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The Washington times., 1905-10-06
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.

FOR RENT. sale, or exchange, the hand
some country residence property called Col
iingswood Farm adjoining Riggs Farm. In
Prince Georges county. Md: any reasonable
o1er Will be entertained Apply address
j. H.. 1916 10th st. Oc3-tf
The Washington times., 1905-10-06
wANTED-MoNEY.
LEGAL NOTICES.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA, Holding Probate Court--lSo-
1918. AdIninistration.-This is to give notice
that the subscriber, of the District OF Co
lumbia, has obtained from the Probate Court
Of the District OF Columbia letters OF ad-
ministration on the estate Of George H
Denney late of the District Of Columbia.
deceased All persons havings claims against
the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit
the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally
authenticated, to the subscriber on or before
the 5TH DAY OF OCTOBER, A D. 1905:
otherwise they may by law be excluded from
all benefit of said estate. Given under my
hand this 5th day OF October. 1905 FANNIE
e. CARTER, Nichols ave. Anacostia. ID. G.
Attest: (SeaD JAMES TANNER. Register OF
Wills for the District of Columbia: Clerk Of
the Probate Court ALEX H BELL, At
torrey. oc6. 1920
The Washington times., 1905-10-06
FOR RENT-APARTMENTS.

RENT-THE CAIRO. Q ST, NEAR 18TH
Apartments Of any size. furnished or uT-
furnished; large closets. oc6-20t
VISIT THESE APARTMENTS AND YOr-
WILL WANT ONE-Rent only SIS 80 for the
lower apartment and $3.50 for the upper
apartment, on Orleans place ne, between
9th and 1th. j and VI SITS. ne. new apart
ments OF four cheerful rooms and bath lust
completed. with cabinet mantels china clos
cts, back porches, yards. ana wood sheds
The best In town for the money. BLUNDON.
OBRlEN BELT Unc), 1920 q st. NV
Phone Main 1204-O5 see-et
THE KENT, 1l6 North Carolina ave ee
six large outside rooms and bath; s.eara
heat: janftor service: rear porches ana
yard ne-half block from cars: just cola-
pleted $3.50.
KARRICK & METCALF,
se25-no. we. II. .Su-tf la3g @ 81
FIVE ROOMS and bath; hot-water heat:
$3.50. 34OO Prospect ave, Georgetown
oc5-3t
The Washington times., 1905-10-06
FOR RENT-suBuRBAK.

FOR RENT-House; nine rooms and receu-
ton hall and all modern improvements: 1904
SeTton st. JOHN b. LORD. Brookiand
" = oc6-5t
FOR RENT-HandSome dwelling nearing
completion. FRED BARNES. Brookiand
ID. e. oc<-3t
The Washington times., 1905-10-06
FOR SALE-SUBURBAN.
Two Miles Directly West OF Aqueduct Bridge
DOMINION HEIGHTS,

situated at an altitude of over 40 feet above
washington. on THE GREAT FALLS AND
OLD DOMINION ELECTRIC RAILWAY
cars VIII run on a 10-minute schedule and
IN ~ minutes time to the Treasury. A
quicker access to the city than any other
suburb. The best ballasted. best equipped.
and most serviceabls and regular running
electric line entering Washington.
rms beautiful section restricted TO refined
ana cultured people. No undesirable neigh
oors NO saloon In this section. having been
ful lots. costing you from SIPS TO $50 can
oe purchased BY paying SO down and IS per
Hontn- We charge you no interest on de-
II you Will call at our ONCE and inquire
INTO this matter you VIII learn that thsre
Is more progress along the line of improve
ment and investment In the northern end OF
Alexandria county than In any other section
out OF Washington. viii not harass you
E. H. TAGGART,
German of Freeport Building.
6l7 18TH ST. N. w. oc6-tf
81 Cash 81 Month.
BOULEVARD HEIGHTS,
pennsylvania and Massachusetts, Aves. s. E.
LOTS S25 and S75s
NO Interest. no Taxes.
BEAUTRUx SHADE,
School, Churches, and 1Eau Delivery.
300 feet elevation. no mosquitoes: malaria
Wagonettes meet cars across new Avenue
Bridge every half hour after a m Sunday
rake and ct. cars on Pennsylvanta ave-
ana transfer TO East Washington Heights
Railway.
COME OUT AND START THE HOME YOU
HAVE BEEN PROMISING Y0rTR FAMILY.
BOULEVARD HEIGHTS COMPANY,
ROOM 5. 5l2 St. N w.
oc5-3t
III MILES from Anacostia; nine-roorn and
cellar house: 2k acres; newly painted and
repaired; price. 5000: terms 10 suit Ad-
dress BOX $50. Times Office. oc9-3t
MINIATURE FARMS AT ACREDALE,
MD.
Two-acre tracts. near steam and electric
cars. enough wood and timber tracts to
pay purchase price; high and healthy; ons
house already built: low prices: houses from
$3.50 up; built to suit purchaser; easy terms
Call and get plat and select your tract
and let me begin TO build the house.
JOSEPH r. ATKINSON,
141i st. ". W. sczo-tf
81 90 DOWN
The Washington times., 1905-10-06
FOR SALE-MISCELLANEoUS.
GET A PIANO FREE.

