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THE HUK A. L» 1M fc£ W-YOE-iKfcCi-e 
April 18, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The last chapter in the Sterling Deben¬ 
ture Corporation which swindled invest¬ 
ors in the Oxford Linen Mills Company, 
Massachusetts, out of $10,000,000, was 
written last week. Seven of the officials 
were found guilty of using the mails to 
defraud, after a trial that lasted about 
a month. Three of them were sentenced 
to serve six years each in Atlanta Pen¬ 
itentiary. These were the former presi¬ 
dent, George II. Middlebrook, reported 
to be worth $1,000,000, Frank W. Schu- 
maker, secretary, and Harry II. Platt, 
promoter. The others got three years 
each. In passing sentence Judge Ander¬ 
son read the crooks of the country a 
wholesome warning. lie said : 
The financial gentlemen of New York 
who have an itching palm and who try 
to defraud the investors of this country 
must be taught a lesson. These men 
made millions out of the poor investors of 
this country and I cannot lose sight of 
that fact. What is the poor nurse from 
L T tah who invested all her savings in 
these men’s schemes to do? What re¬ 
course has she? 
It is unfortunate that these schemers 
cannot be prevented from robbing poor 
people of their savings. Everyone at all 
familiar with the gold brick game in 
3Toek certificates knew from the first that 
the money put into these schemes would 
be a total loss to the people who parted 
with it. Yet the Government felt it 
could do nothing until the record of the 
pry was complete. Formerly some 
ese schemes were nipped in the bud 
e issue of “fraud orders” against 
the promoters by the postoffice, but some 
of our humane law-makers including now 
Secretary Redfield, through their tender 
sympathies for crooks, succeeded in do¬ 
ing away with the “fraud order.” Since 
then the schemers have had a free field. 
An occasional bunch like these gets a 
few years, but there is precious little 
comfort even in that to the poor people 
who lose the savings of a lifetime. It 
is said that the present Administration 
is going back to the “fraud order.” The 
sooner the better. 
Please record me as a charter member 
of the Fake Detection Association un¬ 
der Dr. Ulman. o. h. \v. 
Ohio. 
All right, the record is made. The 
association is growing. There is no fee, 
but members pledge themselves not to 
subscribe for any paper that prints fake 
or deceptive advertising and refuse to 
receive such publications into the home. 
The Ilammonton, X. J., Strout agent 
must have forgotten his early lesson to 
abhor the business of trying to down his 
neighbor. What can he do more effect¬ 
ively to down them than to help the 
Strouts sell their farms for from 10 to 
70 per cent, above their value? 
If I believed his estimate of farm 
papers, I would not subscribe for them. 
If the business of a farm paper is not 
to warn its subscribers against frauds 
and crooks, as well as to disseminate the 
latest news, I would like to have the 
Strout agent tell me what it is for. Don’t 
worry over the loss of his name from 
your subscription list. Here are three 
others to take his place. C. T. s. 
New York. 
Not worry? Bless your soul! The 
publisher who would not rejoice in his 
heart over a letter of that kind would 
be a cold proposition indeed. There are 
men and publishers who persist in saying 
that the plain farmer is ungrateful and 
that he does not reward those who serve 
him. I think if they were entirely truth¬ 
ful and honest they would admit that 
the plain farmer in the past has, like the 
rest of us, been too willing to reward 
those who pretended to serve him. If 
he has learned his lesson now and dis¬ 
criminates between those who serve and 
those who pretend to serve, so much the 
better for him. No farm paper in the 
country has a larger clientele of prosper¬ 
ous high-class farmers, but we confess 
to a keener concern for the interest of 
the plain working farmer. The former 
is pretty well able to take care of him¬ 
self. We like to help the man who 
most needs assistance. So far from com¬ 
plaining of want of gratitude from them, 
we have frequent reasons to feel that 
they give us more credit than we de¬ 
serve for the little service we can do 
ther.:. TIow are you going to beat the 
gratitude that sends three names to take 
the place of one lost in a defense of all? 
The Quaker Valley Manufacturing 
Company, Auror.a, Ill., needs the atten¬ 
tion of Publishers’ Desk. They adver¬ 
tise to send free a so-called Klara Kling 
clothespin bag. When I wrote for it, 
they sent with it inducements to accept 
one of their stand-up scrubbers, which 
they also agree to send free to advertise 
in our neighborhood. They send the 
scrubber, or mop, on a 10-days’ trial; 
and then demand $1.02 remittance for 
it. I have even offered to return it, but 
they now refuse to accept it, and threat¬ 
en suit to collect. J. P. s. 
New York. 
The literature of this concern is very 
illuminating. Among other fakes they 
go to the extent of calling the victim a 
member of Quaker Valley Cooperative 
Community. Here is one of their let¬ 
ters : 
Records of the United States Realiza¬ 
tion and Collection Bureau, who have 
been looking into the case for ns; show 
that the standup scrubber we shipped'you 
was promptly delivered by parcel post, 
and they are anxious to place it on doc-. 
ket for action in the courts. Tlreir in¬ 
spector has made his report. The amount 
involved is trivial:—only $1.62—:but that 
will make no difference, It must be paid 
within a week or we shall instruct the 
United States It. and C. Bureau to pro¬ 
ceed. We very much regret the necessi¬ 
ty for this action. 
