FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES IS" 



ENTERS COLLEGE. 



While yet in my teens I taught school in Shellsburg, 

 and afterwards in Johnstown. I entered Jefferson Col- 

 lege at Canonsburg, Pa., which college was afterward 

 united with Washington College, and from there went to 

 Union College, at Schenectady, X. Y. This last under- 

 taking was a bit reckless, for when I arrived at Schenec- 

 tady I had only about thirty dollars, with nothing to rely 

 on except what I might pick up by the way to help me to 

 finish up my last two years in college. I had a horror of 



Fig 2 — Peahody Honey-Extractor. 



being in debt, and so was on the alert for any work, no 

 matter what its nature, so it was honest, by which I could 

 earn something to help carry me through. 



WORKS WAY THROUGH COLLEGE. 



I had learned just enough of ornamental penman- 

 ship to be able to write German text, and so i^ot $-1:4.00 



