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THE RUHAlj NEW-YORKER 
December 9, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
This year we have prepared for you a 
little book which we believe will be the 
means of saving you more money than 
the subscription price of die paper for 
many years to come. When we began 
this Publisher’s Desk work in a small 
way we had no conception ourselves of 
the millions of dollars allured from 
hard-working and frugal people by 
crooks and swindlers of one degree and 
another. The extent of these swindles 
reported by our own subscribers alone 
simply appalls us. It has got to be a 
national scandal. We get this back when 
we can. Sometimes we succeed. Often 
we fail. We get a few dollars of over¬ 
charge back from the express companies 
and railroads. If rogues in the com¬ 
mission trade want to stay in the busi¬ 
ness for a while longer we make them 
settle for shipments. During the last 
year we collected $300 from a railroad 
for one shipper of a car of goods; we 
forced a cattle crook to settle a farmer’s 
claim of $1,100; we just secured a re¬ 
adjustment that saved to a farm buyer 
$500 in commissions alone on the pur¬ 
chase of a farm. We make small ad¬ 
justments for some subscriber almost 
every day. We cannot report one in 
ten in the paper. They seem to count 
up. But these collections are only a 
drop in the ocean compared with the 
losses sustained by our people. We 
forced the payment of about $2,000 by 
E. G. Lewis; but we have more than 
$100,000 in claims now against him, and 
it is estimated that in all he has col¬ 
lected $8,000,000 from the people. It is 
plain from these experiences that we 
cannot hope to recover much money or 
much property after it has once found 
its way into the possession of rogues. 
Hence we have turned our attention to 
the task of preventing the robberies. In 
this little book we give you the infor¬ 
mation that will enable you to recognize 
the fakes and frauds and swindles as 
they are presented to you. The trick is 
made clear in every instance. After a 
reading of the little book, you will be 
forewarned, and in a position to resist 
the allurements of any rogue with a gold 
brick or a get-rich-quick scheme. The 
title of the book is 
HIND-SIGHTS 
OR 
LOOKING BACKWARD AT SWINDLES 
Each year we like to send our sub¬ 
scribers a little souvenir as an expres¬ 
sion of our appreciation of their con¬ 
tinued friendship and support. This 
year we will ask you to accept ‘‘Hind- 
Sights” with our compliments. It will 
be mailed promptly each day as the re¬ 
newal subscriptions are received. 
It has got to be a custom with many 
of our old subscribers to make friends 
a Christmas present of a year’s sub¬ 
scription to The Rural New-Yorker. 
But often times these orders come in a 
little too late to advise the recipient of 
the courtesy before Christmas Day. For 
this reason we wish to suggest that 
such orders should be sent in early, and 
the cards of notification will be prepared 
and mailed in time to reach the friends 
at the proper time. 
Last week the promoters of another 
get-rich-quick scheme were indicted in 
New York City. This case is conspicu¬ 
ous in that a woman, one Miss Mary J. 
Dugan, was the head of the concern, 
known as the Manhattan Real Estate 
Company. Miss Dugan and H. J. Bay- 
ley, an associate, are missing; but three 
others are under bail. This was one of 
the first concerns to advertise bonds, 
based on real estate. As we have so 
often told our people, these so-called 
bonds are nothing but notes of the 
company, and the companies selling 
them merely hold title to real estate 
heavily mortgaged. Several such con¬ 
cerns have gone to the wall of late, and 
all of them are top-heavy with borrowed 
money. This woman lived in high style 
since she went into the promotion busi¬ 
ness, though she was a stenographer pre¬ 
viously. After she learned the trick of 
borrowing easy money from people who 
worked and saved, she attired herself 
in a mannish habit and became a con¬ 
spicuous figure as she rode astride 
through the city parks. How do you 
like the idea of working and saving 
money to furnish saddle horses, riding 
habits and elegant homes for Miss Du¬ 
gan and her type? There are probably 
a dozen similar concerns flourishing in 
New York City to-day, and many of 
them are getting money on these 
“bonds” from country people. Some of 
these dupes tell us to leave them alone 
or they cannot succeed with the scheme. 
