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THE) RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 1G, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Adam IIocli, a chemist who on Wed¬ 
nesday was found guilty of participation 
in a $500,000 swindle, yesterday was 
sentenced by Judge George W. Ray, in 
the Criminal Branch of the Federal Dis¬ 
trict Court, to serve two years in the 
Atlanta penitentiary and to pay a fine 
of $1,000. IBs partner, H. It. Robinson, 
who also used the name Raymond, must 
put in four years and pay $7,500. lloch 
made the plea his pet invention, a process 
for tanning leather, was as good as he 
asserted it to be, but he and Raymond 
were convicted of defrauding investors in 
the American Tanning Company. The 
president of the organization, II. W. 
Parker, who was indicted with his asso¬ 
ciates, has fled from this country. It is 
said he runs a garage in Liverpool, Eng¬ 
land. In sentencing Hoch, Judge Ray 
made this comment: 
“I can understand the anxiety of a 
man to enrich himself so that he may 
bring up his family in comfort and lux¬ 
ury. It is honorable to be a humble 
worker, w T ith a clean conscience, and I 
hope that when you come out of prison 
you will be on the square.” 
An invalid woman, burdened with a 
consumptive child, mortgaged her home 
in Pennsylvania and invested the pro¬ 
ceeds in American Tanning Company 
stock, it w T as brought out. She lost her 
home and her money. The hand of 
“Peanuts” Robinson, a brother of the 
convicted man, was seen in the tanning 
swindle, Judge Ray believes. In passing 
sentence on II. R. Robinson the court 
said : 
“In making misrepresentations to 
stock purchasers you doubtless were 
dominated by your brother, who was re¬ 
leased recently after paying the penalty 
of other mail frauds.”—Daily Paper. 
The above was a typical “get-rich- 
quick” stock-selling scheme. R. N.-Y. 
readers ■were warned against it in issues 
of April 30, 1910, and May 6, 1911. 
Prison sentences do not seem to cure 
these rascals. As soon as one of them 
gets out of jail he is hatching another 
scheme to rob the gullible. We can only 
compare these schemers to sheep-killing 
dogs. After they once get the taste of 
easy money they are never content to 
earn an honest living. 
In its July 22d issue The Buffalo En¬ 
quirer devotes considerable space to Al. 
C. Bid.well, who originated the Interna¬ 
tional Automobile League, and who is 
now charged with having conducted a gi¬ 
gantic fraud. Bidwell is now in Canada, 
where presumably he has gone to avoid 
arrest on charges of misappropriating 
funds running to hundreds of thousands 
of dollars, misrepresentations to the 
stockholders, and using the mails for 
fraudulent purposes.—Financial World. 
This scheme had all the earmarks of 
a fraud from the start, and both by pub¬ 
lic announcement and private corre¬ 
spondence our readers were cautioned to 
have nothing to do with the concei’n. 
Unfortunately it is only after the unsus¬ 
pecting have been robbed of their hard- 
earned savings that the evidence of the 
fraud can be produced. 
I saw an advertisement in the Auto¬ 
mobile Magazine as follows: “Miller- 
Brisben Co., 32-34 West 63d St., New 
York City, dealers in new and used cars.” 
I answered their advertisement, telling 
them I had a Pratt 40 five-passenger car, 
Model II, 1912, I would sell for a thous¬ 
and dollars. They wrote me right away 
to have me state the condition of the car, 
and I did so, and they wrote me to ship 
car as soon as possible, for they had a 
party for such a car. I shipped my car 
as soon as I could, and after it arrived 
in New York they wanted me to release 
the sight draft from bill of lading so as to 
have a demonstration of car. I did so ex¬ 
pecting to hear from them right away, 
but I never heard from them at all in 
three weeks and then had to call them 
on the ’phone. They wouldn’t give me 
the price they offered, and so I asked 
them to ship the car back as soon as pos¬ 
sible. They would not ship car back 
until I sent them a check for freight and 
their trouble of unloading from dock, 
etc., gas and oil. I sent a check for $13 
and they shipped car back. But, you 
ought to have seen it. The Prest-O-Lite 
tank, full kit of tools, jack brace 
for taking off demountable rims and four 
inner tubes were all gone. One tube out 
of the rear tire on car was missing. The 
switch was locked and key gone, so I 
could not turn switch on to start car. The 
car was not at all blocked in freight car 
to keep from shucking around and re¬ 
sults were the front end of my car went 
through the side of the freight car, doing 
damage to the auto, bending the steering 
rods so the car could not be guided at 
all, marking the car up in general, tail 
lamp broken and two side lights. Do 
you call that a very good way to use any 
one? D. j. E. 
