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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
May 23, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have the following notes signed 
by the produce 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 pro¬ 
duce shipped and sold on commission. 
Repeated demands have been made for 
payment, which has been refused. We 
will accept the face of these notes with 
interest at any time on behalf of Mr. 
Wells, and this notice will be repeated 
in this position weekly until payment is 
made, and so long as Stevens & Simpson 
& Co. continue to solicit consignments of 
farmers. 
The following letter expresses the 
condition so clearly we publish it in 
full without change: 
About two years ago I was persuaded by 
n friend of mine to purchase 600 shares of 
the capital stock of the United Tonopah 
and Goldfield Mines, with the understand¬ 
ing that this slock would increase rapidly 
in price, and that there would be no trouble 
to dispose of it in case of necessity. Since 
I bought this stock I bought a small farm 
of 20 acres, which is in pretty bad shape, 
and as I am burdened with a thousand-dol- 
lar mortgage and a family of seven, it 
keeps one busy trying to make ends meet, 
so I thought. I would try and get my money 
out of this stock. I wrote to the branch 
office of A. S. Wisner & Co. at Williams¬ 
port, through whom I got the stock, and 
the only satisfaction I got was that they 
thought I was very foolish to dispose of 
my stock, as it was worth a great deal 
more now than when I got it. So I thought 
I would take the matter up with the office 
in New York, which I did, and met with 
about the same success. I wrote to the 
Williamsport office several times since that, 
but failed to get an answer, so I thought I 
would write to you to see if you could do 
anything for me in regard to this matter 
with Mr. Wisner, as I see that you have 
helped quite a few poor fellows in different 
cases, and probably you can help me. If it 
is true, as stated by both offices, that this 
stock is much more valuable now than 
when I bought it, I see no reason why I 
can't get my money back at least. It is 
only $30, but you can’t imagine the big help 
it would be to me at present, reader. 
Pennsylvania. 
We took the matter up with the brok¬ 
ers, A. L. Wisner & Co. They reply 
that they are unable to sell the stock 
now at anything like its worth; that 
they did not guarantee to buy back 
the stock, but they promise to exchange 
it for stock in other companies. In re¬ 
ply to this we told them it would be 
satisfactory to exchange it for other 
marketable stock or securities. Answer¬ 
ing this, they say we misunderstand 
their proposition. They simply agree to 
exchange it for stock in some other 
company that has proven successful, but 
the new stock would be in one of the 
companies which they control. The 
scheme is an old one. Ostrander has 
been working it with great success. It 
is a big talking scheme to get the first 
remittance, and it helps appease the 
anger of the deluded investor for some 
time afterwards. You are no better 
nor worse off with one of these stocks 
than with the other. There is no pros¬ 
pect of ever getting anything out of 
any of them. We are sorry for our 
Pennsylvania friend with a big family 
and a mortgage, but we had no illu¬ 
sions in the matter from the first. We 
did not expect to get his money back. 
We feel somewhat like lecturing a man 
with a mortgage and a large family for 
putting his money into schemes of this 
kind, but we know the allurements are 
many, and our sympathies are with 
those who become victims to them. But 
don’t do it again. 
Is the American Society of Equity, of 
which Mr. Everitt is the leading spirit, a 
secret society? Is the society a real bene¬ 
fit to the farmer? J. s. 
Michigan. 
This society was organized by Mr. 
Everitt for the sole and only purpose 
of making sale of a cheap paper that 
would not otherwise attract the patron¬ 
age of farmers. We have previously 
told of Mr. Everitt’s fake schemes, and 
how his sale of old potatoes as a new 
variety drove him out of his home town 
in Pennsylvania. Nothing with which 
Mr. Everitt has had anything to do in 
the past has ever been a real benefit to 
farmers, as far as we are able to find. 
Many well-meaning people, however, be¬ 
came members of this society, as Mr. 
Everitt attacked real evils, and was very 
plausible in his promises of service to 
the members. As president of the so¬ 
ciety he made a contract on behalf of 
the society with himself that his paper 
should be the official organ of the so¬ 
ciety for 40 years, but at the last an¬ 
nual meeting the members began to 
show that they were “on to” the whole 
game. They repudiated the contract, 
and elected a new president. Then Mr. 
Everitt bolted. He called a new meet¬ 
ing of those who would follow him, 
and declared himself president, so that 
now there are two societies and two 
sets of officers. Farmers are pretty sure 
to get some benefit out of any society 
they organize themselves, and run them¬ 
selves, but they cannot hope for benefit 
from farm associations organized by 
fakers for their personal interest. 
Please inform your readers bow the Di¬ 
rector of Farm Institutes gets bis office. 
