The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

A1tOTkt ibhtlJF tnplOAFd pJ Alt hIlil CA Fairbrothers. ironmonsers of London. which, of course means a hardware store in our country, discovers that when Mir. Fairbrother died the only remaining member of the firm) among other be- quests he left s25O0 each. per annum. to three employees. To Parrott, the chief clerk, hls legacy was given with the un- derstanding that the recipient should overcome his tendency to miserlyness. Parrott was to accept this money each year with the understanding that he would never refuse to loan money to any borrower. To Gray, another clerk at Fair brothers, his legacy of s2500 a year was given with the understanding that he must restrain his appetite for liquor. To Busby S2500 per year was to go, if Busby would adhere strictly to the truth-under all circumstances. Should any one pf these three legatees break three times the conditions of their bequests, the in come should go elsewhere. Now George Early found out all about these bequests and just how they had been made and why, then he made Pnrrott Busby and Gray's lives q torment to them. By con- tlnual borrowing Of money from Parrott. by offering drinks 10 Gray and by wor- rying Busby generally, Early lived on the fat of the land Then when Miss Fair brother arrived from ipstralia to take
 
 Early paid suit to her and soon married her. There Is Q lot of fun running along In the book The fun-ms king gets very exciting, more or less, when Parrott Bus by and Gray, having forfeited their lege- cies by breaking of contracts, the incomes 40 to Mss Fairbrother's husband George Early, with all of the conditions. Lots of things happen, when Parroee, Busby and Cray attempt to revenge themselves on Early, but Early was d. ways ready for them and the book turns ont all right Most books always do
 Matthew Porter" by Gamallel Bradford,
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 This Is a story of political methods the good, pure man winning out against all odds, of course, up in Massachusetts We had one last week dealing with New Hampshire In MT. Churchilrs new book' MT. Crewe's Career" The first thing we know we may have a novel on southern politics-the only doubt about that IS that our political methods are so pure anu lovely down this way we may not nave Alabama and Georgia written up soon. Matthew Porter was young fellow WHO believed in himself thoroughly Porter had many offers to go into business-he was an attorney. His rich friends in Bos- ion tried to induce Porter to forsWear lolitics at least until he had made lot of monev-then he could take up polltles as a dissipation, if he still insisted upoh Helping the common people. bue TOT ter was not of that kind; he saw hls duty and prepared to perform it-Wlily hihY. Porter was a democrat. Ills opponent III love and politics, Dudley Heath Was A republican and had been promised oy his uncle. the republican boss of Massa- chusetts the gubernato-ial nomination for the coming election. Heath and Pof- fer loved the same girl-at least fortf thought he loved this girl, and IL was d great disappointment to him when she married Heath. Porter began ms WotN to secure the democratic nomination. io. governor of Massachusetts. A great many rich friends of Porter continued .o feel that something must be done to pre- vent this brainy young chap from rum tne his life's hopes by taking up the TOT lorn chance of expecting to be made gov ernor of Massachusetts by the minoiiy party in the state, namely, the oeihv, crats. These friends brought to pear hlt kinds of influences on Porter. 5ut thefe was nothing doing at all. There was eVsil brought in to help these united irienus and enemies of our hero, very delight f,l. very charming rich girl of Boston who was induced to see if she could not so charm Matthew Porter that he would forget all about politics or anything eise' Of course the plot worked too Weil-w nao is the use of saying anything lur.iei The motto to the book, 'No wit, no heip like a womans," explains the theme running through II. ,.o.ast
 Matthew Porter is a fairly interest ing story of political themes mere n nothing exciting about it. The DOCK Wlli not keep one awake at nights or lron, e,, business in the morning after. but 'o m in time at idle moments when there ID notbing better to do Matthew Porter IS not bad
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