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ters receive no consideration. 
These two notes are just in by the 
same mail from New England : 
Your paper stands for fair dealing and 
service. I have been a subscriber for 30 
years, and from year to year and week 
to week your readers can see that prog¬ 
ress and loving service is your watch¬ 
word. J. H. N. 
Vermont. 
Am inclosing two years’ subscription. 
I am sorry you had to send me second 
notice. I just did not get to sending it 
before. I don’t know how long I have 
had your paper, but longer than any other 
man in this town. T have raised six 
boys and five girls since I have been a 
subscriber, and the youngest is four years 
old. A fairly good farm crop from an 
old hill farm in Northwestern Connecti¬ 
cut. C. B. 
Connecticut. 
To the casual reader the two letters 
have nothing in common. To us they 
breathe the same note of interest, sym¬ 
pathy and friendship. Sentiment, has 
more influence in human affaire than we 
usually realize, but men would be hard¬ 
ened creatures, indeed, if they did not 
respond to the kindly sympathy that, in 
one way or another finds expression in 
our daily mail from the farms. 
The enclosed clipping from the Buffalo 
Evening Acirs. Buffalo. N. Y., of April 1, 
1021. will no doubt be interesting reading 
for you, and will bring your files of the 
doings of crooks right up to date, espe¬ 
cially as it concerns the recent activities 
of A. C. Bidwell, who ran until stopped 
by the Government the infamous Inter¬ 
national Automobile League swindle. Ilis 
next venture was the organizing and 
selling of stock in the Angola Tire & Rub¬ 
ber Company of Buffalo, and what the 
‘News says about that company is entirely 
right, only they put it too mildly. You 
note what the scheme is now to sell more 
Angola Tire & Rubber stock. In ad¬ 
dition to this scheme to catch the unwary 
motorist in Buffalo, they have again 
started out on the road stock salesmen 
trying to sell more of this worthless stock 
to farmers and small town people who 
have no way of knowing the absolute 
worthlessness of this venture, It ma.v 1 
that you can give the rural population 
another warning, so that not all of them 
will bite when Bid well’s slick, oily- 
tongued salesmen get into their neighbor¬ 
hood with the Angola stock. Quite a few 
here bought this stock a year or more ago 
at prices ranging from $10 to $60 per 
share, and they arc in mourning for their 
money. O. I), w. 
New York. 
The item from the Buffalo paper re¬ 
veals another scheme of the notorious 
Bidwell offering to supply motorists with 
gasoline at 22c a gallon. All the car 
owner has to do is to subscribe for two 
shares of stock in the Angola Tire & Rub¬ 
ber Company, a promotion of Bidwell’s, 
at $50 each. One hundred dollars will 
pay for considerable gas. even at present 
prices, and in view of Bidwell’s record 
there is no assurance that he would de¬ 
liver the gasoline at the price after the 
stock deal is consummated. This depart¬ 
ment has been exposing Bidwell’s various 
schemes for a dozen years back. 
The Batson Farm Agency, 4S9 Fifth 
avenue. New York City, asks an advance 
fee of $15 for placing the description of 
farms, listed with the agency, in the 
hands of their 200 agents. We have 
many time advised against these advance 
fee scheme's. If the real estate agent gets 
enough of these fees, he does not need to 
sell farms', too. in order to have a profit¬ 
able business. And our experience indi¬ 
cates that this class of agents depends on 
such fees, and make little effort to sell 
property. We do not know whether this 
is true or not of the Batson Farm Agency, 
but. at any rate there is no good reason 
why a farm owner should pay money on 
any pretext to an agent until the prop¬ 
erty is sold by the agent in question. 
Although I am not a farmer, I am keenly 
interested in agriculture, and hope to 
spend the latter part of my life on a 
farm. Of all the papers I take, I enjoy 
The R. N.-Y. best of all, and you may 
depend on me as a regular subscriber. 
As I am aware that you take no pay for 
services of this kind, I will endeavor as 
far as I am able always to solicit sub¬ 
scribers for your paper, and tell others 
of the good things I read in The R. N.-Y. 
New York. G. u. T. 
We are glad to have this report and 
appreciation of the work we were able 
to do for the subscriber. Persistency is 
about the only weapon that makes any 
impression on the express company, and 
persistency is our failing. We keep a 
claim before the company until it is 
thrashed out to the last analysis. At 
times we fail, but it is through no lack 
of effort. It i« of great help to have 
prompt advice when a payment is made 
in order to keep our records straight, 
and we hope our readers will bear this 
in mind and keep us posted on all devel¬ 
opments in any accounts they send us. 
A case just decided by the Appellate 
Division of the Supreme Court, Third De¬ 
partment, might possibly prove of interest 
to you. A small storekeeper in Port 
Ilenry, N. Y., Charles V. Dery, was sued 
by the Security Bank & Trust Company 
of Memphis, Tenn., more than a thou¬ 
sand miles away, on an ingenious plan. 
