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THE RTJR.A.12 NEW-YORKER 
Juno 27, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
T HE service we are able to render sub¬ 
scribers is appreciated more and 
more by them, as one after another gets 
in touch with it. Here is one: 
I am calling on my old stand-by, as it 
seems you are the only one I can depend 
on to help. MRS. J. w. E. 
West Virginia. 
Here is another from the same mail: 
As you seem to he about the best place I 
have yet found where good sensible ad¬ 
vice without frills will be given without 
hesitation, I kindly ask for the following 
information. B. M. c. 
Tennessee. 
It is no conceit on our part to print 
these letters. Personally we may not be 
as wise or as sensible or as well informed 
as some of the people who ask for in¬ 
formation ; but we have a great big or¬ 
ganization that stretches around the 
world. What we do not know ourselves 
we are in a position to find out. We can 
afford to get it because we get it for 1G0,- 
000 people. No man could afford to go 
to the expense to gather it for himself. 
Our people come back to us for it be¬ 
cause they have found our facilities are 
good to get what is reliable, and the lat¬ 
est and best to be had. You pay all we 
ask for it when you renew your subscrip¬ 
tion, and we are glad to have you call 
on us freely for it, at any time. 
I note that you have mentioned the 
Luther Burbank Society. Some weeks 
ago I was elected an “Honorary Member” 
of said society, and was all “swelled up” 
until I was asked to contribute $81 for 
a set of books! Not me! M. J. g. 
Iowa. 
Whoever has engineered the Burbank 
game understands that element of human 
nature known as vanity. We have prob¬ 
ably all got some of it; but it is so close¬ 
ly allied to honest pride and self respect 
that we may not accuse ourselves too 
severely provided we keep it within the 
$81 limit. Yet the success of the Bur¬ 
bank scheme depends on the number 
whose vanity exceeds the limit. 
Please enroll me as a member of the 
Dr. Ulman Club. s. A. c. 
New York. 
The Anti-Fake Club is growing. We 
are now quite sure of being able to ef¬ 
fect aii organization. We believe it will 
have a great influence in promoting clean 
publications, and honest advertising. 
The Postoflice Department has issued 
fraud orders against George Maurice and 
the Bond Certificates Club of Geneva, 
Switzerland, whose lottery literature has 
been addressed to some of our subscrib¬ 
ers. We sent the literature promptly to 
the Department. No time has been lost 
in cutting them out of the U. S. mails. 
We are glad to see the “fraud order” in 
use again. It is about the only effective 
means to shut off crooks before they get 
the people’s money. 
Is this proposition from the Colonial 
Motion Picture Corporation a fake? 
Connecticut. A. A. Y. 
This subscriber received invitation 
number 615 with the information that 
only 30 citizens of his State may acquire 
the ownership in the corporation and re¬ 
ceive the cash profits to be derived from 
them. Further particulars are promised 
on request; but we have enough. In our 
judgment the remainder of the citizens 
of Connecticut are fortunate that their 
vanity and avarice are secure from the 
allurements of the proposition. It is 
hard to prove that some things are fakes 
until they have had time to develop. The 
proof comes only after some one has lost 
his money; but we all have the privilege 
of an opinion based on experience; and to 
say the least, the proposition does not 
appeal to us. 
The Monaton Realty Investing Com¬ 
pany, New York City, was organized in 
1907. Their methods were criticised in 
The R. N.-Y. six years ago, and the 
nature of their paper securities explained. 
Two of its officers are now under bail for 
$2,500 on Federal indictments for al¬ 
leged misuse of the mail. It is charged 
that the losses to small investors amount¬ 
ed to $1,000,000. The company is in the 
hands of a receiver, but it is alleged that 
the property held by the company is mort¬ 
gaged for all it is worth. It is said that 
the most successful agents in selling the 
paper of the company were two ex-min¬ 
isters. They were particularly success¬ 
ful with servant girls and other people 
of small income. While these operations 
were under way, the president of the 
company, now under indictment, was 
drawing a salary of $10,000 a year. 
I received the inclosed letter from the 
Thwing Company, 141 West 45th Street, 
New York, today. I invested $50 in the 
Circle magazine when it first came out. 
Since the first failure, I have taken Tiie 
R. N.-Y.’s advice and have not sent an 
extra cent to Thwing, though he urges me 
frequently to do so. H. V. c. 
l’ennsylvania. 
The Circle magazine died. The Suc¬ 
cess Magazine died. Its only success was 
in getting easy money from credulous 
people. An attempt is now being made to 
reinstate the two corpses into one pub 
lication. There is no great objection to 
that except the scheme to get the old 
victims to put in more money on the 
theory of getting hack what is already 
lost. In this letter Mr. Thwing repeats 
the old E. G. Lewis scheme of one hun 
dred founders; and promises them one 
hundred per cent profit. Our correspon¬ 
dent is wise in taking his $50 loss good- 
naturedly, and in resisting Mr. Thwing’s 
allurements for further remittances. 
You will find enclosed a contract of 
the Wheatley Heights Estates which was 
given to me for my signature, but I did 
not sign it; thought I would consult you 
first. Their plan is to give the party of 
the first part the land free of any charge, 
and the said party is to pay them $5 
per front foot of each lots. The lots are 
25 by 100 feet. Will you please answer 
this in the columns of The It. N.-Y., so 
some one else won’t get “bit.” 
