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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 29, 
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I AM enclosing you one dollar for a 
year’s subscription to your magazine. 
The 10 weeks I have received it has 
proved it to be a very satisfying weekly 
visitor. While all of its departments are 
good the calcium from the ‘‘Publisher’s 
Desk” is particularly pleasing to me, as 
the times demand that some paper should 
have a good straight stiff backbone in¬ 
stead of the usual one shaped like the $ 
mark and of the consistency of fresh put¬ 
ty, as is all to common. E. A. p. 
New Hampshire. 
We are particularly proud of the re¬ 
newals from these 10 weeks’ subscrip¬ 
tions. Farm paper publishers for the 
most part have abandoned them on the 
ground that they do not pay. It is true 
that there is an actual money loss on 
every 10 weeks subscription. The cler¬ 
ical work alone is as much as on a year¬ 
ly subscription, and actually exceeds the 
10 cents. The only way to make 10 
weeks subscriptions profitable is to give 
a service that farmers do not find in 
other papers, so that they renew for a 
year and become regular patrons of the 
paper afterwards. This and similar cor¬ 
respondence coming to us in every mail 
shows that the farmer realizes the situa¬ 
tion and appreciates a real service in his 
interest. The prompt renewal of annual 
as well as 10 weeks subscriptions speaks 
with even more convincing evidence than 
the special letters like the above. Some 
years back, when we formulated this ser¬ 
vice into a department of the paper, it 
was criticised and ridiculed. Even yet 
we occasionally see a scoff and a sneer 
from the advertisers who are not per¬ 
mitted to use our columns, and from pub¬ 
lishers who are obliged to defend them. 
Of late there have been a few feeble at¬ 
tempts at imitation, but these serve only 
to emphasize the dollar mark backbone re¬ 
ferred to above. An occasional show of 
a petty weakling or the boisterous crit¬ 
icism of an already discredited concern 
will not constitute a service of any great 
benefit to the public. It is easy enough 
to turn down a $2 advertisement, but few 
publishers can refuse a .$2,000 order with 
equal indifferencee, and until he gets so 
that he can do so, the dollar sign will be 
his mark of perfidy. No man can serve 
two masters. The publisher who know¬ 
ingly takes advertising money from a dis¬ 
honest or deceitful advertiser cannot ren¬ 
der a faithful service to his subscriber. 
None of us can hope to be perfect, but 
the reader will excuse the errors if they 
know the purpose is right. The publish¬ 
er is, however, under constant and in¬ 
telligent review. Thirty years ago blus¬ 
ter and bray and pretense went a long 
way. They do not go far now. Today 
the farmer can read between the lines, 
and he knows the difference between ser¬ 
vice and palaver. 
I would be willing to join Dr. TTlman’s 
Anti-Fake Association if you will kind¬ 
ly send my name to that department. I 
certainly am willing to do my part in 
scaring out the fraudulent advertisers. 
Pennsylvania. A. c. 
The Anti-Fake Club is growing nicely. 
Every name that comes in now will be 
charter members. The permanent organ¬ 
ization will be formed in the Fall; and 
every person who is willing to report de¬ 
ceptive advertising and to protest to pub¬ 
lishers against them, and if the publish¬ 
ers persist, to refuse to accept the paper, 
will be eligible for membership. 
Enclosed find pamphlet of the Electro¬ 
chemical King Co., Toledo, O., that was 
handed to me by a business man of a 
nearby town. After looking at a page 
or two I concluded it was another “fake.” 
I would like to know your views of the 
subject, expressed through the columns 
of The R. N.-Y. c. h. a. 
Ohio. 
The booklet enclosed proposes to cure 
anything from cancer, paralysis or rheu¬ 
matism to loss of hair T>y the use of this 
electro chemical ring, which seems to 
rival the magic wand of fairy tales. This 
is too palpable a fake to require further 
comment. 
About the middle of September, 1013, 
an agent of the Syracuse Portrait Co., 
Syracuse, called at my home and my 
daughter gave him a cabinet picture to 
be enlarged. She also signed a contract 
with them which stated that the portrait 
would be delivered about October 15. We 
did not receive it, so wrote to the com¬ 
pany Nov. 1, and received a letter stat¬ 
ing that it would be delivered November 
16: have written to them since and asked 
them to send me the cabinet picture or 
the enlarged portrait but have had no 
reply. The picture was very valuable to 
me. Can you help me? o. s. B. 
Massachusetts. 
