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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16

man with gold eyeglasses. who
smelled OF some curious sickish-sweet
perfume. came and took him by the
hand and led him into q room where
his father lay In bed. very gray and
quiet.
The white hand on the coverlet
had beokoned TO him and he had gone
close up to the bed. standing very
straight. his heart beating fast and
hard.
john" the word had been almost
a whisper, very tense and anxious.
very distinct. John. you're a little
boy. and father is going away"
Toto Wishing. House,
The gray lips had smiled then. ever
so little, and sadly. mo. John"
Take me with you, fatherl Take
me with you!"
His voice had trembled then. and he
had had to gulp hard.
Listen. John. for what I am say
Ing Is very important. You don't
know what | mean now. but some
time you will" The whisper had
grown strained and frayed. but II was
still distinct. Il can't go 10 the Never.
Never Land. But you may sometime.
II you II you do. and II you
find Westinghouse. remember that
the men who lived In II be-
fore you aud me were gen.
tlemen. Whatever else they were.
they we're always that. Be .
like them. John. . will your"
Yes. father"
The old gentleman with the eye
glasses had come forward then. hasti.
ly.
Goodnight, father"
He had wanted to kiss him. but .
strange cool hush had settled on the
room and his father seemed all at
once TO have fallen asleep. And he
had gone out, 30 carefully. on tiptos,
wondering. and suddenly afraid.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16
CHAPTER ~.
The Turn Of the PAGE.

John Valiant stirred and laughed. q
little self.consciously. for there had
been drops on his face.
Presently he took n ~check.book from
his pocket and began to figure on the
stub. looking UP with O wry smile. ITO
come down to brass tacks." he NUT.
tered. when I've settled everything
(thank heaven. ! don't WI my tailorD
there will be a little matter OF twenty.
eight hundred odd dollars. a passe mo.
tor and my clothes between me and
the bread-line!"
Everything else no had disposed Of
everything but the f~ourfooted CON-
rade there at his feet. But I'd not
sell you, old chap" he said. softly:
mot a single lick OF your friendly
pink tongue; not for q beastly hun.
dred thousand"
He withdrew his caressing hand and
looked again at the ~check.stub. TWEEN
ty.eight hundred! He laughed bleakly.
Why. he had spent more than that a
month ago on a ball at Sherry's! This
morning he had been rich: tonight he
was poor!
What could hs do? He could not
remember a time when he had not had
all that he wanted. He had never Dor
rowed from a friend or been dunned
by an importunate tradesman. And
he had tried to earn a dollar in
his life; as to current methods Of max.
Ing a living, he was as ignorant as q
Pueblo Indian.
lie rose grimly and dragged his
chair facing the window. The night
was balmy and he looked down across
tho darker sea OF reefs. barred like a
gigantic checker-board by the shining
lines OF streets, 10 where the flashing
electric signs OF the theater district
laid their wide swath OF colored ra.
dance. The manifold calls Of the
street and the buzz OF trolleys made a
dull tonal background. subdued and
faraway.
,rn M rnNvTNyrEnN
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16
DID NOT IMPRESS LANDLORD
i~nnkeeper Could Serve Excellent
Luncheon, But Evidently Was
Not Of Literary Mind.

They are telling In Westchester n
story about Richard Harding Davis
and Governor Morris.
These two writer's. II appears. were
motoring the other day. and stopped
at an inn for luncheon. The luncheon
was excellent. and after II was over
Mr.. Davis went out to look over the
car. leaving Mr.. Morris alone. Mr.
Morris. In good spirits from his fine
meal. said gcnially to the landlord:
Landlord. you1l be interested, per
haps, to know that my companion 10
MIR. Richard Harding Davis"
The landlord tried his best TO look
impressed and interested.
you don't say" he remarked. "And
what business might he be Int"
A few minutes later Mr.. Morris tool
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16
MAN THEY WERE LOOKING FOR
Eager for the Delights Of the
Moving Picture Theater.

