654 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Juno 11. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Theo. E. Payne has sent me a check for 
the amount of the bill I hatl against him. 
Thank you for the interest in the matter. 
New Jersey. J. a. v. w. 
We had to report some time ago that 
we were unable to get any response from 
Mr. Payne, but we arc very glad if 
he has thought better of the matter and 
settled direct. It frequently happens 
that some delinquent creditors get 
ashamed of themselves after public ref¬ 
erence has been made to their defalca¬ 
tions, and make settlement afterwards. 
Public opinion is a force few people can 
resist. • 
I received to day from the Veterinary 
Science Association of London, Ontario, 
Canada, the $8 owed me for four or live 
years. Let me know how much your 
charges are and I will gladly pay them, 
as 1 would never have received a cent 
without your aid. a. v. s. 
New York. 
This correspondent engaged with the 
Veterinary Science Association to rep¬ 
resent them at $60 a month and ex¬ 
penses. He made a $8 remittance, which 
was required in advance, for a book to 
use in the canvass, with assurances that 
the money would be refunded when the 
book was returned. He soon discovered 
that the engagement by the month was 
nothing more or less than an agency on 
commission, and that they had no inten¬ 
tion of paying him $60 a month and ex¬ 
penses unless his commissions covered 
that amount. He did not go on with the 
work, and could get no response to his 
letters for the return of the book. 
Will you kindly tell us if the Kansas City, 
Mo.. Trusiglit Spectacle Co. is a respon¬ 
sible (inn or grafters? I sent for two pairs 
of the glasses at the price named in their 
letter—$1.50. In due time I received by 
mail two pairs of spectacles; both were 
(so far as I was able to judge) about the 
same as I have often purchased at the 
10 cent store. I wrote them, and at the 
same time sent them a pair of the 10 cent 
which compared favorably witli theirs 
costing from 15 to 20 times as much. In 
replv I received another circular letter 
asking me to take an agency, but entirely 
ignoring what I wrote about their goods. 
New York. , J. a. 
That is the way it goes. Before you 
send the money you are told that you 
may have it all back if not suited in 
every way. After they get the money 
they simply neglect to reply to vour let¬ 
ters. They reason that for the amount 
involved, a few dollars at most, you 
cannot afford to do anything about it. 
Neither can you. They tell you that ill- 
fitting grasses ruin the eyes. They 
often do, and that is one good reason 
for not taking chances with their guess 
as to what may suit you. 
I received from the American Home 
Supply Company a check for $7.50 which 
I asked your firm to help me get. Please 
let me know how much the bill is by 
return post. I never expected to get a 
cent back until one of your subscribers let 
me take your paper to read, and I saw 
where a party had received money back. 
Your paper is certainly the best farm paper 
I have yet seen, and you may count me as 
one of your sure subscribers in the near 
future, and I shall also do all I can to 
get more subscribers to the paper. 
Connecticut. g. h. 
As near as we can make out the 
American Home Supply Company and 
the Globe Association, both of Chicago, 
III., are one and the same thing. Their 
methods of doing business arc the same 
to say the least. Subscribers who have 
written one have been answered by the 
other, but subscribers who sent money 
to one have not been able to get it 
returned from the other. It may be that 
they returned money deposited bv agents 
to some of the agents direct, but we have 
never heard of anyone who was able 
to get these advances returned until 
The Rural New-Yorker had made the 
demand for them, and we have several 
that have not been returned yet. We 
repeat that the whole thing is a fake, 
and should be let alone. 
I am only a yearling subscriber to The 
I t. N.-Y. I know that I ought not to take 
up as much of your time as a life-long 
reader, but it seems to me that these piano 
contests promoters are deserving a little 
of the attention for which your Pub¬ 
lisher's Desk is famous. I am enclosing 
you letters and circulars on the scheme 
from C. \Y. Teller, Schenectady, N. \ r .; 
McMurry & Becker, Oneouta, N. Y.: 
Auracher Plano Company, Syracuse, N. Y.; 
It. II. Hart. Syracuse, N. Y.; representing 
ILnllett & Davis Piano Company. My wife 
amused herself and the children by pasting 
picture puzzles together as suggested in 
their advertisement and mailing them to 
the piano contest managers. It was a lean 
mail that brought her a check for less than 
$100. From the constant repetition of these 
contests it would seem that they could 
fool some of the people aH the time. We 
have not handled any large checks since 
we sold the hay, but we have concluded 
that when we can afford a piano we would 
buy of some dealer whose advertisements 
were less attractive. w. w. c. 
New York. 
The checks referred to above were 
made out in sums of $87, R. H. Hart; 
$90, Auracher Piano Company; $100, C. 
W. Teller; $103, R. H. Hart. It is 
hardly necessary to say that the checks 
are not negotiable in cash. In some 
of the letters they are called credit 
certificates, and in all of them it is 
represented that they have been issued 
as awards, which have been won in the 
prize contests. It seems incredible that 
any responsible house should resort to 
any such schemes to sell pianos or any¬ 
thing else, and it is still more incredible 
that any sensible person should be caught 
with any such transparent scheme. Of 
course the prize contest and awards and 
skill of the contestants has absolutely 
nothing whatever to do with the issuing 
of these certificates. They are used for 
the simple and only purpose of making 
people believe that they are going to 
get something for nothing, and no one 
can get one of these pianos without 
paying in cash or otherwise the full 
price that these people are willing to 
accept for a piano irrespective of the 
prize contest. Some of the manufac¬ 
turing houses represented in the above 
schemes have a high rating and a good 
business reputation. We don’t know 
whether they encourage the agents to 
adopt sales measures of this kind or 
not, but if they have regard for their 
reputation it is about time that they 
stop this kind of work on their behalf. 
