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The ratnlpa Tree Valuable.
p ro f rs. Sargent, who is an authority
_ ;*i(. subject of tree growing, strongly
ijvocatfs the planting of this well known
tret He says for fence pogts, telegraph
vim yard poles and the like the
•oc! of the catalpa has no known equal
itr.on? extra-tropical woods. It has a
Ufa :'y for resisting decay when ex-
Pdp.l to the action of soil and weather
|ia: tv woods can equal. It Is a very
itrong and rapid grower, tenacious to the
ipi; 51 a: line the dry weather and dry thin
oil as no other tree does. The seeds of
Utah i are ' orne in long, bean-like pods,
i C rty to fifty seeds In a pod.
These seeds are gathered in December
t January and should be planted early
n• , sprin r in rows three or four feet
part The plants should be thinned to
fr it apart. As soon as they develop a
30! root growth the young trees can be
ransplanted to where they are needed to
row.
Have any of our readers had experience
w.th the catalpa, and for what uses?
These tries were abundant In Southwest
Georgia forty years arjo.
A Small Cow.
The last issue of the American Agricul
sirist contains a photograph of the small
tst Jersey cow In the United States. This
rell-f ' mod and bjautiful little animal Is
ir.lv thirty-eight inches high and weighs
• pounds. She gives daily eight to nine
parts of very rich milk, which yields over
l pound of butter.
Ginxcng and Its Culture.
The following remarks on the subject of
inseng was contributed to the Western
lural by a correspondent at Sherman,
ox. We had a slight suspicion that there
re parties preparing to boom ginseng
Blture before very long in the hopes of
taking a fortune from the sale of roots
pi seeds at high prices, as was the case
'h sacalino last year.
It i.s quite probable that the culture of
in?. n will prove profitable to some
; rs at no distant day, but as reraark
-4 t" fore, any extended growing of the
hnt will i I ling prices down promptly to
Su'jre that will reduce the expected
rofits greatly.
The obj. t of this letter is to call atten
on to ginseng culture. This little plant
I .adapted to a wider range of soil and
taate than any other one thing I know
I. h is a beautiful plant; no prettier
line as ever put in a flower pot. Its
iien leaves in autumn; Its creamy white
k.-sont. followed by spikes of fiery red
i 1 1?, renders it a very striking thing,
lortsts should all grow It as a pot plant;
would add much beauty to a garden
iritr and would flourish on the shady
3e of a spreading rose or shrub, and as
fell crop it capabilities are immense. I
' ant one foot apart each way, say 44,000
br.ts per acre, then mulch the entire
irfaoe to a depth of four or five inches
the field work is done. I never eulti
’e nor stir the soil In any way. At three
Mrs the plants commence to bear seed
til tip- older they get the more seed they
tar; it would pay well at present as a
;'■ rop alone. The seed would fetch
Inc?; any price one would ask; they are
Win their weight in gold. At four years
• H riots are considered sufficiently ma
tred to dig. About twenty-five well
town roots will make a pound when dry,
01 the price is from $2 to $3.50 pep pound.
II 'Vw of the fact that the plant is
*r!y getting scarcer and the price ad
ir.. rag and likely to do so for many
rs . il occurs to me that any careful
■itivator of average intelligence could
a greatly to his income, by Judicious
toting and management of this crop.
Inquiries and Answers.
Kel Clov r In Florida.—l have seen of
■ e a good deal about red clover as a hay
_°i-. tut have never seen the seeds ad
rtised. Will you kindly inform me
I can procure seeds, and at what
Kiri J - R - E ’
Kirkwood, Fla.
' Par '- V a " seedsmen sell red clover seed,
tray rate, I will procure them for you.
e Iftce ranges from 7 to 10 cents per
and sixty pounds make a bushel. If
1 " n P ro Perly, on suitable soil, and in
°tcr or November, we have no doubt
coulcl raake it succeed. Still there are
l j V,rs 'letter adapted to your lati-
Sse , s,jils ,han 11 We would ad
m ,i? U 10 m ‘‘ke a trial of the crimson
b varle, les this fall. You can
ps,ivc ts you P refer - We are quite
'll! i ' 1 , lf you sow these properly you
rohan ! ‘ ‘ lseci wlth both, though it is
ft “ r a 'J y° u " ill prefer one to the other,
tt .w r!al - Any southern seedsman can
I*4 in u* r S lor you - R you do not suc_
Ihe , ng these seeds in a reasonable
s! J !' an inclose stamp or postal card
tat (a „ 11 s,ve y° u the address of parties
tan supply you.
r * * •
r r . U liraf s— I To Destroy.—Can you
trniifv f ' 5,,ur correspondents give me a
r the eradication of nut grass?
