834 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 24, 1922 
PUBLISHER’S DESK { 
I had two small accounts with Kriebel 
& Co., investment securities, 187 South 
La Salle Street. Chicago, when they 
failed. I should be pleased if you would 
take up my claim with the receiver. 
Pennsylvania. A. c. J. 
I paid the E. II. Clark Company, stock 
and bond brokers, 3 Rector Street, New 
York, and Detroit, Mich,, $600. The 
purchase was an investment, and in no 
sense a speculation or gamble. L was 
ready to pay the balance of less than 
$200 on delivery of the certificates, but 
in the meantime E. II, Clark Company 
failed. This money was the earnings of 
my labor, and I cannot afford to lose it. 
Please look after my interests with the 
receiver. L. A. c. 
New York. 
I bought European Municipal and 
Government bonds of ,T. A. Haines Com¬ 
pany. 40 Rector Street, New York City, 
on installment payments. I paid in 
$183. My last cash remittance of $13 
has not been acknowledged, and I cannot 
get a reply to my letters. I would like 
to pay the balance aud get my securi¬ 
ties Can you arrange it for me? 
New York. a. ,t. 
Through Slattery & Co., stock brokers, 
of 40 Exchange Place, New York. I 
bought Sinclair Oil stock on installment 
payments. I have been paying for eight 
months, and made a substantial payment 
when I bought. Ts there any way that 
you could get the stock of the receiver 
which has recently been appointed? 
Through another bankrupt brokerage 
house I lost $2,000. I have paid dear for 
my lesson, but I have learned it. a. a. 
Pennsylvania. 
There Inis been more of this buying of 
stocks on installments of late than we 
anticipated. Sometimes the stocks are 
good, others are highly speculative aud 
many are worthless. P>ut it does not 
matter. The brokers iu this business are 
not stable. You pay in your money, and 
the broker is not responsible to you for 
a penny until you have completed the 
payments. In the meantime he goes 
broke, and you get nothing. If you want 
to lose your money without a gambler’s 
chance, this is a good way to indulge 
your craving for the unknown, but you 
would liave a better prospect of returns 
if you loaned the money to tramps. About 
30 concerns with membership in the Con¬ 
solidated Exchange have gone into bank¬ 
ruptcy recently, aud bow many others 
have gone the same road no one knows. 
There is no record of them, except as a 
particular failure comes to light. These 
concerns are not doing a brokerage busi¬ 
ness, Their transactions arc called 
“bucketing.” This is equivalent to say¬ 
ing that they bet against all their custom¬ 
ers that stocks will go up or down. 
You put up the wager and they hold the 
stakes. When they get a big pile of 
stake money they fail. Sometimes they 
just close the door and walk out. Iu a 
few weeks’ retirement, at a high-class 
hotel on your money they grow a new 
beard or shave an old one. Then they 
open up another office in the same City 
or elsewhere, and play the game all over 
again. 
Every day we are told of the great con¬ 
fidence our people have in Publisher’s 
Desk. Every day w r e caution against 
these swindles. Every day victims of 
them report losses through them. We 
realize that many are saved, and it is 
worth while, but it seems a pity that so 
many fall. You have no more chance in 
this game than a baby lamb in the claws 
of a wolf. , 
As regards this notification, I was 
aware that my subscription had expired. 
I have bought, and set out nearly 1.000 
fruit trees this Spring, and I have been 
broke to the very last, penny. The money 
for this is borrowed from my mother. 
Your paper is valuable. One item in a 
late March issue telling the experience 
of a fruit grower in using .a board with 
notch cut iu side for setting Ireea iu line 
saved me at least two or three days’ work 
and enabled me to get trees in exact line. 
I never mean to take a paper that does 
not pay me the subscription price every 
year. Your paper does it, therefore the 
renewal. * E. J. D. 
Ohio. 
borrowing capital is all right when 
experience aud, good judgment indicate a 
profitable investment of it. We are glad 
to know that this good friend draws a 
regular dividend from liis investment With 
us. We would feel that our work was a 
failure, and our reason for existence nul¬ 
lified, if the paper did not pay a profit 
on the subscription price. 
[FAIRBANKS MORSE 
IhOKE WATfH PUNT 
■furr 
NOW 
A couple of slick gentlemen are visit¬ 
ing well-to-do farmers in this county sell¬ 
ing Oklahoma oil stocks. They get some 
money, too. D. v. 
Nw York. 
We do not know whether it is conceit 
or gullibility that prompts people to make 
investments in things they never saw on 
the advice of strangers who get the 
money. Farmers would not buy land or 
cows or horses on any such representa¬ 
tion. The most prevalent cause is prob¬ 
ably the lure of the unknown and just 
a suspicion of avarice. They listen to 
(he promise of big profits, which never 
materialize. Wo always feel sorry for 
the man who works hard on a farm and 
allows ’’slick gentlemen” to allure the 
savings from him. Don’t: do it. 
I ordered two grapevines and two pop¬ 
lars from an agent of the C. IT. Weeks 
Nursery Co., Newark, N. Y. They were 
dead when delivered, except one grapevine. 
