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KTHEJ RT_JRAI> RRW-VORRRR 
October 19, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I have just got payment of the 68 cents 
overcharge from the Adams Express Com¬ 
pany to-day. This is the second claim in 
a few months you have recovered for me. 
You are indeed doing us a great service 
and i thank you again very much. Please 
send me on 10 eneveiopes for distribution. 
Pennsylvania. J. R. b. 
This was a small amount, but the cus¬ 
tom of overcharging on shipments has 
been so pronounced we are glad to be 
able to report one collected. The new 
system of special colored labels for pre¬ 
paid shipments may save some of this 
annoyance. 
Enclosed please find circular of Louisiana 
Delta Lands Co., New Orleans, La.,_ ad¬ 
vertising land at Paradis, La., for $135 per 
acre. Will you advise as to the reliability 
of this company? Having been a sub¬ 
scriber of The R. N.-Y. for something like 
15 years, 1 know and appreciate the value 
of not only “Publisher's Desk” but your 
entire paper. s - M C - 
Pennsylvania. 
This land company has no financial 
standing that we are able to discover. 
With regard to this land, our Louisiana 
correspondent writes: 
“I know nothing about these lands, 
but the richest lands in Louisiana, and 
in the world, are selling at $40 an acre.” 
Quite a difference between $135 per 
acre and $40—shows a neat profit for 
the promoter. The case only confirms 
our previous experience, that as good 
or better land than the land promoter 
offers can be bought at from one-third 
to one-quarter the price asked. Don’t 
buy land anywhere without seeing it! 
George F. Cole of Boston, produce 
dealer, was sentenced to six months in the 
House of Correction at Ipswich by Judge 
Morton in the United States District Court 
this afternoon, the defendant having 
changed his plea of not guilty to guilty of 
using the mails in a scheme to defraud. 
The case has been pending for a year, and 
great effort was made by Attorney William 
W. Towle to have disposition made by a 
fine. The post office inspectors recently 
found that Cole had served other terms in 
Jails for fraud. , . . 
The persons swindled by Cole included 
small producers upon farms who are de¬ 
pendent to a large extent upon the money 
received from the sale of their products. 
At the time of Cole’s arrest lie had just 
sent a newspaper clipping to his cred¬ 
itors, indicating that lie had died. The 
sentence in the case was the minimum.— 
Boston Transcript, Oct. 1, 1912. 
A few jail sentences for such com¬ 
mission swindlers would do much to 
rid the business of these rascals. If 
farmers would only make inquiry or 
demand some assurance of the relia¬ 
bility of the individual or house to which 
they ship their goods they would save 
themselves a great many thousands of 
dollars every year in the aggregate. 
I shipped eggs to James Wilcox, 921 
Sixth Avenue, New York, during the Win¬ 
ter until late Spring. The results at first 
were quite satisfactory but the returns 
were less and less prompt, while his .price 
continued to drop faster than other mar¬ 
kets. After he had two months’ shipments 
of eggs which were unsettled for, I wrote 
him several times, the last time stating 
unless he gave an explanation I would 
refer the matter to you. The answer came 
witli check for all but two shipments, and 
explanation that The It. N.-Y. had nothing 
to do with him. I think him very unbusi- 
ness-like as well as dishonest. If you can 
do anything for me it will be appreciated. 
New York. R- M. h. 
In a letter to the shipper Mr. Wilson 
claims the eggs are good, but to us he 
complains that the eggs were very un¬ 
satisfactory. It is a poor time for a 
dealer to complain when he is asked for 
payment of a long-overdue shipment. 
Mr. Wilcox claims we have no interest 
in these matters, as the transaction was 
not made through us. The interest of 
shippers generally is our interest, and 
the promise to “pay when he gets ready” 
is not the proper spirit for a dealer to 
assume who expects shipments of coun¬ 
try produce. 
Can you collect the following claim 
against Sampson I. Miller, 641 5tli St., 
New York City. Enclosed find bill for 
$584.13. We think if anyone can get the 
money you can, so if not expose the same, 
that others may not be duped by them. 
Mr. Miller recommended himself to us, and 
in less than 10 days would secure the 
patrons by depositing $1,500 in the bank 
to my credit as treasurer, and the same to 
be used only in case of failure to come up 
to the agreement. I, as a committee, re¬ 
fused to accept the terms, but by a vote 
of the patrons he was given the goods by 
promising to pay each day. After the first 
bill of goods arrived at New York he sent 
a check signed Morris Miller; the same 
was returned here in about a week’s time 
protested. d. w. j. 
New York. 
We have several claims on file against 
Sampson I. Miller on account of egg 
shipments, and one other on account of 
milk delivered to him, which we have 
been unable to collect. We printed a 
word of warning to our people some 
time ago regarding the trouble farmers 
were having in getting paid for prod¬ 
uce shipped him, but evidently a good 
many have overlooked the warning, and 
the letter printed above will serve as a 
repetition of it. 
I enclose a letter from the Thwing Co., 
which explains itself. Do you know any¬ 
thing about the concern? If they are re¬ 
sponsible, it is a good deal, but looks on 
the face of it as though it might be send¬ 
ing a bad dollar after 10 good ones that 
we have already forwarded to the Suc¬ 
cess Co. F. L. N. 
New York. 
