The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-27
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ArellaeolOgist
He Preferred Digging In the
Ground to Money
Making

D. !. 4. r1ITcHEL

WIS left with one SON. 1Culbs 10uEleeu
years old. Robson was Of very prac-
tical mold regarding the production
aud accumulation OF wealth. the chief
end of mar. Having made q fortune.
this ambition was succeeded by d sini-
lar object. He would bring up bis son
to take his place at the head OF the
great manufacturing concern OF which,
he was the principal owner and man
ager. He preferred that Louis should
not go to college, entering instead Into
business at that age when young men
enter upon q university career, but he
did not insist upon this. arguing that
while what boy learned at college
was mostly worthless he lived there In
81 community which was preparation
for the larger world which he was
later to enter.
|. But before Louis was prepared to
enter college his father married again.
His second wife was widow with a
daughter eleven years old or three
years younger than her stepbrot her No
sooner had the marriage taken place
than the wife began TO study how she
could divert her husbands fortune
from Louis to her daughter. She could
only. think OF Il however FOR her hus-
band was bent on his fortune passing
from his hands to those of his son.
She worried her daughter with her
schemes till the poor child was quite
worn out with them. It was Edith,
why did you go to bed last night with
out kissing your father good night?
or You naughty child, TO speak as
saucily to your father as You did to-
day. You deserve that he should leave
you nothing In his will"
The girl knew well that this refer
ence to the VIII was the upshot OF the
whole matter. and since she was too
Young to think in mercenary way of
the future she did not enter into her
mothers plans. But by not doing so
she enthusiastically helped the matter,
for her stepfather saw through her
mothers plan from the first, and ittwas
plain to him that Edith was disturbed
by. it. Moreover. he took naturally to
the child, who was OF q lovely disposi-
don. and when Louis went away TO
boarding school she. In measure.
dropped Into bis place with her father.
, Then came that which tended TO
bring about Mrs. Robson's schemes,
Louis developed tastes antngonistic to
business. Instead OF being interested
la the mechanic arts he must needs be
come infatuated with those people who
lived couple of thousand years ago
the Greeks and Romans-whom most
children wish had never lived at all.
Louis tastes ran also to languages. and
In the Latin and the Greek he-read
about Roman conquestss and sAthenian
EinteiIectuni tTiumphs. The boy had
not been Dong in college 4sEhensss bis
Eknowiedge OF Greek and Latin, iitera.
lure was the. talk of the students and
the surprise OF the professors.
All this was disappointing to Mr.
Robson. He regarded the Greeks and
romans as absolutely dead m q unpro-
atnctfve. The Roman forum was to
him simply, show for. Americans and
only valuable for the liras taken IN as
gate money. But even this he consid-
cred wasted because 1T was being used
for further excavations. he regretted
that the barbarians who had demol-
EIshed Rome had not made wilderness
/ IF 1t SO that its site might have been
lost forever. Constantinople he thought
might have, become valuable on ac-
eount of its location had not the Turks
gone in and spoiled it for a. center OF
trade. Had 1t not been for this the
Bosporus might hive become as i'm
portant MS the Chicago river. Il
"Rut. papa" Edith would say. Just
lthink-the ancients called the Bospo-
rus the HelIespont. and Leander swan
1t to visit Hero"
spoken like the dear little girl you
are" was the reply TO this. .sYou are
at an age when girls are much better
fitted to discern q romance than site
for a real estate speculation"
A crisis came in the family when
Louis was graduated. An expedition
was to be sent out by his alma mater
TO dig for the site OF an ancient city.
ianS he was invited to be member or
lthe party. His father, who had been
! waiting for four years to begin to pre-
mare his son to take his place in his
business. was furious. Edith placated
aim as best she could. hol6fug out rhe
hone that Louis would tire o. hunting
for old bones. flint arrowheads, pot
ltery and trfnkets buried fifty feet I'M
foreground, but Mr.. Robson knew that
such tastes instead of improving the
investigator only tended to ruin him.
! such persons" he averred. ARE born
with their heels IN the air instead or
lteir heads and branch out toward the
yenter of the earth-" II
Louis insisted on going with the ex-
pedition. his expenses being paid from
/ the college fund Appropriated for the
! purpose. His father offered TO give
him an enormous salary if iustead he
would enter his factory ana as soon as
he had learned how to manage it he
,ho,,ld' have ff1Il control
/ .sFather." said Louis, 81 always con.
! Hrfered Won a practical man."
$50 am. but you are dreamer"