1738 
November 22. 1910 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters to Publisher's Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
About 10 days ago I received a letter 
from the Europe Express Company of 
New York, telling me that they had a 
package in their office which came from 
Europe addressed to me, asking me to 
send them $3 to pay all expenses. I sent 
them .$3 by money order and have not re¬ 
ceived any package and am beginning to 
feel suspicious. I w r ould like to find out 
whether such express company exists in 
New York. A. c. 
Massachusetts. 
There is no Europe Express Company. 
.John Delano and Angelo Cardeno seem to 
have organized two express companies; 
the Europe Express Company and the 
Mediterranean Express Company. The 
scheme was worked just as indicated in 
the complaint of our subscriber. Cardeno 
and Delano were suspected in connection 
with some dye thefts, and detectives went 
to their address at 53 West Eighth St.. 
New York, to arrest them, and in addi¬ 
tion to finding .$1,000 worth of dyes, un¬ 
earthed post office money orders to the 
amount of $12.S00, together with station¬ 
ery of the two express companies, one 
located on West 215th St., and the other 
on Park Row. The offices existed under 
the hats of Cardeno and Delano. A bag 
was found containing 10.000 envelopes 
addressed ready for mailing to parties 
with names of foreign origin, and each 
letter represented that the express com¬ 
pany was holding a package which would 
be forwarded upon receipt of charges 
amounting to $3 and $5. The detectives 
confiscated the papers and'arrested the 
men. The Post Office Department was 
notified and will institute an investiga¬ 
tion. The scheme seems to have been 
worked mostly in New England and Chi¬ 
cago, and readers will be wise if they will 
drop any such requests in the fire. 
In April number of Everyday Engineer¬ 
ing we answered an advertisement for 
an aeroplane, and enclosed $;>, desiring 
them to send one to us. On April 29 
they sent a card acknowledging receipt of 
money. May 19 apologized for delay in 
not sending: June 3 another excuse. Then 
I wrote to the magazine. They called on 
the company, and the Beach Company 
said they would return the money; that 
was August 16. August 28 they called 
again and said unless it was returned they 
would communicate with postal authori¬ 
ties: still no money. Can you suggest 
anything else we could do? My son is 15 
and he was very anxious for the aero¬ 
plane. but if he cannot get it he would 
like his money returned. Five dollars is 
worth twice that nowadays. J. c. M. 
New Jersey. 
The Beach Engineering Company has 
now moved and left no address. They 
evidently found it profitable to reap in 
the $5. but when complaints began to 
pile up it was policy to disappear. The 
literature has been sent to the Post Office 
Department and it is hoped they will be 
able to locate the parties. It will be well 
to keep a memorandum of the name in 
the event the Beach Engineering Com¬ 
pany appears at some other location. 
I have a claim against B. E. Chapman, 
Herkimer. N. Y., for $150. Mr. Chapman 
has sales stables at Herkimer, N. Y., also 
at Glens Falls, N. Y r . The details are as 
follows: On Sept. 22 of this year I 
bought a horse at Mr. Chapman’s sale 
barn in Glens Falls, N. Y., for $150. I 
bought it on the conditions that if it was 
not satisfactory I could return it in ex¬ 
change for another horse, or if I should 
not care to do this I could have my money 
back. On returning the horse Mr. Chap¬ 
man was very anxious to have me take 
another horse in the place of the one I 
returned, but was not anxious about re¬ 
turning my money. This he failed to do 
to date. I would like to have you take 
the matter up with liiji:- thinking you 
could get a settlement, i do not wish to 
take another horse. I have written Mr. 
Chapman twice in regard to this; once he 
answered requesting me to try another 
horse, and he made no reply to my last 
letter. I am enclosing his advertisement 
appearing in the Post Star (Glens Falls), 
N. Y. s. ii. 
New York. 
The advertisement of the sale states: 
“We must satisfy you or your money’s 
yours again.” We therefore asked Mr. 
Chapman if there is any good reason 
why the subscriber’s money should not 
be refunded, lie replies that our letter 
is “foolish” and to “watch your step.” 
