A Good Thing

A gentlemanly young man did Me Comb the honor of visiting the townlast Friday. He spent nearly two days in our village. His mission was to give instruction in advertisiug, accomplish theroetical explanation with a practical illustration. He flrst carne to the Record office and made a contract with us, under which we were to print certain specified matter on 8,000 grocer's sacks, in consideration of his payingto us $8in lawful currency of the realm. He tlien went to three grocers, and arrange with them, in consideration of their furnishing the sacks, to have the card of each printed ou said sacks free of charge. Then he took a tour among the business men, and eloquently discoursed them to on the great increase in business that would immediiitely follow to each, provided he had a card relating to his business printed on these 8,000 sacks, for the small sum of $3.00. He found eight men susceptible to his argument, before whose eyes danced visions of inflowing wealth as the result of such a judicious investment. Under tliis plan, each arrocer gets 2,666 sacks with 8 cards printed thereon. He piles them away under. the counter. As the large majority of groceries now come in neat packages or cans, the use of sacks is very limited. Probably 25 a day would exceed the requirements of either of these grocers. Let us suppose each uses 25 a day, then in about 105 days all the sacks would be distributed. As the customers of a grocery do not vary greatly as to identity from day to day, these sacks wil] be continually going into the same houses ; so tliat one family might get 50 to 100 of the sacks during the tyme of distribution. Of course, as each sack comes into the house all the members of the family suspend all other business, and go to work topead business cards printed thereon. The man who connot see how rapidly his business must increase under such a plan of advertising, must have gone to school where logic was not taught, and we would recommend that he attendthe meetings of the polemical society. We are glad to have oue of these advertising missionaries come around oecasionally In this case the easy talking missionary picks up $24. He gave us $8.00 and the hotel man $3.00, and he rode out of town witli $13,00. He told us he did about three towns a week, thus making very nice wages, with no capital but his tongue. And we have $8 which the men who are too sharp to advertise in a newspaper would never have voluntarily placm our pocket. Thanks gentlemen.McComb (O) Record.