The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26
COPYRIGHT, BY ELLIS PARKER
 BUTLER.


1 sand and one subjects, dealing with every
 thing known to man from the beginning 1 of the world to the present day, includ- l ing matters of current interest. as well
 as history, philosophy, psychology, sci l ence and art, and an appendix of the 1 political condition of the world brought
 down to date and illustrated with photo
 graphs, taken on the spot, wherever the | spot was 1t is cheap at 80, bound in cloth.
 It is a complete epitome of the universe, 1 dealing with the knowledge of all the 1 kingdoms-mineral, vegetable, animal and
 others-all condensed for ready reference.
 It lays the worlds knowledge at the feet
 of one and all, at the low price of $l down and $i month, until paid. Three l cents day does it..
 That was just what l thought" said
 s. Potts q can't use it. It wouldn't do
 me no good. know all that Is In it
 already. It don't offer me nothin' new.
 Nothin in it but the knowledge of man | and the information of the ages an the
 wisdom of the universe. That don't help
 me none. I've got all that already. A l book like that would be nothin but a I drawback to me. The trouble with me is | know too much now. It cramps me to
 hold it. Don't it, Daniel?"
 l Yep" said Daniel.
 1 That's what's the matter with s. | Potts." said the hostler. "Too much l knowledge. 1 try to fight it down. but 1 1t aint no use. It just natchelly comes l to me. It keeps me awake nights and l robs me of my proper rest, and I git up | fin the mornin' all wore out and bore down with it. If 1t wasn't for Daniel | here I guess I'd go crazy with it. | git so full of knowledge over night that l I'd just bust if l couldn't let some of it | out. I've give Daniel free of cost in the 1 last ten years enough knowledge and in- | formation to make sixty books the size of
 that 'Encyclopedium and Compen dian
 of yourn. Just handed 1t out to him, and I was glad to git rid of It. Amt that so, l Daniel?"
 That's so" said Daniel, and Pm obliged t ye, S. Potts."
 | Well, ye needn't be-" said S. Potts. You was don me a kindness to help me ! git 1t off my mind. Sometimes l git Sd | chock full of wisdom of one sort and an- | other 1t just takes my appetite away
 and gives me a pain in my back. It's
 an awful load to carry. but seems like
 cant git rid of it. It would make ye | cry, book agent, to see me layln in bed 1 of nights moanin' over all that lSnowl- | edge that won't stay out of my head, | and me not able to use 1t the way it l ought to be used. Sometimes I fairly | bawl like baby to think how mean 1t 1 Is that l should be tied down here to 1 this here livery and feed stable, and the
 whole world goin' to regular racky ruin 1 just for lack of what is in my head l It's an awful strain on a man" | This book said Eliph' Hewlett. 'is l so arranged that it aids those already possessed of knowledge to make use of ] 1t to the best advantage. The various l table-arithmetcal. geometrical, astro-
 nomical geographical. ct cetery-is ar
 ranged for that very purpose. It teaches them that needs teaching, and 1t helps | them that already knows"
 l That's all right for a man that needs | that kind of help" said s. Potts "That's s l all right for Daniel here. No amount of ] knowledge would hurt him a bit You l could give him all the knowledge in the l world, and then he wouldn't know any l thing to speak of. He's built that way. l but I aint The things I've told Daniel would have made an ordinary man fit to l be President of this here country or pro- 1 lessor of college, and yIt there he sits. l just as stopped as ever l bet he couldn' { | tell you now what Roosevelt ought to do 1 to straighten out the trusts and yit I've
 told him ten times. if I've told him once. Sometimes I git most discouraged with Daniel Don't I, Daniel?'
 "Yep!' said Daniel. Sometimes it | looks like it wasn't no use to waste talk ] on me, I'm so loose minded that way"