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alike to them and tastes alike. Every
one of them has some kind of an edu-
cation plant or other, and they make
fertilizer of the strong smelling cash
and spread it on the roots of their edu-
cation plant, and don't care whether
the money was tainted or Sainted, so
long as the plant grows 1 wish there
had been some of the same kind of
willing accepters when l was crowded
to earth with my load of musty money.
would be a younger man today"
You seem to have got rid of it, said
the minister, with just the slightest,
and not unkindly. accent on the seem. -
Yes. sir" said Eliph' Hewitt; 4 got
rid of it. I built an oil factory and put
all my soiled money into it. Any time
you have any tainted millions and don't
know how to get rid of them do that.
Put your money into an oil factory and
it will not trouble you very long. John
ID. will have the money and the factory
and the faint and the whole thing before
Won know the roof is on, and before you
know he has it he will have passed it
along to some education plant and will
have his name in the paper. But it was
q long time before l thought of that.
was an amateur giver in those days.
hadn't learned about the proper chan
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the trouble is that each pirate thinks
he is the only honest one and that all
the others is thieves, and nobody would
come 10 live in the pirates home that
started. 1 didn't have no trouble in
starting things, but the trouble was to
make them expensive after they was
started. When a man has money in
heaps, like me and John D., ii takes a
lot of getting rid of it to just keep the
surplus down, and it don't do no good
to give it away in small lots. While a
man is looking around for place to get
rid of one hundred thousand tainted
dollars seven or eight hundred thousand
other tainted dollars are piling up on
him. I seen that what / would have to
do was to give it away by the million,
and set out to do it. ] set at my desk
all day writing out million-dollar
checks and sending them out to college
presidents, and the next day the mail
man would come in and dump a bushel
basket of letters on my desk, and every
letter was from a college president
sending back my checks, with
tainted wrote across the face.
used to go to some college pres
ident that I had met at d din
ner, and used to say: Please, please
take forty-eight millions and I'll be
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Then the burglars got the bauble after
ALL"
Burglars. no." cried Glendale ex-
citedly. mo burglars got it. The en-
tire affair is a mystery, an internal"
Hold your horses, Glendale" said
Boyd, sharply. Time may be worth
something in this matter. Give me
the precise facts Of which you are in
formed"
'"They may be stated I'm a nutshell"
replied Glendale. with nervous haste.
''To begin with, I'm mOrbidly super
stitious about yellow diamonds.
dread carrying them in stock, and in
variably have been unfortunate in all
deals in which they figured. Call it
foolishness, madness, anything you
like. it's all one to me. 1 hate and fear
a yellow diamond as the devil hates
holy water. Naturally, then, 1 looked
for trouble with this piece of jewelry
from the moment received that letter
from Brazil
''Well, well, Glendale. come nearer
home" cried Boyd impatiently.. What
about the tiara ?'
'It was delivered at my office yes
terday afternoon, by an agent Of the
steamship company" continued Glen
dale. Il at once telephoned to Mr.
Valdeski. intending to inform him Of
its safe arrival, but was told that he
was absent from the city and would
not return until this morning"
From whom did you get that infor-
mation?"
From Miss Nolan, the young lady
stenographer in Valdeslxi's office. She
is his only employee, a sort of private
secretary, and she stated that Valdeski
then was in Boston, and would be at
his Office about o'clock this morning"
GO on" nodded Boyd attentively.
With his pencil. however, he jotted
down a few words on a blank block
on his desk.
THAT was the first head-fiaw with
the internal yellow toy, and it served
TO greatly augment my misgivings,"
declared Glendale. I was compelled
to keep the piece overnight 1 care
fully examined it, assisted by my chief
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your Dutch uncle for life and he
would sigh and sniff his nose at the
money and say; No. Eliph' Hewitt. 1
need the money. but 1 can't take it. My
college is wearing its last years suit
and it's shoes are worn out, but my con-
science won't let me take tainted
money
1T went on that way" continued
Eliph' Hewitt, till I got so that l was
ashamed to look a college president in
the face. and they got so that whenever
they saw me coming Il ey knew I had
check for thirty-twO or one hundred
millions in my hand ready to stick in
their pockets when they were not look
ing, and they would dodge around the
corner or up an alley. And l was only
enc of d hundred poor money tired mil
liOnaireS that was carrying around
tainted millions on a plate trying to
get rid of them. My wife used to say
to me: Eliph', why don't you give
away some millions today? You just
sit here by the fire smoking your pipe.
Why don't you brace up and go out and
hunt up a place where you can get rid
Of some money? Surely there is some
charity somewhere that viii take a
few millions if you put on your good
clothes and tell the boss how the whole
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mel. I had just graduated from the pri-
rate business"
THE pirate business?" inquired the
minister.
1T was a good business, too said
Eliph' Hewitt. Lots of money in 1t,
and 1 run it on strictly moral lines,
never thinking that folks would say it
was a bad business. like being a trust
or a railroad king. l had prayers reg
ular every day, and gave receipts in full
for all the money 1 took away from peo-
pie, and allowed them per cent off for
cash. I hadn't no more idea my money
was tainted than child has. 1t all
come to me in the regular pirate way
just as the best pirates had got theirs
for centuries before. 1t was the high
est class stealing that was on record,
and all done according to the best au-
thOTitieS, and vet when / got so much
money I was bothered to take care of
it and wanted to get rid of what was a
nuisance and set up as a philanthropiSt
and get my name in the papers, and as
sociaJe with professors and such, they
turned on me ana said the money was
tainted"
You might have founded a home for
disabled pirates" said Mr.. Parsley.
Il done it. said Eliph' Hewitt, but
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family is suffering Then I would go
out and try. l would walk the streets
all day looking for willing talIer, and
at night l would go home, and there
would be my wife, standing in the door
with a smile on her face and hope in
her heart, and [ could hardly dare tell
her that another day had passed and no
millions given away. But she was a
good wife and she stood by me brave
ly in my misfortune, and all she would
ever say was: Wei, perhaps tOmOr-
row you can find a place where you
can give a million or So
Il looked in the columns of the news
papers day after day, among the want
Advertisements" continued Elph
Hewitt, land I saw hundreds of ad-
vertisements of colleges and charities
that needed a good giyer with millions,
but they all said, No tainted millions
need apply or Money must be abSO-
lutely clean One day / found an ad-
Vertisement that brought hope to my
heart. Seven hundred millions wanted
Immediately; a university in the west
needs the donation of the above
amount; might accept more from the
right party as favor; faint no Objec-
ton. Call at 794 Wall street, Tuesday
morning, before breakfast I ran all
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On the Trail of Big Finger"

