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5THEj RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
January 11, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
June or July, 1911, on account of sick¬ 
ness 1 was in need o" a man and wife, 
so I saw Alex Barber of Greenwich in 
relation to procuring help from the South, 
lie said he had done a great deal of busi¬ 
ness with Lee Todd of Richmond, Ya., and 
he would communicate with him. He did 
so and informed me Mr. Todd said he coukl 
furnish man and wife, but 1 would have to 
send $16 for expenses. I did so but have 
received neither man or woman nor my 
money. Barber and myself have both writ- 
ter him but can get no satisfaction. 
New York. w. L. s. 
This is the third year we have had 
occasion to refer to similar transactions 
on Mr. Todd’s part—money sent him 
and no help forwarded. He throws 
the responsibility on Mr. Barber in this 
case, but the subscriber holds return 
voucher showing Mr. Todd received 
the money, so we can only conclude that 
it will be wiser to look elsewhere for 
help than in Richmond, Va. 
Yours of the 4th at hand and will say 
in reply that I have not received my pay 
from the Crayl Exchange, Springfield, Mass., 
nor have 1 heard from them. I thank you 
for trying to get it for me. J. u. G. 
Massachusetts. 
The Crayl Exchange for Woman’s 
Work request an annual fee of $2, after 
which you may send them your handi¬ 
work and they will charge you 12 per 
cent commission on each sale they make 
for you. Our subscriber had the small 
amount of $1.76 due her. We called 
their attention t© it and they promised 
to send a check after the holiday (La¬ 
bor' Day). The remittance was not sent. 
Our further letters elicit the insinu¬ 
ation that the affair is none of our 
business. The only inference is that 
they will settle when they get ready. 
Other subscribers who may be solicited 
to join the exchange may draw their 
own conclusions. 
A man who operated in this section last 
Summer and Fall buying cattle and sheep, 
also hogs, on October 2."), 1912, trimmed 
us, as you will see by the enclosed list, 
to the finish, to the tune of $ 1,200 and 
over, having paid us all in checks on 
the Manufacturers’ National Bank of Me- 
chanicsville, N. Y. All checks went to pro¬ 
test. This man, P. E. Hawley of Mechan- 
icsville, N. Y\, had been doing'quite a busi¬ 
ness here, and everyone thought him all 
right. Ilis checks had always been good, 
and Mr. J. B. Lesperance at the station had 
handled a large amount of them, and he 
would have cashed them to the amount of 
$500 that day, but this man evidently 
had planned a wholesale clean up, as he 
took several carloads of stock on that date 
to New York, and nothing has been heard 
of him since. We here who were duped 
have pooled our interests, agreeing to pay 
our proportionate share of the expense to 
see what can be done. 1 am enclosing list 
and amounts, as 1 was elected chairman of 
the meeting and the business placed in 
my hands. c. l. c. 
Willsboro, N. 1". 
The list of names who were swindled 
on this deal includes 15 prominent far¬ 
mers. It seems that Mr. Hawley had 
previously bought stock and produce 
from these farmers, and his checks 
were paid so that there was no good 
reason why they should have been sus¬ 
picious this time. The lesson to be 
drawn from the sad experience of these 
farmers is the danger of accepting 
checks from strangers. We understand 
the bank on which the bogus checks 
were drawn are also looking for Haw¬ 
ley. We have always maintained that 
the concern of even a single subscriber 
is the concern of all and we now call 
upon every reader of the paper to keep 
an eye out for this P. L. Hawley and 
prevent him from swindling others as 
he has these Essex County farmers. 
I am sending you a bill of a commis¬ 
sion man, B. O. Elmore of 114 Warren 
street. New York, to whom I sent one case 
of nice white eggs in the week of Decem¬ 
ber 18; also sent another case to another 
house the same time, got 44 cents for that. 
Is there any way I can get back on him? 
lie also charged me up for three dozen 
broken ones. Shouldn’t he collect that 
from the express company? If you can 
do anything in this case it would be ap¬ 
preciated. w. R. p. 
New Y'ork. 
We have written the above commis¬ 
sion man asking for an explanation as 
to the breakage and low return made 
for this shipment; also asking if the 
notation had been made on the express 
company’s receipt, in order that the 
shipper might get redress from the ex¬ 
press company for the broken eggs. 
Mr. Elmore’s reply gives us no infor¬ 
mation on the points at issue. We had 
occasion to call on Mr. Elmore regard¬ 
ing another complaint a short time ago. 
