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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
A Pennsylvania farmer is in litiga¬ 
tion with a nurseryman who, it seems, 
sold stock of the Rochester Nursery 
Company, of Rochester, N. Y., over a 
judgment- note which was given in pay¬ 
ment of the stock. It is alleged that the 
agent represented himself as a nursery¬ 
man who grew his own stock, and not 
a jobber. He showed colored plates of 
the different plants and shrubs, and rep¬ 
resented the stock to be first class, and 
of superior, healthy quality. The order 
amounted to some $300, and as an in¬ 
ducement for the order the agent agreed 
to send some rose bushes and other 
plants free of charge. While the prom¬ 
ises were all made verbally, the farmer 
was obliged to sign a definite contract, 
and a judgment note in payment of the 
stock. The stock, however, is alleged to 
‘lave been inferior when received, and 
some of it not received at all, and no 
satisfaction in the way of adjustment 
can be had from the agent. The judg¬ 
ment note, of course, is on record, and 
consequently the farmer was obliged to 
go to court to ask an opening of the 
case, and a trial on its merits. What 
the result will be is a matter of future 
record, but it has already progressed far 
enough to serve as a suggestion to grow¬ 
ers to place orders only with responsible 
houses and to refrain from giving 
judgment notes in payment for them, 
at least not until the delivery is made 
and the quality of the goods ascer¬ 
tained. 
H. H. Tilley, proprietor of tlic Dakota 
Hide & Fur Co., lias been arrested on a 
charge of using the mails to defraud. He is 
accused of converting goods to his own use 
which were sent to him because of an ad¬ 
vertisement inserted in a certain farm 
paper.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. 
The above clipping was sent us with¬ 
out comment by a friend. We have not 
verified the information, but it comes in 
good time to warn shippers of skins to 
look up the standing of houses before 
they make the shipments. 
I shipped 11 boxes of oranges to John A. 
Davis & Son, Washington. I). C. They sent 
me a check for $10 and some cents. In the 
meantime I shipped 19 more boxes, and 
they sent bill of sale, and later they wrote 
explaining delay in settlement was caused by 
the poor season, which had placed them in 
a tight place financially, but if I would be 
lenient and wait a little longer settlement 
would be made. The check sent me for the 
first boxes came back protested, and I have 
been unable to get anything from them. I 
waited, expecting to hear from them ac¬ 
cording to their promise, But two years 
seems a long time to wait. J. E. 
Florida. 
This complaint is similar to others 
we have received. We were unable to 
do anything for other subscribers 
and are unable to get any adjust¬ 
ment for this subscriber. Our at¬ 
torney reports he is unable to collect, 
as he is holding unsatisfied judgments 
against the firm, and is not able to 
handle any more accounts. They 
claimed more than a year ago they 
would get straightened out in a short 
time and pay whatever they owed, but 
the accounts drag along, and we cannot 
advise our people to send them ship¬ 
ments under these circumstances. 
the commercial agencies’ reports. There 
is just one way to beat such schemes, 
and that way is to leave them entirely 
alone. 
In Philadelphia last week three officers 
of the First Realty Corporation were ar¬ 
rested and held under $1,000 bonds each 
for alleged fraudulent use of the mails in 
the sale of lots at Southampton, Long Is¬ 
land. They were J. Lewis Armstrong, 
president; Frank Pierce Donovan, vice- 
president ; and J. V. McDonald, secretary 
and treasurer. In their literature the 
company claimed to own 12,000 lots at 
Southampton, valued at $200, but they 
were sold for much less. Five shelves full 
of city directories were found in the offices. 
Postcards- had been mailed to thousands of 
people living in all parts of the East and 
South, except within a radius of about 50 
miles from New York. The addresses were 
gotten from the directories.—Dispatch. 
It is about time the Long Island lot 
schemers were brought to account. The 
Government convicted two of them last 
year. Some time back we looked up 
these Southampton lots, and found that 
real estate companies had secured some 
scrub oak land at about $3 per acre, and 
this was being sold at $75 a lot and 
upwards. As they figure 12 to 15 lots 
to the acre, you can figure up the profit. 