! With which, expressed with MOD -
alton that was like a wet blanket upon
his visitors excitement Mr.. Felix Boyd
struck a match and proceeded to re-
light his pipe.
Keep your chair, Jimmie" he added,
as Coleman rose to withdraw. You
know Coleman. Mr.. Glendale Central
office-puff. pullman. One of the best
-puff-men on the force, and a par
ticular friend of mine-puff, puff. Often
require his assistance. So keep your
-puff-chafr, Jimmie. Sit down. Glen
dale, and-puff, puff-noW we're off.
What ails you this moTning?"
The last came through veritable
cloud of pipe smoke, and Coleman
hardly could suppress a grin.
The little advertisement of Mr.. Felix
Boyd completely shook the excitement
out of the sails of Mr.. Jacob Glendale.
still as pale as before, and with an agi-
tatiOn Ike that left on the sea after
the sweep of a whirlwind.
I'D damn you, Boyd, if didn't need
you so badly" he declared resentfully.
Boyd laughed.
Damn me later IL you like, my dear
Glendale, but don't waste words and
time over it now" he cried. Come to
the business at once If done in man
ldSl1iOll. SIT YOU not 1fIlO me SLOW 10
respond to your needs. What's the
trouble?"
These abrupt changes-the sharper
tone, the keener glance, the knitted
brows, the attitude of intense interest
all were characteristic of Felix Boyd. 1t
was by such tricks as these that he
checked or spUrred others, as the need
appeared.
Glendale had, in less than half min
ute, been brought to a tolerable state of
mind. He was, it may here be stated,
The American agent of by far the larg-
est and wealthiest company engaged in
the diamond mining industry in Brazil,
with vast interests in the famous Mi
nos-Gereas mines Glendale had a mod
est Office in Maiden Lane, from which
he had Just FASTENED in the excitement
depicted
Trouble enough" he quickly replied.
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Merely for the reasons you have
stated?"
well, I had in mind, too, the news
paper items regarding the tiara. which
have stated most of the facts about it.
l reasoned that, if these items had been
read by any rascals who also knew that
my office vault was useless, they might
infer that I would bring the tiara home
with me, and possibly would burglar
ize my house in the hope Of securing
it."
''Hurpphr' grunted Boyd. Prom
what Coleman has told me, reckon
you hit the nail on the head. Never
mind about your burglary, Glendale.
Go on about you and Palfrey. What
did you finally decide upon doing?"
I'VE sat in my library discussing
the matter until nearly IL O'Clock" con-
tinued Glendale. 4 have no safe in
my house, but Palfrey has a very fine
one at his. l felt absolute confidence
in him, moreover, for he has been in
my employ for nearly twenty years,
and I have known him from bOyhOOd.
Ny idea was to get the tiara out OF my
house, and into the keeping of Ons
whom none would suspect of having
it in charge"
Il see"
Finally. Palfrey consented to COM
ply with my request, and he took the
tiara home with him, with the under
standing that he should take it direct
ly to the office of the Russian consul
at 9 o'clock this morning"
without coming to your Office"
Precisely" nodded Glendale. There
was no occasion for that. About half
past this morning, PalfTey called me
up by telephone at my house, saying
that he still had the tiara all right, and
that he then was about starting for
Valdeski's Office with it. I told him to
go ahead and deliver it to the Russian,
aid then see me at my Office"
Weir queried Boyd, curiOusly.
Glendale exhaled a long breath.
iii rather than Well" he cried, We
hemently. ''When 10 o'clock came, and
Palfrey did not report to me, 1 tele-
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clerk, Mr.. Palfrey, and found 1t to be
all right, corresponding in every detail
with the description mailed to me by
my firm. That was about 4 o'clock yes
terday afternoon"
well, well, what followed?" asked
Boyd, quickly.
A tinge of color crept over Glendale's
pale face, as if the confession he was
about to make was not much to his
fancy.
las it drew near time to close my Of
fee" said he, Il felt more than ever
nervous about keeping the tiara over
night. It happens that the vault in
my office is being repaired, and so was
unavailable. The safety deposit vaults
in which / temporarily have stored all
my stock of gems were also closed for
the day. as well as the bank in which
| deposit. I did not, moreover. wish to
trust the tiara to the vault of any bust
ness acquaintance. possibly owing to
my superstitious misgivings, and as
result of all this, l found myself in
quite a qUandary. l decided that I
