Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-12-06
CONFUSION OF TITLES.

'.And SO Fields had a wife and six
children Mr.. Scott smiled gently to
himself as he thought of it. 'And not
only a wife and six children, but he had
been married twice-he had had two
wives" There was nothing absurd nor
remarkable about these facts, except as
Mr.. Scott chose TO make them SO. He
had known Thomas Fields for ten or fif-
teen years on Wall street, and he had al
ways fancied him an old bachelor, while
in truth he was mourning one wife and
SQUIRTING another. ,
81 wonder il he made love- said Mr..
Scott to himself, and again he smiled.
Then be wondered if the six boys looked
like their father. And there was no rea-
son why they should not have been will
ing to look like him. for he was by no
means i'll favored, although he was tall
and spare, and had the anxious, worried
look of a man whose az Xieties and re-
sponsibilities outrun his sourc But
as far as money goes this was not true Of
Mr.. Fields, who was a very rich man in
deed.
Perhaps it pleased Mr.. Scott TO be
facetious, and to take a lively and con-
trary view Of life. IL was late afternoon
and near train time. and all the young
people and the wives whose husbands
went to the city every day had gone to
the station, so that the two men were
almost alone under the tree on the lawn
where they had placed their chairs. They
were smoking, and Mr.. Scott was toying
with a tennis racquet left in his care.
After a while Mr.. Scott spoke, not the
substance but the shadow Of his thoughts:
''Your boys ought to be a great comfort
to you, Fields. Six sons! They ought
carry on your business and perpetuate
your name"
They will not carry On my business
not one Of them. When Dick made
up his mind that he wanted TO go to
West Point, and Bob determined TO study
medicine, / didn't care, because there
were the four left; but Logan has taken
to farming, Fred has gone into law, and
Harry has a perfect craze about becom-
ing a minister; so you see the business
will go into other hands. 1t is not right
not at all right"
''But there are six of them? How
about the SIXTH
'Phill He is the greatest disappoint-
ment of all. The brightest boy | have,
Mr.. Scott"
'.WellY''
''Phil has very reprehensible ideas.
He writes verses, and will moi 60 into
business nor into a profession. lie says
he can live on his allowance. And he
does, I'll say that for him-and on his
salary"
"His salaryl Why, then, he is in
business
aust now he is. In a brewery. He
is a clerk in 4 brewery. and gets $3.50 a
year. That is like Phil. Obstinate-a
perfect pig headed fellow for obstinacy."
"But | don't understand, " said Mr..
Scott. "Don't you want him to be in q
brewery, or does he do il to spite your
''Not TO spite me, but he Is very az.
gravating. have talked u him a good
deal, and have said some plain truths to
him. One day he told me that he would
prove that he was not lazy. and that he
could earn his living at a tread mil if he
chose, and so he found this situation and
took il. He says he means 20 stay a
year
"Why / like that" cried Mr.. Scott.
1.-The boy has grit
Il don't like grit" replied Mr.. Fields,
''when il gets between my teeth"
SWELL" said Mr.. Scott, 1--WE often
wished we had a son, but six of them can
make life lively. Ny daughter is as gold
a girl as any n need desire, but she has
her vaglries.'
''Your daughter is a very nice girl"
Mr., Fields warmly responded, ''and a
very pretty M too. | have noticed her
a good deal. II / had a daughter /
should be perfectly satisfied to have her
exactly like your Regina
''She is a very good girl,n repeated the
father, with modest pride; "but il is q
great responsibility 10 have a m~arriagca-
BILE daughter"
Mr.. Fields grimly smiled. "Shc seems
to have her choice. All tic young men
here have ewes for her only"
ut is the poor quality OF tie young
men, Mr. Fields-the men Of today.
Why, there is not a man ut Oak Hill TO
whom | would give Regina. No, nor il.
New York, as far rs | know. IL is a
serious matter, and one 10 he looked at
from every point Of view, this choosing
Of a husband for a girl. She gives up
everything when she marries-name,
home everything into which she has
grown. To choose for a girl mean TO
blindly take for her either misery or hap
pfness."
"you are fortunate II you are allowed
10 choose" Mr.. Fields dryly answered.
"Logan married well, and Bob is en-
gagged TO a yesy nice girl. one Of the
Hookers-Hooker, Hood 4 Co. but here
comes another Of Pills perversities. He
wants 10 marry q professional
IA professional IL the lady on the
stager'
"Worse than that-she-ehe is an ath-
iste, a sort Of female prize fighter"
"yNhy, that Is horrfblel I'd send him