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7b* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February IS. 1022 
Layton 0. Sherman, which doubles the 
amount of gasoline usually produced from 
a given quantity of crude oil. We do not 
know whether the claims are justified or 
not. but such an invention should be able 
to find a market without going to country 
people for their small savings. No doubt 
any of the large oil refiners would pay 
millions for an invention which would ful¬ 
fill these claims. The stock is promoted 
by M. P. Fries & Co., ‘Scranton. Pa. The 
methods of ibis brokerage concern have 
previously been referred to in these col- 
lumus, and this fact also throws suspic¬ 
ion on the project. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
UsethislMn^mi 
... / 10 Evenings^L 
Your Oim\ 
Home! 
Mi Write Today for 
Special **10-Day 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must lie signed with writer’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence uusigued let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
Your paper is certainly one of the best 
periodicals that I have had the pleasure 
of reading It is invaluable. The first 
copy I bad from you I answered an ad¬ 
vertisement in help wanted column. I got 
a prompt, favorable reply, and secured 
the position, and commence my duties on 
March 1. I have enclosed the names of 
two new subscribers and hope to send in 
more before long. I wish your paper all 
the prosperity it deserves. H. J. K. 
New York. 
There is one excuse for the existence of 
an institution like The R. N.-Y r . That 
excuse is service. We hope we made a 
double play in this instance; that we 
found a good place for a man, and a good 
man for the place. That would mean 
two good friends for us, and few things 
in life are better than sincere friendship. 
You have already paid me for my 
trouble by the advice I got from you, not 
many months since, in regard to a certain 
securities company of Ohio. They have 
not gone under ns yet, but our bank peo¬ 
ple informed me when I asked them about 
loaning me money on that stock, should 
I buy any of it, that they would not loan 
me even five Cents on the dollar’s worth 
of that stock. So 1 concluded you were 
about right when you advised me not to 
invest in that class of stocks. Many 
thanks for your kind advice. F. T. w. 
Ohio. 
That's a good test of the value of a stock 
or bond—ask your banker wliat he will 
loan on it. If it has an established value 
and market the banker will agree to loan 
an amount representing a fair percentage 
of its face value. Tf it is merely a specu¬ 
lation, of course he will not loan a cent 
on it. None of the promotion schemes 
will stand such a test. 
T HIS liberal plan puts the famous 
Coleman Quick-Lite Lamp on your 
table where you and yours can en¬ 
joy the wonderful light it gives—300 
Candle Power of pure-white, eye-rest¬ 
ful brilliance, 20 times brighter than an 
old style oil lamp. 
Send at once for the“l0-Day Quick-Lite 
Visit Plan.” Send a post card today and 
simply say: “Send me full particulars about 
your 10-Day Visit Plan” and mention the 
name of your nearest hardware store or gen¬ 
eral merchant. 
This Plan tells you how you may use the 
Coleman Quick-Lite Lamp in your own home 
^for 10 evenings—how you can give it every 
B w your whole family will ben- 
by the remarkable light it 
es—how this lamp will bring 
t mellow radiance to keep 
ing eyes young and treat old 
is kindly—how it will bring 
ppiness and good cheer into 
your home night after night 
for years and years. 
Know all about this liberal offer. More than 
_, a million homes now have the blessing of 
this BETTER light. 30,000 Dealers and Jobbers sell the COLEMAN 
QUICK-LITE—"The Sunshine of the Night.” Write today. 
THE COLEMAN. LAMP-COMPANY 
Desk 37, TOLEDO, OHIO 
In accordance with your advice last 
Spring, 1 refused to pay for the hooks 
the King Richardson Company, Spring- 
field. Mass., sold to my wife. They 
placed the mutter in the hands of an at¬ 
torney here. I told him if the sum he 
would get for collecting this was worth 
more to him than my good feeling toward 
him. go ahead and try to collect it. Later 
he said the King Richardson Company 
had agreed to accept half and I return 
the books. I returned books and told him 
to try to get the half of the balance due. 
lie gave up the job. The company then 
wrote me. demanding a liberal payment 
on the balance due, and that I state just 
when I would make full settlement, and 
stated they held the books subject to my 
wife’s order. 1 wrote them, saying I con¬ 
sidered it quite a joke for them now to 
ask me for a full settlement of account, 
when their attorney had sent me their let¬ 
ter agreeing to take half, but that, since 
the books were being held subject to my 
wife’s order, the order was just to bold 
them and try to find a jury of Rocking¬ 
ham County (Vn.) men who would say 
1 should pay the balance. R. s. s. 