We found he occupied a small room 
over the place of business of a com¬ 
mission house. The room contained 
only a desk and an oil stove. Mr. 
Elmore was not in at the time. The 
price paid for the eggs was certainly 
very much below the market price for 
the grade of eggs which the shipper 
claims them to be. As to the claim for 
broken eggs, readers may draw their 
own conclusions. Express companies 
frequently do handle egg shipments 
roughly so as to break a portion of 
them, but the rule is the breakage is 
usually discernible when the eggs are 
delivered. If a notation of the break¬ 
age were made on the receipt the ex¬ 
press company could be compelled to 
make settlement. We hope the incom¬ 
ing administration at Albany may 
enact some laws to protect shippers 
when sending their produce to the New. 
York market. In the meantime we can¬ 
not urge shippers too strongly to look 
up the reliability and standing of any 
party they are shipping to before part¬ 
ing with their goods. 
The representative of the International 
Automobile League Tire and Rubber Co., 
Buffalo, N. Y.. solicited my son and me 
to join their league, which we did on the 
representation that we could buy gasoline 
at 10 cents per gallon, and an automobile 
at 10% discount. Upon ordering we found 
we could buy gasoline at that price by 
buying a steel barrel at $5.50. and that we 
could not buy an auto of them at all. We 
thereupon demanded the return of our 
money, which they refused. We finally 
sent an order for different things which 
proved quite unsatisfactory, and have 
purchased nothing since as we can do bet¬ 
ter elsewhere. They now send a statement 
for a year’s dues and copy of a contract 
which they say was left with us. All we 
had was a receipt for $ 10 , the first year's 
dues. Each member is charged $10 a year 
for each car or $5 for the second car. 
They refuse to release us until all dues 
are paid. They say they never had a dis¬ 
satisfied customer. Can they stick us for 
the second year's dues? Ilad we better 
make the best of a bad job and pay this 
sweat money and get out the best way 
we can? c. s. f . 
New York. 
We have had several complaints with 
regard to the methods of this company. 
Our understanding is that this scheme 
to sell automobiles and supplies at a 
discount is merely for the purpose of 
inducing investments in their stock, and 
our universal advice to our subscribers 
is to keep away from propositions of 
this kind. The discount to members 
may be real or imaginary, as few buyers 
of automobile supplies can judge ac¬ 
curately enough of the quality to know 
whether he is getting the alleged 10 
per cent discount or not. 
Three years ago C. N. Johnson was a 
prosperous citizen of Rockford, Ill. He 
had been an honest, hard-working, pru¬ 
dent and frugal man all his life. He 
had arrived at the age when his activi¬ 
ties were of the past, but he was in fair 
health and in a way to end his days in 
comfort. He had $12,000 in the savings 
banks, and a house and lot in San Fran¬ 
cisco. Mr. Johnson read in a paper called 
“The Investment Herald” of the wonder 
mines controlled by A. L. Wisner & 
Co., and that the stocks in their com¬ 
panies were guaranteed by a trust fund 
of $3,000,000. He did not know that 
what he read in the paper was dictated 
by Wisner & Co., nor that the trust fund 
was nothing but paper stock in other 
enterprises of no value. Mr. Johnson 
made a small investment in the Wisner 
stocks. He soon received a most en¬ 
couraging dividend. It was some of his 
own money returned. The mines earned 
no dividends, but Mr. Johnson had no 
way of knowing this. He only knew 
that he got good dividends into his 
hands, and that the returns were more 
than the savings banks paid. He did 
not know that a little of his own money 
had been returned to induce him to in¬ 
vest more. So Wisner & Co. got all of 
his $12,000. Then they gave more stock 
and some cash for his house, and finally 
got the cash back for more stocks. 
Stripped of everything of material 
value that he had in the world, C. M. 
Johnson went into the streets with his 
pockets full of handsomely printed cer¬ 
tificates that were not worth the raw 
paper on which they were printed. 
Last week when the government was 
prosecuting Wisner on the charge of 
using the mails to defraud, Mr. John¬ 
son, old, broken and penniless, told his 
pitiable story to court and jury. One 
sympathizer with crooks on that jury 
can prevent a verdict to send Wisner 
to the penitentiary. But what does it 
matter to poor, broken Mr. Johnson? 
