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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 5, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have received a number of letters 
from the Franklin, Incorporated, Candy 
Manufacturers, New York. As they give 
such glowing accounts of the money they 
Will make for their investors, we wish to 
ask you what you know about them. Is 
the company all right? Evidently they in¬ 
tend to make us think they are, for they 
even offer to give free transportation to 
their office. a. n. 
Massachusetts. 
Many an inexperienced investor has 
been tricked by the apparent liberal of¬ 
fers to pay their railroad fare to make 
the investigation for themselves. The 
promoters rightly figure that few will 
take advantage of their offer, and the 
suspicions of many will be allayed be¬ 
cause of its apparent liberality. But 
supposing the prospective investor did 
come to New York and visit the office 
of the Franklin Incorporated for the 
purpose of making an investigation. He 
would probably find a very fine suite of 
offices, elegantly fitted up, bearing all 
the evidences of prosperity.' Then he 
would also have an opportunity to listen 
to the honeyed arguments of the pro¬ 
moter as to the big prospects which are 
sure to be made by the Franklin Co. 
The magnetism and enthusiasm of the 
talker would go far, no doubt, toward 
persuading him that the rest of his life 
would be sweeter than the candy manu¬ 
factured by this company if he will only 
turn his hard-earned savings over to the 
promoter. 
One of the convincing features of the 
literature sent out by N. A. Brown & 
Co., of 64 Wall street, New York City, 
which firm is acting as fiscal agent for 
the stock, is three letter-size pages of 
closely typewritten names and addresses 
of New York City stores selling Frank¬ 
lin candies. We looked up a number 
of these so-called candy stores some 
time ago in the interest of a Michigan 
subscriber, who had an option on a block 
of the Franklin Incorporated stock. A 
number of the addresses given were 
large office buildings on Broadway and 
other sections of the city. We found 
in these buildings no candy store, but in 
the lobby, as is customary in the large 
oifice buildings, a cigar stand, and as 
a side line a few packages of candy 
were on sale. The whole stock of candy 
carried by any one of these cigar stands 
would only amount to a few dollars. 
This is the class of dealers represented 
in the literature as candy stores for 
stock-selling purposes. No more is 
needed to satisfy prospective investors 
of the hollowness of the proposition. 
In the Fall of 1906 I invested .$1,500 in 
Ram’s Horn Publishing Company, Chicago, 
on the promise of six per cent dividend. In 
1909 they sold out to the Christian Herald 
Company of New York and turned all 
stockholders over to the World’s Events 
Company. Now they have gone to the 
Chautauqua Manufacturing Company, Val¬ 
paraiso, lnd., and I have received no re¬ 
turns for two years, and I very much fear 
that I shall lose the principal. Can you 
find out about it for me? I am a poor 
widow with two children to raise. I am an 
invalid and in poor health. You help 
others, and I am sure no one needs it 
worse than I, or would appreciate it more. 
Maryland. E. M. s. 
We fear we ■will be able to do little 
for this good woman. There have been 
different combinations and consolidations 
and financial difficulties, involuntary 
bankruptcy proceedings, following each 
other in rapid succession in these con¬ 
cerns, and the business seems yet to be 
in the hands of a creditors’ committee 
and unsettled, with a proposition to pay 
creditors five cents on the dollar. There 
seems to be an indebtedness for mer¬ 
chandise and a mortgage for $15,000, so 
that, of course, there is no market for 
the stock, and if it has any value at all 
it must be trifling. The experience sim¬ 
ply reveals the unwisdom of putting 
money into publishing ventures. We 
would be glad to help these unfortunate 
investors if we could, but there is abso¬ 
lutely nothing can be done for them. 
The money is lost when it is invested. 
I am enclosing you a new scheme. Isn’t 
It great? What do you think about it? 
Rhode Island. H. J. p. 
The new scheme referred to enclosed 
is a circular issued by F. D. Hancock 
of Binghamton, N. Y., headed “Indoor 
Potato Growing,” and goes into some 
detail how anyone, no matter where 
located, can grow their own supply of 
potatoes and supply their market at 
any time of year in a cellar or spare 
room. It is represented that one set¬ 
ting will produce two crops and pos¬ 
sibly three. This new method is offered 
as a panacea for the high cost of liv¬ 
ing, and you are asked to send a dol¬ 
lar bill or 50 two-cent stamps for the 
necessary information as to how to 
grow them. The wonder is expressed 
in the circular that this method was 
not discovered years ago. The author 
of the circular is mistaken. The method 
was probably discovered before he was 
born. It is such a palpable fake that 
the wonder is that anyone should be 
gulilible enough to send a dollar or 
even a cent for such information as 
promised in the circular. This scheme 
was advertised from Chicago some 10 
or 12 years ago, and The R. N.-Y. 
promptly exposed it. The fake has been 
revived lately in different sections. We 
see it advertised by the Montvale Farm, 
Montvale, Va., so evidently the Bing¬ 
hamton party has no monopoly of the 
secret. We shall not be surprised to 
see this advertising appear in some of 
the so-called farm papers. 