Sav ar.r.ah, Ga. A ' J ‘ *'
C ,he on 'y Practicable plan for de-
e P the soil contlnu
o,. th n cro l ,s that will shade the land,
an Us 11,1(1 in srain In the fall, or you
hher lmiion or bur clover and when
fhoptly 1 * l ° sha<le the soil, follow
ire cogx " h I>eas ’ ° r something else. We
mail ar , ,Zam of ,wo instances where a
11 "jco , as in a flour yard, was cleared
Gee Se mulcl| ing with pine straw.
10,11 their'nL^ 6 ? Panned on small plats
o ;°ated the tent cro Pping has exter
has a , a?S| but It is not every one
* Vp rai ° f Keese
, : ’ 1 the cetious| y remarked In re-
thj t ,h recurrln * and momentous
i 1 Srass i s ne b**t way to get rid of
■ fJ ther ha? * out an< * mov e away,
®! r^ ed focently: “Plant
■ -l with Bermuda grass,” for
Johnson grass, we presume, will answer
the purpose equally well.)
.A Jad, ' lous succession of those crops
that shade the soil perfectly ls the most
practical method.
• • •
The Propagation of Mulberries.-Will
mulberries. ‘ nf ° rm h ° W
Louisville, Ga.
Mulberries are propagated from cut
tings, either of the branches or of the
roots. Shoots of the last season’s growth
with a Joint of the old wood are inserted
In the soil, so that about one-half of the
cutting is In the soil. This implies that
you have the stock to get cuttings from.
If you have not, you can get the rooted
plants of the kind you wish to plant out
fiom some nurseryman In the south, who
grows them for sale. By the quantity
we presume you can get these for 10 or
12 cents apiece, perhaps less. There ar©
a number of varieties, some much more
productive than others. The kinds usu
ally catalogued axe “Hicks Everbearing ”
Downing, and the Stubbs. For stock, the
Hicks is probably more generally grown
than any other. The mulberry thrives
on most any kind of soil—that is, on any
kind of soil sufficiently fertile to grow the
tree. On rich soil it makes a large tree
in the course seven or eight years. In
starting an orchard, it is a very good idea
to set twice as close as the ultimate
stand will care for. In due time, if nec
essary, every other tree can be cut out
and converted into posts, of which the
mulberry makes the finest to be had.
For several years the trees ought to be
cultivated, to pay for which
and to get the soil in good condi
tion peas, or clover, or beggar-weed can
be grown on the land.
Is this a sufficient answer to our cor
resopndent's trftiuiry?
• • •
Large Egg Breeds.—Will you please in
form me what breed of fowls produce
the largest eggs and what would be the
weight of a dozen eggs. H. C.
The Minorcas are credited with produc
ing the largest eggs, one dozen of which
have been found to weigh twenty-three
ounces. They are pure white.
The black Spanish and the White Leg
horn also lay very large eggs, as, like
wise, does the Iloudon. All of thesebreeds
lay larger eggs than the Brahmas or
Cochins. It is not the largest fowls that
produce the largest eggs.
• • •
The Triumph Irish Potato—ls the Tri
umph Potato that I see spoken of so fre
quently in a western paper a good kind
for planting in Southern Georgia?
R. F. T.
From a small trial made of this variety
last year we Judge it to be an excellent
variety for southern use. It is a round,
reddish potato, and the only potato of that
description that we ever found to pro
duce well in this section. We hope to
make another trial of it the next season
if we can get hold of a good strain of
seed potatoes. Thus far our preference
has been for a long, white potato like the
Goodrich or St. Patrick. The Triumph is
very popular in Tennessee and Texas.
Getting Heliind With Work.
The most important essential to success
in any business is promptness, says an es
teem contemporary. This is especially
true of farming, where much of the work
has to be done out of doors and is depen
dent on the weather. It is in managing
so as to have enough help to keep always
in advance of work that the conditions
for success lie. No matter how hard tl e
farmer may work, much Of his labor goes
for nought if not done at the right lirtje.
In olden days this was largely dependent
on physical ability to do large day’s works
to rise early, sit up late, and keep at work
every hour through yie day. We have
changed this now* Getting up early
means in these times ability and willing
ness to adopt the best labor saving de
vices as rapidly as their advantage Is
proven.
