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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 30. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
It may interest you to know that I have 
six years (1800 to 1860) of the old Moore's 
11. N.-Y., bound complete and perfect, my 
father having been a subscriber in those 
old days. I keep these papers and treasure 
them. Allow me to add The R. N.-Y. of to¬ 
day is in every way an honor to its worthy 
ancestry. w. a. a. 
New York. 
Of course, we are interested in such 
reports, and we confess to an element of 
pride that these old friends find The 
R. N.-Y. of the present worthy of its 
past traditions. 
A few days ago a slick individual landed 
in town, purporting to be a first-class ocu¬ 
list. and claimed to be carrying out 1 lie in¬ 
struction of the board of health. By so 
doing he succeeded in hoodwinking several 
people, to the tune of $15 and $20 each. 
Just how many lie succeeded in wheedling 
the various sums from I can't say, but he 
furnished several pairs of glasses that were 
no better than ordinary window glass, and 
the same can be had at any store for 50 
cents or a dollar. If this information will 
do any of our readers any good I shall be 
glad. I hate a swindle. ' f. e. n. 
Long Island. 
The above word of caution may put 
others on their guard. Of course, the 
board of health never even heard of this 
chap, and he probably is no more of an 
occulist than you yourself. 
Is Dr. P. G. Curtis, Grenoble Building, 
Kansas City, the catarrh doctor, reliable 
and all right? 
Also the Money & Stamp Brokerage Co., 
150 Nassau St., New York? 
Maine. C. r. 
We would not recommend any doctor 
advertising to cure catarrh. Quacks can¬ 
not know as much about your case as 
your local physician, and the medicines 
are often actually harmful and do you 
more harm than good. Go to your own 
physician and follow his advice. He 
may r.ot say he can cure you, but he 
will give you all the relief medical aid 
can bestow. 
We reported some time back that we 
could find no rating to justify credit to 
the coin brokers, and they refused to 
furnish satisfactory references. 
I send you a bill for $0.60 against D. J. 
Twome.v, Geneva, N. Y., for nursery stock 
shipped him in April last. Can you collect 
it for me? M. N. u. 
New Jersey. 
We are afraid we will not be able to 
collect it. Mr. Twomey does not respond 
to requests for remittances. It is inter¬ 
esting to note that Mr. Twomey operated 
under the Reliance Nursery Company, 
of Geneva, N. Y. We had numerous 
complaints about it, and showed up its 
methods several times. When it failed, 
Mr. Twomey operated under his own 
name, and strenuous efforts were made 
to get his advertising into The R. N.-Y. 
This, of course, was refused. When he, 
starts up under a new name in some 
other quarter, you can be reasonably 
sure that old abuses will be repeated. 
Last Fall I received an order from Mrs. 
Anne Wells Po ock. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 
for 10 gallons of evaporated sweet corn at 
$1.20. I shipped the order and send sent 
bill for $12. She afterwards notified me 
that she had moved to 5 Bloom Terrace, 
Iowa City, Iowa. I have written her sev¬ 
eral times, but cannot ^et a reply from 
her. I would be pleased if you would take 
it up for me. c. c. 
Ohio. 
We have written this party several 
times about this account, but get no reply 
to our letters. We have given every 
opportunity for an explanation, but none 
has come. If the debtor pleaded poverty 
or distress or want of means for any 
cause we would not add to her burden 
or embarrassment; but we have no sym¬ 
pathy for debtors who wilfully refuse 
to pay their just obligations just because 
they live at a distance from their credit¬ 
ors. When they do shippers ought to 
know the unenviable reputation they 
make for themselves. 
The Post Office Department has issued a 
fraud order against the Metropolitan and 
Suburban Real Estate Company of Fifty- 
fourth street, and Thirteenth avenue, 
Brooklyn, denying it the use of the 
mails. The company operated by induc¬ 
ing managers of various places of amuse¬ 
ment to distribute among audiences cou¬ 
pons purporting to represent chances in a 
drawing for lots. To persons who held 
winning coupons the company mailed circu¬ 
lars advising them that they had won a lot 
and also enclosed a certificate which en¬ 
titled the holder to the lot. The “winners” 
were finally informed that a deed to a lot 
in West Hampton Park and recording would 
cost $7.47. The winners were, also in¬ 
vited to buy other lots. The department 
says that its investigations showed that the 
land was practically worthless and that 
the scheme was one to defraud, and one of 
the victoms informed an inspector that he 
would “rather have a deed for the same 
amount of clear blue sky.” 