A good many people have the idea that 
the methods of the bunco steerer and 
the green goods promoter are" perfectly 
legitimate in the promotion of farm 
trade. They seem to think that a farmer 
will bite at most any kind of barbed 
financial hook if it is only baited with a 
little jolly and shallow pretenses of giving 
them something for nothing. The papers 
that help them promote such schemes by 
running the advertisement must not have 
very high conceptions of their functions 
as public journals. We do not believe 
that these schemes will be successful in 
putting any piano into an intelligent farm 
home. We believe that there are many 
like this correspondent who would prefer 
to buy without seeking some other agent 
in the search for an honest house. We 
doubt if a single reader of the R. N.-Y. 
is in danger of being caught in any such 
trap, but the method used in an appeal 
to farm trade is offensive and we wish 
to express the farmers^ resentment of it. 
On April 2!) I received four settings of 
eggs by express, weighing probably 14 
pounds. The charges to me were 80 cents, 
and I thought it an excessive charge. About 
the same time i ordered a setting of duck 
eggs from Iloonton, N. .1.. and on the 15 
eggs 1 was obliged to pay an express 
charge of 90 cents or six cents per egg. 
They certainly cannot make the claim that 
the eggs took up an excess of room. I 
should lie glad to know what they say to 
you about such charges. J. a. m. 
Maryland. 
The claim they make for excessive 
charges on expressage of eggs is that 
they are fragile and have to be handled 
with special care, but when the eggs are 
handled carelessly and damaged it is 
practically impossible for a shinier or a 
consignee to get any settlement for them. 
Six cents apiece is certainly pretty lib¬ 
eral charge for the transportation of 
eggs for something like 100 miles in pro¬ 
portion to weight. The rate would be 
about 45 cents a pound and anyone can 
figure up what the passenger rate would 
be for the same distance for an average 
person. You could send it by parcels 
post to Germany for less money. 
I am pleased to acknowledge receipt of 
$5 from you for my claim in full on party 
at Speakers, N. Y. This was a plain case, 
but I am afraid I could not have recovered 
without your assistance. j. w. n. 
Illinois. 
This was a dispute over a shipment of 
chickens. Such cases are always diffi¬ 
cult to adjust. In this case we were sat¬ 
isfied that the complaint was just, and 
the shipper accepted our suggestion for 
adjustment. 
In sending my renewal to The R. N.-l r . 
I wish to express my appreciation of your 
paper. To my mind it stands head and 
shoulders, and yes, feet too, above all other 
farm publications for an all-around busi¬ 
ness farmer. I like the way in which you 
express the truth and the right regardless 
as to whom it may “set snug to.” Far too 
many farm papers cater to a certain ele¬ 
ment that is really antagonistic to the 
farmers’ interest. It is a grand thing in 
this age of fads, fakes and fancies to have 
at least one agricultural paper that will 
stand boldly for the farmer who is farm¬ 
ing to make his living. m. b. 
New York. 
Call it conceit, or vanity or what you 
will, we are proud of the sentiment ex¬ 
pressed in the above letter, every ele¬ 
ment of which breathes dignity, intelli¬ 
gence and sincerity. I have often said 
here that we do not feel that our accom¬ 
plishments merit the praise they get 
from our ardent friends; but we think 
it is the honest effort of the paper to 
be helpful and useful that inspires the 
commendations, rather than the actual 
results attained. We simnlv believe that 
a farm paper honestly and fearlessly 
conducted can do some things for far¬ 
mers that they cannot well do for them¬ 
selves personally, and The R. N.-Y. is 
trying to do those things. We do not 
always succeed. We cannot perform 
miracles; but we succeed often enough 
to make the effort worth while. 
J. J- d. 
Harness Calls 
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MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est.1844 
E. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO.. Peekskill. N.Y. 
Mapes’ Hen-Lice-Wax 
Has been such a boon to me and my lions that I 
dociiiod to place it on tho market. One application 
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LAKEHILL FARM. 
W. H. THACHER 
S. C. W. Leghorn Day-old Chicks, 10 cents each, 
$8.00 per hundred. Imp. Pekin Day-old Ducklings, 
20 cents each. $18.00 per huudred. Address all 
communications to 
JOHN H. WEED, Mur.. Hillside, Westchester Co.. N. Y. 
Eggs for Hatching—Baby Chicks Island 
Keds, Partridge Wvandottes, Indian Runner 
Ducks. Mating List sent on request. SINCLAIR 
SMITH, Soutbold, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
T HE FARMER’S FOWL— Rose Comb Beds, best winter 
layers on earth. Kggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THUS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland. N. Y. 
DAVIS S. C. R. I . REDS 
PRICES REDUCED 
will remove them and leave no blem¬ 
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KGtJS /HH OPE balance of season, circular. 
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Van Alstyne’s R, I. Reds-SK^USS 
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B UFF, Wh. Leghorns, eggs 76c. per 16, $1.26 per 30; 8. C. R, I. 
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