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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
No. 153 . 
Advertising Information—Gratis.—IV. 
(Continued from page 264.) 
As was to be expected, the “information” 
given in these articles, is not relished by those 
who prefer darkness to light. Attempted person¬ 
al abuse is poured forth without stint, and with¬ 
out the slightest regard to truth. (Some parties 
have already laid themselves open to “libel suits,” 
were the game worth the powder.) One pompous 
little man threatens to “ totally extinguish the 
insignificant Agriculturist'’! Complaint is made 
that we are “ prying into other people’s business 
which we frankly confess to be doing, but only 
when the public is interested in that “business.” 
We are more than ever convinced of the neces¬ 
sity of these investigations. The multitude of 
lettirs, and personal expressions of approval, daily 
received from our readers, show unmistakably 
their appreciation of these efforts to put them on 
their guard against- those who seek to take their 
money without just equivalent. We shall fear¬ 
lessly continue the course we have begun, so long 
as it appears to be needed, and needed it will be 
until people are so far initiated into the secrets 
of a certain class of plausible advertisers, as to 
be fully shielded from their impositions.* 
In a large number of instances where we have 
sent “stamps” or money to advertisers, no an¬ 
swer has been received—indeed this is the gen¬ 
eral rule, though our letters are mailed at vari¬ 
ous country post offices. Now and then we hit 
upon parties who appear to be bona fide. One 
class of advertisers we must specially caution our 
readers against. Here is an example : 
(No. 10.) 
Two parties, one in New-Hampshire, and one 
in Maine, advertised for one or more young men 
as agents at very liberal salaries. We addressed 
them with the required “ stamps,” and received 
in return a showbill of a reputed “ Sewing Ma¬ 
chine Company,” under an imposing name. They 
wanted us to send $15 for a sample machine, and 
try our luck at selling it. If we made out well 
for a month, they would put us on salary at $50 
to $75 per month and “ all expenses paid.” If 
we failed, we would still have a good machine 
cheap Now this all appears fair ; but, first, we 
are not certain that any such company exists, or 
that we should ever hear from our $15 again if 
we sencLit; and, second, we ought to have our first 
“ trial machine ” at the wholesale prices which 
we are assured is $10. A young man In Penn¬ 
sylvania writes us, that he invested $15 thus in a 
Northern New-York concern, and after long try¬ 
ing can not hear from it, but on the contrary, he 
hears that no such concern is known except 
within an out-of-the-way Post-office... .We have 
on hand many investigated cases, including large 
numbers of letters from subscribers and others, 
telling how they have been duped in sundry ways, 
but we have now only room for the following : 
(No. 11.) 
Under this number we will include a variety of 
advertisements, partly clipped from newspapers, 
and partly sent to us by several readers, which all 
emanate from the city of Baltimore, and from the 
same establishment. Some of them are signed 
* Some one sends us a marked copy of a scurrilous sheet, is¬ 
sued by one of the pwri ies recently menlioned in these art icles. 
Its very language and subterfuges, exhibit the real character 
of the writer, and the justice of what we have said of him in 
the connection in which he was referred 10 . Every point at¬ 
tempted lobe made in his manifesto, is either sheer fabrication, 
without the slightest foundation in fact, or, a tortured state¬ 
ment of transactions, which no other person, not even his in¬ 
formant. would have dreamed of considering discreditable to 
us. With this general statement we can hardly consider it 
worth whiie to enter into controversy with one who has been, 
according to his own account, in constant trouble with the 
press, (never before, with us). If any one of our readers, fail¬ 
ing to see tlie character—the animus —of the statements put 
forth, should attach the slightest importance to them, we shall 
be happy to give him any needed explanation, and if need be, 
submit for inspection sundry letters that are reaching us. 
by a man, (a “ Dr.”), and some by a woman of the 
same name. In one of these advertisements a 
“ Honey recipe” is offered ; in another a “ Female 
Pill”; in another a “ Chemical process for clean¬ 
ing clothes ”; another is addressed “ To the Suf¬ 
fering and Benevolent another announces 
“ Love Powders ” for sale ; another offers a 
“ Bread-Making Recipe ” for $1 ; another a “Cele¬ 
brated Matrimonial Series of Books ”; and soon. 
