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Show We Parable of the Olderiodical J .-KmSG' pltjmmer, m. d. &WalafloM periodica). When I Mfc clean llCvr and flCHU W' WfitoO &o pressroom of my big smSifoi'toff homo' 1 camo t0 you SWBiBlly---tliat's why I am i "periodical. I embrace iSBShi'niT from a senmveokly to WmmWat I cost from nothing to rte year and yon are not fzfmW& ltd i take me unless you want &jlmmWo But for pity's sako, as V2K?4 you do have mo around, NtM'DO or let mo go on to some fKr who would be glad to read iMK Hno within my covert;. ?s3Wc been lying on your tablo ttHHorc months. You have read Lffcinbcrs of your family have .Ktj mC over casually and have Bmc lowu because I was unm-Sitloe unm-Sitloe to them. Visitors como HntsBroor liome and. while they wait yUfWu to. come in they pick mo , Mhil to pass awav tho time. IBwfMFjplte of their Jack of interest ISwlat I l'av0 10 ot"ft'r 1 do con-'ift con-'ift imuch information upon sub-about sub-about which they ought, to bo ttrilKtt nosted: but somehow I don't Mfiil with everybody. I don't .-1Kr wiv- for iYy t0 do . 5Jj iKL Maybo it is because those imwsiix up my "innards" don't I tfHt ,j mnnv pictures in me as most J like" Perhaps it is because "JEfcjiol have nn attractive coyer E're! But T am doing the best fjE Mission. iiK'es I have a mission. Some-Kj'l Some-Kj'l have a patent inside or feUe es-eciallv fixed up for my ifKi readers l3ut I cost money .-.iP publishers must, get their .'At out of me at least bo thoy Isn't that a fair business iBEsyDbo only a little "Philis-"ora "Philis-"ora "Little .Tourney" that 'SKtsio vou "every little wliile," iMwl liavc a message for 3'ou if K trill only go after it. It's $Kre and it'eosts only a little ef- jBftrliaps I am tho Atlantic .'jKiihly, Scribuor's. Harper's, ""TRiirv, Youth's Companion. Col-B'for Col-B'for any one of the many su-or su-or and high-priced publications eome to you at stated intcr- iE. Or, it ma' be that I am a IfHfelittlo poultry or farm journal flEo cents tho vear. Whichever rfcy be, I am the best the prico uB make me and I come to vou THh my covers bulging with liv-pfc'.bnrnin liv-pfc'.bnrnin thoughts. My pages' K'fined with more or less of the jj 5011 J of each contributor. I rijHu part, of his life yos, I am 4 tjB go into some homes each month jfW have very peculiar owners. .fciHet tako me from ray wrapper riK'throw mo in a pile for future iKi'ileration. Sometimes many "jjmi&s elapse beforo ono of my iiHfiS is turned by the subscribor. ELHta bursting Tvith rav story, yet V)bc reaches out a "hand to see "Sfctlhavo to say. And eomo of 'BthiDR3 inside of me aro fresh B,oev a lid throb with life and 4ppinition, and ought to be read -IKcnco. But no, my owner says jBlasn't time for me just now Hm7 news grows stale and I sKff I have failed in my function (jjBr as he is concerned. 'wealthy Homes. 'R.KO erery month to tho homo of jWutla boy and girl who have lRtny. parents. I am tho Youth's SMppaijion. The boy usually eon-.Ba eon-.Ba to fjet me first, and if ho jfBMot i hero's a row and his sister JflMfK way to him just because he V ooy. Sometimes I laugh and Whnes 1 cry to seo the strange ilPwi ot cheso humans, when I JtB E man- who would bo glad IWUvo mo and not fight over me, !wien Mr. Spoiled Boy has had MkU: as he dare keep me and vfld being punished for his mean-tmmZ' mean-tmmZ' . surrenders mo with the IMfrcsion thoy all use, "Hero, JgWi your old paper: I'vo read all IKt to "1 t!'' Once in a while 's. a scrapper and thoro are tmmI -s securc ino and she JKrTw,U3 with a vengeance, and :1M? 1 am glad. And then when -mt pugnacious BiBter has read all K"ones and solved all of tho ro-JMlfial ro-JMlfial all tho puzzles, Uo they do with me? I holp 'Wn - H "ltchcn firol -rfcf??1! "!"- a tbort-story peri-BK, peri-BK, n d' ;v,1iIc a reat '"any tcad mL Sase of tho grcut voguo of wort 6tory, I am positive that Kw 4 maK others who would fflKfn V10, "vilege if they could. j d December day I. was MflnL a nnncr and talzeu away I iKnr ir O'nonntains to a mining t tml Pj,; eJ? ,rou' "10 on a bitr table I IK offlCe ainong a lot of busv I Kin t 6fli(l T. s tuo Place Kb?L 17,11 n.ever 150 rftad' Tm-WWxl Tm-WWxl I "urFBe when ono of the mKjg Picked mo up ar sottled Ktam. nt .qu,ct nour'H reading. KtW L y? ,iko a v5sIn from wer tvorldl Tho man who took Dto camp Jna boon 8way a EJ5TelliS moat of tho time & ,5!?5ore Christmas, and he had nt out for the last mail bo"-Hftrri bo"-Hftrri tl ic anows came. I over-K over-K l.: rx,bol3 oa-v. "This i8 about l, ,Bf timo wo will be in touch bV, rutsi(lc for flv or six K 1 eiro Tv1.1 yu b0-VS to tn,0 1 of tn,s magazine. And c In d i?V0 .road it i" -ho offico, ) . "I1 11 s pnsscd along to Krl- 1V? 1? tl10 bunk