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THK RURAL NEW-VORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I am sending you some literature from 
the Creslo Laboratories of Binghamton, N. 
Y. They claim that they can make hair 
grow on bald-headed people. If this is 
true, you can send me the papers back 
with the information required, but if it 
is not true, you can send it to the waste 
basket. M. r. 
Pennsylvania. 
It went to the waste basket. Some 
of the statements made in this circular 
are almost enough to raise the dead 
hair on a bald head and make it sprout 
red. Yet this circular does one thing 
—offers a new kind of “proof” which 
is new to us. How do you like this 
as proof that this stuff will make your 
hair grow? 
“Do you suppose for a second that 
a minister like the Rev. H. A. Hendricks 
of Wisconsin would deliberately make 
statements that are false?” 
We should want a look at Brother 
Hendricks and his hair before answer¬ 
ing. As it is Brother Hendricks makes 
some very guarded statements. He 
says he is delighted with results and 
that the stuff started his hair growing 
after the first week. Very likely a 
good shampoo would have done the 
same. Brother Hendricks is very care¬ 
ful not to say that hair grew on his 
bald head, because he knows better. 
John A. Qualey, who swindled the 
widow of the eminent surgeon, Dr. Wm. 
T. Bull, out of $35,000, was found guilty 
by a jury last week and sentenced by 
Justice Goff to a term in prison of not 
less than five and not more than eight 
years. In pronouncing the sentence Jus¬ 
tice Goff said: “I have looked up your 
case carefully and I find that numerous 
complaints have been made that you 
have swindled others, as you did Mrs. 
Bull. It has been satisfactorily estab¬ 
lished that for many years you have 
been engaged in swindling operations, 
end I see no reason why I should show 
you any mercy.” It is said that worry 
over the swindle hastened the death of 
Mrs. Bull, and her will made a request 
that Qualey be prosecuted to the full ex¬ 
tent of the law. The District Attorney 
has received many more complaints- 
against Qualey, and records of his trans¬ 
actions show that he was in several 
schemes to defraud unsuspecting in¬ 
vestors. Mrs. Bull was induced to in¬ 
vest her money in the stock of the Mag¬ 
nesia-Asbestos Company, which seems 
to have been organized on much the 
same lines, and promoted in much the 
same way, as E. G. Lewis organized and 
promoted the sale of stock in the United 
States Fiber-Stopper Company of St. 
Louis. In each case there was a patent 
In each case there was a factory, and 
in each case some pretense of manufac¬ 
ture, and in both cases promises of 
enormous profits. In both cases invest¬ 
ments were total losses. 
A verdict for the Eagle and against 
Pastor Charles T. Russell of “miracle” 
wheat fame was returned by a jury before 
Supreme Court Justice Kelby in Brooklyn 
yesterday at the close of a .$100,000 libel 
suit, which had grown out of the publica¬ 
tion in the Brooklyn newspaper of a car¬ 
toon pretending to portray the plaintiff 
in the act of being called away from his 
task of peddling “miracle” wheat to join 
the “Onion” Bank directors. The jury was 
out forty, minutes.—New York Sun. 
The above was an interesting case. 
About a year ago the Brooklyn pastor 
undertook to sell “Mi-racle” wheat 
through the Watch Tower Bible and 
Tract Society, an organization which, it 
is said, he personally controlled. It is 
said that the circulars prophesied a fam¬ 
ine for the year 1914 and predicted a 
sale of the “Miracle” wheat at $60 a 
bushel, and the Brooklyn Eagle pub¬ 
lished a cartoon ridiculing the pastor 
and his wheat proposition, and the pas¬ 
tor sued the paper for $100,000 damages, 
alleging that the cartoon and the para¬ 
graphs referring to it had put him in 
the class with financial crooks. The 
attorney for the defense, in summing 
the case, alleged that the followers of 
Pastor Russell had been made to believe 
that everything he wrote was gospel 
truth and they rose for it like fish for 
a minnow, but as soon as the cartoon 
and articles about it were printed in the 
Eagle the sales stopped short. We have 
no information to show the intent of 
Mr. Russell in the sale of the “Miracle” 
wheat. It is possible that he was misled 
by the claims presented for it by other 
promoters, and that he was innocent of 
any intentional deception on his own 
part, but after having promoted the 
“Miracle” wheat lie was certainly badly 
advised in bringing a suit against the 
publication that sought to protect its 
readers from the purchase of a gold 
brick. 
