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THE STOHY OF THE BIBLE. 



Will you please send to my address a copy of 

 "The Story of the Bible"? 1 sent for one a year ago, 

 and my little niece has taken such a fancy to it that | 

 J wish to make her a present of one. I 



Milan, 111, Dec. U, 1885. Emily Jenkins. 



OUli .JOB WOKK GOOD. 



The circulars received— an exceedingly neat, a 

 perfect job. Let me thank you, especially for the re- 

 duction in price, the printed matter being less than 

 you at tirst thought there would be. and at tirst 

 (luoted for. Vou could have made the additional 

 $4,03 out of me without my ever knowing any bet- 

 ter. Jf you act in that way as a rule, you are 

 certainly an honest man. Oscak F. IJledsoe. 



Grenada, Miss., Feb. l."», ISMi. 



WHAT THE EDITOR OF THE POILTHV AND FAUM 

 JOURNAL THINKS OF GLEANINGS. 



Your Jan. Gleanings is at hand. I gladly put 

 you on the exchange list, and forward Jan. Jinunal 

 to-day. I am greatly pleased with Ira D. Granger's 

 words on 31st page; and with a journal whose im- 

 press is out-and-out tor Christ, everywhere. Please 

 accept my earnest congratulations to an editor who 

 mixes religion into all his business. It is a good 

 leaden to use. T. T. Bai heller. 



Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. £!), 1886. 



THE TIN TLTXNEL FOR PUTTING UP BEES. 



The goods T ordered of you were all received yes- 

 terday—nothing missing. You ought to see me in 

 May, shaking bees through that tin tunnel, into 

 cages to ship. I would not take $^1.50 for my Mor- 

 ton's gold pen. 1 don't see how you can sell them so 

 cheap. The gloves are large enough this time. I 

 am all right for snow, or bees cither. 



W. A. S.iNDEKS. 



Oak Bower, Hart Co., Ga., Feb. 11, 1886. 



OUR ;35UENT WHOPPER KNIFE. 



I am proud to inform you that, after dealing with 

 you for several years, more or less, I can heartily con- 

 gratulate you' on your honesty, integrity, and 

 promptitude as a dealer in mercantile goods, and 

 as a Christian gentleman. The last goods I ordered 

 of you came to hand, giving the usual satisfaction. 

 1 make special mention of your knife, known as 

 the "Whopper." It is just the knife for service, 

 large and strong, well united, cheap; and as to met- 

 al, it is not to be suri)assed l)y any knife. Since 

 the tirst one came to us, several have been ordered' 

 and all who get them are well pleased. Y'our steel 

 shears have given the same satisfaction to all who 

 got them. Tnfact, your way of dealing meets the e.v- 

 pectation of all honest people. 



Nat. T. Drauohon. 



Clarksville, Te.\as, Dec. 10. 1885. 



IX PAYS TO ADVERTISE IX GLE.ANINGS. 



I tind it pays to advertise in your/*es/i and ciijui'- 

 iiUH Gleanings. My other "ad" in Gleanings cost 

 me the trifle of si.\ty cents, and yet it brought me 

 more clean profit than the best-paying postoftice in 

 our town brings per year. It is a law of reason, 

 that the man who waii't advertise /(is (joods dexcrrex to 

 fail. 1 had almost forgotten to say that the issue 

 containing my " ad " was hardly out of the press 

 before 1 began to have iiroposals. T believe .\ our : 

 patrons are all live men. all m the front rank too. 



Rockport, O., Feb. ti, ]88(i. G. A. Farhand. 



A KIND WORD FROM FRIEND VIALLON, AND SO.ME- 

 THING BESIDES. 



1 will ship one of my four-frame nuclei, between j 

 the 5th and 15th of April, 1886, to the bee-keeper 1 

 who will have seat you the largest number of sub- ' 

 scribers from January, 1886, to the first of April. : 

 ]8><6. Whoever he may be, he will not be sorry of i 

 the extra troublo taken to solicit subscribers for ' 

 Gleanings. P. L. Viallon. ■ 



Bayou Goula, La., Feb. 9, 1886. 1 



[.Many thanks to you, friend V. Now. will those 

 who apply for this premium name it when they send 

 in clubs'/ Or if you have sent in any clubs already | 

 since Jan. 1, call our attention to the fact, that we i 

 may verify and i>ut you on the list ] 



goods received in good SHAPE. 