New York. w. s. M. 
This scheme of “giving away” one lot 
on condition that you buy one or more 
lots adjoining, and put up cash for alleged 
improvements, has been worn thread¬ 
bare by Long Island promoters. No one 
need have any delusions but what they 
will pay a price covering the present 
value and any possible increase for 10 
years to come for any lots bargained for 
with these promoters. A subscriber re¬ 
cently came to us for information re¬ 
garding two Long Island lots purchased 
in 1908 for $1,000. The best estimate 
we could get shows the two lots are 
worth about $500 now. This, we believe, 
is a fair sample of the basis of value of 
most of the Long Island land schemes. 
A large percentage of the lots on Long 
Island sold by promoters are later taken 
over by the State for taxes. 
If the present interest of farm women 
in their department of The R. N.-Y. con¬ 
tinues, Hope Farm, Publisher’s Desk and 
other departments of the paper will all 
have to acknowledge the Woman and 
Home section as most popular. The R. 
N.-Y. has always had loyal support from 
the good women of its visiting homes; 
but it never before received in a whole 
year the correspondence from women that 
now comes in a single month. It must 
be remembered that we are only just be¬ 
ginning the development of this work. 
We admit we do not know yet just what 
our women want; but we have an idea. 
We want this department of the paper 
to be just what the American farm wom¬ 
an wants; and as nearly as possible 
edited by herself. When you have fin¬ 
ished reading this number, write us free¬ 
ly what about it you like or dislike and 
what it should have to interest and help 
you. We have talent enough in the 
Rural family to edit the best woman’s 
magazine in the world; and we propose 
to find the talent, and to publish the mag¬ 
azine. 
The farmers of Millville, Cumberland 
County, N. J.. allege that they have been 
duped by a Philadelphia concern which 
last Spring signed an agreement Avith 
them to act. as their commission agent in 
the city markets and eliminate the mid¬ 
dlemen. The farmers claim that they 
paid $50 each to join the combination 
and agreed to turn over to the agent 
all their produce. The farmers Avho 
shipped to the commission men their 
strawberry crops have just learned that, 
instead of being sold at a good profit, the 
fruit was sold to canners in other parts 
of the county. Some of the farmers say 
that under the new system they received 
an average of $2.50 per crate, while in 
previous years their returns have been 
from $3.50 upward.—Local Paper. 
We cautioned New Jersey farmers 
against a scheme of this kind during the 
past Winter. Marketing his products is 
the most difficult problem that the farm¬ 
er has to solve. So long as he leaves this 
work to others, so long he may expect 
losses. When he undertakes the work in 1 
a modern way for himself he may expect 
some measure of success. When pro¬ 
ducers organize themselves for their own 
benefit, they can well afford to put up 
$50 or more to do business; but when 
farmers permit themselves to bo organ¬ 
ized by schemers for the benefit of schem¬ 
ers, and put up $50 to finance the scheme 
to swindle themselves, they must expect 
to reap the fruit of their OAvn folly. 
J. J. D. 
Cleaning a Cistern. 
A DVISE me about my cistern. It is 
cement and under ground, out of 
doors. The Avater is not used in 
Winter, and when the family comes back 
to the country in Spring the cistern is 
always full, but the water smells as 
though there were something dead in it. 
As a matter of fact every time it is 
cleaned there is something dead in it, 
usually a rat or two. z. n. c. 
Bernardston, Mass. 
Cisterns for the storage of water to be 
used for drinking and cooking purposes 
are unsatisfactory, at best, as they are 
very liable to contamination through 
leaky walls, and always contain more or 
less organic matter and other impuri¬ 
ties carried doAvn from the lower layers 
of the air and from roofs, gutters, etc., 
by the rain water. Where the walls are 
of brick or concrete and are vermin 
proof, and. the top is screened, A r ermin 
may find entrance through the inlet or 
outlet pipes, and these should be 
screened also. Cistern water may be 
greatly improved by flitering it through a 
Avail of porous brick made to divide the 
cistern into tAVo compartments, or it may 
be made to pass through an outside filter 
of sand before being admitted to the cis¬ 
tern. Certain chemicals are also added 
to impure water to purify it for domestic 
use; among them being alum (alumina 
sulphate) and potassium permanganate. 
About six grains of the former to the 
gallon of water are added and this re¬ 
sults in a coagulation of the impurities 
which then settle to the bottom and per¬ 
mit the purified water to be draivn from 
above. A shunt by Avhich the first rain 
falling upon the roof may be diverted 
from the cistern will also keep out a 
great deal of dirt. Underground cisterns 
should be well ventilated and the water 
may be aerated by churning it up and 
down, to its improvement. If you can¬ 
not filter the water of your cistern, I 
Avould suggest that you, at least, make 
arrangements with some trustworthy per¬ 
son to empty and thoroughly clean the 
cistern, and also to clean the roof and 
gutters supplying it, early enough in 
each season to insure your family a sup¬ 
ply of comparatively clean and fresh 
water for the Summer. Care should be 
taken to haA r e no privy vault near the 
cistern and slops should not be thrown 
upon the ground in its vicinity. Boiling 
the water from it for five minutes will 
render it safe from any disease germs 
Avhich may have found access to it. 
M. B. D. 
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