The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14
Copyright, 1907, by Ellis Parker
 Butler


fcopyright, 1907, by Ellis Parker Butler9 <<YF wanted that book I'd buy it.
 said Miss Hinckley, setting her
 l hard looking mouth firmly, and rd like to see any man say I shouldn't. I know very well that Mrs. Beem IS scared to death of her husband and I'm not surprised that she let him dictate to her whether she should buy it or not, but ain,t that way. I wasn't made president of inc Ladies Female Suffrage for Wom- en Society for no such reason as that. IL was because I know my rights ana nave pot sumption enough to stick up for them. men or no men. But I don't want that hook. and the reason is that l amt got fine to read it. My official duties takes all my time."
 "I should think they would" said Eliph' Hewitt with a sympathetic little cough. oGetting the right to vote for ladies is a big job. It takes lots of work and lots Of time just like it did to get up this Iarhv,s Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art on which the greatest minds or the known world worked twenty years, but 1t Is worth it, containing. as 1t does, everything from A to z, indexed and classified. Price only s5, $1 down and s1 a month until paid
 "Mebby 1t does and mebby 1t doesn't, said Miss Hinckley, though don't blame you for praislng up what you've got to sell. But 1t hasn't got anything to do with getting votes for women, ana don't want 1t.
 lev calmly in the face through his spec tacles.
 "You would be surprised, wouldn't you, if was to tell you that the day lett New York a committee of the Anti-fe- male Suffrage Society came to me ana begged me to give up selling this grand book? Yes'm. 'Eliph' Hewlett they said' .ain't YOU a man and a brother? Aint ,t for inc good of us men to stand to- rether and keep the ladies in the kitchen, where they belong? Please sell something else. but if you will sell this grand work In one volume, published by Jarby & Goss, don't, we beg of you, sell 1t to ladies! We ask it as special favor, for with this superb volume in their hands thev would have the whole wisdom of the known world in handy form for instant reference and would be not only our eouals. which they are already, but our superiors At that" said Eliph' Hew- litt T shook my head. Gents, l said, T must and will sell this volume, neatly hound in cloth, with a frontispiece In tbre, colors, to the ladies of this coun- try To sell 1t to the men l do not care but in my humble way selling this hook to the ladies is my lifework. If, gents said, you had been pirate, as I have, you would want the ladies to vote. and to bring their refining in- fuences into use and to circulate from poll to poll, making elections as polite and elegant as a pink tea party
 .sThem sentiments did you credit said Miss Hinckley.
 "Yes'm," admitted Eliph' Hewitt but. I only spoke what I believed. Gents, l said. If you had been a pirate on the toss ing seas as I have, and if you had seen the way things was run on that nitrate ship before and after ladies took a hand in running it, you would look at the votes- or-ladies business in diff ferent way from what you do. You could not help it. And you would see, as l do, that the only thing needed is to hand each and every female one copy of Jarbys F,ncycopedia of Knowledge and Com nendium of Literature. Science and Art lto make the world garden of Joy
 -rhem was strong words to use to men as dead set against us voting as them men was" said Miss Hlnckiey.
 ..I felt it my duty to speak up strong, said r,iph' Hewitt. hoping thereby to win them from error. done my outy ss seen it. and as I've done 1t ever since ras converted by what I seen on the rood ship Flying Hen- l use the words