must take the tiara home with me and
keep it there until morning, which Pal
frey. my clerk, advised me to do"
Go on
My exceeding nervousness led me to
have Palfrey accompany me home, lest
I should be robbed on the way, or be
the victim of some accident, and he re-
manned at my house to dinner. You
will appreciate my feelings, Boyd, ] am
sure, when I reveal the step 1 took
little later. I dreamed several nights
ago that my house had been robbed.
and that 7 woke only 10 find it as bare
and empty as when delivered by its
builder. All this combined to render
me so nervous and apprehensive-"
Stop a bit, Glendale interposed
Boyd. Il easily can appreciate your
state of mind. Keep closer to the point,
fer?"
while discussing the situation with
Palfrey, later in the evening. I was
struck with the idea that it would be
a good scheme to have him take the
tiara home with him and lock it in his
safe until morning."
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You know my business, Boyd. / am
agent for big Brazilian diamond con-
Germ"
Yes, yes, know all about that
Come to the point"
well, well, don't hurry me in this
fashion," cried Glendale irritably. you
only stir me all up. I recently received
a letter from my Rio Janeiro house say
ing they soon would ship me n valuable
piece of jewelry, for immediate delivery
by me to the Russian consul here, Mr..
Nicholas Valdeski."
Il have seen this matter mentioned in
the newspapers" remarked Boyd, with
curious squint. Go on, Mr.. Glen
dale"
The piece mentioned is a magnificent
diamond tiara, set with nearly one hun
bred perfectly matched yellow diamonds
of rare size and briliancy. The letter
stated that the tiara then was being
manufactured by my Brazilian house
upon the order of several wealthy Rus
slams there, by whom it was to be sent
as a gift to the czarina."
"In Russia? %
Certainly. The piece being Of great
value, worth about one hundred thou
sand dollars, my house refused TO send
it direct to Valdeski. They preferred to
send 1t to me in order that l might
make a careful examination of IL be-
fore delivering it to the consul, to in
sure that it was in perfect condition.
Evidently, they aimed to be sure
that it had not been tempered with
during transportation"
Exactly. Being responsible for its
safe delivery, they wished it to pass in
perfect condition out of the hands of
their own agent, myself, into those of
the Russian consul. Their liabilities
then would cease, Mr.. Valdeski having
been instructed to take charge of the
Jewel here and forward it to Russia"
II see," nodded Boyd.
Those were the plans, and"
You say were, Mr.. Glendale
Were, yesl Why, damn it, Boyd,
don't you understand? The royal tiara
has been stolen
"Stolen!''
Great Jehu!" supplemented Coleman.
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1T now is odds that Glendale soon
will come flying in here for my SER
vices"
THAT 50? Is he on your list of
cIients2"
Yes" grCwled Boyd. Il never both
err with this sort of house work, how
ever. ii I can avoid il. My labOTs below
the dead line keep me busy enough.
Yet some of these multimillionaires
whom 1 serve seem TO think 1 should
have an eye out to protect even their
spoons from petty pilferers, or stand
watch at their basement doors TO in
sure BY the way, Jimmie, what sort
of a bauble had Glendale in his keep
ing, that he apprehended a burglary
and could not sleep?"
With which, for the first time dur
ing the foregoing, Mr.. Felix Boyd
looked up from his papers and dis
played more than a cursory interest in
the story the central Office man had
been telling.
Before Coleman could reply, however,
heavy steps were heard hurriedly ap-
preaching the door of the Pine street
Office, and Boyd quickly remarked:
BY Jove! guess was right, Jim
ME. That sounds as if it might be
my man."
A moment later the door was uncere-
monlousiy opened, and portly gen
tleman, noticeably pale and excited,
hurriedly entered.
"Ah, you're here. Boyd" he cried
abruptly Thank God for that l
want you at once. There's the devil
to pay. / depend upon you. Boyd. Get
into your coat and hat and come with
me. There's the devil to pay, / say
the very devil! I'm half distracted"
stop bit sir" Boyd quietly inter-
posed. Il should say, Glendale, that
you are wholly distracted"
so ! am, Furthermore"
suppose you sit down and calmly
state your troubles"
But, man alive"
"Oh, tut, tut I'm not going any
where I'LL ] know where l never go at
things like n bull at a gate. Sit down,
say. and let's know what has hap
pened."
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The Case of the
Royal Tiara.

