Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 47, Number 43, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 July 1905 — Page 3

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY

MORTGAGED FOR $2,500 The Strangest Financial Transaction Ever Known in This Country.

A ROMANCE IS BACK OF IT ALL.

Capt. Milo Green. Jilted by the Girl He Loves, Advances Money, with Her Child as Security. When She Gets in Financial Difficulties Claim Is Due September 27 of This Year. Peacham. Vt. One of the strangest him bravely, even after he was forced

mortgages over recur. le.l la this coun- ' to leave St. Johnsbury and sek work

tr is held by Capt. Milo Green, a rich day labor at C.uildhall What the re. lose farm-r, living near this place, little woman suffcrc 1 in the flrst ten The amount of thu debt is $2,0o, and ' years of her married life she alone tl..- security given la a brigbt-eyod, av- knows. Her li- auty i hanged but she 11 ear old boy. still was oeautiful. Trouble and hard I hi' mortgage falls du' on September work could not change 01 rything. bim f this year, and if it is not paid her eyes were just as Hashing and her

hair as black as ever. 1 he husband still drank hard, but for a time bIithought she had won the victory. He quit drinking, settled down to work, and there were thr. years of compara the happiness. Then Claire came, and the mother s heart, hungering for years

When the boy was In bed Milo turned j upon Mrs. Luer. "Well," h said, what are you going to do?" The Mortgage Given. "I ratinot leave him he is my husband," she said. "You anuot live thin v ay," he said. "I have paid the woman and the nurse for a month and tin- "to. i y bill, but you must have mure money." Me will suon be able to work'" ahe be;an. "Not for months perhaps longer." "Theu I must work," she said, desperately. "You shall not. It will kill you, I will advance you money." "We cannot accept It from you. We have nothing to give as security." Vs. you have," aaid Milo Open. "There is the boy. I'll advance you

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The Bad Boy and His Dad Visit the pope They Bow to the King of Italy nud His Nine Spots Dad Finds That - The Catacombs" la Mot a Comic Ope: a.

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promptly on that day no one who knows Of the case doubts for a mlnuta but that it will be foreclosed, and llttle Claire I.eseuer will pass from his patents to Capt. Green. That K nmy nut be paid Is moro than

a possibility

To tell the story of this remarkable for her lost boy. was satisfied.

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transaction, and the s'ratig romance ul.tih Is lack of it. It Is necessary to I back a numb. : of years, and to the tow n of St. Join. -dm. v, where all of the El irartere. with 'If exception of the boy lived 2" years ago. At that time Cap' 'Irren was but beginning to

The birth of ( laire was fatal to his father's good reholutiuns. The day aft- , er the child was burn Jaques w.-nt out. ! to celebrate. He returned home drunk and for most of the next two years he remained drunk. He loRt his savings, his little home, his employment. The

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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, anil affairs came to a crisis. Green to the Rescue How Mi! Green ever heard of the plight of the girl who Jilted him no une knows, but one morning he ap

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e northern hills uf Vermont, psipisn m ............. . r - he had had to fight for a way to the home of the LiNMCI The

mother, worn oui dj mm the bedside of her sick husband and

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ati-l com to moi i' '" " . . ' ... .,j bill in winter, but to Marl- knock on the door, and saw her old

sweetheart standing im-rc. -

word of sympathetic greeting he enter ed and spoke with net plainly. He

leave the man who BBfl

treated her so badly, but she refused.

f the He pleaded that she owed It to herself

but she still reiuseu

- h wealth whhh Is now hit at time Jnques Lcseuer had but 1 'be American border from ec and was beginning to thrive in tabor b'islness, at that time Madaughter of poor Frenchlian parents, was one of the beauf the district around St. Johnsai d among her admin is w. ie Greoa and Lcseuer.

en had lived a hard life. Born up

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$2.500 In cash for a mortgage

