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THE RURA-L NEW-VORKEK 
November 22, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
On October 11 you published a two- 
line advertisement for me of Airedale 
pups for sale. I received over 40 letters 
of inquiry, and sold the four pups within 
two weeks, and bad to return cheeks, as 
people ordered after we had no pups left. 
New York. F. p. m. 
We print the above letter for the bene¬ 
fit of those who may have something to 
sell but no local demand. At the sug¬ 
gestion of readers, we have established 
a department of Subscribers’ Exchange 
and have made the rate about one-half 
the cost of regular advertising space. 
We believe there are great possibilities in 
the development of this trade by parcel 
post, express, or freight, and we shall be 
glad to have the department used freely by 
subscribers. It is not open to others. 
In a circular letter to the public the E. 
A. Strout Farm Agency says: 
Of course if any person had really be¬ 
lieved he had been imposed upon by our 
Agency or any of our agents, as Mr. 
Dillon charges, the law provides a rem¬ 
edy by action for damages, but not only 
has no judgment ever been recorded 
against us for any such transaction, but 
no suit of that nature has ever been 
brought against us. 
This may all be true. Farmers are 
not looking for lawsuits. All they want 
is to be let alone. None of them would 
bring a suit to ask damages because he 
believed he had been imposed upon in the 
signing of a contract. If the Strout peo¬ 
ple would let it drop, they certainly 
would. But why not tell the whole truth? 
The Strout Agency brought suit against 
Mr. P. J. Reidenbach to collect a fee 
under their contract. Mr. Reidenbach 
set up a plea of fraud and misrepresenta¬ 
tion in his answer. The suit was tried in 
New York City, and twelve men agreed 
with Mr. Reidenbach, after hearing the 
evidence. The jury was not out more 
than . 20 minutes. You see telling the 
truth does not always exhaust a subject. 
You must have all the truth. 
I wish to tell you of an experience I 
had at a county fair at Ballston. I was 
approached hy an agent, who said he was 
working for a farm paper. He said lie 
would make me a present of a fountain 
pen, and two papers three years if I 
would give him 99 cents to pay mailage 
on the papers. I gave him the money but 
never received the papers. Please publish 
the experience to save others from the 
scheme. W. H. B. 
New York. 
This scheme has been referred to be¬ 
fore at different times. In the first place 
such papers, if mailed at all, violate the 
postal laws. One publisher and his man¬ 
ager were recently fined $2,000 for a 
similar offense. In the next place they 
are monthly and semi-monthly papers, 
and the mailage on them would not cost 
99 cents. But as a whole the man is 
probably fortunate not to get them. Any 
one man may be astute enough to escape 
fraudulent advertising schemes, but all 
such papers carry them, and as a whole 
the readers of the papers pay dear for 
them in the end. 
Readers of this Department will re¬ 
member the letter of A. D. G. on page 
1122 in which he said that he paid F. 
B. Mills, Rose Hill, N. Y., $250 for stock 
in the Consolidated Ginseng Company, 
and was yet able to get only $15 of it 
returned. The story excited the sym¬ 
pathy of Mr. W. Atlee Burpee, of Phila¬ 
delphia, who took great pains to look 
up A. D. G., after which he wrote us 
as follows: 
Mr. G. is badly crippled. He can walk 
only on crutches, but otherwise is a man 
of good physique, 70 years of age, with 
clear eyes, can read without glasses and 
impressed me very favorably as a straight, 
honest man. The friend who with him 
invested in the Mills stock was not Guild, 
as you have it, but Mr. Geit, who died a 
year ago, and who was the father of the 
well-known evangelist and Chinese trav¬ 
eler of that name. Mr. G. did not know 
how much stock Mr. Geit had but Mr. 
G.’s investment in 500 shares had been 
made at different times, and had been in 
response to very seductive letters from 
Mills telling him there was a certain 
portion of stock for sale and that he did 
not want it to go out of the present own¬ 
er’s hands. 
Now if you can persuade Mills to re¬ 
turn his $235 balance, and Mills wants 
to investigate for himself, let him send 
some one to Doylestown and drive to 
G.’s place, about five miles out. 
