The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
|ELLPH HEWLETT AND
 HIS TAINTED MILLIONS.
l7ow With the Aid Of Unin'pressionabIe Mionair. EHph Hes0htt Withstood the Temptation Of Tainted
 Money and How His Single Heartedness Was Recorded.

Peter wtmble. did you say the name was?" asked Eliph' Hewitt. "Wimble. the millionaire? Amt his wealth tainted? I can't let myself take money from any of these millionaires that have the tainted kind of wealth, Mir Parsley. I know you mean well by recommending me to him, and know he would be eager and anxious to buy a copy of this book, but, ask, Is hts wealth tainted? And I say. if it Is 1t can't buy a copy of this book, not at no price. Not if he was John D.. himself, and was to offer me millions for it"
 The minister hesitated, and Eliph' Hewitt smiled and shook his head.
 No, sir he said, If he was John D and had all John D.'s money he couldn't buy it, and I wouldn't ask him. If he was to come to me on his knees and say: 'Eliph Hewitt, here is $250- oOO,OO0 intended to give away. but ask you to take 1t and sell me one copy of that book, without which no man can be sure he has all the knowledge in the world in one volume and which I consider cheap at the price you offer, I would speak to him kindly, but would say, No no, John D.. to you ] | will not sell it Tainted your money may be. or tainted it may not be. but Eliph Hewitt takes no chances. Go and get rid of your soiled millions some other way That is what I would say to him, MT. Parsley"
 You speak strongly" said the mild MT. Parsley.
 "Yes, sir" admitted Eliph Hewitt, "and so would you if you had been R tainted millionaire the way I was, and had had the experience l have had with money that was soiled in spots and getting too strong to keep. If you l had you wouldn't want to take any chances of getting any more of it. from l John D. or from Peter Wimble or from any one else. You wouldn't. want to trade a copy of Jarby's Encyclopaedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Lit erature. Science and Art n book that the best people are glad to get, for n lot of money that you couldn't get rid of even if you fumigated it first"
 But General Booth says that the use to which tainted money it put, If 1t is q good use, removes the tatnt, suggested MT. Parsley whose salary was often in arrears.
 | "So I take notice" said Eliph' Hew- litt. and If beefsteak gets too ripe I suppose it makes 1t fresh again II You make a present of 1t to Il widow with six children. l suppose II the widow had fourteen children 1t would make the beefsteak so fresh she would have to hang it up for a day or two until 1t got fit to eat
 "Rut some very worthy institutions accept money from-from men like Peter Wimble" said the minister "They accept it gladly,
 "The grab for it and holler TOT more" said Eliph' Hewitt. And when more don't come right away they oct in line and coax for it. All money 1 iooks alike to them and tastes alike Every one of them has some Kinu ol an education plant or other nhu 'heS make fertilizer of the strong smelling cash and spread 1t on the roots of their education plant. and don't care i whether the money was tainted or sainted SO long the plant Erows I wish there had been some of the same kind of willing accepters when was crowded to earth with my load of musty money. l would be young CT man today"
 You seem to have got rid of it. said the minister, with just the slight est. and not unkindly accent on the seem"
 yes sir" said Eliph Hewitt; "I qot rid of it. I built an oil factory and put all my soiled money into it | Any time you have tainted millions | and don't know how to get rid of then do that Put your money into an oil factory and it will not trouble you very long. John D. will have the money and the factory and the taint and the whole thing before you know the roO1 is on, and before you know he has it he will have passed 1t along to some education plant and will have hiI