But because of the weather the most
wide awake farmers cannot always suc
ceed. No other class of men are so depen
dent on the weather as farmers, except
possibly the sailor. Rains are a double
delay to the farmer. They hinder work
while they make weeds grow all the fas
ter. If through wet ar cold weather In
early spring the farmer has land left on
his hands that has not been sown. It is
impossible to entirely remedy the evil.
i?ome other crop may be substituted, but
it is one for which the land is not so well
suited. How to get the most from these
waste places is the best test of the farm
er's practical ability. When there is much
delay in reeding it is better generally
to put in something that will not require
so much labor, and diversify the crops
so thait they will need attention at differ
ent times through the working season.
If this is done the farmer can do more of
the work himself, and lie can use help
hired by the month Instead of hiring by
the day and paying higher prices.
The delay in spring is more often caused
by wet land than by anything else. This
also causes most of the delays during
the summer. If the soil is thoroughly un
derdrained, the surplus water has a way
of escape through the subsoil, and can be
cultivated in a few hours after the heaviest
rains. Such land will also be fit for til
lage days and sometimes even weeks be
fore the same land, without underdrain
ing. This will enable the farmer to begin
early and keep ahead of his work all
through the growing season. The great
advantage of this can only be appreci
ated by those who have worked land both
before and after it was underdrained.
But no matter how well drained the land,
it requires good practical judgment to en
able the farmer to forecast his work and
provide the needed labor to enable him to
do everything in season. Most farmers try
to cultivate too many acres. They have
more land than they can till properly, be
cause they have an idea that doing things
on a large scale Is the way to success, as
it is in many other kinds of business. But
farming requires a close attention to de
tails, and this is what cannot be generally
intrusted to farm help. The successful
farmers of the present and of the future
will be those who keep their land down
to the amount that they can keep well in
hand. The large farmer almost always
gets behind in work. He thus loses by do
ing his work more expensively than Is
necessary, while the small farmer confines
his attempts to what is within his means,
and thus makes a success that though
small, at first, becomes large by the slow
gains of years. Part of this failure to
succeed on a large scale is due to the fact
that the working capital is not increased in
proportion to the land under cultivation.
With more working capital a greater
amount of farm help would be hired, and
this will enable the farmer to do all the
work more cheaply than he can do when
worrying along with his work, always be
hind and therefore always done at a dis
advantage.
Eibanallon of Soil.
The efTect of continuous cultjvatlon Is
noticeable upon many of our soils where
some special crop has been grown for a
series of years without intermission, says
Prof. R. P- Mason, in American Cultivator.
In parts of the Ohio valley soils that 20
years ago produced amazing crops of corn
without any fertilizing have deteriorated
to such an extent that a fair crop cannot
be grown very welt Summer droughts in
jure these inferior crops much more than
the luxuriant growths on tetter soil. The
THE MOKXING NEWS: MONDAY. JULY 15. 1805.
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\ hints here and there that will greatly
ft/ help you. And there isn’t a man.—
woman, or child but can be helped
y<X by Pearline. ...
\ r '■*> All these advertisements are
) J meant for the good of Pearline,
•/a / of course—to show you the best
*• and easiest and cheapest way of
washing and cleaning, and to lead you to use it. But if they
do, they will have helped you far more than they will have
helped Pearline. You have more at stake. All the money
you could bring to Pearline, by using it, wouldn’t be a drop
in the bucket to the money you.’ and save by it.
Cpfid Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you “this is as good as"
OCUU or “Hie same as Pearline." IT'S FALSE—Pearline is never peddled,
n a and if your grocer sends you something in place of Teariine, be
11 rSaCk honest-xew/r/Aml. 470 JAMES PYLE, New York.
Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria.
same is true in the northwest, where wheat
has been raised continuously for many
years. This exhaustion of the soil has In
duced some farmers to claim that It is
impossible to raise either wheat or corn
in these regions as cheaply as a few years
ago, and that farmers cannot make a liv
ing with these grains at present prices.
Years ago Eastern farmers, or at least
some of them, learned the lesson of ex
haustion of soil through continuous culti
vation. and adaptation to the change has
been slow but sure. To-day we find east
ern farms that have been in cultivation
three times as long as some of these west
ern farms, yielding better crops than
those in the Ohio valley or in the north
west. A recent examination of the soils
of these old farms and the comparatively
new western soil showed that the former
were richer In plant fuel and humus. A
chemical analysis showed that potash, ni
trogen and lime were more abundant in
the well-cultivated eastern soils than in
the corn or wheat lands of the west.
