The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-14
From Tit-Bits.


 K xANY an absorbing novel has MI been based upon the rich, un
 A known uncle, who. after mak- ing his pile" from gold digging or his days thought of his poor relatives in the mother country. and raised them from poverty to affiuence by his be- quests. There have been real life romances of unexpected fortunes, how ever. of far more striking character than those to be found in novels. Only few days ago poor widow, named Mrs. Hunter, living near Glas- gow. whose husband died through pit accident four years ago, was slav- l ing for many hours a day in order to provide for her four children. It was a bitter struggle, and one which seemed likely to continue till her dying day. Then suddenly came the news that an uncle of the children, who emigrated | to America 30 years ago and built up a successful business in Brooklyn, had distributed his fortune among the children of relatives, the share of the miners orphans being no less than f6O,OO0. Thus each of the children will receive f15,0oo.
 After toiling day by day. year in and year out, on farm near Hay, in Bre- conshire, MT. Pryce Goodwin Bevan, a farm laborer, has inherited & fortune which will make him independent of the cares of husbandry for the rest of his life. Mr. Bevan has just returned home from America after establishing his claim to an inheritance of f200, ,O00. | He inherited the money from rela- | tive named Dick Goodwin who left his farm in Breconshire thirty-odd years ago in strange circumstances, and aft erwards went to Mexico to make the fortune of which Mr.. Bevan now be- comes the possessor. While Goodwin was driving his reaping machine in one | of his fields two Gamekeepers came shooting over the ground. He told them to go away but they continued to fire and the horses boited. Goodwin took a gun from one of the keepers and beat them both with the stock of it. Shortly afterwards he received notice from his landlord. and moved to another farm, but, losing most of his stock in the sheep-rot of 1879. he decided to go to Mexico. where he made his pile" Another Scottish romance of unex- lpected fortune concerns two sisters, living in the little village of Gordon, IBerwickshire, who recently received in formation that they had been left f36,- 900 by an uncle who emigrated to New Zealand as a shepherd 76 years ago. The sisters, who are in domestic ser vice, are Miss Isabella and Miss Eliza Shillinglaw. daughters of former farm laborer of Berwickshire. They natural lily are delighted with their good for tune, and already they have been the recipients of numerous congratulations and, needless to say, much advice as to the spending of the money, but We'll talk guid care ot,' they say, "as we ken it's value through years O hard work"
 1 And there is distinct flavor of romance in the story of the fortune of f40,o00 which MT. David Davies and his sister, Mrs. Kennedy, both of Sheffield. Inherited under the will of a rich uncle Hast year. Mir. Davies succeeded to If25.00o and Mrs. Kennedy to f15,0OO The latter was in very moderate cir cumstances, being the wife of work ing file-forger with a family of seven children, while MT. Davies followed the business of hammer maker The money was left them by an unmarried uncle, who left England for Spain about half century ago. He began in a small way as wine and fruit mer- chant in Valencia. and, his enterprise
 nourishing, he speculated in other directions, and ultimately died worth S15o.o00.- Had the father of MT. Davies