Is be appointed by the Governor? How 
much is bis salary per year? As Director 
of Institutes does be employ the speakers 
who make the rounds of the State? How 
much do the speakers get? Are the con¬ 
ductors paid anything? Please give partic¬ 
ulars regarding the Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment of New York State, and bow long has 
Dawley been Director? J. H. p. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
In New York State the Commissioner 
of Agriculture is appointed by the Gov¬ 
ernor, and the Commissioner appoints 
the Director of Institutes. The law 
creating the Agricultural Department 
was passed in 1893, and Mr. Fred C. 
Schraub was the first Commissioner. He 
was succeeded in 1896 by Charles A. 
Wieting, who held the office through re¬ 
peated reappointments up to April, 1908 
—12 years. Frank E. Dawley has been 
Director of Farmers’ Institutes during 
Mr. Wieting’s term of office, and is yet 
serving in that capacity under the newly 
appointed Commissioner Pearson. 
The Director decides where and when 
the institutes are held; makes his own 
selections of speakers and local conduc¬ 
tors. He also largely dictates the sub¬ 
jects to be discussed by the speakers. 
The speakers are paid from $5 to $10 
per day and expenses. Some of the 
local conductors are also paid for their 
time and services. The Director is paid 
a salary of $2,500 per year and ex¬ 
penses. To a man with conscientious 
scruples there would be no other rev¬ 
enue from the office, but the place af¬ 
fords many opportunities for easy graft 
to a man inclined to take advantage of 
the situation. 
I received a letter to-day from The Col¬ 
umbia House, Chicago, Ill. What do you 
know about them? c. T. 
New York. 
This seems to be conducted along the 
lines of the Globe Association of Chi¬ 
cago, and the indications are that there 
is a connection between the two con¬ 
cerns. The proposition is to sell mem¬ 
berships for $2.50 each, which propose 
to give you the benefit of buying goods 
from them. It is one of those proposi¬ 
tions that you will never have regrets 
for leaving alone. 
Would you tell me if anything is known 
of the Universal Remedy Co., 524 Walnut 
St., Philadelphia, who advertise to give out 
work? An old lady, a friend of mine, an¬ 
swered. The work is on some articles used 
by women , and looks a little shady to me, 
especially as the candidate has to send a 
dollar for a sample “shield.” They guar¬ 
antee six months’ employment, and I do 
not wish positively to condemn it if not 
necessary, as the old lady really needs work. 
Would you favor me with your opinion? 
Pennsylvana. w. g. n. 
This is one of the work-at-home prop¬ 
ositions that we have so often advised 
our people against. Of all the fakes 
that have come to our notice these home 
work schemes are the meanest because 
they get small sums of money out of 
poor people who can ill afford the loss. 
They take advantage of the pitiable con¬ 
dition of poor and often sick or delicate 
people under the pretense of giving 
them employment to sell them goods or 
material that they would not otherwise 
buy, and for which they have no use. 
The work-at-home schemes are all 
founded, as far as we have ever known 
them, on fake schemes. 
l 7 our paper has given me many ideas 
since my 10 -weeks’ trial subscription 
started. I am discontinuing another farm 
paper and continuing The R. N.-Y., as I am 
sick and tired of reading of “certificate 
bonds,” and “our new building of reinforced 
concrete,” etc, and I might add, I had deal¬ 
ings with one of your “eggs-for-hatehing” 
advertisers, and got satisfactory returns. 
Connecticut. T. l. c. 
The large percentage of renewals 
from those 10-weeks’ subscriptions is 
our strongest encouragement in the pub¬ 
lication of a paper devoted first, last 
and all the time to the interests of the 
subscribers. The old friends of the 
paper would and do naturally renew 
their subscriptions. The renewals of 
these 10-weeks orders indicate a wider 
appreciation based not on habit, or sen¬ 
timent, but on the recognition of real 
service to them. The successful farm 
publisher in the past was one who 
worked his readers directly or indirectly 
for his own benefit, and made of his 
paper a profitable business. It may be 
that the experiment of running a farm 
paper solely for the benefit of the men 
who pay for it and make it possible will 
yet prove, a failure from a financial 
point of view. It may be that it is nec¬ 
essary to fool the people, and coddle 
them, and jolly them into one scheme 
or another in order to get the necessary 
funds to run a farm paper, but we don’t 
believe it. We are going to continue 
the experiment anyway of giving the 
best service of which we are capable. 
If farmers approve and support such a 
paper they will have it. If not, the ex¬ 
periment will be a failure, and the jolly¬ 
ing, leg-pulling, alluring endearments 
will be justified on the ground that 
straight, sincere and honest service 
failed to attract the attention and sup¬ 
port of enough farmers to make such a 
paper possible. From the success of 
the experiment so far we are not much 
alarmed about the ultimate result. The 
prompt renewal of so many of the 10- 
weeks subscriptions encourages us to 
hope that the list will yet be big enough 
to keep our new press busy the whole 
week. That would require just about 
double our present 100,000 subscribers. 
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 10. 
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