honso over Kt1 ' to those leasers." Do MJUDuerstand what they did with m& Mission Ends. K sent out with its poor little MSFib !i,n somc strugelinc firm to tell folks in a S !L honcst way, that It RSf t0T so11' something HE. ami i?ftcrlT co to tho wrong fira7i lllon 1 a" thrown into Km. PaPcr basket and thoro MPWn 0?'13' But ' I fall into 'Z? of men who do thiucB mmmS I tQ-Jo tliem with the K LP0SBible cat, then I am BNV f2.r 1 nave done somo-Piw2iS' somo-Piw2iS' T,,en tho men who kir ' "e over tho earth get HNi nf d a?y seeing mo in the B&aafl d,BCrninc few. And MM1 iioii.M,A hesc, PaH08 mp along Wthl6. bor, who appreciates a Hlgp 'n? a"d realizes that advor-Odm advor-Odm tB monoy. Kerimi0 inoma yearB ago oqo of mmWi on 2 of our army was or-mWkt or-mWkt oE the country to an-Pvreoni an-Pvreoni 011 far away from homo H"'"' a lone sen voyage. thfe Boldiera had reaehed RSlitu ifrom whPh thoy were 1 ut& to go to their uow as- 1 " 1 signmcnt they found that they had get rST b0Urs hl b tJ rcaci.). At once scores of tho oys scattered in all directions and the news stands wore be X "by an eager and enthusiaaTicS army. J hey were going wearisome m les on the sea, and thoy wanted tho cheery words of virile I men a ,Td women to add to tho comfort of this Jong ocean voyage, And so 1 made the -journey with them to foreicn amis, and, when thev arrived l a? hev ST11!' l!l-u lcw whoS with t v 01 t0,- reluvc a8kefl tbem ith a yoll ot welcome. "Got any tJ, .Again I was passed alonfr what thoro was left of me f or 1 iind served my purposo well this wi'K me?' tbat'5 th' Wanted Money Back. w1 ?Cei l'130"' a fa,nilJ' that had a ll,L .d 1,I,rcad periodicals, and they sold them to certain dealers J;?,""!,0. ey thought they had nJ! anrofl i,Jhc,r cu.Plditr overbalanced overbal-anced their appreciation of valuos, and I again went before the public frca Pco- To bo sure, tho price h?n Ui0t ai L,Rh as tho oue I first greed that fills many human hearts. And what did this buyer do with ?,.? ?S3 -luo 1,on Ji'co a "good iellow?" i0, he, too, wauteS to get his money back, so 1 was sold aS iKrouin-d "p aud Put through another big press, and with another an-other message, perhaps to tho same people, 1 went forth on another an-other orrand of service. Wasn't I made for servico? Of course I wag tiiat-s my mission! One family that 1 onco fell in tLrea41 ,motvh and then called up the Salvation Army and asked them to como and get me and send me whore I would be read again. Sometimes I went to the hospitals ot tho big and little citCos, and sometimes to the homes of want and misery that were everywhere; nut J. finally wont tho routo of old paper into a big, roaring hot fur-naco fur-naco and I was burned beforo my mission was completed. And onco, do you know, I was lying on a big desk when the tele-phono tele-phono rang. I was cloje enough to hear what, tho man at tho othor end of the lino said. Ho asked tho man whoso homo I was at that time visiting if he knew whore he could get somo used copies of Popular Mechanics. And I was right thoro and could scarcely resist re-sist exclaiming, "Hero I am corae and get me I " Loved Machinery. The man went on to say that he knew a boy who was a groat lover . of machinery and that ho was going go-ing to night school and wantod an education: that he did' not have a very good idea of what education meant, 'but ho know he wantod something that somo of the botter-homod botter-homod boys whom he know had, a chance to go to school to learn something that ho did not know. It wap a chance copy of this magazine mag-azine that had set the wheels to going in this boy's head, that had aroused thnt yearning for tetter and higher things in him and matio him want mo. And I lay there thinking about tho manV homes into which I am a periodical periodi-cal visitor that do not have anyone any-one around to get what my printed pages contain, and I longed to break- away and satisfy this working work-ing boy's cravings. And because of all those things I have been talking with some of my subscriber friends, and, aided .by thcir counsel, I have hit upon a plan whereby my life may c mado one long, sweet song. J have always al-ways wanted to go to the end of my string aud live until thero was not enough left of mo to hold mo together, to die, not "with my boots on" but after thoy wero entirely woni out by use. And out of the uncertainty of my exiBtenco . has come a plan whereby my dearest dear-est wish may bo fulfilled. Some frionds have formed an association as-sociation for me. to be known as "The Library of Circulating Pori-odicaln." Pori-odicaln." No Initiation Fee. No, it does not cost anything to join nor anything to maintain it. Any person who takes ono or moro periodicals