Call at our warerooms as soon as possibli
and secure the use OF a good square plan,
absolutely free for six months. You pay onl,
the cost OF drayage. Grand chance to star
the children in music
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-07-14
The StranSest Financial Transaction
Ever Known in This Country.
A ROMANCE IS BACK OF 1T ALL.
Capt. Milo Green. Tilted by the Girl He Loves.
Advances Money, with Her Child as Secu-
s. rity. When She Gets in Financial Diff
culties-Clain Is Due September
81 of This Year.

Peacham, VT One Of the strangest
mortgages ever recorded in this coun-
try is held by Capt. Milo Green, rich
recluse farmer, living near this place.
The amount of the debt is $4,000, and
the security given is q bright-eyed, sew
en-year-old boy.
! The mortgage falls due on September
q Of this year, and If it is not paid
promptly on that day no one who
knows of the case doubts for q minute
but that it will be foreclosed, and lit
tic Claire Leseuer will pass from his
parents to Capt. Green.
That II may not be paid is more than
a possibility.
To tell the story of this remarkable
transaction, and the strange romance
which is lack of it, it is necessary to
go back number of years, and to the
town of st. Johnsbury, where all Of the
characters, with the exception of the
boy, lived 20 years ago. At that time
Capt. Green was but beginning to
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him bravely, even after he was forced
to leave st. Johnsbury and seek work
day labor-at Guildhall. What the
little woman suffered in the first ten
years Of her married life she alone
knows. Her beauty changed-but she
still was beautiful. Trouble and hard
work could not change everything, and
her eyes were just as flashing and her
hair as black as ever. The husband
still drank hard, but for a time she
thought she had won the victory. He
quit drinking, settled down to work,
and there were three years of compare
tive happiness. Then Claire came, and
the mothers heart, hungering for years
for her lost boy, was satisfied.
The birth of Claire was fatal to his
fathers good resolutions. The day aft
er the child was born Jacques went out
to celebrate. He returned home drunk
and for most of the next two years he
remained drunk. He lost his savings,
his little home. his employment. The
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-07-14

