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RAINE-WINKLEY CONTROVERSY. 



Last month, it will be remembered, we published letters 

 from Walter Raine and W. H. Winkley regarding a trans- 

 action between those parties. We had held Raine's letter 

 for some time as we did not wish to meddle with their pri- 

 vate affairs, but when we received the "correspondence" from 

 Winkley containing one or two slaps as some one (whom we 

 judge to be Raine) we asked Winkley for the other side of 

 the case and presented it as fairly as possible. We also had 

 another reason for so doing. Our readers will remember that 

 we accused R. M. Gibbs of being a swindler and then pub- 

 lished a part, though amply sufficient, of our proof. We 

 did this to prevent Gibbs from swindling our readers further, 

 as he had been an extensive advertiser with us. We now 

 have the same case again; both gentlemen having frequently 

 used the H. O. as an advertising medium, and not wishing 

 to run the ads of those not strictly honest, we took it upon 

 ourselves to clear up the difficulty. 



The case, as well as one can judge from the correspon- 

 dence sent us by both parties, stands about as follows: A 

 proposition was made by one or the other of the parties that 

 Raine sell Winkley a quantity of eggs at one-third the latter's 

 catalogue rates for cash. Winkley now claims that he never 

 ordered the eggs, and — Raine fails to send the order sheet. 

 If we let the matter rest here Raine cannot complain so very 

 much at his subsequent treatment. But in a letter written 

 December ioth, after he received the eggs, Winkley com- 

 plains that some were not sent, some were 2d class and three 

 broken, hence he can only pay Raine $32 instead of'$38, the 