The above is the usual experience of 
those giving orders to agents of the so- 
called portrait houses. They are as much 
to be avoided as the smooth-tongued tree 
agent. We have written several letters to 
the Syracuse Portrait Co. in behalf of 
the subscriber, but have been entirely 
ignored. Farmers will do well to show 
agents of this kind the door as soon as 
they begin to talk and if the agent delays 
taking his departure call the dog. 
April 8th, 1014, I shipped to E. G. 
Fisher, Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, 
N. Y., two baskets containing 36 I. It. 
duck eggs for which Mr. Fisher paid 
me $3. April 12 Mr. Fiisher wrote me 
the card herewith enclosed to the effect 
that he has received but one basket. In 
reply to his card I shipped him on April 
16th another basket containing 18 duck 
eggs instead of the one supposed to be 
lost, and entered claim against the Ex¬ 
press Co. for the same. The Express Co. 
show that both baskets of the first ship¬ 
ment were delivered on the 10th and 11th 
of April. See papers herewith enclosed. 
I have requested Mr. Fisher to pay for 
the extra basket of eggs but can get no 
satisfaction from him. Will you kindly 
take the matter up with Mr. Fisher and 
see what you can do for me? 
Pennsylvania. H, .T. V. D. 
The express company’s receipts accom¬ 
panying leaves little doubt that all the 
shipments of eggs were delivered, but 
Mr. Fisher ignores our appeals to his 
sense of fairness and honesty in H. .T. 
Y. D.’s behalf. This is another poultry 
case where the seller gets the short end 
of the deal. 
I am greatly obliged to you for your 
endeavor in my behalf. Truly your paper 
is a public benefactor, and deserves every 
recognition. I had given up hope and am 
the more grateful. a. o. 
Massachusetts. 
This refers to the collection of $6.40 
from Adams Express Company for egg 
breakage in three shipments. Claim was 
declined to shipper and at first to us, but 
was just and clear proof of the loss, and 
we were in position to insist on settle¬ 
ment. 
We received our eggs to-day (July 3) 
ordered from It. J. Gibbons, Mt. Holly, 
N. .1., June 5. Some look like duck eggs, 
some bantam, some It. I. Reds and others 
had the appearance of having been in a 
nest for a week. What do you think of 
that for “Young’s strain S. C. W. Leg¬ 
horns” advertised by Mr. Gibbons? 
Maryland. w. n. w. 
I sent $4 to R. .T. Gibbons, of Mt. 
Holly, N. J., for 100 Young’s strain S. C. 
W. Leghorn eggs, advertised in your issue 
of May 30. Did not receive the eggs for 
about three weeks. Some of the eggs 
were quite highly colored, something I 
have never seen in Leghorn eggs. Air. 
Gibbons, in his advertisement, agreed to 
deliver the eggs, but I had to pay 66 
cents express. He also advertised free 
valuable instructions for feeding, forcing 
and getting eggs, but I failed to receive 
any such. I wrote Mr. Gibbons in re¬ 
gard to this shipment, and I am enclosing 
the card I received in reply. Under the 
circumstances I do not feel at all sure 
whether I have Young’s strain of Leg¬ 
horns or simply eggs. e. j. c. 
Connecticut. 
On July 28 E. J. C. reported as fol¬ 
lows : 
Those eggs purchased from Air. Gib¬ 
bons have hatched, and they are an in¬ 
teresting looking lot of mongrels. Very 
few of them are clear white, some almost 
entirely black, some with black dots, some 
resemble Black Orpingtons and some R. 
I. Reds. 
In the case of W. II. AV. the eggs 
were returned and Air. Gibbons refunded* 
one-half the purchase price. He also re¬ 
funded $2 of the purchase price to E. J. 
C., and makes the excuse that being short 
of eggs he “let the order out.” AVe have 
report from Air. Gibbons’ neighborhood 
that his flock of hens consists of various 
breeds all running together, so that the 
eggs received by the complainants are 
just what might be expected from their 
own hens. The record Air. Gibbons has 
made in the above cases puts him in the 
class 'with E. E. Cooley, of Ransomville, 
N. Y., and E. F. AIcAvoy, Cambridge, 
N. Y. AVhether due to deliberate and 
wilful misrepresentation and fraud, or 
merely Air. Gibbors’ carelessness and 
indifference, the annoyance and loss to 
the complainants in question is such that 
we do not hesitate to advise our people 
to avoid Air. Gibbons in the future. 
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