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appeal to you. Will it be a good thing for 

 them to commence using tobacco, now or at 

 any other time?" The above may not have 

 been the exact words, but that is the sub- 

 stance of them. He looked at me smilingly, 

 and answered promptly, "No, Mr. Root, it 

 would not be a good thing for them to com- 

 mence using tobacco." 



To him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to 

 him it i8 unclean. 



Now, our young friend decided unhesita- 

 tingly that tobacco would be unclean, espe- 

 cially for those boys ; and therefore it was 

 for him, considering his influence, also un- 

 clean ; and he, as he stood there before God, 

 whom he had promised to love and obey, 

 thought he ought not to use tobacco. How 

 about the small boys in your vicinity and 

 neighborhood? Just one more point, friend 

 C. If you were my superintendent, and had 

 been using tobacco before our regulations 

 commenced, I would not discharge you ; in 

 fact, I have never discharged anybody for 

 using tobacco, that I know of. But I have 

 declined to employ, in the first place, quite 

 a number because they used tobacco and did 

 not choose to give it up. To discharge a 

 man is a hard thing to do, and should never 

 be done without very good and grave rea- 

 sons, in my opinion ; but to decline to em- 

 ploy one in the flrst place is a right that no 

 one would think of disputing. 



Last summer a negro, good old crippled Christian 

 Peter Henderson, near here, got me to start him 

 with tees, to try if he could raise part of his living 

 that way. He wanted a smoker, and chewed and 

 smoked tobacco. He learned from Gleanings I 

 lent him that he could get a smoker if he quit; and 

 if I would vouch for him he said he would try. I 

 told him to hold out till this spring, and I'd do it. I 

 had given up smoking the weed myself, after a 

 siege of 25 years at it, inveterately, but was using 

 it, in a small way, in my mouth. I told him we 

 would double teams on you, so I quit chewing, and 

 he was to have the benefit of both cases. Now he 

 triumphantly claims it on a nine-months' trial, or 

 "probation," and says he is safe. You may send 

 one of those old cheap ones I see in "baby " Glean- 

 ings this month; that will do. He is a good old 

 creature, and poor as poverty, but makes his living, 

 lame as he is, and his old wife's too. If he gets it, 

 there will be joy in his black neighborhood. He is 

 one among the few old slaves I ever saw that would 

 try to keep bees. A. W. Bryan. 



Hot Springs, Arkansas. 



Most gladly we send our old friend a 

 smoker, friend B.; and we send him a brand- 

 new one too. May God bless him and his 

 neighborhood ; and may he help us to ele- 

 vate all of that class, and draw them out of 

 their depths of ignorance, intemperance, 

 and sin. Give my respects to your old 

 friend, and tell him I will pray for him. 



KIND WORDS FR OM OUR CU STOMERS. 



Now, brother-readers, let us nudge our editor a lit- 

 tle in regard to that fine boy of his. Some of the 

 rest of us have fine boys, but have not the press at 

 our disposal as he has. Now, I will suggest that 

 Amos just imagine how bis baby's name would 

 sound pronounced backward, thus — Root Peter. 



Niger. 



THAT HUNTER SIFTER. 



Well, to make a long story short, I don't know 

 how people keep house without it. J. Noble. 



Eureka, Wis. 



Please send me half a dozen cold-blast smokers. 

 We are using them to throw the fumes of sulphur 

 on the cabbage and watermelon lice. They cook 

 them, " you bet." J. L. Mulkey. 



Sherman, Texas, July 13, 1883. 



Though I have never written to you, I have known 

 you through Gleanings since 1880. My sister, Mrs. 

 St. J. F. Moore, and myself, a silent partner, have 

 now 91 stantls of bees. This has been a very favor- 

 able year. Cotton i-s in bloom now, and the bees are 

 going for the nectar. J. H. Wilson. 



Monroe, La., July 13, 1883. 



The Calendar Clock arrived all in good order. I 

 would have acknowledged receipt sooner, but wanted 

 to try it a short time first. To say that I am pleased 

 with it fails to convey the proper idea. I would not 

 be without it now since I have seen it and tried it, 

 for double the cost. The weather is dry yet. Bees 

 are doing nothing; have doubled back to 70 colonies. 



Luling, Texas, July 27, 1883. J. S. Tadlock. 



You have proved yourself more than prompt, as I 

 sent for two queens and you sent me five. All right; 

 I had thought I would not buy any more than the 

 two; but as the five came, I destroyed 3 black 

 queens, and made room for the five. I have now 

 concluded to send for three more. W. S. Peck. 



Syracuse, N. Y., July 28, 1883. 



Friend Peck, you give me more credit than I de- 

 serve. You see, it happened this way: We were 

 overstocked with queens, and in order to get them 

 out of the way we risked sending a few more than 

 were ordered, where the letters seemed to indicate 

 that the parties could use them. In your case we 

 hit the nail right on the head, as you see; but we do 

 not always do it where we take such liberties. Thank 

 you for your kind words. 



The supplies that you sent me came all right, and 

 in good order, and I would say they were the most 

 satisfactory lot, and best, that I ever got from any 

 one. The sections are better than I expected, and 

 they all give the best satisfaction that could be ask- 

 ed. I don't know how to praise them as much as I 

 would like to, after using other men's make — thick 

 and hard to put together, and then not fit in frames; 

 and when you make frames to hold them, not fit in 

 boxes, you may have some idea how I like the ones 

 I got from you. You have my best thanks and good 

 wishes. Thos. Hoey. 



Saliueville, Ohio, June 30, 1883. 



Well, I declare, friend H., your kind epistle is re- 

 freshing. It seems to me we have had more com- 

 plaints of sections than any summer before. This 

 is very likely owing to the fact that we have been 

 less able to give them our personal supervision than 

 we have done in former years. I am very glad in- 

 deed that they pleased you. 



There are several persons taking Gleanings in 

 this vicinity, and they all claim it to be a great help 

 to them in the management of their bees. I visited 

 one of the parties a few days ago — Daniel P. Hub- 

 bard. He has a small town of A. I. Root's chaff 

 hives. It is the nicest sight I have seen for some 

 time. He told me he had 20 this spring, and had in- 

 creased to 45 by natural swarming. I might say 

 here, that he prefers a natural swarm to an artificial 

 one. He has already taken over 20 gallons of ex- 

 tracted honey, besides over 500 lbs. in the comb. 

 He is prepared to furnish Italian queens to any per- 

 son wishing to puichase. I find, by his conversa- 

 tion, that he is well posted in bee culture. I have 

 some of the chaff hives, and I am of the opinion 

 there can not be too much said in praise of them. I 

 think, by giving bees the attention that a farmer 

 has to give his stock, they will prove much more 

 profitable, to say nothing of the difference in the 

 capital invested in the two occupations. The reason 

 bees have not proven a success to some persons Is 

 because they give them no attention. 



Graysville, Ohio, July 25, 1883. W. H. Booth. 