This may seem surprising to many wes
tern farmers, who have looked upon their
soils as the richest in the world, capable
of yielding large crops without fertilizing
or very much cultivation. But the fact
in many cases is overlooked that soils
in the west are deteriorating rapidly
through the continuous cultivation of
single crops, while in the east systematic
roatation of crops has not only retained
the fertility of the soil, but is actually ad
ding to It. This, of course, does not ap
ply to all farms, but to the majority of the
best cultivated ones. Long agq eastern
farmers discovered that it was necessary
to adopt rotation of crops or abandon their
farms altogether. They took the only wise
course, and their farms are paying invest
ments, even in these hard times.
About a year ago the Minnesota station
made a series of chemical analyses of 150
different soils in the west to determine
the effect of continuous cultivation. The
top soil and subsoil were used in this test.
The results of the experiments showed
after eight to twelve years of continuous
cultivation the nitrogen in the soil was
reduced from one-third to one-half and
the potash and phosphates almost as
much. The original supply of humus was
reduced from 30 to 50 per cent, in the
same time. If the process continued the
soils would be brought to the point where
they could not be cultivated profitably.
It was further shown that the exhausted
soils suffered greatly from droughts, while
the land rich in humus and nitrogen stood
the dry weather very satisfactorily.
This process, however, is Just reversed
where a rotation of crops is which grass
and clover figure prominently is practised.
Instead of deteriorating, the soils gradu
ally gain in richness, so that in time the
commercial fertilizers are needed but very
little. The true supply of fertility cemes
from the grass and vegetable material sup
plied by good cultivation, and through the
application of barnyard manure. If farm
ers would all realize this, the fertilizer
question of the future would be readily
solved by many who to-day predict dire
disasters to farming when the cost of
fertilizing the soil will eat up all the profit.
There is no such condition of affairs to
come if true rotation of crops is prac
ticed.
Rutabagas shduld be sown during the
last half of the month, and turnips should
bo sown a little later, says the Southern
Planter. Our ability to grow heavy crops
of corn, sorghum, soja beans, peas, and
clover for silage as succulent food for
stock during the winter, inclines farmers
to be careless about sowing beets, ruta
bagas and turnips; but we would urge
upon them that it is a wise policy to en
deavor to raise as large a variety of food
for the live stock of the farm as possible.
The good health and well doing of live
stock depends upon a variety of diet just
as much as does the health of human be
ings. Though it is true that neither beets,
rutabagas nor turnips contain as much
nutritive matter as good silage or hay or
fodder, yet their judicious mixture with
these foods will enable a larger quantity
of these more nutritious feeds to be con
sumed, and also permit of the use of
much straw and poor hay as food which
the stock would not otherwise eat. For
sheep especially, beets, rutabagas and tur
nips are most useful, and no farmer keep
ing sheep should be without them. Ruta
bagas require land to be in a state of good
fertility and finely prepared, or they will
not grow to be a heavy crop. If a com
mercial fertilizer ls used, it should be one
with, say 4 per cent, of nitrogen, 8 to
10 per cent, of phosphoric acid, and 6 to 8
per cent, of potash, and this should be
applied in the rows at the rate of from 300
to 500 pounds per acre. Sow rutabagas
in rows two feet six inches apart, and thin
.out the plants, when they have got the
leaves nicely growing, to a distance of
nine inches aaart in the rows. Three
pounds of seed will sow an acre. Turnips
may be sown broadcast with German
clover, and will afford grazing before the
German clover is ready. We should like
to see some of our subscribers try rapes.
They are largely grown in England and
Scotland for sheep and cattle feed in the
fall and spring. In Canada, and some of
the northern states, they have been suc
cessfully grown, and are well spoken of.
Sown In August or September, the crop
should, we think, do well here and be
useful for winter feed. The crop comes
off the ground before time for planting
corn in the spring. The variety to be
sown is the Dwarf Essex. The plant Is
mush like a hybrid between a rutabaga
and a cabbage. It makes no bulbous root,
but a large growth of leaves.
Celery Culture.
At your request, I will give you briefly
my methods of raising celery, writes B.
H. Alden in Farm and Fruit Grower. As
you are doubtless aware, the greatest dif
ficulty in this matter Is to get the seed to
sprout and save the young and tender
plants through the alternate beating rains
and blighting sunheat of the “rainy sea
son.” To overcome this formidable ob
stacle, some growers have proposed to sow
their seed as early as April in order to se
cure cooler weather, and then keep the
plants along with a slow growth until the
time for replanting comes in the fall.
