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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



The most successful preneral is the one who knows 

 best how to make use of the enemy's stnitaji'i'ms to 

 his own advantase. So must we turn the weapons 

 of our spii'itual enemy against himself if we 

 would come off vi<'torious in tlie conlliet. 



The coiicludino- thought in the above has 

 been wonderfully true in my exiteiience. i 

 Jim sure it will never be a safe thing for me 

 to give np going to prayer-meeting. When 

 I liave battled alone unsnccessfully with 

 evil, standing up before (Christian friends 

 and neighbors, telling them of my trials, 

 and asking them for their prayers, has al- 

 ways given me a new start and a new por- 

 tion of God's grace ; and above all, dear 

 broiiier, whether you are sick or whether 

 you are well, and under whatever condition 

 or circumstance you may be, hold fast to the 

 thoiiglit, " ^'e are not your own. ye are 

 bought with a price." 



Sun ot my soul! thou Savior dear, 

 It is not night if thou be near: 

 Ch, may no earth-horn cloud arise 

 To hide thee from thv servant's eves' 



5f0B^cc0 {^%mW' 



THE EFFECT OP TOBACCO ON OFFSPRINO. 



T HAVE not watched Mr. Root's Tobacco Column 

 ^ very closely, and, may be from selfish motives, 

 ^l for it has never been of any particulai- interest 

 "*" to me, never having' made a habit of smoking. 

 I am, however, surprised that Mr. Root did not 

 know that tobacco killed others than the smokers, 

 althoug-h perhaps indirectly. Mr. Terry says some 

 constitutions can bear the poison. Permit me to 

 state, 1 think not. Let us take those constitutions 

 which appear to bear the ])oison, and our best physi- 

 cians say of them, the effects of the poison may not 

 be very marked in the smoker, but the effects are 

 greater in the offspring, and the nervous system is 

 iujured in the children of such a man; and at such 

 times, when others would not succumb to a disease, 

 such constitutions are unable to withstand the 

 crisis. 



For children of God to use toijacco is very incon- 

 sistent. They smoke, and what are they doing-, 

 even were it not physically injurious? Are they 

 walking according to the Spirit of God, as we are di- 

 rected to do, or according to the flesh, as we are 

 warned not to do ? Certainly the latter. I can nev- 

 er see a man smoke, especially a young man, with- 

 out thinking he is gratifying his flesh, and building 

 it uj) and giving himself trouble in other respects, 

 without one redeeming feature. I will lay aside 

 the extravagance and selfishness of such, and dwell 

 only upon the fostering of what is fleshly, and 

 therefore the smothering of the Spirit of God in his 

 holy temple, who dwells in us, and whose temple 

 we should seek not to defile. For the unsaved, he 

 which has not eternal life, the injury which he may 

 do to those unborn, and he who has their welfare at 

 heart, and is not utterlj' selfish, will surely give 

 the benefit of a doubt, even should a doubt exist 

 in his mind as to the injury caused by the use of 

 tobacco to such; but such a doubt will not exist in 

 the mind of one unprejudiced, and who has read 

 the opinions of authorities. R.- V. Hot/rKUMAN. 



Brantford, Canad^^^ 



I have been telling my neighbors that you pro- 

 posed making any person a present of a smoker 



who would quit the use of tobacco. Some say they 

 will ()uit chewing, but will have to smoke, hut I tell 

 thetn that won't do. David E. Derrick, of Opossoin, 

 Tenn., says he has been smoking the weed for some- 

 time, and has quit entirely; and he says if you will 

 send him a smoker, and he ever uses the weed 

 again, he will pay for the smoker; and 1 will also 

 pay you for one if he uses any more tobacco. I do 

 not use it, and never did. I am trying to get all my 

 neighbors to quit the habit. M. M. DKKurCK. 



Stony Point, Tenn. 



Accept our thanks for the kindly interest 

 you take in this department, and for the ef- 

 foi'ts you are putting forth to make largcu' 

 the number of men clean from the tilthy 

 habit. 



I have quit the use of tobacco, and I promise to 

 pay for the smoker if I ever use tobacco again, 

 which 1 am sure I never shall. C. Witter. 



Salem, Ind.. May 13, 1887., 



I have resolved to quit using tobacco for a Clark 

 smoker. If I commence again, I will pay your 

 price. P. A. Cook. 



Cherokee. Tex., May 2, 1887. 



I have quit the use of tobacco, so please send me 

 a smoker. If I commence the use of tobacco 

 again 1 will pay you for the smoker. 



J. P. Weathekt-v. 



Woods, Tillamook, Co., Ore., April 20, ISMT. 



CONDUCTED BY ERNEST R. ROOT. 



AVHAT HAS THE HARVEST BEEN?" 



IIITE clover in this locality was al- 

 most a total failure ; in fact, during 

 the time it was in bloom we had to 

 feed some colonies or incur the risk 

 of their swarming out or starving 

 altogether. As it has sometimes happened 

 in other years, the conditions of weather, 

 which are entirely unfavorable for the secre- 

 tion of nectar from clover, are eminently 

 favorable for a heavy flow from basswood. 

 So it was this year. The yield from bass- 

 wood has been exceptionally good — quite 

 counterbalancing the entire lack from clover. 

 Neighbor Shane, located some six or seven 

 miles from us, reports that he has had one 

 of the best yields of basswood honey he has 

 had for years. 



THE T SUPER, AND THE SLATTED HONEY- 

 BOARD. 



Our experiments this season have fully 

 sustained what Dr. Miller and others have 

 said in favor of the T super, and I am not 

 sorry that we followed the doctor's instruc- 

 tions as to its proper construction as closely 

 as we did. Indeed, I can not help regret- 

 ting that we did not take his word for it one 

 step further: i. e., make the super liH in. 

 wide instead of lo^, as we ditl ; Init I shall 

 have occasion to s])eak of this further on. 



Judging from our experiments with the 

 T super this season, I can scarcely conceive 

 how, used in connection with the slatted 

 honey-board, it can give any more satis- 

 factory results when properly manipulated. 