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 bunband and wife signed it. Sweats He"ll Foreclose. Milo Green put the document in hio pucket and rose to go. The wife wa sobbing. As be started towards the door Milo turned suddenly and b'.aed out at his sicK rival: Before the Almighty," he declared, "if you don't brace up and be a man and support this woman and child I'll

bueciose the mortgage the minu'e K falls due. I did this In tho hope of making a man of you. I wish you'd die but. If she wants you to live. I'll give you a chance. If you drink and fall to pay that mortgage I'll take th boy." From that day on Jaqyes was sober. As he slowly regained his health he sought work and found It in a lumber yard, snd he and his wife settled down to save money to raise the mortgage on their boy. Kvery six months they paid IÜM interest, and the little fortune in the bank grew larger They do not know It yet. but eery cent of interest money that has bein paid Is in a bank at St. Johnsbury to j the order of one Claire Leseuor. The struggle has been a hard one. but the couple is certain that, by ex'ra work and Ttra saving, 'hey can almost accumulate enough to sett 'he debt by September The father Is worrvlng over the prospect, and working harder and harder to get money 000001 to settle the debt. but. strange as It 1 may seem, the mother is not Ml log a bit Minister Takes a Hand.

A few weeks ago the minister heard

of the strange mortgage that t apt. r.rcen held on the little boy up at Guildhall, and he drove over to remonstrate with the captain about such unnatural traffic What Capt Green said to the minister is not entirely known. But It is a strange thing that the next day on meeting a neighbor. Capt. Green remarked tbat the preacher was a pretty decent sort of a fellow, and trie minls-

tCoftyrttnt, INI, v jo. u Bu.e. j Rome. Italy. lar Oiu Friend. You r member. dOO't jou. hen you wire a boy, playlof "tun. yvm'ro IW and "buttoii. bttUOflV v bo's got the Lutton?" that cue uf the trying situations was to be judged to ' t;u to Korne. ' which meant that you orofO U kiss every girl in the room. I never got enough ' going to Home when I attended church sociables and parties but always got blindloldeil. and had tokbss anvbody they brougfct tu me. which us usually a boy or a colujed cuok, so 1 teas- d -ad to take me to ROOM, and when he got over bis being rallied and robbed and burned by lava ut Wsnv.r.-. he a;d be didn't I arewhere he went. and. beides. I told him about th' man Coliseum, where they turned bungt tig i and lions and hyenas loose among the gladiators, and the people could see the b asts eat them alive, and dad said that was something like it. as the way he had OOOfl robbed and misi.-ed in Italy . he would enjoy

seeing a good share of the population i . ew ed by ;ioii. if the lioi.s could stand it. I didn't tell dad that the wild au:mal show had not ben running for a

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ai dan IIU Ilriu up i ll nanu jji. uu was pal- and there was uo funny buFlneaa about dad any more, and then they Bet the platform down and the pnfM sat in a chair and t bOOO w ho w ant

ed to weut up to him. and be blessed them Hay. for awhile dad dassent go up. j cause he thought the pe could see right through him. and would know he ; was a Boptlot, but th rest ( 'be Aroer- j lean- w.-re iming up. and ilad didn't want j to be eccentric, so he and I went up. The pope pur out his hand to dad. and instead of shaking it. as he would the j hand of any other man on earth and asking how his folks were, dad ben' over and kissed the pope a hand, and the pope blessed him Dad looked like a new man. a gxd man. and when the pope put his band on my head, and MOOOOO1 me. my heart came up In my throat, cause I thought he must know of all the mean things I had ever done.

but 1 can feel his soft, beautiful hand

couple of thousand year. 'ause I thought he would find it out when w" got here Say. old man. I guess I can help you to locate Home You remember thetlm I spoke a piece at th- s hool exhibition, w hen I put my hand Inside my flannel fhirt. like :.n orator, and said- "Am! tbla is Home that sat on her seven hüls, and from her throne of beauty ruled the wh- le world." Weil, this Is It. where I am now. but the seven hills have he-n graded dow n and Rome don't rule the w hole world a little bit: but she has got relig.c n aw ful. The pope lives here, and he Is the boss of more religious people than anybody and though yon may boJoat to any other kind of chun h. and when you are home you don't care a continental for any religion except yourown. or your wife's reltgloo, and you act like an infidel, and scoff at good peo-

