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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
A little over two months yet, and Tub 
I t. N.-Y. has been a constant visitor to me 
for 39 years, except the first part of 1875. 
T/ong live The R. N.-Y., it is a good friend 
to me. j. i. b. 
Ohio. 
We like to hear from these good 
friends of long standing. Their ap¬ 
proval and confidence encourages us to 
hope that The R. N.-Y. may merit the 
friendship and support of new ac¬ 
quaintances. 
Will you kindly inform me if all the 
firms (3.80) in the list of the National 
League of Commission Merchants, Buffalo, 
N. Y., are thoroughly reliable? w. B. B. 
North Carolina. 
The purpose of the National League 
of Commission Merchants is to have 
only such members as deal fairly with 
shippers, and when any irregularities 
are found we are assured that expul¬ 
sion follows. It could hardly be ex¬ 
pected that any member would at all 
times measure up to the standard, but 
from the pains taken to admit only re¬ 
sponsible and reliable houses to mem¬ 
bership, the list is the most reliable 
guide we have for shippers to different 
markets. Recently we discovered that 
J. J. Pitts & Co., Cleveland, O., were 
members of the League. We called 
the attention of the officers of the as¬ 
sociation to complaints against them 
and presented the evidence. You will 
notice that this firm and Sencabaugh 
Co., of the same city, are no longer 
members of the League. We have also 
called attention to complaints by ship¬ 
pers against B. Presby Co., St. Paul, 
Minn., and we venture the prediction 
that that firm will shortly find it con¬ 
venient to withdraw from membership. 
Occasional exceptions will only tend 
to strengthen the confidence in the 
League, when prompt action is taken 
to expel the doubtful ones from mem¬ 
bership. We find the list useful for 
reference, and with the two exceptions 
above we have always found the 
houses in the League responsible and 
giving general satisfaction to shippers. 
In these matters everlasting vigi¬ 
lance is the price of protection. The 
way to beat the rogues in the commis¬ 
sion business is to patronize only the 
responsible houses, and the League is 
doing a good work in giving it out 
that only reliable houses can hope to 
retain their membership. 
Knowing your willingness to help your 
readers in every way against the schemes 
of the rogues, I send a marked copy of 
“The Woman’s National Daily,” of St. 
Louis, Mo., and ask you to tell us what 
you think of the proposition. It looks to 
us like a fraud. E. a. G. 
Connecticut. 
This is one of a cheap class of papers 
published at St. Louis, the revenue and 
profits of which come from advertise¬ 
ments. The United States postal au¬ 
thorities hold that such publications are 
not entitled to entry at second-class pos¬ 
tal rates unless each subscription is paid 
for by the subscriber. Formerly they 
were mailed in almost unlimited quanti¬ 
ties as sample copies; but the Postmaster 
General denied them the use of the mails 
at pound rates. If mailed at all after 
that they would have to pay postage as 
circulars, and as the publishers could not 
afford this, the papers for a time sus¬ 
pended. Hence you see the necessity of a 
regular subscription list. Now the merits 
of the papers themselves would hardly 
command a large subscription list, and 
small lists would not pay for such papers. 
Hence the necessity of some scheme that 
will result in subscription orders that 
will satisfy the postal authorities. The 
scheme is to induce 100,000 women to 
send orders for 52 subscriptions at $1 
each, for which they are to be called 
“The Founders’ Chapter,” and wonder¬ 
ful benefits are promised them. This is 
just like all the other schemes; you 
are to have great future rewards. The 
prospects are made alluring, but the 
first essential is for you to send your 
money for something that you would 
not pay for as an ordinary, plain busi¬ 
ness proposition. The paper sent us 
contains 32 display advertisements, only 
one of which would be accepted for The 
R. N.-Y.; some of them have been re¬ 
fused ; and many of them quack medi¬ 
cines and fakes of various kinds. The 
people who are induced to patronize 
these advertisements must pay the profits 
of the business. We doubt if there are 
100,000 American women who want a 
partnership in any such traffic. 
