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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



I send you to-day my renewal to Gleanings, and 

 I wish you to place the letter C to my name {Coniin- 

 U6) and not D (Discontinue). I have every number 

 from No. 1 Vol. I. to tlie last issue, and don't propose 

 to stop taking' it for the next twenty years if I live 

 that lonR, for I liave received ample compensation, 

 moniUji and fiuanriaUy. Samuel C. Ware. 



Towandii, 111., March 24. 



Your last order sent me arrived all right; and to 

 say that I am pleased does not half express it. 1 

 have tiie whole order put up, and not a mistake in 

 the whole lot. If you don't stop sending out such 

 g'oods you will surely liave to enlarge that big plant. 

 I believe Pratt has the key to automatic swarmers, 

 and I shall give them a tliorough test. My pets are 

 very quiet in the cellar, while the two in Dovetailed 

 chaff hives, outside, are all right yet. Those D sec- 

 tion-cases ire the neatest thing I ever saw, and are 

 especially adapted for my retail trade. 



Lac-quiParle, Minn., Mar. 26. W. B. L. Miller. 



OUR SEWING-MACHINE AT $17.00 EQUAL TO OTHER 



$65.00 MACHINES. 



The sewing-machine you sent me is "just splen- 

 did." Mrs. B. likes it very much. It runs nicely, 

 and does good work. There are some more of the 

 boys here wlio will want machines as soon as they 

 have the money to spare. They liave been in the 

 habit of buying on the weekly-installment pi in. 

 Some pay $65.00 for a machine no better than this 

 one at $17.00. Chas. Biery, Express Ag't. 



Northville, Mich., Apr. 8. 



OUR GARDEN SEEDS. 



Friend Roof;— Vou may think it extravagant for 

 me to paj' expressage from Medina on seeds, and I 

 might say it's none of your business; but I'll be 

 more polite, and tell you I tbink I make money by 

 It, for two reasons. One is, I get seeds true to name; 

 the other is, I get good seeds that will grow, with a 

 decent chance. It's poor economy to save five or 

 ten cents on apsickageof s^ed, and then have big 

 gaps in your row.s where the seed didn't come, or 

 else have something come you didn't want. The 

 comfort I feel after I've got off an order to you for 

 garden seeds, in the feeling that they'll be all right, 

 has a cash value that's not to be despised. 



Marengo, III., April 18. C. C. Miller. 



TASTING things BETWEEN MEALS, ETC. 



I've just read your most excellent article on health, 

 and I indorse every word. I have observed strict 

 care in diet. I haven't eaten a luneli for many 

 years, and I have often picked 130 quarts of straw- 

 berries in a day, but never ate one except at meals. 

 I know it's very hurtful, and it's very bad to be va- 

 rying in meal times. I often hear people say, " Oh I 

 give me fat living and I'll die the sooner;" and yet, 

 how soon they call the doctor ! I try to abide by na- 

 ture's laws so I can glory i.i all Ido. in the woods, in 

 the garden, amid the fruits and fluwers. How I do 

 wish I could see you, and have you take a stroll 

 among my fruits, etc. ! E. P. Churchill. 



Hallowell, Me. 



A KIND WORD FROM A FARMER'S DAUGHTER. 



Editor Gleaninijs :— Your journal has, by its gentle 

 visits, been a source of pleasure to an unknown 

 reader, who is not a subscriber, some of my relatives 

 being subscribers. I have enjoyed the privilege of 

 reading your valuable paper since I liave been old 

 enough to comprehend tlie real benefits to be deriv- 

 ed from a faithful CTi/i.sf i'((/i pen; I have now had 

 the pleasure of seeing each journal, as it was issued, 

 for the pa.st two years. My sister has become one of 

 your subscribers. I am not particularly interested 

 in the culture of bees; but there is enough else of 

 interesting matter which Gleanings contains and 

 bears, even to a saddc^ned home. The best of all is 

 "Myself and M.y Neighbors" The latter is what 

 prompts the anxious watcli for the faithful visits of 

 your paper. I can not and will not try to depict to 

 j'ou the pleasure that has been afforded one who, in 

 the igHorfiuce of its editor, has been reaping stolen 

 Gleanings. I will only say, that, in joy. Glean- 

 ings is a benefactor; in grief, it is a comforter. In 

 this I hope 1 have in nowise infringed upon thegood 

 nature of its editor by trying to express my sincere 



regard for the bee-journal that does not neglect to 

 brighten the home of a farmer's daughter. 

