The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-15
How l Became an Archaeologist By ARNOLD l.. TlNKAN Copyright by American Press Asso-
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see the Eternal City, J wished io Nl@lt the chasm. or at least the place where 1t was. into which Qunus Crdus jc5rcd on horseback. the remaining uIl. lars or the temple erected Co the two raudml strangers. Castor and Pol mN. who watcr,d their horses in the forum after the bltueof Lake Begilus. and tha bridge that Homuus defended so valiautly There was mo prospect of my ever visiting Italy for ] had not the meaus even Co take me to cole lege
 But was good deal ot a dreamer and. my fancy getting fixed con my oh- feet ! couldn't turn it upon amy thing else. The only practical result was a resolve Co save up, as children put lt with view To getting enough mon ay to take me to Rome, keep me there long enough to get a hurried view or what ! wished Co see and bring me back Co America.
 By the time l was eighteen years old I had acquired this amount sup pose ! should have spent it m starting me upon a college cducodou. but did not. I bought a second class ticket on a ship crossing Che Atlantic and pro. ceedfnc through the Mediterranean to Napres. I remained 0t Naples long enough to visit pompcii then went by CaI co Rome
 At first I was disappointed in getting Into a modern commercial city, but when I struck some uf Che landmarks of ancient Rouc-thc Pantheon, the arches of. Constantine and Titus, the Coliseuu-T was not long iu forgetting the modern In my rapture over the an cient When ! had exhausted Rome itself l was seized with desire Co visiti Its cnvirous ] had read of the Camraguu as It was when covered with farms and villas
 But by Che time l had seen Rome it- self my. money was an gone ! hadn't enough even Co buy a return trip ticket to America. l was stranded in for cfcn country. Wbat could do2 What did ! duG followed the genius or archaeology that was strong within me. Reading a notice in newspaper that am .cycayatus party was Co make a search for Che ruins of a certain villa some fifty miles from Inc city, ] hired myself as a digger lo tho archagUlo-ist in charge. went with him and dug with the rest. In his reading he had ht upon description Of the site but could only confirm his views by bur rowing in the ground. In other words. he must hunt for that for which he was looking
 We dug three days. ot tho end Of which time my employer gave up the search. During this time ! put iu my spade here and there on my own ac- count with no result When the par ty went back Co Rome asked for my pay. a few IirH, and they returned without me. ! had seen a stone pro 5ecHug from Che soil at some distance from where we were digging thUtscpm- ed to me to have been artifcia.ly shap- ed. and | wished Co investigate it
 As soon as the party were gone [ began Co dig about tbIs stone Hound that jt rested on another Go which it was fixed by mortar. This in turn rested on another Then ! came Co a wall followed the wall for a dozen feet and came Co an angle The top of Che wall was Eve or six feet from the surface, and | was un. likely to find anything ot value at a less depth ] dug aIl day, and os the evening was coming on. some ten feet below the surface. my spade struck something harI shudjerpd, for by this time ! knew that was liable Co ruin treas uro. These villas were omamented witH sutuos-some Of them very beau uful-und every year they are found. ! had with me a scoop and, throwing down my spade, began to dig about the hard substance with the smaller Implement. It was round. In few minutes | uncovered marble head.
 Had I discovered mine of mex houstible gold I could not have been more delighted scooped away enough earth to tell me that l had found statue. But it was by this time too late to look any further l threw back the loose earth marked the spot with stake and hurried away from the fever stricken Cam pagna tbat might not be caught there after uightfall
 The next morning went Co the ar chaeologist who had conducted the search and told him of my dud It would have been illegal for me to re move the statue myself, and | pre- ferred to proceed under his superin- tendence. Re was as much delighted at my luck as I was myself We start cd at once for the hole l had dug removed the loose earth and exposed the marble. We could tell nothing about It except that the face was very beautiful.
 We dug about the statue tin we could see that 1t was Che figure of a woman. the drapery being ancient Ro- man
 The archaeolocist before leaving Rome had left word for workmen to follow, and when they arrived the statue was removed. Tt proved to be of great value. I had struck the site