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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Aug. 15, 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



THAT NEW WEED FOUNDATION. 



I got some of your new foundation from your Chi- 

 cago branch, and think it is the best 1 ever used. 

 It is thin, but still is stiff enough so as not to bend 

 outofshHpe. G.E.Nelson. 



BishopHill, 111., July9. 



GLEANINGS AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 



Please accept thanks for your kindness in giving 

 my ad't so conspicuous a place in your columns. 

 The result is highly satisfactory, as orders are com- 

 ing at such a rate that my supply will soon be ex- 

 hausted. D. W. Bbunson. 



Mulberry Grove, 111., June 29. 



A KIND WORD IN REGARD TO OUR STRAWBERRY- 

 PLANTS. 



I should think you would have a monopoly of the 

 plant business should you always send out such 

 nice ones. Many thanks. We had a nice rain just 

 after setting out. C. J. Schaper. 



Eddyville, Iowa, Aug. 4. 



THE TRAMP PROBLEM. 



Mr. Rout:— Your experience with tramps is the 

 same that every one has had, and the whole tramp 

 problem is due to tlie negldjt to enforce the crimi- 

 nal-law, the most serious defect iu our American 

 civil life. 



But I want to tell you how the tramp question 

 was settled here, and It can be done anywhere else 

 in the same manner 



About two years ago an officer was shot dead by a 

 tramp whom he was trying to arrest. The man had 

 burglar's tools in his possession; but it was proved 

 that he was a few feet over an imaginary line called 

 the city boundar.v, so he got off with a few years in 

 prison. But the Mayor issued a proclamation say 

 ing that all tramps would be set to work with baU 

 and chain on the streets. There have two been 

 caught and set at work, and that was enough. We 

 are between New York and Philadelphia, on the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad, and the freights trains carry 

 any number of tramps; but verj' few dare to get off 

 here to beg, and the country for miles around is 

 generally free of them. B. C. Whitney. 



Rahway, N J. 



EMANCIPATION PROM THE BONDAGE OF SIN. 



Broiha- Roof:— I felt much interest in reading 

 your article al out the stranger who "paid the 

 price" for the slave girl and made her free. He 

 did not make an incomplete work of it, depending 

 upon any thing 1he girl might be expected to do in 

 after-life to merit freedom— no; he paid the full 

 •price, nr\(\ the girl was free /or ever. The giil, un- 

 derstanding this, had only to helieve in the power of 

 the stranger to make her free, and that he /(((d ex 

 ercised that power in her behalf, and then gratitude 

 and love should take the place in service, before 

 nlled with fear and discontent. But, my brother, 

 what joy would that girl have had in her freedom, 

 if, week b> week, year by year, she had gone, hop- 

 ing that, in thii end. when <]\e came to die, the free- 

 dom papers might be made out, if she remained 

 faithful? There is where well-meaning Christians 

 make a mistake. They do not believe God's word. 

 Our Savior says; "He that believeth on me hath 

 everlasting life," John 6:47; and God's word says, 

 " My little children, your sins are forgiven you for 

 his name's sake," I." John 3:1^; and, '"These things 

 have I written unto you that believe on the name 

 of the Son of God, that ye may know," not hope, 

 "that ye liave einrnal life," I. John 'vAS. 



Salvatrion is free and complete; but we inhabit a 

 body of llesh. ar'd should be on our guard to over- 

 come carnal desires. ( '. V. S. Wilson. 



Manatee, Fla.. March 30. 



A KIND word of THE VERY BEST SORT. 



Perhaps it will Interest you to know how I first 

 became acquainted with Gleanings, and learned 

 to esteem its proprietor and originator, especially 

 as there is a little story connected therewith of the 

 grace of God in the salvation of sinners. It was 

 nine or ten years ago, when I was living and preach- 

 ing at Vinehill, Ala. (I am pastor of one of these 

 old-time Presbyterian churches in the valley of Vir- 

 ginia). I also had charge of a little church at Stan- 



ton, Ala. If you will look at 3 our subscription list 

 for Gleanings at that period you will find the name 

 of Chas. Plant (I am not so sure of the first name, 

 but the surname was Plant), Stanton, Chilton Co., 

 Ala. He first got me interested in Gleanings; 

 lent me copies of it, and got me interested in bee 

 culture. He was not then a religious man, but was 

 a moralist, one of the " ninety and nine just persons 

 who need no repentance." But he believed in 

 Gleanings, and called my attention to the religious 

 tone of the journal Do you remember in one of 

 those old numbers coming to the defense of the 

 preachers against one of your readers who had 

 alluded to the scandals in the newspapers with min- 

 isters' names attached to them ? You said some- 

 thing about having given your clerks orders to 

 credit any man who signed " Rev." to his name, 

 and that you had not lost any thing by that practice. 