I told the agent I would not accept them 
in that condition, but he said I would 
not have to pay for them. 1 paid for 
the one grapevine and wrote the Weeks 
Company about the others. They replied 
that they would sue me for the price of 
the dead plants, which is $1.60. I still 
refuse to pay for dead plants and trees. 
New York. s, w. 
You are light. If yen shipped the 
■Weeks people a basket of grapes, and 
they arrived in condition unfit for use, 
they would think you most unreasonable 
if you demanded pay for them. Let them 
sue. But they will do nothing of the 
kind, aud numbers of such suits would 
be a good thing for farmers. It would 
prove to them that they need not he 
seared into paying unreasonable hills 
through threats of a lawsuit. 
Makes Freshwater Come to You 
farm is ItwUlcostyouonly$125f.o.b. 
m have factory to have this private 
ndcom- pumping station. Pumps water 
and for from shallow well, cistern, spring 
running or lake. Operates from any 
t makes electric light socket or home 
.nitary. lighting plant circuit. Noiseless. 
r „ Automatic. 
Its Automatic Has galva- 
BANKS-MORSE "' 2 n e k d o„ c f' 
2 WATER PLANT 
•oom in Fairbanks-Morse pump: 
lenty of , 
• s tock. Capacity, 200gallons per hour 
>ws give Now is the time to buy at 
t sleek, low price. See the local dealer 
rwater? or write for complete literature. 
Will you look up :t case of eggs fox- me 
and collect for same? On February 27, 
1022, I shipped Ilenry Sloau, 041 6th 
Ave., New York, one case of white eggs, 
valued at $15. 1 have written him twice 
and have received uo answer. The agent 
at our station has traced the matter and 
found the eggs have been delivered. 
New York. J. \v, w. 
Wo refer to the experience of our sub¬ 
scriber merely to emphasize once more 
the necessity of looking up the standing 
of individuals and concerns before making 
any shipments. There is more money lost 
in this way than farmers can well afford. 
In this case Henry Sloan was previously 
loon led at 42 Harrison St., but removed 
to 641 6th Ave, He has now disappeared 
from that place and the post: office de¬ 
partment is unable to locate him. The 
record reminds us of .Tames Wilcox, who 
operated on 6th Ave, a long time and re¬ 
ceived many shipments for which he failed 
to make returns. It will pay better to 
look into the Standing before making 
shipment than after it has been sent. 
manufacturers 
Eastern Branches: New York; Baltimore; Boston 
PER 
ORDER DIRECT FROM FACTORY 
We will send you as many gallons as you 
want of good quality red or brown 
BARN PAINT 
upon riwripi i»f itMnilbailee NVt* an* 
i«t> am) frii supply you with imint for any piir- 
jju.sr. TpII ua your Wttlllx inlu let u« quote vou 
low prices. Wtifiiii khvv you m»>ney by shipping 
direct from one (Victory, .•RitinfMcMoiiCtUHiTiiiteca. 
On orr)for thirty nr■ over w# will prupuy the 
frolirht within » raalue of thr«ro hundred tijfleu. 
AMALGAMATED PAINT CO. 
Factory: 372 WAYNE ST., JERSEY CITY. N. J 
Harry L. Eastman, 619 Williamson 
Building, Cleveland, ()., the receiver for 
the King's Hatchery Co.. Cleveland, O., 
advises us that there is nothing new in 
this matter, but that he is receiving in the 
neighborhood of 200 letters a day from vic¬ 
tims in the various States, and he believes 
letters will continue to come in for several 
weeks yet. As soon as they are all in he 
will procure an order from the court giv¬ 
ing an additional 30 days for (lie filing of 
claims. At the expiration of the 30 days 
he will proceed to find out how many 
claims have been filed and pro rate the 
money on hand. From appearances, he 
states, there will he very little for the 
claimants, as he has now in the neighbor¬ 
hood of $3,500, out of which must be paid 
expenses and the balance distributed be¬ 
tween probably 4,000 ami 5,000 claimants. 
We have a record of $981.85 that our 
people sent to the King’s Hatchery, aud 
there is a small chance of getting any 
large proportion of this returned. Those 
who sent their complaints to us will no 
doubt receive nil affidavit from the re¬ 
ceiver, which is to he filled in and re¬ 
turned. Any others who have claims 
should promptly report them to the re¬ 
ceiver, in order to come in for whatever 
share of the money they are entitled to, 
if it develops that there is any to dis¬ 
tribute. 
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Cloth Sides, Two Tongues Inside. 
Inside of Cover Neat. Lining Paper, 
Stamped in Gold— “Rural New- 
Yorker”— on outside. 
Will hold 52 issues, or more. 
Sent prepaid upon receipt of 
price, 65c. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
From Pittsburgh 
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The‘ puppy had been nunished and was 
sulking in a comer. To him came tlie 
small daughter of the house, to adminis¬ 
ter, not comfort, hut advice. “You may 
just as well he good first as last, Buddy.” 
she admonished. “Everybody that belongs 
to mother has got. to mind. I’ve been 
through it all—and I know.”—Edinburgh 
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