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GLEA:^jmGS IN IMLE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



I received the magaetic tack hammer, and am them, an<l that is saying a great deal, considering 

 well pleased; sold it; CDUld not keep it. Please send j how much I fuss and look at them, 

 me two more. C. C. Wattehson. Willie H. Birney. 



Live Oaks, Hastrop Co., Te.vas, July 7, IWl. . Nelson, Madison Co., N. V., June, 1»81. 



I gave the Clark smoker a trial, and am convinced 

 that I would not give it for two ot any other kind. 

 Its convenience makes it preferable; besides. It is 

 better. Geo. Kinney. 



Elkhart, Ind., July 23, 18SI. 



Aftjr a fair trial we are pleased with the Water- 

 bury watch. We inclose $20.00, for which please 

 forward, at earliest convenience, 6 more. 



Bentley & Young. 



Columbia Mills, Columbia Co., Fla., July ,5, 1881. 



Gleanings received. Please accept thanks. I 

 sat up and read until past midnight before I thought 

 it would be a month l)ef.>re I got aoother one. 



D. S. Hall. 



South C.ibot, Wash. Co., Vt., July 2S, 1881. 



THE TEN-CENT SPECTACLES. 



The 2 spectacles are received in good order. This 

 part of the country will shortly become good cus- 

 tomers for your spectacles as soon as they become 

 known. W.m. Wittfeld. 



Georgiana, Brevard Co., Fla., May 34, 1881. 



I ha%-e always been pleased with what I have 

 bought from you. May Tth I took 168 lbs. of new 

 honey: I'f w.ts /lac. Was sorry to see your name in 

 Blasted Hopes. I hope you won't be there long. 



J. W. Thaylok. 



Mt. Joy, Delta Co., Texas, May 31, 1881. 



I received my three queens all right, also the other 

 goods. Every thing in good order. You will receive 

 my very kind thanks for your kindness. I think I 

 never s^vv any thing put up so nicely. 



Edw.a^rd Tunnicliff. 



Kewance, Henry Co., III., Julv U, 1881. 



W.VTERBrUY WATCH. 



The watch came to hand all right. I am well 

 pleased with it. I think it is the best watch I ever 

 saw for the money, and so think all my friends. 



E. B. Skinner. 



Fultonham, Muskingum Co., O., July 28, 18H1. 



THE 50c. SMOKER. 



That new smoker is just an old engine. I don't 

 see what any one wants to give Sl.,50 when he can 

 get such a one as that for 5cc. and postage. 



V. W. Keeney. 



Shirland, III., July 20, 18S1. 



FIXING BOOKS TO MAIL SAFELY. 



I received the ABC to-day. It came through the 

 mails In flrst-class condition. I think some of the 

 booksellers might take a lesson from the way you 

 tlx those wooden strips around the edge to keep the 

 cover from getting damaged. H. It. Duke. 



Emsdale, Out., Can., Aug. 5, 1881. 



the cards on PROFANITY. 



Accept thanks for those cards. I hope that 

 through them I may lead some one to leave off this 

 most depraved habit, as well as to impress on the 

 minds of some of the little ones, that Jesus should 

 always direct our words as well as actions. Several 

 little girls who are in the habit of coming to my 

 place of work have learned the one, and are to re- 

 peat it to me this afternoon. Geo. F. Williams. 



New Philadelphia, Tusc. Co., O., Aug. 1, IHSI. 



I like my ABC book very much; at least I sup- 

 pose you will think so when I say that and (J lean- 

 ings have so occupied my evenings that I haven't 

 l)een to the store an evening for a month or more; 

 so you see it must possess very decided charms. I 

 have got one swarm of bees now; the hive is chock 

 full of bees and honey, so it is all I can do to lift it. 

 We got them for $5.50 in a box hive. They have 

 about filled a cap with honey. They are blacks, but 

 are very gentle. I have been stung only once by 



Here is two dollars, for which you will please send 

 me a '" crate ot tive " of those extra smokers. I have 

 used one of your first make of them, and can recom- 

 mend them c >nscientiously. A. A. Parsons. 



Plaintteld, Hendricks Co., End.. July 39, 1881. 



