870 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 10. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I most sincerely appreciate your collect¬ 
ing tile Now York <5lty bill. I am sure I 
would not have gotten it in any other way. 
It surely was prudent for them to pay it 
when asked .by you. It would have been 
one on them to be mentioned in your col¬ 
umns. You are doing a great deal of good. 
You have a most powerful weapon, simply 
in publicity. It was a bright idea to es¬ 
tablish your “Desk.” a. e. l. 
Massachusetts. 
This was a bill of October, 190S— 
nearly two years’ standing—against a de¬ 
partment of the City of New York. We 
got the complaint on July 31 and re¬ 
ceived the check for $21.60 on August 
9. The delay seemed to be due to red 
tape in the department. 
Heim Milk Products Co., Canastota, 
Madison County, N. Y. 
Report reaches us that an involuntary 
petition in bankruptcy has been filed 
against this company. We had inquir¬ 
ies about their standing last year. We 
found no rating for the company, but 
Richard Heim had a very good rating. 
The company was incorporated in 1909 
with authorized capital of $150,000, 
which really means nothing as far as 
capital is concerned. The whole capital 
of a company may be and often is issued 
for a worthless patent. In this case it 
was probably all issued for good will 
and fixtures of a milk business. It was 
Claimed, however, that $ 20,000 had been 
paid in in cash. The rating at the time 
would seem to justify lipiited credits, 
but we were obliged to advise that it 
would not be safe to extend credits be¬ 
yond monthly settlements. It is really 
disheartening that producers must make 
milk at present prices and then have 
dealers default in payment of even these 
meagre prices. We hope to see the time 
that farmers will have an organization 
and a credit committee that will insist 
on knowing the responsibility of every 
man or concern which request credit for 
the products of the farm. Even with 
such a system some accounts would be 
lost. The credit man has not yet ap¬ 
peared who can insure absolutely against 
loss; but such a system would insure 
practical safety. The present loose 
method of credit to anyone and every¬ 
one is suicidal. 
Post Office Inspector Robinson lias arrest¬ 
ed four men charged with extensive fraudu¬ 
lent operations in Portland, Me. 'Pile prisoners 
are Simon Corner, Benjamin Corner, Alex¬ 
ander Palmer and Alexander Simonowioh. 
They were held under $1,000 bail each. It 
is alleged that the men sold books with the 
promise of valuable premiums. Operations, 
it is said, were begun in Portland under the 
name of the Globe Weekly Journal Publish¬ 
ing Company. The postal inspectors began 
to investigate, and it is alleged that head¬ 
quarters were then changed to New York 
under the name of the New England Pub¬ 
lishing Company. Again the postal authori¬ 
ties got busy and the name of the concern, 
it is alleged, was changed to the New York 
Premium Company. Classical works were 
promised, hut it is charged they sent pub¬ 
lications worth only a few cents a copy.— 
Easton, Pa., news item. 
This practice of changing names and 
going right on with the scheme is an old 
one. When Federal inspectors finally 
round them up, they are usually indicted, 
but after the scheme is apparently dead 
and time dulls the public indignation, it 
is difficult to convict and and send the 
schemer to jail. That such a schemer 
is not convicted and sent to the peniten¬ 
tiary is, of course, no proof of his inno¬ 
cence. When the Federal Government 
closed the People’s United States Bank 
and indicted E. G. Lewis under charges 
of misrepresentation and fraud, it did not 
convict him, and he has since started an¬ 
other bank under a new name with 
money secured from the same class of j 
people who financed the first bank, closed 
by fraud orders of the Post Office De¬ 
partment. It all shows that no matter 
how vigilant the Government is, the peo¬ 
ple cannot be entirely protected unless 
they exercise a little caution and a little 
horse sense on their own account. There 
is no intention of criticism in this for 
those who get caught with these rosy 
and fake promises the first time. Few 
of us even of considerable experience 
escape a “gold brick” in a lifetime. But 
there is little excuse for getting caught 
the second time in the same style of trap. 
Hero is an instance: Some time hack one 
of your subscribers in this neighborhood 
wrote you and asked what you thought of 
a business proposition made to him, and 
you replied that you did not consider it a 
safe venture. However, the man made the 
venture, and now lie lias lost all he had 
saved after moving to a distant State. 
Florida. a. it. b. 
It is not at all strange that some read¬ 
ers would not take our advice. In the 
first place, we do not claim to be always 
right ourselves. We have no exclusive 
monopoly on truth, or fact, or wisdom 
of any kind. We simply have facilities 
for getting information, and a long ex¬ 
perience with such matters. We have 
friends all over the country who are only 
too glad to give us any information at 
their disposal, and when necessary we 
do not hesitate to pay for the best talent 
and best authorities in the world for in¬ 
formation. And more important than all, 
we have no private interests or preju¬ 
dices to support, absolutely no ax of our 
own to grind. If we make a mistake 
and find it out we do not hesitate to ad¬ 
mit the error. But some new subscrib¬ 
ers do not know the paper very well. 
