The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-26

only because they were Of his blood but because he was a man-made in the image of his Creator, and yet another degree like Him and nearer akin to him, being himself a father. He loved both. If he loved the younger ever such a little bit more, that were natural, and it was such little difference that he was really unconscious of the truth.
 Fathers and mothers-especially mothers-have a tendency to incline further, in their weakness for their children, towardS the youngest because he is the most helpless, the tiniest, the sweetest. He is the last; he is. the baby.
 But here was man who had two grown sons. Their mother was dead. He loved them all the more. He was free from any partiality. His whole life was wrapped up in these two.
 Maybe the older was serious-minded fellow. sedate with settled regular habits. Perhaps he respected his father more as master than father, and lacked in all demonstrativenessS in showing affection. He was evidently industrious. He worked hard and attend closely to the affairs of the farm. For aught that sanybody knewt he loved his younger brother. Yet the evidence would tend to prove that he was jealous and en- viOus. }
 Brotherhood
 Saying ito love like a brother" Papini holds, is to say "the opposite of what one really means. Brothers rarely love each other. Jewish history, not to speak of any other, begins with Cain, goes on with Jacobs cheating Esau, with Joseph sold by his brothers. with Absalom, who killed Anon. with Solo. mon who had AdOnijah killed" and on with long scarlet line of jealousy, Op- position and betrayal. He thinks it would be very much more correct to say, "a fathers love-" rather than a broth CTS.
 May be the younger son of prodigal fame ''took after the other side of the house." Maybe he was cratic, flighty, and had all the desires, graces and defects of his age. The chances are, he was fitful and temperamental toward his father.
 Time came when this younger son got to be very dissatisfied with condi- tions as they existed there in his coun- try home. .He thought more and more about the alleged larger opportunities afforded by the city. He was familiar with the many stories of great success made by the fellows who had left the country and village and had gone to the larger centers of industry. He had heard how this, that, and the other fel- low had risen rapidly in their cOnnec- tiOns with big corporations, and soon came to hold responsible positions that paid magnificent salaries. The more he compared those current stories with his own situation, the more dissatisfied he became.
 The Bright Lights
 The day of action arrived. He screwed up his courage, took on a bold front, caught his father alone, and the opportunity favorable for presenting his claim and demand, that he had so often turned over in his mind:
 Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me, and will ask nothing more of thee"
 The story omits the attempt to meas ure the disappointment and reluctance with which the father assented. An in- ventorg, of both the real and personal property was promptly made, and each of the two sons received and receipted for all their right, title and interest in the estate. , x
 The younger, son must have quickly turned his P6A. of the property into cash, for he, lost mo time in filling his, saddle bags; hitting his fine horse and setting out on his journey to the fabled land of opportunity. Maybe he relayed to a stage coach or other train for covering the later laps of the jour ncy. He was about to arrive.
 Tn the meantime,T Papini says. "the