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C/ic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
P'eptember 22, 1917 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We fail to see where'll our transactions 
with Mr. Wooster are any Inisiness of 
TiiK Kural Nkw-Youkkr, unless, per¬ 
haps, you are a practicing attorney and 
the matter was placed with you for at¬ 
tention. Your letterhead does not contain 
any intimation that such is the case, but 
we infer therefrom that you are runnuig a 
newsjiaper. If we are correct in this 
understanding, we fail to see where the 
matter is any of your business whatso¬ 
ever. NEWTON ARMS CO., INC. 
Wo are glad to enlighten this concern. 
One of our renders tells us that he bought 
a rifle from this company. Though he i>aid 
fi.iv it the r'flc has never been delivered, 
and letters remained unanswered. f<o he 
came to us asking the standing of the 
compan}’, and requesting us to help him 
get the" rifle. As a first step we wrote 
a courteous letter asking about the delay 
and hoping the matter would lie jiromptly 
attended to. In answer we get the above. 
Wo are used to that, and we well under¬ 
stand all the eannarks of that letter. It 
is characteristic of reputable concerns 
that they welcome any sincere effort to 
help settle a difference with a customer. 
When people begin to talk about attor¬ 
neys in this way is it not a fair inference 
that attornej's arc needifl to pry a set¬ 
tlement out of them? We are not prac¬ 
ticing attorneys, but we often take a 
turn at helping our readers when such 
help is needed. In this case we under¬ 
stand the Newton Arms do. hat? a rifle 
which our reader has paid for. As our 
render cannot get his rifle we make it 
our bu8ines.s to get it for him if we 
can, or to find out the reason why. We 
arc runn'ng a newspaper, and an import¬ 
ant jmrt of that busine^is is helping our 
readers to obtain what is due them. This 
ma.v be a new sensation to the Newton 
Arms do., but they and all others might 
.as well understand it right now. 
I took out a contnict in the McAlester 
Keal Nstate Exchange, McAlester, Okln., 
and jiaid them $135 for the purchase of 
1(50 acres. I am trying to get the money 
back, but fear I will not be successful. 
A short time after taking out the con¬ 
tract I wrote to the Interior Department 
at Washington, D. d., for information. 
They advi.sed that all coal and asphalt 
cannot be claimed by purchaser of land, 
and that timber must be paid for sejiar- 
ately in addition to land. The ^Ic- 
Alester people do not mention these two 
conditions in their contract. Furthermore, 
to get land that can be worked and 
planted $20 an acre must be paid in 
whole at sale, and I have an idea that 
the $3 land is either mountainous or rough 
and rocky. I figure 1 would better lose 
this $1,35 now than lo.se more later on 
the.se Indian lands. Can you give me any 
information or helj)? a. L. 
New York. 
The above experience rather confirms 
our previous advice to readers with refer¬ 
ence to the scheme of the McAlester Real 
Estate Co. Information from reliable 
Oklahoma sources is to the effect that 
there is nothing in these Tnd'an lands as 
a sjieculation for Eastern people, and that 
if the land were any great bargain or if 
tlu'ro was any big prospect for future de- 
veloiunent, there are plenty of jieople of 
means in Oklahoma who would be glad 
to take advantage of their opportunities 
and purchase the lands. When the con¬ 
tract is s'gned and fee paid, there is no 
possibility of being able to get a refund 
of the money, unless the party signing 
can show that deliberate fraud was 
practiced on him in securing his money. 
Referring to attached letters of C. .T. 
Coli'ns, 47 West 34th St., New Y'ork City. 
I am sendting them for your information. 
I read fraud in the wind-up. A, j. K. 
New Y'^ork. 
The letter enclosed appeals particu¬ 
larly to telegraph operators, IMr, C. .1. 
Collins represents that he is associated 
with the firm of Ando & Company, which 
firm is intert'sted in unloading certain 
stocks. The letter fails to reveal just 
what the stock.s are, but asks the party 
addressed to send him the names of in¬ 
vestors and moneyed men in the town 
with view to disposing of the .stock in 
question. Not knowing what the stock is, 
we <‘an expresfi no opinion of it, except 
that in a general way if the stock 
had any market value, such metliods 
would not be required to find customers 
for it. A great many people thoughtless¬ 
ly furnish the names of their neighbors 
and friends to schemers of this kind, and 
thereby unwittingly do them a serious in¬ 
jury. 
n'he Homo lighting Co. of Worcester, 
N. Y., composed of Herbert L. Kinney 
and C. L. Foster is selling an acetylene 
lighting outfit of the Van Gleckland Co., 
Inc., Newark, N. .1., in this vicinity. I 
fcgned a contract with these jiarties for 
one of these lighting plants a few mouths 
ago, giving a bank note in payment for 
the outfit. The lighting plant was to be 
installed before the note came due. The 
plant has not been delivered or installed, 
and am unable to get any satisfaction 
about it. The note was promptly dis¬ 
counted at n local bank, and demands are 
made ujion me for settlement. Any ad¬ 
vice you can give me or any help to 
secure justice would be very much ap¬ 
preciated. F. j. M. D. 