Going INF" queried the small boy
excitedly.
His question was put to the elderly
pedestrian. Behind the boy came
other boys. all peering eagerly into
the pedestrians puzzled face.
They hung TO his footsteps until he
found himself. a little further on. In
the midst OF n numerous crowd OF
youngsters. Each boy clamored for
the pedestrian to accept a f%ive-cent
piece.
What is all this?" demanded the
pedestrian sharply.
I'VE are too young TO 90 In alone"
volunteered a ready spokesman. III
you will buy our tickets for us We can
go In with you"
Then came u sudden light and the
old man smiled broadly. He went to
the ticket window OF an adjacent
moving picture theater. where he
paused 10 count faces.
Mine tickets" he said.
There is a law against children"
objected the ticket man. Are those
little people with your"
They are" declared the old man.
Come on, boys-going in?"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16

symmetrical. exQulsitely perfect. The
little group with whom she sat looked
somewhat out OF place In that mixed
assemblage. Smartly groomed and
palpably members OF a set to whom
John Valiant was a familiar. they had
had only friendly mods and smiles for
the young man at whom 80 many there
had gazed with jaundiced eyes.
To tho general public which read It's
daily newspaper perhaps none OF the
gllded set vas better known than
Vanity Valiant" The new Panhard
he drove was the smartest car on the
avenue. and the collar on the white
bulldog that pranced or dozed on It's
leather eat sported a diamond buckle.
To the spacewriters OF the social col.
umns. he had been a perennial inspira.
ton. The patterns OF his waistcoats.
and the splendors OF his latest bache.
lors' dinner at Shervy's-with such
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16
Natures Adjustment.

In the case OF all nsh which take
care OF their young. a curious adapta-
ton OF natural law to circumstances
Ia found. Those which take the great.
est pains and care In s~heltering their
offspring have the fewest eggs, per.
haps less than n hundred Mt a lay,
while on the other hand. species OF
nsh which pay not the slightest atten.
ton to their young produce hundreds
of thousands. and even millions o,
eggs. at q single lay.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16
CHAPTER I.
The Crash.

" SFatW.
Failed" calculated John Valiant
blankly. and the hat he held dropped
TO the claret.colored rug like a huge
white splotch OF sudden fright. The
Corporation-failed!"
The young man was the glass OF
fashion, from the sllken ribbon on the
spotless Panama to his pearl.gray gait.
ers, and well favored-a 1.-the stalwart
figure. with wide-set hazel eyes and
strong brown hair waving back from
a candid forehead.
Never had his %innocuous and but.
ter'iiy existence known q surprise
more startling. He had swung into
h room with all the n%onchalant hab.
its. the ingrained gertrude OF the man
born with achievement ready.made In
his hands. And n single curt state
ment-like the ruthless blades OF a
pair OF shears-had shipped across
h n splendid scarlet thread In the
woof that constituted life as ho knew
II. He had knotted his lavender scarf
that morning a vice.president Of the
Valiant Corporation-one OF the great.
~ esN sASoN NbNStbnAbA va AOaS "
day organizations: he sat now In the
fading afternoon trying to realize that
the huge fabric. without warning. had
toppled to It's fall.
How solid and changeless II had
always s~eemed-that great business
fabric woven by the father he could
90 dimly remember! His w invested
fortune had been derived from the
great corporation the elder Valiant
had founded and controlled until his
death. With almost unprecedented
earnings. II had stood as a very Glib
raltar OF finance. q type and sign of
brilliant organization. Now. on the
heels OF q trusts dissolution which
would be q nine-days' wonder. the vast
structure had crumbled up like a card
board. The rains had descended and
the foods had come. and It had fallen!
The nan at the desk had wheeled
In his revolving chair and was looking
at the trim athletic back blotting the
daylight, with q smile that was little
short OF a covert e He was one
o. the local managers OF the corpora
ton whose ruin was to be that days
sensation. a colorless man who had &C.
CURED middle age with his first Ions
trousers and had been dedicated to the
commercial treadmill before he had
bought a safety.razor. He despised all
ioiterers along the primrose paths. and
John Valiant was but a decorative fg
urehead.
Valiant started as the other spoke a,
mis- elbow. He had come to the win
dow and was looking down at the
pavement. How quickly some news
spreads!"
Fol the FIRST time the young man
noted that the street below was Hliing
with a desultory crowd. He distin'
su'shed a knot OF Italian laborers talk
tng with excited gesticulatlons - q
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16

