1910. 
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OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
Who Are the Other People ? 
The following letter comes from an old 
friend. We print it for the reason that 
it well describes one type of the people 
who are pouring money into the coffers 
of E. G. Lewis. Every sensible reader 
of The Rural New-Yorker will recog¬ 
nize this type, and those who have fol¬ 
lowed the discussion for the past year 
will realize the end in store for these 
worthy people. There is a strong fascina¬ 
tion about the gambler’s business, but it 
is a sad thing to see people like the 
members of this family denying them¬ 
selves the necessities of life and taking 
their little store of money from a safe 
investment to throw it into a wildcat 
scheme. The worst of all is the fact 
that such people disregard the advice of 
cool-headed business friends and even 
try to drag others in with them. It is 
the old, old story, with only one ending. 
“I, and the rest of our family, take 
great interest in your exposure of E. G. 
Lewis and his schemes. We are not in¬ 
terested personally in any of his plans, 
but some of our best friends are actively 
interested in his League proposition. I 
want to mention especially one family of 
three, the parents and a daughter. The 
father is quite an old man. They are 
very energetic workers and have tried 
hard to get some of us to join them, es¬ 
pecially my sister, who is an artist. 
They unfolded plan after plan, and told 
of all the great advantages our people 
would get from the art courses. But 
from what I have seen of the work, 1 
would deem it more appropriate for 
Lewis to come to my sister for instruc¬ 
tion than for her to seek his aid, in art. 
“They have been so persistent that 
it has had a tendency to cause hard 
feeling between them and several of 
their best friends. They are very good 
people and would not do anything that 
they thought was not just right, and 
they fully believe that everything in the 
League is first class, Al, and O. K. 
“The mother is a very intelligent 
woman with a good sense of reasoning, 
and who has put forth all her efforts for 
months, perhaps years, in behalf of 
Lewis and his League. They are de¬ 
pendent on the monthly wages of the 
father, having no property, and had 
saved up a little nest egg of about $400, 
which was invested in a local concern, 
paying good dividends, and recognized 
as a profitable investment, the stock be¬ 
ing bought up at a good figure over par 
as soon as offered for sale. Ever since 
joining the League they have put into it 
every dollar they could possibly spare 
from living expenses, putting it into 
Lewis’s stocks and real estate. His last 
scheme has caught them, too, and harder 
than the others, for they sold their local 
stock and put every cent of it into 
Lewis’s hands, and were quite put out 
because their friends would not do the 
same. They need every cent of money 
they earned, as they are both getting 
along in years and will soon be unab’e 
to earn a living at manual labor, and 
are depending on the profits and income 
promised by Lewis to sustain them in 
their old age and provide for their only 
child. There are few if any relatives. 
They have absolutely no other resource. 
"So interested are they in the League 
that they have sent the League’s papers 
to as many people as would accept them. 
I know of several friends who refused 
to accept them from the postoffice, and 
returned them their money, causing a 
breach of friendship. They have been 
with Lewis ever since he started his de¬ 
funct bank, and I cannot see how a 
woman as bright as the mother is has 
not seen through his schemes before 
this. You are at liberty to use my name 
if you think best. I trust that the work 
you are doing will be the starting of a 
concerted movement against such people 
as Lewis to separate people’s money 
from them in return for big promises, 
and especially those in the circumstances 
of the family I mention in this letter.” 
E. L. K. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC—Despatches from Comanche 
and Hamilton in north central Texas re¬ 
port cloudbursts September 6 which caused 
more than a dozen deaths by drowning. In 
some places the rainfall amounted to 12 
inches in six hours. A sudden rise of the 
South Leon River swept away the homes 
of several families. 
A stray deer wandered down from the 
mountains during the closed season last 
July and jumped through the show window 
of the Ennis Drug Store in Newburgh, 
N. Y. Now Ennis Bros, have tiled against 
the State a claim for $68.27 for damages 
caused by the deer in the store, as the 
State law protects deer from being shot. 