Mr. G. is a self-respecting and has al¬ 
ways been a hard-working man. You 
may imagine it was just a little difficult 
to know how to help him. He said they 
had raised some money for the taxes, 
but hoped he could receive some from 
Mills, so that he could pay his debts, 
and then let out that they were not pro¬ 
vided with suitable clothes for the Win¬ 
ter. I took this as my opportunity that, 
as a fellow Bucks County farmer, 1 
wanted him to allow me to make a little 
Christmas present towards Winter clothes, 
had to be diplomatic to put it in such 
a way that he would accept it. He did 
then accept $40. and his eyes filled with 
tears. I told him I would write you, 
and that I knew personally you will do 
all you could to get Mills to refund the 
remaining $235. Surely Mills is not a 
man who would be willing to profit by 
the distress of others! You are at per¬ 
fect liberty to send this letter to Mr. 
Mills if you see fit. 
We acted on the suggestion and sent 
Mr. Burpee’s letter to Mr. Mills with a 
stamped envelope with request for its re¬ 
turn, but we have never had any reply 
or return of letter. Before saying any¬ 
thing about it in print we had been try¬ 
ing for more than two years to get the 
money returned to Mr. G. In another 
letter Mr. Burpee suggests that some of 
the prosperous publishers who have been 
publishing the Mills advertising and 
making such sales of worthless stock pos¬ 
sible might well chip in and help a poor 
old man in such a predicament. If any 
of them feel so inclined, we will gladly 
furnish the information to find Mr. G. 
without any responsibility for the un¬ 
fortunate victim of this promotion 
scheme. Mr. Burpee has set an example 
for those who do share the responsibility 
with Mr. Mills for this loss. It takes a 
big generous heart, palpitating with 
sympathy for the unfortunate, to prompt 
a man to do what Mr. Burpee has done 
in this case. All men are not so moved 
through the milk of human kindness in 
their veins; but surely those who have 
profited by the transaction might well 
take an inspiration from his generosity 
and contribute a portion of the profits 
to relieve the distress of the victim. 
James Powers, head of the “Tax Ad¬ 
justment Bureau,” at No. G9 Wall street, 
was arraigned yesterday before Judge 
Hand in the United States Court on an 
indictment charging use of the mails 
with intent to defraud, lie was held in 
$3,000 for trial.—City Paper. 
Powers sent circulars to non-resident 
persons who held lots on Long Island 
warning them that the lots were being 
sold for taxes and saying that officials 
were not obliged to send the bills to non¬ 
residents. lie also offered to provide 
competent brokers to appraise and sell 
lots. He charged a fee, and it is said 
collected for the taxes in some instances. 
The Post-office Department charges that 
in some instances at k - e collected for 
services that were not ‘ rendered. The 
post-office inspector says that he did a 
business of $15,000 to $25,000 annually. 
Some of our inquirers will recall our re¬ 
ports during the last year or two. The- 
reports seem to be justified by the in¬ 
dictment. 
The result of a lawsuit in the local 
courts here at Vineland, N. J. will in¬ 
terest you. It was tried in October. It 
was known as Wm. J. Conrod and Wil- 
helmine Conrod against Daniel W. Gar- j 
ard, Amos Ileretage and Henry Taylor; 
Louis Miller, attorney for the plaintiff; 
Herbert C. Barttell for the defendant. 
The defendants, real estate agents, sold a 
farm for Mr. and Mrs. Conrod. The 
asking price was $2,600. The agents, 
however, reported that it was sold for 
$2,000, probably with ihe consent of the 
owners. It was shown in the evidence 
however, that the buyer paid $2,000. 
Hon. Justice Carrow held that under 
the law a real estate broker could not 
retain any excess secured in the price for 
the sale of land for a client and directed 
a verdict for the plaintiff for $400 al¬ 
lowing the agents $200 as their commis¬ 
sion. f. B. 
New Jersey. 
It is to be presumed in this case that 
the agents represented the owner as their 
principal, and probably without any spe¬ 
cial contract. If such a case the law 
would be clear. The agent would be en¬ 
titled to his commission and nothing 
more, no matter what the price of the 
property. j. j. d. 
“I suppose you don’t get much fog 
over here,” remarked the smartly dressed 
young man who had been talking of Lon¬ 
don fogs. “Wall,” replied the old salt, 
“we do get a bit of fog now an’ then, I 
mind last Summer I was shinglin’ that 
barn ye see over thar on the point. I 
had just used up what I had figured 
would do both sides of the roof and was 
calculatin’ to crawl back to the ladder 
when the fog lifted and I dropped plumb 
into the middle of the harbor. There I 
had gone and shingled ’bout a hundred 
feet of that blamed fog.”—Woman’s 
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