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THE RUK.A.L, NEW-YORKER 
April 17, 1015. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Since the Post Office Department has 
put the oxypather out of business and 
sent the manager to prison, the Oxybon 
Co., at Chicago, Ill., manufactures and 
sells what they call an oxybon to cure 
all manner of diseases. The instrument 
is made of iron, nickel plated. 1J4 inches 
round and 5 1 /) long, with a cord attached 
at each end. One end is to be fastened 
to the wrist and one to the ankle, kept 
on not less than six hours. We consider 
it a rank humbug. It is the same as the 
oxypather; that was a small wooden box, 
and this is a metal instrument. I sent 
the oxybon to Postmaster-General Burle¬ 
son. Washington, D. C., with their ad¬ 
vertising matter, for examination and 
action. J. H. F. 
I ndiana. 
That was the proper disposition to 
make of the instrument. It took a long 
time to run down the oxypather. Per¬ 
haps this imitation will have a shorter 
run. As far as we have been able to dis¬ 
cover, you may as well attach a string to 
each end of a crowbar, and go to sleep 
with one string tied to your head and 
the other to your heels. If you had a 
headache going to bed and woke up with¬ 
out it you could credit the cure to the 
crowbar and strings with just as much 
reason as to credit a cure to one of these 
humbugs at $35 each. 
Tn response to an advertisement in 
our county paper I sent $10 for groceries 
to A. F. Cooke, manager of G. W. Mil¬ 
ler & Co., Olean, N. Y. In a few days I 
received acknowledgment from them 
signed by A. F. Cooke, manager, advis¬ 
ing that the money and order had been 
sent to the home office, the Cooperative 
Union, Windsor, Ontario, and if I did 
not receive the goods to take the mat¬ 
ter up with them. As the goods did not 
reach me I wrote the home office and they 
replied that this A. F. Cooke had no 
authority to secure orders or collect 
money for their account, but on the con¬ 
trary they had instructed him not to take 
orders for goods or collect for same. I 
venture to ask your assistance in this 
matter. w. t. r. 
New York. 
The advertisement offers sample as¬ 
sortments of groceries at reduced prices, 
and 25 pounds of sugar free, and a year’s 
membership in a cooperative association. 
It reads something like the old Globe As¬ 
sociation scheme, but we saw no reason 
then, and see none now, why one should 
join an association at $2 or any other 
price for the privilege of buying your 
groceries through them. This is not true 
cooperation. Many times the goods are 
not up to the standard. There is no way 
to get back the $10 our subscriber in¬ 
vested, but the experience will lead him 
to avoid such investments in the future. 
In all these offers of free sugar, you have 
to pay a high price for other things you 
don’t want to get with the sugar, and you 
can be sure that you pay well for all you 
get, when you get anything. 
I received this letter today from the 
Parisian Silverware Company. Montreal, 
Canada, Dept. prix. L. B. 2850. Please 
publish in The R. N.-Y. what you think 
of their proposition. B. B. s. 
Ohio. 
This old scheme of buying up old let¬ 
ters of country people and then making 
a pretense that the party has in some 
mysterious way won a prize or is to be 
made a present if he will only send a 
certain amount to pay for packing and 
carrying charges was worn threadbare 
before the Post Office Department shut 
down on the scheme as a fraud. In this 
case a set of silverware is to be sent on 
receipt of $1.48. The rubbish is prob¬ 
ably worth about 40 cents and the bal¬ 
ance is profit for the schemer. Whenever 
anything of value is offered for nothing 
it may be safely set down as a fraud, or 
a swindle. 
Enclosed find a letter from Up-To-Date 
Farming, Indianapolis, Ind.; also adver¬ 
tisement taken from Farm Journal. A 
friend of mine sent for the seeds as ad¬ 
vertised free in the Farm Journal, then 
got the letter to get the two subscribers 
to Up-To-Date Farming or they would 
send postage to send the seeds back. 
Should the friend keep the seeds or send 
them back? (I said keep the seeds.) 
Massachusetts. f. c. w. s. 
We agree with F. C. W. S.—the ad¬ 
vertisement offered 17 varieties of seeds 
free, the only condition being that the 
names of two neighbors be sent. If this 
condition was complied with the seeds 
belong to the party receiving them. But 
we would not advise planting seeds se¬ 
cured in this way—the cost of seeds from 
reliable seedsmen is so little that there 
is no reason to take chances with seeds ob¬ 
tained on a fake free offer of this kind. The 
publisher of Up-To-Date Farming is Mr. 
J. A. Everitt of American Equity Society 
feme, and also conducts a seed business 
sometimes under the name of O. K. Seed 
Store. When “Miracle wheat” was be¬ 
ing advertised a few years ago Mr. Ever¬ 
itt purchased a large amount of it from 
a prominent seedsman and sold it as 
“Marvellous wheat,” making ridiculous 
claims for it. On the strength of the 
new name and unwarranted claims Ever¬ 
itt charged $5 a bushel for the seed un¬ 
der the name of “Marvellous,” while 
other seedsmen were selling the same seed 
under its proper name “Miracle” at $3 
per bushel. To our mind little confidence 
can be placed in seedsmen-publishers who 
change the names of known varieties of 
seeds and cause to be published fake free 
seed offers. 
Dr. George A. Cardwell, former presi¬ 
dent of the American Telegraph Type¬ 
writer Company, and Adolph E. Benesch 
and Elias J. Beach, of the stock-brok¬ 
erage firm of Benesch & Beach, were 
found guilty last night by a jury in the 
federal court of using the mails to defraud 
investors in the stock of the Telegraph 
Typewriter Company. Pending his de¬ 
cision on motions for arrest of judgment 
and a new trial Judge Killits deferred the 
passage of sentence on the three defend¬ 
ants until the middle of June. In the 
meantime Dr. Cardwell and Benesch and 
Beach are out on bail.—Daily Paper. 
In 1912 sealed indictments were hand¬ 
ed down by the Federal Grand Jury 
against these promoters and the broker¬ 
age firm, operating through the Ameri¬ 
can Telegraph ’Typewriter Company. 
This company was reported to be a ten 
million dollar corporation, and the brok¬ 
erage firm sold some $200,000 worth of 
stock. Evidently these promoters did not 
take warning, but proceeded to get some 
more of other people’s money in a new 
proposition. We hope the warnings we 
have given on this particular proposition 
have saved our readers from investing 
their money with them. We look on all of 
them as speculative and extremely haz¬ 
ardous. 
I am again troubling you about col¬ 
lecting a little bill for me from _the Na¬ 
tional Importing & Mfg. Co. of 425 Broad¬ 
way, N. Y. You will see by their lotto” 
to me I deposited one dollar for sample 
book. I returned the book to them, 
which they have kept, and you will see 
by their letter to me what they say about 
it. I am a poor man with a family, and 
cannot afford to lose the dollar, and 
would be thankful to you for getting it 
for me. F. E. S. 
New York. 
We took the matter of this complaint 
up in the subscriber’s behalf with the 
National Importing & Mfg. Company and 
the firm refused to refund the dollar on 
the grounds that the book was not re¬ 
turned within the 30-day limit. No 
doubt the National Importing & Mfg. 
Co. are within their legal rights in refus¬ 
ing to return the money. The firm, how¬ 
ever, has the subscriber's money for which 
he has no value received, and the record 
of the transaction will serve as a warn¬ 
ing to others when dealing with this or 
other firms doing business on the same 
basis, to make sure that the article on 
which they expect refund of their money 
be returned strictly within the time limit 
specified; otherwise the money paid is 
forfeited, as has been in this case. 
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