Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1877 — An Advertiser. [ARTICLE]

An Advertiser.

Spicer was wading wearily through a pile of work which had accumulated during a brief absence in New York, when a stranger banged the inner office door, placed his lighted cigar conveniently on the corner of the desk, and, spitting gracefully fa the waste-basket, said: - “ Mr. Spicer, I presume?" The paragrapher suppressed a smile at ajoke he was reading in the New York (Tcmwiercial Adeeriiter, inhaled about three cents’ worth of his guests five cent cigar, and replied, “Yes-sir" in one time and three motions. “ The fame of your journal lias reached us in New York State,” continued the visitor. “ Another fellvr that wants a notice,” thought the writer. ,V 1 wish to talk to you about advertisfag," said the caller. The newspaper-mao- brightened, and rather wished he had a fresh cigar to offer the visitor. “I am introducing into New England the celebrated Prolifick Pinkhampton Pumpkin, and I am authorized to offer the seeds to you at fifty dollars a quart, half cash and half advertising fa the Commercial ” The exact manner of the Western seedsman’s death will probably never be known but his friends will be pleased to know that his remains have been carefully K‘ mted at Forest Hill, where the Prolific mpkin vine can twine a garland to hia memory over his early grave.— Rotten Com. Bulletin.