He never wrote anything but editorials on paper; other matter he composed in type as he went along.
It saved time.

Now he laid his "stick" on the case and turned to Eliph'.
"My name is Hewlitt, Eliph' Hewlitt," said the book agent, "agent for Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art,' published by Jarby & Goss, New York; price five dollars, neatly bound in cloth, one dollar down, and one dollar a month until paid." As the editor was about to speak, Eliph' raised his hand.
"I don't want to sell you one!" he exclaimed.

"We are members of the same craft, and I never canvass publishers, except to offer them a chance to buy this book at a very liberal discount offered by our firm to the fellow members of the great craft, a discount of forty percent, bringing the cost of the book, complete in every respect and exactly like those sold regularly for five dollars, down to the phenomenally low cost of three dollars.

At this price no publisher can afford to be without a copy, containing, as it does, all the matter usually found in the most complete and expensive encyclopedias, and much more, all condensed into one volume for ready reference.

It saves times and money." T.J.shook his head, not unkindly, but positively, and was about to turn to his case again, but Eliph' held out his hand.
"I merely mentioned it," he said, with a smile.