The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-03-05
CONFUSION OF TITLES.
In Love With a Professional but
Not a Prize-Fighter.

'And so Fields had wife and siA
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
or remarkable about these facts, ex-
cept as Mr. Scott chose to make them
so. He had known Thomas Fields for
ten or fifteen years on Wall Street, and
he had always fancied him an old
bachelor, while in truth he was mourn
ing one wife and counting another.
Il wonder if he made lOvew said
Mr.. Scott to himself, and again he
smiled. Then he wondered if the six
boys looked like their father. And
there was no reason why they should
not have been willing to look like him.
for he was by no means ill-favored,
although he was tall and spare. and
had the anxious, worried look of man
whose anxieties and responsibilities
outrun his resources. But as far as
money goes this was not true of lfr.
Fields, who was a very rich man
indeed.
Perhaps it pleased Mr.. Scott to be
facetious. and to take a lively and
contrary view of life. 1t was late
afternoon and near train time, and all
the young people and wives whose
husbands went to the city every day
had gone to the station, SO that the
tree on the lawn where they had placed
their chairs. They were smoking, and
Mr.. Scott was toying With tennis
racquet left in his care.
After @ 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 TO 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. 1 didn't care, because there
were the four left; but Logan has tax
en- to farming, Fred has gone into law,
and Harry has perfect craze about
becoming 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"
Phil? He is the greatest disap-
pointment of all. The brightest boy
have, Mr.. Scott"
s'Well?"
Phil has very reprehensible ideas.
He writes verses, and will not go into
business nor into a profession. He
says he can live on his allowance. And
he does; III say that for him-and on
his salary"
His salary? Why, then, he is in
business?"
just now he is. In brewery. He
is a clerk in a brewery, and gets six
hundred and fifty dollars. That is like
Phil. Obstinate-a perfect pig-headed
fellow for obstinacy.
But l don't understand" said Mr..
Scott. Don't you want him to be in
a brewery, or does he do it to spite
you?"
Not to spite me, but he is very ir-
ritating. | have talked to him 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 tread
mill if he chose, and so he found this
situation and took it. He says he
means to stay year"
why, l like that" cried Mr.. Scott.
''The boy has grit
Il don't like grit" replied Mr.
Fields, when it gets between my
teeth"
We'll" said Mr.. Scott, 'I've often
wished we had son, but six of them
can make life lively. My daughter is
as good girl as any one need desire.
but she has her vagaries"
Your daughter is a very nice girl"
Mr.. Fields warmly responded, land a
very pretty one, too. l have noticed
her good deal. If | had daughter
/ should be perfectly satisfied to have
her exactly like your Regina"
''She is very good girl" repeated
the father, with modest pride, ''but it
il great responsibility TO have mar