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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Mar. 



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JUST laughed until I cried, over your experi- 

 ence on the cars, going to the convention. 

 Now look here, old friend " honest Indian," had 

 you not been taking some simple kind of beverage 

 with a bi'other bee-keeper? Perhaps it was taken 

 through an honest-looking "straw," and "just a 

 drop" to keep out the cold, eh? I have heard the 

 argument of using tobacco, until 1 am at times 

 tempted to try again to quit using it. But, oh, 

 what's a fellow to do at night while musing over his 

 expected tons of honey, unless he smokes tobacco? 

 lean say this much for tobacco: It has, many and 

 many a time, kept me out of other "devilments," 

 and I for one say, " Remove the tariff; Messrs. Com- 

 missioners, give us cTicap tobacco and high whisky." 

 Besides, dear friend, remember I am a "tar heel;" 

 and when you take the pipe and tobacco from 

 us, "we' uns" are going to make trouble; and don't 

 fail to remember this. R. C. Taylor. 



Wilmington, N. C, Jan. 19, 1883. 



Friend T., we are not going to try to take 

 the pipe and tobacco away from you. If 

 you give it up at all, it must be, not by 

 might, not by power, but by the spirit of 

 Jesus our master, and then there won't be 

 any trouble. In regard to your small plea 

 for tobacco, I fear it is not always the best 

 thing to do, to " muse over expected tons of 

 honey." Tobacco may, for the time being, 

 have kept you from doing something worse ; 

 but are we to give a big strong man like you 

 something to do, with the simple idea of 

 keeping him out of mischief ? Why, friend 

 T., you should be saving souls, instead of 

 musing and smoking, should you not ? 



THE TOBACCO column; WHAT ONE Or OUR NEW 

 FRIENDS THINKS OF IT. 



I am much amused with your Tobacco Column. 

 You must be a remarkable man to take so much in- 

 terest in the tobacco-slaves (I am sure there are 

 none like you in this section of country) as to give a 

 smoker as an inducement to quit. Now, don't think 

 that I want you to give me one, yet I have quit the 

 use of tobacco. I will tell you about it. I don't take 

 any pride in saying that I was an inveterate tobacco 

 smoker and chewer, but I am glad that I have had 

 nerve enough to quit. Well, as nearly as I can recol- 

 lect I commenced when I was only aboutO years old, 

 and used it about 36 years. There were few who 

 used more than I did. After using it all day I would 

 often get up in the night to smoke. Well, on the 22d 

 of March, 1879, 1 quit; have not touched, tasted, nor 

 handled the dirty stuff since. Well, do you think it 

 was easily done? Not much. It was a hard battle; 

 it was advance and retreat for many weeks; but I 

 fought it out, and conquered. I think the trouble 

 with many Is, they will quit four or five weeks, just 

 long enough to get into the thickest of the fight, and 

 then surrender; when, if they would hold CAit a lit- 

 tle longer, they would conquer. I think that a man 

 who stops using tobacco should, as much as possi- 

 ble, keep away from people who use it, for a while, 

 and not tempt the appetite. When I stopped I kept 

 away from public places all I could until I began to 

 get weaned from It. Now I am free from tobacco as 

 well as whisky. J, McKeon. 



Drydcn, Tompkins Co., N. T., Deo. 18, 1883. 



By the way, friend M., it seems to me you 

 make a pretty good point where you speak 

 about keeping away from public places. A 

 part of the Lord's prayer is, " Keep me from 

 temptation." When you were keeping away 

 from public places, were you not getting bet- 

 ter acquainted with your family, and fulfill- 

 ing your mission better, as a Christian and a 

 father? I am glad to hear you tell of your 

 experience ; for such encouraging words are 

 contagious, and I shouldn't be a bit sur- 

 prised to hear that some other brother had 

 just "gone and broke off," simply from 

 hearing you tell of it. 



And now, friend Root, a word for the Tobacco 

 Column. I have used the weed about fifteen years, 

 and now I am ready for the smoker. It is rather 

 humiliating to have any one hire me, and to do what 

 I know to be right; but I feel that, if I made an 

 agreement with you, or any one else, I have honor 

 enough to stand by it. I know It will be a hard job 

 to break off, but I believe my word of honor is 

 stronger than my appetite for tobacco; if, however, 

 I can not quit, I promise to pay you the price of two 

 smokers. H. H. Pease. 



Kingsville, O., Feb. 17, 1883. 



One word about tobacco. I don't use the weed; 

 but had I not seen your Tobacco Column I think I 

 should have tried it, for Mr. Quinby recommends it 

 strongly ; but after reading what 1 have in Glean- 

 ings I should feel ashamed to take up the habit 

 for that purpose, when 75 cts. buys a good smoker. 



Plympton, Mass., Feb. 5, 1883. E. W. Briggs. 



HONEST AND CONSCIENTIOUS, BUT " COULDN'T HOLD 

 THE FORT." 



Inclosed please find $2.75. Please send me Glean- 

 ings one year. The rest, $1.75, will pay for smoker 

 on Tobacco Pledge. F. W. Smith. 



Parksville, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1883. 



Or Department for duties to bo attended to 

 this nioutli. 



»|, ON'T have any robbing in or about your 

 MM apiary. Bobbing is a disgrace to the 

 community, whether among bees or 

 men. Youought to be ashamed of it. You 

 ought to be ashamed of yourself, if you have 

 neighbors who rob, or neighbors' bees that 

 rob. Set a better example, and take tempt- 

 ation out of the way. See that the neigh- 

 bors, the neighbors' children, and the neigh- 

 bors' bees are busily employed about some- 

 thing honest or useful. You are your broth- 

 er's keeper, to a certain extent. Don't let 

 vour bees lack stores. Mrs. Axtell thinks 

 they build up better where they can see that 

 they have a great lot of stores ahead. I 

 shouldn't wonder if she were right. Where 

 you haven't extra combs of sealed stores 

 provided "for spring encouragement, give 

 them Good candy over the cluster. Our 

 girls knead it as they would dough, and it 

 can be made into nice little round biscuits, 

 to be placed right over the bees. You might 

 work in some flour, if they are short of pol- 

 len ; but where there is plenty of pollen in 



