1911. 
863 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
Some of these women in Mr. Lewis’ 
League do not want to be warned. They 
cannot bear the thought of having their idol 
shattered. I hope this will not make you 
feel in the least discouraged. Go right on 
with the good work. At oue time, and for 
several years, I had set E. G. Lewis on a 
pedestal and worshipped at his shrine just 
as hundreds of other women are doing row. 
What did I know of him then? Absolutely 
nothing except his printed “guff,’’ as you 
call it. It is said that the American 
people like to be humbugged. It seems 
true, and the bigger the fake the surer we 
are to bite. 
I put sixty-five hard-earned dollars into 
his United States Fibre Stopper Company. 
He said if it failed, or if any of the other 
numerous enterprises he was financing 
failed, we should be given the value in other 
stock year after year. I waited for sev¬ 
eral years. He showed fine reports on 
nice paper with nice engravings. Finally 
they ceased. Two or three years ago I 
needed money so much to buy a cow. 
This was when he was under the f'-aud 
orders, and 1 sent the letter by express, 
telling him of my need, and of his prom¬ 
ises that if it failed we should be reim¬ 
bursed ; that it was only owing to my great 
confidence in him that I bought the stock, 
and that I had denied myself the very 
necessities of life to do so, expecting such 
large returns as he had promised. What 
do you think he did? He turned the letter 
right over to the United States Fibre Com¬ 
pany—which, by the way, Mr. Dietz, who 
is organizing the League Chapter here, 
says was defunct long ago—and I received 
a very cold, unsympathetic letter from 
them. At that moment my idol took a 
tumble from its exalted pedestal that shat¬ 
tered it into pieces and revealed its 
common clay. The mallet of The Rural 
New-Yorker has now demolished even the 
fragments. Lewis had no use for me when 
lie found there was no money in it for him. 
When he was getting my subscriptions to 
his stock he had ample time to write me 
personally. 
When those two notes of those two wo¬ 
men at North Tarrytown with the accom¬ 
panying facts were published in The R. 
N.-Y. I cut out the page and sent it to 
Mayor E. G. Lewis with a few words from 
myself. They were few and to the point. 
1 said: “If I were mayor of a city and 
posing before the public as a benefactor of 
womankind as you are, I would pay these 
poor women what I owed them.” I have 
always thought this was what fetched him, 
as the next paper but one said they were 
paid. mbs. s. L. BliOWH. 
Saco, Maine. 
We expected intelligent woman to dis¬ 
cover the Lewis tricks in time. The 
only trouble has been that these victim¬ 
ized women had no means of exposing 
his trickery, and being widely separated, 
had no means of redress. After one 
woman saw that she was duped, she 
shrank from confessing her folly to her 
neighbors, and in many cases even to her 
own family, so that Lewis could go 
right on picking up new victims. If he 
had confined his operations to a single 
locality where his broken promises and 
fraudulent schemes could be discovered 
and known, he would have been closed 
up long ago. In this Fiber Stopper 
Company stock sales there is little doubt 
that Lewis left himself liable to both 
civil and criminal prosecution. The 
stock was worthless when sold six or 
seven years ago. It is worthless now. 
He made false and fraudulent repre¬ 
sentations to sell it. In one case of 
which we have record he actually in¬ 
duced a boy some six or seven years 
ago to put his first earnings into it at 
double its face value, under the most 
alluring promises of dividends and 
promises. Of course Lewis has had 
the money all this time, and the boy 
has had nothing. The company is now 
in the hands of the receiver, but it 
comes under the judge’s classification 
of fictitious values. Lewis has recently 
been promising the stock as a premium 
for agents. Those who put labor or 
money in it have lost both. 
Canadian Aid to Agriculture. 
The Canadian Government makes money 
advances to farmers for certain purposes. 
