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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
In the oliorry-pluin hybrids I tliiiik that 
I have sometiiiii" oven more wonderful 
than the everbearing strawberries. Think 
of it. these little trees bear when only two 
years old. and the trees I want to send to 
yon will bear a fine erop of cherry-plnms 
the next year 'J’he fruit is like the big, 
sweet eherries. only .somewhat larger. 
Fruit is firm and will stand up well in 
shipi)ing to distant markets. _ People who 
liave seen my trees in fruiting and who 
have sampled the fruit, say that I have 
something that will sweep the country by 
storm, when folks in general once see and 
get a taste of them. I have been at work 
with the i»lnrn and cherry proposition for 
ji great many years, .and in i7iy new varie¬ 
ties I have several that are a great im¬ 
provement over the Compass, Sappa ami 
others of similar type. 
The above quotation is from a circular 
letter of (iardner Nursery Co., t)sage, 
Iowa. If Luther Purbank doesn’t look 
out Mr. Gardner will put him in the .shade 
as a horticultural “wizard.” The cl.aims 
for this cherry-idum reads very much like 
the “guff’’ Burbank and Childs put out on 
the Wonderberry during its brief career. 
The cherry and plum are both very de¬ 
licious fruit.s, but we shall continue to 
take them straight rather than ti-y the 
alleged mixtures as i)roposed by Gardner 
Nursery Co. 
Am I right in believing that the para- 
giaphs I have marked in Consolidated 
Mail Order (M.’s letter are no le.ss than 
snares and delusions? S. P. T. 
Maryland. 
Do you know of the Consolidated Mail 
Order Co., 175 Fifth Ave.. New York, 
Charles E. Force, president? I have a 
letter from him describing the rise of 
Sears, Iloebuck & Co. mail order house in 
Chicago, and offering to sell stock in this 
c'oncern. Do you think it a good invest¬ 
ment? w. <T. 6. 
Maryland. 
Evidently President Force considers 
Maryland a good field to cultivate on his 
mail order stock lu’omotion scheme. In 
the past dozen years there have been no 
less than 40 of these schemes in which 
country people have been asked to invest 
their savings. The .stock in trade of every 
one of them has been the succe.ss of Sear.s- 
Bocbuck & Co. Every one of these 
atteinjits to get money to finance a mail¬ 
order house that we have known 
about in this way has gone to the 
Avail, and those foolish enough to pait 
with their money have lost it. It Avould 
seem that in face of this record the itro- 
moters Avould find .some neAV argument to 
pull the money out of the pockets of their 
prospective victims. They use the' same 
old bait used by get-rich-quicic faktu's for 
25 years back. 
Some time in NoA’ember, 1915, I wrote 
to the M. <& P. Orthopedic Co., l.^ll Arch 
street, Philadelphia, for a circular for an 
extension shoe that would imike both feet 
look alike. Imstead of sending circular 
the iiresident, Henry Block, came in per¬ 
son. He examined my brace and said it 
Avas unfit for a slight old person to Avear; 
and shoAved me pictures of his Avonderful 
appliances, saying that I would be able to 
sit comfortably, could bend my knee, and 
cause the thigh bone to unite, and 
lengthen my limb, so that 1 Avould be able 
to Avalk Avithout a crutch. I consented to 
him taking measure for a brace. He then 
demanded $50 in advance, as the price 
Avas .$100, and the other payment to be 
made Avhen it had proven satisfactory. I 
then saw him again ]\Iarch, 1910, when he 
took a plaster cast of my limb. lie then 
brought the brace ■some time in ,Tune. 
After tinkering on it for several hours he 
insisted upon me Avearing it, but I could 
not. After fixing it again he made me put 
it on again, and told me to be persevering 
and Avear it. that it was perfect, and then 
asked for the other payment. I remon¬ 
strated, but he insisted that all that I had 
to do Avas to Avear it, which I did for one 
Aveek, until it stopped the circulation and 
lublied a running sore Avhich was very 
.stubborn to heal. I Avrote him again, lie 
came after 10 days, took the brace with 
him, and have not seen him since. lie 
noAv has the money, brace and one of a 
fivt-dollar pair of shoes belonging to me. 
I)o you think he is a fraud or an honest 
bluiness man. to take advantage of a 
crippled Avoman? Will you take up the 
leatter Avith him, and make him refund 
the money and shoe as he promised me? 
I hope that you Avill be able to do as much 
for me as you have done for others. 
Maryland. MRS. E. C. B. 
We can imagine nothing more worthy 
of condemnation than taking advantage of 
a crippled AVoman who is advanced in 
years in the manner described. Several 
letters in her behalf have been ignored by 
the IM. & P. Orthopedic Co. It is reason¬ 
able to conclude therefore that the charges 
of this woman are true in every respect; 
TShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.Tantiary 13, 19.17.j 
that the concern and its president, Henry 
Block, have no regard for their reputa¬ 
tion among country people. The experi¬ 
ence of this Avoman may save some other 
reader from falling into the clutches of 
this concern. 
