The evening world., 1908-11-18
( REGA|NS SON SHE
/ PARTED FROM AS
A LITTLE BABY
21s -
10 Mrs. William H. BeardSley
9 20 Made Happy After Long
49,, Years of Waiting.
,9.i
"a BOY is NOW NINETEEN.
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Hurries From Germany as
M Soon as He Learns True
S ,ns Story of Percentage.
BOY is NOW NINETEEN.


n - r's love and longing. brought to her
To-day the child she had not seen since
he was a baby. An hour after he had
reached New York on the Kroonland
~, there a reunion in n cosy home at
,id No. Il Elm street Newark, that repaid
-Iooa pretty little woman for all her seven
'noteen years OF vain searching.
ego The sons name is Walter Edward
2 n Casterlin. He is a handsome. manly
oS youth of nineteen. According to the
STORY that has always been told TO him.
and which he has believed his own
father. Edward Casterlin. was killed by
Is Indians in Argentine when he was two
sri years old. and his mother, barely escap
ing with her life, was destitute and had
| OAdo give her son to others to rear. The
! truth. which he has just learned, is that
| 1.-THE father disappeared. leaving no word
US behind Mrs. Casterln. who with
out funds and hardly out of her teens.
could barely make a living Mt needle
work. She intrnsted her child to her
nearest friends, Earnest Maddox and
2C'hi wife. The Madocks lived in Newark,
where Mrs. Casterln also lived
.'ci Took Boy to Germany.
Shortly after the separation of the
mother and her the Madocks moved
Up back TO their former home in Ger
many. Mrs. Castcrlin lost track OF
them and of the boy. \ few years ago
she married William H Beardsley, chief
clerk in the water department OF New
Ozark. and for the first time In her un-
happy life found herself with real
sss home in which her might have a
/ -place. She devoted her life to finding
CNher son. After months of futile search
---she learned that he was in I.iopsic.
The Madocks had been divorced and
the foster father had married again.
n He had reared young CasterlIn as his
VOown son. sending him to the best
| schools. Through the American Consul
Chat Lepsic Mrs. Casterlin- Beardsley got
zCa letter to her son.
S- Reading It. he resolved at once 70 re-
Turn 10 America Maddox tried for
SVmonths TO induce him TO remain in Ger
many until he came of age but the
SVendure the separation any longer; lie
n ,sailed last week on the Kroonland.
NC The mother dared not come to t p
---,mip TO meet her ,on. fearing that i
/ Joy of seeing him might unnerve her
before a curious crowd Of strangers.
The stepfaiher met young Casterlin at
the Red star dock and took him at once
900 Newark s, . sn
oct The son carried the letter that brought
him back to MS mother lie said he
eADetltu 10 treasure II as aOliS is ne
+ lived. but he permitted an Evening
lSE World reporter to make copy of it.
~ its sort IT is a classic. /; reads as
z ,SEWAHK, L. 5. A. June IS. 1905.
Ny own Dear Child-iiow many long
years have had to bear in silence the
1srtgony of uncertainty regarding your
"'''welfare! How many years have ] had
for you, which would not he slienced,
Shut grew stronger with the lapse of
years! owing 10 the separation of MI
Maddox from first il that
right claim the place LETT vacant by
her and break the silence of the past
sY "SIy dear and, only child. It is your
40 bwn loving mothers voice which calls
GY.La you will answer ana set her ANXIOUS
heart al rest 1t viii not take a great
are a az aH Well n'g and oI beloWdJ an ASK ASK
Ou,Ss that you write me and lei me know
0c all about yourself. would not have you
fhose who have provided for you when |
o'THas unable TO do so, and hope you will
" reman loyal and faithful 10 them for
ca hheir love and care as long as life lasts.
oG,c Almost Broke Her Heart.
W. 1T was 10 place you above a life OF
wan, and 100 youthful ton thai gave
most broke my heart to part from YOU,
Sd tSi,.. by loved YOU 100 TeIi 70 see yog
9ut gsi! and yoI are s2od and happy
OF manhood. You are older nov than /
was at your birth, Your mother is stu
young woman. for am not yet thirty
,,;seven, have married again within the
3iIIlast three wears, and II IS to my dear,
yIf KIND husband ! owe the happiness OF
tH being able to write you. In fact the
only true love. peace or comfort | have
ever known IN lie has cone Ia me since
a. q have been his loved and hunored wife
40 Il am intrustinS this letter TO the
90 American Consul at Leipsic, and hope
ooSiL will reach YOU safely. And now, my
1SJdear child ! will say no more for the
,ocpresent. | beg you WIN remember your
mother. VIII await an answer, with
9rll heart torn by hopes and doubts and
ocS fears. Remember also she has already
oe waited many long sad years for some
80 word from her loved one The rest
9eo leave 10 the dictations OF your own
lGghsart. AnXously awaiting some word
2gIfrom my de5r boy your ilayT!ps mother
iOd 1910, ~. I'r-EN ms 'E
A5nnMhY cAN0NI7E cal IEnPNIk 1,