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ed as State Senator, he thought did not 

 justify him to stay away from his other 

 business, and consequently one term in 

 the Senate is all he asked of his friends. 



He is now United States Commissioner, 

 and Secretary and Treasurer of the 

 Powell's Mountain Mineral Railroad 

 Company, and has a controlling interest 

 in a mercantile establishment. It is 

 difficult to see how any one man can 

 do so many things, and at the same time 

 be a successful bee-keeper, but his suc- 

 cess in this line is beyond that of any 

 other person in this county. His success 

 in all his undertakings is the result of 

 energy, industry, and method and tact 

 combined. 



He has always been a lover of the 

 honey-bee, but by reading the writings 

 of Mrs. Ellen J. Tupper, about the year 

 1866, he became an enthusiast in bee- 

 culture, and his enthusiasm has never 

 abated. He has owned bees at times 

 since 1869, but never found himself in 

 a position, as he thought, to make a 

 specialty of bees until the last few years. 

 He now has two apiaries. His home 

 apiary of 60 colonies is a model of 

 beauty and convenience, and is well 

 equipped with all the modern appliances. 



If there is one thing that he delights 

 in more than another, it is his apiaries. 

 His love for books and study eminently 

 fits him for this industry, and he some- 

 times expresses a wish to give up every- 

 thing else and work with his bees alone. 



Mr. Coleman now enjoys the conscious- 

 ness of having come up from poverty to 

 where he can count his thousands of 

 well-earned dolldfrs, but his efforts now 

 are not so much to make money as to 

 build up and make better the conditions 

 of'his fellow man. 



He is charitable almost to a fault, but 

 he claims that there is a pleasure in 

 giving to the needy that is never rea- 

 lized or understood by those who do not 

 give, and that those who do not give in 

 cases of real charity lose much of the 

 pleasures of life. 



Mr. Coleman is a ready writer, and for 

 20 years or more he has been a constant 

 contributor to the literature of his coun- 

 try. His writings, whether on bge-cul- 

 ture, politics, education, or anything 

 else, are always well matured, and 

 fondly sought by those who know him. 

 He is the author of no books, but per- 

 haps no one has written on a greater 

 variety of subjects with such unsur- 

 passed success. 



It was through his efforts that the 

 East Tennessee Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion was organized, which institution 

 promises to do much for the bee-keepers 



of East Tennessee. He is now its Secre- 

 tary and Treasurer, which positions 

 were forced upon him, but he gives theov 

 their deserved attention. 



Let us conclude this short life-story 

 by saying that Mr. Coleman has risen 

 from poverty to distinction; he is a 

 capable man — capable of filling the very 

 highest place in the estimation of hi* 

 friends, and his great social nature 

 makes him respected and loved by all. 

 A careful perusal of his life will enable 

 one to understand the elements and 

 principles it takes to make a success in 

 bee-keeping as well as anything else in 

 life. H. J. B. 



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CONDUCTED BY 



MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY. 



Bekville, Texas. 



Queenless Nuclei, Cyprian Bees, Etc. 



Mrs. Atchley : — In the Bee Journal 



you say that you let your nuclei remain 

 queenless for three days, and then the 

 bees will be sure not to tear the cells 

 down. I wish I could say as much and 

 tell the truth. Whenever I put in a lot 

 of queen-cells without protectors, no 

 matter how long nor how short a time 

 the bees have been queenless, I 

 always calculate on at least 25 per cent, 

 of them being torn down, and I hardly 

 ever fall short of the mark. 



You also say that you keep your best 

 breeding queen penned off on three 

 combs, and only let her lay enough to 

 supply you with larvce for rearing 

 queens. I have tried keeping prolific 

 queens confined to a small space, and in 

 every case where they were confined to 

 any length of time, from one to a dozen 

 eggs could be found to the cell. 1 have 

 also tried keeping them in upper stories 

 with half-depth combs with an excluder 

 between, and the result would be the 

 same. 



CTPRIAN BEES. 



In another number of the Bee Jour- 

 nal, for Sept. 28, 1893, you say if any- 



