1884 



GLEANINGS IN BE:fi CtJLTURl:. 



283 



Friend T.t, you say you are a member of no 

 church. AVhy not go to the kind i)astor who 

 preached that sermon, and tell him what 

 you have told us here, and then stand up be- 

 fore men, and enroll >oursfeu under the ban- 

 ner of the cross V 1 am afraid it is a danger- 

 ous thing to stand long where you are. IIow 

 often we hear of men who came out in meet- 

 ing, and resolved to live a Christian life ! 

 The world looks on, and wonders whether 

 they will hold out or not. I do not know 

 that we can blame the world, for the world 

 has seen many start ; but, alas ! by far too 

 many did nothing more than start. The 

 question is often asked, a few weeks after- 

 ward, "Did he go right ahead and unite with 

 Christian people, and keep on V" So you see, 

 even the world seems to know what the 

 proper thing to do is. If you believe the 

 Bible, if your trust is in your Savior, why 

 stand still V If you love God, you are in duty 

 bound to love your fellow-men also ; and if 

 you love them, why stand off at arm's 

 length, or further, and hold aloof from them V 

 For a good many years I have noted how 

 this thing goes ; and as the years pass on I 

 am beginning to feel that a Christian, alone 

 by himself, is almost as unsafe as a single 

 bee would be, if he proposed to camp out, 

 and not unite his fortunes with the rest of the 

 hive. Come in, dear brother; help us, and 

 let us help you, before Satan gets hold of 

 you again, and you are lost for ever. 



GLEAfillBG S m BEE COUTURE. 



EDITOR AND FUBLISHER. 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS: $1.C0 PEK VEAK, POST-PAID. 



FOR CLUBBING RATES, SEE FIIiST PAGE 

 OF BEADING MATTER. 



Iv^EIDIlSr-A., .A-FR. 15, 1884. 



Behold how grood and how pleasant it is for breth- 

 ren to dweU together in unity. --Psalm 133:1. 



DRONETRAPS. 



Friend Alley informs us that he did not see 

 friend Black's description of his drone-trap, (riven 

 in our Sept. No. for 188-3. lie also says that drone- 

 traps were patented as long as 30 years ago. 



BASSWOOD TREES FOR PLANTING. 



We take pleasure in saying that we have received 

 a sample hundred of the bcisswood-trees sent out by 

 friend H. Worth, of Borodino, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 

 The trees are very much larger than we expected at 

 so low a price; are strong and thrifty, and are well 

 packed for shipment. 



MRS. COTTON. 



Complaints are coming thick and fast in regard 

 to Mrs. Cotton, but mostly because of the great 

 price she charges for such meager directions for 

 making the kind of hive she recommends. I am 

 sure, dear friends, no honest, healthy business can 

 ever be built up by taking so large a sum of money 

 for so small an amount of information. 



WHAT IS YOUR NAME, AND WHERE DO YOtJ LIVE? 



I AM afraid I shall have to say to the juveniles, 

 that unless they give the full address on their letters, 

 we can not send them a book. " Ida " says, that of 

 late she is obliged to hunt over the envelopes, and 

 go to the postal guides, to see where the books 

 should go. Now, ought any little friend to have a 

 book who can not take the trouble to tell plainly 

 where we are to send it, county and all ? 



untested (QUEENS. 



Until further orders we will pay one dollar each 

 for untested queens. This price will not probably 

 hold good after May 1, although demand and supply 

 will have something to do with it. These queens 

 will be introduced into our own apiary, and we ex- 

 pect them to be raised from imported Italian moth- 

 ers, or from select pure Italians. If you do not 

 send us good ones, we shall probably not want any 

 more from you. 



untested vs. tested queens. 

 A GREAT many are wanting to sell us tested 

 queens just now; but to tell the truth, 1 would rath- 

 er have an untested queen from a reliable breeder, 

 than a tested one. Do you want to know why? 

 Tested queens are, all of them, last season's rear- 

 ing. Untested queens are this spring's raising, and 

 have all their lives before them. Therefore I would 

 rather run the risk of their being pure, than to have 

 a tested queen after at least a third of her life has 

 been spent. I belieVe the friends generally fe< 1 as I 

 do about it, or else they wouldn't pour in their or- 

 ders for untested while so very few want tested 

 queens. Tt is a little singular, the way this thing has 

 swung around, in spite of all the arguing we have 

 done on the subject. 



filling ORDERS PROMPTLY. 



At this date, April 15, we are prepared to fill orders 

 promptly for almost every thing except sections. 

 Even with a large new dry-house, embracing all the 

 latest improvements, we are unable to get our bass- 

 wood dried as it should be, to keep up with the de- 

 mand for sections. The best we can do is to fill each 

 order in its turn; and in maliing an order, please 

 say whether we shall send your other goods right 

 along, or have them wait for the sections. As we 

 are unable to supply the demand for the regular 

 Simplicity sections, we can not undertake to make 

 odd sizes unfit we catch up. Now, if you prefer to 

 have your money returned, rather than wait your 

 turn on sections, just drop us a postal, and It will go 

 right back at once. At the rate we are now turning 

 out sections, we hope to catch up with orders In 

 three or four weeks. Of course, we can not tell how 

 fast they may come in. 



CHRISTIANITY AND TOBACCO. 



The little book on tobacco, entitled " A Dose of 

 Truth," of which wo gave a favorable mention a 

 short time ago, we are now enabled to offer for sale. 

 Price 20 cents, or f 1.75 for 10. or S^IS per 100. If want- 

 ed by mail, 3 cents each extra. Friend Bracken, the 

 author, has placed a number of these books at my 

 disposal, to be given away to every one who breaks 

 off using tobacco. Or it will be sent by mail post- 

 paid to any store-keeper who stops selling tobacco. 

 In fact, a great part of the book is written to Chris- 

 tian people who deal in tobacco and cigars. Who- 

 ever gets a book for giving up tobacco will probably 



