1901 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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ers to advertise on the buildings, and push 

 their beer and whisky before these people by 

 every art that wealth can command ? Why, 

 the wonder to me is there is not ever so much 

 more free fighting than we have now. Permit 

 me to say right here, even if it is outside of 

 the line of my text, that throughout the trial 

 between the bee-keepers and fruit-growers I 

 was impressed in the same way, not only with 

 the wisdom and fairness of Judge Beattie, but 

 also by the skill and wisdom, and, as a rule, 

 with the honesty, of the lawyers. One law- 

 yer was undignified and uncourteous enough 

 to call me names, and to per- 

 vert the truth of my statements, 

 when I went there to help both 

 the bee-keepers and the fruit- 

 growers. I am told this thing 

 is common ; but, even if it is, 

 I protest. In my opinion it is 

 not only ungentlemanly, but I 

 think it hurts any attorney to 

 go out of his way to be un- 

 courteous and uncivil to a wit- 

 ness who comes from a distance, 

 and who has at least a fair rep- 

 utation among men. This law- 

 yer lost his case ; and I should 

 not be surprised if this one 

 thing contributed largely to his 

 prejudice. 



pervisioii, however, over all the young women at the 

 institute, f<nd assigns the women students to the differ- 

 ent departments. Small, Maynard & Co. 

 Boston, Dec. 14. 



Here is the picture of Mrs. Washington her- 

 self, the woman whom Booker selected to be 

 his comrade and helper through the great work 

 he has undertaken. I wanted this picture be- 

 cause it shows so clearly how character stamps 

 itself on the face of any one, even a colored 

 woman. I can imagine this woman meeting 

 among other women of the W. C. T. U., and 

 giving the benefit of her education and expe- 



In our last I told you I ex- 

 pected to have one or more of 

 the cuts from that book de- 

 scribing the work among the 

 colored people in Tuskegee, 

 Ala. I wish to call your atten- 

 tion first to the beautiful pic- 

 ture of the apiary. 



The building in the back- 

 ground is only one of the fine 

 structures built for the institu- 

 tion, entirely by the colored 

 people. The hives, you notice, 

 are the Dovetailed eight-frame. 

 They seem to be stationed on 

 wooden planks nailed to sub- 

 stantial cleats or pieces of 

 scantling. I should object to 

 these planks unless the girls 

 were very careful not to step on 

 them, because the jar might 

 arouse the bees. Another thing, 

 in handling one of the hives 

 unless the plank were very sol- 

 id it would jar or disturb the 

 next one. 



How exceedingly natural it 

 looks to see these women at 

 work in the open air ! In their warm climate 

 I should think those hives would need some 

 sort of shade. If they are kept painted white, 

 however, they may do very well. In my last 

 I suggested that it was probably Mrs. Booker 

 \Vashina;ton who taught the girls bee-keeping. 

 The publishers of the book make the follow- 

 ing comment in regard to the matter : 



Mr. Thrasher tells us that Mrs. Washington does not 

 have direct charge of the bee-keeping, which is in 

 charge of the instructor in agriculture. She has su- 



MKS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. 



rience. Just take a good look at her, and im- 

 agine what a power she has been and is going 

 to be among the people of her race. I can 

 not tell you here what is in the book, be- 

 cause I want you to read it for yourself ; but 

 I will give just one illustration. Somewhere 

 she found a father and mother and a family 

 of children ; but the parents had never been 

 married. Nobody could do any thing with 

 them. They got along well enough, and 

 didn't care. Mrs. Washington took the case 



