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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 10, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
During the last week we have re¬ 
ceived the following reports from sub¬ 
scribers who have asked us to collect 
their claims against E. G. Lewis: 
Some time ago I sent you my interim re¬ 
ceipt No. O'.>04 of the People's Savings Trust 
Company for collection. Soon after you 
published my name in The It. N.-Y. I re¬ 
ceived a letter from K. <1. Lewis asking if 
1 had joined you in your attacks and as¬ 
saults on him. As he did not receive a 
favorable reply, 1 have this day received a 
check from him for the 895. Thanking you 
for what you have done for me, for I know 
I would never have got it had it not la en 
for you, I would like to do something to 
pay you. v. c. w. 
New York. 
Enclosed please find check from E. G. 
Lewis. Not knowing what else to do, 1 
send the same to you, as you have the in¬ 
terim receipt. I hope I am not overstep¬ 
ping. Sorry to trouble you so much, but 1 
believe I will not get caught in a fake net 
again. Thanking you for past favors, I am, 
New York. a. U. 
As you will see by the enclosed, the Lewis 
Publishing Company has sent me a check 
for the $25. As you hold the interim re¬ 
ceipt, 1 enclose check for you to act as you 
deem best, and greatly oblige, A. n. 
New York. 
June 23 I received a letter and check 
from E. G. Lewis for one dollar to refund 
money borrowed from my daughter several 
years ago. He still owes me for the cer- 
tilicate 1 sent you some time ago. Sickness 
and death and burial in the family have 
taken all my time and money, and 1 have 
again asked Mr. Lewis to send my money. 
New York, u. l. w. 
I received letter to-day from E. G. Lewis 
containing check for the $50 which he owes 
me; it is payable by People’s Savings and 
Trust Co., with exchange on St. Louis, is 
it all right? The interim receipt must be 
attached to check in order to receive pay¬ 
ment. Please send me interim receipt No. 
220. I can thank you for getting the money 
for me, which I do most sincerely, and shall 
always remember you gratefully. You are a 
power for good all. over this land. I think 
you beat the (■overnment in making Mr. 
Lewis return money to those he has sought 
to dupe; when the fraud order was against 
him by Post Office Department it did not 
amount to anything as I can see; at least 
they did not help me. I believe yours is 
the onlv paper engaged in exposing frauds. 
It is nearly five years since I sent E. G. 
Lewis the monev and have only received 
$2.50 interest. lie ought to get rich at 
that rate. I am glad, however, to get the 
principal. I think I shall write him a plain 
letter when I get through with him, whicn 
I hope is soon. L - N - s - 
Michigan. 
I received the enclosed letter and also 
check for $5 from the People’s Savings 
Trust Company. I sent you the interim re¬ 
ceipt in a previous letter ; would you please 
send it back? And would you advise, me to 
send the receipt and check? If Lewis gets 
the receipt and check which lie requires, lie, 
has all the evidence of the debt. Will lie 
destroy or pav? Will send you the check 
if you think best. Thanking you for pro¬ 
ducing results so far. A. F. M. 
Massachusetts. 
These six claims amount ^ to $112. 
Four are from New York State, one 
from Michigan. The claim from Spring- 
field, Mass., was examined in our office 
by F. Arthur Metcalf, President of the 
Home Correspondence School of that 
city, last week, while looking up Lewis 
records here, and as he is in a way affili¬ 
ated with Lewis, we give him credit for 
insisting on this payment, though we 
have cancelled his order for advertising 
because of his connection with Lewis. 
Ilis affiliations may induce others 
to part with their money, and for 
that reason we would like him to 
have the soothing satisfaction of credit 
for this payment. The money was sent 
Lewis six or seven years ago for deposit 
in his now defunct bank. Many efforts 
were made to get it without success until 
the claim was sent us. The Michigan 
claim was for a five per cent note ac¬ 
cepted from Lewis in exchange for the 
amount due from the defunct bank. It 
was due September, 1908, and never paid. 
Lewis called it in, intimating he would 
pay it, but instead sent a receipt as he 
did with so many others. The other 
claims were of practically the same 
nature. The money was first sent for 
the bank. Lewis induced them to turn 
over the receiver’s credit to him for a 
three years’ note with five per cent inter¬ 
est. Then if he failed to get them to 
exchange the note for worthless stock or 
other paper certificates, he intimated 
that he would pay in cash, if they sent 
in the notes. In exchange he sent the 
interim receipts, and when the notes 
were sent through a bank, payment was 
refused. It will be noted that he has 
had this money six or seven years or 
more, but pays no interest, though his 
notes called for interest. But most of 
the people with these small claims are 
glad to get their money back. They 
could also get the interest if they insist 
on it, and we now recommend that they 
do so. Months ago we wrote Lewis that 
we would make him pay every one of 
these claims ultimately, because he could 
not hope to go on with his other fake 
schemes while we were publishing the 
facts about these old schemes. No 
fraud, we told him, could stand the light 
of constant publicity, and we promised 
to furnish the light until these claims 
are paid. We yet have nearly $20,000 
claims which we want Mr. Lewis to pay 
—and pay them he must. 
