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THE RURAXs, NEW-YORKER 
September 23, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
E. G. Lewis prides himself on his 
ability to evade the law. It is said that 
he boasted he could get around any 
law that the United States could enact. 
With the old companies, which he pro¬ 
moted at an estimated cost to country 
people of $8,000,000, now in bankruptcy, 
he has started all over again without 
a dollar of his own to promote a 
brand new company, and as an induce¬ 
ment to prospective dupes he tells them 
that this time he has organized a com¬ 
pany from which creditors will not be 
able to collect the money due them. 
He says it is proof against receiver¬ 
ships, or any of the other methods 
which a few can use to destroy the 
work of many. The only possible mean¬ 
ing of this is that his new scheme 
might owe you or a number like you 
and you could not collect the debt, and 
further that the concern may be in¬ 
solvent, and the members and the 
courts would be helpless. He could 
go right on collecting money on mem¬ 
berships after the concern was bank¬ 
rupt and no one could force him to an 
accounting. No record of fraud yet 
disco/ered and reported serves better 
to show the brazen knavery of this 
man than this scheme impudently de¬ 
tailed by himself in his own paper. It 
is an announcement of a law unto him¬ 
self—a sort of organized anarchy. 
After discovering that the majority of 
the stockholders in Hampton's Magazine 
could not be prevailed upon to exchange 
their shares on the basis of two shares for 
one share of stock of the t olumbian ster¬ 
ling Publishing Co., the latter concern now 
amends its proposition and is willing to ex¬ 
change stock dollar for dollar. This would 
indicate that the Columbian people must 
have an important, if not pressing reason, 
in making such a liberal concession. The 
Columbian Sterling Publishing Co. is still 
declaring dividends at the rate of one per 
cent per month, on what it is hard to say, 
as no financial statement of net earnings 
has ever been published. Editor Hampton 
tells all those whom he interested in his 
magazine what large profits there are in 
the magazine and which profits they have 
never seen in a tangible form, adding that 
this offer has been made possible only by 
the great sacrifice he has made. Nothing 
for nothing is about all the sacrifice Hamp¬ 
ton has made. 
Business cannot be flourishing either with 
Hampton’s or The Columbian Magazine for 
the announcement is made this month by 
the advertising department that after Oc¬ 
tober, Hampton’s and the Columbian Maga¬ 
zine will be consolidated and made one pub¬ 
lication. This course is taken only when 
it becomes necessary to save money— 
Financial World. 
If people want to put their savings 
into hazardous publishing ventures it 
is their privilege to do so; but we 
want our people to understand the situ¬ 
ation. Anyone ought to see that when 
dividends are paid where not earned 
they come out of the money paid in, 
and that such fractions of your money 
are paid back to induce further remit¬ 
tances. 
I have a bill for $15.85 against the Cen¬ 
tral Fish Company, Chicago. Ill., for snap¬ 
ping turtles shipped them in August last 
which I would like to have you try to col¬ 
lect for me. I send you their letter acknowl¬ 
edging the shipment. They claim to have 
sent a money order, but I have not received 
it and can get no answer. 1 have written 
several times but they fail to reply. 
Michigan. 0. L. D. 
After sending instructions to our 
subscriber to ship the turtles this firm 
simply acknowledged the receipt and 
state they are enclosing money order. 
They refuse to answer any further, and 
when we took it up with them they 
make the same reply that the remittance 
was sent. We can get no advice as to 
what express company issued the money 
order and they do not make any effort 
to stop payment on it and have a dupli¬ 
cate issued. Such transactions are re¬ 
ported as a warning to subscribers to be 
sure a firm has a good rating before 
sending them any shipments. 
About 10 weeks ago I saw your paper 
for the first time on a friend’s table. I re¬ 
marked that I would try the 10 weeks’ sub¬ 
scription. My friend said. “It will cost you 
a dollar and ten before you are through.” 
His prediction has come true. Please find 
enclosed a dollar for a year’s subscription. 
When all the leading magazines and papers 
take the stand that you have taken, what a 
country this will be! This is wishing you 
every success. e. n. m. 
Massachusetts. 
The above letter very well expresses 
a sentiment that reaches us in one form 
or another through every mail. Farmers 
want a paper published without fear or 
favor for the farm interests. They are 
just as anxious to have it as we are 
that they should have it. The thing is 
to convince them of the service. This is 
done conveniently and easily through the 
10 cents for ten weeks order, and we 
ask our friends who can do so to in¬ 
fluence a new order of this kind as op¬ 
portunity is offered. That is your part 
in helping promote the work. 
OHIO STATE FAIR, 
COLUMBUS. 
A. P. Saxdi.es, Secretary. 
Jas. W. Fleming, Asst. Secretary. 
September 8, 1911. 
The Rural New-Yorker, X. Y. 