ter will not listen to anyone who
speaks of Capt Green's hardness.
It is peculiar, also, that the lawyer
down in Peacham, who drew Capt.
Green's will, chuckles whenever tho
subject Of the mortgage is mentioned.
jaques Leseuer, over in the lumber
yard, is working desperately and few
erishly. 1T will kill my wife," he
says. II must pay it."
The Mother Only Smiles.
And, stranger than anything else, =
few days ago Marie Leseuer was sew
ing on little blue Jacket for Claire.
and she said to neighbor:
Don't let jacques hear of 1t, but
I'm making this so Claire can go over
to Peacham for q visit this fall"
"Then the old skinflint is going to
toreclose the mortgage" asked the in
dignant neighbor.
you mustn't call him q skindint
He's been kind to us, and, whether the
mortgage is paid or not, I'm going to
let him have Claire for time. think
It will do them both good" .-
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$4,000 in cash for a mortgage on the
boy"
The mother wept awhile, and then
sobbed her assent. Two weeks later,
when JaQues was able to sit up in bed,
the mortgage was given, and both hus'
band and wife signed it.
Swears He'll Foreclose.
Milo Green put the document in his
pocket and rose to go. The wife was
sobbing. AS he started towards the
door Milo turned suddenly and blazed
out at his sick rival
Before the Almighty" he declared,
IF you don't brace up and be man
and support this woman and child III
foreclose the mortgage the minute 1t
falls due. I did this in the hope OF
making a man of you. I wish you'd
debut, If she wants you to live, I'll
give you q chance. If you drink and
fail to pay that mortgage I'll take the
boy"
From that day on jacques was sober.
As he slowly regained his health he
sought work and found it in lumber
yard, and he and his wife settled down
to save money to raise the mortgage on
their boy. Every six months they paid
the interest, and the little fortune in
the bank grew larger.
They do not know it yet, but every
cent of interest money that has been
paid is in a bank at St. Johnsbury to
the order Of one Claire Leseuer.
:, The struggle has been a hard one.
but the couple is certain that, by extra
work and extra saving, they can al
most accumulate enough to settle the
debt by September The father is wor-
rying over the prospect, and working
harder and harder to get money enough
to settle the debt, but, strange as 1t
may seem, the mother is not worrying
q bit.
Minister Takes a Hand.
A few weeks ago the minister heard
of the strange mortgage that Capt.
Green held on the little boy up at
Guildhall, and he drove over to remon-
strate with the captain about such ur>
natural traffic.
What Capt. Green said to the minis
ter is not entirely known. But it Is
strange thing that the next day, on
meeting a neighbor, Capt. Green re-
marked that the preacher was pretty
decent sort of fellow, and the minis
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When the hoy wss In bed Milo turned
upon Mrs. Lesauer. WELL" he said,
what are you going to do2" .aa
Tho Mortgage Given. "a
II cannot leave him-he Is my hus-
band" she said. ....'
":You cannot live this way" he said.
II have paid the woman and the nurse
for q month, and the grocery bill, but
you must have more money" :
"He will soon be able to work" she
began.
mot for months-perhaps longer"
"Then must work" she said, des-
perately.
"You shall not. It will kill you, I
will advance you money" i
j I'VE cannot accept it from you. We
have nothing to give as security"
Eyes, you have" said Milo Green.
"There is the boy. Ill advance you
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Mo GREEW

mother worked desperately, taking in
washing and ironing, doing anything to
support herself and child. But the
strain, the worry and the shame told
on her beauty.
Then the drunkard husband fell sick,
and affairs came to a crisis.
Green to the Rescue.
How Milo Green ever heard of the
plight of the girl who Tilted him no
one knows, but one morning he ap-
peared in, Guildhall and inquired the
way to the home of the Leseuers. The
mother, worn out by nights vigil at
the bedside Of her sick husband and
the care of her child, answered the
knock on the door, and saw her old
sweetheart standing there. With a
word of sympathetic greeting he enter
ed and spoke with her plainly. He
urged her to leave the man who had
treated her so badly, but she refused.
He pleaded that she owed it to herself
and her child, but she still refused, and
he departed.
An hour later he returned with a
woman, bearing food and wine and DEL
icacies. He assumed control, sent the
mother to bed, sent the woman to care
for the sick man upstairs and then sat
down to rock the baby to sleep.
Loved the Child.
Never before in his life had Milo
Green held a child in his arms. It
was reputed among the little boys and
girls of his neighbors that he ate chill
dren, after boiling them alive, and, in
substantiation Of this charge there are
several small boys who declare he
growled at them when he caught them
in his apple trees.
Yet. with the infant in his arms, the
man appeared happy, and the child,
which had been fretful and peevish,
seemed to find something to trust in
the hard, stern face above 1t, and fell
asleep with it's arms clasped around
the mans neck.
.Thrse hours later, when the mother
awohe, refreshed, the house was clean
ed, q nourishing meal ready for her,
the woman had gone to employ nurse
for the sick man, and Milo Green was
sitting before the IRE with the boy,
sound, asleep, clutched in his arms,
and he seemed happy. Marie said he
was almost smiling as he watched the
boy.
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News Notes.