A court proceeding in New York City 
last week showed how easy it is for un¬ 
scrupulous promoters to collect money 
on fake schemes from country people. 
Charles E. Ellis, the publisher of the 
Magazine Of Mysteries and the Metro¬ 
politan Rural Home, an alleged farm 
paper, was the defendant in a suit 
brought by the receiver of the Kornit 
Mfg. Co., which Ellis organized for the 
alleged purpose of making electrical sup¬ 
plies. The stock was advertised in 
Ellis’s papers, and his readers were in¬ 
duced to purchase nearly half a million 
of the stock,, and he claims were anxious 
to get more. It is alleged that Ellis kept 
no books for a long period to show what 
money was received for stock as distinct 
from the publishing business. Jt seems 
it all went in together. Ellis claimed to 
have a factory and to be on the point of 
doing a most profitable business; but 
only $157 worth of the goods were ever 
sold, and those for samples. Experts say 
the product was not adapted to the pur¬ 
pose, and that Ellis knew it, but made a 
pretense at manufacture for the purpose 
of inducing people to buy the stock. 
The receiver is suing Ellis for some¬ 
thing like $400,000, and has secured an 
attachment on property owned by Ellis 
pending outcome of the suit. In the pro¬ 
ceedings last week letters between Ellis 
and his victoms were read in court. They 
showed that Ellis assured them the stock 
would pay 75 to 100 per cent annually. 
One letter was from a widow with three 
children who had sent Ellis all she had. 
Another was from a minister in Wiscon¬ 
sin, who had sent the savings of a life¬ 
time, and said he was too old to earn 
any more. Still another was from a man 
in Kentucky who regretted that he was 
unable to remit for the tempting stock; 
and Ellis wrote urging him to send $2 
monthly. The poor man waited long to 
do so and then wrote that doctor’s bills 
and other misfortunes prevented. When 
the factory burned and the company first 
failed, Ellis wrote the old victims, ap¬ 
pealing to them to save the property by 
sending more money to rebuild. We had 
many inquiries at the time and invariably 
advised correspondents to consider what 
they put in as lost, and to send no more. 
Ellis is now under indictment in the 
United States courts on a charge of 
using the mails to defraud. 
The original scheme was not mater¬ 
ially different from several others that 
we have been called upon to discuss. 
The schemer simply gets hold of any 
old thing; gives it a fictitious value; or¬ 
ganizes a company of a million or more 
authorized stock, and then sells the stock 
to people who know nothing about mak¬ 
ing an investment, by making promises 
of big profits. The publisher is in a 
position to do this effectively because he 
first wins the confidence of the people 
through his paper, and then he finds it 
easy to call in the money. He is the 
most contemptible faker because he be¬ 
trays the confidence of his friends. The 
similarity of this with some of E. G. 
Lewis’s schemes is too apparent to need 
mention. Fraud orders were issued 
against Ellis or his enterprise some 
years back ; the same thing happened to 
Lewis. Ellis was indicted by the U. S. 
Grand Jury on charges of fraudulent use 
of the mails; the same thing happened 
to Lewis. Ellis used his paper'to sell 
worthless stock to his readers; Lewis 
did this too. When Ellis was doing this 
he hired some of the best-known profes¬ 
sors and lecturers of our agricultural 
schools to write for his paper and printed 
their names as contributing editors to 
give confidence and character to his 
publication that he might the easier in¬ 
duce country people to send him money 
for his fake stocks; Lewis is now print¬ 
ing the names of this same class of dis¬ 
tinguished educators for exactly the 
same purpose and witli exactly the same 
result. These learned investigators and 
distinguished teachers, of course, have 
no purpose to mislead the people. But 
intent is not enough. They must see 
that their names and the offices they hold 
are not used for sinister purposes. 
J- J. d- 
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Write for the Good Roof Guide Book, and 
samples. Ask any live dealer for Genasco. 
Ask also for the Kant-Ieak K.leet—the securest 
fastening to apply it with. 
THE BARBER ASPHALT 
PAVING COMPANY | 
Largest producers of asphalt, and largest 
manufacturers of ready roofing in the world. 