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ulio was so hard to other- MM I turn him with a smile, or draw 1 n from his office or his work with L ami vho knew it. In those Uwas a strong, handsome, young mta, uiven to drinking and gayetles. Green Jilted by the Girl. pjooor was any promise, so far en ktw. from Marff MofeMf to Green, but every one aupposed sue I mat ; y him for his money if not f il himself: and come thought perhaps v.-uld love him because ho was so Ite, I'll re was OOrpttftO, there ' hen she was married to Jaques Li "uer. If : heart WM broken Gieen failed ' - ' v It He was n little more silent, tto harder, a little colder, and he ruh a little faster-that was all. v e years h continued to live In .1 hnsbtiry; then he sold kU growbOJOltMM to a combine nnd withi word of explanation, retired to a l he had bought near Peacliam. In qUU He put his money lOtO mortstocks and tonds. and simply dropped back to live the life of a rich

an I her i Inld. but she still reiuseo. au

be departed. An hour later he returned with a woman, bearing food and wine and delicacies. He assumed control, sent the not her to bed. sent the woman to care ,'or the si.-k man upstairs and then sat down to rock the baby to sleep. Loved the Child. , , r . tore i:i his life had Milo (;,,,.,, held a - Ii. II in bis arm. It was leputed among the llitlo boys and plrls v hi n libors that be ate childra after boillOl them alive, and. in iubstantlat on oi th . . harce the-, arc several small boys who declare he growled at them tOOOO 00 caught them

la bis app tn Yet, with the lafaal man appeared happy which had been fret

seemed to find something t the haid. stern fare above it, tatcoi Uh its arms On tkO man 'I B0 ' Three hours later Wbeo th .,,. Lc rcfr-shed. the I '

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Misfortune in Abundance. Things went badly with the licseuers '"vi, the first. A boy was bom ITmtl. i t'iree years later he died Then ent ranldlv to the bal lie

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speaks of Capt. Crcen s hardnes It la peculiar, also, that the lawyer down in Peacham. who dr w Capt Green's will, chuckles whenever the subject of the moil gage It mentioned. jaques Iescuer. over in the lumber yard, is working despera' ly an 1 fevrl My. "H will kill my wife." he tays. "I must pay It" The Mother Only Smiles. Ani. stranger :ban anything else a few days ago Marie Ixseuer wis scwIBO i n a little bine Jacket, fjr Claire,

nd and she said to n t. iclibo: "Pon't let Jacques hear of It. hut lerl I'm making this so Clniie can go ovor m to Peacham for a visit this fall."

Then the old skinflint la going to forecloee the mortgage?" asked the indignant neighbor "You mustn't call bun a sU r.fl nt

He's been kind to us, and. wbttber the

drank heavily. Ills w ife st -od b , bo

Harle said he mOrtfOgO Is paid or not. I n going to "tta.,, j let him have ClalN fm a tlOM t think l it will do them both kojJ."

pie, whn you get to Rome and seethe churches thu ker t::an m. iu.- in M..waukee. aLd every bony attending churi h und .oukin; pious, you .uUh tue fever and try to forget bad things yuu havt- done, anu if you get a ihance :o see the pup', ou may go to his palace Just cause you want tu see everything that is guiug on. and you think you don't care whether school keeps ur not. and you feel independent, as thougu this religion was soniethiug for weak people tu Indulge in. and finally you eoma face to face with the pope. 00d see his beautiful face, and his gran d eyes, and his every movement is full of pious meaning, you "peaak" nah: tin-re. aud waut to kneel down and let him bless you. by gosh. Say. 1 never saw dad weaken like he did when the pope came in. We got ticket to go to his reception, but clad said he bad rather go to the caUrombs or the lion sliow at the Colis urn He said he didn't want to enmurag-pope-. bOMMOM he didn't believe th amounted to any more than prooMlO elders at home. He said he had always been a Haptist. ami the) didn't have auy ; topes In his church, and he didn't believe in 'cm. but some otlur Am ricar.s wer - co ne :o s the p ml dad eoUOOtOd to t. und. r protest, i nninc ur.iUrtiMii it a: he d.un't care

v " ' " . - two whoops, anwa. Well, sir. wc went, and it WM th grandest thtnc ou v-r saw The-wer.-guards by ÜM ' t.oiisand. heautif vi gardooo toot OrooM soofci CeOtroJ port look like a hay marsh, hundreds of people in church vestments, and an air of enact. n that we oeveff dreamed:

