Show 0 1 j FO R NF llE f MAKES FAW FAM l H. H J I- I I I t If Made ade Fortune Fort ne turns to I A. A 1 j W fe R ff S 'S ff 1 DESERTED HS HiS PAPI Y J Alabaman Returns Una Unannounced After 21 Years Years' Years of But But He Herf Fail i s 's S 'S to Win Win Back the Love Lov of of Hi H s S I Spouse Jh t Al Ala Ahi Returning unan unannounced unan and unknown n as a a. forlorn wanderer after 21 years o of abs h e ein in remote remote par parts s of of f Bl- Bl Brazil after after de de setting h his s f family II y in in 1893 and n neve ver hay having ng since since be been n he heard rd fron W. W T 1 Bl Blackman Blackmon hunted up his wife sons son and d daughters i in Calhoun county ty pr pro provided J vided d ha handsomely Ids mely for the the he ei entire tire fam fan fam family ily By ly for the rest Iest of their lives and rEturned re returned turned as suddenly to his co coffee ee plan in Br Brazil zil He had a brief interview in It t w with his is wife who wh rt d with yr iIi him as a co coldly courteous s friend fr en 1 He had bec become me a im hi multi millionaire b but t was gray gray and bent bent an and and ved bo bove down with sorrow 1 I Twenty one I years ago Blackmon j dis disappeared p ppe red I Ilea leaving v his wi wife and ll l-ll f fou ur children in 1114 reduced cir circumstances I knew not whether he was was deac dOal II or alive The rhe f four ur children hildren grew u und ui up nd drifted 6 out tinto into the world Om Oni One daughter daughter marr married ep n 4 Another t had a pJ place e as s a cashier shi r in a i sma small l town store fore One son non n. n Forn Forney y Blackmon tool took to roving like lil e his father fat e No one orn one knows where he hC if is A fort fortune ne' ne awaits him hirt when rhen he heis is is fpu found d. d The he un e i ison son went Vent t to farm work and d modestly I Is s supported pp i ted his moth He isa is tena ten tenant I ant a it on 1 a farm near nea near the old home hom hometown town I A few days ays ago a stranger drove up uj i where whore t the e young man an was was plowing and anI after a 8 few tew questions threw l his is i arms around the youths youth's neck hugged him him urn an and made mad himself known as the thelong I long Fop lost fath father r who had la left eft Alabama I with 40 O and d d drifted ift until h he la landed I Ic There here WasN Was Evidence of A ton I I n Brazil There he went to work on a of offee p plantation at 50 ceniS cents 8 a d day y He le was was' as ste steadily dily adva advanced ced in p pay y and arid if ity until the owner an Eng Eng- ishman lishman took to k him in as a partner p The Thel plan plantation prosper prospered d and when he the original owner owner died was worth r The he benefactor of off f Bl Black Black- ck non ion on was was' without rel relatives and d left l ft all allus us property to the theman man who came ame to hi lira im as as' as asa a day lab r r. r Then Then rhen Bl Blackmon Blackmon returned to Ala Ala- ila- ila bama lama ama and nd after er finding finding tJi th the y youngest g ht son on located his wife Th They y n met et Tb There e w was s no evidence of f from fr m the tile deserted de woman BlackI 1 n quietly left but he proVided pro- pro Vided for all all' tJ the e m members of f the imily y so as td ti make them conil con com emil il for or li life arranged to divIde divide I IS vast f r among them he at nt his his' death eath and h heavy avy o of h heart art w with th t tears ars n L his eyes eyes at sixty pine years yeara of ag age rent eat back to th his hi's coffee plantations ill a Brazil Members of the family have hav made arge irge rg deposits ts in a a l local ca bank balik andre and ande i iare are re e seeking i investments vestment The young young- est st it boy who supported Up orte hiu mother r any years ears arid and never neve had any school school- ig is is preparing to take take a complete on te 1 Over fifty do dol- dol in cash distributed to memo rs irs was mem- mem bers ers rs of Blackmon's Blackmon s fam family ly and arid e each h hw w ras as s provided with an an annual inc income nie f sr r fife Ife of f bes besides besides' d oth other rg gifts of f lands and nd other properties pro |