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'THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Juno 10, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Your letter with check for .$300 from 
Geo. Currier received Monday. Thank you 
again and again. M. w. 
Massachusetts. 
This subscriber bought stock in the 
Currier Pub. Company, of Chicago, Ill., 
with a guarantee of dividends. The 
dividends were paid for a time and then 
stopped. The Company, of course, is 
under no obligations to redeem its 
stock, but in view of the representa¬ 
tions made at time of sale, Mr. Currier 
consented to take it over. 
As I have no funds at present for such 
tempting bait as the inclosed stock of The 
Bible Calendar and Publishing Co., offered 
in the accompanying letter from your city, I 
pass it along for your consideration. 
Colorado. G. D. r. 
These people have gone a long way 
in search of easy money. Any stock 
that requires a guarantee is not in 
itself a sound investment, and such 
guarantees are of any account only 
when you know the guarantor is re¬ 
sponsible and that he will remain so. 
Let publishing company stocks alone. 
For more than a generation farmers 
have been swindled and robbed by pro¬ 
duce commission men in New York and 
other cities, large and small. These 
houses receive the goods and return lit¬ 
tle or nothing as they please. The Col¬ 
lin bill was introduced at Albany this 
year to reform some of the abuses. It 
was defeated in the Assembly by a vote 
of 35 to 58. A few dozen commission 
houses have more influence at Albany 
than all the farmers of the State. No 
matter what the pretense of those who 
opposed this bill, the real argument was 
for the privilege of plunder and rob¬ 
bery. 
My wife received a check from W. M. 
Ostrander Co. of New York to be used as 
first payment for a lot in Lincoln, X. J., 
near New York. Isn't this the same man 
who used to offer to buy or sell real estate 
anywhere at any time? I enclose the 
check. Please return it as I need it to 
kindle the fire in the morning. e. h. b. 
Massachusetts. 
Some time back one of our subscrib¬ 
ers bought two of these lots for $225. 
After paying $90, he asked us to look 
them up. The best estimate we were 
able to get on them was $15 apiece, 
and no market for them at that. An¬ 
other woman bought two lots and after 
paying about $600, offered $300 in one 
sum to close up the balance due. Os¬ 
trander accepted, and she sent the check 
to us to get the deed for her. We found 
that the lots were not worth the $300 
and returned the check to her, advising 
her to drop the whole thing. And she 
did. The R. N.-Y. people are not likely 
to bite on such tempting fakes. 
I have become interested in a man by the 
name of Jared Flagg. lie is not on the 
stock exchange, but does business through 
them, I believe. If you invest $100 he 
claims it will earn about $50 in one year. 
Do you know anything of this man acid 
would you consider it a fairly safe invest¬ 
ment? u. a. s. 
Connecticut. 
If apparently sensible people were not 
getting caught with such chaff every 
day, we would not think a question like 
the above asked in good faith. If any 
man could make a hundred dollars earn 
fifty dollars within a year, don’t you 
think he would do it for himself rather 
than for you ? Do you call it an invest¬ 
ment to send money to a man about 
whom you know nothing, on the 
strength of a big promise? The prop¬ 
osition is evidently presented as a gam¬ 
ble. The money could not legitimately 
earn so much. If you make it, some 
one else must lose it. But there is no 
danger of your making it. In all such 
cases you lose your money, and the 
other fellow finds it. 
Yesterday a “lightning rod man” called 
here and induced my husband to sign a 
paper seeming to be an order for St. Louis 
Lightning Itod Co.’s goods of copperized 
lightning conductor to rod the barn. The 
whole job is to be done for $10, being I think 
about one-tenth the actual cost. He claimed 
he wanted to do it as an advertisement. 
There is no firm’s name on the order or any 
address; only “C. S. Devore, agent,” 
stamped on older blank, and C. J. Bowers 
is the name the .man signed who was here. 
This tiling looks very suspicious to me and 
I write to know if you know anything 
about it. F. c. h. 
New York. 
Farmers ought to be suspicious of 
agents who claim they give $100 worth 
of goods for $10 for advertising or any 
other effect. Agents do not run 
through the country showering such 
favors on you. In this case the order 
seemed simply to call for the goods of 
a responsible house, but the house 
would have no responsibility. We are 
unable to give any definite information, 
as the agent’s address is not given in 
the order. If this order should later 
turn out to be a note for a good sum, 
and the note becomes the property of a 
third party, the farmer would be obliged 
to pay it. We hope nothing irregular 
may happen in this case, but it has sus¬ 
picious features, and we use it as a 
word of warning against such schemes 
generally. 
