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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 10, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
When an editor and publisher of a 
farm paper wins the confidence of 
readers through professions of friend¬ 
ship and service, and then betrays that 
confidence of his readers to sell them 
“gold bricks” he has in our judgment, 
reached the limit of perfidy and dis¬ 
honor. We know nothing more con¬ 
temptible in the code of commercial af¬ 
fairs. 
Enclosed please find $1. Will you please 
send me the worth of it in "Hind-Sights; 
1 have some young friends I want to become 
acquainted with the earmarks of fraud be¬ 
fore they run up against them. The book 
is great, and you are doing a glorious work 
that will shine bright as the noonday sun 
when all else has passed away. I wish I 
could help you more in your good work. 
Connecticut. D - w * G< 
The letters we get about that little 
book would almost fill the paper now 
every week. We do not need to print 
them. Our people will get it for them¬ 
selves. They will find nothing else like 
it in print. The purpose of it was to 
give our own readers information that 
would enable them to see the gilt on 
the “gold brides'* before they parted 
with their money for them. 1 his 
friend goes further and wishes to ex¬ 
tend the benefits to young friends who 
seem in danger. It is a worthy pur¬ 
pose, and we are glad to encourage it. 
In our issue of January 27 we had an 
advertisement that did not belong in 
The R. N.-Y. It simply escaped the 
proper censorship. Of course it will not 
appear again. The cancellation of the 
order for it means a loss of several 
thousand dollars of revenue; but the 
same week we returned another order 
for about the same amount. Both of 
these orders were from responsible 
houses. The advertising will be found 
in all the other prominent farm papers 
and popular magazines. Going over the 
farm papers and magazines now from 
month to month, we find more than 25 
different advertisements running reg¬ 
ularly which have been denied space in 
The R. N.-Y. for one reason or an¬ 
other, mostly because the advertiser 
does not live up to his promises after 
he gets the money. With this record, 
which is easily demonstrated, we may 
hope without presumption that the er¬ 
ror referred to will be overlooked by 
any of our readers who have discovered 
it. 
In 1885, when I was 10 years old, I al¬ 
lowed a man to bunco me out of $2,50. That 
was the best money 1 ever spent. I made 
a promise at that time that if anyone heat 
me again for $2.50 I will give him another 
$2.50; never had occasion to pay it. I 
have been the loser on legitimate business 
deals the same as any other person, but 
never by those who are looking for "suck¬ 
ers.” From this you will notice that I do 
not need “Ilind-Sigkts” for myself, but 1 
have some friends who do need it. and 
therefore ask you to send it on and I will 
try to see that it does some good, and also 
promise to try to make it do you some 
good. G. B. E. 
Pennsylvania. 
We publish the above letter for its 
wholesome tone and good sense. Few of 
us escape a “gold brick” some time in our 
lives, and the boy of 10 who gets his 
lesson for $2.50 makes a good bargain, 
if he makes as good use of it as this 
man has. I confess that I bought my 
“gold brick” when I was older, and paid 
a plump $1,000 for it. The one thing to 
keep in mind is that the schemer who is 
looking for “ suckers” is always anxious 
to make you rich quick. But they want 
a little of your money on the start. 
On July 25 I sent to C. R. Huggins, Ros- 
coe, N. ¥., three coops of fowls, weight 137 
pounds, after receiving the enclosed letter 
from him in answer to his advertisement in 
the Edmeston local. I have received no 
pay and no reply to my letters to him. 
1 hope you will help me get the money. 
New York. f. w. 
In the letter referred to by the above, 
Mr. Huggins says he is paying the fol¬ 
lowing prices: Fowls and ducks, 15 
cents; spring chickens, 20 cents; eggs, 
25 cents. He pays all express and re¬ 
turn freight and gives bank references. 
The amount of subscriber’s shipment 
was $30.28. After shipment the bank 
references were found unsatisfactory. 
After exhausting efforts to make a col¬ 
lection ourselves, we turned it over to 
our attorney, and he returned the claim 
as uncollectible. Mr. Huggins’s letter 
probably saves Him from criminal prose¬ 
cution in this case. It is true that he 
was advertising a commission business 
and would be subject to arrest for fail¬ 
ure to account for the shipment, but his 
letter intimates that in this case he is 
buying goods outright and, of course, 
there is no law against his getting credit 
if anyone is unwise, enough to credit 
him. We can do nothing in such a case, 
and the shipment is a total loss. 