 Well, to return to our man Plant. You will be glad 

 to know that he soon afterward was made a subject 

 of the grace of God. He had a long spell of fever, 

 came very near dying, and the Lord met with him 

 during that sickness, and spared him to become a 

 better man. He joined the church as soon as he got 

 tip and was able to do so. I remember very special- 

 ly his emphatic testimony to the sinfulness of his 

 condition in those days when he thought himself 

 "so much better than those church-members. ' 



While I do not know that there was any special 

 connectioQ between Gleanings and his conversion, 

 yet I doubt not that the Lord used you, along with 

 other good influences, to help on this good work. 

 This I know will give you pleasure as one of the 

 unknown fulfillments of the promise that " your 

 labor is not in vain In the Lord." 



Greenville, Va., May 20. R. A. Lapsley. 



NOTES FROM THE EVANGELISTIC WHEEL. 



In telling you bowl spent my Fourth of July I 

 made some mention of Bro. Reed's work. I told 

 you he was not only preaching eve? y evening, but 

 making per.sonal visitations during the day time on 

 those who had attended his meetings. I suggested 

 at the time that a wheel would save him much 

 laborious walking, and would enable him to do a 

 greater amount of spiritual work. The idea was 

 taken up, and some friends presented him with one. 

 Here is his first report in regard to it: 



North Madison. Aug. 6. 1896. 



To day I went a mile and a half to see a man 86 years of age 

 —a lite-long skeptic— who arose last evening in our meeting 

 expressing a desire to become a Christian. I went a mile and 

 a half further, calling at the last house; saw Arthur U. He 

 was at the meeting to-night, and arose as a beginner in the 

 Christian life. 



AUG. 8— Very warm. Went on the wheel three miles and re- 

 turn, calling at every house. Fonnd Dr. sick. Bitter 



skeptic. Calls himself a deist. " M,v experience is imagina- 

 tion, and our Bible is a transmitted humbug." He had a very 

 earnest Christian wife. She would not listen to his talk. He 

 then held tier, and made her hear his quotations from Tom 

 Paine. Slie at length became woise than he. She died sudden- 

 ly. A. T. R. 



A terrible truth is revealed in the incident men- 

 tioned above. It is not good for a Christian to listen 

 to unbelievers' talk or so-called "arguments." You 

 may say, " Let us have the truth, no matter if it is 

 terrible and hard." My friends, the truth is not ter- 

 rible and hard. Unbelievers, I know, would make 

 it appear so. Jesus tells us, " The truth shall make 

 you free;" and Christian tr\ith docs make every 

 child of humanity free and happij; but the kind of 

 truth presented by unbelievers, or. rather, their 

 misleading way of "pi-esenting a truth, brings with 

 it gloom, hopelessness, ruin, and death. The latter 

 is/iofof God. It is not O^d's truth. Look about, 

 and see for yourself.— A. I. R. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The Southwestern Wisconsin Bee-keepers' Societ.y will meet 

 Oct. 7, 8, in Wauzeka, Wis. N. E. France. Pres. 



Platteville, Wis. 



The annual meeting of the Southern Minnesota Bee-keepers' 

 Association will be held at Winona on the 24th and 2.^th of 

 September next, at 9 o'clock A. M. All who feel in any way in- 

 terested in bees or honey are very cordiallv invited to attend. 



Winona, Minn., July 27. E. C. Cornweli,. Sec. 



The Southwestern Texas Bee-keepers' Association will hold 

 its third annual meeting at The .Jennie Atchley Co.'s Live Oak 

 Apiary, 2'A miles north of Beeville. Board and lodging free to 

 those from a distance. The reception committee will meet all 

 trains. Please notify the secretary if it is your intention to 

 attend. Date, Sept. 16, 17. J. O. Grimslky, Sec. 



Beeville, Tex. 



