. Gleanings in bee culture. ll, huddled together. Loudtalk, and cursing and swearing were almost the onlythings that could be heard. I commenced to reasonwith myself, why these gentlemen went to this had not to wait long; they all commenced tosmoke. I c?.me to the conclusion they were notgentlemen, only when in their society. A true gen-tleman is a gentleman everywhere. These menloved smoking, more than their children and wives,whom they left and went to such company. Gen-tlemen dont smoke. Mr. Bathgate said I might fine him one dollarevery time I saw him smoke after that. I have read Gl


. Gleanings in bee culture. ll, huddled together. Loudtalk, and cursing and swearing were almost the onlythings that could be heard. I commenced to reasonwith myself, why these gentlemen went to this had not to wait long; they all commenced tosmoke. I c?.me to the conclusion they were notgentlemen, only when in their society. A true gen-tleman is a gentleman everywhere. These menloved smoking, more than their children and wives,whom they left and went to such company. Gen-tlemen dont smoke. Mr. Bathgate said I might fine him one dollarevery time I saw him smoke after that. I have read Gleanings for several years, and amdelighted to see you take such a stand against theuse of tobacco. Bro. Anselm. Ilehester, Md., July 7, 18S4. Brother A., if I understand you correctly,it was a great many vears ago that the inci^dent you narrate happened. Well, nowa-days I do not think you would find manyministers in the smoking-car; or, at least, ifyQU did, they would be in there fpr the p4iNpose,of reproving profanity, •. MYSELF AND MY NEIGHBORS. WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?—LUKE 10: 29. pyELL, little friends, I have been enjoy-ing myself for a few weeks hackwonderfully; in fact. I sometimesfeel almost guilty to feel tliat I liavehad so much enjoyment. I liavebeen afraid, almost, that I did not deserveit, and that ixrliajis it was not (juite you want to know how V Well, it cameabout by finding some new neighbois—or, atleast, some that 1 had not seen for a greatmany years. They are small folks, theseneighbors of mine, but I think they will getlarger within the next year. They are justas cute and pretty as they can l)e. and theyalways stay outdoors; in fact, I do not be-lieve they ever live in houses at all. May bethey do, however; but i have never seenthem in liouses. Dnring the rush of busi-ness in the past few months, I got very tired,and almost worn out, and a good many ofthe friends suggested that I should have avacation, and they spoke about traveling,and going to s


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