•P* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Perhaps our letter might be considered 
foolish, inasmuch as it expressed the 
hope that Mr. Chapman might be inclined 
to live up to his published terms of sale. 
It is “foolish” to expect horse “jockeys” 
to do this, but we gave Mr. Chapman the 
benefit of the doubt. Those attending 
his sales in the future may profit by the 
record in this case. 
Judge Learned Hand in the Federal 
District Court has appointed Charles 
Lang of 114 Liberty St. receiver for the 
Fulton Motor Truck Company, with offi¬ 
ces at 1710 Broadway and a plant at 
Farmingdale, I,. I. The receiver was ap¬ 
pointed on the petition of Harry L. Post, 
one of the creditors, in an equity pro¬ 
ceeding. 
In the petition Post alleged that the 
concern, which is a Delaware corporation, 
was without ready funds to meet ma¬ 
tured debts and was unable to meet sal¬ 
aries and wages owed to employes 
amounting to $1,580. He urged the ap¬ 
pointment of a receiver to conserve the 
assets of the corporation.—Daily Paper. 
The stock of this concern has been ex¬ 
ploited among country people in a man¬ 
ner which in itself indicated that the in¬ 
vestment could not be considered a sound 
one. It is no surprise to those watching 
the promotion of the stock to learn that 
the company is in financial difficulties. 
There is a lesson in the failure of this 
enterprise for those who are invited to 
put their savings into the stocks of con¬ 
cerns that are not established on a sound 
basis and profits and dividends are only 
in prospect. The lesson is so clear that 
“all who run may read.” 
How LondWould 
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it Take on a 
Grindstone? 
A Luther Hummer Grinder will grind a one-inch nick from an axe 
in 20 minutes. It will put a keen edge on an ordinary dull axe 
in less than five minutes. 
Think what this means to you in time and labor saved. Those 
who have used the “Hummer” will never go back to the old- 
fashioned, time-wasting grindstone. The 
sharpens mower sickles, harrow discs, plow points, ensilage knives, 
cultivator blades,.scythes, hay-knives, and all other cutting tools 
twenty-five times as* fast as a grindstone without drawing the 
temper from the steel. 
The secret is in the DIMO-GRIT wheels that are used only on 
Luther Tool Sharpeners. As you sit at the “Hummer” and pedal 
it like a bicycle, these wheels turn at a mile-a-minute clip. No 
pressure required—no oil or water to cool the steel. 
This is my first year as a reader of 
The R. N.-Y., and I desire to compli¬ 
ment you on the excellent publication you 
send out. How you do it for a dollar a 
year I do not quite understand, since the 
price of everything has advanced more 
than double. I noted recently in “Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk” department where a soldier 
had been collecting money for a magazine, 
and this prompts me to send the enclosed 
subscription stub that a soldier boy gave 
my wife in return for a dollar last April. 
No magazine has ever been received, and 
I do not expect there will be. If a dollar 
has been collected up to the number indi¬ 
cated on the stub someone must have got 
a lot of easy money. The other part of 
the card was mailed on the date stated 
on the stub. I do not recall seeing this 
one mentioned in your lists, and it might 
be well to warn your readers of this pub¬ 
lishing concern. \v. c. T. 
New Jersey. 
We have had complaints from two or 
three subscribers that they paid $1 to a 
soldier soliciting subscriptions to “Our 
Boys,” published by the Class Magazine 
Pub. Co., Pennington. N. J. We are in¬ 
formed by the postmaster that this com¬ 
pany is “defunct.” There is, therefore, 
no hope of getting either the paper or the 
dollar. 
Are these people reliable? I don’t know 
what to do ; they have written me several 
times S. c. 
Ohio. 
This letter refers to the Gulf Coast Fig 
Orchard Association, Houston. Texas. 
The plan, from the literature, is to sell 
five-acre units of the fig orchard on the 
installment plan, and care for it in be¬ 
half of the owner to the bearing age or 
longer. It is represented that such an 
orchard will net the owner $2,000 a year. 