Connecticut. 
We have taken the complaint up in 
the subscriber’s behalf with the Miller- 
Brisben Co., and as was to be expected, 
the concern denies that they or any of 
their employees removed any of the equip¬ 
ment from the car. The correspondence 
before and after the car was shipped sug¬ 
gests that the Miller-Brisben Company 
figured that they could purchase the au¬ 
tomobile at their own price after it had 
been shipped to New York and in their 
possession. Their contention is, of 
course, that the car was not as repre¬ 
sented by the shipper. At any rate, the 
shipper had the freight charges to pay both 
ways, besides the loss of the equipment 
above mentioned and damage to the ma¬ 
chine in transit for his experience. 
Without dwelling further on the 
merits of tins particular case, the nu¬ 
merous complaints coming to us with re¬ 
gard to second-hand automobile dealers 
and of dealers in automobile supplies lead 
us reluctantly to the conclusion that this 
class of trade in New York City is get¬ 
ting down to about the same level and is 
doing business on the same principles as 
the “horse gyp.” They resort to the same 
misrepresentations and schemes to get 
possession of the customer’s money and 
give in l’eturn little value received for 
it. The above, of course, does not apply 
to the New York houses l’epresenting 
the manufacturers of standard automo¬ 
biles, but it does apply to a number of sec¬ 
ond-hand automobile establishments that 
we know about, as well as the houses 
sending out literature quoting ridiculous¬ 
ly low prices for tires and other acces¬ 
sories. We have many reports showing 
that tires sent out by such concerns are 
practically worthless. The “auto gyp” 
is fast taking the place of the “horse 
gyp” and one is as much to be avoided 
as the other. 
We have a letter from a member of 
the Farm Brokers’ Association, referring 
to the Strout Company complaints, 
which contains this paragraph: 
The Farm Brokers’ Association of this 
State has denied all applications for 
membership from persons in the real 
estate business who operate on option 
basis, and at the last meeting in Syra¬ 
cuse, to which you were invited, and 
which was attended by Commissioner 
I Bison, it was made a part of our con¬ 
stitution that no member of this Asso¬ 
ciation should be permitted to operate on 
other than a commission basis. 
Under this provision the Strout Com¬ 
pany could not qualify for membership 
in the Association. We approve the 
course of the Association. When an 
agent takes an option and takes for 
his services in making sale all he can 
get above a fixed price, he is no longer 
a broker, but a speculator without hav¬ 
ing a dollar of his own invested in the 
property. Unless an owner is willing 
to be a party to an injustice and a 
deception he should refuse to allow his 
property to be listed on option. Here¬ 
tofore many have done so without real¬ 
izing the injustice to the inexperienced 
buyer, but there is no longer any doubt 
about the effect and purpose of such an 
option. 
I beg your assistance to collect a bill 
that we have against the Adams Express 
Company, New Haven, Conn., that we 
have repeatedly tried to collect and have 
failed. The bill is for three new milk 
cans valued at $3.85 each, making a total 
of $11.55 to collect. They were received 
by the Adams Express Company on May 
30, 1911, but were never delivered. I 
have been specially interested in reading 
of your success and trust you will suc¬ 
ceed in helping me. L. C. w. 
Connecticut. 
This claim came to us on February 27, 
1912, and on April 5 settlement was 
made in full. 
I take 10 or 12 farm and poultry 
papers, and honestly think that The 
Rural New-Yoricek is the most valuable 
paper published in the United States for 
the American farmer to-day. There is 
no string on my dollar enclosed. The 
paper is worth the money many times 
ovei\ G. I. ii. 
Maine. 
I do not want to do without my paper. 
Enclosed you will find money order for 
renewal. Accept regards for your fear¬ 
less way of going to the bottom of sill 
things not right. Long live the Tiie 
It. N.-Y. and all connected with it. 
Connecticut. J. R. 
These two expressions from New Eng¬ 
land come in the same mail. Yes; we 
like them. We have in both cases the 
best encouragement for doing our best 
work, the dollar to carry it on, and the 
approval to inspire greater service for 
the future. J. J. D. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
‘Tumor. 
