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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 9 , 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
My mother, Mrs. M. J. Warren, who 
is now 84 years of age, was induced by 
representations through the mail, and by 
agents, to pay in to the E. G. Lewis 
concern of University City, Mo., sums of 
money covering a period of five or six 
years. A payment of $52 was made, 
which payment was completed in 1910; 
this sum of money was obtained from my 
mother by representations that if she 
joined the American Woman's League 
she would be entitled to a home as long 
as she lived; the home was to be com¬ 
pleted in three years from the time of 
her final payment of the membership fee. 
Lewis induced my mother to return to 
his institution all papers and correspond¬ 
ence that had passed between his concern 
and her, even to the money-order re¬ 
ceipts that she had saved. All my moth¬ 
er has to show for the money she paid 
into the “American Woman’s League” is 
the inclosed certificate No. 21648, and a 
letter dated June 21st. 1911. I am in 
poor circumstances myself, and my 
mother needs a great deal of care and at¬ 
tention. If there is any possible way 
that this man can be made return this 
money to my mother, I will greatly ap¬ 
preciate the same. m. d. s. 
Michigan. 
The women of the country sent Lewis 
over a million and a half dollars of money 
on this scheme. It is in evidence that 
during the time he was receiving it, he 
was losing $50,000 a month trying to 
publish cheap papers. lie had to keep 
the papers going in order to keep the 
scheme going, and the money flowing in. 
In all his schemes he got ten or twelve 
millions, and it is all lost to the victims. 
Just now he has another scheme some¬ 
where in California. If you have any 
money you want to put out on promises, 
Lewis will accommodate you any time. 
A manual for quack doctors, telling 
them how to get the greatest possible 
amount of money from the largest possi¬ 
ble number of patients, was found by 
United States Postoffice Inspectors to¬ 
day in a raid on the office of the 
Meyer Medical Company, whose proprie¬ 
tors were arrested on charges of using 
the mails to defraud. The manual tells 
how to hypnotize a patient and how to 
diagnose liis physical and more particu¬ 
larly his financial condition. The instruc¬ 
tions are devoted almost entirely to meth¬ 
ods of getting money quickly and cer¬ 
tainly. Much of the contents of the man¬ 
ual relating to diagnosis of the cases usu¬ 
ally treated by concerns of this class is 
unprintable under the postal laws. 
This description of the quack doctor 
manual reminds us of the Strout “Bug¬ 
gy-Seat Conferences,” addressed to the 
local agents for the sale of farms. This 
Meyer Medical Company has another 
significant suggestion. E. G. Lewis was 
at one time connected with it in some 
way, and always referred to Mr. Meyer 
as one of the first-class citizens of St. 
Louis, who took stock in the Lewis com¬ 
panies and who went on the stand read¬ 
ily to testify to Lewis’ good character, 
ability and good faith in separating wom¬ 
en from their money. In other words, 
Meyer was one of the business men of 
St. Louis who confirmed Congressman 
Ashbrook and Secretary Redfield in the 
belief that Lewis might have been a 
millionaire if the postoffice had permitted 
Lewis to go on robbing women and chil¬ 
dren. After hearing the Meyer testimony, 
or maybe it was before hearing it, Mr. 
Redfield expressed regret that he was not 
in on the Lewis deals. Lewis will now 
r.o doubt testify to the good character of 
Meyer, and Secretary Redfield will have 
another opportunity to keep a promoter 
out of jail. 
George F. Cole, engaged in the com¬ 
mission business at 131 South Market 
St., in this city, was arrested this morn¬ 
ing by Deputy United States Marshal 
Rubl on a warrant charging him with 
using the United States mails in a 
scheme to defraud. He was arraigned be¬ 
fore United States Commissioner Hayes 
at the Federal Building this forenoon 
and held in the sum of $2,500. Cole, the 
Government alleges, sent letters to fann¬ 
ers throughout the New England States 
and particularly New Hampshire, stating 
that he was ready to buy poultry, butter 
and eggs as well as other produce, prom¬ 
ising good prices. By this means, the 
Government contends, he was enabled to 
get shipped to his basement in the mar¬ 
ket district large quantities of produce, 
butter, poultry and eggs for which the 
Government asserts in its complaint he 
never intended to pay.—Local Paper. 
