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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 



JF0B7ICC0 C@MIMN. 



CONDITIONS UNDEB WHICH WE GIVE SMOKERS TO PERSONS WHO 

 stop rsiNi; TOBACCO. 

 First, the candidate must be one of those who have given up 

 tobacco in consequence of what he has seen and read in this 

 department. Second, he promises to pay for the smoker 

 should he ever resume the use of tobacco in any form, after 

 receiving the smoker. Third, he must be a subscriber to 

 GLEANINGS. Any subscriber may. however, have smokers sent 

 to neighbors or personal acquaintances whom he has labored 

 with on the matter of tobacco-using, providing he give us his 

 pledge that, if the one who receives the smoker ever uses to- 

 baccoagain. he ithe subscriber) will pay forthe smoker. The 

 one who receives the smoker in this case need not be a sub- 

 scriber to Gleanings, though we greatly prefer that he be one, 

 because we think he would he strengthened by reading the 

 testimonials from time to time in regard to this" matter. The 

 full name and address of every one who makes the promise 

 must be furnished for publication. 



E extract the following from the In- 

 dependent of Jan. 10, hoping it may 

 carry conviction to the heart of 

 some tobacco-using brother : 



"A great majority of men go far be- 

 yond what maybe called the temperate use of to- 

 bacco, and evidences of injury are easily found. 

 It is only necessary to have some record of what 

 the general health was previous to the taking-up of 

 the habit, and to have observation cover a long 

 enough time. The history of tobacco in the island 

 of Xew Zealand furnishes a quite suggestive illus- 

 tration for our purpose, and one on a large scale. 

 When Europeans first visited New Zealand they 

 found in the native Maoris the most finely devel- 

 oped and powerful men of any of the tribes in- 

 habiting the islands of the Paciflo. Since the in- 

 troduction of tobacco, for which the Maoris devel- 

 oped a passionate liking, they have from this cause 

 alone, it is said, become decimated in numbers, 

 and at the same time reduced in stature and in 

 physical well-being so as to be an altogether inferi- 

 or type of men." 



Mrs. Leeka has quit smoking, and she helps me 

 with the bees. Please send her a smoker. If she 

 takes to the weed again, I will pay for it. 



Thos. W. Leeka. 

 Losantville, Ind., June 15, 1888. 



My husband has quit the use of tobacco in every 

 form, after using it since he was a boy. He says if 

 you send me a smoker, and he ever uses tobacco 

 again he will pay you your price for the smoker. 



lantha. Mo., Aug. 3, 1888. E. C. Harper. 



I thank you most heartily for the smoker for my 

 son, and freely promise to pay for the same, if 

 there should be any falling back into evil habits. 

 But I think that will never be, for my son has ex- 

 perienced religion. Mrs. J. E. Bcttolph. 



Frasa, Tex.. Nov. 2, 1888. 



GOING BAIL FOR A NEIGHBOR. 



A neighbor of mine has quit the use of tobacco 

 through reading Gleanings, and my influence, and 

 wished me to write for a smoker. He will pay for 

 it if he ever uses tobacco again, and I am ready to 

 pay for it if he don't. He has just commenced bee- 

 keeping and has the ABC book. 



Berlin, Wis. E. C. Eaglesfield. 



TKN CENTS A DAY FOR TOBACCO, FOB TEN YEARS. 



I quit using tobacco in every form, Nov. 5, 1880, 

 after chewing an average of 10 cents' worth (?) a 

 day for ten years. I shall stay quit, and I don't 

 ask anybody to give me any thing for quitting or 

 staying quit. The pleasure of doing without to- 

 bacoo is far greater than the doing with it was to 

 .me- J. A. Geetinq. 



Washington, Ind., 1888. 



A minister agrees to quit the USE OF TOBACCO. 



Rev. Giles M. Johnston, a young minister of the 

 gospel, agrees to quit the use of tobacco; and if 

 you will send him a smoker, I agree to pay for the 

 same should he ever commence the use of it 

 again. G. C. Hughes. 



Pipestem, W. Va. 



A BROKEN PLEDGE, BUT PAYS FOR THE SMOKER. 



Please find 70 cts. to pay for a smoker that I sent 

 for in 1887, for J. D. Stringer, who had quit using 

 tobacco. He finally let the disease take hold of 

 him again. He says the thirst is too great for him 

 to resist. Please accept our thanks for your liber- 

 al effort to put down such a filthy, sinful habit. 



J. H. Morran. 



Dripping Springs, Tex., Sept. 28, 1888. 



A GOOD REASON FOR STOPPING THE USE OF TO- 

 BACCO. 



I have been in the filthy habit of using tobacco 

 for two years; but by reading your Tobacco Col- 

 umn, and by taking advices from friends, I oavecon- 

 cluded never to use such vile stuff again. Recent- 

 ly a young lady friend told me if I would not quit 

 using tobacco she would not speak to me any more. 

 How is that for tobacco? I am now 20 years old, 

 and have been using it since I was 18. I never 

 used it in any other way than smoking. I think 

 your Tobacco Column is good. I should think it 

 would turn a good many hearts from using tobac- 

 co. If you think I deserve a smoker, please send 

 it; and if I ever in my life use tobacco again I will 

 pay for two smokers. A. A. Rieff. 



Mankato, Minn., Nov. 7, 1888. 



WHY I STOPPED THE USE OF TOBACCO. 



I did not quit tobacco by what I read in Glean- 

 ings, but I was a subscriber for Gleanings in 

 1885, and it might have had its influence. I quit to- 

 bacco in order to get a clean heart. 1 could not puff 

 tobacco smoke in God's face, and ask him to bless 

 me. I could not use tobacco to the glory of God, 

 nor come to him with a clean mouth, and I could 

 not enter into the holy of holies with my clothes 

 saturated with the fumes of hell. I could Dot shoot 

 God with the devil's best gun (tobacco), and claim 

 to be on the Lord's side. I could not say, " God has 

 taken me out of the depths of sin, but can't save 

 me from tobacco." Jesus came to save his people 

 from their sins. If I knew it would kill me to give 

 up tobacco I would give it up, and go sweeping 

 through the gates into the city of God. There will 

 be no tobacco there. Emsley L. Faulkner. 



Pentwater, Mich. 



TWO YEARS AFTER HAVING QUIT THE USE OF TO- 

 BACCO. 



Just two years ago to-day I quit the use of tobac- 

 co, after using it nearly thirty years. You may 

 place the credit to friend Terry. His letter in 

 Gleanings caused me to burn my stock of "Navy," 

 and promise my dear wife never to use tobacco in 

 any form again. I've do doubt you have a great 

 many new subscribers that have never read his 

 letter. Why not publish it again? Don't send me a 

 smoker. You have never made enough of them to 

 hire me to quit tobacco. Any married man who 

 will "chaw" after reading friend Terry's article, 

 and then promise to quit for a smoker, would, of 

 course, swap his wife for one. 



C, S. Doubleday, 



Hamilton, Tex., Dec 28, J88S 



