646 
THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
May 22. 
% 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
One of my family took two shares of 
stock in the Men and Women Publishing 
Co., Cincinnati, 0.. at $25 per share. The 
magazine. “Men and Women.” suspended 
publication two years ago. They now wish 
to resume, and 
“In consideration of old stockholders who 
held two shares in the old company send¬ 
ing $25 for one share common stock in 
the new company, they will get four shares 
of six per cent preferred stock, making a 
total of stock of $125 for each $25 invested 
in the new company." 
Can you tell me anything about this 
proposition? The new company is called 
“The Men and Women Magazine Co.," and 
Frank X. Piatt is active manager. 
MASSACHUSETTS SUBSCRIBER. 
The proposition is this: You have 
put in $50 and lost it. The old stock 
is not worth a penny. They now want 
you to put in another $50. The old 
argument won’t work, but if they can 
make you think you are getting some¬ 
thing out of the old investment you 
will come in again, so they will give 
you four shares free, pretending it is 
in lieu of old stock, for every share 
you take and pay for in new cash. 
What good is the guarantee and the 
six per cent if the company does not 
earn the dividend and has no financial 
responsibility? The scheme is as old 
as stock jockeying. If you want to 
donate $50 to help the scheme along, 
all right; but do not fool yourself into 
the belief that you are getting any¬ 
thing of value for your lost money, 
or that you are making a safe invest¬ 
ment. You are doing neither. Let us 
again repeat that there are no securi¬ 
ties of publishing business of any 
kind, seeking country circulation that 
are safe and desirable investments. 
They are are all designed to get your 
money without giving you a fair 
equivalent, and most, if not all. of 
them are decidedly on the fake order. 
The enclosed slip was cut from T'p-To- 
Date Farming. Will you kindly let me 
know through the Publisher’s Desk what 
you know about Leonard Darbyshire, and 
his method of selling property? 
New York. subscriber. 
The clipping is an advertisement un¬ 
der the false pretense of being an edi¬ 
torial article. This in itself ought to 
be enough to convince anyone that 
both the advertiser and the paper are 
fakers. We never heard that Mr. Dar¬ 
byshire sold any property, but we 
have met some country people who 
think they were “sold” all right when 
they made him a remittance for his 
scheme. It is simply a modification of 
the Ostrander scheme to get money 
for the pretense of listing your prop- 4 
erty for sale. To our mind Ostrander 
is a respectable citizen as compared 
with the publisher who would admit such 
an advertisement to his columns. 
Jefferson Trust Co.. McAlester, Okla¬ 
homa. Stock shares for sale. 
These shares are being marketed by 
the Sterling Debenture Corporation of 
New York. If you take our advice 
you will leave them alone, with the 
Telepost and Linen Mills stocks. 
The Rurell Syndicate, Fifth avenue and 
26th street. New York. Selling the prod¬ 
ucts of people who manufacture products 
of any kind at home. Five dollars mem¬ 
bership required. 
This is a clever modification of the 
work at home schemes. If you ever 
want any 'service for your $5, keep it. 
I am sending you inclosed a letter from 
the Union Securities Co., of Hartford, Conn. 
They advertised in the New England Home¬ 
stead for a correspondent in every town 
and city. Personally I am not much in 
favor of it hut would like your opinion. 
The N. E. Homestead makes claims that 
their advertisers are “all right.” 
Massachusetts. reader. 
The proposition is to sell six per cent 
interest-bearing bonds, with a bonus 
of stock in the. company equal to the 
face of the bond. The statement is 
made that the stock paid 77 per cent 
last year. You do not need to investi¬ 
gate beyond these statements. It is 
simply absurd. Such stock alone would 
be worth ten times the face value of 
the bonds. Suppose your farm was 
paying 77 per cent profit, what occa¬ 
sion would you have for putting a 
mortgage on it ? It is too good. Leave 
it alone. 
Standard Mfg. Co.. Washington, D. C. 
One pint of milk merged into one pound 
of butter. 
Some one asks what we think of the 
above. We think the farmer who bites 
on any such fake deserves to lose a 
tooth! 
