634 
April 2S, 1917, 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Frank B. Mills, the ^v(>]l-kno^vn s('<*d 
man of Bose Jlill, this county, was ex¬ 
onerated yesterday in tinited States court 
by the entering of a nolle jirosequi upo?i 
an indictment which was relurnefl against 
him by the T'liited States Brand ,7nry at 
Auburn October 39, lOKl. The exonera¬ 
tion of Mr. Mills is comjdete, in that 
Itennis B. Lucey, United States district 
attorney, filed with the court an opinion, 
the filing of which is recoixled with, and 
referred to in the nolle pi'osequi, and in 
which Mr. Lucey states among other 
things that in his oj)ini,^n the i)rosccution 
of Mr. Mills upon such charge should be 
dismissed. — Post-Standard, Syracuse, 
N. y. 
Inasmuch as we jiubli.shed the fact of 
the indictment last Fall it is only fair to 
Mr. Mills to give the same piddicity to 
the dismissal of the motion of the district 
attorney. The indictment was brought i)i 
c<»nnectioii with the sale of Canadian 
mining stock. It would api>ear from the 
statement of the district attorney that 
money paid by those subscribing to the 
stock has been refunded. 
Enclosed is an expre.ss receipt and a 
Communication from United Products 
Sales Co., Inc., of Hoboken, N. J.,^ to 
\yhom I shipped one case of eggs on Feb. 
1st. 1017. All I have heard from them 
since is the enclosed letter advising they 
were going to close* business until April 
loth, but would call within a few days 
and pay for shipment. Owing to the 
nature of this letter, 1 have allowed this 
to go more than a month before taking 
it up with you, but thought 1 would give 
them ample time before placing it in 
your hands. I c;in ill afford to lose the 
price of the eggs, nor (‘an I afford a 
trip to Hoboken for that amount in¬ 
volved. Will you look th(>m up? 
Pennsylvania. o. n. it. 
Mr. T. Leslie- Bradbury of the United 
Products Sales Co., of*()'.t .Tefferson St.. 
Hoboken, N. J., evidently conceived this 
brilliant plan for evading j)ayment for 
eggs shipped him..« He has left the above 
address, and mail addi'essed to him is !•(*- 
turned from the post otlice unclaimed. 
I am writing for a little infoi'ination 
concerning an advertisement which I 
have hot seen in your paper, but thought 
you might know about. Can an amateur 
collect specimons of butterflie.s and moths 
and sell them at an advantage? 1 have 
written James Sinclair of Los Angeles, 
Cal., whose advertisement have seen in 
several pai)ers. In reply he states that 
I must send $2 for full instructions as 
to preparation, shipping, etc. That is .all 
right, and I would gladly send the money 
if there was a prospect of my making 
anything. Or is it just a scheme to 
get the ,$2? We live in a part of the 
State in which are many beautiful but¬ 
terflies and different sorts of insects. 
Virginia. >7. AV. I-. 
We do not think there is any money 
in collecting specimens of butterflies or 
other insects. This .lames Sinclaii', 
inquired about, has a book to sell, and 
the suggestion that you can earn money 
in this way we regard as merely ‘‘bait'' 
to sell the book. 
The Automobile League of America, 
Inc., associated with the A. L. A. Tire 
Co.. Inc., 59 E. Elizabeth St., Detroit, 
^lich., has an agent working through 
this section soliciting membei’ship at $10 
each, which enables one to buy automo¬ 
bile tires at factory prices with a mileage 
guarantee 50 to 100 per cent, greater than 
most any tire on the market. They are 
organizing a new company for manufac¬ 
ture of tires and want to sell a few shares 
offctock. The new company agrees to fur¬ 
nish tires at a still lower cost, something 
like 50 per cent, of the regular prices. 
We buy perhaps .‘10 casings during the 
year, as well as the tubt's; a saving of 
from .$5 to .$10 would mean something. 
I he agent showed good references which 
may have been genuine, but I told him I 
would investigate through Tue IL N.-Y. 
Would thank you for any information 
you will Birnish, S, C. K. 
Indiana. 
The Automobile League of America, 
Inc., Detroit, Mich., would seem to be a 
brother of the International Automobile 
I.eague of Buff.alo. The latter Avas pro¬ 
moted by E. C. Bidwell, Avho recently 
pleaded guilty to the charge of u.sing the 
mails Avith intent to defraud. The plan 
and promises of this Detroit TiOague ap¬ 
pear from the subscriber’s letter to be 
ideutic.al Avith BidAvell’s scheme. It Is 
easy enough for a (Company not yet organ¬ 
ized to agree to furnish tires that Avill 
give 50 to 100 iier cent, greater mileage 
and .at half the price of other manufac¬ 
turers ; but no reasonable man Avould ex¬ 
pect them to fulfil such promises. Per¬ 
haps these claims are only the romancing 
of an enthusiastic agent Avith a high- 
powered imagination. At any rate all 
membership schemes and stock selling 
schemes on the basis of furnishing tires 
or other accessories are good things to 
leave alone. 
