THE RURAL N1SW-YORKEli 
October 17, 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
I SHIPPED one ease of eggs, on June 
{), to Hess, Woodward & Freund, 204 
Callowhill Street, Philadelphia, l’a., 
commission dealers. The express com¬ 
pany traced and said they delivered it 
on June 10. As they did not send the 
check in payment right along I wrote 
them and told them I could not aftord 
to lose the amount, but they make no 
reply. What can you do for me? 
Delaware. Hits. n. w. s. 
This concern had only a limited capi¬ 
tal to start with, and if our advice had 
been asked we would not have recom¬ 
mended shipments to them. As it was 
we were unable to help the inquirer out, 
as the investigation now shows that they 
left the above address some two months 
ago, and we are not able to locate them 
at this time. 
Your comments on International Stock 
Food Company are in the right direction. 
That man Savage is flooding the country 
with flaming literature to catch the un¬ 
wary, not only now, but for years past, 
lie always has some free gift; but in the 
end is very careful to collect his price. 
Your show-up of fakes and frauds cer¬ 
tainly does much good. A. L. w. 
Ohio. 
Our farmers are pretty well able to 
discriminate between honest propositions 
and the fake article. They have two 
guides to the latter. They have too 
much friendship from people they do not 
know; and promises of big profits. The 
two signs usually go together. When 
some gift all for nothing is tacked on 
there is no longer any doubt of the char¬ 
acter of the proposition, nor should 
there be any hesitation about leaving It 
alone. 
was not strong and that the musical 
authorities on whose judgment we relied, 
stated definitely that music could not 
possibly be successfully taught by mail. 
The inquirer also asked why the school 
was not advertised in The R. N.-Y. 
We answer that for one reason we would 
not accept it. 
The contents of our letter evidently 
found its way to the school, and its pro¬ 
prietor replies that Mr. Dillon is an old 
fogy who wants to rule over the des¬ 
tinies of all mankind; that in his ad¬ 
vancing years he takes himself seriously, 
but that no one else does except possibly 
a few subscribers who are too lazy to 
think for themselves. Lastly he thinks 
it possible that Mr. Dillon has an ax to 
grind in the shape of a musical friend 
who would like to give instructions. So 
the correspondent comes back and wants 
to know who is working him to turn the 
grindstone. We cannot tell him anj 
more. We did not tell him not to patron¬ 
ize the school. lie asked our judgment, 
and we gave him our opinion. We 
asked nothing for it and would accept 
nothing. Perhaps it is worth no more 
than the cost. What we do not know 
about teaching music would make a book 
as large as the Bible; but we have no 
musical friend who wants to go to Ten¬ 
nessee to teach music. Our advice is 
based on information received from the 
leading musicians of the country. Here 
is one of them: 
In reply to your inquiry I would say 
that the teaching of music by corres¬ 
pondence is a farce and cannot possibly 
produce satisfactory results. The only 
branch of musical instruction which can 
be taught by correspondence is theory. 
FRANK DAMROSOH. 
Yours with check received from Adams 
Express company in settlement of ship¬ 
ment to Georgia. You have done me a 
great favor, not only now but also be¬ 
fore, greater than any other paper would 
have done, and as long as I have a dollar 
to spend for reading I shall not be with¬ 
out your publication. G. A. J. 
New Jersey. 
In regard to my claim against the Erie 
Railroad, which I placed in your hands a 
short time ago, 1 wish to say they have 
settled. I know for a fact that I would 
not have had the money without your 
aid—not for a year yet anyway. I thank 
you heartily for what you have done for 
me. i would just as soon try to farm 
without horses as without your paper. 
New York. u. f. 
Y’our letter and check for $7 received. 
Thank you very much indeed. I feel as 
though it was a present, for had I not 
given it into your hands I would have 
been out the whole $10. You may send 
me some of your trial envelopes and I 
will give them to friends. r. P. F. 
New York. 
Thanks for the check just received. If 
you had not sat in this game I would 
have received nothing, as they laughed at 
me before I applied to you. This is the 
second complaint I have made to you in 
twenty years and in each case you ef¬ 
fected a settlement. P. B. 
New York. 
Institute of Musical Art, New York. 
We think Mr. Damroseh pretty good 
authority on musical matters; but we 
may learn later that he too is an old 
fogy. 
The Interstate Milk & Creamery 
Company, formerly the Liberman Dairy 
Company, of New York City, holds 
leases of cooperative creameries at Rem- 
sen and Barncsville, New York, and con¬ 
tracts for milk produced in the neigh¬ 
borhood. They are reported about two 
and a half months behind in payment; 
and word was received at the creameries 
about the first of the month to make no 
further deliveries. It is said that the 
amount due producers is in the neighbor¬ 
hood of $40,000. The company does not 
seem to be rated in the commercial books. 
Chattel mortgage was reported on their 
city effects, and altogether the prospects 
for the producers in those places do not 
seem encouraging for a prompt settle¬ 
ment. These sections are well protected 
in so much as they own their own cream¬ 
eries in both places. The weakness is in 
extending credit beyond the safety time 
limit. The company has been reported 
slow, but the returns heretofore always 
I have delayed in thanking you for 
your service in getting tin money for the 
turkeys lost by the express company. My 
attorney kept at it, but got no reply and 
I gave it up as lost, but when The R. 
N.-Y. got behind them they were ready to 
settle. M. w. T. 
Virginia. 
Yours with check from Adams Express 
to hand, and I certainly appreciate yoin 
service. I enclose check for five 10-week 
subscriptions and 50 cents for me. I 
will try to get more subscribers for you 
soon to help run the list up to the 200,- 
000 you want, and think with the paper 
you have it ought to be in every farmer’s 
home. 'J'. S. G. 
Florida. 
The above half dozen letters are just 
samples of a flood of mail that comes to 
this department every week. They all 
suggest the little service that the paper 
is able to give subscribers in such cases. 
Y'ou may never have had occasion to use 
the service, but it is here for you in case 
you need it. In short, it is your service. 
Every subscriber has his part in creating 
it. Without the backing of a loyal list 
of subscribers no paper could give the 
service. So long as you are a member 
of Tiie R. N.-Y. family you may feel sure 
that you have helped secure redress for 
another farmer in cases like those re¬ 
ferred to above. 
I inclose a letter from the U. S. School 
of Music. It seems that you or they are 
misrepresenting things, and I would like 
to have your opinions further, w. f. 
Tennessee. 
Some time back this correspondent 
asked our opinion of the U. S. School of 
Music. We replied that our faith in it 
come, and the record favored the com¬ 
pany in the present instance. The re¬ 
petition of such experiences suggests 
caution in every case where milk dealers 
let settlements go past the date for pay¬ 
ment. j. j. D. 
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