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Newspapers. Travelling ono day in- to the country VIC fell in company with q man whom we soon ascertained to, be o-Iive-iir tlae-world farmer. in the course Of conversation upon various subjects, principally agricultural, we found that he was just returning from our own town, where he had that day contracted for inc sale of five hundred bushels of wheat at 5 cents per bush ei. From this subject ourconversation changed to that of newspapers; and upon ascertaining that he was not a subscriber toany paper, we offered him But tic iisii, had sso iils,i,y ways for his money" he could not afford it. We then asked him, if he would be- come a subscriber in case we would convince him that if he had taken the paper, he would have saved in one bar gain alone five times the cost of it for a year. He agreed to this; and We took from our pocket one of our latest pa- pers, in which was an advertisement. offering to contract for any quantity of wheat at Sl cents per pnshel. Thus we illustrated to our farmer friend, that II he had been reader of our paper. he might have saved six cents on each of his 300 bushels of wheat; making a total of thirty dollars-suflicient to pay for one paper I5 years. He paid us two dollars and left us, growing at himself for having been SD negligent of his trae interest. t.-Erts Obse,ver.