The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-05


It was after supper. and the little
book agent with the sandy gray side
whiskers walked up te the house and
rang the bell. He had hesitated mo-
ment, fer he was not quite sure which
of the two houses the boy had pointed
out as the minister's house, but when
the door opened and he asked II Mr..
Smith was In he was told he was and
was shown into the parior. He removed
the otlcloth wrapper from his sample
copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia of knowl-
edge and Compendium of Literature,
Science and Art, and opened the book
at page 768-Texts, Biblical-The Art
of Pulpit Eloquence-Hints for Ser
mons. etc, and when Mr.. Smith entered
the room he began his talk at once.
Mr.. Smith," said Eliph' Hewitt, 81
have here book that cannot fail to
interest a man occupying your position
] have sold il TO ministers OF the gospel
from Maine to Mexico. No minister
can afford to be without It. Here on
page 7e8 we have Texts, Biblical-Hints
for Sermons
We'll, guess you got into the wrong
house." said the man. II guess you
was loolxin' for the other Smith; for the
minister. l amt no use for hints for
sermons in my line of business. I'm
Smith the iceman."
Et1Nn f1tWllLl COQEItS4 cOlti9 DCtlanN
his hand, and turned the page OF his
sample quickly.
Certainly" said Eliph' Hewitt.
Just as / was saying, Mr.. Smith. this
marvellous book contains between its
two covers information for minister or
iceman, without regard to which ne is.
One and all find aid and pleasure In its
Pages. For each there is something
especially adapted. Now here on page
265 we have the map of the polar re-
giOns surrounding the pole, the land of
eternal ice, showing the furthest north
reached up to date by man. woman or
child, with a red cross wherever a man
froze to death and blue dots wherever
one got frost bit. Here you see the
glaciers. solid rivers of ice off which
the icebergs crack, like leaves falling
from the trees, each iceberg big enough
to supply a town the size of this with
Ice for ten to twenty years
Mr.. Smith, the iceman, leaned over
and looked at the map closely and then
smiled.
Polar regions hey?" he said. 81
reckon all the book is just as accurate
as this here map is. amt it?''
"Just as accurate" said Eliph' Hew-
lit, promptly. No pains has been
spared to get it accurate. In all points
It is just as accurate as that map is
well" said Mr.. Smith, ''I don't want
IL. 1t may DO for some, but coulCnt
sell ice IN this town with scales that
took ten pounds one way or the other
for granted, and couldn't use no book
that guessed at things the way that
map does. Now. there you have got
the north pole, marked on the map;
amt that so? That round black spot
is IT, amt it?"
Yes" said Eiiph Hewitt, at ap-
pears to be-
He removed his spectacles and wiped
them and put them on again and looked
at the round black spot critically.
YES" said Mr.. Smith. scornfully.
there it is, and way down here, half
an inch south of II, is the farthest north
anybody has gone. There amt nobody
been within half an incn OF that pole.
nor ever see II, nor ever touched it, and
yet here Il is marked down on this
map, That shows how accurate this
book is. Nobody knows where that
north pole is or how 1t may have shift
ed around and yet you felIers go and
mark 1t on the map, Just TO make the
map look complete. II / was getting
up map like this I would wait until
somebody found out where the north
pole was, or whether there was one at
all, before / marked 1t on the map.
don't say I'm stuck on the north pole
myself o. care where it is, but If I buy
a book / want TO have faith I'm the
book, and not buy one where things is
jahbed into it regardless. Just so you