Bless their confiding souls!. These 
schemers succeed from the time they 
get the first dollar. Their horses, ancf 
saddles, and habits, and autos, and the¬ 
aters, and fast living generally develop 
with the increase of the remittances. 
When money invested in high living re¬ 
turns a profit you may look for a divi¬ 
dend on such investments. 
The most extraordinary thing that has 
yet come to our attention is a full page 
advertisement in a Western paper pro¬ 
posing the sale of stock in a company 
which proposes to publish a series of 
books about Luther Burbank. As near 
as we can make out, the proposition is to 
sell stock in a company to be formed to 
publish books to be written about the 
Burbank creations or developments. Of 
course there is the old promoting prom¬ 
ise of big profits and surplus earnings. 
If the books are ever written I cannot 
see what earthly practical benefit they 
can ever be to a farmer or anyone else. 
If the editor has some literary talent 
and a liberal amount of imagination the 
books may have merit as works of fic¬ 
tion. If the books are as romantic as 
the advertisement they may revive the 
taste for the dime novel of a half cen¬ 
tury ago. If any publisher wants to go 
into the venture of publishing the books 
with his own capital, well and good; 
but when he invites the public to take 
the risk, while he grabs the job of print¬ 
ing at his own price, we think he expects 
too much of the public, and we advise 
our people to forego the prospective 
profits. 
Ilarr.v S. Reardon, a salesman for the 
stock of the Columbian-Sterling Magazine 
Company, which acquired ownership of 
Hampton's Magazine, was arrested yester¬ 
day on the charge of fraudulent use of the 
mails and remanded to the Tombs by United 
States Commissioner Shields in default of 
*3,500 bail. On July 17 Reardon wrote to 
Miss Nina N. Wright of Plainfield, Conn., 
stating that the Columbian-Sterling con¬ 
cern was in good condition, and, as a re¬ 
sult of his urging. Miss Wright, invested 
*10,000 in the scrip, which is now value¬ 
less.—New York World. 
It is about time the publishing swin¬ 
dles got an airing, and it is to be hoped 
that the promoters will get a much 
needed lesson from the criminal courts. 
To induce a woman to give up $10,000 
for a piece of worthless paper may be 
more genteel than slipping into her 
home at night and taking the money 
without her consent, but the one form 
of stealing is as effective as the other. 
If one were to analyze the two methods 
he must admit that the promoter’s form 
is more contemptible than that of the 
burglar. 
But this Columbian-Sterling crowd 
has made a bad mess of it. One of them, 
Mr. Orff, should have learned his 
lesson better at St. Louis, whence he 
comes. He should set himself up as a 
martyr, tell his dupes their business has 
been assassinated, appeal to them for 
more funds to fight their cause, and get 
some sympathetic Congressman to in¬ 
troduce a bill in Congress to indemnify 
him for his loss of an opportunity to 
continue the robbery. If he timed it 
just right, the incident might serve for 
campaign fuel before an election, and a 
committee might make a pyrotechnical 
display of the promoter’s grievances 
with a combined view of discrediting the 
honest officials who are trying to protect 
the people, and at the same time so 
blind the eyes of the public that the 
rogues would escape punishment. It is 
true that Lewis got dollars where his 
bungling pupils got pennies. It is equally 
true that the bigger the stealing the 
easier the escape, but these petty schem¬ 
ers have had the advantage of the. ex¬ 
perience of their master, and owe it to 
him to make a better showing than to go 
submissively to jail. J. J- d. 
DOLORES-CASHMERE 
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We buy Skunk, Mink,Musk¬ 
rat and all other raw furs at 
highest market prices, and 
give liberal assortments and 
“A square deal” to everyone. 
_i Price-list free. 