Yom- clerk is a jewel to send my order by freight, 

 to thus save me expense. D. F. Hawley. 



Alburgh Springs, Grand Isle Co., Yt., July 2:$, 1881. 

 [Why, friend H., it is ijnu who are the "jewel." 

 Wo have had more unkind words for disobeying 

 orders, as we did in your case, than for almost any 

 thing else. For instance, a man will order a thou- 

 sand sections by express. We find, by looking it up, 

 that the express charges alone would be about as 

 much as the sections are worth. Now, the man may 

 ; be well aware of this, and prefers to pay it rather 

 1 than risk the delays on freight; or. what is most 

 ] probable, he may have carelessly said by express, 

 ■ not thinking how heavy a thousand sections really 

 arc. Shall we obey (H- disobey orders? If we should 

 wait until we could write him, the delay might cost 

 him more than the value of the sections. We have 

 found that we got the most thanks by taking it for 

 granted that our customer has been careless; but 

 sometimes we get a letter informing us that it is 

 fair to presume a man who pays his money knows 

 what he wants, and how he wants it. When we risk 

 sending them as ordered, they often refuse to take 

 them, and then we have a heavy express charge to 

 foot ourselves. So you see why kind words like 

 yours do us a great deal of good, friend H.] 



! KIND WORD^ Tit OVIi CUSTOMERS. 



My friends, there is one thing most sadly needed 

 in business, it is esp3cially needed by the boys and 



1 girls and men and women who have not been much 

 in the habit of doing business, or who are just learn- 



1 ing to do it. Our b jok-keeper says the best way she 

 can define it is to say that you need to learn to be 

 .s7/n)f (tnd c]c:ir. Many of our large business houses 

 are short, as we all know to our sorrovv, but they 

 are often any thing but clear. Our bee friends go 

 so much the other way that they often write a long 

 pleasant letter, but do not make the principal point 

 clear then. The trouble is worse than you have any 



1 idea of. To illustrate : A man says, " Send me a 

 thousand sections, 5x8. Don't delay a moment." 



1 This is short and clear, but it don't tell which of the 

 two dimensions is to have the openings in. to let in 



i the bees. It won't do to guess, and so we write, 



I " My friend, you failed to tell us which were the tops 



j and bottoms, and which the sides of your sections; 



I please tell at once." Now, would you suppose any- 

 body could fail to answer such a question':" But they 

 do, and quite often. Again, a man asked about some 



i grooving-saws for making sections. We told him 

 we could get him a set of new ones for 90 much, or 

 that we would sell him a set that we had been using, 



I at a much less price. He replied that we should 

 send him, at one', so many saws of such dimensions; 

 but nowhere in his letter was there anj' clew as to 



I whether he wished older new. We sent the new, 

 and he was very much displeased, and charged us 

 with not holding to what we had agreed to do. An- 

 other orders a thousand frames at once. After hunt- 

 ing up all the facts we could to determine whether 

 he wanted all- wood or metal-corner frames, we send 

 the former. He replies that he plainly ordered the 

 latter, and thit the former are subject to our order, 

 as he can not use them. Nothing but sending back 

 to him his own letter will convince him of his mis- 

 take. D.1 you saj' that such mistakes will happen, 

 and we shall all have to bear withat least some such'? 

 Then by all means, friends, let us bear this in mind 

 when we are tempted to speak or write harshly. We 

 often get goods we think we did not order, but we do 

 not write abusively, or at least not until we have 

 found out what we did order. I'll tell you what 

 helps : after you make an order, read it over carefully 

 to see if you have told all that must he told. 



ITAI IAN A XD A LBINO QUEENS, 



Untested, bred from my choicest mothers. Italian 

 queens, 75 cts. each ; per half-doz., $U.50. Albino 

 queens, $1.00; per half-doz., f.5.00. 



J. M. C. TAYLOR, 

 9d Lewiston, Fred'k Co., Md. 



FOR SALE. 



Address. 



Od 



,13 Colonies of pure Italian Bees 

 in improved Langstroth hives, 

 A. M. YORK, 



428, 15th St., Detroit, Mich. 