For example, we have told how Ontario 
makes drainage loans. When a farmer 
wants to drain his farm he can apply to 
bis local town government, and if he gives 
a satisfactory argument money is ad¬ 
vanced from the general fund * and the 
work is done under proper supervision. 
The payments extend over 20 years and 
are collected like ordinary taxes. This 
has proved very helpful to many Cana¬ 
dian farmers who could not have obtained 
money through private loans. The Gov¬ 
ernment also advances money to help builrf 
plants for cold storage, providing part of 
the funds and giving control and super¬ 
vision. One of these storage houses has 
been located at Prince Edward Island. A 
subscriber at Charlottestown gives us the 
facts about this enterprise. The rates of 
storage on butter for two weeks or less 
are 10 cents per hundred pounds, by the 
month in lots of less than 10,000 pounds 
the rates are 20 cents per hundred, for 
the first month, and 15 cents for the fol¬ 
lowing months. For cheese each box for 
two weeks four cents for the first three 
months, 10 cents and eight cents for the 
following months. There are better rates 
for lots of 10 tons or more. For eggs in 
lots of less than 500 cases the charge is 12 
cents a case for the first two months and 
lo cents for the following months. The 
customers who wish to hare their eggs 
candled can do so by request. The com¬ 
pany is not responsible for the condition 
in which the eases are received, but they 
do guarantee to keep the required tem¬ 
perature. The farmers are just beginning 
to take advantage of this storehouse. The 
butter and cheese factories have stored so 
heavily that the building is almost taxed 
to its capacity. On August 1 there were 
6.000 cases of eggs stored by the mer- 
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chants. There is a largo storage for meats 
and later large quantities of lamb and 
poultry will be handled. The company 
rurning the house in connection with the 
Government are large buyers themselves 
especially of pork, but the Government 
does not permit them to fill the cold stor¬ 
age with their own meat. They must al¬ 
ways provide space for the public and the 
Government fixes the rate or at least sees 
that it is not excessive. Sooner or later 
this storage will be patronized by many of 
the farmers, and it will be greatly to their 
advantage, for butter made on the island 
will be given a better name than at pres- 
est in consequence of the ability to keep 
it in perfect condition. The Canadian 
Government is doing most excellent work 
in this way for agriculture. On this side 
of the line the Government seems to con¬ 
tent itself with giving so-called education 
and showing farmers how to increase pro¬ 
duction. \Ve do not need to produce an 
extra quantity of goods nearly as much as 
we do need to handle what we make to 
better advantage, and cash is needed more 
than scientific education. In the contest; 
for the American market the Canadian 
will have the advantage of us in the fact 
that his Government aids in loaning and 
investing money. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—George H. Cove, the inven¬ 
tor of the “solar electric generator,” which 
was to transform the energy contained in 
sun rays into electric power, was arrested 
at New York August 9, together with El¬ 
mer E. Burlingame, the sales agent for 
the stock of the Sun Electric Generator 
Company. The two men were arrested at 
the instance of the Postoffice authorities, 
who charged them with having used the 
mails in a scheme to defraud investors. The 
investigation that led to the arrest of the 
men was ordered by Robert S. Sharpe, 
Chief Postoffice Inspector at Washington, 
who received many complaints from persons 
duped into the purchase of the worthless 
stock. Inspectors Keene, Birdseye, Ente- 
mann and Greenaway worked on the case 
for many months, visiting the various 
States in" which “plants” were active. In 
default of bail Cove and Burlingame were 
sent to the Tombs to await examination 
on October 10. Burlingame has been 
known here as a promoter of many schemes 
on a gigantic scale, though none of them 
proved successful. He started the Rocky 
Mountain Tunnel Company, the Pittsburg 
Gold Dredge Company and many other 
enterprises, among them the Universal 
Wireless Corporation of South Dakota, 
which was to have a capital stock of 
$50,000,000. 