The above is from a daily newspaper. 
We had the satisfaction of showing up 
this scheme weeks ago, and warned 
many subscribers against it by mail. 
Several companies have been operating 
on practically the same lines. These 
schemes all appeal to our natural cupid¬ 
ity—the desire to get something for 
nothing. The schemer is after the some¬ 
thing. The victim gets the “nothing.” 
About two years ago my mother bought 
one share of stock in the “Philadelphia 
Motor Car Co.,’’ through Wells & Corbin, 
fiscal agents, Land Title Building, Phila¬ 
delphia, l’a., dividends to be paid quarterly, 
or possibly, semi-annually. There has never 
been any dividends come our way and we 
have not heard any word in reference to 
company in over a year. Will you find 
out for us what you can about it, and if 
the stock is good for anything at all? 
Share, $25, but don’t want to lose it if we 
can help. I watch this column closely, and 
you help so many I thought you might help 
us, too. l. c. F. 
New Jersey. 
Wells & Corbin were apt pupils of 
Ostrander. We traced the Philadelphia 
Motor Car Co. back and forth from 
Philadelphia to Chicago, but there seems 
to be absolutely nothing of it except a 
name, and an attachment against it for 
$630 for material and work. We are 
sorry that we are unable to do anything 
for this investor, but the case is hope¬ 
less, and was so from the moment the 
good woman parted with her money. 
Enclosed find renewal. We get a great 
many papers and The Rural New-Yorker 
is not exactly in our line, but wo admire 
the way you go after the grafters, big and 
little, and in my opinion you deserve the 
support of all honest men in every calling 
in life. We read your advertising columns 
carefully and frequently patronise. 
Iowa. j. w. w. 
We are glad that our friends in the 
Western country find a word of ap¬ 
proval for The R. N.-Y. We always 
find big open-hearted people in that 
broad open country, who never hesi¬ 
tate through policy to express their 
honest likes and dislikes. The first time 
I returned from that fertile country I 
said that I believed the people there 
would yet be the salvation of the whole 
country. I have seen no reason to change 
the opinion since. When men think 
honestly and speak frankly it matters 
not whether they are right or in error. 
The country is safe in such hands, be¬ 
cause they have the courage and the 
manhood to correct mistakes, if such be 
made, and stand by honest convictions. 
We like the approval of these men. 
Our surprise can better be imagined than 
described when we received your letter con¬ 
taining $5 from E. G. Lewis, St. Louis, Mo. 
Y T ou certainly do what no other paper can, 
does, or dares do. I do not see how you 
can afford to do it. Thanking you many 
times for your kindness, I remain, 
Michigan. a. b. f. 
This money was sent Mr. Lewis near¬ 
ly six years ago for stock in a bank 
which Mr. Lewis was then proposing 
to organize. The certificate stated that 
in case the project was abandoned the 
money would be returned. The bank 
was not organized, but the money was 
never returned until we demanded it. 
There is just one thing that makes it 
possible for us to do these things. That 
is the confidence and backing of 112,000 
farmers. Let them weaken in their 
support and we would be as helpless as 
newborn babes. Nay, more helpless. No 
one has reason 4o raise a hand or voice 
against the babe, but many influences 
are at work against The R. N.-Y., for 
its part in these things. Every faker, 
every rogue, and every ordinary schem¬ 
er who believes himself privileged to 
rob country people, would like to dis¬ 
credit this kind of work. Mr. Lewis 
publishes two papers with farm titles; 
pages of his papers before us are loaded 
with quack and fake advertisements. 
The people who receive the papers must 
send money for these nostrums and 
frauds, or the business will not prosper. 
There are other papers of the same or¬ 
der. These publishers and their agents 
are working for the existence of such 
papers. If this work succeeds fake ad¬ 
vertisements and the papers that pub¬ 
lish them must die. The R. N.-Y. will 
continue to point out the fakers and the 
rogues. People will not patronize fakes 
when they recognize them. Hence the 
fakers know their only chance of life is 
to shut out the light that illuminates 
their schemes. Just yet I do not believe 
there is another farm paper in this coun¬ 
try that could safely do these things if 
it wanted to do so. It requires first a 
paper of large circulation, and second, 
one whose readers will back it up to the 
last. Yet I believe the time will come 
when every farm paper in the country 
will take the same stand. When they 
do fake business will be a thing of the 
past; and millions of dollars will be an¬ 
nually saved to the people. 