We have no information about this par¬ 
ticular orchard scheme, but we know 
what happened to those who invested in 
a similar fig orchard scheme promoted by 
F. B. Mills a few years ago. And the 
Mills victims met with only the same 
experience of all unit orchard schemes, 
whether a fig orchard, an apple orchard 
or an orange grove. No agricultural 
proposition can be successfully conducted 
on such a plan, and the inevitable result 
is that those who put their savings into 
these projects lose every cent put into 
them. 
Grind the Whole Blade at Once 
The illustration at the right shows how 
the head of the “Hummer” swivels so 
that any tool can be held easily at just 
the right angle for grinding to the best 
advantage. 
Send 25c in Stamps 
for a Dimo-Grit pocket hone. 
See for yourself how quickly 
this wonderful abrasive puts 
an edge on even the dullest 
jack-knife. 
LUTHER GRINDER MFG. CO. 
The Largest Makers of Farm 
Repair Tools in the World 
Dept. 126 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U. S.A. 
Heat the Water They Drink With 
the Cobs They Leave 
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No bother or fire danger with a Hudson Tank Heater. Just put a 
few cobs into the fuel box when you do your chores and have drinking water at 
70° for your stock all winter. No ice to chop. No chilled stomachs. Stock train 
faster—keep healthier. Cows average 15 quarts a month more milk. Heater 
soon pays for itself. 
TANK HEATER 
(Formerly Called Nelson) 
Heats water twice as fast as any other heater and with less fuel. Made 
of 20 gauge galvanized metal with cast flanged joints bolted and packed with one 
piece asbestos. No welded Beams to leak or rust. End of tank and pipe cast in 
one piece to above water line. Won't rust out. More than one inch of clearance for 
to circulate under Heater. Ashea ennily removed^RurnM Btniw, erbs, wood or coal. 
Lasts for year a. Got ono for yoor stock NOW. WRITE FOR FREE CIRCULAR. (I) 
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Tank Heaters l»Ht Winter, worked vory satiHlac- 
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Purchased 3 of 
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Every Stockman should use one. 
Iowa StHto Collmre. Amtm.ln. 
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CAST"IR0N 
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Get a Heater early.Wrile now for illustrated circulars ami dealer's name, 
THE WILLS MFG. CO., *2 Seventh St., MENDOTA, ILL, 
SURE HEATER 
for STOCK TANKS 
WATER tINF 
HELP FEED THE WORLD 
Don’t Waste Giain;but Save it and Produce more Meat, 
Butter and Milk by warming the drinking water for 
your stock with coal, wood or cobs with a 
COW BOY TANK HEATER 
Quickest to hent; strongest draft; adjustable grates; ashe3 
removed without disturbing fire; keeps fire 24 hours. 
Ahcnllltolv Qafo* pays for itself in 2 months with 4 
nUdUIUICiy ddlCy cows; Self-Sinking; can be used m 
Wood, Steel or Concrete Tanks of any size. Most reliable, 
practical, efficient and durable Tank Heater manufactured. 
Will you send me nil information you 
have on the Oklalioma-Texas Producing 
& Refining Company of Muskogee. Okla.? 
New York. j. w. M. 
This concern seems to be dependent 
upon the proceeds of the sale of stock to 
develop the properties, which is not a very 
bright outlook. It is a risky speculation. 
Oklahoma-Texas Producing & Refining 
Company should not be confused with 
Oklahoma Producing & Refining Com¬ 
pany. 
Redd : “The doctor said he’d have me on 
my feet in a fortnight.” Greene: “And 
did he?” “Sure. I’ve had to sell my au¬ 
tomobile.”—Melbourne Australasian. 
Horse Blankets 
that Wear Like Iron 
Don’t leave your horse exposed. 
Give him perfect protection with 
a 5A Storm King Horse Blanket—a blanket 
with weight, style, warmth, and strength. 
5A Storm King Blankets are known the land 
over, are made of the strongest, tightest, 
twisted yarn and fashioned by workmen who 
are craftsmen at their business. Ask your 
dealer for the 5A. Look for the 5A trade mark. 
WM. AYRES & SONS, Philadelphia 
Makers of 5A Motor Robes. 
