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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
August 5, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The noted singer, Enrico Caruso, has 
been on a “sucker list” and took the 
tempting bait. He bought 1,000 shares 
of the Standard Nitrogen Company for 
$5,000, and paid $2,000 in cash. The 
company went into bankruptcy and the 
receiver sued Caruso for the $3,000 bal¬ 
ance. The court ruled that the com¬ 
plaint did not make clear the respon¬ 
sibility of Caruso, and found for the de¬ 
fendant. If the distinguished singer 
had consulted The R. N.-Y. before in¬ 
vesting in this alluring farm proposi¬ 
tion, he might have saved his $ 2,000 
and the annoyance of a lawsuit. 
Indictments charging conspiracy to use 
the mails to defraud were filed yesterday 
by the federal grand jury against Archie 
L. Wisner, Emmett S. Wisner, John J. 
Meyers and Charles F. Humphrey. A sep¬ 
arate indictment was filed against the firm 
of A. 1.. Wisner & Co., of No. 225 Fifth 
avenue, with which all the defendants were 
connected. The charges grew out of the 
sale of stock by the concern in the “United 
Tonopali and Goldfield Mines, Limited.” The 
Fifth avenue offices of the Wisner company 
were raided by postoffice inspectors last 
March.—City Paper. 
We hope the Government will keep 
right on rounding up the promoters of 
worthless stock sales. The evil has as¬ 
sumed vast proportions, and every at¬ 
tempt to suppress these is a benefit to 
the people. 
I have a little bill against J. A. Ilodgdon 
of Berlin, N. II., which I wish you would 
try to collect for me. I sent him tomato 
plants to the value of $6.40, and he pays 
no attention to my requests for settlement. 
Maine. L. b. w. 
We were unable to get any reply 
from Mr. Hodgdon, and placed the ac¬ 
count with our attorney for collection, 
who reports that he is holding several 
executions, amounting to about $1,000, 
against this party, and is unable to 
make any progress, so that it would 
seem useless to attempt collection of 
this claim at this time. We repeat our 
advice given so often: Do not ship 
goods to parties without satisfactory 
reference. 
My wife raises violets for sale, and wishes 
you to trv to collect an account against F. 
B. Holland, Greenville, S. C., a florist. She 
can get no reply to her letters. Do the 
best you can lor her. When I first com¬ 
menced to take The R. N.-Y. she did not 
think much of it, hut now I often hear her 
quoting from it and we both prize it highly. 
Virginia. a. c. s. 
This party accepted the violets and 
signed for them, but refused to make 
any other acknowledgment. He failed 
to reply to our letters, and attorneys 
report that he has since failed and left 
the country. We do not have his pres¬ 
ent address. We do not usually refer 
to concerns who have made an honest 
failure in their business, but as these 
goods were accepted in November, 1909, 
we feel Mr. Holland has had ample op¬ 
portunity to make the matter right. 
There is a device named “The Mann In¬ 
dicator” manufactured in Alliance, Ohio, for 
the information of trolley passengers, which 
shows the next street ahead as they are 
passed. Stock in this concern is being 
offered and considerable sold to people of 
small means. Can you give me any informa¬ 
tion as to their responsibility? Or can 
vou tell me why they are incorporated un¬ 
der the laws of West Virginia with their 
main office in Pittsburg and the manufac¬ 
turing works located in Alliance, Ohio? 
Ohio. J. M. s. 
We have no definite information about 
this concern, but we do not hesitate, to 
advise our people to leave stock selling 
concerns of the kind alone. They are 
not given any capital in the reference 
books, and only a fair grade of credit. 
At best it is only a venture, and if you 
take pains to look up the amount of 
capital stock authorized, and the assets 
of the company, if it has any tangible 
assets, you will be able to see what 
your money actually represents. Such 
companies are usually organized under 
the laws of such States as give the 
company the greatest privileges and the 
least restriction on their stock selling 
schemes. 
I would like to ask for some information 
about the .Tantha Plantation Company of 
Pittsburg, Pa., who are exploiting banana 
orchards at Macineso, Mexico, near Texte- 
poc. They present a very inviting proposi¬ 
tion, giving away five-acre tracts with a 
city lot for each, but require that the Al¬ 
varado Construction Company be engaged 
to clear the property and set it out to 
bananas at the rate of 200 trees to an acre, 
for which -$150 per acre is charged by in¬ 
stallments, or $600 cash down. Can you 
advise me as to the responsibility of these 
concerns and the feasibility of the scheme? 
Michigan. H. N. C. 
We had a caution about this Mexi¬ 
can Plantation Co. in the paper about 
two years ago, and have had a great 
many inquiries since. At that time we 
made quite an extensive inquiry and 
were unable to find anything that would 
justify an investment. We have known 
many land schemes promoted on just 
the same plan. Many are being pro¬ 
moted now, but we have never known 
one that proved a success, and never a 
case where the investor did not lose. 
We have asked these promoters to show 
us a single instance where one of the 
promotion schemes has been a success, 
but nobody has produced such an in¬ 
stance yet. These schemes are bad 
enough in Washington, Texas and 
Florida, where the people have some 
chance of getting some information 
about them—but for a proposition in 
Mexico, in a country where the peo¬ 
ple know nothing at all about it and the 
government is disturbed and condi¬ 
tions peculiar, there is abundant haz¬ 
ard for the small investor. We have 
claims now for subscribers who put 
their money into these land promotion 
schemes years ago under big promises 
of profit which they never received and 
never will receive, and we are unable 
to get any satisfaction whatever for 
them. They are all prolific in promises 
and all make elaborate explanations of 
why they don’t succeed, and many of 
them have the impudence to request 
further remittances in order to buy 
more land or make improvements 
which they claim will make the propo¬ 
sition profitable. It is an old game 
worn threadbare and the only safe rule 
is to leave them all alone. j. j. D. 
{arrow should 
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from the 
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Figure what that means in dollars-saving 
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endorses its use, as does the 
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F or Sale,Virginia farm between Washington City and Richmond. 
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FARM 50 ACRES-WK 
fair house, 100 fruit trees, on good pike, 2 miles to 
2 tractions, 5 miles to Ohio River. Will sell stock 
and truck and crop if sold by July. B. F. LEWIS, 
R. 3. Box 58. New Richmond, Ohio. 
FINE 
TRUCKFARM 
/^\WING to business interests which 
compel a residence in another State, 
I offer for sale my high-class truck and 
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cattle, machinery, farming implements, 
silo equipment, etc., complete. Prop¬ 
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5000 
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SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Choice lot Yearling Hens, Early Pullets and Cock¬ 
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