I have a dog which had distemper. On 
his right eye there is a tumor which 
seems to bother him very much. A friend 
of mine l’ecommended me to put sugar 
in it. Ls it harmful to do this? Let me 
know what I can do for it. A. T. S. 
Pennsylvania. 
Sugar will do no good. Have a veteri¬ 
narian cut out the tumor. The opera- 
tion is simple, safe and effectual. 
A. S. A. 
Scours in Calf. 
I have a calf one year old taken with 
the Seoul’s. I brought her in out of the 
pasture. What should I do for her to 
check it? J. e. c. 
New Yoi’k. 
Indigestible feed or contaminated 
drinking water brings on the diaiTlioea 
and the cause should at once be located 
and removed. Give a six-ounce dose of 
raw linseed oil or four ounces of castor 
oil, shaken up in milk and follow with 
two teaspoonfuls of a mixture of one 
part salol and two parts each of subni¬ 
trate of bismuth and starch powder every 
three or four hours until the trouble sub¬ 
sides. a. s. A. 
Catarrh. 
I bought a cow last August for $60, 
and after I got her home I noticed that 
she bi’eathed hard at times. She appeai’ed 
better, but as warm weather came on 
she has been worse, and she has catarrh 
of the head. The cow is fat enough for 
beef and looks and feels fine. There is 
a constant discharge from her nostrils 
and sometimes it contains blood; and 
her breathing sounds like a person with 
a cold in the head. Can I help her? 
New York. R. w. s. 
Have her tested with tuberculin, as 
tuberculosis may be present, although 
she is fat. The test is the only way by 
which the presence of tuberculosis can be 
determined with certainty, and it is per¬ 
fectly harmless to an unaffected animal. 
If she proves to be free from tuberculo¬ 
sis, better sell her to the butcher, as 
chronic catarrh is troublesome to treat 
and does not x’espond well to ti’eatmeut. 
A. s. A. 
Rope-burn. 
My mare became entangled in a rope 
and before we could release her the rope 
slipped around the joint immediately 
above the hoof and skinned the hair and 
hide from the rear of that part. Since 
then the wound has been open. We have 
applied diffex-ent powders, but the wound 
does not heal, perhaps because it is on a 
joint which is used continually. Can you 
prescribe something to dry it up? She 
will not tolerate handling of her feet, 
but we can throw powder on the wound 
when she has blinders on. M. N. G. 
New York. 
Tie her up short in stall and if pos¬ 
sible poultice the parts with hot flaxseed 
meal for three days. After the poulticing 
it would be best to apply an ointment 
of 10 per cent ichthyol twice daily; but 
if you cannot do this, then dust the parts 
daily with a mixture of one di’am of iodo¬ 
form and two parts each of calomel, 
boric acid and powdered alum. A cheaper 
dusting powder for such use may be 
made by mixing together equal parts of 
slaked lime, sulphur and powdei-ed wood 
charcoal. A. s. A. 
Weak Filly. 
I have a filly two years old, gi’ade 
Percheron ; she was extra fine until about 
the middle of April, when she seemed to 
have a weakness in her hip, so she .could 
not get up without help. I treated her for 
rheumatism and she got better, so she 
could get up. The veterinarian advised 
me to turn her out, as grass would be 
the best medicine, but she lay down most 
of the time and in about two weeks she 
commenced to sweat so she was wet all 
over and the water would drop off her. 
Then she seemed better behind, but her 
forelegs seem weak and she stands on 
her toes as though ankle cocked, but does 
not sweat any more. Shall I let her run 
until Fall on gi-ass or what shall I do 
for her? If I bring her home will have 
to keep her in stable. She grows, but 
looks tucked up and rather thin in flesh. 
New York. w. E. u. 
Blood worms may be causing all of the 
symptoms described. If so you will be 
likely to find the membranes of the mouth 
and eyelids blanched and the little worms 
may be found in the manure. On gen¬ 
eral principles we would advise keeping 
her in a roomy box stall and if neces- 
sary put slings under her to keep her on 
her feet. Feed well on whole oats, bran 
and best of hay. In the feed night and 
morning mix two teaspoonfuls of a mix¬ 
ture of equal parts of dried sulphate of 
iron and ground gentian, nux vomica 
and fenugreek. Hand rub the tendons 
and joints and make the forefeet come 
down flat on the floor at each rubbing. 
It would be better, if possible, to have 
the filly treated by a local graduate vet¬ 
erinarian. A. s. A. 
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