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the rural rrw-vorker 
June 19, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Will you tell what you think of the 
Woman's Business Exchange, Durham, 
Conn., ami oblige a subscriber. 
New York. mbs. ft. a. 
It is one of the work-at-home fakes. 
Leave it alone. 
Inclosed letter just received from 
Leonard Darbyshire, of Rochester, N. Y. 
The price is now reduced from $10 1o $2. 
Virginia. a. g. ,r- 
The above is from a farmer who de¬ 
clined to send $10 as an advance fee 
for selling or listing his farm. The 
same offer is now made for $2. Per¬ 
haps, if he waits long enough, the price 
may yet be reduced to 30 cents, which 
in our estimation is more than it is 
worth. 
Please look up the standing of Geo. F. 
Cole, 118 Commerce street, Boston. Mass. 
I made him a shipment of onions March 
25 and can get no returns from him. 1 
have written several times and got only 
promises. f. e. b. 
Massachusetts. 
Mr. Cole writes us that he has small 
capital, but that he is honest and wants 
to pay his bills. Of course, he has no 
financial rating. He sent us $20 for 
the above shipper, which was full for 
the sales. 
Walter Mills, 46 Clinton Street, Boston, 
• Mass., Produce commission merchant. 
He was recently tried in the United 
States District Court for defrauding 
shippers and fined $500. He used the 
familiar methods of promising prices 
above the market. It is said that he 
got fully 10,000 barrels of apples from 
farmers that he never paid for. He 
can well pay $500 fine out of the steal¬ 
ings. He will probably continue the 
business. Look out for him. 
Those city people who profess to be¬ 
lieve that gold bricks are sold only to 
farmers may be interested in the rec¬ 
ord made by John C. Davis, of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., with his Potomac Build¬ 
ing and Loan Association. Davis is 
now under arrest on the charge of re¬ 
ceiving money under false pretenses. 
It is said he has collected about $200,- 
000, mostly from employees of the Gov¬ 
ernment, and only 70 cents was found 
among his assets. A big story of fu¬ 
ture profits is the bait of all such 
schemes. 
E. C. .Stone, of Armstrong, Ill., who is 
secretary-treasurer of the “American Hamp¬ 
shire Swine Record Association,” has failed. 
His liabilities are estimated at $20,000, 
with assets amounting to $4,000 to $0,000. 
Mr. Werneigh, a man over 70 years of age, 
who has been his best friend and heaviest 
backer, will be financially ruined. It is 
not yet known to what extent the “Hamp¬ 
shire Swine Record Association” will suffer 
by Mr. Stone’s downfall. Mr. Werneigh 
was also on Mr. Stone’s bond as treasurer 
of the Association. joiin goodwink. 
Illinois. 
The above record has just reached 
us. Farmers should see to it that their 
organizations be officered by men of 
sound financial standing, as well as 
high moral and business integrity. 
On July 31 last we shipped six carriers 
of peaches to the Dudley Produce Co.. Par¬ 
kersburg. W. Va., at a price previously 
quoted them of $1.25 per carrier f. o. li. 
Sleepy Creek. They made no comment on 
the shipment, but ordered 10 carriers more. 
Not knowing the firm we asked them for 
reference before shipping. They did not 
send reference nor check for shipment, 
neither did they reply to our bills or letters 
until December 1, when they sent check 
for three carriers, and wrote across bill that 
the other three were badly damaged. We 
tried to get them to explain, as we had no 
complaints of damaged fruit from other 
sources and had no reply. They still owe 
us $3.75. We had to write several times 
and finally threaten them before getting the 
first remittance. s. c. o. c. 
West Virginia. 
They neglected to reply to our first 
letter, and returned the second with a 
pencil scrawl to the effect that they 
owed nothing as they sent amount less 
bad peaches. It is enough that they 
hold returns from July to December 
and then return what they please. 
The Currier publishing Co., Chicago. III., 
guarantee to refund our $5 if, after adver¬ 
tising my patent in their Everyday Life 
Magazine for three months, it is not sold 
within that time. Is it wise to risk it? 
Massachusetts. w. v. t. 
We would not risk it. This scheme 
recently adopted by cheap papers is 
the Ostrander real estate scheme 
adapted to an}- old thing you have to 
sell. They promise to make the sale, 
but your promise to send the cash 
won’t do. You pay in advance. With 
Ostrander it was a listing fee. With 
the patent attorneys it is a registering 
fee. With the cheap papers it is an 
advertising fee. Cheap papers loaded 
with patent nostrums and fakes of 
various kinds used to be sent through 
the mail in large quantities as free 
samples. The Post Office Department 
is now restricting them to actual sub¬ 
scribers, and they probably want the 
record of the remittance to persuade 
the officials that they have actual sub¬ 
scribers. A subscription is always in¬ 
cluded in the proposition, of course. 
