The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-09
GLOWING GLAMOR OF |NHER|T|NG MONEY Thousands of ROmances With Theme InterwOven INDIAN MADE RICH He Is to Get Money as Last With Possibly One or Two Excep-
 tions of His Ancient
 Tribe

Washington, September S.-(Special) )-
 expectations of prospective inheritances
 of rich estates have made such an ap-
 neal to the popular mind that in fiction
 we find this circumstance made the basis
 of countless romantic novels with good
 effect. There is always something fas-
 cnating about the inheritance of an es-
 tate and we never read of how some
 poverty hunted ne'er do well or some
 poor but honest and eminently deserv-
 ing young man suddenly has been noti-
 fled that he is the possessor of all right,
 title and interest in a big fortune with
 out leaving sigh, and wishing that we
 stood In the luck starred beneficiary's shoes.
 Castles in Spain, chateaux in Brittany.
 Languedoc. Gascony or any other romance
 wreathed region; long lost estates in Flanders, dormant English titles and
 huge interest swollen balances unclaimed in the Bank of England have formed the basis for so many wild tales that even to think of them provides that which Americans prize above all other sensations-the thrill.
 For number of years Americans have
 had a great deal to talk about, or In
 many cases even to think about-and
 these are by no means Identical opera
 tions in the high cost of living. The
 high cost of living has provided infinite
 entertainment for all classes in these
 United States, and it has been talked
 about so much that it has passed into a saw" But Americans cannot thrive long upon one topic, be 1t ever so near
 to their hearts. So the time Is coming
 of ixrinD Vill n
 be a diverting subject for conversation
 or argument.
 But, so fast as the pace which the
 modern mind travels that there is very
 likely to occur famine In thrills When
 Abraham Lincoln could find no better light by which to read his Blackstone and Kent than that given by log fire. people would have been thrilled to have seen the brilliant electric light of today. | Nowadays, 1t is common and the aver age person would laugh in your face if you dared to intimate that the light on the corner was capable of thrilling you. In these days of constant hustle, hustle and excitement the good old fashioned thrill has become hard to find. With the cheap pleasure parks and the cheaper
 moving picture theatres, the citizens of today reaps the advantage of what it costs millions to produce. Places of amusement and it might even be said places of amaZement for every one now are matters of course.
 | first class thrill is produced nowa- | days and almost overnight it loses its glamor. It takes something really big, | in this time of intensified modernty to | become a nine days wonder.
 l We are agreed then that the idea of an unexpected inheritance or a vast es- | tate awaiting some unknown claimant 1 provides real thrill.
 1 The House of Representatives, through | its committee on Indian affairs, has un- | earthed such a romance. It Is similar in many ways to those rehearsed in the novels but it has an added touch of fam | tasy in it that the beneficiary Is North American Indian.
 | Representative Lafferty of Oregon re- gently offered in the House an amendment
 to the Indian appropriation bill provid- | ing That there be paid to the Tillimock | tribe of Indians of Oregon the sum of | sl0,5 800 to be apportioned among the now living descendants of those who may be | dead, by the Secretary of the Interior, as their respective rights may appear 'Of course s1O.500 Is not great sum of money on Broadway. but it is on Main street in Pendleton. Ore. or in many
 tar removed Indian reservations. Few