THE RURAL R EW-VOR K E l*. 
May lt ( 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Yours received enclosing check for $4 
in settlement of the protested check. I 
wish to thank you roost heartily. I am 
sure I would never have been able to col¬ 
lect it. I like the way The R. N.-Y. goes 
after crooks and schemes. Keep the good 
work up. Lots of farm papers claim to 
protect their readers, but I call The R. 
N.-Y.’s way real protection. c. e. b. 
Colorado. 
We have no criticism of papers that 
make no pretense of protecting its read¬ 
ers. If the subscribers want them for 
other features, they probably get the 
worth of their money. But when a 
paper promises protection and then de¬ 
nies it, that paper is in a conspiracy 
- with rogues to fleece its subscribers, and 
no word of condemnation is severe 
enough for them. A few papers sailing 
under farm titles merit the criticism. 
In April, 1912, I bought a farm in Con¬ 
necticut through a local agent at New 
Haven for .$‘5,500. The E. A. Strout Farm 
Agency had it listed at the time for $3,800. 
In August. 1912, I offered to resell the 
place for $5,000. The Strout agent said 
he could get $5,500 for it, and wanted me 
to list it with him, which I did. I re¬ 
cently sold the farm through another agent 
for $4,500. Now the Strout Agency claim 
I owe them $55 for a commission and have 
sent me a bill for that amount, which they 
call a withdrawal fee. They never made 
any real effort to sell the farm, and I do 
not see why I should pay them anything, 
but I signed their blank without reading it 
and I see now that there is a provision for 
a withdrawal fee. Can they collect it? 
Connecticut. p. j. r. 
In the blank we find the following 
clause— 
Should the property above described be 
withdrawn from your [the Strout company] 
hands, .or sold by any person not procured 
by you, I will, in consideration of your 
having undertaken the sale thereof, pay 
you forthwith as withdrawal fee one per 
cent of the said net price, which in no case 
shall be less than $25. 
My death shall have the same effect as 
a withdrawal of the property by me in 
lifetime, except that in case my heirs relist 
the same within three months thereafter 
no withdrawal fee shall be chargeable to 
my estate. 
Ostrander was no model for real es¬ 
tate agents, but it may be said in jus¬ 
tice to bint that we have no record of 
his following his victim beyond the 
grave; at worst Ostrander collected his 
fees in advance and the agony was 
over, and the losses could be charged 
to experience and forgotten, but the 
Strout Agency holds a perpetual club 
over the head of the victim while he 
lives and then claims the right to pur¬ 
sue the widow and orphans after the 
victim is dead. There is no limit to 
the time that this alleged listing is to 
run. and it would seem that once listed 
it might run through the family for 
generations to come. 
Answering the inquiry of our sub¬ 
scriber, we do not believe that the 
Strout Agency can collect any such 
claim and it is about time that the 
previous net earnings of the M. W. 
Savage Factories, Inc., in which the sub¬ 
scriber is asked to invest. When a 
manufacturer or other enterprise with 
good assets in excess of their liabilities 
and with a good business record behind 
the concern is in need of money to 
finance and extend the business, the in¬ 
variable practice of such concerns is 
to go to the money markets and secure 
the money at the best possible terms— 
any business concern with ample assets 
can always get money at a low rate of 
interest. But the promoter soliciting 
investment in his interprises from coun¬ 
try people rarely or never makes a state¬ 
ment of his assets and liabilities and the 
only conclusion is that such a statement 
would not bear scrutiny. Promoters 
have, in the past, been so successful in 
getting hold of the hard-earned savings 
of inexperienced people that it is not 
surprising that they consider all that is 
necessary to give the investor is a good¬ 
ly supply of “confidence dope” and glow¬ 
ing statements as to the returns the in¬ 
vestor is almost but not quite sure 
to receive. There are many of these 
promoters at large, who, if they had 
their deserts, would be enjoying the 
companionship of the distinguished Jul¬ 
ian Hawthorne at Atlanta, Ga. 