The subscription manager has just 
been to my desk. He handles this 
branch of the mail daily. “We get,” he 
said, “very few complaints of any kind, 
but once in a while we get a bad one.” 
The bad one I take it to mean occa¬ 
sions when a subscriber gets “hot” over 
a real or imaginary cause of complaint, 
and proceeds to tell us things about our¬ 
selves that we had previously supposed 
no one knew but our wives, and for 
charitable considerations they never 
mentioned it—at least in public. Se¬ 
riously, it is the anxiety of our lives 
to avoid cause of complaint in the sub¬ 
scription department. The number of 
changes on the list will probably ex¬ 
ceed 250,000 annually, and errors will 
sometimes creep in. 1 want only to say 
that it is more important to us to cor¬ 
rect these than it is to you to have 
them corrected. Of course, if it makes 
you feel better to scold a bit over it, we 
will take it with becoming grace. Tell 
us of the grievance good-naturedly if 
you can; but tell us anyway. We would 
much rather take the “bad ones” as de¬ 
fined by the manager than not hear 
about the error at all. 
The Rural New-Yorker, a weekly peri¬ 
odical with a large circulation among farm¬ 
ers and lovers of nature, is an uncompro¬ 
mising foe of the get-rich-quick fraternity. 
Early in its career The Rural New-Yorker 
discovered that the get-rich-quick evil was 
making serious inroads among the farmers 
of the country, and it began a crusade 
against the purveyors of worthless securi¬ 
ties. This journal is now mercilessly ex¬ 
posing the operations of one Lewis, a past 
master in the get-ricli-quick game. It has 
also proceeded against dishonest produce 
commission merchants who receive produce 
in carload lots fx - om farmers and, after 
selling it, fail to remit the proceeds or dis¬ 
appear. The fake Florida land schemes 
have also come in for the condemnation 
and exposure by this periodical. The 
Rural New-Yorker is fearlessly taking up 
the people’s fight against all sorts of shams 
and dishonest games, and we wish to com¬ 
mend its fearless attitude. The more agen¬ 
cies there are for the exposure and elimina¬ 
tion of this get-rich-quick curse the quicker 
will the country be on the high road to 
prosperity, for Postmaster General Hitch¬ 
cock did not overstate the truth when he 
said that the get-rich-quick game had as¬ 
sumed such serious proportions as to 
threaten the country's prosperity.—Finan¬ 
cial World. 
The Financial World has a way of its 
own for the treatment of these financial 
schemers. It usually scents the fake in 
its conception, and often throws its 
searchlight right into the center of the 
frenzied financial camp. There are so 
few papers of any kind doing it, those 
actually in the work may pat each other 
a bit on the back without danger of se¬ 
rious encroachment of space. 
For three years and over I have rented 
house and lot in this village from one Keith. 
I paid $15 per month in advance. Last year 
I set out a little over 1,400 strawberry 
plants on this lot. I notified owner that 
1 would vacate the place next September. 
The owner has served notice on me to vacate 
by the first of May, and forbidden me to 
take up any of the strawberry plants. Can 
I take them up or can I collect anything 
for them or the crop? They would be worth 
considerable to me, as I have land of my 
own that I could set them on. w. r. 
New York. 
When we received the above we ad¬ 
vised that he could safely remove the 
plants before the termination of his 
lease. He reported that he proceeded 
to do so, and was arrested, but the 
criminal action was withdrawn and a 
civil .suit threatened. While we may 
not have had all the details, from the 
record as reported to us, the landlord 
is subject to prosecution for false ar¬ 
rest, and we advised the subscriber in 
case of further annoyance to bring such 
an action. The decisions of the higher 
courts fully justify our advice. He 
caused no waste. He was leaving the 
land as good as lie found it. He had 
a perfect right to do what he pleased 
with the plants before his lease ex¬ 
pired. He might have removed them or 
destroyed them. If he had left the 
premises, and returned after May first 
to recover them, there would be a 
question. But no one would seriously 
deny that he might have plowed them 
up last Fall and sowed rye in their 
stead. The decisions of the higher 
courts fully sustain the tenant in this 
case, and we now understand that the 
owner has dropped the case. We ad¬ 
vise our people to keep out of lawsuits 
when they can; but there are times 
when one must fight for his rights, es¬ 
pecially when attacked. The owner 
laid himself liable for false arrest; but 
since he wants to quit, we advise the 
subscriber to drop it also, but we do 
not propose to let our people suffer for 
want of knowing their rights, j. j. d. 
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