Jewels that are never se n ou'slde the pope's residence, and we lin d up to sethe holy father pass. QOO, but dau tnmbled 1H a d tp tied out In ihe snow and the persplra- . ..A I. 1. f. ... i V,., I,W.L ,. I

llOn SIIIO'I "11 III, 111 II1IT. UU'l Ijriuwvj sorry for llMOltf Then came the pro Oession. all nobles ai.d gr at people am. tin n tt re vmi- a parts i 0 men earning the most beautiful ma.i we ever saw on a platform above , end it was the BOOO, and he smiled ame. and the teari cami to my eyes. ar... I ouida't poaltoo idu,oihi&( wiuch

on m head now. and from this out 1 would fight any boy twice my su- that TOT said a word againM th pope and his religion When we got outside dad says to me: ' Hennerv. don't you ever let me hear of your doing a 'hing that would make the good man sorry it he was to hear about it " And we went to our hotel and stayed all the afternoon.

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aiiu a. . uibu, vmvwmv i KUia pope's angelic face, and when one of . the Americans came to our room aie.

; wanted dad to play cinch, be was Bar j dlgnant. and said: "I would as soon I think of robbing a child's bank." ard

we went to b-d, and If dad wasn't a converted man I never saw one. Weil. sir. trouble, and sorrow, and religion, don't last very long on dao The next morning we talked things over, and

I quoted all the Roman stuff 1 eoold think of to dad. such as "In that elcer day. to be a Roman was great r than a klr.g. " but before 1 could think twice there was a commotion In the streets and a porter came and made us takeoff our hats, because the king was riding by. and we looked at the king, and dad was hot. He aaid that fellow was nothing but a rai.road hand, disguised in a uniform, and. by ginger, if we had seen that king out west working on a railroad, with canvas clothes on. he would not have looked like a king, on a bet. There was nothing but his good clothes that stood between the king and a uagu digging sewers in Chicago.

After the king and his oiMOpota had passed, dad aaid: "When you are In , Rome, you must does the Romans do." and he said he wanted to set that heay feeling off his shoulders, which he got at the religious procession, and wanted ! me to sucge.-t something devili-h that we could do. and I told him we belter go and see the "Catacombs " He wanted to know if it was anything like "a I trip to Chinatown." or the "Black

Crook." ami I told him it was worse Then he asked me If there was much low- neck and long stockings in the

"Catacombs." and I told him

I told him his head miut be wrong, and

I pointed to about a hundred dried cocpaes, a thousand y'it- old In a.urOffa with grinning skulls all around, and told him that ww the ballet, and told him to look at the leading dancer, and asked him if she wa-n t a beaut, from Butte Mont, and (bat killed dad. He leaned against me. and said his eyes must have gone Its. i u him. because everything looked dead to him. I told him he won d get ner It after awhile and to stay where hewa while I wool and spoke to one of the bailet that was beckoning to me. and I left him there, dazed, and went around a corner and hid. people were coming along with torches, all the time, looking at the catacombs and reading the lnscriptiona cut In the rock, and after awhile 1 went bac k to w here I left dad. and be was gone but after awhile I foond him standing up with the stiffs. He was glad to se nie. and wanted to know if I thought he was dead. I told him I wai sure he was alive though he had a deathly look on his face. "Well, sir." aayi dad. "I Thought It was all over with me. aft r urn left for a man came along and moved me around, and took hold under my arms and Jumped me along her by thes stiffs, and told me If I

didn't stay where I belonged he woold break me up into bones, and throw me into a pile, and I thought I would have to do as the Romans do and stay here, and before the man left me he reached ii to my pocket and took my money, and said I couldn't spend any money In there where I was going to stay for a million years, and. by gosh. I was so p rifled I couldn't stop him from robbing me Say Hennery, they will rob you anywhere, even in the grave, and If this Catacomb show Is over, and the curtain has gone down, I want to get out of here, and go to the Coliseum or the Roman amphithea'er where the wild b?asts eat people alive." And so we left the Catacomb'; and went bark to town, and dad began to show life again. Say. you tell the folks at home that dad is gaining every day. and his vacation is doing him good He has promised to kill me for taking him to the Catacomb show but dad never harbor! revenge for long, and I guess your litfjo nephew wUl pull through I wish

J I had my skates, cause dad wants toga

Y'ours, HENNERY.

