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the rural rew-yorker 
December 11, 1915. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
It might be of interest to your subscrib¬ 
ers to know agents of the International 
Automobile League have been operating 
in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick for 
the past year, but have only just opened 
up in St. John, and have already been 
brought up with a short turn, as they 
are now before the courts on a charge of 
“obtaining money under false pretenses.” 
New Brunswick. R. D. p. 
Evidently salesmen giving vent to 
*‘guff” and misrepresentation are not 
treated with such tenderness across the 
line as in the United States. We are 
obliged to take off our hats to the Cana¬ 
dians in a good many respects. We are 
promised a report when the case is heard 
for the benefit of our readers. 
I received check from the express com¬ 
pany for the shipment of eggs to New 
York commission house, and thank you 
very much for your efforts in my behalf. 
I will surely not use their company again, 
and perhaps I shall avoid waiting rive or 
six months for my money. I am enclos¬ 
ing two trial subscriptions for your paper. 
New Jersey. J. h. l. 
In many bases farmers cannot take 
this attitude. There is just one express 
company out of their town and they are 
obliged to use it. Where there is any com¬ 
petition shippers will surely discriminate 
in favor of the company making the few¬ 
est mistakes, or, at least, correcting 
errors with some degree of promptness. 
I desire to congratulate you on the fact 
that you publish a clean honest paper. I 
look in vain in its columns for such mat¬ 
ter as absolutely free automobiles, sewing 
awls, dinner sets, lace curtains, lamps, 
violins, watches, suits of clothing, talking 
machines, jewelry, even hog oilers, all ab¬ 
solutely free given away. To read some 
of the things that are called rural publi¬ 
cations one would think all farmers had 
wool growing all over them. 
IIow people with any self-respect will 
subscribe for these papers is a psycholog¬ 
ical puzzle. They insult the intelligence, 
they are absolutely dishonest. The 
American farmer is expected to stand al¬ 
most anything. j. G. 
Pennsylvania. 
This subscriber is a good worker in the 
Anti-Fake Club, whether he is a farmer 
member or not. The farmer has stood for 
a lot of things, but he doesn’t stand with¬ 
out hitching these days as restfully as he 
did in the past. Like many others he has 
been learning and moving ahead. The ad¬ 
vertising columns of some of the papers 
are bad enough yet; but there are few, if 
any, of the farm papers that would dare 
publish the line of fake and fraudulent 
advertisements which they published 25 
years ago. 
Inclosed is the note which I received 
from the Consumers’ Butter & Egg Co. 
I don’t know that it is any good, but 
thought I would send it to you and see 
what you could do, thinking that as it 
was payable at the office of Max Marx it 
would be collectable. M. MCG. 
New York. 
When this concern went through bank¬ 
ruptcy some two years ago, and the prop¬ 
osition was made to accept a small pro 
rata cash payment and two-year note for 
the balance, we counselled acceptance, al¬ 
though we doubted the value of the notes, 
as no assurance was given that they 
would be taken up at maturity. The 
Brooklyn store was discontinued, and we 
understand the proprietor, Mr. C. R. 
Tompkins, is now located at South Day- 
ton, N. Y. As yet we have not found 
any disposition to lift the notes, and the 
attorney, Mr. Marx, has been unable to 
get any response from Mr. Tompkins. 
Those who received the cash payment 
may consider themselves fortunate, and 
charge the note up to profit and loss. 
The experience shows the advisability of 
insisting upon satisfactory references in 
all transactions. We will gladly look up 
any concerns for our people. 
Enclosed please find a letter from 
Everywoman’s Decorating Co. of Buffalo, 
N. Y. I would like to know if they are 
reliable .or not. Please send answer by 
return mail. MRS. a. t. 
New York. 
This is just another work-at-home 
scheme. The proposition is very inno¬ 
cent and very liberal and promises a lu¬ 
crative income for work in the way of 
decorating cushion tops, drapes and nov¬ 
elties. The joker appears in the third 
from the last paragraph of the printed 
letter, in which the subscriber is asked to 
send a deposit of $4 as a guarantee of 
good faith to cover the cost of the mate¬ 
rials, and that the work will be satisfac¬ 
tory after the applicant is taught. If 
anyone who has sent money to any of 
these work-at-home houses in this way 
has ever received a return of their de¬ 
posit, or received any pay for any work 
done, we have yet to hear of the case. 