His savings of a lifetime are gone. For 
him there is no redress. As a people 
we create the machinery of law by 
which craft and cunning may thus rob 
innocence and inexperience and old age. 
We see the robbery going on in broad 
daylight, but have no power to stop 
it. Even the Federal Government can¬ 
not interfere until it finds victims who 
have been swindled and. having lost 
hope of recover}’, are willing to testify. 
Yet these worthless securities are is¬ 
sued under authority of law. Isn’t it 
about time we refused the authority 
to issue stocks and bonds until the 
promoter proved the value of the assets 
behind tlie paper certificates? 
An up-State paper reports a lawsuit 
brought by a duck breeder against a 
recent back-to-the-lander, to recover the 
price of 180 ducks. This city farmer 
refused to pay on the grounds that 
nearly half of the ducks died a few days 
after he received them. The fact de¬ 
veloped at the trial that the defendant 
fed the ducks in accordance with direc¬ 
tions for feeding he obtained through a 
correspondence school course in poultry 
culture. Enough said! The court 
promptly awarded the plaintiff a judg¬ 
ment for the full amount of his claim. 
Enclosed are some of the circulars sent 
me with a trial box of “Sargol.” I am 
suspicious about this treatment. What does 
the Publisher’s Desk think? Is it O. K.? 
Advertisement was in Christian Herald. 
s. o. 
The Journal of the American Medi¬ 
cal Association, which might well be 
considered the court of last resort on 
such matters, has this to say about “Sar¬ 
gol.” 
SARGOL. 
Next to the widely-advertised nostrums 
on the market for the cure of obesity, there 
are probably no bigger humbugs extant 
than the preparations sold as “flesh build¬ 
ers.’’ Some of the latter class of fakes 
are alleged to be local in their action—to 
build up the bust but to have no effect 
on the rest of the body. Still others, of 
which Sargol is one. are sold as general 
“flesh builders.” Sargol, if we believe the 
advertisements, “makes puny, peevish peo¬ 
ple plump and popular.” The stuff is ad¬ 
vertised on both sides of the Atlantic and 
was recently analyzed by the chemists of 
the British Medical Association, who re¬ 
ported that they found the Sargol tablets 
“to contain lecithin, hypophosphites of cal¬ 
cium, sodium and potassium, zinc phosphid. 
sugar, albumin and insoluble protein with 
talc, kaolin or some mineral matter, evi¬ 
dently added as an excipient.” The British 
chemists estimated that the cost of the 
materials for 30 of these worthless tablets 
was about 2 % cents; they are sold for $ 1 . 
Lecithin and liypophosphite are the 
only ingredients found in the analysis 
that have any value as tissue reconstruc- 
tives, and they have no such miraculous 
value as is claimed for Sargol. 
Value of Trap Nests. 
Seeing an inquiry on page 1277 regard¬ 
ing trap-nesting at the Maine Experiment 
Station I am moved to add the following 
as supplemental to the reply given to L. 
F. J. There sems to be a widespread 
notion that the trap-nest experiments of 
Prof. Gowell proved decisively that they 
are useless in breeding a heavy-laying 
strain. That is incorrect. The station 
biologist says he cannot conceive of a 
heavy-laying strain being built up without 
using them, but their use alone is not suf¬ 
ficient, and other essentials are necessary 
as indicated in the reply you printed. 
Milo M. Hastings, in "The Dollar Hen.” 
throws much light on the Maine experi¬ 
ment. He says several factors were intro¬ 
duced during the course of the experiments 
and ignored when drawing conclusions, 
such as a radical change in housing, in 
feeding, the floor space per hen reduced 
to nearly one-half and size of flock in¬ 
creased 150%. Success with a few hens 
is often followed by failure with many. 
There were about 300 hens in the station 
flock when the experiment began, and in¬ 
creased four or live times, also Prof. 
Gowell had a large poultry plant of his 
own at the end of the period. Showing 
the quality of the stock thus produced I 
quote this sentence: “The breeding stock 
sent out by Prof. Gowell has given general 
satisfaction and was found by Prof. Gra¬ 
ham of the Ontario Station, as well as by 
a number of private individuals, to be of 
superior laying quality to that of the aver¬ 
age Barred Rock.” Therefore the Maine 
experiments were not the failure charged 
by some, and should not be quoted as prov¬ 
ing the trap-nest of little value. The value 
of trap-nests has been well demonstrated 
by the Australian breeders, also by scores 
of American poultrynien. 
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