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1'HE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 10, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
An interesting ease of alleged fraud 
was recently tried out in the New York 
City courts. John Forsythe ran a high- 
class men’s furnishing store. 11 is prices 
were high, but men paid the price, al¬ 
ways feeling that they got superior value. 
Recently the firm failed, and the trade 
name and stock were sold to Lieberman 
Brothers, a firm also engaged in men’s 
furnishings. Nat Presberg bought a shirt 
from the latter firm with the Forsythe 
Jabel, and believing it to be a Forsythe 
$5 shirt. lie paid $1.S9 for it, the rep¬ 
resentations being that he was getting 
a bargain. Later he discovered that tin; 
Forsythe label was sewed on over another 
label and that he had actually bought 
a Manhattan shirt that sold usually for 
$1 at retail. Mr. Presberg brought an 
action against Lieberman Brothers. The 
defendants proved that it had been the 
custom of the Forsythe firm to purchase 
shirts from other manufacturers and 
have the Forsythe label sewed on over 
the label of the manufacturer. It was 
not proved definitely that the Manhattan 
shirts had gone through the Forsythe 
store, but neither was it shown that Lieb- 
erman had bought them direct from the 
manufacturer. The argument of the de¬ 
fense was that Lieberman had bought the 
goods and the right to use the Forsythe 
label, and that they were justified in 
selling the goods just as they came into 
Lieberman’s possession just as Forsythe 
would have done. The case was dis¬ 
missed on this showing. Y'et Presberg 
paid nearly double the value of the shirt, 
and how many men previously paid For¬ 
sythe $5 each for similar shirts is merely 
a matter of conjecture. I cite this case 
to confirm what I have often said, name¬ 
ly, that city people are really more gulli¬ 
ble than countrymen. In their egotism 
and pride and vanity they swallow doses 
that the countryman would scent miles 
away. When it comes to cupidity the 
honors seem about even. When a man ot 
a woman becomes mesmerized with the 
prospect of quick riches, he or she, 
whether in city or country, falls for the 
allurement. 
HELP WANTED 
In locating a man representing himself 
to be S. M. Wilson, of 2014 Detroit 
Street, Cleveland, Ohio, a dealer in for¬ 
est shade trees, for whom a warrant has 
been issued. 
DESCRIPTION*. 
Said party is about five feet and 10 
inches in height, age about 45 years, 
weight about 150 pounds, dark hair, 
slightly gray, mustache, three gold teeth, 
has black spot in one eye, probably 
caused by injury, wore dark gray suit, 
black overcoat, patent leather shoes, gold- 
rimmed spectacles. Party seemed to be 
well educated, and of good personal ap¬ 
pearance. 
This party buys forest shade trees of 
farmers, sells and transplants same for 
residents of towns, and after collecting 
for them, departs without paying for 
board, teaming, trees or labor. 
Anyone locating this party is asked to 
cause his arrest and notify J. D. Yocom, 
Mayor, Oberlin, Ohio. 
We gladly publish the above at the re¬ 
quest of Mayor Yocom and congratulate 
Oberlin in having an executive officer 
who interests himself in the protection of 
the people of his city. We hope some of 
our people may be able to locate S. M. 
Wilson, and report direct to the mayor. 
I read in the latest and enlarged R. 
N.-Y r . that you ought to have 200,000 
subscribers to support properly the in¬ 
creased size and expense of the paper. 
That may be true, but there is a better 
reason why you ought to have 200,000, 
and more; and that is, that no one who 
lives in the country, farmer or otherwise, 
can get along as well without The R. 
N.-Y. as he can with its help. As to 
the required increase in revenue, there is 
another way to secure that. We all 
know that the public has been educated to 
expect to get their periodicals at less 
than manufacturing cost—and I am afraid 
a good many of them are dear even at 
that figure. But in the case of The R. 
N.-Y. the contrast between the value and 
the price of the paper is too violent. For 
a weekly which is the efficient guide and 
business helper of every subscriber from 
January to December, which at a large 
money sacrifice winnows’ the advertising 
offered it till everything which might 
cause disappointment or loss to its read¬ 
ers has been blown away, which is the 
subscriber’s indefatigable defender and 
champion in seeking either the passage 
or the repeal of legislation, which warns 
of business pitfalls and then stands ready 
to help out of the pit the unwary who 
despite its warnings has fallen therein, 
which is at once news-gatherer, instructor, 
adviser, problem-solver and collection 
agent—for such a service the price of one 
dollar a year is simply a joke. Make it 
$2 which would be say 10% of its average 
cash value to the subscriber, and thereby 
get the money needed to put back into 
increased service. Any present subscriber 
who would cease taking The R. N.-Y'. 
because it cost nearly four cents a week 
would be no serious loss to you or to 
your advertisers. I should be glad to 
got my next bill for renewal at the $2 
1 ,te. CHARLES T. ROOT. 
