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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15. 



are unitedlv against you, the chances are that 

 they are right and you are wrong. If you are 

 wise you will put aside your own convictions, 

 and listen to them, especially those who are 

 your best friends. There may be, it is true, cir- 

 cumstances when a man is justified in going 

 against the advice and counsel of his friends 

 and relatives: but in the present existing con- 

 dition of things I think these circumstances are 

 very rare. 



God seems to have so constituted us that one 

 can not safely live alone. The Robinson Crusoe 

 idea does very well for a romance or a story, 

 but it is not practical. He who becomes mis- 

 anthropic, and declares he is going to stay by 

 himself, and ask no odds of anybody, is in a 

 dangerous position. This matter has come up 

 in our bee-conventions. The bee-keeper who 

 stays at home, and does not meet with his fel- 

 low-men, suffers. No one's education can be 

 complete until he has got out of school and 

 school ruts, and has been knocked about 

 through the busy world. Contact with our 

 fellow-men should soften us and make us better. 

 The man who flies into a passion, and uses 

 sti-ong words, is the one who in one sense is 

 ignorant. The active business of the world 

 makes us familiar to some extent with human- 

 ity as it averages: and one who is wise, espe- 

 cially if he is wise in the Bible sense, is slow to 

 anger. He stands cool and unmoved, even 

 though he be misunderstood and abused: and 

 with his heart full of love to God and love to 

 men. as in the language of our text, he can love 

 the sinner while he h<ites the sins. He is often- 

 times obliged to admit that a certain state of 

 affairs is bad: he often feels that something 

 should be done, and that speedily. But then 

 comes the question, " What is the wisest way to 

 remedy the matter?" Yes. as we Yankees put 

 it, " What is the cheapest way to remedy the 

 present existing state of affairs in many direc- 

 tions ?" The wisest and cheapest way is. first, 

 to hive the sinner, and then "go for him."' 

 Don't let him keep on in his evil way, but wait 

 for a good fitting opijortunity, and then try the 

 effect of good neighborly counsel and neighbor- 

 ly exhortation. He may be getting into a rut, 

 just as you and I get into ruts. Ifo?ieofyou 

 can not pull him out, get three or four good 

 Christians, and take hold of him unitedly. Oh. 

 if this were only done more frequently, how 

 manv /J«(7 lives niight be made he(i}iiiful ones'. 

 As professing Christians we must love God. 

 But our text tells us in the plainest terms, that 

 we can not love God until we first love our 

 brothers, or, if you choose, until we first love 

 our neighbors. Dear brother or sister, how is it 

 with you as these words meet you to-day ? Can 

 you honestly say. before God, that you have in 

 your heart love for your neighboi-s and for the 

 brothers and sisters whom God has seen fit to 

 place round about you ? 



Tobacco Column. 



Send Mr. Dick Emley one smoker free. He 

 has quit tobacco. He has two nice stands of 

 bees, and will pay if he uses the weed again. 



Eupora, Miss., Aug. 14. W. B. Enocht. 



I have quit the use of tobacco after using it 

 12 years. I have not used any for 20 months, 

 and no more of it for me; and if I am entitled 

 to a smoker, please send me one. 



Ben Franklin, Tex., July 18. T. J. Gross. 



Charley Ellis has quit the use of tobacco, and 

 wishes you to send him a smoker. If he ever 



uses the vile stuff again, and he does not pay 

 for the smoker I will, as it was through my in- 

 fluence he quit. He has not used any for about 

 three months. N. A. E. Ellis. 



Rail. Mo.. Aug. 7^ 



I am 29 years old the 31st of this month, and I 

 concluded to stop using tobacco in every shape 

 and form; and if I ever commence again I will 

 pay twice the worth of one smoker. 



Calvin D. Chellis. 



Brookville. Ohio, Aug. 14. 



Please sepd a smoker to E. T. Judson, Rich- 

 mond, Vt. He has quit using tobacco after 

 using it for years. If he ever uses it again I 

 will see that you have your pay. 



J. D. Wright. 



South Starksboro, Vt., Aug. 12. 



If you are still sending out smokers, please 

 send one to H. O. Sluytes. He has quit smok- 

 ing and chewing. If he should use it again I 

 will pay for the smoker. He is sixty years of 

 age. W. E. Smith. 



Randall, Kan., July 13. 



In answer to your communication of Aug. 25, 

 I would say that Fred H. Jewhurst is my only 

 son, and has been induced to give up smoking 

 cigarettes through reading your Tobacco Col- 

 umn; and if he resumes, he or I will pay for 

 the smoker. Mrs. B. Jeavhurst. 



Richmond, Va.. Aug. 31. 



I still claim that smoker from you. I quit 

 smoking pipes and cigars about ten months 

 ago. and I never stooped so low as to chew or 

 snuff. I have also quit raising the weed. The 

 reason I wanted the smoker was to remind me 

 of my pledge. J. W. Switzer. 



Bucklin, Mo., Aug. 27. 



I have, through the influence of the Tobacco 

 Column, induced Mr. Freddie De Witt to stop 

 the use of tobacco. He agrees to pay you for a 

 smoker if he ever uses tobacco again. Please 

 send me a smoker for him ; and if he ever 

 breaks his pledge I will send you 7()c cash. 



Matthew H. Dewitt. 



Sunny Side, Md., July 1.5. 



I believe I shall have to lay in a claim for a 

 smoker, as I have thrown away my pipe and 

 tobacco, and I need something else to raise a 

 smoke with. I will agree to pay for the same 

 if I ever take up the pipe; but I don't think I 

 shall ever use the weed again. 



Joseph W. Bell. 



Valle Vista, Cal., Sept. 1. 



I must tell you that I have quit the use of to- 

 bacco, but I do not claim a smoker, as I am 

 supplied. You remember the man from Texas 

 who said if you would give him a smoker of 

 gold studded with diamonds he would not give 

 up tobacco. Your reply to him caused me to 

 wonder if I could not quit. I was a gre,3,t slave 

 to tobacco, chewing and smoking; but by God's 

 help I have not taken a chew nor a smoke since 

 the evening I read the article referred to in 

 Gleanings, which was the 6th of last March. 

 I had a terrible struggle, but came out victor. 

 If all would give up the use of tobacco, and 

 give to God's cause the amount each year they 

 had been spending for tobacco, the cause would 

 not suffer for want of means. I hope God may 

 spare your life many years yet, and that you 

 may be instrumental in doing much good. 



H. C. Hedges. 



Lumbersport, W. Va., Sept. 2. 