It is 100 miles out from New York; 
but to read the real estate circulars and 
hear the agents, you would think one 
could work in the city and walk home 
to lunch. 
About a year ago I bought from Mr. 
Cashell of Derwood, Md.. a fine Oxford 
Down buck, which my neighbor saw, and 
had me order one for him, which I did 
and enclosed chock for same, $16. I did 
not hear from him for a good while, and 
becoming uneasy, I went to the bank and 
found he had used the check. I then wrote 
him. lie replied that he had been showing 
his stock at the fair, which was the cause 
of not answering my letter, and said if I 
would wait until the fairs were over he 
would send me a lamb he was showing. I 
wrote him I would wait. The last of Oc¬ 
tober, not hearing from him. I wrote again 
and he replied that as soon as he got rested 
up he would ship my sheep. About Novem¬ 
ber G I received from the office a little 
buck lamb, scrawny, of no breeding and 
worthless as a breeder, and not from his 
own flock. I was compelled to be away 
from home most all of November and ar¬ 
ranged with a neighbor who lived near the 
depot to get the lamb and take care of it 
for me. As soon as I returned home I re¬ 
turned the lamb to Mr. Cashcll and he re¬ 
fused it. and it was sold by the railroad 
company. This was a case of sending the 
money and trusting to the honesty of the 
seller. To the credit of'Tin-; R. N.-Y. I did 
not see the advertisement in your paper. 
Any effort you make to right the matter 
will receive my thanks. v. r. 
Maryland. 
We wrote Mr. Cashed six times and 
received no reply whatever. There is 
nothing more to be said. Sixteen dol¬ 
lars is rather a low price for a reputa¬ 
tion ; but we have known reputations 
that were worth no more. 
“Money back, if you want it—But you 
won’t.” 
The above is the closing sentence of 
an advertisement of Farmers’ Shoe Co., 
Ann Arbor, Mich., in some of the farm 
papers which guarantee their advertis¬ 
ers. What do the quoted lines mean? 
We suggest to farmers to find out be¬ 
fore parting with the $3. One of out- 
subscribers who parted with the cash 
first has not been able to find out what 
the lines mean after several months’ 
trial. She knows, however, that the 
money has not come back. j. j. d. 
Last week an agent came through State 
Bridge, New York, and vicinity, selling soap 
for the N. J. Wells Mfg. Co., Boston and 
New York. He said if I took_ a box of 
soap from him that day for $3.50 I would 
get a nice premium. lie had a photograph 
of his premiums. I selected a china closet. 
He said he would deliver them on Wednes¬ 
day or Thursday himself. It was not all 
soap. There was blueing powder, silver 
polish, perfume, cold cream, and an envelope 
containing silk paper—two sheets—for 
laundry purposes, and it is nothing but 
paraffin paper and that cost 20 cents. Pretty 
dear paper. Well, Wednesday and Thurs¬ 
day are past, and I have not received my 
china closet, and since then I have heard 
that he went through here about five years 
ago doing the same thing, and nobody re¬ 
ceived a premium. I was so worked up 
over it I said I was going to advertise 
him, and I am writing you to ask if you 
ever heard of this firm and their dealings 
before. He said they were doing this to 
ruin the Larkin Company. He also said he 
only left a few boxes of soap in each neigh¬ 
borhood. He was a good talker; talked like 
a New Y'orker. About the last thing I 
said to him was, “Are you sure this is all 
right?” He said, “I am one of the firm 
myself,” and he showed me the initial on 
his watch, which was “W.” lie also wore 
a very nice diamond ring. Was an elderly 
man, rather stout. He made $17.50 that I 
know of that morning right in our neigh¬ 
borhood. The people around here are very 
indignant over this, and would stop his 
sales immediately if they could. He said 
his name was Wells and he lived on Onon¬ 
daga street, Syracuse. Is there any way 
of making this man give us our premiums? 
New York. mrs. c. p. 
The “soap swindle” is as old as any 
of the fake schemes that we know. It 
is usually worked by selling the soap 
and collecting for it, under the promise 
that a premium of a piece of furniture 
or carpet or other useful article would 
be sent on the following day. The 
premium never comes. We find no 
rating for the concern referred to in 
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