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December 2, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Advice comes to us that one Geo. G. 
Papineau, purporting to represent a Chi¬ 
cago, Ill., subscription agency, has col¬ 
lected money for subscriptions to papers 
and magazines, giving receipts for same, 
but never filling the orders. The com¬ 
plaint comes from Michigan. As far as 
The Rural New-Yorker is concerned, 
none of the general subscription agencies 
has authority to represent it. This Geo. 
P. Papineau is entirely unknown to us, 
and has no authority to represent The 
Rural New-Yorker in any way. 
William J. Cummins, formerly presi¬ 
dent of the Carnegie Trust Company, of 
New York City, which is now in the 
hands of a receiver, was last week found 
guilty of grand larceny by a jury in the 
criminal branch of the Supreme Court. 
He was accused of a theft of $140,000. 
People who deposited money with the 
trust company are unable to get it, and 
will probably lose at least part of their 
investments ultimately. 
In a recent reference to frenzied finan¬ 
cial publishers, “Agricultural Epitomist,” 
during a former management, was in¬ 
cluded in the list of papers that sold 
stock to subscribers. The reference was 
incidental, but we should have added 
that the paper is now in new hands and 
the new management is entirely free 
from any criticism of the kind. The 
present publishers are no more responsi¬ 
ble for the promotion schemes of a for¬ 
mer management than a farmer would 
be for the conduct of the man who pre¬ 
viously owned his farm. This depart¬ 
ment is particularly concerned that no 
word shall appear here to the discredit 
of any honest man or legitimate enter¬ 
prise, and it wishes to make it entirely 
clear that the former criticism referred 
only to the previous management of 
“Agricultural Epitomist.” 
Reporting the testimony of John M. 
Williams before the Congressional Com¬ 
mittee in St. Louis last week, the papers 
give us this: 
He (E. G. Lewis) gave thousands in 
charity. Williams said, and a file of letters 
showed hundreds of appeals for help, none 
of which had gone unanswered so long as 
Lewis had anything to send to the appli¬ 
cant. 
When gold bricks are sold to country 
people and a part of the proceeds dis¬ 
tributed at St. Louis, we protest against 
the purpose to call the scheme charity. 
We have more than $100,000 of claims 
against Mr. Lewis. Much of the money 
was sent him seven years ago. Some of 
it is represented in his personal notes, 
on which he has repudiated both princi¬ 
pal and interest. These claims are held 
by widows and children, cripples, in¬ 
valids and aged people who trusted him 
with the savings of a lifetime. Is it 
charity to deprive these people of their 
just dues and give money to St. Louis 
applicants for help? 
The Hampton-Columbian Magazine, 
which was capitalized for $4,000,000, was 
sold last week for $10,000. It is said 
that the company will now be reorgan¬ 
ized for $1,000,000. That would give one 
cent in value for every dollar of stock. 
It is also said that old stockholders 
would be given stock in the new com¬ 
pany, provided they put up 10 per cent 
in cash. On this basis as we understand 
it, if you have a $100 share, you get a 
new share representing $1 in real value; 
and you must put up $10 in new cash 
to get it. This is the usual basis for 
reorganizations of wild-cat companies. 
The old stockholders have simply lost 
every cent they have in the venture. If 
they are wise now they will take their 
loss, and profit by the experience. To 
put more new money in now would be 
only to take a new chance in another 
hazard. The R. N.-Y. wishes the new 
concern success, if it is to be conducted 
as a legitimate publishing proposition; 
but if the old wild-cat promotion 
schemes are to be repeated, we advise 
our people to leave it alone. The old 
stock is worthless. No one will give 
anything of value for it. Any pretense 
of giving something of value for it is a 
deception. 
Received both vour kind letter and copy 
of The R. N.-Y. of June 25. 1010. for 
which I thank you. I am a graduate nurse 
and doing social service work, and am 
hoping by your articles to save a poor 
man from investing his hard-earned sav¬ 
ings in wild-cat schemes. a. e. f. 
Illinois. 
The above comes to us from a large 
city. Here is a young woman working 
for a living, and yet giving the time 
perhaps needed for rest to the better¬ 
ment of others not so well situated or 
so well endowed mentally as herself. 
Some people give money for charity 
and often there is a taint goes with it; 
yet they get much credit. It is all well 
enough. We must not question the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
source or the purpose when the hard¬ 
ships of the poor are lessened. But the 
giving of one's self as this young woman 
is doing, not alone in caring for the sick 
as a profession, but in voluntary work¬ 
ing for others, is the essence of charity. 
One would think that such self-sacrific¬ 
ing work would put the promoters who 
scheme to rob poor people to shame. 