Four persons were killed and thirty in¬ 
jured when the Pennsylvania eighteen-hour 
train, en route from Chicago to New York, 
jumped the track on the western outskirts 
of Fort Wayne, Ind.. August 10, while 
going at the rate of 50 miles an hour. In 
leaving the rails the two engines pulling 
the passenger train sidewiped a freight 
engine and the three piled up in a mass of 
bent and twisted iron. The baggage car, 
smoker, buffet and two sleepers turned over 
in the ditch. Most of the injured were 
seated in the diner and smoker when the 
accident occurred. The dead include the 
engineer and fireman of the wrecked flyer, 
the driver of the second locomotive and 
an unidentified passenger. 
Rather than pay the $500 annual tax 
imposed by the Federal Government on all 
foreign built vessels Lindsey Loring had the 
cutter Eelin burned at Lawley’s yard, in 
South Boston, August 14. The Eelin was 
hauled out on the ways and her twenty 
Rn lead keel, masts and rigging removed. 
Everything of value was taken from her in¬ 
terior and the torch was applied. The 
Eelin was designed by A. E. Payae and 
bnilt by Summers & Payne at Southamp¬ 
ton, England, in 1899. She came over to 
this country to race the Isolde and the 
Eastral, and it is estimated that she was 
worth more than $12,000 fitted out and the 
hull destroyed is said to have been worth 
$9,000. 
President Taft has refused to grant 
further executive clemency to Raymond P. 
May, former business manager of a Kansas 
City newspaper, who was convicted of using 
the mails to defraud in the sale of mining 
stocks. The President recently commuted 
May’s original sentence of one year to six 
months. The President also has denied 
clemency to S. II. Snider, who was con¬ 
victed with May in the same case and was 
sentenced to one yeaiv 
Fire which is thought to have originated 
from a pan of grease in the kitchen of the 
clubhouse at Chester Park, an amusement 
resort near Cincinnati, O., August 14, de¬ 
stroyed many amusement buildings' and 
spread rapidly to two lumber yards adjoin¬ 
ing. Three hours after the flames were dis¬ 
covered the loss was estimated at $175,000. 
Two deaths marked the fourth day of 
the aviation meet on the lake front at 
Chicago, August 15. William C. Badger, 
the son of a wealthy Pittsburg man, and 
St. Croix Johnstone, a Chicago aviator, 
were killed. The accident to Badger, the 
first really serious one of the moot, took 
place before the eyes of thousands while 
Badger was attempting some spectacular 
manoeuvers. One wing of his machine came 
into contact with the side of a deep gully. 
In an instant the plane seemed to go to 
pieces. Badger was picked up unconscious, 
bleeding from half a dozen wounds. Just 
before the accident Badger had circled the 
course several times. He had been flying 
low over a deep gully in the centre of" the 
aviation field. One wing of the areoplane 
broke as he swung abont. Instantly the 
whole machine toppled into the pit. Badger 
was crushed beneath the wreckage. Badger 
was on the field as an amateur. He was 
the son of a well known Pittsburg business 
man. He had made several successful 
flights since the meet began, being asso¬ 
ciated with Capt. Baldwin. Before taking 
up aviation Badger was an automobile 
racer. lie enjoyed quite a reputation for 
his daredevil feats. Finally the sport be¬ 
came too tame for him in comparison with 
flying. St. Croix Johnstone was the second 
victim of the afternoon. Johnstone was 
half a mile off shore when his motor blew 
up. Hugh A. Robinson in bis livdroplane 
swooped down from 300 feet in the air in 
a thrilling but vain attempt at rescue 
Johnstone was a mile from shore off the 
foot of Twelfth street. His monoplane 
NEW-YORKER 
began a swift descent. Watchers thought 
it only an unusually steep dive. Nearly 
1,000 feet it flew and then the rigid wings 
crumpled under the pressure and the great 
motor dragged the wreckage, the tail flying 
like an arrow deep into the water. The 
hydro-aeroplane reached the remnants with¬ 
in two minutes, but nothing could be seen 
of Johnstone. The tail of the great ma¬ 
chine was all that could be seen above 
the surface and the rest could not be 
pulled up by the first boats that arrived. 