Wo took this case up in behalf of the 
subscriber with the Van Gleckland Co. 
We have a prompt rc'ply to our letter 
from the Van Gleckland Co. disclaiming 
all responsibility for the Home liighting 
Co. and Messrs. Foster and Kinney. It is 
the contention of the company that they 
merely sold the lighting plants to the 
Home Lighting ('o, as a dealer, and that 
the firm has no concern in the transac¬ 
tions between the purchaser and the 
Home Lighting Co. The Home Light¬ 
ing Co. ignori's our letter in F. .1. M. D.’s 
behalf and the subscriber is, therefore, in 
the position of lieing called upon to make 
good the note in jiayment for the plant 
which he has not yet received and sees no 
good prospect of getting. There seems to 
be an unusual number of sharks in con¬ 
nection with the sale of acetylene lighting 
plants and farmers cannot be too cautious 
in dealing with salesmen or representa¬ 
tives of manufacturers in thi.s line. We 
particularly warn subscribers against 
having anything to do with the Home 
Lighting t'o. of Worcester, N. Y'., of 
w'hich a party by the name of “Foster," 
referred to above seems to be the active 
member. 
Messrs. Foster and Kinney seem to be 
alive to all the tricks of the trade. This 
victim was promised a $10 commiss'on 
on all other wiles made within a sjiecl- 
tied distance from his house. This i.s the 
stock inducement of fake acetylene gas 
machine agents. While some agents no 
doubt may make the offer expect'ng to live 
up to it and do make good on it, loo 
often the offer is made only as a "bait" 
to get the farmer’s signature to the or¬ 
der. If INIessrs. Foster and Kinney con¬ 
tinue these operations without didivering 
the plants, they can undoubtedly be 
prosecuted criminally for getting money 
under false pretenses. 
I thought the Everitts were all in the 
jienitentiary, but by the enclosed letter 
some of them are at largo and playing 
their old game—trying to swindle us 
farmers. I do not bite. l. s. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
I’hc above trite comments refer to the 
circular letter of Everitt’s O K Si'ed 
m.ash, mostly fouir milk, a few times n 
week. M, .M. 
New Y'ork. 
Any heavy-laying flock will occasion¬ 
ally produce soft-shelled eggs, and, if 
there are not too many of them, there is 
no reason for alarm. Heavy feeding, 
close confinement, etc., are probably re¬ 
sponsible for the trouble. Aside from 
oyster .shells, clover hay is an excellent 
source of .st,imc of tlie constituent.s of egg 
shell, and is a good food otherwi.se. If 
you have it, try giving your flock a little 
daily. yr. n. n. 
A Poultry Regulator 
AYould you furnish me a practical for¬ 
mula for making an all-around jioultry 
regulator and tonic and apjietizc'r? I 
want a poultry food which will act as a 
medicine in sickne.ss, and which can bo 
fed at all times in the mash. I want it 
to contain a large proportion of filler, 
such as linseed meal, cornmeal. etc., so 
that a large bulk can be sold at a low 
price. T. F. 0 . 
Virginia. 
Unfortunately, your specifications call 
for that which does not exist outside of 
patent medicine advertisements. There 
as no such thing as an all-round poultry 
regulator and tonic which will act as food 
in health and a universal curative agent 
in sicknes.s. At least, if there i.s, it hasn’t 
been discovered yet, and what is known 
of the action of drugs upon the animal 
body lays little foundation for the hope 
that it will ever be found. 
Go n little deeper into your specifica¬ 
tions than the generalities of the phras¬ 
ing. What do you mean by a "regula¬ 
tor”? Regulate what? The animal body 
is a very complex thing, with many or¬ 
gans of many functions. Do you expect 
that when one of the.se organs fails to act 
jiroperly something eaten with the food 
will go to it and right it up, and that 
when some other organ with a function 
of entirely different character fails tem¬ 
porarily in its duties the same substance 
will visit it and throw it into gear with 
the rest again? And what do you mean 
by a "tonic"? Is it some substance that, 
when taken into the anim.al body, will re¬ 
store the tone of any diseased or debili¬ 
tated organs there? Would that there 
was some such substance; mixed with our 
salad dressing it would make long life 
easy and death, except by violence, rare. 