Because people claim that I cure them 
of consumption, asthma, bay fever, Bright’s 
disease, epileptic fits, dropsy, paralysis, 
blindness and other so-called incurable dis¬ 
eases that baffle the regular practitioners, 
and because these results are obtained by 
dropping a colorless liquid into the eye, 
I have been persecuted. This is the pen¬ 
alty 1 am paying for advanced thinking, 
for using a method undreamed of by the 
regular practitioner. My reward is the 
heartfelt gratitude of hundreds of patients 
who claim they were cured, and their 
hearty support of myself and method when 
I am taken into court.—Prof. H. Samuels. 
A subscriber sends us a letter con¬ 
taining the above paragraph and asks 
what we think of Prof. Samuels. We 
w r ould rather not express in print just 
what we think of him. Our lists of 
martyrs are growing larger. They are 
all anxious to benefit humanity—for a 
price. They are fond of calling plain 
lying an evidence of advanced thinking. 
Think of curing serious physical mala¬ 
dies by a drop of liquid in the eye! In¬ 
stead of permitting such a faker to ap¬ 
peal to people afflicted with serious ail¬ 
ments and promise cures, the authorities 
should deny him the use of the mails. 
The United States Express Company paid 
me for my eggs that got lost July 1. "Many 
thanks to you for looking it up for me. 
Pennsylvania. j. p. k. 
July 1 the subscriber shipped a case 
of eggs to New York. The eggs were 
lost in transit and although the express 
agent at the originating point wrote the 
express company repeatedly, no atten¬ 
tion was paid to the claim and the sub¬ 
scriber finally sent it to us. Adjustment 
was made in October. 
I answered the Dr. Haux. St. Louis, 
Mo., advertisement for absolutely free spec¬ 
tacles, but in the reply I find I must send 
$1.25 before I receive the “absolutely free 
spectacles.” What do you think of such 
an advertisement? j. w. 
Oklahoma. 
We think this, like all “absolutely 
free” advertisements, is a fake. If you 
are wise you will pay no attention to 
free advertisements of any kind, and be 
especially suspicious of absolutely free 
propositions. We have no hesitation in 
saying that every advertisement prom¬ 
ising something free is a fake. There 
are no exceptions. The object is not to 
give you something free, but to make 
you pay for something that would not 
interest you if you knew the conditions 
at the start. 
Received the claim in full $10.80 (less 
commission and transportation charges) 
from the Adams Express Co. October 13 for 
the crate of eggs shipped November 4, 1910, 
for which I feel doubly indebted to you, and 
fail to find words to express my thanks and 
gratitude. Without your assistance I do 
not think I would ever have got it. They 
denied at first of handling my goods until 
I sent you the receipt. I consider you are 
doing more to help the farmer than any 
paper that has yet come under my observa¬ 
tion. j. w. u. 
New Jersey. 
This was a shipment of eggs to a 
New York commission house, which was 
not delivered because of the strike last 
November. Claim was put in by the 
shipper, but the express company failed 
to give him any consideration, or to 
reply to his letters of inquiry. He did 
not feel competent to make any im¬ 
pression upon the express company. He 
sent the claim to us in June. Adjust¬ 
ment was made October 13. 
An old neighbor, who left this place some 
time before, came back as a general agent 
representing a combination wire stretcher, 
post puller and jack. lie appointed several 
of bis acquaintances as local agents. Each 
local agent was required to contract for a 
large number of the machines and give his 
secured note as part payment, which 
amounted to over $200. The trick, of 
course, was in actually securing the sale 
of the machines to the agent and not really 
appointing him as an agent of the company, 
as it was made to appear. Everyone of the 
agents of whom I kept track lost practically 
all the amount invested. It seems that a 
man should not be compelled to sell any 
fixed amount when working in the capacity 
of an agent, nor to pay anything for the 
right of canvassing in a certain territory. 
Iowa. w. l. 
The thing we cannot understand is 
that any grown-up man or woman would 
allow himself or herself to be led into 
such a scheme. You are not compelled 
to do any of these things. You allow 
yourself to be allured into them by some 
tempting promise of big profits. Often 
times the general agent has been faked 
himself. When these concerns succeed 
in fooling one general agent, they are 
sure of roping in a bunch of victims 
through him. They are all modified 
forms of the confidence game. Be sus¬ 
picious of the man whether friend or 
stranger who comes to you with big 
promises, coupled with a demand for 
notes or cash. 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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THE COLUMBUS HOSPITAL 
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES 
226 EAST 20th STREET, NEW YORK CITY 
Is now organizing classes for the coming year; 
there are still a few vacancies for young women 
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all materials for uniforms. Classes arc con¬ 
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Monarch 
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. investment per year 
Ask for Free Cat¬ 
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PLEAlXj ESTA.TE. 
The FARMER’S SON’S 
GREAT OPPORTUNITY 
Why wait for the old farm to become your in¬ 
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NOW’S THE TIME 
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