The long list of workmen killed in the 
construction of the New York Lake Erie 
& Western Railroad’s new open cut through 
the Bergen Hill at Jersey City was in¬ 
creased by 11 September 12 with the cave- 
in of a section of the adjoining old tunnel at 
the western entrance to the cut just west 
of the Hudson Boulevard, between Hopkins 
avenue and Elm street, Jersey City. A 
THE RURAL i 
year or so ago the Millard Construction 
Company was indicted by the Hudson Coun¬ 
ty Grand Jury in connection with its work 
of excavating for the Erie cut. It was 
claimed that blasts were recklessly set off 
and that workmen were unnecessarily 
maimed and killed. The indictment fol¬ 
lowed the injuring of Mrs. Westell, the 
mother of John Westell, supervisor of the 
census for Hudson County, by a rock 
which was projected into her kitchen by a 
blast. The indictment was scheduled for 
trial at the last term of court, but was 
laid over. The number of men killed while 
the open cut was under construction by 
the Millard company has been estimated at 
nearly 200. Report has it that the police 
never got the names of many who died 
from injuries received at their work. The 
hospital records show that 400 were 
wounded and killed during a period of 
over three years. 
One of the worst marine accidents in 
Michigan’s history occurred September 0 
when car ferry No. 18, flagship of a fleet 
of live steel car ferries owned and operated 
by the Pere Marquette Railroad sank to 
the bottom of Lake Michigan twenty miles 
off Tort Washington. The loss of life is 
unknown. The crew consisted of about 
forty men, twenty deck swabs, and there 
were a few passengers. Most of those 
aboard lived in Ludington. The cause of 
the disaster is a subject of much specula¬ 
tion. While there was a strong northwest 
wind and a fairly heavy sea, the condi¬ 
tions were not especially severe. No. 18 
was the linest and most costly car ferry 
ever built. This was her first trip on her 
regular mu after returning from Chicago, 
where she was under charter to the Chi¬ 
cago Navigation Company, and ran in the 
excursion business between Chicago and 
Waukegan during July and August. The 
boat was valued at $400,000, and the 
cargo at $100,000 to $150,000. The loss is 
fully covered by insurance in Lloyd’s of 
Eng'land. 
Aside from placing Brooklyn, N. Y., in 
the first class as regards blue liquor tax 
certificates and increasing the tax there 
for saloon keepers to $1,200, the new cen¬ 
sus also will result in raising the saloon 
license in many places up State, including 
at least ten cities and many towns. It is 
estimated that from one to two million 
dollars additional will be raised annually 
through these increased taxes, bringing the 
total revenue under the liquor tax law up 
to nearly $20,000,000. 
The North Dakota, one of the largest 
and most powerful battleships of the navy, 
had a lire in her fuel oil system Septem¬ 
ber 8 while in Hampton Roads. Three 
coal passers of the fireroom crew were 
killed and eight other enlisted men were 
injured. The accident occurred during a 
test of the fuel oil apparatus under boiler 
No. 1, which is used to supplement the 
coal supply. The exact cause of the fire 
has not been ascertained. Engineer officers 
of the Department, however, believe that 
there was a leak in the pipes and that 
the oil was ignited by sparks from the 
furnace. 
The California Legislature, convened in 
special session, passed the two State con¬ 
stitutional amendments September 8 that 
provide $10,000,000 for the l’anama Pacific 
International Exposition at San Francisco 
in 1915 and adjourned. Great enthusiasm 
attended the final roll call. One of the 
chief reasons for expecting general ap¬ 
proval of the amendments is State pride in 
the fact that California may be in position 
to ask nothing of the Government except 
official sanction. 
At a fire in the stables of George Mun¬ 
son, on the old Joshua Barnum estate, three 
miles east of Hempstead, L. I., September 
12, eight valuable horses were burned to 
death and fourteen others were saved. 
Mr. Munson, who is a son of the late 
John Munson, aide de camp of Col. Mosby 
of guerrilla fame, is the present owner of 
the Barnum estate, comprising several 
hundred acres, and he keeps a sort of 
boarding stable for the horses of wealthy 
New Yorkers who are out of town during 
the Summer. Sometimes he has as many 
as 100 horses on the farm. The damage 
is estimated at $48,000, partly covered by 
insurance. 
The First International Humane Exhibi¬ 
tion and conference is to be held during the 
week of October 10-15, in Washington. All 
anti-cruelty societies throughout the world 
are specially invited to make contributions 
of objects connected with their work, 
whether relating to children or animals. 
Business houses and individuals manufac¬ 
turing humane devices or inventions of 
any description are requested to notify the 
American Humane Association, Albany, N. 
Y., of the exhibits which they wish to 
have shown. Anti-cruelty societies, pub¬ 
lishers, and manufacturers have already 
promised many articles for this exposition 
in the interests of humanity. 