T have just received a check in full pay¬ 
ment of claim of $153.79 against the Rail¬ 
road Co. Thanks to your kind intervention, 
which uplifted me $36 more than I would 
have received if you had not taken the 
matter no. I am hot given to hot air. hut 
you eertainly deserve credit and support by 
all farmers. do not know how to pay 
you for your trouble on my account, as 
you do not charge for your service, but I 
have talked about it to everybody I come 
in contact with, and as a result send you 
ten ten-week subscribers. It would be 
very easy for me to put $1 in an envelope 
and send you ten names for the paper 
and say that was cheap. Rut your assist¬ 
ance is worth a whole lot more to me than 
that, so I talked with these people and 
convinced them of the benefit your paper 
is doing for the farmers and they are in 
duty hound to patronize your paper as a 
safeguard against losses such as mine and 
others we read of every week in your wel¬ 
come paper. Please accept my sincere 
thanks for your assistance in this matter 
and book me as one of your friends. 
New York. w. p. 
This man shipped a carload of hay 
last December to a Brooklyn (N. Y.) 
firm. The car was lost in transporta¬ 
tion and did not reach its destination 
for some three or four months after 
shipment. He then got returns $36 
short of the value of the hay when 
shipped. This amount the railroad 
company has now made good. We can¬ 
not accept pay for a service of this 
kind because we cannot assume respon¬ 
sibility for the legal processes often 
necessary to 'prove the claims; but 
The R. N. Y. exists for what it can 
do for its subscribers, and when it can 
render a service of this kind it is happy 
to do so. This friend has shown his 
gratitude in a very substantia] and ac¬ 
ceptable manner. Ten new subscrip¬ 
tions are always welcome from any 
neighborhood, and when they come as 
a recognition of service, they bring 
especial cheer and encouragement. 
I have received my returns from Chas. 
Richardson, of Ruffalo, for celery that I 
sent him last December, although it was 
the poorest sale of any I received, but 
thanks to you. I dare say I never would 
have got anything if it hadn’t been for you. 
New York. G. b. f- 
We have other complaints from 
shippers to Chas. Richardson, one of 
which we hope to refer to soon. From 
these reports we would conclude that 
it would be wise for shippers to look 
up other houses in the produce com¬ 
mission line. 
Some one thinks that the Clipper 
Lawn Mower Company, Dixon, 111., 
must be all right because they show 
letters from people who praise the ma¬ 
chine. But they guarantee the machine 
to give satisfaction or money refund¬ 
ed; and then refuse to return the 
money. What good would their let¬ 
ters be to a man who could not make 
the machine work or get his money 
back ? 
National Co-operative Society of Chicago, 
III. 
This is a sort of a reorganization of 
the . wreck of the old Cash Buyers’ 
Union, which cost the farmers of the 
country over $2,000,000. All that was 
left of the old company was the shal¬ 
low pretense that the old victims had 
a chance to recover some of their 
losses by putting more money into the 
new concern. It is an appeal to a 
phase of human nature that has cost 
many a victim of a small steal his 
whole fortune. Don’t do it. 
I have a bill standing in New York or 
Rrookl.vn for some apples I sent five years 
ago. They promised to send the money 
but have not done so. What will you take 
to collect it? 
We received the above inquiry from 
a man who is not a subscriber to the 
R. N.-Y. Another man sends a dis¬ 
puted bill for shortage of shipment to 
a commission merchant, three years 
old, and promises to subscribe to tlje 
paper after we have collected for the 
disputed shortage. It would seem that 
these men are ready to profit by the 
power of an organization created by 
their neighbors, but are not willing to 
do anything to help create the power. 
They would not, on the same theory, 
join a volunteer force to fight any 
fire that might occur in their neigh¬ 
borhood until the other members of 
the force had first put out a fire on his 
roof. We are not accepting any 
stunts of this kind as an advance test 
of service. We have taken up cases 
for poor farmers who were not sub¬ 
scribers because they had suffered 
from injustice and got redress for 
them. If a man refused to join 
our volunteer fire committee, and his 
building took fire, I would fight the 
fire, hut I would not guarantee in ad¬ 
vance to do it, in order to induce him 
to help in the next fire that followed. 
Some people can sec no good in any¬ 
thing until it benefits themselves per¬ 
sonally. Others find their greatest suc¬ 
cess and happiness in a service that 
benefits their fellow man. 