1T was a close cali for the blooming
bauble, there's no question about
that" declared Jimmie Coleman, the
central office man. with an emphatic
nod. IF Glendale hadn't been too ner-
vous to sleep soundly, and so happened
10 hear one Of the rascals in his daugh-
teF's chamber, it's odds the gang would
have cracked his safe and got away
with the royal topknOt."
Mr.. Felix Boyd puffed away at his
pipe and replied without so much as
looking up from the documents on his
desk, upon which his attention chiefly
was directed.
Got one Of them. Jimmie, did you
say?' he asked abSently.
so it appears" nodded Coleman.
Glendale. I'm told. recovered some of
his sand upon hearing the burglar. He
sprang out of bed with his revolver,
caught q glimpse Of the ruffian by the
dim hall light as he fed down the stairs,
and sent an ounce of lead after him."
Trust a nervous man to do some
thing desperate when driven to 1t, re-
marked Boyd indifferently.
Glendale must have hit the scoun-
drel, for drops OF blood were found on
the hall carpet and the basement stairs,
showing which way the burglar fed"
Got him, did you say?"
so Kennedy says-he's the police
man on that beat. He nailed a covey
coming out of back alley about there,
whose hand was covered with blood
from flesh wound in his arm He's
the right man, I'm thinking, yet he puts
up a stout denial, swearing that he
went into the alley to escape from a
man with whom he had been in a
fight, and by whom he had been wound
ed "
"Humphi"
"Fishy yarn, eh?"
Decidedly"
$50 / think"
You got these facts from Kennedy,
did you?"
YES" replied Coleman, knocking the
ashes from his cigar. Kennedy jagged
his man all right, and the fellow will
come before the court today"
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BY SCOTT CAMPBELL,
Author of "BeIow the Dead-LIne,"
"The Doctors Secret" etc.

