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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 21. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Last week the Federal Grand Jury 
in New York started an investigation 
of the stock manipulations of the Co¬ 
lumbian-Sterling Publishing Company. 
This is a combination of the Columbian 
Magazine, Hampton’s Magazine and 
several of the cheaper order of papers 
published by Mr. Frank Orff of St. 
Louis, Mo. All three of these concerns 
sold stock of their companies to read¬ 
ers of the publications. Columbian 
Magazine paid 16 per cent dividends 
from the start, and the Post Office in¬ 
spectors are now trying to find out 
whether this dividend was earned or 
whether it was paid back out of the 
money paid in by the stockholders. 
The Columbian and Hampton’s Maga¬ 
zines have now been merged into one 
monthly publication, though stockhold¬ 
ers were first assured they would be 
maintained separately. The combina¬ 
tion company has an authorized capi¬ 
talization of $4,000,000. The Hampton 
stockholders had a preferred seven per 
cent stock. After the combination they 
were offered a share of common stock- 
in the new company for two shares of 
the preferred stock. This many de¬ 
clined. Then they were offered an even 
exchange and a 2 y 2 per cent dividend 
has been promised on the new issue. 
Mr. Orff is president and general man¬ 
ager of the Columbian-Sterling Com¬ 
pany and it certainly seems to carry 
many of the earmarks of the St. Louis 
brand of finance. Post Office Inspector 
Dixon of the New York Division is 
something of a live wire; and the Fed¬ 
eral courts here have developed no deli¬ 
cate sentimentalities for stock promo¬ 
tion schemers. We rather suspect there 
will be less publishing stocks and bonds 
and building certificates on the market 
in the future than has appeared for a 
few years just past. There is probably 
enough sympathy for C. E. Ellis to 
justify the assertion that some of the 
victims of other publishing companies 
would like to see him have company 
from New York in his enforced re¬ 
tirement at Atlanta, Ga. 
I want to tell you of an experience I 
had this Summer. I had 39 lambs to ship 
from Delaware, N. J., to Jersey City Stock 
Yards. I went to Delaware on Monday 
and ordered a car to bo there to load the 
lambs on, and the railroad clerk made out 
the order for car to be there at Delaware 
in. time for the noon freight train on Tues¬ 
day morning. I had my lambs down there 
Tuesday morning, but no car came for my 
lambs until six o'clock that night. They 
loaded them and then sent them off via 
Central Railroad by way of Washington, 
N. J., and in consequence my lambs laid 
at Washington all night and were never 
shipped out of there until Wednesday 
morning. They never arrived at the Stock 
Yards until Wednesday night, and all that 
time without feed and water. The conse¬ 
quence was that, although they were in very 
fine condition when I shipped them, they 
were in pretty poor condition when they 
arrived on the market, and 1 was the 
loser. What redress has a shipper in such 
a case? It seems we have to bear the 
brunt end of the railroad’s negligence. 
New Jersey.. i. n. f. 
A shipper has practically no redress 
in such a case. He would find it diffi¬ 
cult to prove exact damages, and the 
amount would not justify the cost of 
suit. These transportation companies 
are anxious to develop the country 
through which their roads run. They 
are anxious to tell farmers how to pro¬ 
duce more crops to the acre. They go 
to considerable expense to educate and 
instruct the farmer in this line by lec¬ 
turing tours and so-called model farms ; 
but they turn a deaf ear to an indi¬ 
vidual grievance of this kind. 
President Taft has refused to grant fur¬ 
ther executive clemency to Raymond P. 
May, former business manager of a Kansas 
City newspaper, who was convicted of us¬ 
ing 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 convicted with May in the same case 
and was sentenced to one year.—Dispatch. 
It is about time these stock promot¬ 
ing swindlers got a little of this kind 
of treatment. Thev have had immunity 
too long. They often escape conviction 
on criminal charges because the law 
gives them always the benefit of the 
doubt, and many of them have been 
well advised legally and keep their 
swindles within a technical construction 
of law, and juries give them the benefit 
of a doubt as to their intentions, though 
there may be no doubt that the victims 
lost their money. Hence, when one is 
convicted it is a wholesome measure to 
compel them to pay the penalty of their 
crimes. President Taft does well to let 
them go to jail. 
In April I shipped six 30-dozen cra-tes of 
eggs to a New York commission house, and 
have just received returns for 120 dozen. lie 
claims that one crate was so badly smashed 
he refused to accept it at all. and that 20 
dozen of the others were boiled and he de¬ 
ducted -$4 for them. The eggs were fresh 
and all right when we shipped them, as 
we gather over 36 dozen a day and keep 
them in a cool place. Will you please see 
if you can collect pay for the boiled eggs? 
New York. a. h. s. 
We had several complaints from this 
section about smashed and boiled eggs, 
and the express company has now 
settled for about all of them, but makes 
no explanation as to the cause of the 
damage, nor why they refused to honor 
the claim entered by the complainants. 
The above subscriber has now received 
his pay in full. We have followed it 
up since June and A. H. S. had been 
trying to get an adjustment from the 
middle of April. 
I am enclosing you a small complaint to 
straighten out, as Publisher’s Desk is the 
best to appeal to when in trouble. I sent 
the Grand Rapids Wholesale Opticians a 
pair of lenses to repair, and enclosed them 
a dollar bill, but no acknowledgment from 
them nor any reply from them. I do not 
mind the loss of the dollar bill, but my good 
gold-framed spectacles, also pair of lenses, I 
don’t want to lose. Will you kindly touch 
them up? J- s - 
Florida. 
We were unsuccessful in getting any 
reply whatever from the Grand Rapids 
Wholesale Opticians, of Grand Rapids, 
Mich. They ignored our letters in the 
same manner they ignored the subscrib¬ 
er’s. We are simply calling attention to 
this transaction as reported to us for 
the benefit of others who may be con¬ 
cerned. 
Having been a silent reader of your 
paper for vears I want to ask you to in¬ 
vestigate the Plapso Daboratories of St. 
Louis, Mo. I enclose their paper for your 
inspection. I have spent lots of money 
with doctors for useless treatment, but 
would cheerfully pay the small price asked 
by this company, but don't want to be 
taken in on swindling advertisements. 
West. Virginia. w. e. d. 
Do not put any faith in representa¬ 
tions made by concerns promising to 
cure all or any human ills. Usually these 
concerns do not even have a doctor in 
good standing, and even if they had, he 
could not know just what treatment you 
need. Unfortunately for all of us, in 
many oases of illness the best doctors 
are "helpless. The quacks promise cures 
because the promise creates a hope on 
the part of the sufferer, and that brings 
the cash. They can send some treatment 
of a general nature, but they are in no 
position to serve you as well as a doctor 
who can examine the patient and watch 
his symptoms from day to day. The 
local physician may not cure you; but if 
not, it is useless to resort to quacks. 
Through them you lose your money and 
with it any chance of recovery you may 
have through the patient and skillful 
treatment of a conscientious family 
physician or specialist. j. j. d. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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