Virginia. 
This is a case where the order was se¬ 
cured by misrepresentation of the book 
agent, and under the circumstances we 
felt there was no obligation on the part of 
the signer of the order to accept and pay 
for the books. The tactics followed by 
the book publisher are the usual ones, 
but where a farmer will stand up for his 
rights, it is rarely that houses securing 
orders by unfair methods will carry out 
their threat to bring suit. 
I have had a bill of $30 against -- 
- of this village for over a rear and a 
half. I cannot got u cent out ot' him. He 
has money, so he could pay me if he want¬ 
ed to. Please advise me what to do. 
New York. F. s. 
There is only one way to collect such 
claims, and that is by legal process. As 
explained in these columns a few weeks 
ago. The R. N.-Y. cannot, undertake to 
collect local claims. The paper has no 
influence with private individuals, and 
has no interest in transactions of a pri¬ 
vate nature between individuals. Where 
the transaction partakes of a nature in 
which the public generally, or our sub¬ 
scribers as a whole, are interested, then 
we are very glad to employ the influence 
of The R. N.-Y. in any way we can to 
the end that justice be done. But we 
canuot meddle in local or private transac¬ 
tions. This is the work of a lawyer or 
collection agency. 
I thank you for your letter and Ameri¬ 
can Express draft for $17.83 in settlement 
of my claim. I appreciate your efforts 
and feel that you were entirely justified 
in insisting on payment. In my judg¬ 
ment the loss was entirely due to the care¬ 
lessness on the part, of the employees of the 
express company. ' It is only fair to say, 
though, that I think conditions in the 
company are now much improved, due to 
the changes inaugurated and put in force. 
I certainly enjoy your paper, and say a 
good word for it whenever opportunity 
offers. A. F. 8. 
New York. 
The claim was a just one. and we re¬ 
fused tu accept a declination. We do 
not always succeed under similar con¬ 
ditions. hut we persist until the last, an¬ 
alysis is reached. We agree with the 
subscriber that, the handling of express 
matter has improved, and the attention 
to claims is more prompt and equitable. 
The shipper must still use precautions to 
prepare bis goods in the best possible 
manner, and also get claims entered 
I wish to inquire concerning the Stand¬ 
ard Food and Fur Association, Inc., 400 
Broadway, New York, The contract is 
rather vague, and the letter sounds like a 
fake scheme. In Farmers' Bullet in (U. 
S. Dept, of Agriculture) No. 1090, there 
is a warning to rabbit breeders against 
the “buy-back” companies. If this par¬ 
ticular buy-back company is not reliable, 
do you know of any that arc? Could you 
suggest any possible way of disposing of 
good stock, particularly for breeding pur¬ 
poses'/ T. c. L. 
New York. 
There is no such “association”—this is 
only a name assumed by Mr. Ileoht. who 
also trades under the name of the Big 
Four Syndicate. We regard this plan of 
selling pet stock on a contract of this 
kind, providing to “buy back” the sur¬ 
plus stock as an undesirable one from 
nn.v poiut of view, except that of Mr. 
Hecht. These dealers do not expect to 
buy back any considerable portion of the 
offspring of the stock which they sell. 
The Department of Agriculture Bulletin 
expresses our sentiments regarding these 
schemes exactly. Two individuals work¬ 
ing this scheme have been prosecuted by 
the Federal authorities. One of them 
went to jail and the other got off with a 
fine. That Mr. Ileeht keeps within the 
law doesn’t make his operations praise¬ 
worthy. This class of advertising is not 
accepted by The R. N.-Y. 
