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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



ting the erlge of the tin under the galvanized 

 iron, so quickly that it seemed almost like 

 mag c. 



'• Now," said friend M., " Come over in my 

 orchard and get some ripe apples, and play 

 around a while as boys usually do, and theii 

 you can make pails, and five-cent coffee- 

 pots too. if you like." 



It is Saturday night again. The family 

 are, as before, sitting on one of the logs that 

 go across the bridge. On the front of the 

 '' Temperance Hotel" are hung pint cups, 

 half-pint cups, quart cups, pint pails full of 

 honey, and not full. John's father has got 

 some money that he has earned himself; so 

 has John's mother; so has Mary, that she 

 got from selling cups at a commission of 

 '•ten percent." John's father has just re- 

 peated the text at the head of our chapter, 

 and asked his wife if it can really be such as 

 he whom Jesus meant when those words 

 "were spoken. John's mother reminded liim 

 that, as it was Saturday night, he had better 

 take down his things and put them away. 



" Please let them be up a little longer, 

 mother; lam sure somebody will be along 

 and want something more." 



In a few minutes 

 more he came out of 

 the '-Hotel" with a 

 bound, exhibiting his |^ ^'^^^^^fc 

 new tive-cent coffee- ^> l^^=ss==^ 

 pot. Shall t give you 

 a picture of ity 



Do 5'ou wonder, dear 

 reader, that all that 

 little household are five-cent coffee-pot. 

 happy, and that their faith in God and the 

 future is bright, this Saturday night? 



TOB.ICCO COliUIfllV. 



FRIEND sends us the following for 

 this department : — 



Prof. Bascnm writes, with regard to thecultivatiou 

 of the tohacci) plant : — 



"Take the land, the sunshine, the rain which God 

 g-ives yoii, and set them all at work to grow tobacco. 

 Throw this, as j'our product, into the world's market; 

 buy with it l)read, clothing and shflter, books for 

 yourselves, instruction for your children, considera- 

 tion in the community, and, perchance, the Gospel 

 of Grace; piy ever and everywhere, for the g-ood 

 you get, tobacco, only tobacco — tub icco, that nour- 

 ishe« no man, clothes no man, instructs no man, 

 purities no man, b'esses no man; tobacco, that be- 

 gets inordinate and loathsome appetite and disease 

 and degradation, that impoverishes and debases 

 thousand?, and adds incalculably to the burden of 

 evil the world bears. But call not this e.\-change 

 honest trade, or this gnawing at ihe rent of socini 

 Well-being getting an honest livelihood. Think of 

 God's justice, the honesty he requires, and cover 

 not your sin with a lie. Turn not his earth and air, 

 given to minister to the sustenance and joy of man, 

 into a narcotic, deadening life and poisoning its cur- 

 rent, and then trHlHc witd this for your own good. 



"Some years since, the annual production of to- 

 bacco throushout the worll was estimated at four 

 billions of pounds. Allowing the cost of the uninan- 

 ufacturfd material to be ten cents a pounil. the 

 yearly expen«e of this pnisonfius growth araotints to 

 four hundred millions of dollars. Put into market- 

 able shape, the annual cost reaches one thousand 

 millions of dollars. This sum, according to carelul 

 computation, would construct two railroads around 

 the earth at twenty thousand a mile. It would 

 build a hundred thousand churchps, each costing 

 ten thousand dollars, or half a million of school- 

 houses, eai'h costing two thons:tnd, or it would em- 

 ploy a million of preachers, and a million teachers, 

 at a salary of five huj^'tred doUiurs. 



" What more effective, pathetic appeal to the hf>ad 

 and heart can be mad"- than by these figures"? T*o 

 millions of tons of tobacco annually consumed by 

 smokers and snuffers atid chewers, while from every 

 pnrt of the habitable miotic are hands stretched out 

 imploringly for the Bread of Life, which must bo 

 dt-nied for lack of means to send it! 



" In Great IJritaiii alone there are not far from 

 three hundred thousand tobacc vshops. England 

 tias obtained a larger revenue from this source than 

 from all the gold-mines of Australia. In Germany, 

 Hollind, Great Britain, and the United States, offi- 

 cial ligures show that it costs more than bread." 



Inclosed please find $1 00 for Gle\ninos. I would 

 be entirely lost without it. The other dollar is for 

 my broken promise. 'Tis true, 1 smoked only one 

 littlj cigarette, but it was a litile too much. 



L. L. E. 



I am both sorry and glad to get the above. 

 I have been for some time rather worried, 

 for fear all those who have given this public 

 promise were not strictly truthful, and now 

 I know that at least two of you aie. I am 

 very sorry, friend E., you have yielded to 

 temi)tation, and I fear your so doing will 

 weaken some other weak brother ; but I re- 

 joice that you come right out and confess 

 your wrong, and hand over the dollar. May 

 the Lord bless you in this 1 But I am sure 

 he would bless you still more in leaving oif 

 all such bad habits at once and for ever, 

 even though you have failed once. You 

 have done all you agreed to do, and nobody 

 has any right to find fault. 



By reading your tobacco column I came> to the 

 conclusion that there arc black sheep among your 

 flock. If a man promises to quit smoking and chew- 

 ing for the sake of a bee smoker, there is certainly 

 sotnething wrong. lam smokiug, and my conscience 

 tells me, "You do no sin." Why does the great 

 Creator let it grow if it is a sin to make use of it? 

 Can you tell me of any other use for it but to smoke 

 and chew? Why, then, condemn God's plants? Can't 

 you c.ill it such? If not, who el^e lets it grow? Ytiu 

 may say whisky is the drunkard's grave; that is 

 certainly true. I am strongly against the use of 

 strong drinks. But whisky is a necessitj-; we must 

 have it in medicine. But tobacco can not bo used 

 in medicine; and if I tell the truth, I smoke tobacco 

 for my nealth. I am not ashamed to have it appear 

 before your readers. People must bo very pious in 

 Canada, the way a Canada Pharisee advertises re- 

 garding tobacco. Pkkston J. Kline. 



Coopersburg, Lehigh Co., Pa., Nov. 7, 1881. 



Gently, friend K. If I mistake not, the 

 letter you have given us above is a rather 

 telling one against the use of the weed, to 

 the average reader. I hardly believe you 

 would wish your own boys to grow up to- 

 bacco-users, when it could as well as not be 

 avoided. I can call to mind two cases in 

 which tobacco is used as a medicine. Your 

 own case is one, and my wife uses it in the 

 form of an ointment, as a counter-irritant to 

 cure the croup. If I am right, i>oison ivy is 

 not used as a medicine, or otherwise ; yet I 

 never knew any one to insist it should be 

 used to chew because God made it, and it 

 must be good for something. Our Canadian 

 friend meant to say, in his advertisetnent, 

 "tobacco and liquors," instead of " tobacco 

 and cigars;" and I thank God they have 

 just so much "piety "in Canada. Do you 

 know, friend K., that no students can be re- 

 ceived at our Government school at West 

 Point i£ tiiey use tobacco V 