I sowed my seed, the Boston Market va
riety. Aug 27, in a very rich, deep, mellow
bed framed with boards for the reception
of sash an In a winter hot-bed. I would
advise the novice to begin In July, then
he will have time to get a stand if he
loses his plants the first time. They were
scattered evenly over the surface, which
had been raked very smooth, but not pack
ed; then I sprayed them thoroughly and
covered them with gunny sacks, which I
also wetted. Then I put my sash on, which
created a heat inside that fairly made
the ground steam. I lifted up the
every day and looked underneath, then
laid them back and wetted them again.
It usually takes weeks to make celery
seeds sprout, but in three days I could see
that my seeds were germinating. I then
took the sacks off and Spread them on
top of the sash to muke it dark inside,
still looking at and spraying the plants
every day. After a day or two I raised
the sash a few inches on the upper side,
and as the plants soon began to grow lean
ing toward this small allowance of light,
I raised the sash more and more.
As the next step towards hardening
them, I took the sacks off the sash en
tirely, replacing lhm with one and one
half inch slots lal<J with one-half 'ipch
spaces between them, but still keeping
the sash on, raised a little all around.
Next, I removed the slats; lastly, the
sash. From the time the seeds sprouted,
until I took everything off, exposing them
to the full light of the sun, it was about
two weeks.
1 now had a beautiful stan 1 of thrifty
plants, but I found that the insects Were
preying on them. ToHmeet these pests
I prepared a strong decoction of tobacco
and sprinkled it over them; tills check
mated them competely.
To make the planth grow stocky, I oc
casionally snipped oft. two or three Inches
of the tops of them with shears. As an
experiment I potted a thousand of them,
and it gave them a great advantage when
they came to be set out, though this
would be rather tedious for field culture.
They were set out Nov. 14. My land
is a good class of flatwoods (I do not
like the black muck land so well), with
a clay subsoil two feet or so below the
surface. Furrows were run out ten inches
deep, two or three Inches of good barn
yard compost was strewn along the bot
tom and covered with about the same
depth of soil, leaving the furrows finally
about five inches deep. TJ>e plants grew
off finely from the start, especially the
potted ones.
The Grnlu Weevil.
Weevils are making themselves SO ob
noxious in this country that experts of
the department of agriculture, are now
ergaged In making a specUH study of
them, says the Globe-Democrat. Every
year they destroy millions of dollars'
worth of stored cereals In granaries and
elevators. In fact, the question how Ip
fight them Is one of serious and growing
economic emportance. Strange to say,
very little scientific attention has been
directed to these Insects up to date, and
not much Is known ’about them.' It is
reckoned that they cause an annual loss
of over $1,000,000 in Texas alone, and in la?i
the corn crop of Alabama Was damaged
by 'them to the extent of $1,670,000.
There are about forty species of th-se
ir.seets, some of which’ are beetles an 1
others moths. Nearly all of them are
assisted immigrants, having been import
ed from abroad in cargoes of grain. !u
this manner they are distributed to nil
parts of the world. Their native homes
are in the tropics. Having become do
mesticated after a fashion by man. they
depend in colder countries entirely upon
him for subsistence, the beetles passing
the whole of their lives and propagating
their kind generation after generation in
his grain bins.
Tho damage they do ls well nigh incal
culable. Three of the species actually live
in the kernels, white the others feed on
starchy contents. Grain Infested by them
Is unfit for human consumption and hae
been known to cause serious illness. It ls
poisonous to horses and is not wholesome
even to swine. Poultry, however, find )t pal
atable and nutritious. The moths especially
are so prolific that the progeny of a single
pair in a twelve-month will number many
thousands, capable of destroying many
tons of grain. Fortunately the increase of
these pests ls checked to some extent by
natural enemies, among which are spi
ders which Inhabit mills and granaries. In
the fields they are preyed upon by birds
and bats. ' ■.
One of the worst of these Insects is yao
familiar "granary weevil,” which is men
tioned in the Georgies of Virgil., Its rav
ages made it known long before the Chris
tian era. It is a native to the region of the
Mediterranean. Having been domesticated
for so long a time, it has lost use of its
wings. The female punctures thfe kernel
with her snout and inserts an egg, from
which is hatched a little worm that lives
In the hull and feeds on the starchy In
terior. This species devotes special atten
tion to wheat, corn and barley,_and it is
,also very partial to the chick pta. which
is much cultivated as a vegetable In the
tropics. N
Pekin Ducks.
