4.5H 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Sept. 



TOBACCO COI^UIWN. 



jp HAVE not made use of the weed since I ob- 

 served your offer. Now, if you will send me 

 the smolier 1 will be very much obliged; 

 though, s^moker or no smoker, with God's help I 

 never expect to use the weed again. I am an orphan 

 boy, having no home of my own. I live \vith my 

 cousin. I have saved a few dollars, and am trying- 

 to start bee-keeping. Last year I bought mc one 

 stand of blacks; did not know there was any other 

 sort of bees until I chanced to s'i't a copy of Glean- 

 ings this spring. I bought a nucleus of J. P. H. 

 Brown, Augusta, Ga. They have built up to a 

 strong colony. I want to buy more as soon as I can 

 get the money. W. H. T. Collins. 



A.\er3%'illc, Ga., June 5, 1881. 



You are on the right track, friend C, in 

 declaring you will stop. Hold on, and you 

 will certainly, with (iod's help, come out 

 all right any waij. 



I am an old smoker; will try to quit. Send smoker, 

 and I will either pay for it or quit smoking. 

 Kelloggsville, O.. July 15, 1881. J. Shave. 



You will perhaps recognize me as one of the free- 

 smoker club. I would say, that I am still sound on 

 it, and bound to win. E. A. E.mmons. 



Tampico, Whitesides Co., III., July 4, 1881. 



Tf you arc going to give all of your subscribers 

 that smoke tobacco a smoker provided they will quit 

 smoking, you may put me down for one. 



Neosho, Mo., July 5, 18S1. K. P. Liles. 



T isee your smoker offer in Gleanings. I think I 

 must take the advantage of it, so I agree to quit the 

 use of tobacco from this date, if the Lord will be my 

 helper, and use it no more. So send to me a good 

 smoker. W. C. Witt. 



Gordon, Wilkinson Co., Ga., July 15, 1881. 



1 have been reading the Tobacco Column in Gle.\n- 

 INGS with interest ever since it was originated. Now 

 you may put mc there. I have used tobacco for 25 

 years and now I have quit for 25 days, and I think I 

 can tight it through; so you may send me a smoker 

 if it pleases you to do so one like you show on 

 page 322, July Gleanings. I have asmall Bingham, 

 but it is very inconvenient to light, and too email. 

 I am in the same boat with friend Cook, on page 358, 

 July No. J. II. Eby. 



North Robinson, Crawford Co., ()., July 28, 1881. 



The smoker is received, and is O. K. Vou say, in 



Gleanings, that you think my case a rather bad 



one. I gave mj' pipe and tobacco to my wife, and 



told her to burn them in the stove; also, $1.50 to 



send you the first time I was caught smoking. 



D. S. Burbank. 

 Reinbeck, Iowa, August 6, 1881. 



I beg pardon, friend B. I know you will 

 keep your promise. But it seemed a little 

 as if you meant you would keep on with the 

 pipe unless I sent you a smoker, and I 

 should feel, perhaps, that I was making a 

 mistake if you did that. 



I see you are having quite an expensive thing of 

 your tobacco and whisky and swearing matters. I 

 hope you will accomplish good by it. But another 

 idea: lam in my evth year; have never smoked a 

 cigar or a pipe in my life ; have not taken .n dram of 



liquor of any kind for more than 50 j-ears ; never 

 swore in my life, only when two or three years old, 

 and that in " Dutch." Now, sir, would I not be en- 

 titled to a smoker, say a Clark breach-loader,— 

 ".iest?" I intended twitting you about sleeping in 

 church, but will let it pass for the i)resent. 



PniLLIP Eahhart. 

 Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa, July 30, 1881. 



Please send me one of your cold-blast Simplicity 

 smokers. I propose never to use any more tobacco, 

 but I don't propose to take a smoker for that. Am 

 doing nicely (I think) with my bees so far. 



Dr. George A. Deming. 



Amboy, Lee Co., 111., Aug. 1, 1881. 



May the Lord bless you in the determina- 

 tion, 'friend I). When the doctors of our 

 land shall, as a class, discontinue tobacco, 

 we may with propriety expect their patients 

 to do the same. 



I have one of your Simplicity smokers, used three 

 years, and it is good yet. You can put me on your 

 list of reformed tobacco-users. I have used it for 26 

 years, but have <iuit for the lust three months and 

 forever. Dr. C. E. Bulison. 



Flushing, Gen. Co., Mich., July 26, 1881. 



Well, that is a good report, friend B. We 

 would like to send you a smoker free, just to 

 kind of remind you that you have shut down 

 on tobacco for good and all. Can we not do 

 so, doctor? If we can get tlie doctors all to 

 " f.<!chewing " tobacco, we shall be ready to 

 commence with the lawyers next. EhV ' 



Come to think of it, I quit using tobacco 5 weeks 

 last Sunday; have been usinu- ir, for IT years, some- 

 times using as much as 10 cents' worth a day. Now, 

 it seems to me I ought to send you a smoker for 

 fair play, as It has alrcad.v saved mc more than two 

 smokers would cost, and you have, through your 

 agency of offering a smoker, caused mc to try to 

 quit the us-^ of it, and T am hnppy to say I have suc- 

 ceeded, and hope to continue to do so; but since it is 

 your rule to send a smoker to all who quit the use of 

 tobacco, I suppose you had better put me down as 

 one who will take the smoker as a pledge not to use 

 any more tobacco. Rohert M. Teats. 



Globe Mills Snyder Co., Pa., July 27, 1881. 



Seeing your offer of a smoker to all who would 

 quit the use of tobacco, I have concluded to sa.v, I 

 have one more cigar, and when that is gone I'll 

 agree to the contract for a smoker. 



J. H. Lee. 



Lake Jessnp, Orange Co., Fit., July 18, 183L 



I am glad to have you fi,ive it up this way, 

 rather than not at all, friend L.; but I think 

 your plan a little dangerous. As soon as 

 you are satistied a thing is wrong, stop it 

 that instant; for every moment you pro- 

 crastinate, is dallying with sin: and anv 

 such course weakens one's powers of self- 

 control to a gi'eater or less extent If it were 

 a point as to whether you would or wonld not 

 become a Christian, a still worse danger 

 would be in the way, for you may never live 

 until that last cigar is smoked, and you be 

 summoned to meet your Maker with a de- 

 liberate purpose to sin still held in your 

 heart. Do you remember liow Christ put 

 itV If thy right hand olfend thee, cut it off 

 and cast ft from thee. 