In March last. L. S. Shafer, an agent for 
the Franklin Merchandise Co., of Chicago, 
Ill., was brought to our house by a neigh¬ 
bor whom l have known since childhood. 
'I his neighbor introduced him. Mr. Shafer 
began to show his goods. I never before 
saw such a slick talker. When he went 
away he had my husband’s note for $45, 
payable in 60 days, and I signed it too. 
We have cloth for four suits, but the cloth 
does not suit us and we are to exchange 
it at the stoic in Troy when we go to 
have the suits made. Several from here 
have been to Troy and say the cheap lin¬ 
ings are no good, and the $6.50 linings 
not good either, and must he ordered from 
samples. lie was in a hurry to catch a 
train, but left me a book of coupons marked 
worth $15, which lie said would bring the 
suits down to $30. When be was gone I 
examined thmi and found that tlie cou¬ 
pons wore no good until I bad bought $150 
more goods of tlieir Chicago store. I sent 
him word to call, but he passed the house 
twice since and never stopped. The suits 
will cost us $45 for cloth: $26 for lining, 
and $2.80 fare to Troy, making $73.80. I 
don't: know how we can raise the money. 
Can you help us any? We will give them $5 
and return the cloth for our note. 
New York. victim. 
Wie- had little hope that anything 
could be done with these people. A 
bird seldom gets away after be is once 
caught safely in the serrated jaws of 
the trap. But we asked them to take 
back their goods and $5 extra in re¬ 
turn for the note. _ They refused to do 
so. The agent said that they could 
have the clothes made any time in a 
year; but these people received word 
that the store at Troy was to be closed 
May 1, and later they write us as fol¬ 
lows : 
We all went to Troy, April 29. We 
could hardly find the slore. If was a small 
affair, with no sign. We got measured and 
paid them $68. We are poorer hut wiser 
by that much. Lots of people were bring¬ 
ing suils back that did not tit. Everybody 
was mad. Everything in the store was 
of the cheapest and poorest kind of goods. 
Several from our place just paid their 
money and kept the goods. They will 
hire some one else to make them up or 
keep them as a warning against other 
schemers. The agent who was here is 
working along tlie Hudson river towns now. 
I wish some one would warn the farmers. 
Well, The R. N.-Y. has been warn¬ 
ing the people for more than a year 
on this scheme. The same story fol¬ 
lows them wherever they go. From 
the nature of the business it is not 
possible that this concern could send 
agents to sell and tailors to make up 
the goods, and sell them at the prices 
charged for the same quality of goods 
in local stores To combat this com¬ 
mon-sense conclusion, they tell you a 
fictitious story about getting up clubs 
at a low price for advertising pur¬ 
poses. From all over comes the re¬ 
port that the goods are poor in qual¬ 
ity, poorly made, and seldom if ever 
fit. 
Can you tell me as to the reliability and 
responsibility of one George W. Ilolbert, of 
Elmira, N. Y., who claims to be able to 
wipe out abortion from a herd of cattle in 
a few days with no trouble to tlie owner? 
Ohio. t. H. M. 
If Mr. Holbert promises this, be 
promises too' much. It cannot be done. 
The most essential feature of any treat¬ 
ment is sanitary measures on the *part 
of the owner. 
.T. T>. Weaver, president of the Salobro 
and I’ardo Development and Transportation 
Co., 29 Broadway, Now .York. Offering to 
sell stock to young men, and give them em¬ 
ployment in the company. 
Don’t buy stock on any such induce¬ 
ments. After such stocks are paid for 
an excuse is easily found to terminate 
the employment. It is a familiar 
scheme to induce the sale of stock. 
Industrial Savings and Loan Company, 
Broadway and 42d street, New York City. 
Because of the connection of the of¬ 
ficers of this company with a specula¬ 
tive real estate company and the op¬ 
portunity it affords for complications, 
we would not advise the deposit of 
funds with them. On this ground the 
advertising has been refused for some 
two years. 
Angle Lamp Company, New Y’ork City. 