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The hot weather “ dog days ” 
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with its great time, labor and qual¬ 
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Considering the season and high 
butter prices there never was a 
better time to make this most 
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dairy investments, with one cow 
or a thousand, than right NOW. 
Don’t foolishly put off this wise 
purchase that will half save its 
cost by autumn and fully so by 
another spring, in addition to the 
oceans of comfort and satisfaction 
its use brings to the whole family. 
The De Laval Separator Go. 
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Removes Bursal Enlargements, 
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Pain Does not Blister, remove 
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The Sowing of Winter Wheat. 
There has been a great deal said and 
written on the subject of sowing fertiliz¬ 
ers with Winter wheat and other small 
grains. In most states it is acknowl¬ 
edged that it pays to use commercial 
fertilizers. Those who have had the 
greatest experience with these soil en- 
richers, agree that they are difficult to 
handle, being very easily affected by cli¬ 
matic conditions. That is, they gather 
moisture, and therefore, at times, become 
pasty and sticky. This causes corrosion, 
gumming and cementing of the fertili¬ 
zer feeds. In order to overcome this dif¬ 
ficulty the makers of the Buckeye grain 
and fertilizer drill have adopted a glass 
cone feed which does not corrode. They 
have also lined the fertilizer hopper with 
galvanized iron and provided same with 
an agitator which swings slowly in the 
fertilizer hopper, keeps the fertilizer 
from banking up and prevents lumps 
from causing trouble. The prongs on 
this agitator play over the hopper bot¬ 
tom and around the non-corrosive glass 
discs, thoroughly cleaning and scraping 
same. It makes no difference what kind 
the fertilizer is, the Buckeye is guaran¬ 
teed to handle and sow it in great range 
of quantities. The Buckeye grain drill 
has many good points not to be found on 
other drills. The grain feed is of the 
internal type, with two throats of feed¬ 
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obtained by changing the speed of the 
distributor wheel in the double feed cup. 
This feed will sow all large seeds—Lima 
beans, Red Kidney beans, peas, beets, 
oats—as well as wdieat and all other 
small grains. In other words, there is 
no seed too large and. none too small 
for the positive force feed of a Buckeye 
drill and the quantity is under absolute 
control of the user at all times. The 
frame is of square steel tubing and fur¬ 
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this drill are too numerous to mention in 
this article. The manufacturers, The 
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pleased to send any of our readers a 
Buckeye catalogue. We would also rec¬ 
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their local implement dealer and insist 
on seeing the Buckeye drill, which is 
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S. C, W. LEGHORN CHICKS 8c, EACH 
Catalog telling how to feed and 
earo for chicks, also about diseases 
free. If more 
than i chicks 
to eacli 100 you 
buy are dead 
when reaching 
your express 
office, I will 
make good the 
loss. Chicks hardy. 
C. M. Lauver, Box 73 Richfield, Pa. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
.A. ixr n> 
PEKIN DUCKS 
YOUNG STOCK AND 
YEARLINGS 
AT BARGAIN PRICES 
TO MAKE R O O M 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY 
FARM, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Bargain Day At Unnp’c 1 ‘RrpH fn | ou 1 > R.C.Reds at 
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Dining t Ito next 60 days will sell half of my choicest Breeders of 
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ago. $15 birds for $7.50, $10 birds for $5, $5 birds for $2.50, and 
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R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS and INDIAN 
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nUNNtn UUUIAO All stock sold on approval. 
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Winners at N. Y. State Fair; Tiios, $5; Eggs for 
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(J. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
BABY CHICKS July hatched S'ht cents 
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White Leghorns. Free range selected stock. Can 
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Van Alstyne’s R, I. Reds"®??/”;^ 
bred for vigor and egg production. EDW. VAN 
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EGGS FOR HATCHING 
S. C. W. Leghorns, B. P. Rocks, While Wyandottes, 
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MT. PLEASANT FARM LEGHORNS 
250 acres devoted to the best in S. C. W. Leghorns. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM, Box Y, Havre de Grace. Maryland. 
THE FARMER'S FOWL-ltose Comb Reds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland, N. Y. 
Free Poultry Catalogue 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS, MARIETTA, PA. 
W. P. ROCK YEARLINGS _ S'"“ta 
stock. A. S. BRIAN. Jit. Kisco, New York. 
FAMOUS A5^ S. C.W. LEGHORN 
breeding stock for sale. Also yearling S. C. R. I. 
Reds. Low prices to make room for growingpullets. 
ST. MORITZ FARM, RAMSEY. N. J. 