There is probably no branch of the poul
try business more profitable than duck
raising, yet but comparatively few farm
ers will admit these big white beauties to
their premises, says Betsy Trotwood, in
Western Stock Journal. The wives would
like to keep them, for their feathers are
light and elastic, and every way as de
sirable as goose feathers, and while the
goose lays but few eggs the ducks lay a
great many. The great objection raised
against ducks is that they foul the horse
troughs, and the majority of the eggs are
lost, for it is of no use to give a Pekin
duck nest or nest eggs. She lays wherever
It happens.
To keep ducks successfully and without
annoyance about watering troughs a small
pen is necessary. Their house need not
be a fine affair nor the yard expensive. A
fence two feet high will hold them, and
twelve feet square Is ample for a dozen or
fifteen ducks. Inside the yard may be
placed a trough. An inexpensive trough
may be made by taking two pieces of 2xlo
scantling four feet long. Round (them up
at each end like sled runners. Take a
piece of galvanized iron two feet wide and
nail it to the rounding sides of the scant
ling. To make it stronger nail pieces of
2x4s across each end. This makes a very
convenient trough to clean, for It can be
roeke j hat k an.t forth to clean It. A pipe
from the windmill supplier ours with wa
ter. Our trough has been In constant use
for six years and looks good for several
years more. Ducks soon become accus
tomed to their home, and after their gate
Is opened In the morning—lt ought not be
opened before to o'clock during the hay
ing season—they will go forth in search of
bugs, etc., but frequent return visits will
be made to that trough. The eggs should
be gathered before they are given their
liberty, and they should always be given
breakfast In their pen.
The best food for laying ducks Is
scalded bran and the table scraps. Ln
siiage will be eaten greedily by the ducks.
lUw carrots are good food. Very little
grain will be consumed If green food and
table scraps are furnished. Ducklings are
very easy to manage, but a mistake sone
tlince costs the loss of a large flock. They
ere best raised in brooders, even If hatch
ed under hens. For years we used ar
tificial heat for ducks, but we would do
so If we raised them In large nuinbtrs.
They can stand more cold than a ctvJck
en. but wo cover ours when the weather
Is bad. only lotting them out of their
box to eat. We feed them every two
hours until they are several weeks old
Open water dishea are disastrous to
ducklings. They get wet. roll over on
their buika and die. We have never been
very particular what we fed the duckling*
—bread crumbs, cold potatoes, scalded
corn chop and table scraps; only feed often
and keep them clean. Dice are sure death
to ducklings. If hatched under hens oil
their heads as soon as batched. Inbreed
ing Is a great cause of failure in duck
raising. You may inbreed chickens and
have fair success, but ducks never. They
take tits and die. It is poor economy to
try to get on with the stock on hand to
save expense.
iierkskobd is pathetic.
The Swindler Writes His Wife From
a Georgia Convict Camp.
From the New York World.
Maude Lascelles, the wife of W. S.
Beresford, alias Lord Charles Beresford,
alias Sidney Lascelles, was vtsUed yes
terday at her home in Yonkers by an
ambassador from her husband, who Is
now serving time In a convict lumber
camp at Kramer, Ga. Beresford, who In
time past has proven himself a most
accomplished impostor, was recently sen
tenced to live years u hard labor for
forgery. Ho has professed repentance
for his offenses and a desire to lead an
honest life. Many prominent persons in
Georgia believe he is In earnest, and have
asked the governor to pardon lilm. The
press throughout the state, with few ex
ceptions, has favored his pardon.
It was announced In the World a few
days since that Mrs. Beresford had be
gun suit for an absolute divorce from
her convict husband. She Is a charming
young woman, of aristocratic family, who
ran away from home ami married Beres
ford befbre she knew his true character.
Until recently she was loyal to him
through aJI his troubles In spite of the
protests of relatives and friends. What
seemed to her conclusive evidence of his
Infidelity finally turned her against him.
Beresford's friends assert that they can
establish his Innocence of the charge
of infidelity, and that evidence in this
respect against him, if any exists, was
purchased and Is black perjury.
Several attempts have been made in the
past few days by Beresford’s friends to
place his letter in his wifc's hands. Bhe
is so surrounded by relatives opposed to
Beresford that the matter was a difficult
one. The friends did not dare to send the
Jettor by mall for fear It would be inter
cepted. Yesterday, however, the letter was
placed in Mrs. Beresford’s hands and read
by her In the presence of her husband's
representative. The letter is as follows;
Kramer, Ga., July 8, 1895. My Own Dar
ling Maude: I would to God you could read
my heart as it goes out to you.