The Collection Bureau is probably one 
of their own employes. There is not the 
slightest danger that suit will be brought 
on any such scheme. It is simply an 
attempt to browbeat the victim out of 
$1.02. This is considerable space to give 
to such a petty fake, but such schemes 
often amount to a great deal in the ag¬ 
gregate. It is another lesson on gold 
bricks. It is the sometliing-for-nothing 
trick. 
We shipped A. G. Krispien. Jr., 432 
Seventh St., West New York, N. J., one 
crate of eggs, which the express company 
claims to have delivered to him. We 
have been unable to get any word from 
him. If you can help me I will be very 
grateful. M. A. T. 
New York. 
Our investigation proved that Mr. 
Krispien had left the above address some 
time ago, and we were unable to get any 
trace of him. Now that New York City 
merchants are licensed and bonded, New 
Jersey is pretty sure to get those who 
cannot secure license here. 
The organization of a local land hank 
will benefit every individual and every in¬ 
dustry in the community in which it is 
located. It will benefit the boy or girl, 
man or woman with a little savings by 
furnishing a safe investment and a sure 
aud safe earning capacity from the day 
the money is invested to the day it is 
withdrawn. It will benefit the farmer 
by affording a safe and profitable plan 
for investment if he has funds and by 
furnishing a loan on his property on 
favorable terms if he wants -to borrow. 
It will favor the banker by the deposit of 
accumulated small savings which other¬ 
wise would never find their way to a 
bank. It will help the tradesman by 
furnishing capital for production and en¬ 
terprise. It will benefit the whole com¬ 
munity by encouraging thrift, stimulat¬ 
ing industry and encouraging permanent 
improvement and investments. The com¬ 
munity that creates attractive invest¬ 
ments for its own capital and attracts 
capital from a distance is bound to be 
enterprising and prosperous. 
In the past the improvident kept their 
money idle in the home, or invested it in 
tempting gold bricks. The more progres¬ 
sive deposited it in the local bank with¬ 
out interest and it went to Wall Street 
to be used in stock gambling. Now you 
have an opportunity to use it at home in 
the industries of your own community. 
The central land bank will soon be 
organized. Your community ought to be 
represented in it. The State is ready to 
send men to toll you all about it. and to 
help you make the local organization, if 
you decide after hearing him that you 
are ready to go ahead, and if he finds 
you have the elements of success in your 
neighborhood. Talk it up in your clubs 
and homes; and if you want definite in¬ 
formation ask for it. j. j. n. 
Mas. Dashajikap (visiting at the vic¬ 
arage) : “What beautiful buttons you are 
sewing on your husband's waistcoat! Do 
you know, my husband once had some 
just like them?” The Vicar’s Wife: “Yes, 
we found them each Sunday in the collec¬ 
tion bag.”—Melbourne Leader. 
will trot you longer, better and more wool and take 
it off quickly and smoothly in ono unbroken 
blanket. To shear with the Stewart Machine 
seems like play to those who bavo labored with 
hand shears in tho old, hard, sweaty way. You 
don’t have tho same swollen aching wrists. 
You don’t scar and disliguro your sheep with 
uneven shearing and spoil the wool with sec¬ 
ond cuts as you used to do. Tho 8towart saves 
all that and easily and quickly gets you more 
and better wool. Get one from your dealer, 
or send us $2.00 and wo will ship C. O. D. tor 
balance. Money back if not pleased. 
can be used for clipping horses, 
mules and cows without 
chango. It’s the easiest to 
turn, does the fastest work, 
Btays sharp longer and is the 
PRICE most durable. Gat 
$ mm cn ono from your 
§ dealer, or send us 
$2.00 and we will Bhip 
C.O.D for tho balance. 
Your money back if you 
arc not well pleased. 
Write for FltUH catalogue showing most complete 
line of Sheep Shearing and Horse Clipping Machines. 
CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT CO .143 La Salle Ave. CHICAGO 
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Harriwnnri AehpQ 1{est Fertilizer in Use. 
naiUHUUU GEORGE STEVENS. Pelerborouoh, Ont. 
ROOFING 
-95 CKNTS HOI.l,—108 Feet, 
Nails, Cement. RUBBER ROOFING 
CO., 5 Cortland! St.. New York 
LINE CLUBS 
l 
Farm ers ’ Li me Clnb. 
obtain lime at whole¬ 
sale prices, We’ll 
tell you how to form 
a club. Write for 
>artieulnrs. (We shin Lime from 100 Mills) 
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BETTER FERTILIZER-LESS M0NEY-N0 USELESS FILLER 
If you can mix Cement you can mix Fertilizer 
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600 Bushels, C. Fred. Fawcett, Upper Sackviile, 1913 
350 Bushels, State Farm, Massachusetts, 1913 
ON HOME-MIXED FERTILIZER 
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ALL FF.RTIL17.ER MATERIALS—NITRATE OF SODA. POTASH 
JSALTS, ACID PHOSPHATES, BASIC SLAG. ANIMAL AMMONIATES 
NITRATE AGENCIES CO., 106 Pearl Street, NEW YORK 