Mr. Cole has had experience with the 
courts before, liis trouble this time, it 
seems, grew out of a representation that 
a fire caused losses which made it im¬ 
possible for him to pay farmers for goods 
consigned to him. 11 is previous trouble 
grew out of an allegation that he caused 
notices to be sent farmers, who had 
shipped goods to him, that Mr. Cole was 
dead. We had many complaints against 
him some years back, mostly from Maine 
farmers; and we thought after the show- 
up of these complaints and the court 
record, that he would find few farmers 
again willing to ship goods to him. But 
this time he seems to have operated in 
another State. He says he might have 
made $100,000 if lie had been dishonest. 
This would indicate that he found no 
difficulty in inducing producers to consign 
goods to him. lie occupied a basement 
room in the market district. 
I shipped 10 bags of beans to J. F. 
Wygant, Washington Street, New York, 
upon representation that he would pay 
$1 per bag for them. I have never heard 
from him. I do not expect you to re- ' 
cover but just give the experience for j 
what it is worth. w. c. 
The commission house claimed it lost 
40 cents on this shipment, but as the 
report was not made until a year after 
the transaction, we could not work up 
much sympathy for the loss. The case 
was reported to the Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture, who now has authority to issue 
licenses or revoke them, and his view may 
be inferred from this later letter from 
the shipper: 
On January 21 I received money order 
for $6.60 for the beans according to my 
claim, deducting for bags and expressnge. 
Now I blame it all on you, for when I 
presented my claim I said I did not ex- , 
pect you to recover, but you went and I 
did it. and you see the outcome. I am 
in $6.60. Many thanks to you. w. c. 
The produce commission law and the 
Department of Agriculture were the prin¬ 
cipal factors in this settlement. 
We do not know who is engineering 
the promotion scheme under the title of 
The Luther Burbank Society, Santa 
Rosa, Cal., but he is a star performer. 
He is certainly capitalizing the Burbank 
notoriety for all it is worth. The scheme 
was first worked on the life member¬ 
ship dodge, each subscriber pledging him¬ 
self to pay a handsome fee for a set of 
books. Then an honorary membershhip 
was skillfully provided in ways to give 
no suspicion of what was coming, but 
now these “honorary” members begin to 
cry, so we are told, for recognition, and 
a plan is proposed to permit them to 
contribute $81 to the success of the 
scheme. What will be next we do not 
know, but opportunities for further con¬ 
tributions are not improbable. Indeed, 
we think them quite certain. 
In the drugstores and other shops of 
New York alleged Burbank seeds are sold 
at $1 a bunch, containing 12 packages. 
Inquiry at reliable seeds stores reveals 
the fact that with one exception these 12 
packets contain about one-half the 
amount of seed put up by responsible 
houses in each packet. In the Burbank 
collection you get 12 packets for $1. 
These seed packets usually retail for 10 
cents each, but when put up by the re¬ 
liable houses the packets contain about 
double the amount of seed. Besides, 
from the reliable houses you are sure to 
get carefully grown and tested varieties 
of seeds. From a concern with a scheme 
you are always guessing. I would not 
take chances on them if the seeds were 
a gift. 
Dr. Julian P. Thomas, head of the J. 
I*. Thomas Natural Food Company, of 
522 West 37tli St., who calls himself the 
inventor of the only sure remedy to cut 
the high cost of living, was arraigned 
yesterday before United States Commis¬ 
sioner Houghton and held in $5,000 bail 
on a charge of using the mails to defraud. 
Edmund Ilonvery, a postoffice inspector, 
complained that Dr. Thomas wrote to 
him urging his treatment for an ailment 
after the inspector had feigned symptoms. 
The doctor said he had brought himself 
to such a state of physical perfection on 
a diet of one raw onion, half a tomato 
and one of his raw wheat biscuits that he 
could lift 2.000 pounds, and the diet, he 
said, cost him less than 5 cents a day. 
The inspectors said Dr. Thomas’s gross 
revenue from his “factory” was $100 a 
day for the last five years.—Daily Paper. 
It is alleged that Dr. Thomas received 
letters describing the ills of patients, and 
prescribed for them without seeing the 
patients. It is said that people describ¬ 
ing normal conditions were also advised 
that they needed treatment, and that the 
fee was as high as $40. However this 
may be, the trade in raw biscuits seemed 
profitable. j. j. p. 
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