1108 
October 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
A MAN named Dockham, from Reno, 
New, and a Row M. W. Fuller, from 
Moores, N. Y., are in Ibis section 
trying to sell stock from the Coertz Min¬ 
ing and Reduction Co., located near 
iteno. They want to engage me to intro¬ 
duce them. This Mr. Fuller I knew as 
a local preacher here some years ago, but 
’he proposition that they are working is 
a new one. Has it come under your no¬ 
tice, and can you endorse the plan? 
Rhode Island. M. T. B. 
A minister of the gospel ought to be in 
better business than helping promoters of 
mining schemes to get possession of the 
hard-earned savings of country people. 
Whether Mr. Fuller is an innocent dupe 
>f the promoters, or is deliberately con¬ 
spiring against the people of this com¬ 
munity for a share of the spoils, the re¬ 
sult is the same to those who may take 
his advice. We hope it is the former. It 
has been our experience that money en¬ 
trusted to mining stock promoters is just 
as effectively lost the moment the owner 
parts with it as though he put it in a 
blazing fire. 
I enclose a bill for eggs which is long 
overdue and kindly ask if you can be of 
assistance to me in collecting same. Rob¬ 
ert L. Turk is a lawyer who has elab¬ 
orate offices at 115 Broadway, New York, 
and I have no doubt is well able to pay 
for eggs he orders. I have sent bill and 
written him but receive no reply. 
New York. a. w. m. 
The bill amounts to $12. We were re¬ 
luctantly obliged to ask the attorney’s 
assistance in the collection, but he also 
was unsuccessful. Mr. Turk made him 
a number of promises, but failed to make 
good at any time. 
Notice of a judgment of $112.90 against 
Gertrude E. Meeker, to be recovered by 
the E. A. S trout Farm Agency, was filed 
in the Broome County Clerk’s office to¬ 
day. It was alleged that on Feb. 3.6, 
1911, a contract was made between Miss 
Meeker and the agency, in which it was 
agreed that the agency was to undertake 
the sale of a farm in Tioga County owned 
by Miss Meeker, and valued at $4,000. 
Should the property be sold to any buy¬ 
er not procured by the agency, the de¬ 
fendant was to pay to the agency in con¬ 
sideration of its having undertaken the 
sale as a withdrawal fee two per cent, 
of the net price, $4,000. Miss Meeker 
sold the property herself. She then re¬ 
fused to pay the two per cent, with¬ 
drawal fee. If was ordered that she, as 
the defendant in the action, pay the two 
per cent, withdrawal fee amounting to 
SS0 and $32.90 interest and costs.—Bing- 
hamton Press. 
Where the owner of a farm signs a 
contract to pay a commission whether 
the agent sells the farm or not the courts 
will probably enforce payment unless de¬ 
ception or fraud can be shown. However, 
any owner who does not have an oppor¬ 
tunity to know the contents of the con¬ 
tract or was deceived as to its contents, 
and these facts are set up as a defence, 
and proved the verdict would be in favor 
of the owner. Such have been the rulings 
of the past. 
I bought Sanatogcn on the strength of 
its advertising. I believe, with, the read¬ 
er who wrote you, that there is nothing 
in it. I inclose a page advertisement 
from a leading magazine. It is costing 
the public an immense amount of money. 
What can be done about it? C. L. c. 
Florida. 
Chemists say this has the food vain > 
of cottage cheese, and that the dollar size 
costs to prepare about eight cents. We 
have not found anyone to claim that it 
had any medicinal value. The advertis¬ 
ing seems to be very skillfully prepared 
and it is doubtful if any legal means 
could be used to stop it. If, however, 
ihe reading public would refuse to 
receive any publication that carried 
deceptive advertising, and wrote pub¬ 
lishers to that effect, refusing publications 
until the abuse was corrected, fake ad¬ 
vertising would soon disappear from the 
columns of most of our publications. 
I saved more than a year’s subscription 
on one order. I made a mistake and sent 
too much money for an order and com¬ 
pany failed to return it even after writ¬ 
ing them. So I wrote again and made 
mention of The R. N.-Y. They refunded 
the amount due at once. g. t. 
New York. 
It is, of course, difficult to say that 
this refund would not have been made on 
the second request without reference to 
The R. N.-Y., but it does no harm to 
have a friend at court, and we want this 
paper to be of service in any case where 
THE RURA I, NEW'-YORKi - 
the interest of its friends needs a cham¬ 
pion. 