All these propositions, to furnish work 
to be done at home, we have found to be 
merely a swindling scheme. The object 
is to dispose of materials of some kind on 
the pretext that women in the country 
can earn money by doing certain work. 
Country women should beware of all 
these work-at-home schemes, and our sub¬ 
scribers can help to eliminate this swin¬ 
dle from their local papers by protesting 
to their publishers against carrying such 
fake advertising. Use Anti-Fake stamps. 
The 35% Automobile Supply Company, 
Inc., dealers in auto supplies at 148 
Duane Street, has made an assignment to 
Archibald Palmer. The company had a 
capital stock of $100,000; Bernard L. 
Touroff is president, and Samuel Crystal 
is secretary, and had a retail stole at 
1765 Broadwav up to September 15. The 
liabilities are $78,000, and nominal assets 
of $30,000 to $40,000.—Daily paper. 
We have had many complaints from 
subscribers regarding dealings with the 
above concern. Its very name was con¬ 
ceived in deception. The public cannot be 
fooled by any such suggestive name and 
the company well deserves its fate. These 
“gyp” supply houses are a menace to 
both automobile owners and the legiti¬ 
mate houses in the trade. 
I shipped Edward M. Shell, Fort 
Wayne, Ind., 116 bushels berries at $3.25 
per bushel, and he has settled for all but 
three shipments. In the shipment of 
August 11 I sent one bushel of plums, 
and I made him no definite price on them 
and told him to do the best he could. 
Will you take up this matter with him? 
Ohio. 0 . H. K. 
In advance Mr. Shell promised to pay 
daily. He wrote the shipper acknowledg¬ 
ing the indebtedness and promised to pay, 
but did not keep his promise. To our de¬ 
mands for payment he makes no re¬ 
sponse. Looking back over our record we 
find that in 1910 one of our subscribers 
sent E. M. Shell, Ft. Wayne, Ind., berry 
shipments for which he neglected to pay. 
We undertook to make the collection and 
learned that Mr. Shell was spending a 
year in the Federal Penitentiary at 
Leavenworth, Kan., for swindling ship¬ 
pers in a similar way. Our information 
described him as “the best specimen of a 
crook that Indiana ever turned out.” 
From the present report of his trans¬ 
action with the Ohio subscriber, Mr. 
Shell, if the same party, has not re¬ 
formed. 
You seem to help people out of trou¬ 
ble. I wish you would try to help me. 
I bought 10 shares of the People's Co¬ 
operative Union, with the understanding 
that it was all right. I haven’t heard 
from them, and tried to look them up, 
but I cannot find them. t. b. 
New Jersey. 
We were unable to locate the People’s 
Cooperative Union, and it is evidently 
a cooperative movement minus the 
cooperation. At any rate, pass by all 
these inducements to invest your money. 
Keep it at home, where you can have an 
eye on it, and know what you are getting. 
Last year the Publishers’ Circulating 
Service Company, 1829 Lytton Building, 
Chicago, Ill., and the Publishers' Circu¬ 
lation Agency at 340 Nassau St., New 
York, loomed up large, and received 
money for magazines which were never 
received. Investigation showed the con¬ 
cerns were not known and our letters 
were returned. 
Clarence E. Eddy, poet-prospector, was 
arrested Friday on the charge of obtain¬ 
ing money under false pretenses from J. 
M. Burkliardt and Edward Sehoppe 
through the alleged sale to them of 27,000 
shares of Cash Box Mining company 
stock for $650. He was released on a 
bond of $2,000. 
The alleged stock deal took place about 
a week ago. It is claimed by Mr. Burk- 
hardt ar.d Mr. Sehoppe that the stock of 
the Cash Box Company is worthless since 
the corporation had failed to pay its an¬ 
nual license tax in Idaho, and therefore 
was defunct in the eyes of the law. 
The Cash Box mine is in the Bonanza 
district, on Wood River, about 80 miles 
from Mackay. The property has been 
under the control of Mr. Eddy several 
years. Mr. Eddy is known as the dis¬ 
coverer of the Lost Packer mine, in the 
Tintic district.—Boise, Idaho, News. 
And still we have reports from readers 
that they have purchased stock in one or 
another of these mining, oil or land 
schemes. Invariably to the investor at a 
distance the result is loss and the mine, 
oil well or land classed as worthless. 
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