It was eight minutes before the wreckage 
was dragged to the surface, and entangled 
in the heavy wires was Johnstone's body. 
Thirteen of the nineteen deairs in live 
poultry who were put on trial before Judge 
Rosalsky in General Sessions May 24 were 
found guilty August 15. Four were ac¬ 
quitted. The case against one of the de¬ 
fendants—a woman—was dropped some 
time ago on motion of the District Attor¬ 
ney. ®Onc other defendant, Louis J. 
Schwab, who was indicted with the other 
eighteen, is to be tried later. The jury 
was out four hours. W. T. Jerome, counsel 
for the defence, asked that his clients be 
admitted to bail until they were sentenced 
and offered to give $25,000 security. Judge 
Rosalsky finally admitted to bail in $10,000 
Charles Werner, whose daughter is sick and 
might be made worse by any shock. The 
others went to the Tombs. It is said to 
bo the first conviction under section 580 
of the Penal Law, which makes it a mis¬ 
demeanor to conspire to injure trade and 
commerce. The penalty is $500 fine or a 
year’s imprisonment or both. The defend¬ 
ants were indicted in March. 1910, after 
several live poultry dealers had made affi¬ 
davits that they had been driven out of 
business and believed that there was a 
poultry trust. It was shown at the trial 
that the commission men pooled their com¬ 
missions and the jobbers, who bought from 
the commission men, pooled their profits 
and that the two pools were merged. It 
was said that by means of this double 
combination the commission men and job¬ 
bers controlled the wholesalers, and even 
the retail dealers. The minutes of their 
meetings showed that they had gone into 
the retail business themselves in order to 
discourage competition. Every week they 
sent to the members of the combination the 
price for that week. They were brought to 
trial on May 24, and with’ a few short re¬ 
cesses over holidays have been on trial con¬ 
tinuously since then. It was necessary for 
the District Attorney to go back to the 
founding of the trust in June, 1906, when 
they controlled 95 per cent of the live poul¬ 
try business to prove his case. The con¬ 
victed dealers were each sentenced to three 
months’ imprisonment and $500 fine. 
Two people were killed and four fatally 
injured in a tornado in Divide County, 
N. D., August 15. Scores of buildings were 
razed. Hundreds of the small homes of the 
settlers are in ruins. The loss of stock 
is hea # vy and crops over a wide area of 
country were destroyed. 
Readjustment of the methods of comput¬ 
ing the pay of railways for transporting the 
mails which will effect an annual saving of 
approximately $39,000,000 was recom¬ 
mended to Congress August 15 by Postmas¬ 
ter General Hitchcock. He proposes to pay 
the railroads on the basis of cost, with 6 
per rent profit. The plan provides that all 
railways shall report annually to the Post¬ 
master General the expenses incurred in 
carrying the mails so that the department 
may determine the cost to the railways. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The New York 
Food Investigating Commission which was 
created recently to investigate into the 
purity, prices, production, distribution and 
consumption of food staffs and farm and 
dairy products, formally organized August 
9 by electing Senator James H. O’Brien of 
Brooklyn, as chairman and R. A. Pearson, 
commissioner of agriculture, as secretary. 
The commission decided to make a special 
study of the milk situation in this State 
with special reference to prices and the sale 
of farm products on commission. A commit¬ 
tee is to be appointed to draft a proposed 
plan of action and submit it to the commis¬ 
sion for its approval. 
The French Minister of Agriculture has 
been officially informed that Dr. Doven has 
successfully completed bis experiments 
made during the last five years for the 
cure and prevention of “fievre aphteuse.” or 
foot and mouth disease, among cattle, which 
is now prevalent in all the grazing regions 
of France, especially Normandy and the 
Bourbonnais. Dr. Doyen’s method, which is 
approved by the Agricultural Society of 
Rouen, consists in inoculating animals with 
his phagogene solution in doses varving 
according to the weight and age of each. 