One reads thus: 
(No. 12.) 
(O.OOD NEWS FOR LADIES—Any Lady 
who will sent, her address to Mrs.-Baltimore Cily 
Md., with three 3-cent postage stamps included, will receive 
by return mail something of importance to her.—*‘ Woman, 
KNOW THYSELF AND Be HAPPY.” * 
A Lady’s address, and the “three stamps,” were 
forwarded. Under one of the stamps came back 
eight different slips of paper, partly manuscript, 
and partly printed. The disgusting, criminal 
character of part of these is such that we can not 
pollute our pages hv a description of them. We 
hold them ready for the use of the authorities of 
Baltimore, who should abate this sink-hole of im¬ 
position and crime. We have in this case, as in 
others, suppressed the full address, to avoid 
advertising the-parlies to the vicious, but we 
hope what we have said is sufficient to caution 
respectable females against sending their names 
and “stamps” to any such inviting advertise¬ 
ment as the above. 
(No. 13.) 
T.TONEY ! THE BEST OP HONEY— 
.S.ill have a valuable recipe for making Honey, which I will 
sen i to any person upon receipt of fifty cents. We make and 
use in our family at half the cost, and consider it as good as the 
best article of genuine bee made honey, “ from which it can not be 
told.” Any person who will make and sell it can clear from two 
to three dollars a day. It only requires 4 articles to make it, and 
they can be had at any store for fifty cents. Every family may 
have this delightful luxury, for any lady can make it in fifteen 
minutes at any time. Three-cent postage stamps as good as 
money.—Add i ess, etc. 
Who wouldn’t send the paltry sum of fifty cents 
for such a recipe ! What a luxury it will be to 
always have good honey, “ as good as the best 
made by honey bees.” Why, with honey so 
cheap, we could have company at tea every night, 
especially if somebody would help us to get up 
bread at “ half price.” We were rather jealous 
for the credit of our faithful bees, but remember¬ 
ing that they sometimes sting us when getting at 
their honey, and forgetting how often we had got 
“ stung ” in answering advertisements, we posted 
off the “ fifty cents,” and here is the recipe just 
as it came, verbatim, et spellalim, el punctuoMm. 
“ Honey.” 
Take H tbs. best bee honey (without comb) ; 5 ibs. best 
brown sugar (a clean bright article); ]•) pints pure cold 
water ; 2 ounces of cream a Tartar. First dissolve the 
cream a Tartar in a liltie cold water, then put all the ar¬ 
ticles together and boil them (in a tin or brass vessel) un¬ 
till all are fully melted usually from 12 to 15 minits, stir 
while boiling and skim the froth that may arise which 
may be used in the family, when cold ready for use, but 
improves much by age, after you once make you can use 
of the honey you have made to make again and so on. 
Then follo ws a puff of the article, including the 
statement that this is the “ best article in the 
Baltimore market,” and it “sells readily at 31 
cents the lb.” But hold ! what a “scrape” we 
are getting into. Right after the above, and on 
the same letter sheet we find the following omi¬ 
nous document. 
“ Baltimore City State of Maryland s.s. 
To all whom it may concern, This may certify that 
“--” (our friend’s name) of “-”, "- 
Co.” State of New-York, has this day bought the right to 
make, use, and sell, as much honey under my Patent as 
she may wish, but in no case can said “-•—-,» 
give, sell, or in any way transfer to any other person the 
right to make said honey, without an infringement of my 
Patent (this being a family right only) and thereby render 
himself liable to prosecution under the United Stales Laws 
made for the Protection of Patentees, which (said Laws) 
will be rigidly enforced by J. P. Creager, done at Balti¬ 
more State of Maryland this 9th dav of September 1859. 
