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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 



have different tastes. Our nation is broad, 

 and there is plenty of room. The people will 

 always give us all the support we honestly 

 deserve. 



I have been absent from my type-writer 

 for about two hours; during that time I 

 made a visit to one of the principal saloons 

 in our place, and finally prevailed on the 

 proprietor to go with me* to a union meeting 

 of all our Medina churches. He spoke du- 

 ring the meeting, and said he wanted to be 

 a Christian. A heavy board is now nailed 

 across the front doors of his saloon, his sign 

 taken down, and he did it with his own 

 hands, and of his own free will. Which is 

 better, to take a saloon keeper to jail against 

 his will, or to induce him to go to meeting 

 of his own free will and accord V 



My boy, Albert, who has had so many ups 

 and downs, I have been obliged to let go, at 

 least temporarily. After he had been paid 

 off, and started out to seek work more to his 

 taste elsewhere, I plead with him, to keep 

 sober and beware of temptation. lie prom- 

 ised faithfully to do this, but rejected the 

 religion of the Bible, declaring he thought 

 Spiritualism better. In vain we talked and 

 argued, for I believe argument is almost al- 

 ways vain. As I could take no more time, I I 

 closed the talk in this way: 



" Albert, I will demonstrate the religion 

 of the Bible by my daily life, and you may ! 

 demonstrate Spiritualism by your daily life. | 

 If you show that it will keep a man from 

 temptation, raise him above his taste for j 

 drink, and make a steady, good citizen of 

 him, such as you have been while going to I 

 meeting with me, I will believe in it. Now ! 

 for God's sake, my boy, do not have another j 

 fall ; if you can not accept my way, be a 

 man in your way, and let us see you can rule 

 your own spirit. 1 ' 



"All right, Mr. Boot, I will be careful ; if 

 I get to drinking again, you need not be- 

 lieve any more in Spiritualism." 



My friends, can not we close all argument 

 in this same pleasant way? If Spiritualism 

 or infidelity causes a saloon keeper to nail 

 up his saloon, and tell his neighbors that he 

 is sorry for his past deeds and will do so no 

 more, give them to us by all means. Peo- 

 ple see, and believe, even if they do not ad- 

 mit it in argument, and through the people 

 comes the voice of God, telling, in terms 

 unmistakable, which is the straight and 

 narrow path that leads to His great throne. 

 Come all ye that are weary, and heavy la- 

 den; come ye that have struggled against 

 profanity, the love of drink, the love of ap- 

 probation, or the thousand and one forms in 

 which Satan comes to drag men down, and 

 to make them think it is of no use to try ; 

 never mind the things you can not under- 

 stand, but take hold of the things you do 

 understand, and show your good will. Come 

 and work in the things we do agree on, and 

 God will take care of the rest, as fast as we 

 come to it. 



If any man will do his will, he shall know of the 

 doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak 

 of myself.- John, VII; 17. 



With pain and sorrow, I am obliged to 

 add that Albert was on a drunken spree al- 

 most immediately, and I have just been 



told that he has been sent back to his old 

 home in the jail. I have faith that he will 

 become a Christian yet, and stay one, if we 

 are patient and do not get discouraged. It 

 is God's work and not mine, and why need 

 I doubt, or fear to do his bidding. 



clumn. 



Under this head, will be inserted free of charge, 

 the names of all those having- honey to sell, as well 

 as those wanting: to buy. Please mention how 

 much, what kind, and prices, as far as possible. The 

 prices quoted in our cities for honey are, at present, 

 too low, to make it worth while to publish them. 

 As a general thiiig, I would not advise you to send 

 your honey away, to be sold on commission. If 

 near home, where you can look after it, it is often 

 a very good way. By all means, develop your home 

 market. For 25cts., we can furnish little boards 

 to hangup in your door yard, with the words "Honey 

 for Sale" neatly painted. If wanted by mail, 10c. 

 extra for postage. Boards saying "Bees and Queens 

 for Sale," tame price. 



MY customers appear to be all supplied with 

 honey for the present, and I have 1 barrel 

 __ left which I should like to dispose of. Can 

 you please tell me of a buyer at 9 cts. per lb.? It is 

 excellent in quality. Fred. T. Nunn. 



83 Public Square, Cleveland, O., Jan. 4, 1879. 



O. Brumfield, of Brumfield Station, Ky.. will de- 

 liver honey at Railroad, in new, iron hooped, waxed 

 barrels, at 10 cts. per lb. This honey was all made 

 before July 1st, and is very thick and fine. No 

 charge for barrels. Jan. 20, 1879. 



I have a 32 gal. barrel of extracted honey, from 

 autumnal wild flowers (golden rod, aster, etc.), and 

 candied solid. Would take $25.00. delivered at rail- 

 road, and include the barrel. Will send sample of 

 honey if required. [This would be about 7c. per lb.] 



Hudson, MC Lean Co., 111. EDGAR SAGEB. 



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Pertaining to Bee Culture. 



[We respectfully solicit the aid of our friends in 

 conducting this department, and would consider it a 

 favor to have them send us all circulars that have a 

 deceptive appearance. The greatest care will be at 

 all times maintained to prevent injustice being done 

 any one.] 



^OpHUKBEB admits that he has adultera- 

 ted extracted honey with glucose. I 

 — ' have shown up three different parties, 

 in the Humbug and Swindle department, in 

 back volumes, for this same fraud, and there 

 is room for more, if you will only give their 

 names right out. The innocent' have noth- 

 ing to fear. 



There seems to be a terribly mixed up 

 state of things in regard to grape sugar. 

 From the reports, I supposed, of course, that 

 some one (or many) in our country had been 

 feeding glucose, and had succeeded in get- 

 ting nice looking comb honey in sections; 

 yes, even a ship load. If anybody ever de- 

 served a place in Humbugs and Swindles, it 

 would be the men who had done this. The 

 matter, like the statement that several hun- 

 dred colonies had been killed by grape sug- 

 ar, has been dropped right there, and no one 

 knows where it came from. If anybody 

 does know, will he not speak out? I am rea- 

 dy to help ferret out fraud, but I cannot 



