. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. MR. F. THOMPSOIV. It is always interesting to read about our friends—to see their faces, even if only on paper—and to know something about the particular incidents connected with the life of each. For that reason, Mr. Thompson was requested to permit his photograph to be used, though he would not send it until the second urgent invitation, when he replied that he would comply, but "under ; (Of course the "protest" made no difference, so long as the picture was forthcoming). Mr. Thompson was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, o
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. MR. F. THOMPSOIV. It is always interesting to read about our friends—to see their faces, even if only on paper—and to know something about the particular incidents connected with the life of each. For that reason, Mr. Thompson was requested to permit his photograph to be used, though he would not send it until the second urgent invitation, when he replied that he would comply, but "under ; (Of course the "protest" made no difference, so long as the picture was forthcoming). Mr. Thompson was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 3, 1865. Lung trouble induced his father—a teacher by pro-. "P. L. Thompson. fession—to remove to Colorado in 1872, where he regained his health, but was told by the doctor not to enter the school- room again. Hence he settled in the country, near Denver, making and selling butter for a living. There were no fences in those days. The cattle had to come home to water, but this was not enough to prevent them from roaming for miles around in all directions. They had to be "roundup" and counted every day, and the cows brought home for milking, morning and evening. Most of the riding fell to F. L.'s share. In this and in milking, drawing water, hunting stray cattle (sometimes for days at a time in all weather), and, in the sum- mer, haying of the scanty wild grass three miles distant, from which he often secured no more than a load a day, the time passed in unbroken routine, sometimes varied by attending country schools, but chiefly, for him, in reading over and over their small collection of books. After some years of such a life, his father, at considerable sacrifice to himself, managed to send the children to school in Denver. Then began a new world. At first, of course, a col- lege education seemed like fairyland, too nice to be thought of as ever really happening. But after entering the Denver High School, taking the "general" course, it
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