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THE RURaL NEW-YORKER 
September 16, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
E. G. Lewis says that The R. N.-Y. 
has caused him a loss of $2,000,000, 
which is another way of saying that it 
has saved that amount to his intended 
victims. His idea of profit is the amount 
he can collect from the people on fake 
and fraudulent schemes. Such schemes 
cannot prosper in the light of publicity, 
but no honest business can be destroyed 
by dishonest criticism. 
Lewis has done everything he could 
to hurt and discredit The R. N.-Y. for 
two years past. He has influenced his 
minions to write its advertisers to per¬ 
suade them to cancel their advertising 
in it. He has had them send com¬ 
plaints to the Post Office Department; 
and he has told lies enough to fill a 
book. But he has not cost a dollar of 
loss to The R. N.-Y. On the contrary, 
it was never as prosperous as it has 
been during the time that Lewis has 
abused it. Isn’t it strange that we 
should cause him so much loss by sim¬ 
ply telling the nature of his schemes, 
while all that he can say or do only- 
increases the profits of The R. N.-Y. 
and public confidence in it? 
The Post Office authorities have given 
notice that so-called puzzles appearing in 
certain newspapers, inserted by some piano 
manufacturers, are not genuine, and that 
the newspapers containing the puzzles can¬ 
not legally be sent through the mails. The 
nature of these puzzles varies, but the 
usual advertisement offers a large prize for 
the “best” or the “nearest” solution of a 
puzzle the answer to which is fairly ob¬ 
vious. The persons who send in the answers 
are usually disappointed and find that the 
award of the prize is contingent upon con¬ 
ditions that they had failed to consider 
part of the contract. 
The Chicago Tribune recently called at¬ 
tention to a case of a woman in Michigan 
who sent in an answer to a puzzle in an 
advertisement of a Chicago piano concern. 
She received a letter telling her that her 
solution was correct, and that she would 
receive a .$200 “prize coupon” and a dia¬ 
mond ring. She was invited to call to 
receive the prize. She spent $7 to get to 
Chicago and there found that the “prize 
coupon” represented a discount, so named 
from the purchase price of a piano which 
she was urgently advised to buy on easy 
terms. In this case, says The Tribune, $7 
was all the money the woman had and it 
took that to buy her railroad ticket. Her 
family was without food as a result of the 
effort to get a “prize” that was found not 
to exist. 
The decent daily press which makes 
no pretense of guaranteeing the reli¬ 
ability of their advertisers refuses to be 
a party to these fake prize puzzle offers. 
What can be said of the farm paper 
publisher who make the strongest claims 
about the protection of his subscribers 
and yet carries this class of advertising 
in the columns of his paper? 
More power to the postoffice authori¬ 
ties who are making this kind of swin¬ 
dling more dangerous! 
The excellent little monthly, “Glean¬ 
ings in Bee Culture,” gives its readers 
the following wholesome advice in the 
September issue: 
When an agricultural paper or any other 
periodical publicly invites a subscriber to 
purchase stock in his enterprise, give him 
a wide berth. A gold-mining enterprise that 
invites vou to go in with it and “get rich, 
does not, at the present day, get many suck¬ 
ers to bite—or at least I hope not: but 
when the editor of a respectable magazine, 
or one that has been considered respectable, 
talks about the great fortunes to be made 
in the publishing business, and wants you 
to go in with him, and share the profits, it 
is time that such parties be let severely 
alone by every man. and woman of common 
sense. 
I enclose herewith a bill for .$38.50 
against. E. O. Peterson, Montrose, X. Y., 
for 2,000 privet plants, shipped him May 2. 
1911. which I have been unable to collect. | 
I wrote him five times, also drew on him 
With no results. L. c. N. 
Pennsylvania. 
Mr. Peterson makes no reply to our 
demands for settlement either. When 
he seeks to buy nursery stock or any¬ 
thing else from R. N.-Y. readers in 
the future he will undoubtedly be met 
with a polite request for cash in ad- j 
vance. 
I saw Rice Bros., Geneva. N. Y„ named 
in your paper recently. I want to tell you 
and other people, too, how they served me. 
Last Fall they sent me a nice letter asking 
me to deliver some nursery sto'ck for them 
the following Spring. I signed their con¬ 
tract to deliver their trees; all went well 
until the shipment came. They had trees 
consigned to a farmer that had gone into 
bankruptcy and lost his farm and every¬ 
thing. Tiie farmer notified Rice Bros, to 
this effect in ample time to stop the ship¬ 
ment : they paid no attention to this: they 
told me to resell the trees. This I tried to 
do at a discount, as they had advised, but 
found no one that wanted them. In set¬ 
tling up with them. I sent them all the 
money collected and told them I would 
take these trees for my commission. Post¬ 
age and the freight bill I had paid in ad¬ 
vance. To this, they made no reply until 
about three months afterward I received a 
letter from a collecting agency asking why 
1 had not delivered these trees. I told them 
they kept very poor record of things, or 
they would know why I had not delivered 
the trees, and also that the trees were here 
at their command, and at this late hour 
I would not accept the trees, but wanted 
them to remit my commission, freight, etc. 
To this they made no reply. The shipment 
was small and very much scattered through 
the country ; had to drive several miles to 
complete the delivery, and only was to get 
six per cent, for collecting, which only 
amounted to .$1.50. I would say to any¬ 
one, upon being asked to deliver stock, not 
to touch it for less than 15 or 20 per cent. 
I would like you to get the .$1.50 from them. 
Pennsylvania. h. r. 
The only reply Rice Bros, make in 
reply to the above is in effect that they 
notified this subscriber that his offer to 
take the trees consigned to the bank¬ 
rupt farmer in lieu of commission, was 
accepted. If so we don’t see the occa¬ 
sion for annoying letters from the col¬ 
lection agency. But the point we want 
to emphasize is the policy of this con¬ 
cern in not accepting the cancellation of 
the order even when they knew the 
farmer was a bankrupt. The man who 
had contracted to deliver the trees was 
expected to dispose of them somehow, 
and pay for them. We hope this is 
not the policy pursued by agency nur¬ 
sery houses generally, but this sub¬ 
scriber’s experience illustrates the wis¬ 
dom of being cautious about contract¬ 
ing to deliver stock of houses doing 
business of this basis. 
What can you toll me about West Side 
Dog Exchange, 779 Eleventh Ave., New 
York City? Some time ago we received a 
letter from them in reply to one which I 
wrote stating that they paid from .$5 to 
.$100 for a good puppy, and if we would 
ship they could tell better, but would pay 
full value. We accordingly sent to them 
by Adams Express two Boston terrier pups, 
and up to the present time we have re¬ 
ceived not a cent for them, nor have they 
been kind enough to reply. E. c. n. 
Massachusetts. 
We spent considerable time to get set¬ 
tlement for these puppies, but without 
avail. The West Side Dog Exchange is 
as prolific in excuses and explanations, 
which don’t explain, as the “gyp” horse 
dealers with which New York City is 
infested. At one time the manager 
claimed he returned the puppies by ex¬ 
press, but when pressed for express re¬ 
ceipt failed to produce it. The experi¬ 
ence of this subscriber suggests the 
necessity for repeating the advice: Don’t 
ship anything of value to any house or 
individual until you have made sure of 
the financial responsibility of the .person 
or firm. 
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