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THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
April 20, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
To subscribers who have sent us pre¬ 
ferred shares of the Currier Publish¬ 
ing Company stock, Chicago, Ill., to be 
redeemed we can only say that the busi¬ 
ness has been taken over by a large 
creditor and Mr. Currier has been elim¬ 
inated. In such a situation it is, of 
course, impossible to do anything with 
the stock. The stock was guaranteed 
to pay seven per cent dividend, but what 
good is the guarantee of a publication 
that cannot pay its paper bills? It is an¬ 
other instance of unfortunate specula¬ 
tion in publishing company stock. 
Those who have read “Hind-Sights” 
are familiar with the Spanish fake. Re¬ 
cently a man came on from the West de¬ 
termined to go to Europe to relieve the 
prisoner from his dungeon and the beau¬ 
tiful maiden from her Madrid convent. 
Incidentally he was to put up cash 
enough to release the securities repre¬ 
senting the young woman’s great for¬ 
tune. After spending some time at police 
headquarters his son was telegraphed 
for, and the wealthy old sympathetic 
gentleman returned to his home, prob¬ 
ably half convinced that the $15,000 he 
was to pay for the release of the Spanish 
prisoner was the Spaniard’s estimate of 
the limit of his gullibility. 
One of our neighbors came in one day 
and asked me to go in the Globe Associa¬ 
tion, Chicago, and I said, “I beg of you 
not to have anything to do with that.” and 
got some back numbers and read about it 
to him. He said he was glad he came here 
first, as of course he did not want to beat 
his neighbors. I could give you lots of in¬ 
stances of the same character. J. B. 
New York. 
We print the above just to show the 
way the R. N.-Y. people are helping 
weed out the fakers. Do you wonder 
why rogues hate and fear The R. 
N.-Y. ? It is not so much what the 
paper says, but what the readers do. 
The people of this country will fight 
fraud, if you give them the weapons 
with which to fight, and no other class 
of people so fully recognize their re¬ 
sponsibility as the men and women on 
the farms. From the nature of their 
lives they rebel against fraud. 
Although engaged at present as principal 
of a grammar school, I read The II. N.-Y. 
with increasing interest. I am intensely 
interested in your compaign against 
“crooks” and can only say in the words of 
General Grant—Go in ! I. M. k. 
New York. 
We are willing to do what we can, 
but we do not like the monopoly we 
seem to have of this job of fighting 
crooks. We would like some help. The 
Federal Government reports that pro¬ 
moters of fraudulent schemes to the 
amount of $77,000,000 were put out of 
business last year, but the Government 
could not get them until they had taken 
the money from the people and spent 
it, and then at great expense. The 
papers of this country could stop the at¬ 
tempted robbery before the schemers got 
the money. Ask the papers that you 
read to help. 
I would be much pleased if the Publisher’s 
Desk would tell what it knows about the 
“Florida Land Co. Arcadia Groves” with 
offices in Chicago. I do not know the 
Chicago address. H. J. H. 
Vermont. 
Don't take any pains to find the num¬ 
ber. We cannot tell you all we know 
about Florida land schemes. It would 
take too long. All you need to know 
is enough to leave them alone. If you 
think you must -have a Florida farm, go 
there and buy one, but don’t buy it 
from the promoters, and don’t buy 
from anyone until you see it. If you 
can’t afford the trip, wait until you can. 
I had the satisfaction through you of 
shutting off the Cable Express Co. adver¬ 
tisement in our local paper the week before 
last. I happened to notice the advertise¬ 
ment the first time it appeared, and took 
a copy of The R. N.-Y. exposing it to the 
local publisher. He cut it out at once. 
Maine. J. L. D. 
The above came as a postscript to a 
letter telling of a protest made by the 
writer against a full page advertisement 
of a swindle which had just appeared 
in a national literary paper of high 
standing. The publisher had accepted 
it without knowing of the deception of 
it, and it will not be repeated. This is 
two schemes that this subscriber blocked 
in one week. We call that good work. 
Many of our friends are watching these 
things and promise to. bring publishers 
to a realization of their responsibilities. 
Advertising men’s clubs in all parts, of 
the country are now appointing vigi¬ 
lance committees to watch papers and 
fight dishonest schemers. Five years 
ago such a work would have been im¬ 
possible. The R. N.-Y. was doing it 
alone. In five years more we will have 
laws to send men to prison for cheating 
through advertisements just as we have 
now for stealing from our pockets and 
our homes. And it is the readers of 
The R. N.-Y. who have furnished the 
leaven to lighten up this whole soggy 
mess of deception and trickery .and 
fraud. 
