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Show A liniOMT EDITOn. How a l(ani Kdllor Square.! OCT Trotitilraoma Mortgage. When the advertising agent of on of the "greatest shows on earth" visited vis-ited a town In Kansas last summer he called upon the editor of a local paper and Inquired the cost ot a double col umn display advertisement In the next two Issue. "Two hundred and eighty dollar," wna the reply, without a second' sec-ond' hesitation. "Great Bcott! Are you craiyT" cried the agent. "What will you charge us for a full page'" "Two hundred and eighty dollars. Just the same." "Hut how do you figure It?" expostulated tbe circus man, "Haven't you any settled rate for space advertising t" "See here, mister," earnestly remarked the editor, "I don't pay any attention to space In thl deal, but I do know Just what an advertisement advertise-ment In this paper will cost you. You can have a column or a page or the whole blamed paper, Juet as you like. There' a mortgage for 2f0 on this blamed shop and your clrcua haa gut to help me out with It It It deesn't I'm a goner; that' oil. You may move right In here and run tho whole shoot. Ing match for a couple ot weeks to ault yourself, but we're got to anto up 1280 before next Saturday night. Now, then, nro you a friendly Indian or art you a hostile!" All the "dates" and extra posters used last season by that show throughout through-out the west were printed In a little one-horse newspaper office lu Kansas. The paper Is still Issued regularly, and Its editor ihows every evidence tint he I at peace with all the world and la prospering - Pennsylvania Grit. |
