold one up 

 before your eyes. If you want one, send quick, for 

 we have only one gross. We have written to see If 

 we could get more. Two cents more sends it by 

 mail. 



Sugar-shells for only a dime, that look almost 

 as well as silver. At first I could not understand 

 how it was possible; but I found, by bending, they 

 are made of soft white metal. Well, this might 

 not do so well for a teaspoon, but if you use granu- 

 lated susar, no great strain Is ever required on a 

 sugar-shell. I admire the one we have in our lunch- 

 room, every time I have occasion to use it. They 

 are silver-plated, and we can send them by mail for 

 a dime, and two cents more for postage. Just try 

 giving one to a little girl* and see how it will make 

 her smile. 



HILL'S DEVICE. 



We have been asked if we shall again use the Hill 

 device under the cushions this winter. Most assur- 

 edly, we shall. Our bees were never in better con- 

 dition than last winter, so far as dryness and ven- 

 tilation were concerned, and over 300 colonies are 

 now fed up nicely on granulated-sugar stores, and 

 we intend to try how the Hill device will answer for 

 a cold winter. If we get one this time. As we are 

 filling a great many orders for them, we opine oth- 

 ers have been as well pleased with them as we have. 

 Price 5 cents each; by mall, 10c. Per hundred, $4 00; 

 in flat, $3.50. 



THE IMPROVED WATERBURY WATCH. 



Another series of Waterbury watches is just out. 

 The principal feature that is new is, that the dial is 

 covered entire, and the hands and figures are very 

 strong and plain, making it much easier to see the 

 time without spectacles, or in a dark day, or by 

 moonlight. We have just given four dozen of them 

 a 24-hour test, and only one acted " balky." The 

 rest all ran exactly on the dot. Now just a word in 

 the way of suggestion. These watches all run right 

 when hanging up. Before we send them out to you 

 we are going to try every one, carried in the pocket 

 also; but even after all this testing they will oc- 

 casionally stop, like all other watches. Well, If yours 

 does, don't write a long letter about it. We send 

 them to the factory to be repaired, without ever 

 looking at them, and so details are of no kind of in- 

 terest to us. Just say it stops, and send It back with 

 your name marked plainly on the box, and we will 

 send you another. If it stopped because you drop- 

 ped it, of course we expect you to say so, and to send 

 along 50 cents to pay for fixing. It is because the 

 Waterbury watches can be fixed so cheaply, and 

 without long stories, that is placing them so much 