Copyrighted. 1905. by Street & Smith.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1907-05-03
To the Outgoing Council.

GENTLEMEN: | take this
method to acknowledge my graf
itude to you for the many favors
shown me and to say that what
success | have had in my official
capacity is largely due to your
kind advice and ready assistance
at all times to aid me in my
duties, and to the incoming coun-
ell ! wish to say it is within your
providence either to very great
ly handicap me in my efforts to
enforce the law, or to become an
adviSatory board, which | ask you
to do, and by our mutual efforts
be able to accomplish much good
for the general public. | wish
to call your especial attention to
the hobo curse. This is matter
of no mean Importance, and |
tell YOU candidly that it must be
raced. Some provision must be
made TO work these men SO as to
either keep them away or make
them pay expenses. ! am,
Very respectfully,
COOKE CHAPMAN, J. p.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1907-05-03
A RUNAWAY ENGINE.

The Santa Fe switch engine
started for Rincon in an unusual
manner Wednesday night at S:45.
The crew had left the engine
standing on the track and were
eating supper, when the throttle
in some manner Jared open or
leaked enough to start the engine
down the track all alone, and
when the crow had finished eat
ing the engine was not in sight.
The engine from the Silver
City train was cut loose and
sent after the runaway, which it
overlook some five or six miles
out, putting serenely onward
without a light showing, and
towed the wauderer back to
town.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1907-05-03

The new council goes in next
Monday.
Mr.. Groves, the popular rail
road man, is on the sick list.
Mr.. V. Rector will leave in a
short time on a protracted stay
in Los Angeles.
Darr & Tackett went cut to
Columbus on q business trip
Wednesday.
The interior of the Deming
National bank is undergoing
some nice repairs.
Don't you know we can do
your laundry dry work better
than any one, and it won't cost
much.
DEMING STEAM LAUNDRY.
Thos. Hudson left Thursday
for Los Angeles Cal, to take in
the Shriners' meeting.
Mr.. w. 7. Russell left yester-
day for San Angelo and other
parts of Texas on prospecting
trip.
Mr.. II. II. Kidder left Wednes-
day last for Douglas, Arizona,
where he will make his future
home.
If you want to look proper"
have the Deming Steam Laundry
do your laundry work.
Misses Browning and Lewis
gave q very pleasant social dance
at Clark's opera house Wednes-
day night.
Miss Minnie Lewis and Miss
May Browning will leave this
week for FL Paso, where they go
to attend the carnival at Jaurez,
Mexico.
With the purest Of water the
finest of climate and the richest
of soil, why shouldn't Demina
and the famous Mimbres Valley
come to the front?
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1907-05-03

We understand Mr.. Simmon,
the tailor, had a small fire in his
shop last Friday, caused by the
wind blowing the flame Of his
gasoline stove to some clothing
hanging near by. Not very much
damage was done and we are
glad to say that Mr., Simmon was
insured in the Continental In
surance company. The Cont
mental is one of four companies
that paid every cent of their loss
in San Francisco, amounting to
over a million dollars. Property
holders will do we'll to see the
agent and insure their be-
longings in this reliable COM
pany.
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RAISED NED
GENERALLY
Unknown Parties Made Raid
on Settler.

Last Friday night about mid
night a gang Of horsemen, whose
identity is still unknown, made q
wild, old Indian style raid on n
lone settler who was camped in
a tent on his claim FIVE miles
south Of town. The party was
in sunderland at the time and
was rudely wakened by having
his tent jerked off him, which had
been lassoed, and his store Of
provisions scattered TO the four
winds.
The entire neighborhood in
that part Of the valley was dis
turbed and intimidated. Shots
were fred, which scared horses
and made them break loose and
wildly run from the outbreak.
The antics Of these would-be
bad men was an outrage on the
community, ara our officers are
making every effort in their
power to apprehend them.
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The county Jail has many vis-
itors now.
We understand the Methodist
church will soon be reftted up
with handsome new seats.
10y Carr, who has been work
ing for the Crescent Lumber
Co. for a short time, left We'd
nesday for Oklahoma City.
The base ball boys promise tc
give US some games in a short
time, To play gilt-edged ball,
however, they ought to get out
and practice more.
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Fell Sixty Feet to his Death.

Artesia, n, NJ, April %. This
morning while working on top
of the new water tower in
course Of erection here, Phillip
SCHOLAR, aged Is years, 4 ma
chinist of Sioux Rapids, Iowa,
lost his balance and fell a dis
tlnce Of 60 feet to the ground.
Every bone in his body was
broken and death was instan-
taneous. The fearful accident
was witnessed by q number Of
persons who We're gathered about
.le tower watching operations.