This company is financially respon¬ 
sible. The lamps give satisfaction gen¬ 
erally. Some people are very enthu¬ 
siastic in praise of them; others do 
not find them satisfactory. The com¬ 
pany guarantees to refund in such 
cases; but in some cases the delays in 
refunding have made annoyance and 
dissatisfaction. The company is not 
definite in its statements about refund¬ 
ing express charges, but it refuses to 
refund for express, and this has also 
caused some dispute and dissatisfac¬ 
tion. To sum up: If the lamp does 
not suit you, you can get your money 
back, but it is likely to be attended 
with delay, and require persistence on 
your part. You pay the expressage 
one way and this is not refunded. 
j. j. D. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
It. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal." See guarantee page 10. 
CHARCOAL FOR POULT 
pet better results from your poultry by feeding Indian 
Brand Charcoal. Very valuable. Write to day. 
THOMAS BROS. CO., 825 Allen Street, Plill, ADEI.PIIIA 
’09 SQUAB BOOK FREE 
Plymouth Rock Squabs are largest, most 
We were FIRST ; our birds and 
lods revolutionized the industry. 
Send for our 1909 Free 
Book, telling “How to Make 
Money Breeding Squabs.” 
PLYMOUTH KOOK SQUAB CO. 
335 Hotvaid St. Melrose. Mass. 
? We are breeders of Single 
J and Hose Comb White 
Leghorns, Barred and 
, White Rocks, White Wv 
andottes: also Imperial 
and genuine Japanese breed of Pekin Ducks and 
Bronze Turkeys. We offer eggs of the above kinds 
of chickens from superior prize matings for $3 00 
per setting, *15.(10 per 100. EggsJ'rom good utility 
stock. 11.50 per setiing, $t5.0() and *8.00 per 100. Eggs 
from Imperial Pekins, *1.50 for 10. $8.00 per 100: and 
Japanese breed, $2.50 for 10. *15.00 per I0u. Laigest 
plant in vicinity of New York City. Incubators. 
10.000 eggs capacity: 2,000 layers. Stock lor sale. 
Send for circular. Correspondence invited. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM, 
New Rochelle, N. Y, 
Best Quality White Leghorn 
Rally Chicks. $10 per 100. Eggs for hatching. WARE- 
HILL POULTRY FARM. Pulton, N. Y. R. I). 7. 
EMPIRE STATES. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
Winners at N. Y. State Pair; heavy layers; Trios, 
$5. Eggs for hatching, $1 for 15, $5 for 100. ( atn- 
iog free. C. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
BREEDING STOCK—EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
We have made a marked reduction in 
our prices, for balance of season. 
WOODLANDS FARM, Ine., Box D, Iona, N'. J. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
Mating List will be .Sent on Request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, C02 Fifth St., Brooklyn. X.V- 
DAVIS S. C. R. I. REDS 
200egg strains. Greatest Winter Layers known. 
Large Brown Eggs, $5.00 per 100; Special 
Matings, $1.50 per 13; $10 per 100. Circular. 
DAVIS POULTRY FARM, Berlin, Mass. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Eggs for Hatching from 700 mature birds. Bred for 
vigor and egg production. Write for prices. 
WHITE & BICE, Yorktown, N. V. 
P RIZE W I N X I N G ST It A I N S—Barred Hocks. White 
Wvandottes, Rhode Island Reds, botti combs; White 
and Brown Leghorns, single combs; Light and Dark 
Brahmas; eggs, $1.00, 15. $5.00. 100. Address 
F. M.PRESCOTT, Riverdale, N. J. 
RADY Chicks 15c each, $15 per 100. Book 
■***■* 1 orders now. World's Rest R. I. 
Reds. Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit winners. 
Stock,eggs. Cornish Farms, Edwardsburg, Mich. 
A merican Pet Stock Company, Collins, <). 
All varieties Standard Bred Poultry and Dogs. 
Stock always for sale. Eggs for Hatching a Spec¬ 
ialty. Bronze Turkeys. Cockerels of all Varieties. 
S. C. WHITE LF.6H0RHS-W;„n c rS 
CHAS. J. LISK. West Coxsackie. N. V. 
W A NT EI), Pheasants.a 11 varieties,Peafowl,Wi Id 
Ducks, Geese. Homers, Squirrels. Angora cats. 
