Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-13
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 money making, the higher education having become only essential to the professions. It is nothing unusual to find q graduate" punching cattle or strumming q piano in q western dance house or even dealing faro. As to the girls, a college education makes them more self reliant, more daring. and they are beginning on leaving college to take their chances with the men in novel enterprises.
 Everett Avery on being graduated delivered an oratiOn. The senior class from ncighborng women's college attended the exercises and while Avery was speaking his attention was attracted to dark haired and eyed girl with q strongly marked face who was listening to him. A few days later he attended the commencement exercises of :hc womcn'S college re- ferred to and sat looking up with in terest at Inc girl who had favored him with her attention.
 Avery proved to be one of the men who find that higher education docsn't always bring success. After trying number of occupations and finding that his education had inspired him with contempt for all of them he made up his mind that success is a gamble and he would as lief gamble with his pick as q proSpector for mines as in any other way. Five years after orating on the influences of Greek o;, ion ty he was twenty feet down in d hole in Colorado hunting for gold.
 Rather he was hunting for more gold He had struck vein that prom ised something and was following it up It opened well as he went down, but the widening seemed rather to lead to the western side of his claim. After following it to his line he knocked off and went away to put in claim for the adjoining property. He was too late The land had long ago been taken up. After having been away from his mine for some time he returned to it to find a hole on the claim he had been after X good deal of dirt had been taken out. but not enough to show that the claim was being worked by more than one person.
 Avery went to work again, following his "lead' down, since he had reached his limit to the west. One day he dfs tinctly heard the sound of a pick ill that direction His neighbor had evi dently struck the vein he had discov- cred. Suddenly something gave way, and the whole west side of the mine slid down, a mass of loose dirt There stood his neighbor To Avery's aston iShment the miner was a woman, though she wore high top boots and a skirt to her knees. The two stood star ing at each other by the dim light of their lanterns.
 Your face is familiar to me-" was the first remark. Avery made it.
 II remember you perfectly" replied the neighbor Where have we metz"
 "You were speaking of the influence of Greek civilization on'-
 Blast the Greeks! If they had never existed perhaps I wouldn't be here. I might have spent the time learning something practical. By the way your own oration impressed me. You were dllatlng en the future or woman Tn our government. I believe"
 "It doesn't look as if am to govern anybody down here, does it?'
 Not unless you govern me. But. tell me, how in the world did you ever hap pen to come here"'
 After graduation I became a stenog rapher and typewriter Father came a1, He died, and I came out to look over what he had. I was advised to have this claim eXamined. That meant if there was anything in it l would be cheated out of it. l concluded to do it myself"
 I'll m. You've run into my claim.
 You mean you've run into mine."
 Hadn't you better go back cast and follow ID the points made in your graduating speech-go into politics and leave this thing to me to handle for both of us?"
 Il like that. You might go abroad and study up on tAt ancient Greeks in- luence on modern university life. Your college might give you a professorship on that"
 "Or some other subject of no prac- tical use. Thanks, Eo. I'd rather dig dirt. In that feel I'm doing some- thing
 "Id rather gov, .'A the country, i ad- init, but even wo-:an suffrage doesn't seem to make quick headway, and I'm afraid I'll be an old woman before I'll be eligible to governing otlice.'
 And even thnn .e.id be defeated by younger one"
 Right you are
 Well, let's con- 10 an understand ing. Five year the world have knocked the out of both of us. These ,.: must be united I'll sell to yV Want to buy"
 No funds. r. seI to you"
 Same here"
 What shall We do:"
 We might unite our interests by