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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 



T0B7ICC0 0®MOT. 



CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH WE GIVE SMOKERS TO PERSONS WHO 

 STOP USING 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- 

 bacco again, he (the subscriber) will pay for the 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 be strengthened by reading the 

 testimonials from time to time in regaiti to this matter. The 

 full name and address of every one who makes the promise 

 must be furnished for publication. 



TOBACCO, AND ITS CLOSE CONNECTION WITH 

 WHISKY; A LETTER FROM ANNA B. QUILLIN. 



R. ROOT:— Ever since I became acquainted 

 with Gleanings I have watched with a 

 great deal of interest your determined but 

 somewhat novel warfare against the use of 

 tobacco. It has always seemed strange to 

 me that so many people would indulge in the use of 

 it, when it is not only useless, but expensive and in- 

 jurious also. Many of those who are habitual 

 chewers make themselves positively repulsive by 

 their carelessness and utter disregard for cleanli- 

 ness, while many who smoke make themselves 

 equally disagreeable and offensive by puffing their 

 smoke into the faces of those who not only dislike 

 it, but are sickened by the odor. And did you ever 

 notice how tobacco and whisky go hand in hand, as 

 it were? Wherever intoxicating liquors are sold, 

 there you will always find cigars. When you see 

 men coming out of saloons, you generally see them 

 puffing at a pipe or cigar; and though a great many 

 good people indulge in tobacco and do not use in- 

 toxicants, yet those who are regular drinkers are 

 almost invariably slaves to tobacco. The old adage, 

 "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of 

 cure," might well be applied to this subject, for it 

 would certainly be much easier to avoid learning 

 the use of tobacco than to break off from the habit 

 after it has been acquired, for it is acquired. I have 

 heard many men give their experience on that 

 point, and they invariably agreed that they " had to 

 learn to like tobacco." But when the habit is once 

 formed, people generally become slaves to it; and 

 if the chains are ever broken, it is not until they 

 have had many a sharp and severe struggle for 

 their freedom. And the same may be said of those 

 who indulge in intoxicants. I think the great hope 

 for the future is to teach the young people and 

 children the injurious effects of tobacco and intox- 

 icants on the system, and thus help them to avoid 

 forming evil habits that are proving a curse to hu- 

 manity. 



There is a little rhyme which may be new to some 

 of the readers of Gleanings; and though it is not 

 very elegant poetry, it contains a great deal of 

 truth. If T am not' mistaken, it was composed by 

 a Methodist minister; but at any rate the gentle- 

 man had an intense dislike for tobacco, as the fol- 

 lowing lines will demonstrate: 



Tobacco is :i filthy weed, 



And from the Devil did proceed. 



It spoils your breath and soils your clothes. 



And makes a chimney of your nose. 



I know one district-school teacher who took pains 

 to teach those lines to every boy who went to school 

 to her, and I believe such teaching would not be 

 without some good results. When our bodies are 



the houses we live in, should we not try to keep 

 them pure and clean, instead of polluting and de- 

 stroying them? " Know ye not that ye are the tem- 

 ple of God?" "Know ye not that your body is the 

 temple of the^Holy Ghost?" Anna B. Quiulin. 

 Ipava, 111., Mar. 12, 1889. 



TOBACCO FORBIDDEN TO BOYS. 



The 12th of the month is a little late to be reading 

 the last Gleanings, but I was reading Mrs. J. B. 

 Ratcliffe's letter, and I wanted to add my mite on 

 the subject. T say, abolish strong drink first, and to- 

 bacco very soon after. We have a law in our State, 

 forbidding the sale or gift of tobacco to boys under 

 16 years of age, under a penalty of $20 for each of- 

 fense; but it is poorly followed, I fear. I repre- 

 sented our town in the last meeting of supervisors, 

 when there was a bill of $3.50 for tobacco for the 

 use of the occupants of the poorhouse. The next 

 morning I offered a resolution forbidding it to be 

 furnished at the expense of the county. It car- 

 ried by a two-thirds vote, men voting for it who 

 were chewing and smoking when they voted. I 

 think it is one of the causes of pauperism, there- 

 fore we should not supply it to the poor. You can 

 enroll my name as one in the army to fight King 

 Alcohol and Prince Tobacco. We expect at this 

 session of the Legislature to get the privilege of 

 county option, and then we will free oiu- county of 

 the curse of strong drink. 



Our bees were foraging for maple sap or any 

 thing in their line, this March 12th. 



Philo, 111. M. L. Brewer, 



an injury to health, and a disgusting habit. 



A brother-in-law who had chewed tobacco for 

 many years was obliged to leave it off because he 

 came out with several cancers. He found, when 

 be tried in earnest, he could leave it off; since then 

 his health has greatly improved; but the cancers, 

 as soon as cured in one place, come out in another. 



Another acquaintance of mine, when cutting 

 open a plug of tobacco, cut open a big tobacco- 

 worm that had been mashed in with the tobacco. 



A few days since I called at a store, and the pro- 

 prietor had long whiskers, down which was driz- 

 zling tobacco-juice over at least one-third of his 

 entire lower whiskers. What a sight ! 



Roseville, 111. Mrs. L. C. Axtell. 



A USER OF TOBACCO FOR 30 YEARS QUIT. 



I am glad to say, after over one month's experi- 

 ence, that, by the help of Christ, I have quit the 

 use of tobacco in every way after I had used it for 

 over thirty years. I can not say that I was in- 

 fluenced solely by Gleanings, but by seeing that 

 others were quitting. 1 made a strong resolution, 

 God helping me I would not only try, but I icoukl 

 quit. And I am surprised how easy it has been. I 

 believe that a nybody can quit who will lay it away 

 and ask God for his grace to aid and strengthen. I 

 will say here, that I am well convinced that, if I 

 had never used tobacco in any form, I should have 

 been a better man mentally, physically, and finan- 

 cially; and I advise everybody to quit the bad, 

 filthy, expensive habit. Now, Mr. Root, if you 

 think I am worthy of a smoker, if you will send 

 me one I will pledge myself that, if ever I use to- 

 bacco in any form I will pay you the price of the 

 smoker. I am a constant reader of Gleanings. 

 We have been very much interested in your report 

 of your travels. T. N. Stokes. 



Darlington, Ind., Feb. 6, 1889. 