The inoculations during the period of incu¬ 
bation arrest the disease. Thev also pre¬ 
vent its development if made within three 
days after the first appearance of Ulcers 
on the month or feet. Experiments indi¬ 
cate that by timely inoculation cattle, pigs, 
and sheep are rendered immune from foot 
and mouth disease, which this Summer has 
caused enormous loss to French farmers. 
The Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg 
during the week of August 21, will operate 
over a portion of the “Pan Handle Route,” 
a seed-and-soil lecture train, in conjunction 
with the Ohio State College of Agriculture 
and the Ohio Experiment Station. This 
will be the first of a number of special 
educational trains to be operated by the 
Pennsylvania this Fall and Winter for the 
special benefit of agriculturists. Illustrated 
bulletins will be distributed containing ab¬ 
stracts of the talks given. 
The “Recall” in the Arizona Constitution. 
Every public officer in the State of Ari¬ 
zona holding an elective office, either by 
election or appointment, is subject to recall 
from such office by the qualified electors of 
the electoral district from which candidates 
are elected to such office. Such electoral 
district may include the whole State. Such 
number of said electors as shall equal 25 
per cent, of the number of votes cast at the 
last preceding general election for all of 
the candidates for the office held by such 
officer may by petition, which shall be 
known as a recall petition, demand his re¬ 
call. 
Every recall petition must contain a 
general statement, in not more than 200 
words, of the grounds of such demand, and 
must be filed in the office in which peti¬ 
tions for nominations to the office held by 
the incumbent are required to be filed 
If said officer shall offer his resignation, 
it shall be accepted and the vacancy filled 
as may be provided by law. If he shall 
not resign within five days after a recall 
petition is filed, a special election shall bo 
ordered to be held, not less than 20 nor 
more than 30 days after such order, to de¬ 
termine whether such officers shall be re¬ 
called. On the ballot at said election shall 
be printed the reasons, as set forth in the 
petition, for demanding his recall, and in 
not more than 200 words the officer’s justi¬ 
fication of his cause in office. He shall’ con¬ 
tinue to perform the duties of his office 
until the result of said election shall have 
been officially declared. 
_ Unless he otherwise requests, in writing, 
his name shall be placed, as a candidate 
on the official ballot, without nomination. 
Other candidates for the office may be 
nominated to be voted for at said election. 
The candidate who shall receive the highest 
number of votes shall be declared elected 
for the remainder of the term. Unless the 
incumbent receive the highest number of 
votes, he shall be deemed to be removed 
from office upon qualification of Ids suc¬ 
cessor. 
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Birthday of a City Farmer. 
Saturday, August 5.—We are celebrating 
my fifty-seventh birthday, scrubbing and 
preparing for the county fair next week 15 
registered bacon hogs. We may not win a 
ribbon, but the experience is worth the 
effort, and we shall have done our duty in 
helping to make the fair a success. I am a 
city farmer, which means that I am em¬ 
ployed in the city under circumstances 
which permit me to live in the country. 
Ten years of this life have been filled with 
the greatest pleasure, hard work and valu¬ 
able experiences. The farm of 100 acres is 
a picturesque collection of clay hills and 
ravines running down to the Olentangv 
River ; just such a place as would catch the 
eyes of a city man of moderate means, look¬ 
ing for a pretty country home, and willing 
to take a chance on the possible fertility 
of such of the land as could be cultivated. 
I took this chance and have never re¬ 
gretted it. for there is much satisfaction in 
the thought that one has aided Mother 
Nature in supplanting ragweed, burdock 
and thistles with clover. Alfalfa and corn. 
