The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
WHAT E-VBRYB0DY READS.

Is there anything IN the way or liter
ature or printed matter that is found and
read in every household in all the land?
Yes just one thing, and that is-THE
ALMANAC. LA many dwellings the col
porteur looks in vain for the old, dust
covered Bible, or the half-worn hymn
book They are not there. Even Web
ster's Elementary is wanting on many
book table," But, hanging by cot
toa string, on a nail behind the door, or
beside the window or the fire place, is
sure to be found the ubiquitous AEmGas-
Gc. True, this universal companion OF
the rich and the poor is, in a great ma
jority of instances, only the medium
through which some patent medicine
man eulogizes his nostrums-published
and circulated by the million only that
those who are ignorant and easily duped
may be induced through what they dali
ly read in it's pages, to spend their dol
lars for the benefit of him whose adver-
Using medium it is. Such has come to
be the distinguishing characteristic of
is, therefore, a noYation in the right di-
rection when a substantial publishing
house, at an expense of many thousands
of dollars, undertakes to furnish the
millions with an Almanac containing on
every page and IN every line, something
useful, readable and reliable. Such an
undertaking is that of the publishing
house of John P. Morton g Co., of
Louisville, Kentucky. Their Western
Farmers Almanac is that publication.
Week before last we took occasion to
call.the attention of our readers to its
superior excellence, and at the time
| made mention of some of its important
and meritorious features. We wish to-
day to impress upon our farmer friends,
especially, the great value of this publi-
cation. 1t is we'll bound pamphlet of
eighty pages. Twenty-seven of these
are filled with advertisements and cards
from many of the best known and most
substantial business houses in America.
| If the farmer desires to know where he
can buy the best wagon, pillow, thresher,
drill-anythi in the agricultural i'm
plement line-he only has to step to the
nail and take down the almanac and in
It's pages he can learn what he wishes to
know. But we cannot in passing no.
tice like this give a satisfactory idea of
the intrinsically valuable features of the
| little volume. AS we have before said,
we have carefully examined it's contents
and do not hesitate to pronounce it the
most valuable publication of its kind.
If the boys and girls want to find some
light, trashy anecdotes to laugh over,
and to distract their minds from proper
and sensible subjects of thought, they
only have to go the nail in the wall and
take down-some other Almanac. In
this one they can find no such demOIal-
izing trash. But if they, or the grown
up people, desire to gain some useful in
formation on any one of large number
of subjects touched upon in this little
volume, let them take it down and rum
through the fifty-three pages of the Al
manac proper and theyzare sure to find
what they want. The publishers issue
this little volume as a periOdical-appa-
rently for the sole purpose of furnishing
the millions with something valuable
and useful along with the Indispensable
calendar Almanac. The price is TEN
CENTS Think of it : Ten Cents for a
compendium of knowledge to the farm
er the value of which is beyond compu-
tation. So far as we know this is the
only publication of the kind in the South
which is at all worthy of universal pat
ronage, and we speak only cur convic-
tions when we say the Western Farmer s
Almanac ought to be in every house
hold.