MADE TO 'SEE IT.'

Inangahua Times, Issue 02, 7 October 1878, Page 2

MADE TO 'SEE IT. '

' I can't soo if/ said Buffer. * Nobody rewios all Ihcso little ndvortisomonts. It's propoAtormis of think it.' 1 Hut/ said tho editor you read whnt intcrosis you?' •Yes/ ♦And if 4 tliero's nnythini? yon parti* culnrly vran', you look for it ? 1 Cortninly.' • Welli ntnong tho thousands npon thousands who help to mnko up this busy world of ours everything thnt is printed is | rood. Snoor as you plensa, Ido assure you thnt printor's ink is tho truo open senmo to all bu«ino9s succoss/ And atill [ Duffor couldn't sec it. Ho didn't boliovo tliot ono half of thoso little crowded advertisement woro over rend, • Supposo you try tho experiment/ snid ! tho odilor. 'Just slip in nn ndvertiso* mont of tho wunt of ono of tho most common tilings in tho world. For tho sako of tho tost I will rivo it two insertions freo. Two will be enough ; and you mny huvo it jimmed into nny out-of'tho» I way nook of my pnporyou shull aolccl.

rvro insflrtions, of only two lines. Will I jrou try it??' Buffer said of course ho would try it. And ho selected the |>lneo whoro ho could liaro it published— crowdod in under tho licndof Wanted's.' And ho waited and <m\r a proof of his ndvortisement, which nppoarod ns follows :-' Wantkd, n good house-doff, Apply to .T. Buffer, 675 Towsor-stroct, between tho hours of.O and 9 p.m.' Buffer went away smiling nnd nodding. On tho following morning ho opened his pnper, nnd after a deal of hunting ho found bis ndvertisemo.it. At first it did not Boom nt nil conspicuous. Cort-iinly, so insignificant a pnruprnph, buried, in such a wildnornoss of paragraphs, could not attract notice. After a time, howevor, to him, Tho more ho looked nt it tho plninor it grow. Finally it glared nt him from tho closely-printed pngo ; but that was bocauso ho was tho person particularly interested. Of courso it would appear conspicuous to him ; but it would not bo so with others. That evening Mr. Buffor was just sitting down to tea (Buffer was q plain old-fashioned man nnd took tea nt six) when liin door belt was rung. Tho servant nnnouncod that a man was at the door with n dog to sell. • Tell him I don't want one.' Six times Buffer was interrupted while taking tea by men with dogs to sell. JJulFor was a man who would not lio. Ho had put his foot in, nnd ho must tako it out manfully. Tho twenty4hird applicant was a small boy with a girl in company, who had a ragged poodlo for sale. Buffer bought tho poodlo off tho boy, nnd immediately prosentcd it to tho girl, nnd then sent them off. To tho noxt applicant ho was nblo truthfully to answer — ' Don't want nny more—l've bonlrht one.' Tho stream of callers con« linnud until near ton o'clock, nt which hour Buffer locked up nnd l»r< ed off tho gas. On tho following evening, ns Buffef approached his house, ho found a crowd assembled. He counted 39 men nnd boys, each ono of whom had a dog in tow, There were dogs of every grndo, size, nnd color, nnd growl nnd howl. Buffer nddrosscd tho motloy multitude, un ins formed them that ho hud purolinxcd n dog. 'Then whnt dyer ndvortiso for P' And Buffer get his hat knocked ovor his eyes boforo ho renohed tho sanctuary of his home. Never mind nbout tho trials nnd trilmhhons of that night. Buffer hnd no idea there was so many dogs in existence With tho aid of thr>o policemen ho got through ulire. On tho noxt morning ho visited his friend tho editor nnd acknowledged tho corn. The ndvertisomon of ' Wanted ' wia taken out, nnd in the most conspicuous placo nnd in glaring (ypo ho advertised that ho did not wnnt nny moro dons. Arid for this advertisement ho pnic?. Then ho wont homo nnd pasted upon his door— • Gono into tho country.' Thou he hired a special policeman to guard his property ; and then ho locked up nnd went nway with his family. From that <h»y Josephus Buffer has never bcon heard to express doubis concerning tho efficacy of printer's ink. Neither has ho nslcod— ' Who reads ndyorlisoments P '