may aid in tho promotion promo-tion of this Hbrar' and become dispensers dis-pensers of its benefits as well. They aro tho ones to keep it alive and doing its work among thoso who have no periodicals visiting them. For is not each monthly, weekly or somi-woekly that comes to them with tho postman a visitor? visit-or? And should it not bo sent forward as a visitor to someono elso and then on to another in an unending round of visitations among thoBo who need it? Tho only difference between mo and a human visitor is that I do all the talking but you don't hear mo say a word, do you? And wouldn't you rcceivo such a visitor with open arms? I have satisfied mysolf that there aro thousands of homos that I do not and cannot reach by any known means of distribution. I want to go whore I will bo thumbed and dog-eared to a "frazzlo" by those who apprecito my message. I carry an uplift and a welcome- from the hundreds who have something to say to tho millions who read and remain silent. si-lent. But on tho various pilgrimages pilgrim-ages that I undertako in tho keep-inn; keep-inn; of Uncle Sam I find many who need mo, but thoy keep that need a secret. And theso aro they whom I wish sought out by the frionds of this movement and given tho 'benefits of my pagos. In order to make thiH plan feasible feasi-ble it will bo necessary to have a permanent homo or distributing agency for me. Tho main requirements require-ments aro three first, I must have a central location; second, it must bo easy of access; third, it must bo loca'tod where it will bo opon to tho public every hour of tho day and night. Sucli a place is Druohl & Prankcn'e drug store, in tho Walker Bank building, corner of Alain and Second South, streets, Salt Lake City, Utah. ; Thoso who aro willing to tako or send me to tho above place will find a suitable rack in place for my reception. Any person Becking tho privileges of this library may go thero and help himself to mo; but he thereb- promises to pass mo alont: to some other who does not enjoy my benefits, or to return me to my place on the rack as soon as ho has read me. He also exacts a promiso from tho ono to whom he has given mo that ho will in turn pass me on to another, and so on until I am worn out. And when I have become so tattered and torn that no one is able to read mo, tho one who had me last shall so report to tho one in charge at tho drug store, and a memorandum shall bo . made that I have fulfilled my mission. mis-sion. It is necessary that contributors contrib-utors read me as soon as possible after I reach them from my publishing pub-lishing home, in order that I mny get iuto circulation that much sooner. No one is prohibited from taking me out whenever he may so elect! but he may not take out another whilo ho has me. Only ono at a time for the person calling. He should not keep me very long, but remember that there "are others that are anxiously waiting mv return re-turn to the library. It would not be expedient to put me on a waiting list, for obvious reasons; rather let it be first come first served. This must bo a mutual mu-tual affair entirely, with no ono to wait upon thoso" who go to the library for me. Tho movement is inaugurated especially for thoso with whom I am entirely unacquainted; unac-quainted; that I may reach a thousand thou-sand readers where I now reach ten; that I may fall into The hands of students of day aud night schools who need mo either for entertainment entertain-ment or for assistance in their work. Many hard-worked men and women starvo for the uplift of a good story, or for an article of technical or scientific value that may be found in my pages. Help Other Needy Ones. Let the contributors please keep the movement local and not expend ex-pend monoy to send mo far awav from home". In their zeal to aid, rather let thorn hunt up a near-bv needy one and get in touch with his requirements in tho reading line. With the hearty co-oporation of the multitude of subscribers to whom I go every month in this vicinity, there may be created an endless chain of "periodicals that will extend into every citv and hamlet in the state. Its influonco for good will bo unboundod. Where I now go to build fires or for other inferior purposes, whon tho subscriber sub-scriber himself 'shall havo done with me, I may go into tho homes of thousands o'f souls who cry out daily for a crust from the literary loaf and it comes not to them. Take me down Jo my repository that T may afford someone the pleasuro of a good story this Sunday Sun-day afternoon, perhans the only timo during tho week he may havo to give to me; and I'll thank you and ho to whom I shall go will in turn thank yod for starting me on the way to 'fulfill my mjssion. |