But for the farmer who must hire all labor 
there is no opportunity for profit in diver¬ 
sified farming on such a place. Yesterday 
we thrashed our oats and wheat. The oats 
wore almost a failure, owing to the drought 
in May, yielding only 10 bushels per acre, 
while the wheat ran 18. In either case the 
cost of preparation, seed, fertilizers and 
harvesting exceeded the value of the crop. 
This is why we devote our whole energy 
to the raising of purebred hogs, and wo 
raise the bacon type Yorkshires, because 
the local butcher prefers them, because 
many hog breeders, especially in the East 
and South where leguminous crops can be 
grown and utilized for hog growing in 
preference to corn, give a steady and in¬ 
creasing demand for the choicest animals 
for brooding purposes. By specializing in 
this manner, making the little dairy, the 
orchard and all else subsidiary to the hogs, 
and by keeping book account and a diarv, 
we know what we are doing, and I am 
pleased to advise that the balance is on 
the right side of the ledger. With an 
ideal place to live and raise grand-children, 
birthdays, which seem to come a trifle more 
often than they formerly did, bring no fear 
as to what shall become of us in our de- 
clining days. w. h. fisher. 
Ohio. 
A Broken "Man on a Small Farm. 
1 bad the misfortune to break three ribs 
and slightly injure my spine by falling on 
the side of a metal washtub. This has kept 
me laid up more or less ever since. I was 
away from home when hurt, and July 2 
they brought me home. I saw that things 
looked bad on my five-acre ranch. It was 
up to my wife and self to do the work, 
°<> u 0 ? 0 , e ? s , e being available. The fire 
blight, which is invading our neighborhood, 
had reached the orchard, and five trees 
(Transcendent crabs) had to be cut down, 
and burned at once. There were also 
about 20 Alexander apple trees that had 
to be cut severely, and the wounds disin- 
fected with corrosive sublimate solution. 
\Vhiie I was burning up this brush, my 
wife having helped with the pruning— 
rather hard work on my ribs—she tried 
my knapsack pump on the potatoes, which 
looked as if the potato bugs would get all 
if left another day. She found it alto¬ 
gether too heavy work for her. This was 
bad, so she called on me to suggest some 
alternative. A small watering pot was 
the only utensil we could find that she 
could use. By having an eight-year-old 
boy carry the arsenate of lead solution 
(hve pounds to 50 gallons) in a 10-pound 
lard pail to her she covered the acre that 
day so effectually that no hugs have ap- 
peared. since. Her arm was stiff for a 
long time'after, however. In the mean¬ 
time I managed to get the irrigating water 
turned on in time to save some of the 
trees that looke<l like dyin^, and two vorv 
tired people ate a late supper, and stayed 
5e< ! lato the uex t morning feeling as if 
they had saved their country once more. 
The moral is m . That on those five-acre 
fruit farms, if the owner gets laid up and 
out of the way for a week or so the result 
not only of a season but of many voars’ 
work is liable to be lost. Those Transcend¬ 
ent crab trees were 10 years old. and had 
a full crop. Had I been home I might 
have saved them by cutting out the blight 
promptly, as I did the other trees. The 
potato crop also was onlv saved bv the 
skin of the teeth. 11 . c. b. colvili 
Montana. 
We have had a very, very dry season, not 
0V ®V, an mch of I’ain from late in March 
until July 24, when we had a nice shower, 
and a still better one on August 1 \ti 
crops will be short, hay probably the short¬ 
est, but gardens as bad. Wells, brooks and 
ponds are dry, and many new wells beiii" 
dug, and more talked of. e p 
Connecticut. 
The extreme drought of the past three 
months has made conditions such that it 
begins to look as though irrigation is the 
only thing that can be done to help out the 
apple and peach crop. Corn and all farm 
crops are suffering just as badly. Will 
Eastern farmers have to adopt the Western 
method of going after the moisture for our 
ttr °P s ? p M 
Carmel, Tnd. 
