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THE RURAL NEW-YORK E 1-? 
May 16, 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
We still get occasional letters from 
people who, either by accident or design, 
neglect to sign their names. For various 
and sufficient reasons it is impossible for 
us to give attention to such letters. If 
the subject is not important enough to 
you to justify the signing of your name 
to what you have to say about it, then 
let the subject rest. 
There are others, I presume, like the 
Sterling Debenture Corporation scamps, 
who wish you would suspend publica¬ 
tion. But keep up your good work. 
Scare the scamps. E. V. 
New Jersey. 
It is not a particularly easy job to 
scare the scamps. So long as the people 
put up easy money on their schemes the 
scamps will take chances; but we want at 
least to protect our own people and 
others when we can. Now and then the 
scamps get a jail sentence, but the people 
never get back the money they give up 
to them. 
The Record-Herald has decided to 
eliminate liquor advertising from its 
columns. It will fulfil its existing con¬ 
tracts to print this class of advertising 
and having done that it will accept no 
more. 
Advices from down-State indicate that 
the women of Illinois, newly enfran¬ 
chised, will vote hundreds, possibly thou¬ 
sands, of saloons out of Illinois villages, 
towns and cities next Tuesday. Every 
important city in the State except Chi¬ 
cago, Peoria and East St. Louis will vote 
on local option. Anticipating this elec¬ 
tion. the Record-Herald’s announcement 
is believed to carry much significance re¬ 
garding the drift of sentiment on the 
liquor question in Illinois.—Chicago Dis¬ 
patch. 
Publishers give up the revenue from 
liquor and other objectionable forms of 
advertising reluctantly; but the list of 
clean publications is growing with or 
without the ballot. Women’s influence 
will always be on the side of cleanliness 
and decency. 
^ our letter with check in settlement 
of my claim against Adams Express re¬ 
ceived. I thank you for the interest you 
took in this matter and am pleased to 
know that in The It. N.-Y. the common 
people have a court of last resort. I 
am enclosing $2.30 for two new and 
three trial subscriptions. k. h. b. 
Massachusetts. 
That puts the obligation on us. Our 
people usually do their part and throw 
in a little for interest and good luck. 
I saw an advertisement in a local 
paper wanting women to do sewing at 
home. I answered it and got a reply by 
return mail offering good wages for mak¬ 
ing aprons. They wanted $3 at once 
for goods, and would pay me $2 per hun¬ 
dred and pay for goods. My bill was 
$14. I have heard nothing since. The 
address was Supply Douse, Cleveland, 
Ohio. Can you help me? e. l. 
New York. 
Our letters addressed to the United 
Supply House were returned stating they 
had moved and left no address. All these 
work-at-home concerns are fakes and 
about the meanest fakes we know. They 
scheme to cheat the invalids and cripples. 
A. D. Bradley & Co., 193 Reade Street, 
this city, received shipment of eggs from 
one of our subscribers but neglected to 
send check for $24 to cover same. The 
information now is that they have moved 
and we are unable to lxate them. Bear 
them in mind if they solicit shipments 
from another address later. 
Joseph Wewer and Rudolph Menzer, 
saloonkeepers at Washington Ave. and 
103d St., the Bronx, were sentenced yes¬ 
terday to Blackwell’s Island for a year 
and a day each by Judge Thomas in the 
Federal District Court for using the 
mails to sell “love powders” and “mys¬ 
tic rings.” They were convicted on the 
testimony of “Professor” Aspra Gatalica, 
known as Frank Serkulj. alleged leader 
of the conspirators. Serkulj pleaded 
guilty and said that Wewer and Menzer 
furnished the circulars and stamps and 
got most of the profits.—Daily Paper. 
Farmers do not run into the mystic 
game very much; but it may interest 
them to know for what purpose their 
mail service is used at times, and what 
progress the department is making to 
confine it to legitimate uses. 
I had over 30 replies to my 
advertisement, and so secured 
at less than 50% of cost 
New York. 
bone cutter 
a good one 
originally. 