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B ETWEEN the two ex¬ 
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The One Guaranteed All-Wool Line 
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The Clothcraft guaranty, found 
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assures absolutely pure wool cloth, 
first-class trimmings and workman¬ 
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These advantages are assured by Clothcraft 
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The only way to be sure of all-wool clothes at 
$10 to $25 is to buy Clothcraft Clothes—and 
to buy early, while assortments are good. 
Go to the Nearest Clothcraft Store 
Ask particularly to see the Clothcraft Blue 
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to try on several Clothcraft coats and overcoats, 
so you can see how well they fit. Notice the 
close-fitting collar, the shapely shoulders,and the 
full, smooth coat-front. 
If you don't know a Clothcraft Store, write 
us today. We'll promptly send you the Cloth¬ 
craft Style-Book for fall and winter, with the 
name of the nearest dealer. 
THE JOSEPH & FEISS CO. 
Founded 1850—Oldest American 
Manufacturers of Men’s Clothes 
635 St. Clair Avenue, N. V/. 
Louis A. Rubenstein Fur Co. 
52 West 28th ftreet, New York 
We pay the highest market prices and want your 
FURS 
Latest price list ready—send for same. 
LET US TAN 
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Cattle or Horse hide. Calf. Dog, Deer, 
or any kind of skin with liair or fur on. 
We make them soft, light, odorless, 
wind, moth and water proof, and make 
them into coats (for men or women), 
robes, rugs or gloves when so ordered. 
Yotir fur goods will cost you less than 
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Our illustrated catalog gives a lot of 
information. Tells how to take olf and 
care for hides; how wo pay the freight 
both ways ; about our marvelous brush 
dyeing process which is ft tremendous 
advantage to the customer, especially 
on horse hides and calf skins; about 
the goods wo sell, taxidermy, etc., but 
we never send out this valuable book 
except upon request. If you want a 
copv send in your correct address. 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 Lyell Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 
$ 3 , 000,000 
Will be saved this winter to the 
15,000 users of Indiana Silos. Are 
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Written by over two hundred of the best breeders, 
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The largest manufacturers of 811os in the world. 
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ILEA-Ij 1ESTA.TE 
GRAIN 
CROP 
ALBERTA’S 
Reports from the grain fields of Alberta, 
Western Canada, show splendid 
, yields of wheat, oats and 
barley. 
Many farmers have paid 
for their land out of the pro¬ 
ceeds of the crop of 1911. 
At exhibitions throughout 
I the U. S. wherever the grain 
1 from this Province has been 
I shown it has received the 
highest commendation. 
Free Homesteads of 160 acres 
land adjoining pre-emptions of 
«160 acres (at $3 per acre) are to 
Jbe had in the choicest districts. 
Schools convenient, climate 
excellent, soil of the very best, 
railways close at hand.building 
lumber cheap, fuel easy to get 
and reasonable in price, water 
easily procured, mixed farming 
a great success. 
Write as to best place for settlement, 
settlers’ low railway rates, pamphlet 
"Last BestWest.” and other Information, 
to Supt. of Immigration, Ottawa, Can., 
or to Can. Gov. Agt. 
J. S. CRAWFORD 
301 B. GENESEE STREET 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
gm An Open Winter, 
for the man living in the Southeast. 
Pleasant summers and mild winters make the South 
the ideal home country. Wonderful opportunities 
for investments in land which will soon be worth 
double its present cost. Its producing qualities 
are limitless. 
Prices now range from $10 an acre up. 
Two to three crops from the same soil per sea- f 9 
son. Fruit, truck, alfalfa, corn, cotton,wheats 
etc., yield large profits. 
Beef and Pork produced at 3 to 4 cents. 
Special literature on each State. 
Let us know which interests 
you. Write at once. 
M. V. RICHARDS, 
L. 81. Agt., South. Ry. 
Room 07 
Washington,D.C. 
O WN A SOUTH CAROLINA FARM-Seventeen Thousand 
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ratos. Write for literature. SOUTHERN LAND 
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FINE MARYLAND FARM opportunity. 310acres, 
250 under active state of cultivation, balance in 
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