We h.ave just received circulars from 
the ^>yndicate Mail Order Co., 318 i 
Broadway. X. Y. I am inclined to be ! 
interested in it. Will you tell me AA'hat ' 
you think of it? X. n. F. | 
The Syndicate Mail Order Co. referred | 
to, from our confidential report, seems ' 
to he an organization of two adA'ertising 
men and a lawyer. One of the adver- ! 
tising men is reported to still hold a | 
position in a prominent publi.shing 
house. No catalogue has been issued as 
yet. The plan seems to be to induce 
manufacturers to advertise in the cata¬ 
logue, AA'hich, it is^alleged, Avill soon be 
issued, and the Syndicate Mail Order 
Co. to be allowed a commission on all 
orders resulting from the same. This 
Avould seem to be all the grounds that 
the Syndicate Mail Order Co. have for 
the stat(‘ment in their letter soliciting 
subscription for stock, that ‘ihe com¬ 
bined capitalization of the concerns 
represented in our euteri)rise is aboi.t 
.$500,00( 1,000. ■' The above also seems to 
be the sum total of the assets of the con- 
ceiu). Avhich is incori)orated for .$250,000. 
which the jn'ornoters are asking the pub¬ 
lic to pur(*hase at $5 i)er share. It ai)- 
I)e!ii‘s from our report that even the office 
furniture of the company is mortgaged. 
The enclos(*d letter Avas sent to me by 
Lee ^Manufacturing Co.. Chicago. Ill. Is 
it !i fake? It looks lik»* a bare fishhook to 
iiH*. We take TrtE R. N.-Y., and enjoy 
the Publisher’s Desk. C. AV. 
NeAV York. 
.T(din Magnus, president of the I.ee 
Mfg. Co., is another individual Avbo 
thinks the fanner is so ignorant and 
stupid th.at he doesn’t know the difference 
between a iiersomil letter and a ju’inted 
one. The attempted deception might be 
considered an innocent one, but is <a man 
Avlu( attempts to deceive in one particu¬ 
lar to be trust('d in others? Our own ex¬ 
perience points to a negative answer. 
Feb. 15th I mailed you a bill again.st 
the express company for case of eggs 
shipped Jo.s. Schulman .Tune 20, ISMO, 
ami F(‘h. 19. I received a check in pay¬ 
ment from the express comi)any for the 
lost case of eggs. The- payment Avas de¬ 
layed seven months and 10 days after 
filing claim, and h-icked but one day of 
eight months after date of shipment. De¬ 
lays of six months or more ai-e not un¬ 
usual. Is the express company entitled 
to tlie use of my money for that length 
of time? I am enclosing nine cents for 
l»ostage. ' G. It. c. 
New York. 
We do not consider this a good record, 
and any shipper is justified in feeling dis¬ 
satisfied oA’er such a delay. A clear case 
of non-delivery should be closed out in¬ 
side of two months at the longest. 
November 29 a man registered as Elmer 
Karl, Albany, N. Y'., and claimed he Avas 
a buyer of high-priced cattle. Failed on 
several of the farmers with blooded cat¬ 
tle ; took up a lot of their time and left 
Avithout buying or a promise to return 
Avith a check. He also left our hotel 
Avithout paying his board, amounting to 
.$30. We are advised he has operated in 
Fayetteville and surrounding tOAvns un¬ 
der the same circumstances and prob¬ 
ably by this time has fleeced quite a fcAA' 
farmers out of a little cash. He appears 
about 27 or 28 years of age. I thought 
probably this information might be of 
some service to you. K. E. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
The above letter may put some other 
hotelkeeper on his guard should this 
young man play the same game else- 
Avhere. Breeders also Avould do Avell to 
have an eye out for the individual de¬ 
scribed. 
When sending in a claim for collection 
from a transportation company, subscrib¬ 
ers are requested to send the express re¬ 
ceipt or '.a copy of it, the account sr.^es or 
any correspondence from the consignee 
Avith a brief statement of the difficulty 
Avhether loss, breakage, delay or non-de¬ 
livery. Be sure to give your express sta¬ 
tion, as it is sometimes different from 
the post oflice address and the transporta¬ 
tion companies have difficulty in tracing. 
Include Avith the letter a statement that 
you authorize The R. N.-Y. to take the 
matter up for you as attorney in fact. 
If you Avill send this information Avith 
your first letter it Avill obviate some of 
the correspondence and imssibly enable us 
to get prompter adjustment of the claim 
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