1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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A 58-year-oijD friend takes the pledge also. 

 HAVE used tobacco— both chewed and smoked 

 it. I have quit using it; and if you will send 

 me a smoker I will g-ive you my word ot honor 

 that I will never use it again. I am now 58 

 years old. Samuel Detwileu. 



Kenton, Hardin Co., O., April 17, 1884. 



AND STILL ANOTHER. 



Well, friend Root, as I have quit smoking tobacco, 

 and don't want to begin again, I suppose you will 

 send me one of your 50-cent smokers, for I have 

 some hybrids that are cross— too cross to be endura- 

 ble. Frank Carson. 



Loganville, Wis., March 39, 1884. 



Friend V., we send you the smoker, 

 altlioughymi have not sent us the customary ,^^^.^^,^ ^^^^ ^,^^^ ^ ,_^ 



promise. We suppose, ot course, you will | medicine alone, and then I should soon be well." 



send us the money if you ever touch any jj^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^i^^ ^t,^ ^g„^pp,.a„ce doctor's prescrip- 

 niore tobacco. That is the agreement, is it i ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^u .^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ Let others go and 



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large and attentive audience, a good collection, and 

 several conversions from wrong to right on the 

 tobacco question. Ne.xt morning I visited several 

 store-keepers who sold tobacco, all of whom ac- 

 knowledged it to be wrong, and one promised me 

 that he would quit the business of selling it entire- 

 ly, as his wife promised to quit using it. To God be 

 all the praise. 



NOTICE. 



On receipt of ,5 cents in stamps for mailing it, one 

 copy of " A Dose of Truth " will be sent free to each 

 person who quits the use of tobacco, and publicly 

 promises to pay for the said book if he ever again 

 indulges in the use of that or any other intoxicant. 



THE SOUL and BODY BOTH CURED BY QUITTING 

 THE USE OF TOBACCO. 



A carpenter ot Johnstown, Pa., quit work on ac- 

 count of ill health. T. F. Bracken met him on his 

 return from the doctor's. "Now," said he, "if I 

 were in your place I would quit tobacco, and let 



I thought I would not say any thing to you about 

 quitting the use of tobacco until I saw whether I* 

 could or not. I claim that I have reformed, and 

 have not touched tobacco since the 15th of Dec, 1883. 

 Now if you will send me one of your smokers, I 

 agree that, if ever I use tobacco in any form, I will 

 pay you *5.00 for the smoker. B. G. McPherson. 



Mt. Sterling, 111., March IT, 1884. 



Why, friend M., if you go to putting the 

 penalty so high, I am afraid I might be in 

 danger of getting rich on people's intirmities, 

 and you know I should never want to do 

 that. I trust and pray that you may never 

 break off at all, and then there won't be any 

 live dollars about it. 



I have quit using tobacco. I have used it for 

 quite a long time ; and if you want to send me a 

 smoker as a reminder, I will be thankful indeed; 

 and if I use it again, I will send you the 75 cts. 



J. H. Donaldson. 



Nickleville, Yen. Co., Pa., March 17, 1884. 



tion, and wa 



do likewise'. T. F. Bracken. 



New Florence, Pa., March 17, 1884. 



Friend B., as we send the book from here, 

 together with the smoker, we shall hardly 

 need to accept your kind offer. 



I quit using tobacco about a month and a half ago. 

 Please send me a smoker; if I use it again, I will 

 pay you for it. H. C. Mason. 



Brown City, Sanilac Co., Mich., March 18, 1884. 



I have understood that you agree to give to any 

 bee-raiser who has abandoned the use of tobacco, a 

 bee-smoker. 1 have been an inveterate smoker for 

 some years, but abandoned it on the 27th day of 

 February last, since which time I have not touched 

 it, and have a full determination never to resume 

 its use. I have a few colonies of bees in a thrifty 

 condition that promise well. Have had no swarms 

 yet this season, but am looking for some every day. 

 C. W. Ammerman. 



Orangeville, Pa., June 4, 1884. 



Friend A., we send you the smoker, but 

 would like the usual promise to pay for it 

 whenever you touch tobacco again in any 

 form. We suppose that is implied, however. 



Dear Sir:— For your Tobacco CoUnnn, perhaps the 

 e.xperience and advice of an old man may do some 

 good. I am now 80 years (jld. At about 16 I com- 

 menced chewing tobacco: finally very immoder- 

 ately. I suffered so much from heart-burn that at 

 about 33 I gave up my bo.x; have chewed none 

 since. I then took up the pipe, and became an in- 

 veterate smoker— was always ashamed of it; would 

 not smoke in my own house nor in the presence of 

 ladies. I was ashamed to have my clothes scented 

 with tobacco, and I thought it was a sin to spend 

 money in this way; so at about 70 I quit at once. I 

 never, never smoked since. In a short time I lost 

 all desire for it. I was a slave to tocacco about 70 

 years, but now am a free man. If any man finds he 

 is a slave, let him do as I did— Quif . 



Edwin Stanley. 



Wyoming, N. Y., Mvy 28, 1884. 



When I sent my order, a very painful and dis- 

 tressing disease prostrated my nervous system for 

 (I am nearly 63 years old, and have used tobacco for 

 over 40 years) I had not tasted of any or had any in 

 my mouth since the 15th of April, and I hope, by 

 the grace of God, to never use the filthy weed any 

 more. I do not ask a smoker from you for an act 

 which benefits me and not you. I should not ask a 

 reward for doing a righteous act. 



W. H. Cornelius. 



Daleville, Ind., June 2, 1884. 



a good example is always cont.-vgious. 

 Some of my bee-keeping neighbors think my 

 smoker is the nicest thing they ever saw, and they 

 all seem to want one, so I will try to see what I can 

 do to sell a few. Please give directions in each one. 

 The one you sent came all right in good order. I got 



Dear Brother:— God's ways are always best, and I along well without the filthy tobacco, and you have 

 always feel best to walk in those ways. You know [ my thanks for the advice you give in the Tobacco 

 our last talk concerning the apathy on temperance Column. You may send mo one of your books on 

 which really induced me to spend the Sabbath at tobacco, if you will. A. B. Hower. 



Salinevillo, rather than Medina. The result was a I Perrysburg, Ind., May 3, 1884. 