The land promoters and other agents 
get after them and make them big prom¬ 
ises. They get one letter from us or 
one notice in the paper. The fakers are 
after them daily. No wonder some of 
them are made to believe The R. N.-Y. 
has misinformed them. Necessarily we 
cannot talk as strongly against many 
schemers as the rogues talk for it. Some 
schemes are not so bad in themselves, 
yet are accompanied with so much risk 
that a farmer cannot afford to put his 
money into them. No stocks or bonds 
are offered farmers outside of the regu¬ 
lar financial markets at prices that 
would be considered by bankers or ex¬ 
perienced investors. Most of such of¬ 
ferings would not be considered by 
them at all. It is, however, some satis¬ 
faction to know that our people gener¬ 
ally are becoming more cautious, and 
we think few of them would take up 
one of these doubtful" propositions after 
The R. N.-Y. had discouraged it. 
We recently shipped from Carlton, Or¬ 
leans County, N. Y., to Lewistown, Mifflin 
Couflty, I'a., a barrel of apples on which 
we paid $3.04 charges. This seems to us a 
very high charge, arid we would like your 
opinion on it. This barrel goes over the 
N. Y. C. and the I’. It. It., so that it goes 
through two express companies. While we 
would probably spend more in time arid 
trouble than we would collect even if it is 
an overcharge, we will take it up and push 
it through if you think it will do any good. 
As we understand it. you intend that the 
pushing of these small claims shall have a 
good moral effect on the companies. 
New York. n. 
This complaint reached us last Decem¬ 
ber during the holiday season. We have 
been at it ever since. The barrel of 
apples was shipped December 15, and 
$3.04 charges paid. After eight months 
of correspondence an agent of the ex¬ 
press company comes to us and tells us 
verbally that the charges were correctly 
based on the schedules;of rates filed with 
the Interstate Commerce Commission, 
and that consequently there was no over¬ 
charge. And that is the end of it. No 
one can do any more. The express 
companies will even tell you that it 
would be unlawful for them to make 
any rebate and so it would. But they 
neglect to tell you that it would have 
been perfectly legal for them to have 
made a fair and reasonable rate at the 
start. But as long as railroad men con¬ 
trol the government with one hand and 
rake in the profits of the express com¬ 
panies with the others, we must submit 
to the extortion. But I’d like to live 
long enough to see the robbery ended. 
J- J- D- 
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HKKTZLKR & ZOOK, Box 3 
Belleville, Pa. 
Shoe Boils, Capped 
Hock, Bursitis 
are hard to cure, yet 
^IISORBINE 
will remove them and leave no blem-' 
ish: Does not blister or remove 
the hair. Cures any puff or swelling. Horse can 
be worked, $2.00 per bottle.delivered.Book 6 D free. 
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Varicose Veins, Varicosities. Allays Pain. 
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DEATH TO HEAVES 
The first or second $1.00 can cures. The third can 
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Box 13 Bellevue, Ohio. 
32 YEARS OF SUCCESS 
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THE HORSE WORKS 
RICKMORE’S 
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for harness and sad¬ 
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KKIE, PA. 
Chicago, Boston* 
Mention R.N-Y. 
more c 2£ s; I ar £ er ’ more vigorous chicks; 
I heavier fowls, by feeding cut bone. 
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MAKE HENS LAYH 
RICHLAND FARMS 
FREDERICK, MARYLAND 
A few hundred Choice Early Hatched 
COCKERELS for Sale. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 
S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. 
Hone’s “Bred-to-Lay” 
R.C. Rhode Island Reds 
, layers). Cock Birds 
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THflRnilfiHRRFn S,NGLE C0MB WHITE leghorn 
i n u n u u u n d n eu yearlng hens also early pullets 
JJred to lay stock. J. L. Elliott, Flemington, N. J. 
A PRIL S.C.W. Leghorn Cockerels, SI.00. From heaviest 
n existing layers. “Mar-Dot” Pines, Hammonton, N. J. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; heavy layers; May 
hatched cockeiels and pullets $1.00 each. Catalog 
free. 0. H. ZIM.MER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
Free Poultry Catalogue 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS, MARIETTA PA. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM LEGHORNS 
250 acres devoted to the best in S. C. W. Leghorns. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM, Box Y. Havre de Grace, Maryland. 
FnTbIraYn S. C. W, LEGHORN 
Breeding Hens at low price to make room. Also 
promising Cockerels cheap in quantities. It.I. Reds 
all sold. ST. MORITZ FARM, RAMSEY, N. J. 
THE FARMER’S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, host winter 
1 layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland. N. Y. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS and INDIAN 
RUNNER DUCKS 
SINCLAIR SMITH, Box 153, Southold. Suffolk Co.. New York 
WHITE LEGHORNS r*’ aVZTE 
A Tvr -r> AT BARGAIN PRICES 
TO MAKE ROOM 
DFIHN n II P If Q BONNIE BRAE POULTRY 
rcivin UUblVO FARM. New Rochelle, N. Y. 
pni I 1C D| | DC— From imported stock. Females 
Ul/LLIL rUlOcheap. Nelson Bros., Grove City, Pa* 
CCOTCIf COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
** eight mos. Circ. SILAS DECKER, Montrose Pa. 
S COTCH COLLIES— Prom Imported Pedigreed Stock. 
Genuine Drivers Farm grown Puppies, will make 
fine drivers at bargain prices. Ira Keller. Prospect, 0 