I am glad to see at least one paper 
that is not afraid to warn its readers of 
the methods of doing business of the De¬ 
troit Engine Works. Detroit. Mich. I | 
bought an 8 horse-poAver engine from | 
them, and it Avas a Avorthless toy. Their 
guarantee is Avorthles.s. I am stopiiing all 
farm papei-s that run their advertisement, 
and it looks now as though TriE K. N.-Y. 
Avould be the only one I shall have left. 
New York. R. J. s. 
We predict the above subscriber will 
confine his agricultural reading to The 
Rural Neav-Yorker. Complaints about 
this concern and their engines have been 
continuous since the firm started adver¬ 
tising in the agricultural pre.ss. We have 
yet to learn of any other farm paper re¬ 
fusing their advertising. If any farm 
paper has refused the business and Avill 
notify us, we shall be glad to give the 
publi.sher credit and put him in touch 
Avith “R. J. S.” as a good prospect for a 
subscription. 
I enclose something AA'hich evidently 
deserves the attention of the Anti-Fake 
Club or the Publisher’s Desk. I Avas not 
aAvare my name Avas on a sucker list. 
Pcnn.sylvania. ii. B. B. 
The enclosure refers to a “sound, hon¬ 
est and stable” enterprise, the name or 
nature of Avhich is not mentioned, in 
Avhich you “have eA'crything to gain. 
Nothing to lo.so.” We are glad the 
Anti-Fake Club members are so famil¬ 
iar AA'ith investment propositions that 
they recognize the earmarks of these get- 
rich schemes. 
A fcAV years ago you collected a claim 
for us against the N. Y.. N. H. & II. R. 
R. Your success in convincing a poAA-- 
erful corporation that even an insigni¬ 
ficant shipper was entitled to fair treat¬ 
ment, emboldens me in asking your good 
offices in another case Avhere the claim is 
not large enough to compensate for the 
time I should have to lose while absent 
from my farm. December 21. 1914, I 
shipped 40 bbls., at $2, of hand-picked 
apples to Miller Biros., grocers. Port 
(9iester, N. Y. They Avrote the apples 
Avere Avanted at about Christmas, so as 
the morning of the 21st Avas mild I 
shipped at once, advising Miller P»ros. 
at the same time. The apides arrivial 
at I’ort Cheater on the 22nd as iior sub¬ 
sequent investigations at the freight of¬ 
fice. On the night of the 22ud it greAv 
very cold and Ave had very seven' Aveath- 
er for some time. Ten days afterwards 
they Avrote that the apples Avere not as 
ordered, Avere xinsalable and they had 
placed them in storage subject to . our 
order. We investigated and found that 
they had not removed the apples from 
the" freight yard, until four days after 
their arrival. Naturally Ave replied, that 
the apples had been frozen through 
their neglect and Ave Avere not respon¬ 
sible. 'Their reply Avas that they would 
sell them for our account and finally re¬ 
mitted a check for .$91 Avhich 1 promptly 
returned. The matter so rests. I hope 
you may see fit to take up this matter. 
Connecticut. r. n. 
Miller Bros, make no explanation of 
their failure to lift the apples prompt¬ 
ly, and the shipper receives nothing for 
his goods. IVe give the history for the 
benefit of our readers. 
Last April the Lester Plant Farm. 
Plainville, Conn., sent us a check of .$9 
for some seeds, and also Avanted us to 
ship one-half pound caulifloAver seed, to 
be paid .luiie 1. Through an error avo 
shipped one pound caulilloAver seed, $10. 
The purchaser did not pay .Tune 1 and 
has not paid yet. .Tuly 19 he Avrote an 
impudent letter, and said that aa'c had 
threatened to put the bill in hands of a 
laAvyer, and should do so, as he did not 
want to prev'ent us doing anything we 
Avanted to. He Avrote that he would try 
to settle August 1, but has not kept his 
word. He said we shipped one pound in¬ 
stead of one-half pound caulifloAver seed. 
I Avrote him that he could have returned 
the extra one-half pound, as he had every¬ 
thing in his OAvn hands and had not paid- 
I also wrote that I did not A\mnt to ship 
any man more than he could pay for. A 
letter from you might have moral iufiu- 
ence on him. M. s. c. 
Maine. 
We have Avritten four separate times 
in behalf of the subscidber, and all our 
letters have been ignored. We can only 
conclude that this concern is unAvorthy of 
the confidence of the farming public, and 
Ave are publishing the above letter for the 
guidance of our subscribers. 
Forgetful Wuiter (to diner who has 
ordered) : “Beg pardon, sir; but are you 
the pork chops or the boiled cod?”—Pall 
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