12 FIFTY YEAES AMONG THE BEES 



badly, aiiJ by some means I t;ot it inlo iny bead that if I could 

 spend three months at the village academy I might be so good 

 a Latin scholar that my troubles would be overcome. Dr. 

 Cummins was very insistent that it was \ital for my strength 

 of character that having begun to read medicine I should not 

 be weak enough to be dissuaded from my purpose by a little 

 thing like the lack of Latin, and if I must have the Latin I could 

 work half time at it, spending the other half in his office. Pos- 

 sibly he needed an office boy. 



ATTENDS ACADEJir. 



But I was equally insistent that I must have one uninter- 

 rupted term at the academy, and at it I went, taking up 'other 

 studies as well as Latin. When the term was completed I felt 

 pretty certain that two more terms were needed to make a 

 complete scholar of me, and by the time I had finished the two 

 more terms 1 had settled into the determination that I would 

 not stop short of a college course. A college course, howevei', 

 took money, little of which I had. At my father's death it was 

 supposed lie had left a fair property, but it was in the hands of 

 others, and by some means it soon melted away. I kept on at 

 the academy, making part of my college course there. 



ENTERS COLLEGE. 



While yet in my teens I taught school in Shellsburg, and 

 afterward in Johnstown. I entered Jefferson College at <'an- 

 onsburg. Pa., which college was afterward united with Wash- 

 in.n'ton College, and from there went to Union Colle.^e, at 

 Sclienectady, N. Y. This last undertaking was a bit reckless. 

 Ijor when I arrived at Schenectady 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 being in debt, and so was on the alert for any 

 work, no matter what its nature, so it was honest, by which 1 

 could earn something to help carry me throuuh. 



WORKS WAY THROUGH COLLEGE. 



I had learned just enough of ornamental penmanship to 

 be able to write German text, and so got $44.00 for filling the 