Yes, we know something of the 
Thwing Co. and have been warning our 
people against their schemes ever since 
we first heard of them through their 
alleged efforts to revive the old Circle 
Magazine some two years ago. We 
thought we had given this concern suf¬ 
ficient publicity, so that none of our 
people would be likely to get caught 
on any of their propositions, but from 
the number of inquiries similar to the 
above received recently, a little further 
light seems to be necessary. Our in¬ 
formation is that Thwing Co. got hold 
of the subscription list of the defunct 
Success Magazine when the little assets 
which the company had were disposed 
of by the receiver. The subscription 
list had little or no value, except to be 
used as a “sucker list,” and this is ex¬ 
actly the purpose for which the Thwing 
Co. are using it. When the Success 
Magazine offered life subscriptions for 
$5 everyone in the publishing business 
knew that the offer spelt “business 
ruin,” and now the Thwing Co. come 
along with an offer of life subscription 
for $1 to a publication which is appar¬ 
ently not in existence. The Thwing 
Co. has been soliciting subscriptions for 
stock from the subscribers of the old 
Circle Magazine for two years past, but 
we have no evidence that the concern 
has ever made any attempt to get out a 
publication. In the printed letter which 
the inquirer enclosed, there is no defi¬ 
nite statement either that they intend 
or expect to publish a magazine now, 
but they propose to reinstate life sub¬ 
scription to Success upon the payment 
of $1. If the proposition isn't a petty 
swindle it at least bears the earmarks 
of such. 
In renewing my subscription to The R. 
N.-Y., I am moved to write you of an in¬ 
cident which, in contrast with the subject 
matter contained in “Hind-Sights,” is re¬ 
freshing. A year ago last March I sent 
$30 to a man who advertised White Wy¬ 
andotte chickens, ordering of him 250 at 
12 cents each. He was an entire stranger 
to me, and 1 realized that this might turn 
out like many other cases that come under 
the notice of your Publisher’s Desk-—but 
we have to be guided by tbe best wisdom 
we possess, and there seemed to me to be 
the right ring in this man’s reply to my 
first letter of inquiry—and it requires a 
reasonable faith in human nature to do 
business, anyway. In due time my chick¬ 
ens came, a beautiful looking lot of white 
babies, but in a few days they had faded 
away—gone the way of all flesh, down to 
the last one, which, if 1 remember right, 
did manage to struggle along for three 
weeks. 1 wrote the shipper and received a 
courteous reply, in which he acknowledged 
that other shipments had resulted in “every 
mail bringing letters from our friends. 
Most of them think we hatch a bum chick, 
just for the fun of sticking the poor pub¬ 
lic, so we thank you for your kind letter. 
Those chickens were hatched to die, there 
is no doubt about that; but where we 
slipped a cog we cannot for the world find 
out. That, of course, don't concern you-— 
the question is, what can we do for you. 
more chicks or your money hack?” 
To be brief: I had been through suffi¬ 
cient experience to appreciate this man's 
situation, and wrote him to forget it until 
another season (as it was too late then to 
get the early chicks I wanted) and then we 
could try again. Last Spring he sent me 
more that promptly died in about three 
days. Again he acknowledged "them to be 
a poor lot—a poor hatch—hens had been 
too closely housed all Winter owing to se¬ 
vere cold weather, etc., and again agreed 
to make good. This man has been through 
sickness and a subsequent hospital experi¬ 
ence and surgical operation, and now on 
his return home, he writes me as follows: 
“Dear Mr.-: Enclosed please find 
my check for $31, to cover my debt so long 
due you. l'ou are doubtless glad to get it, 
and "i can assure you I am glad to have 
it off my mind. * * * While I was laid up 
a small legacy dropped on me just in time 
for my doctor’s bills and my debts, and 
now I can begin life all over again. This 
was surely a tempering of the wind for the 
shorn lamb. You can see now what a big 
help your patience has been to me, and 1 
have put you on the list with some others 
who have been to me friends indeed, and 
I can assure you that the kindness will 
never be forgotten.” 
Doesn’t this give one a fresh faith in 
his fellow man? I wanted to send this 
man The It. N.-Y"., but he writes mo he 
has been a subscriber for 20 years, “and 
consider it about as high toned a paper as 
comes into my hands.” I agree with him. 
New Jersey. c. w. a. Stearns. 
We can hardly think of any thing to 
say to the above letter that would add 
to the principle which it makes clear. 
There can be no question that a crowd 
of loud mouthed and unscrupulous 
crooks have given the poultry business 
an evil reputation. We have had our 
share of exposing them and we are 
glad to give this incident of a clean deal. 
Visiting Chaplain: “Ah, my brother, 
this world is full of trials.” Prisoner: 
“Oh, dry up, guv’nor! Think I dunno 
that? It ain’t the trials I minds; it’s 
the verdicts.”—Sketch. 
Sir// 
The “ICE Test” 
You've seen this picture of the 
watch in the cake of ice. It’s 
the adjusted SOUTH BEND 
WATCH. Some of you have seen 
the watch actually frozen in a 
cake of ice in a jeweler’s window, 
keeping perfect time. 
Well, a watch that will keep per¬ 
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The SOUTH BEND WATCH 
is a wonderful watch in other 
ways. It takes six months just to 
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six months is often spent in reg¬ 
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Watch must stand before it gets 
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jewelers. All other watches 
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But every watch needs 
an expert retail jeweler ’s 
^oiilh ‘Rend 
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jeweler can make the South Bend 
Watch keep perfect time for you 
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Read this letter from a jeweler 
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Then, write for free book, “How 
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watches that you will like to know. 
Smlthfield, Pa. 
South Bend Watch Co. 
Gentlemen: 
That “Studebaker” No. 232 movement 
522294 which I sold to telegraph operator 
here has never been more than one sec¬ 
ond wrong since" July 27th last. This op¬ 
erator gets standard time from the West¬ 
ern Union Lines every day and has com¬ 
pared his watch every day since above 
date with the result noted. 
Yours very truly, 
ROBERT BENSON. 
THE SOUTH BEND WATCH 
COMPANY 
10 Rowley St.. SOUTH BEND, IND. 
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