734 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
'October 5, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
I have written the United Rubber and 
Metal Co., 17.3 Houston Street, New York, 
three times. They must get my letters as 
they are not returned. I sent them goods 
April 29, which ought to have brought $5.60; 
but they sent me check for $2.51, and that 
was protested. p. i>. D. 
Ohio. 
This is a case where we evidently got 
caught. Benjamin Friedman, doing busi¬ 
ness under the above registered trade 1 
name, sent in a little advertising order* 
through another responsible house. Wd 
looked up ratings and references, and 
these being satisfactory, we inserted thd 
advertisement, but soon had complaints 
and promptly dropped it. He was then 
at 432 West Broadway. We have asked 
him several times to make good this littld 
check, but he does not do so, and wd 
have sent the subscriber a check for if 
ourselves. His future advertising in thH 
paper will cost him less than his past 
patronage cost us. 
On March 19 last Mr. A. A. Nord¬ 
strom, Hammond, La., shipped four cases 
of berries to B. Presley Co., 106 East 
Third Street, St. Paul, Minn. He got nd 
returns. After waiting some time hd 
wrote them and got the following reply: 
St. Paul, Minn., April 13, 1907., A. A. 
Nordstrom, Hammond, La. Dear Sir. En¬ 
closed find copy of account sales for four 
cases of berries received on March 19 which 
were credited to L. Thompson of your city 
through some mistake. The stencil No. 3346, 
under which these goods were shipped, was 
originally registered under your name, but 
a line was drawn through your name and L. 
Thompson substituted, we presume on advice 
of some one or other. Hence when these 
berries arrived they were not credited to 
you. We sent L. Thompson sales and money 
order for $5.53 net proceeds of this ship¬ 
ment. Please call on L. Thompson and have 
him pay you the $5.53 which we sent him 
through mistake. This will be your order 
on him for the amount. Yours truly, 
B. PRESLEY co. 
The copy of account sales showed $5.53 
net due Mr. Nordstrom. It was not un¬ 
til June 29 that he called our attention to 
it in the following letter: 
Please find enclosed a sale which has given 
me a great deal of trouble. I drove 11 miles 
to see Mr. Thompson and found that he never 
had shipped B. Presley & Co. anything or 
never received any check from them. He 
says there was a darky named Levi Thomp¬ 
son, who was frequently getting his mail, 
so maybe he got it. Then I wrote to B. 
Presley & Co. and told them what I had done 
and told them it was their mistake and to 
remit for the strawberries, but no answer. 
Now what do you advise me to do? 
Hammond, La. a. a. n. 
We assumed from their own admis¬ 
sions that the matter would be promptly 
adjusted and wrote B. Presley Co. a full 
letter of explanation, and got no reply. 
We have since written them a second' 
time with the same result. The shipper 
is a poor man, and hardly feels like going 
to law about $5.53 with a concern in an¬ 
other State, but the principle is just as 
hi" as if the amount ran into thousands 
of dollars. Every shipper should con¬ 
sider a case like this his personal concern, 
and write Messrs. B. Presley Co. just 
what he thinks of the transaction. Let 
such concerns understand that an injury 
to one farmer is the concern of every 
farmer, and that the offense will be re¬ 
sented by them and more attention will 
be paid to the individual complaint. 
Do you know anything about the Universal 
Trading and Supply Co., of 35th and Morgan 
Streets, Chicago? Is it a reliable concern 
and would you advise one to take, say a share 
of stock in it? J. a. h. 
Iowa. 
Yes. The concern was organized in 
June, 1905, under the laws of Maine. It 
is capitalized at $5,000,000, and the esti¬ 
mate of its net assets by its own officers 
is about $100,000, so that for every fifty 
dollars you pay in for capital stock you' 
get on their own estimate one dollar’s 
worth of property. It is actually discour¬ 
aging to read that $300,000 worth of the 
stock has been subscribed and paid for 1 
by farmers. The principal business con¬ 
ducted so far has apparently been the sale 
of stock. There was a fire in its ware¬ 
house some time ago, but the company 
seems not to have suffered much, if any. 
by it. There is little stock of any kind 
on hand and the impression prevails that 
the business depends largely on the sale 
of stock. There is practically no other 
income. We certainly do not advise oui* 
correspondent or anyone else to take 
stock in a company at par when its assets 
are worth less than two cents on the 
dollar. 
Can you give me any information concern¬ 
ing the inclosed advertisement as to its 
truth or otherwise? M. j. it. 
Iowa. 
The advertisement was of a book which 
promised to tell all about alcohol for fuel 
and light, and promising to tell how each 
farmer could make his own supply of al¬ 
cohol in his own kitchen. We have not 
seen the book. It may contain some in¬ 
formation of value, but if the remainder; 
of it is no more reliable than the parfj 
referred to, it will never pass as a classic. 
Any advertisement that tells a woman she; 
can distill 10 gallons of alcohol in her 
own kitchen with ordinary equipment is a 
fake pure and simple. We wish it were 
true, but unfortunately it is not. 
Agreeable to your notice in recent It. N.-Y. 
I send 70 cents for seven 10 weeks’ trials at 
10 cents each, to be sent to the names given. 
The grapevine you sent me is climbing up 
bravely, and was very welcome—thanks, 
though late for me to say it. With best 
wishes for the good tilings you publish, look¬ 
ing and making for righteousness, b. g. w. 
New Jersey. 
The above is a sample of many letters 
coming in these days, though seven or¬ 
ders from one man is rather above the 
average. The great bulk comes in one 
or two at a time, but if each reader sent 
just one the result would make work 
enough for the.new press from one end 
of the week to the other. By the way, 
I expect some of our good friends are 1 
wondering what has become of that new 1 
press. We contracted to have it in July, 
but the builders put us off until Septem¬ 
ber. Now they say the best they can do 
is to have it ready by November 15. Ill 
the meantime we have to go on doing 
the work on four small presses, and when 
we have extra pages, as this week, it 
takes five presses. Our present edition is? 
not large enough to take up all the time! 
of the new press, which will be capable 1 
of turning out 15,000 copies an hour at 
top speed. In order to do the best work 
we will run it at a much slower speed, 
and yet will be able to get out double 
the list we now have. So that if you feel 
that the work is one you can encourage, 
sneak to your neighbors about it, and send 
in as many of those 10 weeks for 10 cents 
orders as you can. If you would like? 
some of the convenient little enveloped 
for mailing an order occasionally drop us 
a card and they will go straight back to 
you. j. j. d. 
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AND BE SURE TO USE 
FLOWERS 
OF SULPHUR 
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DEALERS IN ALL CRADES OF SULPHUR, 
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rl-"i PAYS THE 
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[ All No. 9 Steel Wire* Well galvanized. Weighs 
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From this size up to largest, sta ndard mills with var¬ 
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Wo pay all freight. Catalog shows 37 
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We offer the FINEST and LARGEST assortment of 
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