The affairs of the Industrial Savings 
and Loan Company were taken over by 
the Banking Department of the State of 
New York in June last because it was 
insolvent and with the purpose of liqui¬ 
dating its affairs and saving its assets 
for its creditors. 
The R. N.-Y. readers are pretty well 
advised of the progress of this institu¬ 
tion. Six years ago we discovered that 
the directors of the association had or¬ 
ganized land companies and building 
supply companies, which they controlled, 
and that they were dealing with them¬ 
selves between the Savings and Loan 
Company and their own companies for 
the money of the depositors. They ad¬ 
mitted the facts, but refused to admit 
the danger. We regarded human nature 
as entirely too weak a proposition to 
resist a temptation of this kind, and we 
refused the advertising and advised our 
people from time to time of our reasons 
for doing so. The advertising was con¬ 
tinued by many of the most prominent 
publications in the country. 
We understand now from numerous 
correspondents that these old directors 
are writing creditors of the Industrial 
Savings and Loan Company, represent¬ 
ing that the creditors have a chance of 
getting all of their money out of the 
company by exchanging their claims for 
stock in the Montauk Park Company 
or other concerns controlled by the di¬ 
rectors. It does not seem possible that 
any victims of these manipulators would 
be foolish enough to again place them¬ 
selves in the hands of the men who 
caused their original embarrassment, 
and yet it seems that the plausible prop¬ 
osition is meeting with some success, 
and that some of the depositors are ac¬ 
tually turning their claims over in ex¬ 
change for stock in these land promo¬ 
tion schemes. This is, of course, not 
an original scheme with these promoters. 
It has been worked over and over again. 
Lewis worked it when the Government 
originally closed his United States bank. 
Ostrander has worked it indefinitely, 
Currier has adopted it, and promoters 
generally are prepared to trade worth¬ 
less security for one of more or less 
value, and sometimes of no greater 
value, for the purpose of profit or of 
appeasing the wrath of his victim. 
In years past concerns that failed and 
went into the hands of a receiver were 
largely eaten up by the legal expense 
of the receiver, but of recent years this 
matter has been changed. There is no 
longer a receiver appointed for banks and 
associations of this kind. Their assets 
are taken over by the State Banking De¬ 
partment and they are economically 
liquidated as speedily as possible, so that 
its depositors may be sure in this case 
that they will get all the assets are 
worth, and as the company has been 
inspected regularly by the department it 
is fair to assume that the depositors 
ought to get pretty close to their origi¬ 
nal investment. We have made no in¬ 
vestigation of the Montauk Park Com¬ 
pany. It does not seem that the com¬ 
pany has rendered any detailed state¬ 
ment of its assets and liabilities, and, 
judging by the performance of these 
gentlemen in the past, and by our ex¬ 
perience with land promotion companies 
of the kind, we would not pay the ex¬ 
pense of printing the certificates for the 
stock itself. There are some assets of 
value yet in your holdings in the Indus¬ 
trial Savings and Loan Company. Your 
claim, therefore, has a cash value. The 
stock in the Montauk Park Company 
has no known value. If you held it to¬ 
day you probably could not sell it on 
the market for a nickel a share. Those 
who take our advice will hold on to 
their deposits in the company and re¬ 
ceive in cash from the State what the 
assets are worth. Those who trade 
them for worthless stocks may or may 
not be wiser, but will surely be poorer. 
T. J. D. 
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