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Show CLINGS TO OLD nOME.i OLD MAN WHOSE FAMILY HAS DESERTED HIM. It l-rlatileiiftl hy the Uw lie". CfrVr.. Into Hie ('altar nt UK fornirr lleiua aail Kelatibora MlaWtrr In Ilia YVanta, falli.llo Slil.l. ' , V Frederick I'rcunnlng fs nearly. 70 years old. He ho teen hit family and home illp away from him, until there It n6(hlng left but a few battcrrd remnant rem-nant ot furniture with which he hat surrounded htmeelt In tho cellar of his former home In St. Iuls. The lot and buildings wMctl were onco his have panned from him. Ho did not sell them thrm nnd has profiled nothing by their rapid Increase In value. He borrowed perhaps one-sixth of That the property prop-erty wnt worth and permitted tho deed ot truat to be foreclosed. Tho-rnlo Tho-rnlo brutiKht not enough to pay, the mortgage, and the old homestead with Ita adjacent rotlngra panel Into 'tho pomnulon of niiotlierman Old Freun-nlng Freun-nlng knew that he wat In alid fix, but he believed that lie stULhad some rights to the property: and refuted to move out Ills former tenant quit paying him their rrnt. Then tho now owner gavo him orders to tiloVe and rented the houne to a strange family. I'rcunnlng wat frightened and went tn sro hla lawyer. Ho could submit to tho Iomi of hla rents, his grounds and hla money, hut hi mutt havo a place to shelter him nt night. He Is n lonely lone-ly old man HI first wife It long dead. Ills second wife divorced him His children think lit Is queer nnd leave him alono He old Ha has ost his grip and iloea ,butlnaaa llko a child. Prnunnlng doesn't know whether ht u swindled or. wncthcr'h'o Juat throw hla chancea nwayk A few weeks ago the furnlturo vkns bflgan o lay down stuff al hla doors. ' A alrnngo family rnnic, and old I'reunnlng was frightened. Ho la n peaceful, timid- old man, and he took, shelter. In the cellar. He rigged up an old sjovo and table, piled his stuff up on the earthen flour and locked the cellar dbontflt waa cold and muity.vbtit tho damp wind could not reach him and there was' good roof above his head. Tho new tenant did not ofUr to molest him, l Bhn moved Into tha budding and took some imlne to accumnlodato tho' old man, but ho seemed very queer and etayqd In his cellar. The,n tha landlord land-lord threatened to sur,hlm,for poraca-slon. poraca-slon. Mum while, how'eter, tho neigh bora have been very ilod to old I'reunnlng. I'reun-nlng. Many nf llieniiavo evn Un-ants Un-ants In his homes and theys ranno suffer tbe old fellow To want. Immediately Imme-diately adjoining thn tiouso where ho liven on tho wrt,.pro two comfortable little cottage, Iho Inmalra of which-havo which-havo been paying rent to Mr. I'rcunnlng I'rcun-nlng for neirlly'twenty years': Their lympatlilc are yillrjrlin-.and every momlng-i miori anil nl)it a mrsterlger' It sent tu the cellar fUyhjw tQASkiMbnt Papa Freunglng; waqtat ills it,lm uhf die may o ae-en tjiugh .Tho ffeU windows of tlio bakcnirnt it night om ho accepts lbs cllaylly. nf tjioeo who remember hluta a'lviifjthy man, with ia Kid old heart. Iter gkttiers fuei for his. old rrncknl rook ioxivo during tho day and walla In gr'nnsllcnco tho re-tult re-tult of the suit whl1iUiiay drlvo him from hit fon'ner iKitsvatlons Into the lltreet. Jilt colledlegiof old furnlturo Is very much the wiyu. for near, nnd boa but little value lroiinAllg's once beautiful horue stani-i iin "a brood, deep lot riffitlj: JIOO tlil square Sn'd set with fruit tyrftujlu!!jUtnd shrubbery., On tho west' end offjie lot are two' ima! cottages wbe'relwell-to-da ten-anta ten-anta ttill inslntaln i-V llltlo homes, Tbe house and groiinUhivo been permitted per-mitted to fall Into it'aj. but still bear evldcno- of naturaitluty and de-partril de-partril nfllucnce K, r Will be taken by Mr. Freunnlng't tftodfto have ttipe former aalo, under Vytfr'cd- of trust, set oaldo. It Is bf'UuvM'-fhat: a guardian' thouM bo npiiolntrd to raro for the bhf follow and bra. prjerty. and his at-torneyi at-torneyi liavo-tlnrmuHO-under advisement advise-ment now. .jy |