Three or four years ago I was taking the 
“Progress Magazine,” Chicago, and they 
were presenting a most glowing prospectus, 
8% at the start and a moral certainty of 
30 to 40% in time. Remembering your 
frequent warnings against investing in pub¬ 
lishing house stock, I kept my good money. 
The other day I saw a notice of their fail¬ 
ure. It's not my funeral; I’m not flattened 
out under the ruins. There is a pressing 
need for the kind of work that you are 
doing, and if other papers can’t take it up, 
at least they might clean up their own 
backyards in the matter of advertisements. 
Massachusetts. • c. a. b. 
It seems as if we had about exhausted 
the subjects of publishing investments. 
The experience of one is the experi¬ 
ence of all. None of these publishers 
could sell their stocks if they would tell 
all the truth about them. 
A Michigan friend sends us literature 
from Benjamin F. Moffatt, 318 McCor¬ 
mick Building, Chicago, Ill., urging the 
purchase of Buick oil stock at $1 a share 
on the ground that it will be advanced 
in price on February 10. Our friend 
marvels at the philanthropy of a con¬ 
cern that would part with stock at $1 a 
share, which they represent worth sev¬ 
eral dollars per share. But if you read 
the literature carefully you will not find 
any direct statement that the stock is 
worth several dollars per share. All the 
art of the English language is used to 
give that impression without saying so. 
The price will be raised, the stock should 
be worth so and so; pictures show how 
many wells may be dug and derricks 
erected; but care is taken to say nothing 
that a Federal grand jury could construe 
into a definite statement of worth. The 
record of the Buick Oil Co. is well 
known in informed circles, and it is safe 
to say that experienced investors will not 
tumble over one another to buy. 
I must be on the sucker list, as I am 
continuously receiving letters like the en¬ 
closed. Y'ou might help some one in this 
section by looking the concern up and giv¬ 
ing us a small item on them. b. s. b. 
New York. 
The letter enclosed with the above 
contains the following paragraph: 
If I will secure you a plot of ground free 
from encumbrance in a property situated on 
the South Shore division of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Railroad on Long Island, would you 
after inspection allow me to confidentially 
refer to you as being an owner in this 
property, I agreeing not to use your name 
in any way until you have inspected it? 
E. J. Harris, President, 
Pennsvlvania Improvement Co., 
47 West 34th St., New York. 
We do not know just what scheme 
Mr. Harris has in this proposition. He 
says in the letter that the person ad¬ 
dressed will not be required to build or 
purchase adjoining lots. The buying of 
the second lot at the price of two is the 
usual condition of this free gift in such 
schemes^ but there are other ways to 
accomplish the same result. We suspect 
in this case you would be obliged to put 
up a sum for filing deed, securing title 
and probably a lump sum for the com¬ 
pany to use in general improvements. 
This, however, is guesswork. We do 
not know what the requirements would 
be, but we do know that Mr. Harris is 
not going out into the country to look 
up strangers to make them presents of 
lots or anything else of value. 
I find The R. N.-1 t . more interesting, safe 
and reliable each year. Your Publisher’s 
Desk has saved me at least 10 times its sub¬ 
scription price each year. I had stock 
in the Circle Publishing Co., have taken 
your advice by not taking stock in the 
new venture, and also in other stocks you 
exposed. Wishing you many more new 
subscribers this coming year. h. c. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
If our people get caught in the fakes, 
including the fake publishing stocks, we 
would certainly be disappointed. If we 
were not “safe” and “reliable” on these 
subjects the fakers and swindlers would 
jump at a chance to show where our 
statements were not correct. They do 
not even attempt any such defence. We 
can be “safe” only by being conserva¬ 
tive and by getting the facts. 
Each issue of the paper is worth the 
dollar; the best paper 1 have ever taken, 
and it is sure death to fakes. 'I think if 
any who are bitten by the speculative bug 
will rub any old issue of The R. N.-Y. 
on the bite, they will find relief. Yours 
for parcels post. g. s. g. 
Washington. 
Our people have a terse and strong 
way of putting things. Our friend from 
the great and distant Northwest clothes 
his thought with very effective lan¬ 
guage. J. J. d. 
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The Amatite mineral surface 
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weather for a long time. You 
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Amatite Roofs to see whether they 
need painting every year or two. 
The cost of paint, therefore, is 
done away with—all that trouble 
and nuisance and bother is gone. 
Simply lay your Amatite, nail it 
down, take away your ladder and 
forget that you have a roof. 
A sample of Amatite will he sent 
free on request, together with a 
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Everjet Elastic Paint 
A low-priced black paint—tough and dur¬ 
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