The mind hath a thousand eyes,
The heart but one; . •
And the light of a life dies out
When love Is done.
There Is never an hour In my life, wheth
er awake or In sleep, but you fashion and
control my thoughts. While my own vi
cissitudes lyive been more tl\an It seems
possible to have borne, paramount to the
grief and remorse which I experience Is
my solicitude for you. The pangs which I
know have stung your tender and pathetic
heart have contributed more to my humil
iation than all else.
That I have repented all my past trans
gressions is sure and certain, and all my
future life shall be spent In honest, earn
est, Christian, God-llke endeavor to oblit
erate the unhappy episodes of the past by
a spotless and blameless career, Inspired
always by an unrelenting and ceaseless
effort to make the pathway smooth and
peaceful for you.
If I had the power, hear heart, I would
gather all the sunshine and send to you
i 1 this dark hour to brighten and cheer
the dby. I speak no Idle words. I
yield not to Impulse and deal In no er
travaganxa when 1 tell you that you still
control all that makes life dear to me
and you still remain my only hope nnd
guiding star.
"You are the ocean to the river of nty
thoughts which terminates all.”
1 cannot believe you will ever forget
the beginning of this terrible ordeal
when in New York city the Urst stigma
of shame was placed upon me. llow
stanch, how true, how loving and de
eded you were, and bow you continued*
to cling to me until our departure from
Atlanta. I shall not tax you with long
and painful circumstances which have
come into my lifo. Since our sad parting
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r Hair Vigor to keep
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to remove
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IF SO, SEE
APPEL &SCHAUL
at Birmingham only Gail knows the an
guish I have suffered, and new I feel
as a mere wreck of the past, distorted
in mind and 111 In the llesh. weary and
sick at heart. But for you long ago, I
should have released my hold upon life.
Your sweet Upage has cheered me and
though ycu have teen silent, I could net
believe that one so true and loving could
ever forsake tne.
In all these tribulations, though ap
pearances may be against me, I have re
ualned faithful and true to you. The
false accusations concerning my conduct
In Amerlcus have ho right to appear on
the roll of truth.
In that unwise step, God being my Judge,
I wiu actuated by a deslro to see you. I
wandered I scarcely knew where, but I
old no moral wrong. Some months ago I
wrote you a full explanatton of my de.
parture from the camp. In contradiction
of the charge of misconduct, when I vis
it* and Amerlcus with the captain of the
camp, you will have unimpeachable evi
dence submitted to you* of my Innocence.
The deepest wound of all was the in
formation that you had In reality asked
the courts to saver the sacred ties which
bind us together, arid I am satisfied that
you have been persuaded to the conclusion
and eoerctc! by Farr and others, prompted
by their enmity to me and their avar
icious greed for financial gain.
There exists a very strong probability
that the governor will grant me an un
conditional pardon within a very few
days, request for which is prayed for by
every official here and many of tho influ
ential citizens of this and other states.
Indeed, the Georgia press, almost with
out exception, favors my release. Ihc
only objections emanated from D. B. King
and all that has appeared against me Is
traceable to him.
Will you, whom I have loved beyond
the natural degree and with unspeakable
devotion, constant and true as the stars,
tervred by my hope of a home In para
dise when life’s conflict Is over—can ycu,
the only tie that binds me to the world,
leave mo forever?
Will you, my darling, my wife, shut
the gates of mercy and love and drive me
to despair and death?
Oh. my angel! You are all In all to mo.
1 cannot bear to lose you. Answer my
prayer, and may the blessed Savior hear
my plea, touch than tender, loving heart
which once was all my own, and may It
respond as strings upon the aeollan harp
when touched by the deft hand of tho
artist, whose plaintive melodies echo
their tuneful rhapsodies in the temple.
In conclusion, I earnestly pray the Mas
ter to bless and keep you always from
harm and to permit me to be the means
of brightening your future life.
With all my heart’s love, your affec
tionate husband. Sidney.
Mrs. Lascclles was evidently deeply af
fected by the reading of the letter. She
expressed the hope that her husband
might be pardoned and that he was sin
cere in his profession of repentance. She
made no promises of a reconciliation,
but conveyed the idea that if her hus
band were pardoned and proved himself
worthy of further consideration a recon
ciliation might be effected in spite of ail
opposition. She said she would write to
her husband in reply to the letter at once.
Mrs. Beresford was Miss Maud Lllien
thal. daughter of a New York merchant,
who left an estate valued at $1,000,000.