Bantams, Quail. All kinds of eggs for hatching, Ban¬ 
tam eggs. A. Mackenzie,Woodcliff.Poughk’psie,N Y. 
W E ROCKS exclusively, trap-nested, bred to 
i lay. Eggs for hatching, balance of season *f 
for 15; $5 per 100. A. S. BRIAN, Sit. Kisco, N*. V. 
W ILD ami BRONZE TURKEY EGGS For 
Sale. Eggs for Hatching. Pure bred chickens 
and eggs. Prices low. Handsome catalog free. Sat- 
isfaction. Valley View Poultry Farm, II. 1, llelletille, Pa. 
E GCiS $1.00 per 15, £2.00 per 40. From Thoroughbred 
Brahmas. Hocks, Wyaiiilottes. Reds, Leghorns, S. Ham 
bui’KH. H varieties. Catalogue. 8. K. MOilH, Poopershurg, Pu. 
W RIGHT’S White Wyandotte Winners— 
Eggs $1.00 per 100; Baby .Chicks $10.00 per 100. 
GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
T URKEY EGGS—B. Red; Narragansett; yd.l,$4 
peril; yd. 2. *3 peril; M. B.&W. H.,yd. 1, $3 per 11; 
yd. 2. $2per 11 . S. Dnrigg& Son,Armstrongs Mills,0. 
... - - —- ■ ■ -. . * -- 
E GGS—Barred Rocks, Brown Leghorns, 15 for $1. 
Bred to lay strains. Nelson Bros., Grove City,Pa. 
GOLDEN ROD POULTRY YARD Pure Buff Rock Eggs 
(J for batching. 75c. per setting, $4.00 per hundred. 
Stock farm raised. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Address 
HOWARD SUTTON. Fail-mount. N. J. 
P oultry men—Send 10c. for our 19u9 Catalog, chock full of useful 
in foramnion. Describes and illustrates 3;» varieties. You can't 
afford to be without it. Hast Donegal Poultry Yards,IMariet ta,Pa* 
E GGS FOR HATCHING. “Only the Best.” Barred Rocks* 
White Wyandottes, $1; Silver Laced $1.50;S. C. Rlack Orping 
tons $2 and $3 per setting 15. Hulls Kye Hennery, Iroubrldge, Pa- 
NDIAN RUNNER DUCK EGGS— F, om 260 Egg strain Eggs $2.00 
lor 12. Light Brahmas Prize Stock Eggs $1.00 for 15. 
C. GORDON, Spraker8, New York, 
MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKSi^UTj& 
Beds and S. C. White Leghorns, 15. $1 ; lot), ®5. 
GEO. W. DkRIDDER, Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
VAN ALSTYNE'S R. & S. COMB R. I. REOS-Eggs for liateli- 
ing from stock bred for vigor and egg production. 
Edw. Van Alstynk & Son, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
B l'FF, Wli. Leghorns, Eggs 75c. per 15, $1.25 per 30 :S.C. It I. 
lieil, Mottled Ancona Eggs, 90c. per 15, $1.50 per 30. Cata¬ 
logue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Guakertown, Pa. 
W D RflPI/Q— Bred for Beauty and Utility. 
■ I i nUul\0 Pullets, $2.00 to 83.00; Eggs $ 1.00 per 
13 tind $3.00 per 15. Bred to lay S. C. R. 1 Reds. Eggs 
$1.00 per 13. SI. L. RICE, Asliburnliam, Mass. 
B ABY CHICKS IOc. EACH. Single comb 
White ami Brown leghorns from free range, 
selected, healthy stock. Can furnish in any number. 
Circular free. Address CHAS. R. STONE, 
Baby Chicken Farm. Staatsburg-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
S O W I PRUHRNQ of exceptional 
, If. Ltununflo vi}J<>r and quality 
250 acres of fertile land devoted to the production 
of an unequalled strain of this greatest egg-breed. 
Eggs, young and old stock, at reduced summer 
prices. Send for circular. 
Mt. Pleasant Farm, Box Y, Havre de Grace. Md. 
BUTTERCUPS 
t breed w Record— 300 Eggs Per Year 
CIRCULARS AND PRICES SENT WITH PLEASURE 
J. S. DUMA4LESQ, (Cato’s Hall), EASTON. Ml). 
