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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Nov. 



body coming. Can any boy be real happy, 

 and have any real fun, so long as he is living 

 a falsehood every day of his life? 



Should he, however, fail to fulfill his promise, I will 

 pay for the smoker. Chas. Reidel. 



Windsor, Dane Co., Wis. 



TOBACCO IN THE HOME. 



The following, evidently from the New 

 York Graphic, has been sent us. Whatever 

 its source, we are glad to give it insertion in 

 this department. It is what a mother says 

 of tobacco. It reads as follows : 



"My little girl." said a pretty young mother to a 

 New York Graphic writer the other day, " has been 

 nearly killed by her father's smoking. You see, 

 when I married I determined to be very liberal and 

 advanced, and to do what I could to make home as 

 attractive to Tom as his club. Mother would never 

 allow smoking in her house, except in the smoking- 

 room; but I made sage reflections upon the tact- 

 lessness of women in managing men, and deter- 

 mined that Tom should enjoy me and his cigar 

 together whenever he pleased. When my daughter 

 Lillian first began to be brought out of the nursery 

 she was as round and rosy a baby as ever you saw; 

 but we had not been having her with us much as we 

 sat together until she began to grow listless and 

 pale, and lose her appetite. I called in our doctor, 

 but nothing did her any good; she seemed to be 

 just dwindling away, and she continued to dwindle 

 until her father was called away on business for a 

 month. Then she picked up, and was quite bright 

 again by the time he came home. That happened 

 several times, until I said to myself one day, as she 

 was frolicking with me : ' Her father never saw 

 her like this.' Then it suddenly flashed on me that 

 there was something very strange about this. The 

 upshot was, that we found beyond a peradventure 

 that it was living in her father's tobacco smoke that 

 was killing the child. I don't feel so much wiser 

 than my mother now as I used to, and smoking at 

 our house is again practiced on ancestral princi- 

 ples—at the top the house." 



GLAD TIDINGS. 



f think I shall have to claim a smoker of you, hav- 

 ing ceased using tobacco. Send it, for I want some 

 encouragement. When I first took Gleanings I 

 paid but little attention to the Tobacco Column; 

 finally, however, I got to reading the different ac- 

 counts of those who had quit using the weed. I 

 generally read them with a sarcastic smile, and a 

 " it can not be did " sort of expression on my face; 

 but, like the noted drop of water, it made an im- 

 pression at last, and I thought that what man has 

 done man can do. So here goes, and they went 

 (tobacco and pipes). Of course, I agree to the con- 

 ditions laid down by you regarding the smoker, if 

 you send me one. Job Davies. 



Ballinger, Tex., Oct. 22, 1889. 



Most certainly you deserve a smoker, 

 friend D., and I should be very glad indeed 

 to give away a thousand under just exactly 

 such circumstances. 



THE NOBLEST WORK OF GOD. 



Please find two more claims for the smoker. 

 Dewey Johnston, my neighbor, has started in the 

 bee-business. I showed him Gleanings. He has 

 concluded to quit the use of tobacco. I have smok- 

 ed for 25 years. I quit on the 10th of last month. 

 Now, if you see fit to send the smokers I will give 

 you my word that, if we don't keep our pledge, I 

 will send you the price of the smokers. "An hon- 

 est man is the noblest work of God," so says Burns. 



Waco, Neb., Aug. 19, 1889. Daniel Meikle. 



GOING SECURITY, AGAIN. 



Will you kindly send Mr. Fred Karow, of Wind- 

 sor, one of your smokers ? He will pledge himself 

 not to smoke, or use tobacco in any manner. 



GOING SECURITY FOR A SON. 



My son, A. B. Morgan, has quit the use of tobacco. 

 I told him you would give him a smoker if he would 

 quit. I will go his security; and if he commences 

 again, I will see that he pays for the smoker. 



Waynesburg, Lincoln Co., Ky. A. B. Morgan. 



MORE SECURITY. 



Friend Root .-—Still the good cause goes on. My 

 friend N. E. Young promises to quit the use of to- 

 bacco, if you will send him a smoker; and if he 

 ever uses it again, we or I will pay for it. 



Anneville, Tex., July 14, 1889. G. H. Reed. 



BREAKING AWAY FROM BONDAGE. 



I have used tobacco with few intermissions, since 

 I was six years of age. I am now 54. I read all 

 that is said on the subject of tobacco in Gleanings, 

 and have made up my mind to abandon the use of 

 it, if I can hold out; and if I fail, I will pay for the 

 smoker. J. L. Pelton. 



Sharon, Barber Co., Kan., Aug. 3, 1889. 



THE fruit of the tobacco column. 



My friend, Abner Sanders, has quit the use of 

 tobacco after having used it for 17 years. Please 

 send him a smoker; and should he use it again, I 

 will pay you for the smoker. He was influenced to 

 quit, partly if not wholly, from your Tobacco Col- 

 umn. Pray for him, that he may hold out faithful. 



Bokoshe, I. T, June 17, 1889. J. T. Leard. 



GOING SECURITY, STILL AGAIN. 



I see in the Tobacco Column that several have 

 quit the use of tobacco, and you sent them smokers. 

 If this offer will hold good with a friend of mine, 

 you will please send him a smoker. His name is 

 Wesley Eakins. He used the filthy weed 26 years, 

 and has entirely quit its use. If he ever resumes 

 its use, I will pay for the smoker. 



Herbst, Ind., Sept. 13, 1889. Nat. Hoggall. 



THE OLD LIFE ENDED, AND THE NEW ONE BEGUN. 



My nephew, Mr. Artie Flouse, of Coral, Mich., 

 wants a smoker. After reading my Gleanings he 

 concluded to quit the use of tobacco, and does it 

 under the conditions given therein. He has smoked 

 and chewed for a number of years, but has lately 

 joined the Disciple church. He was baptized in 

 the waters of a beautiful lake, and is now striving 

 to walk in newness of life. If he breaks his pledge, 

 I will pay for the smoker. 



Coral, Mich. Lemmon W. Itzenhouser. 



HOW TO QUIT USING TOBACCO. 



The way is very simple, and easily explained; and 

 I will try to do so by giving you my experience with 

 it. I commenced using tobacco when very young— 

 so young that I can not remember my age. I be- 

 came a great slave to it. I also learned the habit of 

 using snuff— a mean practice, and one to be abhor- 

 red by ladies and gentlemen. But, to the point. 

 How did I quit it ? This is the way. I saw that I 

 was committing a sin against God, so I determined 

 to quit by his help. I took my sorrow to him in 

 prayer. See Isaiah 53:4; Psalm 125:1. You can see 

 by these how I conquered my lust for tobacco. 

 Walk ye in it. W. A. Williamson. 



Friendly, W. Va. 