Besides, few people < who send the 
money now would think it worth while 
to follow it up three months hence in 
the hope of getting it back. It is cer¬ 
tain that they have no clientele to in¬ 
vest in patents, and it is not conceivable 
that they expect to do so. We simply 
advise you to keep the five. 
The Universal Milk and Cream Com¬ 
pany, with an address at 103 Broome 
Street, New York City, recently got 
control of one or two creameries in 
Chenango county, New York, and at 
least one near Hop Bottom, Pennsyl¬ 
vania. At the latter place they leased 
the co-operative creamery from farm¬ 
ers and contracted to pay on the fifth 
and twentieth of each month. When 
they owed the farmers three to four 
thousand dollars they closed up, and 
let the farmers take back the creamery. 
They also failed in the Chenango 
county creameries about the same time, 
and it is reported they owe the pro¬ 
ducers there much larger amounts. Tt 
seems that David Malter is about all 
there is to the company. About two 
years ago he was the Malter Co., Inc., 
in the same business at 437 E. Fifth 
street. While there a judgment of $172 
was entered for goods sold and de¬ 
livered. He is doing only a small bus¬ 
iness at the Broome street place, and 
no statement of responsibility has been 
furnished. There is absolutely no basis 
for credit, that we can find. If the 
producers of milk had made inquiry of 
us we could have told them this 
months ago, and saved them thousands 
of dollars. Why farmers will go on 
and produce milk and deliver it to such 
concerns is more than we can under¬ 
stand. For the last 25 years the trick 
has been played over and over again, 
always with the same result. Next year 
Mr .Malter will probably go to a new 
neighborhood, rent a creamery, promise 
to pay a little more than any one else, 
and repeat the same thing. Of course, 
lie will operate under a new name. 
Sooner or later farmers will have to 
wake up to the necessity of knowing 
the responsibility of concerns to whom 
they deliver produce, and to whom 
they send remittances. When they do 
some rascals who live in idle luxury 
now will have to work for a living. 
My experience with Hie Temple Pump 
Co. of Chicago was very similar to Mr. 
Leonard’s. They guaranteed satisfaction 
or return of money. I bought a six horse¬ 
power and paid $225 for same. It never 
gave satisfaction, and l could only use one 
cylinder at a time. If I ran both at once 
the speed would be so uneven I could not 
use it for power purposes. I bothered with 
it for about three months and returned it 
to the company, and requested the return 
of my money as per their agreement. They 
would not do that, but returned the en¬ 
gine at my expense and said that the 
engine was all right, and the trouble was 
all owing to my “lack of experience” and 
"ignorant tinkering,” etc. I had owned 
and run a gasoline engine over three vears 
before getting the “Master Workman.'” I 
never took the engine from the station 
after they returned it, but traded it as 
part payment for a seven horsepower 
"Alamo.” I lost $175 on the “Master 
Workman.” The agent with whom I 
traded sold the engine to a party in the 
western part of the State for $50, and I 
hear he never could make it run satis¬ 
factorily. This was five or six years ago, 
and several would-be purchasers of “Mas¬ 
ter Workman” have written me concern¬ 
ing my experience with the above engine, 
and I told them just how the engine 
worked and how the company used me; 
and the company wrote me a threatening 
letter stating if I wrote to any more par¬ 
ties concerning them or their engine they 
would enter suit against: me at once with¬ 
out notice for heavy damages. reader. 
Maine. 
If the Temple Pump Company would 
tell us just what conditions they would 
consider sufficient reason for the return 
of their indefinitely guaranteed engine, 
and the refunding of the money less 
freight one way, we would like to pub¬ 
lish the information for the benefit of 
intending purchasers. The correspon¬ 
dence before the sale would seem to 
indicate that it would be the easiest 
thing in the world to get the money re¬ 
funded. We invite them to state 
plainly just what conditions they would 
regard as justifying a return of the 
engine and a demand for the money. 
If _ the guarantee has any meaning 
which applies after the sale, we would 
like to know just what it is. The Tem¬ 
ple Pump Company, evidently makes 
free use of threatened prosecutions to 
avoid the passing around of informa¬ 
tion about the failure of their engines 
to work, and their failure to keep their 
guarantee. When a farmer fails to get 
the engine to work, and says so, they call 
it blackmail and threaten prosecution. 
They have also charged The R. N.-Y. 
with blackmail, because it insists on 
their making good their guarantees, as 
we and farmers generally understand 
them. But we want to be fair. Let 
them tell us how and what they mean 
when they say they guarantee protec¬ 
tion to every buyer! j. j. p. 
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13 and $3.00 per 15 
$1.00 per 13. 
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