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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15. 



tion from his body was a deadly poison, and the 

 wife had absorbed enough of this to kill her. 

 He said that he had known such things before, 

 and that some constitutions can bear the poison 

 while others can not. and that he had seen ex- 

 periments tried at establishments where they 

 treat patients for the cure of the tobacco habit, 

 in which flies were dead in less than five min- 

 utes after coming in contact with the perspira- 

 tion of a tobacco victim. Another simple proof 

 of the poison of tobacco smoke is where birds 

 have been confined in it, and they died in a very 

 short time. Reliable physicians assert that 

 children are killed in the same way when 

 obliged to breathe the poisonous fumes which 

 act on the weakest organs of the body. Then 

 if many must be given up to their deplorable 

 fate, let us diligently endeavor to teach the 

 young, whose veins are yet untainted by this 

 body-destroyer, soul-injurer. to shun it as they 

 would the deadly viper or poisonous upas-tree. 

 If they must imitate others, better do as the 

 boy did who bought 25 cents' worth of licorice. 

 When asked whether he liked it he replied, 

 " No; but I want to spit black, like pa." We 

 are great imitators! Then how necessary to 

 teach by example as well as precept! 

 Sumner, III. Ei,la T. Griffith. 



KEMEDIES FOR THE TOBACCO HABIT, ETC. 



Mr. Root: — Please tell a reader what you know 

 regarding good tobacco cures. Hill's bichlo- 

 ride of gold cures many, but injures the minds 

 of some; so it is claimed by one editor. No-to- 

 bak, he said, generally cures, and never hurts 

 folks. Probably he had reason for his views, 

 but I find folks are slow to believe, and I want 

 to convince them if possible. 



Decatur, la., Sept. 18. Miss A. M. Boyle. 



[My dear friend, I neglected to sav. when I 

 spoke of the tobacco remedies, that I had but 

 little faith in any of them, and for the reason 

 that I mentioned— there are so many who do 

 not want to be cured. If one who is usine to- 

 bacco really wishes, from the bottom of his 

 heart, to give it up, God helping him. I am sure 

 he can do it. Now. it may be that this " no-to- 

 bak " and some of these other things would be 

 of som,e assistance to such a one. But even if 

 it is, you tell us that one of the remedies some- 

 times injures the mind. I am afraid that any 

 drug so powerful as to break a sinful appetite 

 which has been encouraged to grow for years 

 and years would be very apt to injure the mind 

 or something else. A few confess that they 

 have been helped by no-to-bak : but some of 

 my particular friends who say they gave it a 

 faithful trial declare it amounts to nothing. 

 The fact that the venders agree to pay back 

 the money if it does no good (and I believe they 

 do this), would seem as if it must be a help. 

 But this thing is certainly true: He who is 

 cured of the appetite for liquor by the gold 

 cure, or for the appetite for tobacco by some- 

 thing else, can learn it over again in a very 

 short time if he undertakes to do so. The 

 trouble with sin and sinners since the world 

 began is principally that they do not want to 

 be cured. They prefer to be sinners; and any 

 thing that cuts off what they call their liberty 

 to sin again when they feel like it does not 

 seem to suit. The Master said, ages ago, "Ye 

 must be born again : '" and I believe that is 

 what we ought to think and say now.] 



Perhaps I am not eligible under your offer of 

 a free smoker. I used to smoke, but have pretty 

 much quit it; but having a few bees, and hav- 

 ing to work with them more or less. I am oblig- 

 ed to light a cigar, and give them the benefit of 

 a smoke. Of course, if I had a smoker I should 



not need to smoke. I would pay for the same 

 if I should ever again take to the weed. 

 Ashtabula, O., July 28. A. D. P. Young. 



Please send a smoker to James Pig, High- 

 tower, Ky. After seeing your offer of a smoker 

 to all who quit the use of tobacco he has con- 

 cluded to quit, and promises, if he ever uses the 

 weed again, to pay for the smoker; but in case 

 he should fail to do so, I will remit the price of 

 the smoker. H. C. Clemons. 



Hightower, Ky., Aug. ii. 



A neighbor of mine said he would quit using 

 tobacco for one of your smokers. He said if he 

 ever used it in any way he would pay for the 

 smoker. His word is good. His name is C. J. 

 Wagoner. Thornton Wagoner. 



Twiggs, W. Va., Aug. 17. 



I see in Gleanings you send a smoker to 

 those who quit the use of tobacco. I have used 

 the weed for 15 years; but the 18th of last April 

 I quit, and haven't used it since. Now. if you 

 think I am entitled to one you may send it; and 

 if I ever use it any more I will pay you for the 

 smoker. R. H. Treeve. 



Mt. Blanchard, O., Sept. 9. 



My son, G. F. Von Lienen, has quit using 

 tobacco on account of reading the Tobacco 

 Column. You can send him a smoker. He 

 quit about 3 months ago. I am satisfied he will 

 hold out. His health has improved since he 

 quit. Should he at any time commence again I 

 will pay for the smoker. H. L. Von Lienen. 



Somerset, III., Sept. 7. 



OURSELVES AND OUR NEIGHBORS. 



Tliv will be done on earth as it is In heaven.— 

 Matt. 6:10. 



Wednesday morning, Oct. 4th, we opened our 

 eyes in a beautiful private residence where we 

 had obtained rooms, in Windsor Park, in the 

 suburbs of Chicago. While the women were 

 dressing, Huber and I started out to explore, as 

 we came in the night before too late to know 

 where we really were. A copious rain had 

 made every thing lovely, and we pushed for the 

 beach to see the sun rise out of the water. A 

 fog rested over the deep; and as the sun peeped 

 out it began to assume fantastic shapes, and 

 finally stood like a lamp on a base, a great 

 glowing ball of fire, with the lower part reach- 

 ing down to the water, and then spreading out 

 to form a pedestal. In a second or two the ped- 

 estal parted, leaving the globe to rise up. while 

 the base remained for some time, gradually 

 spreading out on the silvery surface of the wa- 

 ter. Then Huber turned, and we caught our 

 first glimpse of the " White City." A great hill 

 or bluff seemed to loom up near the lake, much 

 to my astonishment, for I never knew before 

 there was any such bluff near Chicago. Imag- 

 ine my astonishment, as the fog lifted, to find 

 that this great hill was a building made by hu- 

 man hands — the Liberal Arts building of the 

 great fair. 



We started to go back for breakfast, but we 

 had, it seems, pushed out when we first woke 

 up, for all the world like a couple of bees when 

 somebody has moved their hive in the night. 

 We had crooked and turned evei' so many ways, 

 and neither of us knew either street or number 

 where we slept, nor any thing at all about it. 

 Huber finally piloted his father to the spot, 

 when said father was pretty sure it was just 

 the other way. Windsor Park, and, in fact, all 



