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HORSE HEAD 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We did not break our record for Janu¬ 
ary 2nd, our first business day of the new 
year; but we did boat all records for the 
last month of the old year. We keep our 
records and compare results day by day. 
The first week or two of December we 
Were a little behind, but towards the mid¬ 
dle of the month the mails increased, and 
kept up right along to the last day of De¬ 
cember. We are always anxious to have 
a good showing for the day after New 
Year’s, as this begins a new annual rec¬ 
ord, but we are not disturbed when, as 
in this case, the returns are only a trifle 
under the records of the previous year. 
With the enlarged paper and the in¬ 
creased expense, it, of course, is neces¬ 
sary to have a regular increase, and we 
want subscribers who are interested in 
the paper and its progress to know just 
what is being done. All can help much 
by prompt renewals. It saves time and 
expense, and leaves us free and confident 
to pursue the work of making the paper 
useful and helpful. 
A short time ago I shipped a case of 
<’ggs to Johnstone & Coughlan at 172 Du¬ 
ane street, New York, whose advertise¬ 
ment has recently appeared in your paper. 
At the time of the first shipment I wrote 
them mentioning The It. N.-Y. They re¬ 
ported that the eggs sold for 50 cents 
and made proper returns. A week later 
I shipped another case of the same kind 
of eggs, equally fresh and at least a lit¬ 
tle larger, and they reported the sale at 
40 cents. In the meantime the market 
had advanced seven cents per dozen. I 
wrote them a week ago asking the rea¬ 
son, but they do not reply. My eggs are 
pullet eggs, and probably will not bring 
the highest price, but I see no reason 
for a drop of 10 cents when the price 
is advancing. I am enclosing the account 
sales. K. A. w. 
New York. 
Johnstone & Coughlan’s explanation of 
the above complaint is that the shipper 
was fortunate in getting so high a price 
for the first shipment of eggs, and state 
that the shipment complained about was 
sold at 42 cents per dozen and returned 
to the shipper 40 cents. The account 
sales shows that these eggs were re¬ 
ceived by Johnstone Coughlan on their 
own account, and were not handled on a 
commission basis. The firm has given 
us the name of the purchaser of this con¬ 
signment of eggs, and we believe the eggs 
were sold at 42 cents per dozen, as 
stated. We, however, are unable to un¬ 
derstand the evident desire of Johnstone 
& Coughlan to evade the commission mer¬ 
chant’s law by accepting farm products 
on their own account instead of selling 
on a commission basis, as formerly. We 
therefore wish to withdraw the implied 
endorsement of this firm by The Rural 
New-Yorker because of having previously 
accepted the advertising of the firm. We 
shall not do so in the future. 
Some time ago you took up a claim for 
me with the Lake Shore and Michigan 
Southern Railway regarding a claim for 
the killing of six shotes. I am glad to 
say that your services have been avail¬ 
ing and I have check for $50 for same. 
Furthewnore they have, at my request, 
placed cattle guards at the crossing. I 
cannot thank you too much for your kind¬ 
ness and attention. The kindly spirit 
which is back of your paper is what is 
and has been winning you so many 
friends. That you prosper ever is my 
sincere wish. S. B. w. 
Michigan. 
The subscriber tried for some time to 
get attention, but could not get reply 
from railway, so that we are gratified to 
know that our little service brought such 
prompt and encouraging results. 
I sent Mrs. Arthur Hawkins, Goshen, 
N. Y r ., $1 for 15 White Orpington eggs. 
I cannot get any reply, although the 
postmaster states the money order has 
been paid. She does not answer my let¬ 
ters. o. a. H. 
New York. 
Mrs. Hawkins failed to reply to our in¬ 
quiries also. This, experience will have 
to be charged up to profit and loss, but 
our readers will be warned for another 
season. 
The Federal Grand Jury that has been 
investigating Florida land companies end¬ 
ed its work to-night by returning indict¬ 
ments against two officers of the Miami 
Everglades Land Company, and four men 
connected with the Everglades Planta¬ 
tion Company. The men are Edward 
Van Asmus, Frank M. Perkins, S. J. 