I like your serious tone about making 
the farmer a real business man, bettering i 
the environment of the country, educating j 
him to his rights and giving him the self- 
respect that goes with a noble calling well 
followed. a. A. M. 
The above is from a teacher. We do 
not for a moment assume or pretend that 
The It. N.-Y". is the whole thing in de¬ 
veloping the type of farmer referred to. 
The country is full of just such farmers, 
but it is our privilege to encourage and 
inspire and allure the young and inex¬ 
perienced to these ideals. 
I have had all the agricultural papers, 
and keep paying for one or two others, 
but really The R. N.-Y. alone is worth 
the time it takes to read them ! I much 
enjoy every copy and count it a lucky 
day when a friend sent me a 10-week’s 
subscription a year or two since, which 
resulted in joining your family of “rubes.” 
You certainly know how to make an in¬ 
teresting and useful paper. Good luck to 
you ! c. E. E. 
Connecticut. 
We hope letters like this will encour¬ 
age our good friends to send in those 10- 
cent for 10 weeks orders for neighbors 
and friends who are not yet in The R. 
N.-Y. family. It is this interest of old 
friends that makes the service of the 
paper to subscribers possible. There is 
a distinct loss on every 10-eent order. 
The only way we can make them profit¬ 
able is to make a paper so serviceable to 
farmers that they become regular sub¬ 
scribers. Probably half of our present 
readers came first in that way. Y T ou send 
them in and we will try to furnish the 
service to keep them. Every additional 
name on the list increases the power and 
influence of the paper to help all of its 
patrons. 
James Bottenus, President of the 
James Realty Company, was arrested 
yesterday. Bottenus organized in 190(5 
the James Realty Company, with $500 
capital, and purchased thirty acres at the 
foot of the Wateliung Mountains, which 
lie advertised as Bound Brook Manor. 
Then Bottenus handled Grand View, 
“within walking distance of Somerville, 
N. J.” It was three miles from the sta¬ 
tion. It is charged that Grand View 
was advertised as having street cars and 
a sewer and curb system, although it was 
not even plotted. The lots were offered 
at $36 and then at $55. One device was 
to advertise in country newspapers that a 
lot would be given for the solution of a 
palpable “puzzle.” The successful com¬ 
petitors, it is alleged, were told that they 
liad won 20 by 100 foot lots, but that the 
municipality had imposed a restriction 
that no building should be put upon a 
lot less than 40 feet by 100. Consequent¬ 
ly they must buy an adjoining lot.—City 
Paper. 
The above item is given as confirma¬ 
tion of our previous show-tip of similar 
schemes. Near this section Ostrander 
worked his Lincoln land scheme some 
years ago. It would seem that a scheme 
like the above was lo transparent a trick 
that it would fail of its own weakness, 
yet it is reported that the promoter mad" 
•a nice living out of it for several years. 
You would do well to caution your 
readers against a gang of petty swindlers, 
who are making the rounds of the coun¬ 
try, trading on the name of the Cooper 
Union or Cooper Institute, soliciting or¬ 
ders for crayon photographs, collecting 
money in advance and taking with them 
portraits supposedly to be enlarged. If 
these people, who have been carrying on 
their nefarious work for many years, 
could be placed behind the bars, it would 
save their innocent dupes the loss of 
money and photographs of dear ones 
which cannot be replaced, as these photo¬ 
graphs are never returned. It is need¬ 
less to say that the victims, having part¬ 
ed with their money, never hear from the 
swindlers again. L. c. L. JOBDAN. 
Assistant Secretary. 
Cooper Union, New York. 
The crayon picture schemers seem to 
have renewed their activities of late. Re¬ 
cently we told of an experience of a 
Greene County farmer with a Utica con¬ 
cern, and complaints from other sources 
are frequent. The agents of these con¬ 
cerns do not generally insist on the whole 
advance payment at the time of taking the 
order. They rely on the sentiment of the 
people to pay to get the photograph back; 
and insist on the sale of a cheap frame 
at. a high price; or some other conces¬ 
sion before they give up anything. The 
only safe way is to refuse to have any¬ 
thing to do with them whatever. If you 
want a reproduction of a picture, there 
are reliable houses, who will be glad to 
have your order, and who will give you 
fair value for your money and indulge in 
no trickery. j. j. I). 
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