The goods arrived in good shape, and give full 

 satisfaction. Thanks. The A B C book is excellent, 

 and I would not be without Gleanings, even if its 

 price were $;3.00 per annum. Last spring I caught 

 the bee-fever, and It has been increasing ever since. 

 I bought one colony of Italian bees. That single 

 colonj' has given 2i0 lbs. of extracted honey, and 

 has 4 daughters by artificial swarming. I tried to 

 run the first swarm for comb honey, but had no 

 success; they would uot work iti the sections, so I 

 sent to you for an extractor. 1 got it, and it work- 

 ed to a charm. I have adopted the improved Lang- 

 stroth Simplicity hive. It is cheap, well tnade, and 

 in regard to convenience it stands ahead of all sorts 

 of hives I have seen. Iwiuter my five colonies on 

 their stands in good packing-cases, protected on the 

 north and west sides by an eight foot-high board 

 fence. Thev are all right so far. T. H. Dahl. 



Stoughton, Wis., Jan. 5, 1886. 



fiO ON IN THE GOOD WORK. 



F inclose you one dollar for my ne.vt year's sub- 

 scription. Go on in your good work, and God will 

 bless yoiL You and I difler in some things; but 

 you are honest, and honest men go to heaven. The 

 one who has had the most advantages will have the 

 most to answer for. If I have health and opportu- 

 nity I will come to see you next year. 1 think a 

 good talk with you would do me good. 1 have had 

 many troubles and much tribulation, but have been 

 blessed with a hopeful and courageous spirit, and a 

 mind too active for a weak frame. I should esteem 

 a man like you as a friend and neighbor, as a price- 

 less boon. Pardon me for this. Geo. E. Hiles. 



Hondo Citv, Texas, Dec. 3, 1885. 



GLEANINGS A "C.ISKET OF SUCH GOOD THINGS." 



The wrapper on my last copy of Gleanings in- 

 forms me that my time expires with present inim- 

 ber; and as I can not atford to lose a single issue, 1 

 haste to inclose one dollar for another year's sub- 

 scription. I must say, that Gle.anings is a most 

 welcome visitor that never fails to come twice a 

 month, with a casket of such good things that it is 

 who will and who shall, among my wife, daughter, 

 son, or myself, be the first to peruse its pages. 

 May God iiless and spare its noble-hearted editor 

 for many long years to come, to send it forth as 

 bread cast upon the waters, that may be gathered 

 many days hence. J. D. BuOWN. 



Bowman, Elbert Co., Ga., Dec. 25, 1885. 



A KIND WORD FOR THE WAY IN WHICH WE BIND 

 BACK NUMBERS OF GLEANINGS. 



I have just received the bound volume of Glean- 

 ings for 1885, in exchange for my old ones; and to 

 say I am satisfied with the exchange hardly ex- 

 presses it. I have been binding them myself here- 

 tofore, but will do so no more as long as I can get 

 new ones so nicely bound for so low a price. I 

 don't see how you can atford it; but if you can 

 stand it, I think we ought to. Of course, every bee- 

 keeper who is well posted, or wants to be, keeps 

 his back numbers. There is great comfort and con- 

 venience in having them neatly bound; and when 

 you can get a nice new volume for less than it ordi- 

 narily costs to get the old ones bound, every bee- 

 keeper ought to have one of them. Where they can 

 be sent by freight with other goods, the expense is 

 insignificant. J. A. Green. 



Dayton, 111., Feb. 9, 1886. 



HOW $1.00 INVESTED IN GLE.ANINGS SAVED $5.00. 



The editor's notice runs thus: "If I am correct, 

 your subscription expires with the present num- 

 ber," and then the riuestion arises, "Have you 

 found Gleanings a good investment '/" Now, kind 

 reader, I commenced bee-keeping in 1885 with three 

 swarms, purchased the fall previous, and increased 

 to eleven by natural swarming. My first swarm 

 was two at once, and clustered in one place. With 

 the assistance of Gle.anings I caught one (jueen 

 before the bees balled her, and then divided the 

 bees and put them into separate hives, and they 

 went to work, blacks and Italians, in both hives, all 

 mi.ved up, and tt)-day I have them in the collar, do- 

 ing well. 1 think I saved five dollars, so I am under 

 the imi)ression that I did not make a bad invest- 

 ment. Some people count every thing by dollars 

 and cents; but Gle.\nings has some things in it 

 that I can not count on in that style, for which 1 

 highly prize it and subscribe for it once more. 



Elora, Ont., Can, G. Strangwavs. 