New York. 
\Ye must be allowed the indulgence of 
a little pride in .the receipt of the above 
letter. Aside from his farm interests 
Mr. Root is an experienced publisher of 
some of the most successful trade publi¬ 
cations in this country. His judgment 
as to what a trade publication should be 
may be accepted as authoritative. Some 
may think him a bit too enthusiastic in 
his estimate of The R. N.-Y., but those 
who know him and his papers will not 
question his sincerity or his competent 
judgment. Mr. Root’s experience makes 
his suggestion valuable. The same sug¬ 
gestion has come to us before many times, 
often from farmers themselves. It has 
always been considered, and as often re¬ 
jected. As a purely business proposition 
there is little doubt but that we could in¬ 
crease the subscription price to $2 a year, 
and develop the paper as a money-making 
basis faster tiffin at the present price. 
But old fogy as a notion may seem, 
though a certain ratio of income to out¬ 
go must be maintained, our ambition is 
not to make the most money; but to 
render the greatest service to those farm¬ 
ers who most need such help as a farm 
paper can give them. We have some 
pride in the prosperous class of farmers 
in The R. N.-Y. family. We aim to be 
of service to them. A large portion of 
them would not know the difference 
whether they pay $1 or $2 for the paper. 
But there are on the other hand many 
farmers to whom the extra dollar would 
mean a sacrifice in something else. It 
is true, as Mr. Root points out, that 
the extra revenue from those who could 
afford it, could be used to reach out 
for new subscribers of the more prosper¬ 
ous class, and that those lost would not 
be felt; but our life on the farm was 
among this needful class, and we would 
not like to feel that we had abandoned 
them or deliberately neglected an oppor¬ 
tunity to serve them. There is one other 
consideration that impels us to stick 
to the $1 price. The circulation of the 
paper has been built up largely by its 
subscribers themselves from a small be¬ 
ginning to an edition this week of one 
hundred and sixty-odd thousand copies. 
Business men, professional men and 
bankers solicit subscriptions to The R. 
N.-Y., and send in the full dollar. To 
quote one instance, one of the wealthiest 
and most successful business men in the 
State of Maine has been forwarding sub¬ 
scriptions from his neighbors, customers 
and friends for years. Every time we 
are confronted with a lawsuit he and 
others like him come forward with 
promises to help. These men do not do 
this to help us make money. They do 
it in recognition of the service we are 
able to do the individual farmer in things 
in which he is not situated so that he 
can protect himself. That sentiment is 
of course an asset. It is not our pur¬ 
pose to use it for individual gain. We 
are but the trustees of it, and it is our 
ambition to use it for the benefit of the 
family on the farm who most need help. 
Robert B. Kellogg, head of the Kellogg 
Music Company, of No. 1,431 Broadway, 
was sentenced yesterday by Judge Grubb, 
in the United States District Court, to 
thirteen months in the federal peniten¬ 
tiary at Atlanta, Ga. Kellogg was con¬ 
victed on a charge of having used the 
mails to defraud ambitious poets. He 
advertised that he would write music to 
song poems and market the output for a 
fee of $21. It was charged that he ac¬ 
cepted the fee, but did not put tin- songs 
on the market. During the trial Kellogg 
admitted that the business netted him at 
least $800 a month, and also that he had 
never paid dividends to the writers of 
songs, except in one instance, when an 
author received 3(5 cents.—Daily Paper. 
It is time something was done to stop 
the petty robbery of these fake music 
publishers. They have been at the game 
for a lifetime; and this seems to be the 
first conviction. The R. N.-Y. refused 
their advertising and showed up the 
scheme more than 20 years ago, when the 
advertising was being accepted and pub¬ 
lished hy papers of every class. We are 
certainly making some progress. J. J. D. 
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In case the rider accidentally stalls the motor in crowded traffic or on a 
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Selective Type of Two-Speed 
Double Clutch Control 
The Harley-Davi|dson two-speed gear 
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Ful-Floteing Seat 
For the third successive year the Ful- 
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roads. 
The patented Harley-Davidson clutch 
can now be operated either by a foot 
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lever. The foot lever does away with the 
necessity of taking either hand off the 
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Double Brake Control 
The new Harley-Davidson Band Brake 
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Folding Foot Boards 
All models are equipped with Folding 
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We will gladly send you on request our complete 1914 catalog giving 
full details of these and forty other improvements 
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