JmL 
The wave - of high ,and Prices may well turn? 
iwvfl• \\> f . *_, yoU i j att c ntl< ?n to the opportunities to be found 
' _in these two older Provinces of Canada. Here, close to im- 
_ mens* cities-great industrial centers-with all the conveniences 
to be found many land anywhere, are farms which may be bought at 
Owners are retiring, independent—in many 
<*‘*y w«ere, are larms wnicn may be bought al 
jo '^ rcasotiable pnce 3 . Owners are retiring, independent—in man> 
cases rich. High prices for all farm products, good markets all the 
> •» conveniences of old, well-settled districts, beckonlyou to investigate. 
A Wonderland of Opportunity for the Pioneer. 
ml n!L Vour “IHP* , wiI1 "pt permit you to buy an established farm. 
It Quebec offer great fertile regions where the pioneer 
■^canhew out a home for himself and family—where prosperity and 
^ 11 i de P ei ’d < -'nce are to be won by those who will nut forth the effort 
IW f Every branch of agriculture may be followed in these Province/ 
wL dairying and stock raising are particularly successful. 
IcBl For. illustrated literature, maps, etc., write Department of 
IWW Immigration. Ottawa, Canada, or 
- —-- ivi an mini pi t liV_ lO. I 
conveniences of old, well-settled districts, becki 
O. G. RUTLEDGE, 301 E. Genesee St., Syracuse, N. Y 
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Canadian Government Agent. 
I have shares in the Schackelford Ran¬ 
ger Oil Company, and in 1920 they paid 
me 2 per cent—$50 in certificate and $30 
in money. In 1021 they were to pay me 
1 per cent monthly. T loid 550 shares, 
which was to be $71 I did not hear any¬ 
thing of them. Will you try to find out 
if it can be collected, and, if so, if you 
will kindly collect it for me? If you 
want the certificates 1 will mail them to 
you. G. w. F. 
New York. 
We can find no record of any oil com¬ 
pany of the above name, but it is the 
custom of the “wildcat” oil promoters to 
pay dividends for a time, just as this vic¬ 
tim stales, in order to make it appear to 
the investors they had really “struck oil,” 
nr, in short, to catch “more suckers,” and 
induce those already hooked to give up 
some more money. Experience is an ex¬ 
pensive teacher, but the lessons taught by 
it are the only ones most of us heed or 
profit by. 
LEADCLAD F0R EVERY 
?T H . WU ROOFING NEED 
HERE'S 
YOUR 
CHANCE 
It, will give you long years of roofing 
satisfaction, 
HWfa /of Sa fit pi4$. 
WHEELING METAL & MFG. CO. 
Dupl L. C. WHEELING. W VA. 
I am sending a folder of the Sherman 
Gasoline Corporation. This corporation 
went through this place and I hear took 
a good many thousand dollars. One farm¬ 
er dose to our home got rid of $2,000. 
Do you know if this corporation is relia¬ 
ble*/ I said that their money was lost. 
The only thing I can see on that folder 
this corporation has to sell is Mr. Gif¬ 
ford’s history . av. a. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
This Sherman Gasoline Corporation 
claims to have a process, invented by 
Ditch and Terrace Now 
To help get bigger crops at less n. I] , - . 
cost I'm going to give 25 I J 
MARTINS to farmers. Get I _| 9 */ £ 
the full story. Write at once. >QlM ] 
The MARTIN makes A ; -shaped tf-tl 
ditches, drainage irrigation 
or cleans ditches down to 4-feet. ZrEv 
Greatest field terracing tool 9 \ 1 ' 
known. Horses or tractor. ■MddVr 
Smashing offer now. Prices Y vW 
slashed. Don't wait. Write ■ nrv* 
OWENSBORO DITCHER U GRADER COMPANY 
Bo* 234 Owensboro, Ky. 
Got Nm* Krutuced Pricer on lleroulrn tiro fasteat, 
nitrating "One*Men" Kami Power Stump 
V. I'ullrr made. Simple, double, triple, quadruple 
V P»wirr I tnurhin,". In one. Move* like a 
>XwhaelH*rmw. tlO down. Eu»r 
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“ Send for 
1 — Catalog No. 530 
HERCULES MEG. CO. 
CENTERVILLE, IOWA 
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