his seat In the car. and Mr.. Davis
remained behind to settle the bill. A
he counted his change MIR. Davis In
his turn said to the landlord:
Landlord, my friend there 10 Gou.
Morris"
Again the landlord looked impressed
and puzzled.
"MorrisY Morris?" he said. Tho
name sounds familiar. Meat line, Amt
II, sir7"
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II Was HE Twenty-ffth Birthday.
items the public had been kept sum.
ciently familiar. To II, he stood a per-
feet symbol OF the elder ease and in
solent display OF inherited wealth.
And the great majority OF those who
had found place In that roomy cham.
Der to listen to the ugly tale Of squan.
dered millions. looked to him with a
resentment that was s%harpened by his
apparent nonchalance.
Long before the closing session II
had been clear that. az far al indict.
ton would be barren OF result. or
individual ~criminality. flight and sui.
eide had been confession, but more
sweeping charges could not be brought
home. The gilded fool had not brought
himself into the embarrassing purview
OF the law.
The jostiing crowd fiocked out into
the square. among them a fresh-faced
girl on the arm OF a grsy.bearded mar
In black frock coat and picturesque
broad-brimmed felt hat. She turned
her eyes to his.
80 that" she said. rs John Valiant!
I'd almost rather have missed Niagara
Fails. l must write Shirley cambridge
about II. I'm so sorry I lost that
picture of him that l cut out OF the
paper"
Il reckon he's not such a bad lot"
said her uncle. He hailed a cab.
Grand Central Station" he directed.
with a glance at his watch. "and be
quick about It. We've just time to
make our train"
Some hours later. In an inner office
OF a downtown sky.scraper. the newly.
appointed receiver of the Valiant Cor.
poration. n heavy, thick.set man with
narrow eyes, sat beside a table on
which lay c small black satchel with
a paddock on It's handle. whose con.
tents-several bundles OF crisp papers
he had been turning over In his
heavy hands with q look OF incredu
lous amazement. A sheet containing
n mass OF figures and memoranda lay
among them.
The shock was still on his face when
q knock came at the door. and n man
haired. slightly stopped and lean.
jowied. with a humorous expression on
his lips. lie glanced In surprise at
the Uttered table.
Fargo" said the man at the desk.
do you notice anything queer about
me?"
His friend grinned. mo. Buck" no
said judicially. unless It's that neck.
tie. II would stop a Dutch clock"
Hang the haberda shery! Read this
from young Valiant" He passed
over a letter.
Fargo read. He looked up "Securi.
ties a~ggregating three millions!" he
said in a hushed voice. why, unless
rye been misinformed. that represents
practically all his private fortune"
The other nodded. Turned over TO
the corporation with his resignation as
q vice'president. and without a blessed
strins tied TO 'eml What do you think
OF THAR"
Think It's the most absurdly
ldiotic thing ever met. Two weeks
ago. before the investigation .
but now. when It's perfectly certain
they can bring nothing home to him"
He paused. "of course l suppose tn
save the corporation. eh7 But II may
be ten years before It's securities pay
' dividends. And this Ia real money.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16
SITE Very Good Living Abroad.
There's q Boat Leaving Tomorrow"

tneToo q ooet 6esN'HH toUoTFoW'
smudged plasterer. tools in hand
clerks. some katless and with thin
alpaca coats-all peering at the voice
less front OF the great building. and
all. he imagined. with a thriving fear
In their faces. As he watched. a won.
an. coarsely dressed. ran across the
street. her handkerchief pressed to her
eyes.
The notice has gone up on the
door," said the manager. Il sent word
20 the police. Crowds are ugly some.
times"
Valiant drew n sudden sharp breath.
The corporation down In the mire.
with crowds at It's doors ready to
clamor for money entrusted to Il. the
aggregate savings OF widow and or
phai the piteous boarded sums earned
by labor over which pinched sickly
faces had burned the midnight oil!
The older nan had turned back to
the desk to draw a narrow typewrit-
ten slip OF paper from a pigeonhole.
Here" he said. lis a list OF the bonds
OF the subsidiary companies recorded
IN your name. These are all. OF
course. engulfed In the larger failure.
You have. however. your private for
<uns II you take my advice. by the
way" he added significantly. you'll
make sure OF keeping that"
What do you meanY" John Va
liant faced him quickly.
The other laughed shortly. "a word
70 the wise.'" he quoted IT'S very
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16
CHAPTER n.
Vanity Valiant.


