Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-05-18
A CYCLOPEDIA STORY.
Pathetic Scene Witnessed Upon
the Delivery of Volume z.

l'VSu neSC QOOr TO In6 dOD-cG
place t'r goin' on thirty years, caIc'late
that 1 know jest about ez much about the
ca>e as any body else now on airth, except
in perhaps It's OF Jedge Baker, and he's so
plaSuey old md so powerful feeble that he
don't know nothin'.
1t seems that in the spring NV 47-the
year that Cy Watson's oldest boy wuZ
drowned in West river there come along a
book agent seliu' volyumes md tracks f'r
the diffusion Nv knowledge, md, havin' got
the recommend Of the minister md Nv the
selectmen, he done an alfred big busi-
ness in our part Nv the county. His name
wuz Lemuel Higgins, md nc wuz ez likely a
taiker ez l. ever heerd, barrn' Lawyer
Conkcy, md every body allowed that when
Conhcy wuz 'rOund he talked so fast that
the town pump I'd have to be creased every
twenty minutes.
One NV the first Nv our folks that this
Lemuel Higgins struck wuz Leander Ho-
bart. Leander had jest marr'd one Nv the
PeaSley girls, md had moved into the old
homestead on the Pluinville road-old Dea-
con Hobart havin' give up the place to him,
the other boys havin' moved out West (hkc
lot o. darned fools that they wuzD. Lee
ander .wuZ fccln' his oats Jest about this
time md nuthn' wuz too good f'r hlm.
Hattie" sez he, 81 guess I'll have to lay
in a few books FIR readin' in the winter
time, md I'vc half n notion to subscribe FIR
cyclopeedy. Mr.. Higgins here says they're
mvalerable in family, and that we orter
have 'em.n
WAL, to make a long story short, Lean
der bargalned with Mr.. Higgins for q set NV
them cyclOpeedieS, md he signed his name
TO long printed paper that showed how he
agreed to take IL cyclCDecdy oncet in so
often, which wuZ to be ez often ez.a new one
NV the volumes WuZ printed A cyclopeedy
isn't printed all at oncet because that would
make it cost too much; consistently the man
that gets it up has 1T strung along fur apart,
so as to hit folks 0ncct every year or two,
and gln'rGlly ABOUT harvest tune. SO Le-
audcr kind NV liked the idec, and he signed
the printed paper md made his afidiViG TO it
afCre Jed%a Warner.
The fust volyume Of the cyclopccdy stood
on Il shelf IN the old scckcrtary in the set
tinrOOm about four months before they
had any use FIR 1t. One night Squire
Turner's son come over to visit Lcandcr md
Hattie, and they got to talSin' about APP
pies, md the sort of apples that WIZ the
best. Leandcr allowed that the Rhode
Island greenin' wuz the best, but Hat
TIC and the Turner boy stuck up FIR the
ROXburY russct, until at last happy
idee struck Leander, and scz he: "We'll
leave it to the cyclopcody, b. gosh! Which
ever one the cyclOpccdy SCI is the best will
settle it,"
"But you can't find out nothin' bout Rox-
bury russets nor Rhode Island grecnln IN
our cyclopcedy," SCI Hattie.
"Why not, I'd like to knoW?" sez Leander,
kind Nv indignant like.
"Cuuse ours han't got down to the r
yet" sez Hattie. ''AI ours tells about is
things beGinnn' with A.
"WCll, amt we taikn' about apples2"
T.pn ufrCr ffr Ia
Hattie, by insiTtin' on liuowin' what you
don't know nothin' bout"
LcandCr went TO tho seCicriary md took
down The cycloncedy md hunted i,ll through
it FIR apples, but all he could find wuz cap
ple-Sce Pomology.n
''How in thunder kin l sec POmOlogy,"
seq Bcandcr, "WECn thCrc Gint POmOogy
to sec2 Col durn Il cyclopcCdy, auyhoww
And he put the volyUmH back onto the
shelf nd never got eyes into itagn.
'"rhat's the way The thing run f'r years
nd years Leaudcr would We gin up the
plagucy bargain, but lie couldn't; he had
signed printed paper md had sworc to il
aforc a justice Of the peace. Higgins
would have had tho law on him il he mad
throWCd up the trade.
Tho most aggcrvatin' feature NV il all
wu2 that u now one Of them cusscd CYCLIC
pcedics wuz ullus sure to show up at the
wrong time when Lcandcr wuz hard up or
had jost been afflicted some way or other.
Els barn burnt Uown two nights arOrc the
vo)yume Contuinin' the letter y arrived and
Lcandcr needed all his chnk to pay FIR
lumber, but Higgins sOt back on that am
davit and dcIicd the life out NV him.
"Ncvcr mind, Leandcr," seq his wife,
soothin' like, tits u good book TO have in
the house, anyhow, now that we've got "a
baby"
That's so," sez Lcandcr, "babies does
begin with T3, don't iJN'
You see their fust baby had bcon born;
they named / i'm Pcnslcy- TcIslcy hobart
after Hatto's folKs. Sc sccin a3 how IT
wuz pryn' f'r book that told about babies,
Loandcr didn't bcgrcdgo that five dollars
50 very much, after all.
"Le6nder,' scz Hattie one forenoon,
"thut i Cvnlopeedy ain't 10 account There