I thank you very much for your courtesy 
in replying to my query concerning the 
Florida East Coast proposition. I have 
decided that there is nothing in the thing 
for me. and have dropped it like a hot 
coal. The information which 1 have re¬ 
ceived from you and also from some other 
friends whom I questioned has taught me 
that it pays to investigate. F. t. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
Few of those who investigate Florida 
lands and conditions will buy from the 
land speculators. The few who do 
usually live to regret their haste and 
faith in land schemers. The only safe 
way to buy land in Florida is to go 
there personally, not in the halter of a 
land agent, but by yourself, and learn 
the facts about conditions from responsi¬ 
ble residents. Whether you then buy 
or not, the cost of the trip will be the 
best investment you can make. If you 
tell us you have not money enough to 
make the trip, then we tell you to keep 
what you have. 
I saw an advertisement in the New York 
World by the North Jersey Seed Company, 
offering wheat screenings. I sent them a 
check for $14 in December, 1911. They 
sent a receipted bill and stated they would 
ship in a few days. Then they wrote they 
could not ship at present. Various other 
excuses were sent, and finally I procured 
wheat elsewhere and asked them to return 
my check. They have the names John W. 
C. Pullen and A. Pullen on their letter 
head. I have never heard anything from 
them. e. a. t. 
New Y’ork. 
Kindly let me know if you have any 
knowledge of such a concern as North Jer¬ 
sey Seed Company? I sent them a post 
office order for 500 pounds of wheat 
screenings, and received answer “they were 
just out but would forward as soon as new 
supply came in.” Since I can get no 
answer from them. Order was sent July 
5, 1911. w. s. 
New York. 
The North Jersey Seed Company sent 
us $3 to divide between these two parties, 
and that is all we have been able to get 
on the two accounts. They have since 
refused to answer our inquiries. We 
had a previous complaint against them 
that after much correspondence we suc¬ 
ceeded in collecting, but this record is 
not such that farmers will feel war¬ 
ranted in entrusting future orders to the 
concern. 
It is indeed commendable the way in 
which you are disconcerting the plans of 
rogues and defending your people against 
swindlers. How easy your task in this 
fight would be if all editors and all agri¬ 
cultural papers would endorse your plans, 
and stand for a “square deal.” 
West Virginia. i.* M. J. 
Yes, it would be easier and more ef¬ 
fective if all publishers would help; but 
the sad part of it is that some of the 
publishers are the most dangerous 
schemers we have to contend with. The 
people, however, have the remedy in 
their own hands. Nine-tenths of the 
schemes appeal to avarice. They tell 
you that you.are to get something for 
nothing, or that you are to reap benefits 
and profits to which you are not really 
entitled. Avoid such allurements, and 
there is little to fear from the ordinary 
faker. Of course there are swindles 
so cunningly devised that the most care¬ 
ful are often taken in; but the person 
who insists on earning his money, or in 
giving and receiving a full measure of 
value in every case, will have a small 
collection of gold bricks. 
Although we have retired from active 
farm work, having sold our farm a year 
ago through the medium of The It. N.-Y., 
the paper has done me lots of good. It is 
a clean, wholesome, undefiled paper. It 
has done me good morally and intellectu¬ 
ally. It has kept me out of the grasp of 
would-be “suckers” and swindlers. It 
stands for truth, honesty and integrity, 
that is just suited to your most unworthy 
subscriber. I would like to spend the rest 
of my days getting subscribers for it, as 
I know of no other way we could better 
help our ifellow men. Long live The 
R. N.-Y. a. a. 
New York. 
It is always pleasant to have kind 
words from those who have been long 
associated with us. This paper is run 
on the theory that the people will appre¬ 
ciate an honest service, and it is com¬ 
forting and encouraging to know that, 
however faulty the details, the honest 
effort is acknowledged and appreciated 
by our friends. We do not look for 
any very enthusiastic approval from 
crooks. 
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