"The witness Is excused"
In the ripple that stirred across the
court Don at the examiners abrupt
conclusion. John Valiant. who had
withstood that pitiless hail OF ques.
lions. rose. bowed to him and slowly
crossed the cleared space to his coun-
sci. The chairman looked severely
over his eyeglasses. with his gavel
lifted. and q statuesque girl. In the
rear OF the room. laid her d~elicately
gloved hand on a companions and
smiled slowly Without Withdrawing her
gaze. and with the fElntest tint OF col.
or In her face.
Katharine Fargo neither smiled nor
flushed readily. Her smile was an in.
dex OF her whole personality. lsnguid,
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-16

It's easy TO be happy; all you have
10 do Is be foolish.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-28

We paused at the corner of Clark
and Randolph streets, for we were
both tired of walking up and down.
For a few moments we talked in a
desultory manner, as we stood out
of the way against a building, and
then a voice from close by said:
Keep moving. This is busy cor
ner."
l gripped Annie's arm and felt it
trembling and l knew the whole
strong woman's soul of her was in
rebellion, but l drew her onward, as
l said:
1.-The majesty of the law
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-28
UNEMPLOYED TO USE CHURCHES
TO SLEEP IN

New York, Feb. 25.-Eight hun
dred unemployed men, meeting in
Rutgers Square this afternoon, voted
hereafter to take possession of diff
ferent church each night as sleeping
quarters. Were tired of sleeping
out of doors in cold weather." they
said. Hereafter well choose differ
ent churches every night to sleep in"
The plan goes into operation tonight.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-28

these men to blame everything on
the police" said Blake. "They know
they always get publicity with it
without being called to account for
their statements. l believe the po-
lice right now are accomplishing a
great deal"
Blake also takes exception to the
statement of Thrasher that there
can be no segregated district with
out graft.
Eugene j. Burlington, president of
the Illinois Steel Company, and one
of the supporters of the Committee
of Fifteen, has been summoned by
States Attorney Hoyne to explain
how $64,235 in taxes assessed
against the corporation were lost to
the county. =
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-28

SITOuS WOludu > SOul VI uST. WAS Ill
rebellion, but l drew her onward, as
1 said:
"The majesty of the law
THE WAR OF REFoRMERS is
STILL oNIN OUR MIDST
William NJ. Blake, superintendent
of the Business Mems Morals Com
mittee, is still firing into the camp
of the other faction of reformers.
For nearly month now Chicago
has been treated to war of reform
ers. On one side stands the Commit
tee of Fifteen, headed by Clifford
Barnes and Samuel P. Thrasher and
exploited by several millionaires, and
on the other stands the mysterious
Mr.. Blake.
Thrasher and Barnes claim that
Blake is the agent Of the vice ring
which hopes to restore the old red
light district. On the other hand
Blake accuses the committee of be-
ing insincere, a charge that is some
what strengthened by the list of
names of the members of the COM
mittee.
1t was Blake who shocked the COM
mittee by producing the goods to
show that while A. Stamford White,
the millionaire, was posing on the
committee as lover of civic reform,
he was drawing 5000 month rent
for shack rented for immoral pur-
poses.
Blake now comes to bat with an
ardent defense of the police and takes
exception to recent remarks credited
to Samuel P. Thrasher and Graham
Taylor in which they roasted the
Chicago Police Department.
It's an old and cheap game Of
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-28
MAcHINIsTs DANCE TONIGHT

One of the most important dances
of the season given by labor body
will be that given by the Consolidated
Machinists of District No. 13 at Vor-
waerts' Turner Hall, 2431 w. 18th
street, near Western avenue, tonight.
The proceeds will go to the strik-
ing employees of the Goodman Manu-
featuring Company, where a strike
has been on for several months. Many
prominent labor men have promised
their aid in making the strike sue
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-28

Year-around coasting in the Alps is
now practicable, and summer bob
sled, with pneumatic-tired wheels in
place of runners, is said to give much
of the exhilaration of the winter
sport, and with less of its discomfort.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-04-12

NEW ORLEANS, AprH N" ATE v
ments on exceptions TO 1876 SUITS &c
manding damages in the aggregate ol
stsO 600. 900, filed by various LoulS'-
aaa suar interests aainst tho Amer
ican Sugar Refining company anu
racl,son Witherspoon, local manager
~ the company. were heard In the
United states district court TO-DAY ana
the case was taken under adylsemeh''
Ths sugar company and Mr. Withei-
spoon are attacked in the SUITS w,lc., ,i'.,
are Identical with suits Tor ''o''"'"
Of The sherman law
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-04-12
ARREST ALLEGED BANDITS
Iloid Three Men on Charge of Try
inc to Hold Up Cotton Beit
Passenger Train.

