The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-12
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day between college education and
money making, the higher education
having become only essential to the
professions. II is nothing unusual TO
find a graduate" punching cattle or
strumming piano in n western dance
house or even dealing faro. As to the
girls, 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 grafton. The senior class
from n neighboring women's college
attended the exercises, and while
Avery was speaking his attention was
attracted TO dark haired and eyed
girl with a strongly marked face who
was listening to him. A few days
later he attended the commencement
exercises of the women's college re-
ferred TO and sat looking up with in
terest at the girl who had favored him
with her attention.
Avery proved to be one of the men
who find that higher education
doesn't always bring success. After
trying a number of occupations and
finding that his education had inspired
him with n 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 prospector for mines
"a q N nth snf
Grating on the influences of Greek
civilization on modern university life
he was twenty feet down I'm a hole in
Colorado hunting for gold.
Rather, he was hunting for more
gold. He had struck n vein that prom
lsed something and was following 1t
up. 1t opened well as he went down,
but the widening seemed rather to lead
70 the western side of his claim After
following II to his line he knocked off
and went away TO put in n claim for
tho adjoining property He was too
late. The land had long ago been taken
NJ. After having been away from his
mine for some time he returned to It
tp find hole on the claim he had been
after A good deal of dirt had been
t.ken out. but not enough TO show that
tic claim was being worked by more
t'.un one person.
Avery went TO work again. following
his lead" down, since he had reached
| his llD,it to the west One day he dis.
tiu"uy heard the sound Of pick in
ti!at direction. His nclghbor had evi.
rG'Htly struck the vein he had dlscov-
cred GuGd,ulY something gave way,
an. 10 Whole west side of the mine
%'.h dor'a. mass OF loose dirt There
( g,1Dj his Iclghbor To Avery's aston
islmclt tie riner was woman,
tl.oHGh a,lc wore high top boots and n
/ sSifi Is her knees The two stood star.
lly a each other by the dim light of
thei: lanterns.
"'.n"r face Is familiar TO me-" was
the first rcpark. Avery made It.
~ remember you perfectly" replied
, the nelShbor. Where have we metz"
"YoI were speaking of the influence
of Greek civilization on
"Blast the Greclis If they had never
existed perhaps wouldn't be here. |
might have spent the time learning
| something practical. BY the way, your
own Grafton impressed me. You were
| dila,ing on the future of woman In our
government, | believe"
at doesn't look as If | am TO govern
anybody down here, does IT."
"Not unless you govern me. But, tel
me, how I'm the world did you ever hap.
pen TO come hcro?"
"After graduation I became n stenog-
! rapher and typewriter. Father came
out here and entered several claims.
He died, and / came out TO look over
what he had | was advised, to have
this claim examined. That meant If
there was anything in It | would be
cheated out of il. l concluded to do 1t
myself"
HIN! You've run into my claim"
"You mean you've run into mine"
Hadn't you better go back east and
follow up the points made in your
graduating speech-go into politics.
and leave this thing TO me to handle
for both of us?"
II like that! You might go abroad
and study up on the ancient Greeks In
fluence on modern university life. Your
college might give you Il professorship
on that"
"Or some other subject of no prac-
tlcal use. Thanks, no. I'd rather dig
dirt. In that feel I'm doing some
thing"
I'D rather govern the country, ad-
NIT, but even woman suffrage doesn't
seem to make quick headway, and I'm
afraid I'll be an old woman before I'll
be eligible TO Il governing Office"
"And even then you'd be defeated by
a younger one"
Fright you are"
"Well, let's como TO an understands
ing Five years in the world have
knocked the nonsense out of both of
u.s. These two mines must be united.
I'll sell to you IL you want TO buy"
mo funds, III sell to you"
"Same here"
"What shall we do?"
1--WE might unite our interests by
Igunlting ourselves. l can handle pick
better than you, and you can cook, I
fancy. Now, suppose we set up cab