II. w. II. 
This refers to a little notice for a sec¬ 
ond-hand bone cutter in Subscribers’ Ex¬ 
change. It would be too much to expect 
that every person would find just what 
he wants or find a customer for what he 
wishes to sell, through this department; 
but there are 160,000 members in The 
It. N.-Y. family, and each paper seems to 
be read by five people on an average, so 
it would seem that the requirements 
were broad enough to satisfy any situa¬ 
tion. 
I wish you would see if you can col¬ 
lect the enclosed bill for me. The Key 
City Nursery Company, ISO Bennett 
Street, Dubuque, Iowa, ordered these 
plants from me last Spring. I shipped 
them on April 12 and they promised to 
pay for them June 1st. I have sent them 
several bills but they have not paid nor 
have they answered my letters. B. P. 
Delaware. 
This was a small bill of $3.50, but with 
such a record none of our people will 
want to ship plants on orders from the 
Key City Nursery Co. We were unable 
to get any reply to our letters and the 
collection was not made. 
Enclosed you will find a slice of fresh 
bacon. Please roast the same and serve 
to your numerous family of subscribers. 
Connecticut. A. A. 
This is a proposition by Mr. N. W. 
Bacon, 120 Boylstou Street, Boston, 
Mass. lie wants to give our friend a 
city lot all for nothing. With the free 
lot he throws in enough guff to arouse 
the vanity of the average man, but he 
seems to have made this “selection” of a 
distinguished citizen without taking the 
pains to get acquainted with his man. 
Please place my name on your records 
as a member of Dr. Ulman’s “Fake De¬ 
tection Association.” I hope the mem¬ 
bership will run into millions. 
New York. c. n. c. 
The name is recorded. A remarkable 
thing about the charter members of this 
association is the high class of business 
and professional men and farmers who 
send in their names. The number does not 
increase so very fast, but the high stand¬ 
ing and intelligence of those who signify 
their willingness to become members is 
significant. 
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Mr. Frederick G. Gammeck of West 
Hartford, Conn., testified to a personal 
experience in the libel suit of F. O. 
Groesbeck, Hartford, Conn., against The 
R. N.-Y. in the Federal Court last month. 
Mr. Gammeck told Mr. Groesbeck that he 
expected to buy a breeding cockerel from 
a man named William Davis. Groesbeck, 
so Mr. Gammeck testified, claimed that 
he knew Davis and could buy the bird 
cheaper than Gammeck. Later Groes- 
beck reported that he could get a bird 
for $2 or one for $3; or a still better one 
for $5; and the latter was ordered. The 
bird, however, proved unsatisfactory and 
after repeated efforts to get an adjust¬ 
ment through Groesbeck, Mr. Gammeck 
got in touch with Mr. Davis, and found 
that the bird was an ordinary mongrel, 
and that Groesbeck paid $1.50 for it. 
Gammeck found that he paid Groesbeck 
a profit of $3.50 on a $1.50 rooster. 
It is possible to get one or two sym¬ 
pathizers of crooks on»a jury of 12 men 
anywhere; but thank goodness it has not 
yet been demonstrated that it is possible 
to find 12 crook sympathizers in one case. 
I have been confined to the house four 
months with neuritis, and am just able to 
hang on to a pencil with my left hand, 
but I want to ask what you know about 
this medicine, Sanatogen. I had a little 
faith in it, seeing it advertised in the 
Christian Herald and recommended by 
such men as Henry Watterson and John 
Temple Graves, but before buying it I 
consulted a nerve specialist who had been 
called in my case. I enclose a letter tell¬ 
ing what he thinks of it, also a letter 
from the Bauer Chemical Company. 
Pennsylvania. l. l. 
The letter from the nerve specialist 
said “Sanatogen” had been carefully 
analyzed and that it was simply cot¬ 
tage cheese, its only virtue being the 
fact that it is harmless, and that it had 
absolutely no medicinal value. While 
the letter from the proprietors of “San¬ 
atogen” intimated that the preparation 
would cure tired nerves, the only definite 
thing in it is the information that “San¬ 
atogen” may be had from druggists in 
three sizes, at $1, $1.90 and $3.60. 
It was our previous information that 
“Sanatogen” contained some combination 
of phosphates in addition to the cottage 
cheese, and that the cost of the materials 
of the dollar size was about eight cents 
at the outside. We have never found a 
chemist or a physician to credit it with 
any medicinal value. 
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