J. Ogden Armour, Louis F. Swift, Ed¬ 
ward Morris and Edward Tilden, alleged to 
be the big four in the beef trust, were in¬ 
dicted by a Federal Grand Jury at Chi¬ 
cago September 12 charged with being in 
a combination in restraint of trade in viola¬ 
tion of the Sherman anti-trust law. In ad¬ 
dition Arthur Meeker of Armour & Co., 
Charles Swift and several other lesser 
lights were named in the true bills. The 
corporations named in the recent true bill 
which was found faulty by Judge Landis 
were not named. The Grand Jury had fol¬ 
lowed out the instructions of Judge Landis 
and indicted the men instead of the cor¬ 
porations. Under section 2 of the Sherman 
anti-trust law those convicted under this 
indictment may be sent to prison for one 
year, fined $5,000, or both. 
A Democratic landslide, the first in thirty 
years, took place in Maine elections Septem¬ 
ber 12, and Mayor Frederick W. Plaisted of 
Augusta, the Democratic nominee for Gov¬ 
ernor, was elected over Gov. Bert M. Fernald 
by a majority estimated from 6,000 to 
8,000. The Democrats have carried the 
Senate, and there is a possibility that they 
will also have a majority in the lower 
branch of the Legislature. 
Fanned by a forty-mile gale the forest 
fire which started in the north wood clear¬ 
ing near Lynden, Wash., has spread until 
several towns of Whatcom County are 
menaced, dozens of ranch homes and barns 
have been destroyed and a total loss of 
$1,000,000 inflicted. The fire has prac¬ 
tically surrounded Blaine and three houses 
have been destroyed. All of the nine 
houses in the settlement of Ilazlemore, four 
miles from Blaine, have been destroyed. In 
White Rock, B. C., two miles from Blaine, 
IEW-YORKER 
a number of small houses burned. At En¬ 
terprise, thirteen miles north of Bellingham, 
the Enterprise mill and a few houses have 
been destroyed. Twelve houses near Fern- 
dale have been burned. 
The Tost Office Department issued a 
fraud order September 13 against Dr. J. W. 
Coblentz and the “Compound Oxygen As¬ 
sociation,” both of Fort Wayne, lnd., and 
affiliated. 1’ost office inspectors who in¬ 
vestigated the business of the concerns 
found they were reaping rich rewards from 
the sale of an alleged “cure for the mor¬ 
phine habit,” the principal ingredient of 
which was morphine. The evidence showed 
that some of the “patients” had been un¬ 
der “treatment” for twenty years. A fraud 
order was also issued against Dr. II. F. 
Merrill of Gardiner, Me., who advertised 
widely that he could extract from sawdust 
cures for all stomach troubles and from the 
root of i common garden variety of peony 
a cure for epilepsy. He offered to teach 
a method of making whisky from potatoes 
in Maine, and held out the allurement of 
converting sweet cider into sparkling cham¬ 
pagne. To baldheads he offered for sale an 
infallible hair tonic which would in three 
weeks recreate luxuriant growth. It 
seemed to the postal officials that he was 
offering too much for the money, and an 
investigation followed which resulted in 
Dr. Merrill being forced to disclose that 
his hair restorer was a 30 per cent solu¬ 
tion of lactic acid; that he made whiskey 
by chopping potatoes fine, placing them in 
a jar and pouring in molasses, the mix¬ 
ture to stand three months. To make 
champagne he advised his clients to place 
fifteen pounds of brown sugar in a ten-gal¬ 
lon cask and then fill with sweet cider, 
permitting it to stand eighteen days. 
Because he administered 110 lashes with 
a heavv strap to Anne Clare, a young 
white female convict, Supt. Fanning of the 
Fulton County woman’s convict camp, has 
been summoned for trial before the Georgia 
State Prison Commission. Fanning ad¬ 
mits that he whipped the woman as 
charged, but says he was authorized to 
use the lash by Secretary Goodloe Yancey 
of the prison commission. Yancey denies 
that Fanning had authority. Fanning 
says that he whipped the woman because 
she aggravated him by her abuse, and that 
he could only keep her quiet by whipping 
her. He admits also that he gagged the 
woman. There is a State law prohibiting 
the whipping of white female convicts. 
FARM AND GARDEN — Farmers and 
their crops are not adequately protected 
from thieves, in the opinion of E. R. Col¬ 
lins, president of the Union County, N. J., 
Board of Agriculture. He announced Sep¬ 
tember 9 that he would request the Board 
of Freeholders to appropriate a sum suf¬ 
ficient to establish an armed patrol of the 
county to guard the farms until the crops 
were gathered. He said that fights be¬ 
tween the farmers and thieves had been 
frequent and that in some localities the 
women were afraid to leave their homes, 
day or night,'without the protection of the 
male members of the family. Judge Col¬ 
lins added: “I know of many instances 
where farmers have been compelled to sit 
in their orchards or cornfields night after 
night, armed with shotguns, to protect then- 
crops, and there have been many fights be¬ 
tween the thieves and the farmers.” 
