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THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
September 30, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Can you inform me as to tbe standing 
of the ‘Hampton’s Magazine, also the Co¬ 
lumbian Magazine Publishing Company, 
with which the former has recently con¬ 
solidated? Would stock in Hampton's be 
worth anything without transferring to 
the new company? c. E. T. 
Pennsylvania. 
If you want,to find out what the value 
of stock in either of these companies is 
worth, try to sell it. Its value is what it 
will exchange for. Another test would 
be to take it to a bank and see what 
you could borrow on it without recourse. 
It is not likely that any bank would 
accept it as collateral for 10 cents, and 
if you find a purchaser for it outside of 
a bank, you will have a customer with 
strong speculative bumps. When you 
get through with your test, you will 
probably conclude that it does not make 
much difference to you which stock you 
lmld. and you will probably wish you 
held neither. If you read the court de¬ 
cree in the Lewis case on page 927, 
you got an idea of the endless chain 
style of promoters in reorganizations 
and transferring one company into an¬ 
other. Each transfer increases the bur¬ 
den of stock, and affords an opportu¬ 
nity to appeal for more cash. Some 
promoters find the work of exploiting 
stock more to their taste and experience 
than publishing magazines. Of late, pub¬ 
lishing enterprises have come in favor 
for stock jobbing. Gold mines and 
patent-right claims seem to be worked 
out, and the stock promoter must have 
something to take its place. The maga¬ 
zine seems to fill the bill. 
Look over this from the Work] Home 
Supply Co., of New York. I thiuk the 
enclosed looks like one of those things you 
are keeping an eye on for the benefit of 
our people. it. n. F. 
New York. 
We have had several inquiries about 
this concern. Representatives are ap¬ 
pointed who sell certificates, which en¬ 
title the holders to purchase goods 
through the clearing house of the World 
Home Supply Company at wholesale 
prices. A certificate for which they 
charge $10 gives the privilege of pur¬ 
chasing goods of any kind (except 
liquor or tobacco) at any time during 
one year up to a total of $500. On this 
amount of goods a written guarantee is 
given to save purchasers $50 at least 
or return the $10 paid to them. The ob¬ 
ject is to get orders from these certif¬ 
icate holders to come into New York in 
such volume that the company is able 
to place their united orders with manu¬ 
facturers direct, and at prices as low 
as can be obtained by wholesalers or 
jobbers. They act as purchasing agents. 
A preliminary information agreement is 
sent which binds the representative to 
keep all information sent him absolutely 
confidential. This scheme is not new. It 
has been worked many times before, and 
in our experience always with disaster 
to the purchaser. Why should anyone 
pay $10 or 10 cents for the privilege of 
buying $500 worth of goods from any 
concern? The guarantee sounds good, 
but is worthless in practice. Even if the 
proposition is made in good faith, which 
we doubt, from their own statements 
they are in no position to offer goods of 
equal quality cheaper than houses now 
open to you without a certificate. If 
the principal business is the sale of $10 
certificates, we can’t see where the pur¬ 
chaser is to get the value of his money. 
You can buy cheap goods anywhere if 
you have the money, without paying for 
the privilege in advance. 
I admire your paper as it stands for wliat 
is right, buf you are fighting against fright¬ 
ful odds, and tbe American people seem 
to need a stick of dynamite "beneath them 
to raise their sense of duty high enough 
to make a concerted effort in the combating 
of apparently irresistible forces in the shape 
of moneyed men or public robbers. 
Connecticut. r. s. t. 
The people do not rise up in open 
revolt at a wrong. If they did, they 
would be in revolt all the time; but the 
sentiment of honest people is against 
rogues and crooks. The only trouble in 
fighting them openly is that all crooks 
fight for the privilege of one, and some 
of the crooks at heart wear the garb of 
respectability, and help the rogues more 
than they could if their real sentiments 
were known. All honest people are 
against the swindlers, jiut do not have 
the personal incentive to get out and 
fight, though their sentiment and in¬ 
fluence are on the right side. The con¬ 
flict between honest men and rogues is 
not new. It is as old as the history of 
the human race. We must continue to 
fight dishonesty to keep it from under¬ 
mining the stability of our institutions 
and the morals of our young people. 
We take the following letter from the 
Financial World : 
Indianapolis, Ind.. April 23, 1910. 
Mr. Julius Hawthorne, 
My Dear Sir:—I have for some weeks 
been receiving your little pamphlets—The 
Solomon Story—I read enough of them to 
be satisfied that there was some kind of a 
financial scheme behind them to be ad¬ 
vanced. I have waited for its disclosure. 
This morning I received it. From the story 
I expected a gambling scheme and have not 
been mistaken. 