MAKE ONE EQUAL TO FOUR American Army Officer's Way of Accounting for Victoria of the Japanese,

I low Japan made one of her soldieri qual to four Russians is told by llaj. l.ouN L Seaman, a United States army -on The army and public are in lebted to Maj Seaman, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for the first detailed information about the hitherto unequaled efficiency of the medical de partOMMati of the Japan' army and navy, and in the article referred to ht Il some important supplementary mforniation. Tn years ago Japan began to prepare for war with Russia. It was eatimated that Russia would have om j available soldiers, against OM for Japan How to equalize these forces In fighting efficiency wai the problem which confronted the Jap anese general staff, and in the solution of It the medical officers were a most potent factor. It was known that in war. generally speaking, four men die from disease to one who succumbs to wounds Japan proposed to elimin- . ! i - .t. : V.a; S .v.: tri tells how they set about It and how admirably hey succeeded HI conclusion may bfl summed up in the statement that for the first six months of the war the Japanese loss from disease was only a fraction of one per cent. I'p to August

there was y 9.v,2 cases had been received at the

a plenty, and he said he was Just ripe to see that kind of a show, and so we took a carriage for the "Catacombs." and dad could hardly keep still till we got there. I suppose I ought to be killed for fooling dad but he craved for excitement, and he got it. The 1 Catac mbs" are w here Roman citizens have be. n

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Hiroshima reserve hospital from the field, of whom 6,63 were wounded. Of the total number up to that date Msl i had died Quite as surprising una. ngl lea'h rat.- Il the fa-t that only about one-third of the total cases were men suffering from lisea-e Japanese medical officers went In ad vance of the troops xamlned the watei supply aftd camping ground and removed i-onditions that threatened tbe health of the troops The work of the rgOOM was thus confined mainly to he permanent hospitals. Owing to tbe "111 lifo!" character of the modern rifle most of the Mounds were comparativeiy slight and most of the wound- . , were - ton in the ranks First aid" treatment was sufficient to allow most Of the wounded either to return to the ranks or. at all events, to reach a base hospital without . ailing on able-bodied QOirodOO tot assistance. A veritable revo lution was wrought in the militarj i branch of the healing art The lapat e while protecting themi iclves sue. eeded in turning against their f.. es all the microbes and kindred mor ; blflc agencies that have played suet havoc with armies.

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bortod for thousands of years, in graves hewn out of solid rock, and they are petrified, and af'. r they have la! 1 in ti-.e graves for a few hundred yean, the mummified bodlea are taken out tad ( stood up In corner, if the bodies will ! hang togeth. r. and If rot lb boi.es are pib A up around for scenery. We bad to take tOKPOa to go Q, and we wandered through corridors, coin at the remains, until dad asked one cf th men with us what It all meant, and the man said it was the greatest show on earth. Dad began to think he tai nutty, ar.d BrbOO I laughed an I sail: ' That is great," and clapped my hands, and said: "Kncore." dad steppec snd aaid ' Heunery. this ii no leg show,

Hi Philosopher. Young Mother John, you are aimph undoing all my tratnlng! You must no give the baby everything in the houao Helpleao Father Ä'a not my fault! If I iofti give him everything he want he yells. Detroit Free Press.

The Comment. "Did my diary -lies call forth ment?" asked -Mrs Cumrox Yes, indeeo." answered M enr.e. "I tarard sevnal POOOflt vou a the humau chandelier.' n.gton Star.

y comI Cay. efer to Wj -h-

Knew Him. "When n.y hubaod OOflMfl home ami teils me be ha had a corking good , .." said Mr. Cayman. "I alwayo w he has had nn uncvrklng oo. uuia. " Chnago Tribune.