1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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CAN GET Al.ONO WITHOUT IT. 



I have used tobacco for a number of years, but 

 g-ave it up a short time ago, and find that I can get 

 along without it. If you send me a smoker, and I 

 ever use tobacco again in any form, I will pay you 

 for the smoker. Ciias. A. Tray. 



Littleton, Colo., Mar. 34, 1888. 



BETTEK OFF WITHOUT TOBACCO. 



I have not smoked since 1 read your journal. I 

 smoked once for heartburn; but since I quit it 1 

 have better health. If I am entitled to a smoker, 

 send it along; and if I ever use tobacco again I will 

 pay you one dollar lor it. T. Oberlitner. 



Deshler, O., Apr., 28, 1888. 



A USER FOR 25 YEARS. 



I have made a determination to quit the use of 

 tobacco. I have used it for 35 years. If you think 

 I deserve one of your smokers you can send it 

 along. I will promptly hand over the price of the 

 smoker if 1 ever begin again. I pledge my word 

 and honor to you as security. M. T. Morgan. 



Waynesburg, Ky., Apr. 21, 1888. 



going bail, for a young FRIEND IN THE TOBAC- 

 CO BUSINESS. 



I have a young friend here who has been in the 

 habit of using tobacco. I have succeeded in getting 

 him to quit its use, and told him, when I saw he 

 meant it, I would order a smcker for him; that you 

 offered smokers to all parties that would quit using 

 tobacco. Please send it in my name. He holds me 

 to the contract. J. S. Bidule. 



Laysburg, Pa., March 3, 1888. 



That is liglit, friend B. Look after the 

 boys. Shake them up and work them up, 

 and God will bless you. 



how one FEEIiS AFTER HE HAS ACCEPTED THE 

 PLEDGE. 



Your kind offer was r<>ceived yesterday in the 

 form of a nice new smoker. Many thanks. I have 

 not smoked for a month, and have no desire to try 

 it now. I hope every one with the dirty habit will 

 accept your kind offer, and stop smoking. 



Louis H. Bertsch. 



Whatcom, Wash. Ter., May 35, 1888. 



SETTING THE BALL ROLLING. 



Mr. John S. Lewis, my neighbor, on hearing of 

 your offer, has quit the use of tobacco. If you will 

 send him a smoker packed with my goods I will pay 

 j'ou for it, if he ever uses the weed again. Thank- 

 ing you for the smoker you sent me, and the good 

 that abstaining from the use of tobacco has done 

 me, I remain your friend,— R. M. Tate. 



Somerset, Ky., May 21, 1888. 



appetite for tobacco. But tell him for us, 

 dear child, that tlie cross he has undertaken 

 to carry, and given up, is the cross of Christ 

 Jesus the Savior, whom he strives to serve 

 and honoi'. Will you not bid liim consider 

 again, and tiiink of the influence he must 

 exert on the youth in his parish, as well as 

 on the older ones, and ask him if he will not 

 try again — perhaps not for the sake of a 

 smoker alone, but bid him remember that it 

 is for Christ's sake that he tights the battle. 



QUIT PROM 50 TO 60 CENTS' WORTH OF TOBACCO 

 A WEEK. 



I am one of the A B C class. I also consider 

 GiiEANiNGS the best of all papers treating on the 

 bee-question. From it I learned of your liberal 

 offer to tobacco-nsers, and I made up my mind that, 

 if you could att'ord to make such an offer to stran- 

 gers, we all ought to quit. I have used from fifty to 

 sixty cents' worth a week for 17 years. I have quit 

 now, and have no desire to use it again. If I use 

 tobacco again I will send you one dollar to pay for 

 the smoker. M. E. Holmes. 



Dorchester, Neb., Mar. 25, 1888. 



A MINISTER OF THE BIBLE WHO HAS RESUMED 

 USING TOBACCO. 



I have written to you but once, and I now blush 

 at having to inclose to you the pay for the Clark 

 smoker. My pa is a minister, and he has resumed 

 the use of tobacco. I must tell you that /do not 

 use tobacco, and never intend to. 



G. R. HoucHiNS. 



Pipestem, W. Va., May 30, 1888. 



May God bless your pa, my dear child, 

 even if he has gone back to the use of to- 

 bacco ; and may God bless you too, for the 

 promptness with which you informed us 

 that your papa had decided he would rather 

 pay for the smoker than to fight against the 



AFTER A HARD STRUGGLE. 



After long and hard efforts I feel that 1 have at 

 last gained the victory over the useless and filthy 

 habit of using tobacco. I left it off about 8 months 

 ago. I felt that I wanted to get from under its in- 

 fluence well before I asked for the smoker. I 

 present to you the name of my friend T. B. Moore, 

 of this place, who left it off at the same time. 

 We request you to send us two smokers, if you 

 think us entitled to them. We agree to pay 

 your price for the smoker if we commence the 

 use ol tobacco. D. B. Bryan. 



Rome, Ga., Apr. 16, 1888. 



May God bless you both, dear friends. 

 There is an advantage in having somebody 

 break off with you, for "in union there is 

 strength." You can mutually help each 

 other, and you can be a mutual check on 

 each other. 



TWO RESOLUTIONS FROM THE PROBATE JUDGE OF 

 POLK CO., MO. 



I have resolved to quit the use of tobacco, and 

 claim one of the new Clark smokers, with the en- 

 larged blast and loose valve. I will pay for the 

 smoker if I ever use the weed again. I have also 

 been telling of the good things you are doing 

 through :G LEANINGS, to one of my neighbors who 

 is or was a slave to tobacco (his name is Greene 

 Botts, of Bolivar, Polk Co., Mo.), and he promised 

 me to for ever quit its use, and asks that you send 

 him a stiioker. He will pay for it if he ever uses 

 it. If he does not pay you when he breaks this 

 pledge I will pay the debt for him. A. J. Lower. 



Bolivar, Mo., May 31, 1888. 



Friend L., I hope you will excuse us for 

 letting out the truth that you are a pro- 

 bate judge. 1 am sure you will when I ex- 

 plain to you that your example, and the 

 position which you occupy, may do a vast 

 amount of good. Our probate judges, as 

 well as our lawyers and doctors, are, a 

 great part of them, users of tobacco ; and 

 the influence they exert is wide and strong, 

 especially over the boys. When this To- 

 bacco Column was first started I little ex- 

 pected to have it honored by a probate 



