week's TIMES. He ran his
eye over the columns, and stopped at the advertisement of Skinner, the
butcher.

"I was thinking of something about twice the size of this," he
suggested.

T. J. smiled and mentioned his rate for the space. It was not much, and
Eliph' nodded.

"Every week, until forbid," he said, "and I guess I'd better subscribe.
I am going to live right her in Kilo right along now, and the man that
don't take his home paper never knows what is going on."

T. J. was pleased. He was more pleased when Eliph' pulled a long purse
from his pocket, and paid for one insertion of the advertisement and for
the subscription. The editor pulled a pad of paper toward himself,
and wrote hastily, while Eliph' briefly mentioned facts. When the next
number of the TIMES appeared there was a well-displayed advertisement of
Jarby's Encyclopedia, with Eliph' Hewlitt mentioned as agent, but more
important to Eliph' was the "local item" that stood at the very top of
the local column.

"We are glad to announce that Kilo has secured as a citizen Eliph'
Hewlitt, a man whose work in behalf of good literature entitles him to
the highest praise. Mr. Hewlitt, who intends to make his home with
us permanently, is representative of the celebrated work, Jarby's
Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art,
published by Jarby & Goss, Greater New York, and his travels in behalf
of that work have taken him to all parts of the nation. To have a man
of such extensive travel decide to make Kilo his home is an honor.
Mr. Hewlitt says that in all his travels he never found a town more
up-to-date and progressive for its size than our own little burg. We
heartily welcome him to our midst.

"We have it on good authority that Mr. Hewlitt is a man of considerable
means, amassed in carrying on his work as a disseminator of literature,
and that he intends, in the near future, to purchase a home here. He
will probably buy a lot, and erect a dwelling that will be a credit
to him and to our little burg. At present he is stopping with Doctor
Weaver, the leading physician of our little burg.

"We learn that our new citizen has followed a habit universally adopted
by many authors, theatrical artists, and others gifted in various ways,
and early adopted a NOM DE PLUME, choosing the name of Eliph' Hewlitt
because of its unassuming simplicity. His real name is Samuel Mills, and
he is the son of the late W. P. Mills, of Franklin, gif