FIFTY YEARS A^IOXG THE BEES 



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father had tried to make a tailor of him, but he did not 

 take kindly to that business, and became a physician. 



My mother was German, her father and mother 

 having both come from the fatherland. Like many others 

 at that day, her education never went beyond the ability 

 to read, and I am not sure that her reading ever went out- 

 side of the Bible. Possibly confining her reading to so 

 good a book was one reason why she was a woman of 

 remarkably good judgment, and to her credit be it said 



Fig. I — Home of the Author (from the Southzcest). 



that she spared no pains to carry out the dyins: wish of 

 my father that the children should be allowed to secure 

 an education. She was a faithful Methodist, and although 

 belonging to the two different churches, my parents 

 usually w^ent to church together, first to one church and 

 then to the other. 



When my mother married the second time, she mar- 

 ried a Alcthodist, and as the children came to years of 

 discretion they were impartially divided between the two= 