This is to advise that during the Ohio 
State Fair several persons complained of 
the manner in which the representatives of 
the Farm and Home, Springfield, Mass., 
were conducting their business. A thor¬ 
ough investigation established the fact that 
through the medium of a fountain pen a 
swindling game was being perpetrated upon 
innocent victims, chiefly women and young j 
people. One man who complained of being j 
swindled was afterwards assaulted and 
badly beaten by two of the so-called repre¬ 
sentatives of the Farm and Home. These 
two men were arrested and turned over to 
the city authorities. Some of the money 
obtained from persons complaining was re¬ 
turned. 
When the officers of the Ohio State Fair 
were convinced of this nefarious business 
the representatives of the Farm and Home 
were ordered to take down their tent and 
get off the grounds, which they did. From 
reports received we learn that these men 
had pursued this same nefarious practice 
and gotten into trouble at other places in 
Ohio. We ask that you advise your readers 
to be on the lookout for the fountain pen 
scheme of soliciting subscriptions for Farm 
and Home. To put your readers on guard 
will be a protection to all farm journals 
doing business along legitimate lines. 
A. P. SAXDLES, 
Secretary. 
It is now in order for Mr. Myrick 
to show that the Ohio State Fair au¬ 
thorities are in a conspiracy to ruin 
his business because of political influ¬ 
ences. This was the explanation made 
last Winter when the postal officials 
insisted on his observation of , the postal 
laws and regulations. If farmers who 
are now being solicited by. Mr. Myrick 
to buy stpck in one of his publishing 
companies, examine the proposition 
with as much care .as these officials did 
the fountain pen scheme, they will 
find a sharper . point to the proposed 
investment than has yet been discovered 
on the nib of a fountain pen. 
George W. Post, ah alleged noted crook, 
was arrested by Federal.agents in Chicago 
last Week. Tie was also known as S. A. 
Potter and William Carter. The charge is 
fraudulent use of the mails.. Superintendent 
He Woody of the Secret Service charges 
that I’os't and a syndicate of crooks have 
cleaned up more than sr.ooo.noo through the 
'•given goods” .game, safe's of '‘salted" gold 
mines; fake wrestling- matches, ’ wiretapping 
games/and “Southern ‘land" ’sides.. Post of¬ 
fered a cash: bond of $50,000. but the fed¬ 
eral officials refused anything less than 
si.in,not*. , Post ami. Edward Starkloff are 
under indictment in the Federal Court in 
New York for fraud., A year ago they for¬ 
feited a; bond of $23,000 in Philadelphia.— 
Daily Papers. 
It is a. wonder.’■ that these crook's 1 do 
not catch-on to the ,St.' Louis method. 
They ought to publish a paper and de¬ 
nounce their arrest as an interference 
with private business', and condemn the 
authorities as working a spy system. 
Then they could use some of the money 
to placate politicians and demand an in¬ 
demnity from Congress for the loss of 
the plunder they might have secured if 
their privileges of robbery had not been 
interfered with. Of course, instead of 
hunting crooks in secret, the Govern¬ 
ment detectives should be obliged to go 
around with the label of their purpose 
pasted on the outside of their hats as a 
warning to the crooks. 
The Adams Express Company has settled 
satisfactorily. Without your help I would 
not have received a cent, as they refused to 
answer my letters or take the least notice 
of my claim. a. j. d. 
New Hampshire. 
This referred to a shipment from 
Philadelphia which the subscriber asked 
permission to examine before accepting. 
The express company refused and de¬ 
manded the express charges. The con¬ 
tent, were found to be entirely ruined, 
and claim for damage was ignored. 
The shipment was duplicated by the 
Philadelphia house and received in good 
order, but no attention was paid to the 
damage done the previous one. In ad¬ 
dition to the damage there was an 
overcharge on the express charges for 
which we filed claim. After some corre¬ 
spondence with the express company 
they seemed to realize their responsi¬ 
bility and settlement was made. 
Your letter received O. K. with the $50 
damage to my piano from the D. L. & W. 
R. R. Co. It was like finding the money, as 
I had given up all hopes, although it was 
proved conclusively that the damage was 
sustained during transit. They refused to 
reimburse me. I cannot understand how 
you managed to convince them they would 
better pay me and settle it. Please send 
bill of my indebtedness. I thank you very 
much for getting It. We appreciate your 
kindness. A farmer cannot afford to be 
without The R. N.-Y.. and we are telling 
friends and acquaintances both far and near 
all about it. mbs. e. l. b. 
New York. 
It is simply persistency that reaches 
these companies. We did not get what 
we felt the subscriber was entitled to, 
but this was the best we could do short 
of a suit. We have no bill for any ser¬ 
vice of this kind; but we appreciate any 
return service that helps increase the in¬ 
fluence of the paper. The more read¬ 
ers it has the more power it has to help 
you in such cases as this and in other 
cases as well. j. j. d. 
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