W. D. BATTERSON. 
Publisher Seed-Time and Harvest :—I 
do not believe your columns are open to any 
one who will defraud or cheat his patrons, 
if you know it. 
I want to be just to all men and not 
wiong a person because 1 have been wrong¬ 
ed, but I want to stop dishonest work as 
much as I can. Mr. N. D. Batterson ad¬ 
vertised grape baskets of three different 
sizes. I had confidence in him because he 
used good papers to advertise in; and a 
friend and myself together sent him twenty- 
four dollars for baskets for shipping crops. 
This was in February. Mr. Batterson said 
he did not have the baskets then but would 
soon. They did not come, I wrote him 
again, and he said they would come soon. 
I wrote again after waiting awhile, and 
he said they would come in a few days. 
He afterwards wrote me that his mills 
and lumber were burned and asked that I 
wait, as he would get them out and send 
me soon as he got to running again. I was 
sorry for him in his losses and waited. 
He advertised soon after this he was run 
ning again and was ready for orders, but he 
did not send mine. My friend withdrew 
his order, and as I had forwarded the money 
on my own responsibility I had to assume 
his order. I urged Mr. Batterson to send 
the baskets or return the money, but could 
get neither. I afterwards asked him for 
the money, as I did not want the baskets, 
but could not get it. 
Finally, August 14, he notifies me thst he 
has sent the baskets, but he says he sent all 
of one size as he was not going to be mak¬ 
ing any more this season. So it would seem 
he had been sending out the three sizes all 
summer and sent me what he had left, all 
of one kind, and as a result of my deal 
with him I have six times as many baskets 
as I want of one' kind, and none of the 
other kinds. I have been discommoded by 
waiting, and have no use for over six hund¬ 
red baskets, I am selling them to whoever 
will buy. After the baskets came.I wrote 
Mr. Battersou that I would not take the 
baskets. I wanted the money back; I had 
the letter registered. He. signed the regis¬ 
ter card, but has not written me since. I 
aiterwards paid the freight on the baskets 
and drew them home. 
Now I do not want to injure a man in 
trouble, and would not have you use this 
letter against him, if he is not worthy of 
being published, but he does his fellow 
men a great wrong. He does you a great 
wrong as your patrons lose confidence in 
your papers. I can bear my little loss and 
will do it silently, rather than injure him 
wrongfully. Very Truly Yours, 
G. M. T. Johnson. 
Binghamton , N. T. 
Remarks: We believe the above calls for 
a word of explanation on our part regaid- 
ing Mr. Batterson. When we first began 
doing business with him he was located in 
Buffalo, N. Y., and was regarded as a gen¬ 
tleman of unusual integrity and good 
standing. Thinking that he could better 
his facilities for rapid and cheap basket¬ 
making, about one year ago he removed to 
Mt. Jewett, Pa., and built a large, new 
manufactory amongst an ocean of timber. 
About this time he contracted with us for 
catalogue printing and advertising, to the 
amount of over $300, and we have no doubt, 
had disaster not overtaken him would have 
been thriving to-day. But, as stated in 
above letter, the factory burned just at a 
time of year when he should have been 
filling his delayed orders, and other mis¬ 
fortunes rapidly followed, which forced 
him, on the 12th of September, to make an 
assignment of his property. Perhaps, after 
seeing that he would be obliged to throw 
up the business and retire, he became care¬ 
less in regard to the manner of filling or¬ 
ders. We much regret the disappointment 
which our correspondent, and doubtless 
others of our readers have been subjected 
to, but we believe no one has more cause 
for sympathy than we, for not a dollar has 
been paid on our account, and it will be 
little or nothing that we shall realize for 
all our work and expense on his account. 
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