Co-operation is the harp on which 
fakers play their most seductive and 
alluring tunes. The Seedless apple 
scheme was to be co-operative; so was 
the American Farm Company’s chain 
of warehouses. The" Cash Buyers’ 
Union, which got about $4,000,000 out 
of the farmers of the country, a single 
cent of which was never returned, was 
only one of the hundreds of colossal co¬ 
operative humbugs of Chicago. The 
promoters of land schemes will all tell 
you that they are co-operative. The 
mining fakes are all promoted under 
the same alluring arguments. Only 
last Winter the Marshall Milling Com¬ 
pany were working the co-operative 
schemes on farmers of Central New 
York a few weeks before they went into 
bankruptcy. We could cite incidents 
indefinitely. Practically every job on 
the people of any magnitude is put up 
on the plea of co-operation, but the in¬ 
variable results are big promises to the 
fellow who puts up the cash, and big 
profits for him who works the scheme. 
Publishing companies which have ex¬ 
hausted their legitimate borrowing ca¬ 
pacity, and others without either capital 
or credit have resorted to the co-opera¬ 
tive forms and arguments to induce 
country people to furnish them money. 
At least a half dozen such publishing 
concerns have failed within recent 
years, with total loss to the people who 
took the bait. The worst feature of 
this is that the press, which should be 
the first to warn the people against such 
schemes, has itself in some instances 
become a factor in developing and en¬ 
couraging the fraud. A careful analy¬ 
sis of any of these schemes will show 
that the advantage is all with the pro¬ 
moter, and that the people never get a 
fair value for their money, and fre¬ 
quently get nothing whatever of value. 
There is one simple test for all these 
fake schemes. No matter how plausible 
the argument, or how apparently fair 
the proposition, nor how alluring the 
benefit and profit appear to you, you 
will always find that you are to furnish 
the cash. No promise of work on your 
part will do. No suggestion of turning 
over the dividends or profits by you 
when they come, will answer. Usually 
no definite, detailed, tabulated state¬ 
ment of assets and liabilities will be 
furnished you. You take somebody’s 
word for great prospects and future 
profits, but as for you, nothing but 
hard, cold cash will answer. Subject 
all the co-operative schemes proposed 
to you to this inquiry: “Do you put up 
the cash, and have I anything in sight in 
return for my money except promises?” 
When the answer to the first question 
is “Yes,” and that of the second “No,” 
you can safely figure that the co-opera¬ 
tion is a good thing for the other fel¬ 
low, but valuable to you only as an ex¬ 
perience. It’s a fake. j. j. d. 
A southern. Missouri man recently 
was tried on a charge of assault. The 
State brought into court as the weapons 
used, a rail, an axe, a pair of tongs, 
a saw and a rifle. The defendant’s 
counsel exhibited as the other man’s 
weapons a scythe-blade, a pitchfork, a 
pistol and a hoe. 1 lie jury’s verdict is 
said to have been: “Resolved, That we, 
the jury, would have given $1 to have 
seen the fight.”—Catholic News. 
What 
do you know 
about Silagre Cut¬ 
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224 pages, 10c coin or 
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1426 W.Tuscarawas St. 
Canton, Ohio 
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The inventors of the Modern 
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Experience, antedating that of 
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Send for our Silo Catalogue and 
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We also make Silo Filling Machin- 
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GREEN! MOUNTAIN 
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l and Gowell Barred Rocks 
raised straight bred utility 
WILSON FAR1I POULTRY CO., Morristown, N. J. 
VAN ALSTYNE’S R. I. REDS —Our past season’s breeding 
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W. P. ROCKS Bred for Beauty and Utility. 
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250 acres of fertile land devoted to the production 
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WHITE LEGHORNS 
PEKIN DUCKS 
In order to make 
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