Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04

| a government stamp. It's size is re.
| stricted by law and there are so many
| fines and penalties for transgressing
these laws of posting and distributing
| that bill posting as we understand it
! is well nigh impossible. l really be-
! lieve that the American anti-biIlboard
crusader, who conscientiously makes a
comparison between the two, will lose
most, if not all of his antipathy to our
own bill boards with their life, energy
and vibrant reflection of our activities.
Virtue OF Advertising.
The Circus Rancy, one of the great
ones of France, was in Strassburg. |
asked twenty to thirty persons as to
| lot locations and dates before l found
one who could give me an intelligent
reply. Some said it would be in the
city next week" others, that It had
gone, but most Of them knew nothing
about it ard yet it was located in the
heart of the city. A few good stands
with some three sheet dates would
have informed the whole population OF
all the facts, but instead of these,
some window Autographs. in a few
empty stores, was all the posting dis
cOverable l took it as a lesson in
the utility Of the bill boards, and l be-
| lieve if the public is ever deprived Of
the bill boards it will miss them lust
as it would miss the street cars and
! newspapers. They may be nuisance
to a finicky few, but to the great mass
Of people they communicate facts Of
| interest and use.
In Hamburg an Austrian circus ride
| pointed with pride to the "reclame
! advertisements of a tent show There
was nothing bigger than a two sheer
and yet this show was a wonderfully
| equipped little enterprise, electrically
| lighted from its own plant, and in
every way show Of the best class.
A General Agent at Eighty.
At Montargis, France, l met. under
| peculiar circumstances, an old gentle
man of possibly eighty years or more.
! The chauffeur whom | had brought out
! from Paris had imbibed something
that made him see two roads instead
| OF one. l didn't know which one he
might decide to take. I wished to DIS
charge him. but he could not cOmpre-
bend my kind of French on this par
! ticular subject. From a small pocket
dictionary | found numerous words
| to fire" but he would not under
stand. The landlord of the Hotel De
| l., I
gentleman as man perfectly capable
OF talking both French and English.
! He was an Englishman on business in
France and readily and very oblig-
ngly informed the chauffeur what was
wanted, or, rather that he was no
! longer wanted
The incident brought on a social
visit with the venerable man and |
| found his conversation very interest
ing His vivacity, ready wit and cheer
fuIness were remarkable in a man of
his age and he had the scope and
| breadth found only in men of world
{ travel An artist would have picked
him as the ideal picture of a patriarch
a novelist would have singled him out
among ten thousand for a characte.
in story and my own curiosity was
aroused at the sight of a man Of his
great age travelling and transactine
business with all the poise and cOur
age Of a man fifty years younger His
snowy beard. broad-rimmed silk tile
and ivory-handIed cane added empha
sis to striking personality. I made
! up my m'nd to know what held thi,