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nected with his knowledge of a love affair of 

 the granddaughter of Augustus. Life in the 

 rude and barbarous country to which he had 

 been sent was a most unpleasant change from 

 the luxurious life of a Roman man of letters, 

 and Ovid himself and his many friends made 

 repeated attempts to shorten the term of his 

 banishment or at least to secure a change of 

 place; but all such attempts were in vain, and 

 Ovid died at Tomi. 



Ovid's works include the Ars Amatoria (Art 

 of Love) ; Epistolae Heroidum (letters from 

 heroines to their lovers) ; Amorum Libri (Love 

 Elegies) ; Nux, the lament of a nut tree over 

 the treatment received from all passers-by; 

 Faxtorum Libri, a sort of poetical calendar; 

 ami the M( tamorphoscs (Transformations), his 



-known work, which contains an account of 

 all transformations described in legend down 

 to the time of Julius Caesar, who was changed 

 to a star. Ovid's ease of style and his musical 

 verse have made him popular despite the fact 

 that he is always rather superficial in thought 

 and in feeling, and shows no reverence for even 

 the deepest things of life. His moral tone is 

 not of the highest. 



OWEN, o'en, ROBERT (1771-1858), the 

 founder of the cooperative movement in Eng- 

 land, and the first factory owner to prove that 

 an employer profits by helping hi* employees. 

 He declared that "all poverty and crime are 

 the effects of error in the various systems of 

 training and government." 



Owen was born in Wales, but while still a 

 boy he became a cotton spinner in England. 

 He showed such pronounced ability that when 

 only ninotoon he was made a mill manager. In 

 1799 he became part owner of mills at New 

 Lanark, Scotland, and immediately began to 

 apply his principles by establishing a paternal 

 government among his factory people. He in- 

 i upon cleanliness, temperance and re- 

 lorntion, employed no help under ten 

 years of age and established free schools for 



Iren between the ages of five and ten. In 

 1824 he purchased the property of the com- 

 munity-village of New Harmony. Indiana 

 COM but his experiment there failed, 



\ for lark of capital. Though the Lanark 

 mills were profitable under his suporintr -ml 

 and ho broupht his people out of poverty, op- 



ion on the pnr? >f the churches result i-.l 

 in his rotirrmont in 1828. He ppmt the rest 

 of his life advocating community villages for 

 tho poor, cooperation and socialism, winch 

 tin n new doctrines. 



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OWENSBORO, o'emburo, KY., an impor- 

 tant tobacco market and manufacturing center 

 and the county seat of Daviess County. The 

 town is situated on the Ohio River, 114 miles 

 southwest of Louisville and forty miles south- 

 east of Evansville, Ind. It is served by the 

 Illinois Central, the Louisville & Nashville and 

 the Louisville, Henderson & Saint Louis rail- 

 roads. The population, which was 16,011 in 



1910, was 17,784 (Federal estimate) in 1916. 

 Owensboro is in a rich agricultural and stock- 

 raising section and has an important river 

 commerce in coal, iron and grain. Oil, coal, 

 clay, building stone, iron, zinc and lead ores 

 are found in the vicinity. It is one of the 

 largest leaf and strip tobacco markets in the 

 United States and has important manufactures 

 of tobacco, wagons and buggies, wheels, furni- 

 ture, cellulose, flour and various other products. 



The city has Owensboro Woman's College 

 (nonsectarian), Saint Francis Academy, a Fed- 

 eral building, completed in 1912 at a cost of 

 $175,000, a Masonic Temple, Carnegie Library, 

 city hospital, county courthouse and jail and 

 Hickman Park. Owensboro was named in 

 honor of Colonel Abraham Owen, who was 

 killed in the Battle of Tippecanoe. It became 

 a city in 1866. G.H.C. 



OWEN SOUND, a town in Ontario, the 

 county town of Grey County. It is situated 

 at the southwest corner of Georgian Bay, on a 

 small sound from which it takes its name. The 

 town site slopes gradually to the sound, and 

 has two rivers, the Sydenham and the Potta- 

 watamie, flowing through it. The mouth of 

 the Sydenham River forms the inner harbor, 

 on which are located the terminal stations of 

 the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk rail- 

 ways. By rail, Owen Sound is 122 miles north- 

 west of Toronto and 140 miles northwest of 

 Hamilton. The sound is twelve miles long, and 

 is deep enough for the largest vessels. Steam- 

 ship lines, both for passengers and for freight, 

 run to all important ports on the Great Lakes 

 and the Saint Lawrence River. Population in 



1911, 12,612; in 1916, estimated, 14,000. 

 Owen Sound is an important manufacturing 



center. About 30,000,000 feet of lumber arc cut 

 each year in the local sawmills. The chief 

 products are furniture and various articles 

 made wholly or partly of wood, and iron and 

 steel products. Among these are mill ma- 

 ry. turhino water wheels, wire fences, wire 

 . stoves, agricultural implement*, malleable 

 irn and boats. Othrr manufactures are Port- 

 land cement, lime, brick, linseed oil, vinegar 