It seems that a concern called Partin 
Manufacturing Company signed a contract 
with Dery whereby the Partin Manufac¬ 
turing Company would increase the sales 
of Dery’s store $10,000 in 32 months : that 
it. would conduct a campaign of advertis¬ 
ing: that within 30 days from the date 
of the contract it would deliver to him an 
automobile and other prizes as a stimu¬ 
lant to increase his trade; that at the time 
that Dery signed the contract he signed a 
series of promissory notes; the contract 
was priuted on one side of a double sheet 
of paper and the promissory notes on the 
other side ; there was no perforated line 
separating the notes so that they could 
be torn off easily; subsequently the notes 
were torn off and claimed to have been 
discounted with the Security Bank & 
Trust Company in Memphis, which was 
also the home office of the Partin Com¬ 
pany. The trust company sued Dery, 
claiming to be an innocent holder for the 
value. The case was tried before Judge 
Van Kirk and a jury in Elizabethtown 
in April, 3920; the jury, of course, ren¬ 
dered a verdict for Dery, and' the Appel¬ 
late Division, in affirming this verdict, 
held, among other things: 
“Because the notes were thus negoti¬ 
ated in evident breach of‘faith, the case 
falls directly within the provisions of the 
statute which have been quoted, and the 
burden of proof rested upon the plaintiff 
to establish its good faith as a {holder in 
due course. The plaintiff is a bank in 
Memphis, Tenn., and it was there that 
the notes were offered for discount. The 
defendant is a tradesman at Port Ilenry, 
N. Y., and it was there, more than 3.000 
mih's away, that the notes were executed. 
At about the time the plaintiff discounted 
these notes it also purchased paper aggre¬ 
gating $13,000, which had been given to 
the same payee upon similar transactions 
by makers residing .in various parts of 
the country. The president of the plain¬ 
tiff knew the nature of the business con¬ 
ducted by the payee: knew that it was 
engaged in accelerating the trade of coun¬ 
try merchants; knew that trade was to 
be increased by displaying an automobile 
as a prospective prize before the eyes of 
innocent country folk: knew that notes 
given were the product of such undertak¬ 
ings. lie might well have suspected* 
from the dubious character of its busi¬ 
ness, that the payee was engaged in a 
scheme to collect money by means of notes 
fraudulently 
counted.” 
S** RURAL NEW-YORKER April 23, 1921 
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obtained or fraudulently dis- 
We are devoting considerable space to 
this case because the decision has an 
important bearing on all eases of fraud 
and a third party attempts collection as 
■an innocent holder of a note. With this 
case as a precedent banks or other holders 
of notes will have difficulty to collect on 
notes or other obligations secured by 
fraudulent methods. Too often farmers 
have paid notes secured by promoters of 
worthless stock and other sharpers on the 
theory that the bank discounting the note 
was an “innocent holder.” This decision 
puts the responsibility on the bank to 
know the nature of the business of those 
for whom notes are discounted. 
The express company has settled in full 
for the shipment of eggs of September 
10, 1919. I do not think I would ever 
have received one cent from them if it 
had not been for you. I received a tele¬ 
phone call from the station one day, say¬ 
ing there was a man there from the ex¬ 
press company who would like to see me 
In reference to the claim left for collection 
with you. He said the express company 
was anxious to get this claim settled, as 
Mr. Dillon kept after them so they would 
get no peace until they did settle it. 
A pkofitkkr bought a wonderful coun¬ 
try home and set about making it even 
more wonderful, according to his own 
ideas. One of his suggestions was a fish 
pond which should contain eels. “But 
you can’t keep eels in a pond,” objected 
his neighbor to whom he had confided his 
idea. “They have to go down to sea every 
year, you know.” “Well, I won’t have 
’em.” gasped the profiteer; “I always 
takes the missus and kids every year, but 
T ain’t going to take no eels.”—Credit 
Dost. 
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How to use Dynamite 
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A LONG the line of the required ditch, make holes 
- with crow-bar twenty-four to thirty inches 
deep and eighteen inches apart. (To learn if this 
spacing is correct, make a “test shot” of 8 to 10 
holes.) Into each of these holes, put one stick of 
50 or 60% NITROGLYCERIN DYNAMITE 
If the soil is wet only one cartridge need be primed 
with blasting cap. This cartridge is placed in the center 
hole. Attach the ends of electric blasting cap wires to 
the wires leading to a Du Pont Blasting Machine. The 
detonation of this one cartridge explodes the whole line 
of dynamite. If preferred, a blasting cap and fuse can 
be used on the center cartridge instead of an electric 
cap and blasting machine. If soil is dry, use an electric 
blasting cap in each cartridge, connected together and 
to a blasting machine. 
Write for a copy of our “Farmers’ Handbook of 
Explosives” giving complete instructions and loading 
methods for ditching, stumping and tree-planting. 
Your dealer can supply you with Du Pont Explosives 
and Blasting Accessories. 
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