She Is now living with her mother in a
magnificent old residence In Glenwood,
a suburb of Yonkers. Beresford came to
the United States in 1890. He asserted
that he was a relative of Lord Charles
Boresford, one of the heroes of the Brit
ish army. He tpld wonderful tales of
his travels and was received In a number
of houses and clubs In this city. He
swindled several persons here before go
ing to Georgia. He met Miss Lilienthal
and her mother while they were travel
ing abroad and renewed the acquaint
ance in this country.
—Playwright (author of Capt. Anson’s
play)—Do you think Anse will be able
to throw enough feeling into his denun
ciation of the villain in act II?
Stage Manager—Sure. I've engaged an
old base ball umpire to Impersonate the
villain.—Chicago Record.
I<E 111 I Lim it THE FEKItIS WHEEL.
The Monarch or Ihc Midway Again to
11c an Attraction In Chlcifeo.
From the New York Sun.
Hie Mg Ferris wheel, which everybody
who even so much as heard of the Chicago
world s fair knows ail about, and which
everybody who visited the fair remembers
with a vast amount of Interest, after be
ing housed In small sections for a year or
more, Is again to be set up In the Windy
City, to afford Chicagoans a chance to get
above their atrocious atmosphere and
have an occasional glimpse of the sun.
Theie have been ail sorts of suggestions
PPW ■{ the wheel, and some ne
gotiations looking toward Its purchase us
an attraction for various summer resorts.
At one time It was almost settled that It
was to be set up at Coney Island. But
fln?v V .H r,OU * Boh ‘ ,,lß ' s f' ll through, and
finally the company owning It, p.ml which
rUertc'Al. th ° 1,38 Welded U>
1 ,hc wheel In Chicago as the lead
ing feature of anew excursion resort on
th# northern outskirts of the city.
Severn! notable copies of the big wheel
havo been built In Europe, undone that
eclipses the Midway giant in the mere
n!rJ tP . r c°. f a'. ght 18 an a,tra< ’tion at the em
plre of India exhibition now running at
Earl s Court, London. But none of the
1c a e T llpse,) - lf PVBn equalled,
the Ferris wheel as a triumph of clever
designing and engineering. The absolute
perfection of the gigantic structure in Its
every part and as a whole is being made
more evident In the rebuilding than
seemed apparent at its first setting up.
The solid steel axle, measuring thirty-
inches In diameter and weighing
fifty-six tons, retains Its pre-eminence as
the largest steel casting ever made.
W-Tu*.* 1 18 V elng Bet up on open ground
at wrlghtwood avenue and North Clarlc
street, at the opposite end of Chicago from
where the world's fair was held Th#
company owning the wheel has leased a
large area of land and will spend $150,000 In
making of it a pleasure resort, with the
whyel as one of the attractions. There
will be dancing pavilions, concerts, cafes,
an electric fountain, and other features.
Admission to the grounds will Include tha
privilege of riding around In the big
wheel as often as desired. Already the
work of setting up the machinery has be-
gun. three months having been occupied
in finding and making a firm foundation,
and it is expected that the whole of th
work will be completed by Aug. 15.
The work of transporting and secon
structing the wheel Is a remarkable engi
neering undertaking, and It has attracted
much Interest from engineers all over
the country. The machinery forming the
wheel weighs 4,000,000 pounds, and it is
being transported a distance of thirteen
miles through the city streets on trucks
hauled by teams of horses alone. The
big axle and the engines are the only ex
ceptions, and these were transported on
armor-plate cars by rail, temporary
tracks being laid from the railroad main
line to the exhibition grounds. Thirty
teams and trucks are engaged In the
work, and the cost of removing and recon
structing the wheel will be about $30,000.
The wheel cost $400,000 originally, but
could now be built for less than that
sum.
What Is most Interesting to the engi
neers is the fact that although the wheel
was designed within three months after
the idea of making it first occurred to
Mr. Ferris, the estimates were made with
such precision, and the parts formed
with such nice accuracy, that in putting
together the mass of machinery a second
time, not a change of any kind has been
found necessary. As the superintendent
in charge of the work puts it:
“We havn’t had to whittle down so
much as a single bolt, and there are 26,000
of them used in holding the wheel to
gether."
The only difficulty In regard to rebuild
ing the wheel has been In finding suffi
ciently stable foundation. It was only
after going twenty-two feet through sand,
water, quicksand, and clay that a suffi
ciently firm basis on which to begin th
concrete foundation was found.
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