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that a little earnest work may be the means 

 of stopping some of these liltle ones from 

 that which may end in shame and dihgiace 

 and ruin. 



They that turn nuiny to righteousness shall shine 

 as the stars for ever and e\'er.— Dan. 1^: 3. 



lf0B^CC0 C@l^^fM,N. 



SOMETHING MOHK FROM FJllEND STOKKl.V. 



BUR friends will recognize friend S. as 

 the bee-keeper who had lost his wife 

 (see Our Homes ftir March l-l). 

 Frimid Boot:— I have just tinished reading 

 the Tobacco Coluniuin Gleanings for Apiil 

 15. and the idea of giving- you my experience occur- 

 red to me. Some time in the autumn of 1843, at 

 which time I waslSyeaisof age. 1 commenced upon 

 a very small chew; but, I am proud to say, I never 

 finished it. Before we returned any of our jewels to 

 the Master, we numbered nine— the youngest mem- 

 ber l>eiDg now ID years old, and that little chew cov- 

 ers the extent of our indulgence in the habit, and a 

 few dimes' worth given to a good old mother, is 

 about the extent of our expenditures for tobacco. 



Your zeal for the elevation of the human family 

 is laudable in the highest degree, and we trust that 

 it will find appreciative hearts. G. C. Stokelv. 

 Arnoldville, Tnd. Ter.. Apr. 27, 1887. 



I am very glad to hear of this, friend S., 

 and we are all glad to know that you are re- 

 ally among those who are seeking the king- 

 dom of God and his righteousness. And so 

 there are several of you to mourn the loss you 

 told ns about before. We are very glad in- 

 deed to lind you are on the riglit side of the 

 tobacco question. If the youngest is 10, it is 

 hardly likely that any of you will take to to- 

 bacco in the future. 



I have quit the use of tobacco; and if I begin 

 again, I will pay the price of the smoker. 

 Planter, Ga., Apr. 10, 1887. T. M. O'Kellv. 



I promise to quit the use of tt)bacco in any form ; 

 and, if I resume its use, I will pay for the smoker 

 sent me. E. J. Gould. 



Lawrence, Kan., April 36, 18S7. 



My brother has quit the use of tobacco; and if 

 you think he is entitled to a smoker, send one to 

 him, and if he commences to use tobacco again 1 

 will pay for the smoker. S. E. Si.mens. 



Upland, Grant Co., Ind.. Apr. 36. 1887. 



John Trego, the man you sent a smoker lo tor 

 quitting toliacco, requests you to send one to James 

 Wells, at Filley, (X'dar Co., Mo. Mr. Wells promis- 

 es to quit tobacco or pay for the smoker. 



Virgil City, Mo., Apr. 31, 1887. E. Liston. 



A friend of mine wants to quit using tobacco, and 

 he says he will pledge himself to quit if you will 

 send him a smoker. He will pay you for if if he 

 does not quit. His name is T. K. Roberts. 



Boyce, La., Apr. 12, 1887. T. G. Mokgan. 



Will you please send a smoker to Theodore Free- 

 man, Tioga. Pa., who has given up using tobacco, 

 and promises never to use it again ? Should he 

 break his pledge I will remit for smoker. 



Mrs. W. E. Nicely. 



Mitchell Creek, Pa., May J, lss7. 



001^ 0W]SI ^PI^RY. 



CONDUI.TEl> BY EKNEST R. ROOT. 



FOUL BROOD— OUR OLD FRIEND THE ENE- 

 MY, AGAIN. 



T AM sorry tt) be obliged to give a sub- 

 M head like the above. I had determined 

 W (hat I would uot again bring up this 

 ''•*' disaareeable subject of foul brood; but 

 in justice to our readers and patrons, I 

 must tell the facts. In the last issue, in this 

 department 1 leported no foul brood, and I 

 believe 1 rather conveyed the idea that we 

 thought we had entirely eradicated the dis- 

 ease ; but jusl about the time tliat Glean- 

 ings had reached our readers, bringing this 

 intelligence, foul l>rood broke out. 1 was 

 just passing down the centi-al apiary when 

 one of our young men who was examining a 

 colony called out, '• What do you call this V 

 r nervously exainiiud the comb, and with a 

 toothpick I poked into two or three cells, 

 which my eyes told me K^o i)lainly contain- 

 ed foul brood. On drawing out t lie tooth- 

 pick, the same ropy, sticky, stringy matter 

 adhered to the end. The disease, however, 

 was then in only its incipient stage, and 

 probably a day or so before would not have 

 been apparent I now said to the boys, 

 "• We shall be almi^st sure to Hud other 

 cases adjacent to this one.'" A little later 

 in the day, when Hying bees had dispersed, 

 I threw off my coat, and, with smoker in 

 hand, proceeded to investigate. I singled 

 out first the hive that had its entrance open- 

 ing in the same direction, and in other re- 

 spects similarly situated. On opening it I 

 was not surprised to find that it was diseased. 

 I shall again refer to this point further on. 

 We soon discovered two or three more dis- 

 eased colonies, and. in the course of a week, 

 twelve or fifteen cases of veritable foul 

 brood were found. 



Now. the question that will naturally 

 arise in the minds of many of you will be, 

 How was it, that, for six weeks, with no 

 foul brood, the disease should break out so 

 suddenly, and almost simultaneously V 

 The answer is this : I had previously in- 

 structed the boys to allow the colonies to 

 reduce their stores almost to the starvation 

 point ; that is, I desired to have the bees 

 consume all the stores left over from last 

 season. If said stores contained any dis- 

 eased matter, they would soon re^■eal theii' 

 true condition, it seems that the bees at 

 the time foul brood broke out had reached 

 the very bottom of the cells, where, evident- 

 ly . some of the honey was still diseased from 

 last year, but which, during the six weeks 

 of no foul brood, had been covered up by 

 the few stores the bees were gathering frora 

 fruit-bloom and other sources. 



1 know that some of the readers will con- 

 demn us for being so sure that we had cured 

 foul brood; but it seemed to us then that 

 six weeks of healthy brood, and tlie colonies 

 nearly on the point of starvaticm. and still 

 no e\idences of foul brood, we had really 

 conquered our old enemy. We are remind- 

 ed strongly of this fact: That, during the 

 height of brood-rearing, foul brood, where 

 an apiar\ has been diseased previously, may 



