in Kansas they thought best to separate.

During these years, young Carver had tried many kinds of
work. At length he found himself at Winterset, Iowa. It was
there the wife of a physician encouraged him to go to
Indianola where she thought he could enter college and earn
his way by doing laundry work. He went there, but didn't get
the work, and it was while there that a young lady, a well
known Iowa artist, became interested in him. Under the
pretext of securing his help in correcting some drawings,
she went to the mean quarters he occupied and found him
starving to death. There was no work for him, no money. For
weeks, he had subsisted upon corn bread and tallow. She then
arranged for him to go to the Iowa Agricultural College,
where she had influential friends and where she believed he
would have a chance.

But, even at the Agricultural College of Iowa the color line
was sharply drawn by the students. Persecution and
ill-treatment were resorted to. But young Carver said, "I
will bear it. I must get an education. Here I can get work
and I will suffer anything rather than give up the one
chance of my life to obtain a schooling." His old and
intimate knowledge of plants stood him in hand, and he was
given charge of the greenhouses. True, he was shunned by
many, his place at table was with the servants, but he had
warm friends and he was, by force of character, winning the
good will of all. One day an Indianola lady, who had come to
know him before he left that place, went to visit him at his
college. Dressed in her best, she accompanied him, though
against his protestation, to dinner, taking a seat at the
servants' table.

The next time this lady visited the college the colored
student sat at the table with the faculty. In the military
drill he had taken the highest honors. When he was graduated
it was with distinction. He wrote the class poem. He had
succeeded in winning and holding friends.

Some time ago he spent several weeks in Washington, D. C.,
and there the most kindly attention was extended to him by
Secretary Wilson, who never fails to recognize merit
wherever he may find it.

The name of G. W. Carver is now enrolled on the fellowship
list of more than one scientific Institution.

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