No; regulators and tonics belong to the 
age of medicine when it was more than 
half suiierstition; an age possibly not 
ipiite yet gone by. They will continue to 
flourish, however, .so long as there i.s 
jirofit in vending them and credulity to 
accept them, and, if you want one with 
the stamp of government apjiroval upon 
it, hero is a formula once publis'ieil by 
the INIaine Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tion; it is probably as harmless as any: 
I'udverized gentian, 1 lb.; pulverized gin¬ 
ger, 5 4 lb.; pulverized saltpeter, lb.; 
pulverized iron sulphate, % lb. Mix ami 
add two to three tablespoonfuls to eaeli 
10 quarts of dry mash. m. n. n. 
A monument mason was in th wit¬ 
ness box, describing the way in which 
he had been assaulted by the defendant, 
"lie walked right into niy yard and 
slammed me up against one of mv own 
tombstones.’’ the witness said. “Did he 
hurt you?" inquired* the court. "Hurt 
me! Why, I've got ‘Sacred to the mem¬ 
ory of’ stamped all dowu my back.”— 
Credit Lost. 
Store of Indianapolis, Tnd. It is our un¬ 
derstanding, too, that both .T. A. Everitt 
and his son are as yet confined- in the 
Federal I’rison at Atlanta, Ga., for 
fraudulent use of the mails. Whether 
Everitt is conducting the O. K. Seed 
Store from Atlanta or some one is con¬ 
ducting it for him at Ind'anajiolis, we 
do not know. At any rate, .1. A. Everitt's 
old-time methodsi are still in force. In 
the circular letter enclosed the farmer 
addressed is ajipealed to on patriotic 
grounds to grow more wheat in order to 
support the Federal Goyernmont! It is 
pointed out that the best way to accom- 
ifl'sh this purpose i.s to sow some of the 
varieties of wheat for which 1‘lveritt is 
making fake and unwarranted claims*. We 
feel sure that all readers of The R. N.- 
Y. are familiar enough with Everitt’s 
methods for the past 20 years or more, 
so that they are in no danger of falling 
victim to his schemes. 
Soft-shelled Eggs 
I have a Rhode Island Red flock of 
^■(•ry good layers. The 11 hens have laid 
since December 11 almost without inter- 
rujition. Rut 1 find very often soft- 
shelled eggs and do not know the cause 
of it. I feed oats and wheat mixed in 
the morning and at night corn and oats 
mixed; dry mash according to Gornell 
ration, and a hoiqier with oyster shells is 
always before them. They get a wet 
Gives 
$9 Wear 
This is the famous KORRY-KROME Shoe with 
tlie guaraiitceil waterjiroof KORRY-KROME sole, 
tlic highest-priced sole leather. Will outwear any 
two oak or hemlock soles. 
We sell direct to you for only $6 ($6.25 west of the 
Mississippi) and will refund your money or replace 
if shoes do not live up to our guarantee of perfect 
workmanship, material and long wear. 
Black and tan—wide, comfortable lasts. 
No troll hie ahout fit. Satisfaction gnaranteeil. If 
you don’t know your size, copy number in your 
old slice and send with check or money order, ^^'e 
ship prepaid parcel post. 
Send for style circular Ib 
Al.so KORRY-KROME half soles 60 cents a pair 
and heel lifts 25 cents a pair—or both for 75 cents 
delivered. 
THE K-K SHOE CO.. CORRY. PA. 
CHASE 
FARM 
TRACTOR 
A TRACTOR will get your 
work done. 
It’s the only solution of 
your help problem. 
A CHASE 2-3 plow tractor 
is the best one for you. 
It is built for eastern farms. 
It has tremendous pulling 
power. 
It will not tip over. 
It turns in its own length. 
It will not pack the soil. 
It acts as a roller and pul¬ 
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We can make prompt delix>ery 
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327 So. West St., Syracuse, N.Y. 
Built Right 
in material and construction. No weight 
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Disks are forited sharp! has reversible innia, 
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COO Main Street 
Higganum, Conn. 
Maker of the origin ^ a %% 
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Disk liar- 
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Plows. 
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Box 29 Racine»WlS4 
NATIONAL.ALUMINUM SHOESl 
WITTEI 
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I Save 
You $15 
to $200 
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\\. W. STAN LEV, 
Canvas Covers 
Waterproof duck for cov- 
oi'iiig mufbinory, peacli 
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H oz. l•lluvlis wiiiron cover, 
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