The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-19
COPYRIGHT, BY ELLIS PARKER
 BUTLER.


1 and then popped his head down again. By Jocks!' he exclaimed. It beat him. He lay still for a minute and then stole another glance at the little book agent. | Eliph Hewitt was unwrapping his sam
 pie copy There was no doubt about it.
 He was going to try to sell a dying man | a book!
 "Others may claim they have book like
 this" said Eiph' Hewlitt but they | haven't There ain't no other book like | it in the world If there was I wouldn't come up here and try to sell you a copy. | It wouldn't be worth my while, because | you wouldn't buy it. But as soon as l , heard you was dying l come right up. 1
 seen it was my duty. Here is this man, I says to myself, up there dying, and all alone by hisself, and liable to drop On any minute. and he hasn't got a copy of l this book t0 brighten his dying moments. | It ain't right l says. l oughtnt to go up
 and disturb him, l says, but I will, for | if I don't he'll never have another chance l to buy a copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia of | Knowledge and Compendium of Litera- | ture, Science and Art, and the man that
 hasn't owned a copy of this book can't die | happy
 The old man in the bed lifted his head
 slowly and stared at Eliph Hewitt with | open mouth. Then he laid his head on | the pillow but Immediately lifted it again
 and took another look. The book agent | beamed at him kindly through his spec l tacles. The old man dropped back on the 1 pillow
 | By Jocks!" he said dazedy.
 "The price. complete.' said Eliph' Hew- | lit Ifs five dollars, one dollar down | and one dollar month until paid. I sell
 most that way, but for them that don't
 expect to 1.-Two long enough to pay up by
 the month I make special price of four | fifty, cash. Some folks don't like to die
 off and leave debts for their folks to pay. | You get the very same book for four | fifty cash that you get for five dollars, easy payments. And I'll do more than that for you. Generally I just take .le | order and send 1t in to New York, caus- | ing a delay in delivery of from one to | two weeks, but if you are in a hurry I'll make an exception for you and deliver a copy out of the few have in my bug | gy. That will give time for you to look | 1t over and it will be right here to lay on the centre table. where It will look , nice, and help to amuse and instruct them , that come to the funeral. There Is noth- | ing looks better at a funeral than a high l class book like tnis on the centre table. By Jocks' raised his head slightly and l stole a glance at the book agent. He was greatly interested. For thirty years he l had been dying regularly about once a month, and people had begun to iose l faith in his dylngs, but here was man
 who took him as he should be taken. | There is nothing so pleasing to man | who makes 8 speciality of deathbeds as | to be taken in earnest.
 | q know this book" said Eliph' Hewitt, | opening it at the illuminated frontispiece l and running his hand lovingly over the | page, "and that's why I offer it to you. ! If I didn't know it so well wouldn't | come up here and disturb your last mo- | ments this way But I do know 1t, from l cover to cover, including all the ten thou sand and one subjects mentioned in the | classified index, and I know there ain { | any other book that is so creditable for a | man to leave behind him for his dear | ones to cherish after he is gone. If you | aint got any good book already laid away | for your dear ones to cherish I recom- mend this one. You can't get book