1891 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



439 



foini. Thej- art' far too ^alualjle to lie buried in a 

 magazine. Tliey are so tlioioug'lily i)ractieal, and 

 sucli a lilesised absence of doctiine in tliem, tbey 

 come right down to and tackle fii'nily tlie common 

 every-day occurrences of oiii- lives, wbicli is jiist 

 what is wanted, but what all other sermons I have 

 ever read seem most industriously to sluui. Tlie epi- 

 sode of the orangvs. 1 should think, would soften 

 and lead in the riglit path many a heart now "on the 

 fence" (as you were), so pt)werful is what comes 

 from the heart. 



Now, Ml'. Root, we are on the "ragged edge" witli 

 wori'y. Our bees mxist swarm soon. The hive is 

 overflowing, and we have no foinidation. Oh dear! 

 could you not send the fotnidation ordered Itelow as 

 <juick as lightning V The frames ;ire not ipiite so 

 badly needed. We could not get tlu- money to send 

 before to-day, or would have sent befoie. I wish to 

 know how nuich jier thousand you will supply me 

 labels like the inclosed iiattern. I want them to 

 label eggs. Thej' would have to lie very cheap in- 

 deed, or I could not make any thing. They need not 

 be cut. Tliey might be in sheets, and I could cut 

 them. They need not have dividing lines. The great 

 tiling is the number I could get for a dollar. They do 

 not need good iiaper; size, half an inch to an inch. 

 Please let me know as soon as possible. 



L. S. H.WDEN. 



Lyndon Station, Wis., Maj"ll. 



[My good friend. I do not know how to thank 

 you for your kind words: hut I am sure yon are 

 greatly pr(^jndiced in 7iiy favor. I suppose there 

 are certain things and certain people that seem 

 to appeal particularly to certain individuals: 

 and my fashion of pleading for Christ Jesus 

 happens to be in a peculiar line that comes 

 home to yon iiarticulai'ly. I hesitated some- 

 what about using such a lettei' as yours, evi- 

 dently not intended for print, especially after 

 the seveie ciiticisms I have lately received. 

 However. I feel that your words may do others 

 good as well as myself. Yes. dear friend. I sup- 

 pose thei-e a-re thousands of young iieople, and 

 may be oldei- ones, who are "on the fence." e.\- 

 actiy as I was when just coming out of my 

 teens; and a great responsibility rests upon us 

 who are oldei-, and who have found that the 

 key to the only ti'ue and abiding happiness is to 

 make sure that, when these young people get 

 down off from that fence, they get down ou the 

 right side — on the side that prompts them to 

 live for others: or. if you choose, on the side of 

 Christ Jesus. When I wrote undei- those words, 

 •'Thou God .seest me." I felt in my heart that I 

 had a message for.so»JC one; and I had a bright 

 faith that the message irmild do good. Now. 

 who do you suppose brought the hist fruits 

 of that message? None other than my own 

 daughter, who is away at school. She. "too. is 

 eighteen; and (when I did not dream of it) my 

 earnest pleading went home to her young heart, 

 and stin-ed up In her a resolve to break away 

 from self, and live for others, in a way peihaps 

 she had nevei- felt before. I really wanted to 

 print some extracts from that letter; but I 

 knew so well that both she and her mother 

 would object so emiihatically. that I lacked 

 courage to even ask permission. 



And now, my fiiend, you have aroused my 

 Yankee curiosity in- regard to labeling eggs. 

 Hy some means you failed to inclose the pat- 

 tern, and I have been puzzling my biains to 

 know what it is like. Are you going to put a 

 label on each egg as soon as it is laid, and say, 

 '•This egg was laid on the nujrning of May 

 1.5th"? You see, the giocer could get an e.xtra 

 price for the "recent" ones. 



Your foundation went by express within one 

 hour aftei- your letter was opened, and your 

 frames will follow by freight at once. You see, 

 we are up with oiders now. or very nearly so. 

 and we just enjoy the fun of getting goods off 

 before our fiiends have time to expect them. 

 If the lailroad companies would only do f/(C(r 

 part, how nicely we should get along I 



T6B^cc0 dmum. 



GOES SECrKITY FOK A FIUEND. 



Please send to A. L. Stuart, Ottawa. Kan., a 

 smoker. I am a subscriber to Gleanings, and 

 will pay for it if he commences again, 



Ottawa, Kan., Apr. 20. W. F. Stuakt. 



QUITS SQUARE OFF. 



If you will send me a smoker I pledge to quit 

 the iLse of tobacco; and.iflbreak the pledge I 

 will pay for the smoker. Geo, W. Keader. 



Lynn Haven. Va.. Mav 1. 



BREAKS HIS PLEDGE. 



Inclosed please Hud 70 cents to pay for the 

 smoker which I oi'deicd from you forWillliam 

 Beigmann. foi- quitting the use tobacco. He 

 has broken his pledge. G. W. T. Reynolds. 



Poag. 111.. April_3^ 



Send a smokei' to ]\Ir. A. Kyger. He has quit 

 the use of tobacco, owing to articles published 

 by you: and if he is ever foolish enough to use 

 the' vile weed again he will pay you for the 

 smokei'. L. C. Hi^ghes. 



Tucson, Ariz., Apr. 23. 



Will you please send a smoker to my brothei", 

 John F." Post? I have given him a hive of bees, 

 and he wants a smoker. He has stopped smok- 

 ing tobacco, and agrees to pay for the smoker 

 if he evei- commences again, and I will see that 

 you get pay for. the smoker if he bi-eaks liis 

 promise. S. B. Post. 



England. Pa.. March 20. 



I have used tobacco forthii'ty years. 1 have 

 not used any in six months: and as you offer a 

 smoker. I should like one: and if I ever use to- 

 bacco again I will pay you the price of the 

 smoker. Geo. M. Bostick has a few hives of 

 bees, and has quit using tobacco also. I pledge 

 myself to pay for them if we ever commence 

 again, and will pav vou two dollars for them. 



Elora. Tenn.. March 11. .1. A. Smith. 



A friend of mine. Clarke Denny. Cordova. Ky., 

 has signified his intention of quitting the use of 

 tobacco; and seeing youi- advertisement prom- 

 ising a smoker to all wiio quit, he asks that I 

 have one sent to his address. He piomises that, 

 if he ever begins the use of the weed again, he 

 will pay for the sam<'. But. never fear. I will 

 watch iiim close; and if he ev(>i' begins I prom- 

 ise to remit the price of the smoker. 



Morgan. Ky.. March 2. Henry C. Clemons. 



I am so much pleased with the copy of 

 Gleanings that you sent me that you will find 

 in my order si.(K) for it a year. I saw in anoth- 

 er copy, that any person who had stopped using 

 tobacco with the expectation of neve r using it 

 again would get a smoker; then»fore I think 'I 

 am entitled to one. I will promi.se upon my 

 honor to pav for it if I evei- \ise tobacco again. 



L. H. Decker. 



West Millbrook. Mich.. Feb. 21. 



Mv husband had been using tobacco for neai- 

 ly twenty yeai's; hut through the influence of 

 the Tobacco Column hi' has quit it entirely. 

 He has not tasted it foi- almost a year. A friejid 

 asked him one day how it was he quit the use 

 of tobacco. He said. "I can thank A. I. Root 

 for it." He has been a leader of Gleanings 

 for neai'ly four years. He has now 4.5 stands of 

 bees. Please send me a smoker. Should he 

 again use the weed I will iiay for tlie smoker. 

 Mi!s. Lizzie Bekbe. 



}»oint Pleasant. Pa.. Feb. 23. 