Grand Rapids-.A new iron ore dis
trict is discovered southwest of here.
Mendoza - Falling into pool
caused by high water Of the Minnesota
river, Arthur Hugo johnson was
drowned. The chlld's body was taken
to St. Paul for burial.
St. Paul.. A. Rosing of the state
board of control objects to locating the
administration building at the school
of agriculture on low ground.
St. Paul-The state census will show
an increase of 100000 in Minnesota's
population. -,
Minheapolis.-A campaign against
slaughterhouses located near the resi-
dence portions of some of Mime
sota's beautiful cities and villages has
been started by the State board of
health. 1885,
Bemidji-The big logging camps Of
the R. E. White company at Kelliher
were destroyed by fire, together with
the clothing, bedding, money and per-
sonal effects of $50 men. The total
loss is So, 600 and no insurance, wan
carried. Shots fred by a drunken
woodsman are supposed to have igniteii
the buildings
Minneapolis-A Methodist minister
from Hopkins called at the Henuepi,'
county jail for a visit to G. D.
Crawford, the murderer sentenced to
be hanged at Elk River Aug. is, but
he was in a surlv mood and refused to
see him "cr anyone else"
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amass the wealth which is now his;
At that time Jaques Leseuer had but
Just crossed the American border from
Quebec and was beginning to thrive in
The lumber business; at that time Ma
RE Mercier, daughter of poor French
Canadian parents, was one of the beau
ties Of the district around St. Johns
bury, and among her admirers were
Milo Green and Leseuer.
Green had lived hard life. Born up
in the northern hills of Vermont. Of
poor parents, he had had to fight for a
little education, and had succeeded. He
was reserved, cold, silent man-as
forbidding and cold to most people as
his native hills in winter, but to Marie
Mercier all the warmth that was In
his nature was turned.
Wealth was beginning to come to
him then, and the little, black-haired,
black-eyed girl perhaps was fiattered at
the silent, unasking alteration of the
man who was so hard to Others. She
could turn him with a smile, orSdraw
him from. his Office or his work with
/, a nod, and she knew it. In those Le-
suer was a strong, handsome, young
man, given to drinking and gayeties.
Green Tilted by the Girl.
There never was any promise, so lar
as men knew, from Marie MERCER to
Green, but every one supposed she
would marry him for his money-if not
fol- himself; and some thought perhaps
she would love him because he was so
opposite. There was surprise, there
fore, when she was married to Jaques
Leseuer.
Y If his heart was broken Green failed
to show it. He was little more silent,
little harder, little colder, and he
got rich a little faster-that was all.
For five years he continued to live In
st. Johnsbury; then he sold his grow
ing business to a combine, and, with
out aaword Of explanation, retired to a
farm he had bought near Peacham, in
the hills He put his money into mort
cages, stocks and bonds, and simply
dropped back to live the life Of q rich
recluse, 49, ~, -. &c.. 9.
Misfortunes in Abundance. II
Things went badly with the Leseuers
from the first. A boy was born-Emi].
and three years later he died. Then
business went rapidly to he bad. Le-
seuer drank heavily. Hn wife stood by
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Much Building.

Building permits aggregating$ 81, ooo,-
600 were issued in st. Paul last month.
This is the largest amount issued in
in one month in the history Of the city.
This figure is also greater than the
total figure for several average
months. While nearly one-half of
this amount is covered by two large
buildings, most of it includes average
structures and additions to buildings.
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At Isle Of Pines.

Manlsato-Judge John b. Ogle, the
runaway forger and embezzler, who
twice tried to kill himself, has been
located at Neuva Corona on the Isle of
Pines, the refuge Of A. A. Buck, the
defaulting cashier of Mankato.
Owing to the fact that the United
States has no extradition treaty with
the Isle Of Pines it will be impossi BILE
to bring Ogle back for trial and pun
ishment g..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-11
REPORT OF ROBERTS.
Director of Mint Gives Statistics of
 Gold and Silver Production.