But what is to be thought of a man of 
your reputation who. with the adroitness 
of an accomplished writer, will deliberately 
attempt to use that reputation and ability 
to engender in the minds of his fellow- 
men a spirit of gambling and a hope that 
they may be able to get something for 
nothing, that will cause them to invest 
their money in a way that you and your 
associates may profit by it. 
That you have associated with you law¬ 
yers. doctors, business men and men who 
are entitled to be addressed as Honorable, 
does not excuse you. 
What conception have, you of morals, 
what is your estimation of your fellows, 
when you thus appeal to their cupidity on 
the basis that Solomon was'a gambler’ and 
for your own profit hold out to .them' the 
hope* that they may gain by gambling? , 
flavius j. vax voimrs. 
It will be reme.niber.ed. that Mr. Haw¬ 
thorne was at that time industriously 
exploiting the people in a Canadian Co¬ 
balt mining scheme. No doubt the name 
of his illustrious father helped the son 
in the sale of the worthless stock. If 
he had an} r latent feelings of conscience, 
it would seem that a letter like the 
above would stir them up. But we have 
never yet known a promoter to mani¬ 
fest any very delicate sentiments about 
other people’s money. 
M&ke Your 
Fall and 
Winter 
Dairying 
Profitable 
The wasteful losses of any “gravity” setting system or poor cream 
separator are always greatest when the milk is often cool or the cows are 
old in lactation, and under these conditions, with butter prices highest, the 
use of the best cream separator becomes even more important than at any 
other season, so that a 
DE LAVAL 
Will Save Its Cost by Spring: 
With any setting system you are wasting at least a quarter of your 
product at this season, with cream and butter values highest, while the 
superiority of the De Laval to other separators is always greatest under the 
difficult conditions of separation, particularly in the skimming of cool milk. 
Why delay ;>your purchase of a De Laval until another Spring. Put it 
in now- and let it save its own cost meanwhile. And, as to that, you may 
either buy for cash or on such liberal terms that the machine will aqtually 
pay.for itself. 
You may prove all this by test to your own satisfaction. See the local 
De Laval agent or communicate with the Company. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE 
THERE IS YET TIME TO ORDER A 
If I had as slick a pen as E. G. Lewis 
I would write you the finest compliment 
you have received : as it is I can only say 
that I appreciate a farm paper that is for 
the farmer "right from the shoulder.” 
Missouri. J. N. 
We like this, coming from the State of 
Missouri. If a farm paper is not for the 
farmer, by its silence at least it gives 
comfort and encouragement to his ene¬ 
mies. 
I shipped 2.000 strawberry plants on 
May 2 by Adams Express to a Pennsylvania 
man, and they never readied him. The 
express company refuses to pay mo for 
them. They were valued at $6.50. Could 
you collect it for me? 
The Adams Express Company have paid 
me the $6.50 duo me on the nlants which I 
shipped to Pennsylvania. Many thanks for 
the help in getting it. b. p. 
Maryland. 
This was a clear case of loss, and we 
insisted on the full value for the shipper, 
and got it. 
July 30. 1909. I delivered 20 crates and 
five baskets of fancy poaches to the agent 
at my express station, and only 25 crates 
wore delivered to the Chicago commission 
house. The agent neglected to bill the 
shipment out. and I can got no record 
from him. I loaned him my receipt book 
to straighten out his records, and he claims 
he has misplaced it. and I cannot get an 
adjustment. Can you help me recover for 
the lost baskets? L. J. R. 
Illinois. 
We did work enough on this claim to 
pay for a carload of peaches, but the 
case was such a provoking one from the 
shipper’s standpoint we were determined 
to force a settlement or recommend suit. 
They refused adjustment because the 
agent had not * recorded the shipment, 
just as if the shipper were responsible 
for the neglect of their agent. Finally 
they got to the point of offering 75 cents 
in adjustment, which was promptly re¬ 
fused. The full amount of the claim 
was finally paid. 
I am sorry to bother you to collect an 
account for me but they won’t come near 
me to settle. On May 9 an engine set fire 
to my land and burnt over about two acres 
of wood aud sprout land, and we put It 
out with some tools and water. On tbe 
next day. May 10. they again set fire to 
sonic land and burnt over 20 acres of sprout 
and wood land and 10 acres of mowing. I 
notified them May il. hut did not get an 
answer; wrote them .Tune 3 and they replied 
they would come and see me soon, but I 
have not seen any of them vet. I estimate 
the damage at $200. Please do what you 
can for me. The claim is against tbe Boston 
and Maine Railroad. a. f. d. 
New Hampshire. 
After following this matter up for 
some months the railroad offered the 
small sum of $50. Our subscriber ac¬ 
cepted it, as the only recourse seemed 
to be a suit and possibly would be more 
expensive in the end. There certainly 
should be a ruling whereby railroads 
should be responsible for the full ex¬ 
tent of the damage. These claims are 
just ones, and the loss is considerable 
to a farmer. 
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