Mattocks of Kansas City, and R. Ernest 
Perkins of Brookfield. Mo. The Govern¬ 
ment charges that the Miami company 
sold 17,000 acres of land west of Miami, 
Fla., on which it realized a profit of ap¬ 
proximately $1(35,000. The other com¬ 
pany, the Government alleges, sold 10,- 
000 acres of land west of Fort Lauder¬ 
dale, Fla., realizing a profit of $136,000. 
The Government charges that the land 
was underdrained and unfit for cultiva¬ 
tion. It is charged in the indictment that 
these promoters represented that Ever¬ 
glade “muck,” did not need to be fertil¬ 
ized in order to raise good crops and was 
shown by chemical analysis to be the 
richest natural soil known anywhere. Of 
course, some kind of crops would flour¬ 
ish better by being fertilized, but the best 
crops he had ever seen were grown on 
the Everglade lands without any fertil¬ 
izing.—Kansas City Despatch. 
Is it worth anything to the farmers of 
this country to be warned in advance 
against schemes of this kind? The profits 
on these two schemes alone would nearly 
pay for the entire subscription list of 
The R. N.-Y. for three years; and for 
the last five years we have been warning 
northern farmers against the fake pro¬ 
moters in the Florida Everglade lands. 
While other papers—some of them very 
high-toned—have been accepting the ad¬ 
vertising of Florida promoters, we have 
been telling the truth about them, and 
now the action of the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment has confirmed our information. 
Every individual subscriber has not pro¬ 
fited by our advance showing up of this 
scheme, because they have not all had 
any thought of investing in Florida 
swamps, but it is evident that this $300,- 
000 would have been saved to the de¬ 
luded investors who enriched the swamp 
promoters, if our information could have 
x’eached them. This is a service, which 
as far as we know, no other paper at¬ 
tempts, and it seems to us to justify 
the suggestion that old friends of The 
R. N.-Y". use their influence to increase 
its circulation among fellow farmers. 
It was an unexpected pleasure to read, 
the $10 voucher yesterday. It was a just 
claim long drawn out, and I am under 
many obligations to you and your valu¬ 
able paper. w. g. d. 
Massachusetts. 
Household furniture shipped over the 
Central Railroad of New Jersey was 
damaged in transit so badly that it could 
not be repaired. The claim was entered 
at the lowest amount of value consistent 
with the damage, but the claim was de¬ 
clined on one basis or another, and it 
was only by persistent effort we were 
able to get it closed out in seven months. 
The E. G. Lewis scheme up in San 
Luis Obispo County, California, is the 
most gigantic swindle Of the age, and the 
marvelous part about the whole business 
is there are suckers who really believe the 
fellow, even after all the exposition and 
publicity The It. N.-Y. gave him. I was 
up that way last Spring, and all the vege¬ 
tation growing on a square, mile of the 
country could have been put in a bushel 
basket, and no water developed to grow 
more. p, g. 
California. 
The above is from a man who probably 
knows more about the land schemes on 
the California coast than any other one 
man in that State. After collecting 
money from the people on something like 
75 schemes, covering a period of 15 years, 
and collecting in all ten to twelve mil¬ 
lions, all of which was lost to the dupes, 
he is now working the California scheme, 
and deluded women are still sending him 
their money. 
I have been a subscriber to The R. 
N.-l r . for many years, and have read the 
fakers with interest, and now I think I 
am faked myself. I judge the woods are 
full of this sort of fairies at this time. 
I am judging by the many circulars that 
come through the mail. I ordered some 
automobile tires from the Goodwear Rub¬ 
ber Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, en¬ 
closing my check for $17.95 to pay for 
them. They acknowledged receipt of the 
order, and same would have prompt at¬ 
tention. A letter inquiring why the tires 
were not sent was returned unopened. I 
then looked up my check and found it 
had been deposited at Dayton, Ohio, but 
no tires have been received yet. 
Tennessee. A. w. w. 
Our letters were also returned with the 
information that the company had “gone 
and left no address.” The history and 
papers in the transaction have been 
turned over to a post office inspector. 
J. J. u. 
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the maiden coyly to the bashful lover who 
had been invited to share the family 
Christmas dinner. “l r es,” replied he, and 
for once he saw .a chance, and, grasping 
his courage, he said: “To sit next to you. 
Miss Grace, is to lose one’s appetite.”— 
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