Director of Mint Gives Statistics of
 Gold and Silver Production.
 Washington, Sept. 1o.-Director of the Mint Roberts today made public his estimate of the production of gold and silver in the United States for the calendar year 1904. These figures show an increased production over the calendar year 1903 of $7.1S1,500 gold and 3,4s6,000 fine ounces of silver.
 The largest gold gain was by Cali fornia, which yielded about $3,0Oo,0O0 more than in the previous year and larger amount than in any year since the sixties. This gain" the director says, "came chiefly from dredge opera tions and e further gain is expected during the current year and for some years to come. The California State Mining Bureau estimates the possible output of the dredges at $7,000,oOo per year for thirty years. Colorado shows an increase of nearly two million gold and 1, BOO ,00o ounces of silver; Alaska gain of $70Q,OoO gold; Montana a gain of 100000 ounces of silver; Utah gain of l,300.000 ounces of silver; Idaho a gain of 1,S0o,O0 ounces of silver.
 The following table shows the ap- proximate distribution by producing States and Territories:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-11

bread by the sweat of his brow. On the Crow reservation, in Montana. one of the most extensive irrigation projects now in contemplation Is well under way. All the construction work Is being done by Indians. Mir. Leupp testifies that white labor could be producing no better results. On the Sleyenne and Arapahoe reserva- tion in oklahoma, similar work is in progress. with equally satisfactory result In the Northwest many Indians have been induced to work by the day on railways and in other empioyments. Once accus- toned to earning money for himself the average Indian is found to take quite as much interest in the process Is usually displayed by the white brother The no work-no-ration policy, where 1t can be en- forced, Is serving as a decided stimulus to indstry among the Indians. The argu- ment of hunger is easily understood by Poor Lo As a choice between working and going hungry. work Is usually consid- cred the lesser of two evils, just 1t Is in the case of the white hobo who finds his breakfast contingent upon the per formance of a wood-sawtng stunt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-11
PROGRESS OF INDIANS.
Independence Rather Than Guardianship
 the True Policy.


 the True Policy.
 Sioux City Journal.
 Francis E. Leupp. Commissioner of In dian Affairs, has just returned to Wash !nston from four months tour of the various Indian reservations and settle ments throughout the West As a result of his personal contact with the Indians the Indian Commissioner will resume his work ct the head of the bureau firm in the conviction that independence rather real solution of the Indian question. This Is the policy upon which the department has been working for several years. The work will be continued conseryatively. with 1t necessity for work on his part. It Is not simple matter to change the habits of old or middle-aged men who have been brought up to believe that Uncle sam owes them living and can be depended to discharge the debt Too much progress will not be expected in a hurry. But progress already has been made, and progress in increasing degree may bU expected as the beneficial effect of what already has been accomplished be- comes clearer to the aboriginal under standing.
 MT. Leupp found the KIamaths of Ore gon living under almost ideal conditions. These Indians are absolutely independent. They have adopted civilized dress Each family has small apportionment of land which is worked industriously The Kla- maths occupy well-built and comfortable homes. and In every way compare favor ably with the white settlers thereabouts. The Klamaths, having proved their capa- oility Of caring for themselves. neither ask nor expect help from Uncle Sam. They are living In content amid compara- tive plenty and ask no change in their lot
 Whte 1t is considered desirable the Indians should assimilate the maners and customs Of the white man, the Indian de- partment Is not prepared to insist upon this point SO long the Indians can look out TOT themselves under existing condi- tons The Navaios. for instance still cling to their blankets and maintain pure ly Indian styles of living. But the Maya JOS are supporting themselves and attend ing strictly to business. They raise cattle. horses and sheep manufacture blankets ana eartnehware and fraternize and trade without friction with white men. So long as tness eondi Hons continue there will be no disposition on the part of the de- partment to insist on more conventional standadrs of living
 Mir. Leupp fonnd y,ar,, contradictions of the old theory that the male Indian ia eonstituttonailS opposed sto earning hi