Editorial March 11, 1905 Issue

Rumor

Editor

The Daily Patriot

What an indefinite, fleeting, intangible thing is a rumor; how fast it travels, and how it grows and assumes shape and the forms of truth as it progresses.

Away, last fall, some idle gossip, through pique or disappointment, said in a joke or with malicious intent that Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy of this city had died.

The person who conceived the falsehood told it well and it was believed, and forthwith it took on wings and spread and was accepted,—accepted in New York, accepted in Boston, and it seems from reports, accepted even in Concord, or at least there were those who would not venture denial.

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