I invested $500—the savings of three 
years—with W. M. Ostrander in a strip of 
Grant Terrace swamp land, 20x100. To say 
nothing of the investment it is not worth 
the taxes. Ostrander refused to take it off 
my hands at any price. I plead guilty to 
any charge of foolishness for buying land 
by mail. It is humiliating to confess to 
being one of the “simps,” but I do not ask 
any sympathy for myself, but if you have 
any friends, keep them out of the Ostrander 
clutches. After having been buncoed out of 
three years’ savings at hard labor. I simply 
want to throw out a word of caution to 
the other fellow. u. s. walker. 
Pennsylvania. 
The above is an extract from a circu¬ 
lar letter sent out by Mr. Walker. He 
is the stamp of a man who has the 
courage of his convictions. Letters have 
been forwarded to us from different 
quarters. In conclusion Mr. Walker 
says that no publisher with any self- 
respect, or the slightest regard for his 
advertisers will carry the Ostrander ad¬ 
vertisements after an investigation. 
On May 14 the Oxford Linen Mills 
building is to be sold to satisfy a $50,- 
000 judgment. When the Sterling De¬ 
benture Company began to sell stock 
of this concern several years back we 
looked it up and advised our people to 
leave it alone. Those who ignored the 
advice will now probably take their loss 
without complaint. 
The Thwing Publishing Company are 
again sending literature to the old Circle 
stockholders with a reinstatement offer to 
exchange their old Circle stock for stock 
in the Thwing Company. It will be ex¬ 
changed share for share if $2.50 cash ex¬ 
change fee is paid on each share ex¬ 
changed. 
people should know whether they can 
or not. To test it we invite the Strout 
Agency to bring suit on this claim. The 
R. N.-Y. will furnish attorneys and 
stand the expense of the defense and if 
necessary carry it to the higher courts. 
We will then know for a certainty 
whether an alleged contract of this kind 
Of course, the old Circle stock is not 
worth the paper on which it is written. 
The simple fact is that they want to 
sell the new stock at $2.50 per share, 
and those who buy at that price will 
probably have as much cause to regret 
it as those who put their money into the 
old concerns. 
will hold or not. Now if the Strouf 
Agency is not bluffing they may bring 
suit at once and test their right to this 
fee. 
Ex-Representative Harry M. Coudre.v and 
Harry B. Gardner were found guilty in the 
Federal District Court late this afternoon 
of using the mails to defraud. Coudrey 
and Gardner were charged with using the 
mails to defraud in the promotion of what 
came to be known as the twin insurance 
companies—the Continental Life Assurance 
Company of America and the International 
Fire Assurance Company of America. Both 
companies went into the hands of a receiver. 
Coudrey represented the 12th Missouri Dis¬ 
trict in Congress in 1909-11. The maximum 
sentence for each defendant is $1,500 fine 
or four and a half years’ imprisonment, 
or both.—Daily Paper. 
The above dispatch comes from St. 
Louis. 
I enclose you letter and blank form of the 
M. W. Savage Factories, Inc. My son has 
received a number of those appeals and 
as I am a subscriber to The R. N.-Y. please 
let me know what you think of it. There 
are a great many more papers, but they 
are too bulky to send. w. d. k. l. 
Maryland. 
We have examined the literature which 
this subscriber forwarded and every line 
of it is suggestive of the big profits to 
be made in the mail order business in 
general and in the M. W. Savage Fac¬ 
tories, Inc., in patticular. Of course 
there is no definite promise of returns 
on the investment, nor is there any state¬ 
ment as to what profit any of Savage’s 
various enterprises are making at the 
present—it is all expectations for the 
future. Another important matter which 
is entirely omitted from the literature 
is any statement of assets, liabilities, or 
Will you please hand my claim against 
the North Coast Co-operative Lumber Com¬ 
pany, of Oregon, to your attorney to see 
if he can collect it for me? The amount 
of my claim is $100 for stock purchased 
from them. h. f. c. 
Canal Zone. 
The attorney returned this claim to 
us with the report that the concern has 
very little property, like so many other 
wild-cat schemes, and what it does own 
is heavily mortgaged. The stock is re¬ 
ported absolutely worthless by bankers, 
and there is little prospect of it ever 
being valuable. There is a mill at Scap^ 
poose, Oregon, which they are now get¬ 
ting ready to operate in working up 
some lumber upon which they have an 
option, but there is no prospect of this 
feature yielding any returns. The mill 
and land owned by the company are at 
present heavily mortgaged and die claim 
is hopeless. j. j. d. 
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