The New England Corn Exposition will be 
held at Worcester, Mass., November 7-12, 
William D. Hurd secretary, Amherst, Mass. 
This is the first real corn show that has 
ever been held in the East. 
THE BALLINGER REPORT. — The Bal- 
linger-Pinchot Congressional investigating 
committee adopted a resolution September 
7 that Secretary of the Interior Richard A. 
Ballinger should be removed from office. 
The committee declared that in its opinion 
Secretary Ballinger had been unfaithful to 
his duty and recommended that he be re¬ 
moved from office. The resolution was of¬ 
fered by Senator Fletcher of Florida and 
was subsequently modified by a resolution 
offered by Representative Madison of Kan¬ 
sas, which was in turn amended by Repre¬ 
sentative James of Kentucky, Democrat. 
The majority report, it is said, will sus¬ 
tain Secretary Ballinger and will hold that 
the l'inchot accusations have not been sus¬ 
tained. The Ballinger-Pinchot committee 
is composed of twelve members. When the 
full committee gets together the live votes 
cast against Ballinger will stand against 
the remaining seven. These seven are 
Senators Nelson, Root, Flint and Suther¬ 
land and Representatives McCall, Olmstead 
and Denby. 
HAGUE TRIBUNAL ON FISHERIES 
DISPUTE.—The international arbitration 
tribunal handed down September 7 its de¬ 
cision in the fisheries dispute between the 
United States and Great Britain. While 
the American Government is sustained on 
the greater number of points the important 
question, regarding the three-mile limit, 
has been decided in favor of Great Britain. 
It has always been held by Englishmen 
that this was the most important of all 
the points submitted. The reading of the 
decision occupied more than two hours. In 
addition to deciding the points submitted to 
the court the arbitrators recommended the 
appointment of mixed commissions for the 
Canadian and United States fisheries, 
whose duty it shall be to settle future dif¬ 
ferences arising from Colonial legislation. 
The points which the United States wins 
are Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 out of a total 
of seven points. Points 1 and 5 were de¬ 
cided in favor of Great Britain. It was 
the fifth point which had to do with the 
three-mile limit question. It was put in 
the form of a question, and read: “From 
where must be measured the three marine 
miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks 
or harbors referred to in artiele I of the 
British-American treaty of 1818?” It has 
been the contention of the United States 
fishermen that the three-mile limit should 
be measured from any point of the Can¬ 
adian or Newfoundland shore and that 
therefore they had the right to fish in the 
middle of any bay or estuary having a 
radius of more than three miles. The 
British contention was that the limit 
should be measured from an imaginary line 
connecting the headlands. While the first 
question is decided in favor of Great 
Britain, the points of equity raised by 
America will be examined by a committee 
o£ experts. 
Owing to unfavorable weather conditions, 
stem rot and maggots the cabbage crop on 
Long Island will not be over 50 per cent of 
our average yield. Let us hear how it is 
up State. g. 
nieksville, N. Y. 
“NO PLACE LIKE HOME.” 
Here are two letters to “The Breeders’ 
Gazette,” one from a man who has been 
six years “dry farming” in Montana, and 
the other from the Canadian wheat fields. 
These seem to be pretty strong testimony 
in support of The R. N.-Y.’s views as to 
where the best farm opportunities are. 
Grand Isle, Yt. H. M. p. 
Here are a few extracts from the Mon¬ 
tana letter: 
“It is now midsummer, and midsummer in 
the West, when we have a dry, hot sea¬ 
son like this, is something beautiful, yet 
terrible. The ground is dry and baked, 
and the gumbo cracks are so large that 
when water runs into them it sounds 
before it reaches the bottom like a rippling 
gurgling stream. The grass is short, and 
almost dead and for hay there is none. 
There has been no rain since the heavy 
snows of last Winter w-ent off, that is to 
speak of, and the ground was frozen so 
hard when the melting of the snow took 
place that it received very little of the 
moisture. My advice to any man now 
living in the East, in the rainbelt, is to 
stick with it. Buy one of those old cheap, 
wornout places and build it up with clover, 
Alfalfa and cow peas.” 