The receiver in the E. G. Lewis con¬ 
cerns has filed his report of the book 
condition of the companies in his 
hands. We have not been able to ex¬ 
amine the report in full; but have a 
copy of the assets and liabilities of the 
Development and Investment Co., as 
part of the report. The bonds out¬ 
standing against this concern amount 
to $528,265.30. Of course, they arq 
mere notes of the company. There is 
also due on pass-book accounts $41,- 
852.03. The total liabilities amount to 
$1,481,774.55. 
There is no real estate in the assets, 
but there is a building, without lot, 
which cost $57,247.60 to build. There 
are book accounts and notes and stocks 
against bankrupt individuals and com¬ 
panies. Some of these probably have 
some value, but the great bulk of them 
are worthless. It is doubtful if they 
pay more than the expense of liquidat¬ 
ing. Yet this half million of bonds 
were advertised in the Lewis papers 
and sold to their readers as gilt-edged 
profit sharing securities, and practically 
first mortgage bonds. 
One of the debts is an item of $17,- 
146.83, to the American Woman's 
League. Lewis promised the women a 
permanent endowment. This item 
promises to be permanent all right. It 
will probably be due them until dooms¬ 
day. This showing is even worse than 
our worst fears. We hoped there might 
be something for the people who sent 
money for these bonds. Some of our 
friends are interested; but from this re¬ 
port there is nothing for them. A wit¬ 
ness who was familiar with the affairs 
testified that the company was never sol¬ 
vent. 
John H. Williams put in a bill for 
services to the receiver. The master in 
chancery refused to allow it, and it is 
our information that he has no further 
connection with the properties. 
Lewis took the League affairs out of 
his hands in December, and there is 
little doubt that the court will order 
him to return the claims received from 
creditors since the receiver was ap¬ 
pointed on the so-called reorganization 
scheme. In any event we believe the 
master in chancery will permit each 
creditor to prove up his own claim and 
draw his share of the proceeds himself, 
or through his own attorney. Now that 
the wind is out of the reorganization 
bubble, it is intimated that Williams is 
about to organize a creditors committee 
by which he can control whatever 
money is paid on the claims. Lewis is 
already trying to get the claims on the 
regents scheme. The creditors who 
take our advice will prove up their 
claims before Master Cole themselves 
or through their own attorneys, and 
demand whatever is coming to them in 
cash. 
The Lewis libel suit against the pub¬ 
lishers of the Post-Dispatch of St. 
Louis for $750,000 alleged damages was 
tried at Hermann, Mo., last week, and 
resulted in a unanimous verdict for the 
publishers, The suit was based on ar¬ 
ticles published in the Post-Dispatch at 
the time the old bank was closed by 
action of the State Banking Depart¬ 
ment, and fraud orders issued by the 
Postmaster General because of alleged 
fraudulent use of the mails. After the 
experience of The Rurai. New-Yorker 
in the local courts at Clayton, where 
Lewis seems to have attained some in¬ 
fluence through the use of the millions 
of money gathered up from the coun¬ 
try, the Post-Dispatch made a motion 
for a change of venue, on the ground 
that it could not get a fair trial in the 
local court, which is in the county just 
outside of St. Louis city. The motion 
was granted and the suit was tried at 
Hermann in Gasconade County, Mo., 
and a verdict rendered in favor of the 
publishers. In his address to the jury 
the attorney for the Post-Dispatch, 
after describing the Lewis long line 
of operations quoted the familiar words 
of Lincoln: 
“You can fool some of the people all 
of the time and all of the people some 
of the time, but you cannot fool all of 
the people all of the time,” and the 
people in court demonstrated their ap¬ 
proval. The case was tried before a 
jury of farmers. The cost of such a 
trial would probably exceed the cost of 
two average farms. The Post-Dispatch 
will pay its own expense. It is its pen¬ 
alty for publishing the truth for the 
protection of the public. It is the duty 
of the press to assume this risk to save 
the people from loss just as it is the 
duty of a doctor to enter a pest house 
to save lives. But Lewis need not 
worry about his share of the expense. 
He can collect it from inexperienced 
men and women who do not know the 
nature of his fake schemes, j. j. d. 
FARMERS' 
FAVORITE 
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Are sold under such a fair 
and liberal warranty that the 
purchaser is absolutely pro¬ 
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They simply must and will 
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styles in every size from one- 
horse up. 
lne Farmers’ Favorite Dou¬ 
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sow an equal amount of seed 
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Farmers’ Favorite Drills can 
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Send for the Farmers’ Fa¬ 
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it and go to your dealer and 
insist on seeing the Farmers’ 
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A Drill Seeder, a Hill Seeder, a Double 
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Changeable instantly from Drill to Hill 
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after breaking up of garden. You should 
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Box 1022CRENL0CH, N. J._ 
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