APRIL 4 
Rough on Rogues. 
man do you think would sign such a thing 
as this ?: 
Being favorably impressed with the plan 
of the Star Tontine Association, I respect 
fully ask to become a certificate holder and 
desire to have my name enrolled in As¬ 
sembly No. I hereby agree to be 
governed by the Constitution, By-Laws, 
Rules and Regulations of the Association, 
as they now exist or may hereafter be al 
tered or amended. I agree to pay the regu¬ 
lar Monthly Dues and such other assess¬ 
ments as may be levied on this certificate, 
in accordance with the By-Laws of the 
Association when due, and in consideration 
of mutual covenants, upon default of pay¬ 
ments of said dues I agree to forfeit all 
sums theretofore paid without personal or 
other notice ; and 1 agree to the cancella¬ 
tion, by the Association, of my said certifi 
cate for such failure to pay monthly dues 
or other assessments. 
One of these endowment concerns took a 
significant action the other day. Lots of 
its $100 certificates matured, but instead of 
paying up, it levied an assessment of $5 
per member. You see new members had 
not been plentiful enough to fill the 
treasury I 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
Bfes 
LOOKING OUT FOB NUMBER ONE. 
Monday ^ f r * en< ^ * n Connecticut is greatly 
C 1 interested in investment compan- 
C’ ies and thinks The R. N.-Y. ought 
to have more to say about them—denounc¬ 
ing all the humbugs and praising the reli¬ 
able concerns. A little reflection ought to 
show him that if we did this, there would 
be no room for anything else in the paper. 
There are thousands of these concerns all 
over the country. We do not know which 
ones our readers are interested in until 
they ask for information. Then we do our 
best to try to learn the real state of affairs; 
but it is evidently impossible for us to al¬ 
ways know whether a firm is thoroughly Thursday 
honest or not. We dislike to advise our 
readers to send their hard earned money to 
strangers for investment, and yet we may 
feel that the people who would take the 
money try to do an honest business. As for 
denouncing any man or any business firm, 
we have no right to do so without conclusive 
evidence. There are several investment 
companies that we believe to be frauds and 
which we would not recommend to friends. 
At fhe same time we do not know th&t they 
are dishonest and have no right to publicly 
denounce them. We oppose the “ coopera¬ 
tive ” and “endowment” schemes spring¬ 
ing up all over the country because it is 
clearly evident that their sole ability to 
pay old members rests upon their securing 
three or more new members for every old 
one. Manifestly, the time must come when 
the supply of new members will fail and 
then somebody will suffer. It is very risky 
basiness in these times to expect to get 
over six per cent interest unless you can 
watch your investment yourself and see 
how it is handled. 
l CONN, | 
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If you do not find it on sale with your local dealers, 
write to 
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ut “TRIUMPH 
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FridilY °^> swindle was recently 
1 attempted on an Iowa man. He 
IO* received a letter from a priest in 
Portugal, who informed him that a Span¬ 
ish exile just dead, had left him $5,000 on 
condition that he would give a bond for 
$40,000 guaranteeing to dig up hidden treas 
ures and hand them over to the Spaniard’s 
only heir—a daughter. An “exact map” 
of the country, showing where the treas¬ 
ures were hidden, was to be sent when the 
bond came! * * * Look out for watch 
dealers who send their goods C. O. D. A 
rich farmer near Fort Wayne, Ind., recent¬ 
ly paid $330 for an express package said to 
contain six gold watches. On opening it 
he found a bottle of patent medicine and 
some old papers, sent by “ J. Mlnden, care 
C. Pyke, 134 East 13th Street, New York.” 
The farmer was fortunate enough to re¬ 
plevin the money in the hands of the ex 
press company’s agent. 
AGENTS 
WANTED 
TnftcdflV out y° u k ee P your mind 
w • open to conviction. Keep the 
*3 7* brush of prejudice cleared away, 
or the first thing you know the entrance to 
your mind will be so choked up that useful, 
new ideas can’t get in. A talk with a man 
about liquid fuel made us bring this 
thought up. The advancing price of coal 
in England has made the wise men experi¬ 
ment with liquids for fuel. Tar and in¬ 
ferior oils are used with coal, saving about 
75 per cent of the cost of the latter. It is 
also proposed to use cheap oil on the large 
ocean steamers, thus saving in storage 
room and the cost of fuel. Everybody 
knows what a large proportion of coal 
turns to worthless ashes. One “ has to pay 
for it all.” The liquid leaves no ashes. 
The time is coming when liquid fuels will 
be used in our private houses. Don’t be¬ 
lieve it, eh ? Look out 1 Years ago you 
used to dip candles to make your own 
light. Suppose you had been told thea that 
you would buy your light in tin cans at the 
store. Would you nave believed it ? Why 
don’t you dip caudles now? The time is 
surely coming when a good portion of your 
heat will come stored iu barrels or over a 
wire in the shape of electricity. 
For circulars ** 
and testimonials, write D. S. MORGANol CO 
Brockport, INI.Y 
mention this paper. 
IT WILL 
Cultivate 
CORN and 
COTTON 
to a Height of 
THREE FEET 
Throwing the 
Soil to or from 
the Plant. 
Send for Special 
Circular. 
0 a tgrdav ^ maQ Illinois claims to have 
■' discovered a new lymph to cure 
II* drunkenness! He injects it into 
the body of a confirmed drunkard, and, 
presto! change! all desire for liquor is 
gone! What a harvest this fraud will 
reap. Not a drunkard in the world bat 
wants to be cured ! There is no fun about 
being a sot. Drunkenness is a curse—a 
horrible curs3—which clings to its victims 
like their very skin. The “ lymph ” we 
need is concentrated extract of “ back¬ 
bone.” Let us leave liquor alone entirely 
and teach our boys and girls to despise 
whisky and the whisky seller! 
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“ I regard Breed's Universal Weeder as one of the most vaiuabl, 
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Send for 
Circular 
and 
PriceList 
Wfidllfisdav A friend in Illinois sends this 
, * note: “Two of my neighbors 
have had to pay pretty dearly 
for a little experience. They gave their 
notes, one for $20, the other $15, for light¬ 
ning rods. The notes came through the 
bank, one for $220, the other for $150, 
which both had to pay.” It is a good deal 
doubtful whether the makers of these notes 
were liable for the sums demanded. Any 
material alteration in the body of a note is 
held by many of the courts to be equiva¬ 
lent to a forgery, and to render the paper 
null and void; iu which case the loss would 
fall ou the holder. If farmers aud others 
“stood suit” in case of such fraudulent 
uotes, they would win in many cases, aud 
make matters so uncomfortable for “ note 
shavers” that the number of “innocent 
holders” would rapidly diminish, aud there 
would be less temptation to this form of 
rascality. This same man wants to know 
about the Star Toutiue Association, of 
Philadelphia. This sterns much like the 
“order” described last week on page 258. 
The cost is $53 and you draw $100, payable 
in five mouths. Of course we would not 
join such a concern, and we hope our 
readers will keep out of it. What business 
“ When we find a paper that has back 
bone enough to tell the truth, let us 
have backbone enough to help it along.”— 
L. W. LIGHTLY. 
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£Ui$rcUanrmt.$ gWU’mising. 
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, or 110 Liberty St., N. Y.City 