Attest Francis M. Creager, for Dr. J. P. Creager, Pa¬ 
tentee.” 
Well, Dr. J. P. Creager, “ Patentee,” go ahead 
now and ‘ prosecute’ the man, no the lady, as you 
think, to whom you sent the above. We have 
omitted her—his—name, but you of course know 
it. And see here, Doctor, while you are about it, you 
may as well prosecute the editor of the Agricultur¬ 
ist too, for he published the above “ recipe ” (with 
a slight variation) two years ago. See Yoi. XVI, 
page 161 (August 1857). He then got it from 
another “patentee.” [The proportions then giv¬ 
en were : 20 lbs. coarse sugar, 3 qts. water, C 
lbs. good honey, 1 teaspoon (ill essence of pep¬ 
permint, and only one-fifth ounce of cream of 
tartar—a better recipe than the above we sus¬ 
pect.]—Since then, an advertisement of the 
“ honey recipe ” has been offered to the Agricul¬ 
turist (but refused) ever so many times, by ever 
so many “ patentees.”—You can pass on, now, 
“Dr.” Creager, but don't go out of sight, for we 
are quite likely to want you again, soon. F. S.— 
We forgot to say, “Dr.” Creager, that our friend 
thinks he (not she) can make money enough out 
of your “honey recipe,” and lie won’t just now, 
take hold of those other splendid “ rights,” etc., 
etc., which you took a whole second page of fools¬ 
cap to describe in such glowing terms to him. 
(No. 14.) 
R HEUMATISM—I desire to communi- 
cate with all, old and young, afflicted with Rheumatism, 
inflammatory or chronic ; I have a sure'and speedy cure; will 
send particulars. Address Dr. , ——, . 
The above appeared in the “ advertising items ” 
of a weekly paper at $1.25 per line. The 
“ particulars ” were sent for. There came a long 
circular giving the discovery of a root which has 
cured sundry persons. The doctor don’t tell us 
anything of the name of the root and we are 
wholly in the dark as to its real value.. So we 
must limp along with the “ rheumatics,” or send 
him $2 for the remedy in liquid form, or in pow¬ 
der enough to make a quart. But we suppose 
this is all right. The “ Dr.” only promised 
to give “ particulars,” and we have got ’em, 
and,-are satisfied. 
(To be continued as needed.) 
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Repair the Roads. 
Everybody’s business is quite apt to become 
nobody’s business. Travelers through almost, 
every section of the country find this, often to 
their cost, in the state of the roads. Jaded horses, 
broken vehicles, mud bespattered clothing, and 
limbs weary and sore from incessant jolts, are the 
almost certain attendants of any extended jour¬ 
ney by private conveyance. But the inconve¬ 
nience of had roads to the occasional traveler is 
trifling, compared with the loss and annoyance 
suffered by residents of the neighborhood. The 
discouraged traveler may take the rail car, or tlm 
steamboat, but there is no escape for those living 
in the locality. Every visit to a neighbor, every 
trip to mill or to meeting, involves a loss of 
time, comfort, and patience, together with much 
useless wear and tear of running gear. Very 
soon the Autumn rains, and alternate freezings 
and thawings will render roads already out of re¬ 
pair, almost impassable. Do not neglect bad 
spots adjoining your premises, because your road- 
tax is already worked out, or the road-master 
is remiss. A day’s work on the road will often 
save a costly job at the wagon maker’s. Exam¬ 
ine all bridges and sluices. See that there are no 
obstructions to water courses that will cause 
dangerous icy slides the coming Winter. Take 
advantage also of every opportunity to turn the 
rich wash of the road upon your own premises, 
and so arrange channels that it may be distrib¬ 
uted widely, and not form an unsightly embank¬ 
ment near the fence where it empties into the 
field. Let every body see that his business in this 
respect is attended lo, and then nobody’s will be 
neglected. 