 Jan. 14. M. V. V. M. 



THAT health-talk. 



itmen, Bro. Rootl That health-talk in Glean- 

 ings for Jan. 15 is to the point. Only by discrimi- 

 nation in diet can I keep on my feet. Coffee with 

 milk I never use. I use much honey, but never with 

 apples or such fruits, while "pumpkin pie" I fore- 

 go. I must use food in proper combination (to 

 avoid fermentation), or be in constant misery. Sur- 

 geons and physicians are all right as experts in 

 cases of accident, or in extremity. Accidents will 

 occur, and surgeons be needed; but other sicknesses 

 are about on a par with the principle of ntanufac- 

 turing liquors and drinking the same because the 

 grain used helps the farmer by consuming his prod- 

 uct, the distilleries and breweries by employing 

 laborers, and the civil revenue received from the 

 business, then building Keeley institutes, and em- 

 ploying physicians to cure the diseases arising from 

 the use of the liquors. K. C. Aikin. 



Loveland, Colo., Jan. 22. 



SOCIAL PURITV, etc. 



Dear Brother:— I am led to write this because of 

 your Home talks in Gleanings of March 1st. "Vour 

 subjectwasonethatis near my heart; infact.Ioften 

 wonder if manj' young men suffer as much from sin- 

 ning in this direction as I have. Among the first 

 thoughts and aspirations that I can remember were 

 those of lust. Without anj' training or teaching to 

 the contrary, the habit grew with the years, until it 

 proved my physical, moral, and intellectual de- 

 struption. The wages of sin is death— death in this 

 world as well as in the next. Finally I got hold of 

 some social-purity literature, which gave me an idea 

 of what God intended I should be. Wasn't there a 

 flght between Satan and God to see which should 

 conquer ? It would be impossible to describe the 

 mental anguish I suffered for about three years. 

 Resolution after resolution I broke, for Satan held 

 me in chains of iron. I had a strong will power, but 

 it availed me nothing apainst the tempter. I came 

 to Christ for strength, and then I began to conquer 

 my baser nature. 1 can do this thing "tlirough Christ 

 which strengtheneth me." This is a subject upon 

 which children, as a general rule, get no instruction 

 except that which they receive from evil compan- 

 ions. Had I known as much about the organs of 

 generation as I now do, and my duty to God, how 

 much physical and moral suffering I might have es- 

 caped! but as it is impossible to recall the past, I 

 can only pray and work that I may be instru- 

 mental in aiding some of the young' to escape what 

 I have been through. What we need is some books 

 on social purity that can be placed in tlie hands of 

 every child. Parents are altogether too modest; chil- 

 dren will and must learn such things, so why not 

 from a pure source';* 



Your talks have done me more good than I can 

 tell; but the strength we get from God is beyond es- 

 timating. It would not be any more wonderful to 

 me to see a muddy stream changed into a sparkling, 

 rejoicing rivulet than to know as I do the wonderful 

 change God's grace has created and is creating in 

 my soul or mind. M. N. B. 



[May God be praised, dear brother, that you have 

 been emancipated, through Christ, from Satan's 

 toils. I agree with you exactly in regard to the im- 

 portance of teaching our children, before the vi- 

 cious and ungodly can do it for us. There is one 

 branch of the work of the W. C. T. U. specially de- 

 voted to this subject; and my sister, Mrs. E. J. Gray, 

 of this place, would be very glad to mail you tracts 

 on social purity, and to give you advice in regard to 

 the various books that liave recently been put out to 

 fill this very want. One of them, wliich I have re- 

 cently gone through, I would especially recommend. 

 Its title is, A Song of Life; or. The Cradle of the 

 World; A. C. McClurg & Co., publishers, Chicago. 

 The price, $1.00, seems a little high for the size of the 

 book; but the woi'k is really a gem, both in typogra- 

 phy and illustrations. When I iieiir^-d the end, a 

 feeling of thankfulness to God came up every little 

 wliile, that we had in our land a man or woman ca- 

 pable of handling this delicate matter so wisely and 

 so well; and one who could leave such an impression 

 on tlie reader of the importance of cultivating such 

 a pure and high moral tone as the book holds up all 

 the way through. The volume is exceedingly valu- 

 able, also, for its plain teachings in regard to sci- 

 ence and physiology.] 