ZINE BLUFF. Ark, April Ii
SpeclaI officers Of the Cotton Belt
railroad today arrested two white men
and a negro who the officers believe
attempted tc hold up Cotton Bet
passenger train In the yards east of
pIne Pluff early yesterday morning.
The men are Is. J. Wallace and James
Dalton. white. and George Eldrldge'
negro Wallace and Eldrilge live In
Pine Bluff Dalton recently was dis-
charged from the navy.
OFFICERS say the men have been
Identified bv the traiumen who eN-
rhsneed shots with the trio that at
tempted to board the train. The men
are charged with obstructing railroad
rossaec Officers say two OF the men
confessed attempting to board tht
troiu but maintain that they sough'
oru, TO beat their way to Helena.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-04-12

M'ALESTER, April ll.-tSpeclal
The republicans of Pittsburg eouh-
ty are going to ask oT nomination
for state office of the preferentif'
state convention to be held in Okla
homa city next Tuesday II Is tha'
Of state mine inspector. Pat w. MAJ
low of Anderson, superintendent OF the
pocl, island Coal s. Mining COM
nanv,s properties there is the candi-
date The republican county cohNe",
ton Saturday afternoon lhoorseu
Malloy's candidacy and Instructed
their twenty delegates to work TOT
the state conventions Endorsement
Todays convention also decided upon
+, preferential county convention t'
he held some time in June TO nom''
nate a county ticket.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-04-12
Different IDEAS Then
v il~on once Wrote That Broken
Platforms Meant Broken
Power.

WNSmNGTON Apnl ~ The
yicws of Thomas Woodrow Wilson ou
the structure of the American govern
mcnt. as expressed in a magazine an
ucle published in 1879. were presented
TO the house today by Representative
Johnson Of Washington who explained
that the writer was the present presi-
dent Of the United states.
Thomas ". Wilson" said the sena-
tor. referring TO the magazine article.
"says that congress is a deliberate
body iu which there is little deh5era-
tlor and a legislature which legislates
with little real discussion lite says
that under the cabinet form of govern
mont. platforms mean something. ano
that broken promises Will end ih
broken power"
"Nho Is this Thomas W Wilson
progressive Leader Murdoch inter
ruptcd to ask.
ate is Woodrow Wilson. the presi-
dent. who is leading ON this gradual
overthrow of representative govern
ment johnson replied.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-04-12
ABE RUFF ELIGIBLE
FOR A PARADE NOW
.1OIKT ICISlO\ NAY OPf\ IliE
DOORS OI' THE PENilI\-
~ NIiN FOR liiM.
Inou- in Rrhalr ot Convicted Poltl-
icaI Boss Win Result IN M,
Release.

SAN FRANCISCO, APE n by a
decision today ui ia, state supreme
court. Abraham Ruef former political
boss OF san Francisco, who rs serving
fourteen yours tor bribery becomes ell
giblo ior immediate parole. The de-
cis.ou. however, although making II
mandatory that his application De-
considered bs the state board Of prl0-
ON directors. u mo- way directs thcm
to grant d.
4 persistent campaign i'm behalf Of
Ruof ha, brru vaecd by Fremont Oh
der Managing editor of the san
Francisco Bullcun, who was one oI
the foremost among those to expose
/ Rrof ana press his conWcuoncml"
Ruef and press his proseeAp9A, Al.
! though only one OF the many indicted
i'm connection with graft In san Fran-
ci4ro Huef alone was convicted ana II
since has been argued in his behalf
! tbaI. To keep hm In Jail while Bis al
legged associates walk free Is AN i'm
! Justice.
Since the aw establishing parole.
went into erect, the board OF prlsoI
directors has ruled that no appica
zion would be considered by II uhu
the appNcaut has served at least haO
of his net term The court held TO
day that this regulation Is In Violation
az the statute and that any prison'
becomes eligible to apply for parop
after ne has served one year ltu'
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-04-12

SHAWNEE. April ll-The Fol''-
uotomie county republican cohN'h-
.,ion today unanimously and cntm3-
iastically endorsed Mayor FrahN -
Stearns of shawnee for the republican
nomination for governor and adopted
s. resolution that his name be present
cd before the Oklahoma city conVeh-
tion. Mr.. Stearns had already been
endorsed by the progressive county
convention for governor.
He is now serving his third term as
MAYOR Of Shawnee which Is norma'Iy
about five hundred democratic.