And here is a chunk of truth from the 
Northwest: 
“The facts in the case are these: We 
have a very dry season this year and 
there was no storage of moisture worth 
mentioning from the previous season, with 
the natural result that crops of all kinds 
have suffered. Thousands of acres of 
wheat have been plowed up, mowed for 
feed or are not worth cutting with the 
binder. South of the main line of the 
Canadian Pacific Railway in Manitoba, Sas¬ 
katchewan and Alberta, the crops are very 
poor indeed. Wheat will not go over eight 
bushels, oats practically a failure and 
barley and hay (wild and cultivated) the 
same.” 
Our proposition has been and still is 
that a man of moderate means will do far 
better on a farm in one of the older 
States. He can buy a run-out or “un¬ 
occupied farm” at a low figure, use lime 
and get organic matter into the soil, and 
then be prepared to raise anything that 
will grow in the latitude. 
APPLE CROPS. 
1 know of two crops of Rome Beauty 
being sold at $3 per barrel packed and 
delivered to shipping point, and some others 
being sold for $2.o0 packed; buyers are 
now offering only $2.50 and growers want 
$3; and some want more than that. The 
Rome Beauty Growers’ Association has con¬ 
tracted cold storage room for 10,000 bar¬ 
rels, aad we feel safe in expecting even 
more than any of the prices being paid 
now. There are about 500,000 barrels of 
apples in Lawrence County; almost all of 
them are Rome Beauty, and the quality is 
excellent. This county furnished about 
three-fourths of the apple exhibit at the 
State Fair last week. u. t. cox. 
Lawrence County, O. 
CANADIAN APPLE PRICES. — The 
Canadian Department of Agriculture re¬ 
ports that local buyers have been very 
active during the month of August, more 
especially in Ontario, and probably one-half 
the crop is already out of the hands of the 
grower. The prices have varied greatly. 
This difference in price has >“'en partially 
the result of a difference in the quality of 
the fruit, and quite frequently low prices 
have been accepted by the grower who 
would not take the trouble to inform him¬ 
self as to the conditions of the market. A 
few private growers sold at $1 per barrel 
on the trees. Many sold at from $1.25 to 
$1.50, firsts and seconds, on the trees. 
Some individual growers of good reputa¬ 
tion have secured $2 and $2.25 per barrel 
packed, and in a few cases $2.50 per barrel. 
Some of the co-operative associations that 
have established a reputation for good 
packing and honest marking have reported 
as high as $3 per barrel for their entire 
output. It is needless to say that up to the 
present time all prices are in a measure 
a matter of speculation. Only early apples 
have reached the consumer. The Red As- 
trachans and Duchess, properly packed in 
boxes, have sold lately in Winnipeg and 
Calgary at prices ranging from $2.25 to 
$2.50 per box. This would be equivalent 
to something over $1.25 and $1.50 per box, 
net f. o. b. at home station. Duchess 
marked No. 2 found a ready sale in Win¬ 
nipeg at $5 per barrel. 
CROP NOTES. 
Our potato crop in this section is not 
very good, yet some of our farmers seem 
to have quite a good many, but the gen¬ 
eral outlook is for a poor crop. 
E. F. PAUL. 
Harrisburg Grocery and Produce Co. 
Harrisburg, Pa. 
Crop reports in this section are gen¬ 
erally fair, owing to the heavy rainfall 
last Spring. The hay and Winter grain 
were fair, excepting what the fly cut down 
in the wheat. Rye was better than it has 
been for years; some yields were as high 
as twenty-five bushels per acre. Buck¬ 
wheat and corn are good, although we have 
had a pretty dry Summer. Clover is grow¬ 
ing in wheat and rye stubble finely, took 
very well. We have just had a very nice 
rain to help the Fall plowing; it is too 
wet to plow at present. n. P. 
Columbia County, Pa. 
We grow great quantities of Alfalfa and 
No. 1 hay is selling now direct from grow¬ 
er at $10 f. o. b. here. Freight to New 
York commission points is in the neighbor¬ 
hood of $12 per ton, car lots. It may be 
a dollar less. 1 am raising about 1,500 
tons myself and have been feeding it to 
sheep and lambs for sixteen years and 
know we could suit your people in the bay 
if they can stand the price. We expect it 
will advance right along. This price is 
the highest we have ever been able to got 
at this season of the year. 
Colorado. geo. e. wilson. 
R. N.-Y.—This high freight rate will pre¬ 
vent Eastern farmers from buying direct. 
Several years ago upwards of 200 tons 
of Alfalfa was baled and shipped from fifty 
acres from my farm. The farmers, as a 
general rule, raise just enough for home 
consumption, as it is a very hard crop to 
take care of, especially if there is much 
rainfall. J. a. it. 
Frankford, Ky. 