Your valuable letter of the 30th. ult. re¬ 
ceived, with much thanks for your services 
in securing from the Electrophone Go. the 
$5 check which I found inclosed in your 
letter, with much surprise. I was willing 
to call it square, but could not see my way 
clear in sending any more money on the 
instrument, which was no use to me. I 
am also thankful for the year’s subscrip¬ 
tion to The R. N.-Y. which you said you 
would send for the $1.00 I enclosed in my 
letter for your advice in this matter, in¬ 
stead of keeping it for your trouble. 
Pennsylvania. o. s. 
This man ordered an electrophone 
with the understanding that he was to 
pay $10 down and installments follow¬ 
ing, but with the promise that all but 
$5 would be returned, if he did not de¬ 
rive benefit from the instrument. He 
experienced no benefit, but because of 
some technicality, the return of the 
money was refused. On application of 
The R. N.-Y. this was waived and the 
money was refunded to us. 1 he dollar 
referred to was sent us to cover ex¬ 
penses. As we make no charge for this, 
the dollar was credited to his subscrip¬ 
tion account. 
I inclose here an ad- of the Combina¬ 
tion Orchard Co. cut from a New York 
fruit paper, which I think J. J. D. ought to 
show up in the Publisher’s Desk. It seems 
to me a splendid opportunity to get nothing 
for something. I think any publisher ought 
to be above and beyond the desire for gain, 
enough so that he will not bo an aid to 
swindlers in their attempt to despoil his 
subscribers. M. J. s. 
Massachusetts. 
The promoters of this proposition 
may be sincere in their expectations for 
profits; but the predictions and induce¬ 
ments are altogether too good, and 
money put into it is lost the moment it 
leaves your hands. If peach orchards 
and nut orchards were as much of a 
bonanza as these people would have us 
believe, it is a wonder they do not keep 
all the benefits and profits for them¬ 
selves. They will probably tell you it 
is because they need capital to develop 
the business. It has always been a 
wonder to me that people with such 
foresight and ability to make money 
for others have never made any for 
themselves. Our correspondent is en¬ 
tirely right. It is a sorry business for 
any publisher to lead his patrons to 
put their savings into schemes which on 
the face of them are doomed to failure 
—not to say predestined swindles. 
An agent called at my office some two 
weeks ago, taking orders for a volume 
published by the ), “National Alumni.” 34 
Union Square East, New York. With each 
subscriber a lot 25x100 feet, situated in 
Second Ward, Westhampton Beach, Long 
Island, ,N. Y., was to he given. The agent 
also said that no taxes were to be collected 
for five years. Is this a safe thing to go 
into? Can this company give a clear ab¬ 
stract to this property? Enclosed find 
ten cents for copy of The R. N.-Y., with 
hopes that I may receive the information 
to guide me as to whether I would better 
steer clear of this proposition. w. A. D. 
Detroit, Mich. 
It is easy to understand how poor 
people generally, and the illiterate are 
enticed into these schemes, when they 
interest an intelligent professional man 
of affairs, who made the above inquiry. 
We have not data enough to look up 
this particular scheme, but it is not 
necessary to do so. There is land in 
the section worth from $3 io $5 per 
acre. An acre would make about 15 
lots, so that they are worth probablv 
30 cents each. To offer you 30 cents 
off the price would not be a big in¬ 
ducement, but it sounds big to offer 
a building lot. Then you would prob¬ 
ably be obliged to pay for a deed and 
recording, and this would probably 
amount to two or three times the 
value of a whole acre of the land. 
One scheme is to make the cost of deqd 
and recording cover the cost of the 
lot. In other schemes generally where 
the lots actually have a little value, 
they offer to give you a lot for the 
use of your name and influence, but! 
to get it you must buy another lot— 
then you pay for the one as much or 
more than the value of the two. 
J- J- D- 
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Get our fall prices on Poultry 
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335 Howard Street, : : Melrose, Mass. 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or line granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
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In order to make 
room for 3000 grow¬ 
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ducklings, we are 
forced to offer at a 
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A number of choice April hatched cockerels for sale. 
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S O \kl LEGHORNS of exceptional vigor and 
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W ANTED- Fifty Black Minorca Pullets. Would 
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