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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 19. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have the following notes signed by the pro 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & Co. 
262 Washington Street, New York, for collection : 
$47.81, dated April 25, 1907, and due in 90 days. 
$25.25 dated July 1. 1907, and due July 30, 1907. 
$25.25, dated July 1, 1907, and due July 16, 1907. 
The notes were issued to Allen B. Wells, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
The Multiphone Company, 141 Broad¬ 
way, New York Cityj has been inquired 
for. The company has been in trouble 
for some time. Judgments have been 
entered, and a receiver appointed. 
Could you not recommend, through the 
columns of your paper, some safe company 
in which its readers could invest small 
sums of money and get a fair rate of 
interest on it? Our local banks pay no 
interest whatever. d. e. 
New York. 
Our advice generally is to invest 
money locally, where you can, so as to 
keep it under your own supervision; but 
where this is not practical you can safely 
place small sums in savings banks that 
pay about four per cent interest, and 
that is really about what the use of the 
money itself is worth. When you get 
more, the extra rate is for supervision 
and risk, and the more you get or are 
promised the greater the risk. We wish 
to insert a word of caution against in¬ 
vesting in the stocks and so-called bonds 
of promoting companies. For the most 
part they are pure fakes, and in any 
case the risk is too much for people of 
small means. People of ample means do 
not touch them, and that is why they 
are offered to the inexperienced. 
We are informed that in your issue of 
August 1 last, you published an article in 
regard to Mr. L. Darbyshire, one of our 
advertisers, in reference to whose respon¬ 
sibility some question has been raised. If 
it is correct, will you kindly forward us 
copy of said issue, addressed to the writer, 
and bill us for same; prompt remittance 
will follow. Thanking you in anticipation 
of your prompt compliance with above re¬ 
quest, we beg to remain, a. h. b. & co. 
Texas. 
Letters like the above are encourag¬ 
ing. It indicates that when readers of 
The R. N.-Y. see fake advertising in 
other papers they are beginning to write 
publishers in protest. In this way pub¬ 
lishers who have never given much at¬ 
tention to the class of advertising they 
carry, provided they get their money for 
the space, will begin to realize their re¬ 
sponsibility. The R. N.-Y. might cry 
against this evil indefinitely and accom¬ 
plish little. When its readers take up 
the work of reform, and protest against 
fakes and frauds in the other papers 
they take the rogues will be shut out. 
LADIES—Good pay on ribbon work, any¬ 
where ; sample 2c. 
After all we have said about the work- 
at-home fakes, some one asks if the above 
is reliable. The first thing the}'- want is 
50 cents for instruction. It is the 50 
cents they want and not the work. When 
you send the 50 cents they will prob¬ 
ably ask for more money for something 
else, and the money bait will be offered 
as long as you bite. 
It is reported that checks sent by 
Kassoff & Son, egg dealers at 34 Jay 
Street, New York City, have gone to 
protest because of want of funds at the 
bank. The check in the alleged trans¬ 
action had been sent a shipper in settle¬ 
ment of an invoice of eggs. 
If not too busy, kindly supply informa¬ 
tion respecting Art Collector's Club, 1319 
Walnut St., Philadelphia, regarding their 
methods, reliability and responsibility. It 
looks to me like a “fake”—a bunco game. 
Rhode Island. r. b. t. 
We did not know these people, and 
could find no rating for them. We ac¬ 
cordingly wrote them, and asked them 
to send us references or statement that 
would justify us in recommending them 
and assuring readers that they would 
get value for their money. We got no 
reply. You can infer why as well as we 
can. 
Some publishers seem to go on the 
theory that the subscribers are to be used 
for the benefit of the paper rather than 
the paper for the benefit of subscribers. 
Week after week you read their editorial 
appeals to readers to patronize their ad¬ 
vertisers, or other clever and semi-dis¬ 
guised efforts to the same end. We 
make no such appeal. We advise our 
people to buy where they can get the 
worth of their money, no matter who 
else gets any benefit out of the deal, or 
who fails to get anything out of it. We 
might, however, give a suggestion to 
those anxious publishers whose papers 
do not seem to pay advertisers without 
stimulants. Let them stop booming 
fakes, and throw out all deceptive and 
dishonest advertising. They will also 
need to stop the deceptive practice of 
printing pure advertisements of respon¬ 
sible houses in one disguise or another 
to make it appear as genuine news or 
editorial discussion. When these things 
are done and time enough elapses so 
that farmers will see that they are in 
earnest, they will have confidence enough 
in the advertisers to patronize them, 
provided the goods are needed. Faith 
in the character and reliability of ad¬ 
vertising columns is getting to be a 
necessity to the selling of goods through 
a paper. Nobody wants to patronize 
concerns at a distance unless he knows 
they are responsible, and frantic appeals 
of the publisher to do so justly in¬ 
crease the suspicions of the reader. 
On page 074, “Publisher’s Desk,” I saw a 
letter asking about Clipper lawn mowers. 
You give them a bad reputation. I have 
worn out three machines of the reel type, 
and discarded a Pennsylvania machine for 
a Clipper, and will say that my Clipper 
runs easier than either of the machines 1 
had before and does better work. One must 
keep it well oiled as a field mower. Another 
reason is that in the busy season the farmer 
cannot get time to mow his yard twice a 
week, and the grass gets too tall for the 
machine if he does not use a Clipper. Then 
again its large wheels allow the machine 
to push easier than a small wheeled reel 
mower on a rough lawn. The only secret 
of success. with the Clipper machine is to 
start it with a quick jerk. Hoping this will 
correct some misunderstanding regarding 
this machine, I remain your steady reader. 
Indiana. w. t. c. 
We are glad to have a letter of this 
kind. We simply want the truth of such 
matters for the benefit of our friends. 
Some years ago our attention was called 
to the merits of the Clipper lawn 
mower. It is designed somewhat on the 
lines of a mowing machine, and it ap¬ 
pealed to us as the right kind of a 
mower for clipping lawns where the 
grass had been allowed to get too long 
for the ordinary lawn mower. On the 
strength of appearances we accepted the 
advertisement; and we doubt if we 
ever had so many complaints from any 
other advertisement that we ever in¬ 
serted. It was sold under guarantee; 
but for some reason our people could 
not make it work. The complaint was 
that it required too much power, and 
that it clogged up. Subsequently the 
firm failed; and the machine fell into 
the hands of an entirely responsible 
house. Possibly they have since, made 
improvements to overcome the objec¬ 
tions ; or it may be that better instruc¬ 
tions in the matter of running it bring 
better results. If there have been other 
satisfactory experiences with it we 
should be glad to hear about them. If 
the present manufacturers should guar¬ 
antee it, we would, for ourselves, con¬ 
sider it safe to try it further. 
Please accept my thanks for check of 
$3.(10 in settlement of my claim against 
Deering Mercantile Co. I enclose post- 
office money order for subscription for five 
of my neighbors for 10 weeks at 10 cents 
each. c. t. b. 
New York. 
This man had sent an order for 100 
pounds of sugar, at $4.98. He received 
14 pounds sugar and 14 pounds broken 
rice. He allowed for 28 pounds sugar, 
but was unable to get the balance. We 
secured a return of the remittance for 
the 72 pounds sugar, and he comes back 
with acknowledgment of the check and 
a remittance for five subscriptions for his 
neighbors. With co-operation of that 
kind we are able to do things for those 
who need a little help. j. j. d. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
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