The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-17
Copyright, 1907, by Ellis Parker
 Butler
(copyright by Ellis Parker Butler.)

Copyright by Ellis Parker Butler.)
 GX YAW," said Gilthorp. the butcher UNI at Gallup's Junction, Iowa. T
 1 V don't want no books, and if did I wouldn't want that cyclopedy Of yourn with that there appendix of the Russian war printed in the simplified spelling. l see how Congressman HICKS from this district is agin that simplified spelling, and what is good enough Tor him is good enough for me-"
 Elph Hewitt, the little book agent, with the sandy gray whishers, laid his sample copy of Jarby's Encyclopedla or Knowledge and Compendium of Litera- ture, Science and Art on the counter and smiled at MT. Gilthorp kindly.
 sYes." he said. That's what Jarby said. of Jarby & Goss, publishers of this world renowned work, comprising useful information on one thousand ana one subjects. twenty thousand references III all, from A to z, including the lives or all the worlds great men from Adam to Roosevelt. price i've doilars, one uoliaI s, down and one dollar a month until paid. I said to him, Jarby use the simplliled! Make the spelling of the new edition simple enough for man or beast
 ..I wouldn't buy that book if you gave trading stamps with it" interrupted Mr. Gilthorp. decidedly, "so it's no use talk ing at mep' :,
 And I don't demand to sell you one" sail Eliph' Hewitt, gently. "I didn't expect to- That was what Jaroy told me in his very office in New York. q .Hewlitt, he says to me, IT l print the Cyclopedia in simplihed you can't sell Gilthorp Gallups Junction leading butch CT. I would do it For you if would do 1. for any one, and for your sake l
 .ar1, f1nxu a q complete list of the three hundred words as bobtailed by the manicures of the En- glis.. language, but that is all that l will do What he says, is the knowledge or a bunch of professors and one President when compared with the combined intel lects of the gentlemen in Congress as- sembled? How can you compare the wis., dom of William James, mere professor at Harvard, with the deep knowledge of the English language possessed by Tim othy O'Toole, Congressman from the good old Bowery in New York? It Is not Mir. Roosevelt that is the true friend of the English language" he says. It is Orlan- do Hicks of the Ninety ty-seventh Con- eressional district of Iowa. So long as run this Encyclopedia says he, it shall not look as if a spotted COW had walked across it's pages and bit pieces out of the words. This is not going to be any moth eaten book
 That's right! said MT Glltnorp. T don't give no short weight when I sell meat. and I don't want no short weight lel I buy words"
 "Them was my very words to Jarby," said EIiph Hewitt blandly. Jarby,' sa.s. I know folks don't want short weight when they buy words, but it don't hurt none to cut the suet off from a roast of beef, does it.? 'No.' he says. not when it's done by butcher but don't call what these sfolks are doing to inc English butcherin3it. like good. clean job of butchering as well as the nexc man does,' he says, but look at that word thru. don't call that butch ery.' he says; call it mangling. It looks worse than chicken with its toes froze off. If I was over in France and one of them frogeaters handed me that word on plate I wouldn't know whether if was a Chinese puzzle or an insult. rhat word would look all right in the yye;sn language he says, where all the words look ike ragout of alphabet, but tAaare l " 1uld let that word circulats