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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 



communion with himself, God sometimes sees fit to 

 blight our fairest prospects, and disappoint our 

 most fondly cherished hopes; but he never talies 

 such measures except to promote our real welfare, 

 and they still leave in full force the rule which also 

 is found upon the inspired pages, " The hand of the 

 diligent maketh rich; but the drunkard and the 

 glutton shall come to poverty." So I find we can re- 

 alize success by ti'ying to imitate men who are suc- 

 cessful. To a reflecting mind, this will be no slight 

 benefit. There is, unquestionably, an art In "get- 

 ting on;" there are certain qualities, mental and 

 moral, which render success with the divine bless- 

 ings much more likely than otherwise: hence who- 

 ever wishes to succeed must first become a learner. 

 Nothing is so dangerovis to him as self-confidence. 

 Docility, a willioguess to learn his defeats, and be 

 taught by the experience of others, are more valu- 

 able to the young bee-keeper than any thing that he 

 can possibly take in. Never try to imitate the indo- 

 lent, but always strive to be in the front rank with 

 successful men; and if you can not be successful 

 over a few things, how could you control many 

 things? " So run that ye may obtain." 



J. H. BURUAQE. 



Concord, Cabarrus Co., N. C, April, 1883. 



There is one especial word in friend B.'s 

 remarks that I would call attention to; and 

 especially would I emphasize the word " do- 

 cility." What God wants is docile Chris- 

 tians; not those full of self-confidence and 

 self-will, but those willing to be taught, and 

 always ready to learn. Docility is not lazi- 

 ness, by any means, but quite the contrary ; 

 and when it is co^ipled with energy, and 

 faith in God, success must follow. 



%obam€ Seliimn. 



A GOOD WOKD FOB CAMP-MEETINGS. 



SEE that you are giving a smoker to those who 

 dissolve partnership with tobacco, so I thought 

 if I was not too late you would send one to my 

 father. He quit smoking one year ago last summer 

 at a camp-meeting, and ha not used it since. 



Fred Rkmender. 

 Kilmanagh, Huron Co., Mich., March 19, 1883. 



May God bless the camp-meetings, friend 

 11., if that is the fruit of their work. When 

 this kind of meetings cause people to give 

 up their sins in a way plainly to be seen by 

 tlie world, like the discontinuance of these 

 bad habits, it is a very good evidence of their 

 being the work of God. " By their fruits ye 

 shall know them." 



Send me a sun-glass to light my pipe. You see 

 that I smoke; and as it is one ol the few pleasures 

 I have, I don't think I ought to stop while I do not 

 use it to excess. J. W. Corbett. 



Bennettsville, Marlborough Co.,S. C.,Mar. 16. 1883. 



Well, it seems to me, friend C, that this 

 is a little cool all around. Do you suppose 

 that I sell sun-glasses, with the idea that 

 they might be handy to light pipes with ? I 

 intended them as a sort of philosophical toy 

 for the juveniles. But if they are going to 

 be used for the purpose you mention, 

 1 don't know but I shall liave to take 

 a second look at the matter. Accord- 



ing to your reasoning, we may expect you to 

 stop when you get to using tobacco to excess. 

 Now, candidly, do you think that is the way 

 they generally do V Is not your reasoning a 

 little "thin," to use a common expression? 

 If I were you, I think I would stop before I 

 got where you speak of getting. We are 

 good friends all the same, are wc not, 

 friend C.V 



I have tried so frequently to quit off the " nasty " 

 weed, and made a signal failure each time, that I 

 have felt discouraged, and at times accused myself 

 of extreme weakness and folly in not being able, to 

 master the habit; and now, friend Root, here's the 

 Hon. Judge Jere. Black's expzriencc, annexed, and— 

 well, sir— it justs boosts my opinion of my own 

 weakness away up yonder into the nineties. Hear 

 Judge Black (nearly everybody has heard of Judge 

 Black); 



WHY JUDGE BLACK USES THE WEED. 

 Not long ago Judge Black met a gentleman who pathetically 

 related his endeavors to break himself of toli.nc'o cheuing, as 

 it met with the unqualitied condemnation of all civilized people. 

 " You'll find it a nard ca-e— a hni-d ease, my fiiend," replied 

 the Judge, with a solemn wink. " I tried to break myself of it 

 once— didn't I ever tell you? Well, it was when I was At- 

 torney-General, and I said to myself, ' Jeremiah Black, we've 

 got to stop this thing. ' So I made up my mind, and one morn- 

 ing I started down to my office without a scrap of tobacco. I 

 began the day badly, and it got worse by degrees. I never felt 

 so much like a savage in my life. I dismissed two clerks, 

 bounced a messenger, made a fool of myself three or four 

 times, snapped at everybod.y, and started home, feeling myself 

 to be a total failure .and all creation a mistake. On my way 

 home I met a man whom I respected ver.y much. I told him 

 my experience with leaving oft tob icco, and asked his advice. 

 ' Judge,' he said, ' my experience is the same as yours. I tried 

 ti) leave off too. I quarreled with several members of the 

 church I belonged to, thfuight the minister was a fool, got 

 tired of my wife, and if I had kepr it up, I should have been a 

 moral monster— and I deterniined to circumvent the old 

 enemv by taking up my clieiished vice,' and so," continued 

 the Judge, oheerfull.y, "I saw that tob icco was conducive to 

 virtue, and [''utting a quid] 1 propose to keep it up until I 

 leave It off." 



Please give us your opinion Jioto. Does t/ii's" settle 

 it"? R.C.Taylor. 



Wilmington, N. C, April 13. 1883. 



Friend T., I am very much obliged to you 

 for your funny story ; but the moral seems 

 to be on the wrong side. But there may be a 

 moral for the juveniles in it, after all. ' If it 

 is such a very hard thing to break otf from 

 the use of tobacco, perhaps they will wisely 

 conclude never to commence. But about 

 yourself and Judge Black : Do you really 

 feel good about giving way to a thing that you 

 think you ought not to V I presume you re- 

 member Dr. Franklin's story about the 

 speckled ax. I am very sorry to hear the 

 Judge's neiglibor had so niuch trouble. 

 Quarreling with the members in the church 

 was not so very bad a matter; for if they 

 were good followers of the Master, they 

 would forgive him. Nor would it do so 

 very much harm if he did get to thinking 

 the minister was a fool ; for ministers are 

 used to such things (begging their pardon), 

 and it doesn't hurt them. But getting tired 

 of his wife is somethiug a little more serious. 

 However, if it lasted only for a day or two, 

 I suppose even that could be gotten over, 

 especially as she, good soul, would know all 

 about his infirmity. Come to sum it all up, 

 friend T., I believe I should advise you 

 to push ahead, after all ; especiallv as it 

 would take you. but a few weeks to get 

 through the " Slough of Despond," and come 

 out on the brighter and happier shore. May 

 God help you, and all of the friends who feel 

 themselves in any such bondage. "Of 

 whom a man is overcome, of the same is he 

 brought in bondage." 



