Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-03
HuMBuGs.


We propose this week, for the enlighten-
ment of those Of our readers who may not
be posted in such matters, to give a little
space to some Of these enterprises, and we
shall charge them nothing for what advertis.
ing we do for them.
The principal means by which swinding
concerns who do business on large scale
work themselves into the public confidence
is through the aid of the country press.
The profits of printing weekly newspaper
are small enough at BEST and when an offer
for the insertion Of an advertisement, with
sure cash pay comes along, it needs more
moral courage than the average newspaper
publisher possesses to resist the temptation to
shut one eye to the moral side of the ques-
ton aud insert the advertisement
Many of the humbugs which are aaOat
are of strictly illegal" character and it
is seldom that their advertisements are re-
fused or hesitated over by publishers.
agents wanted, So to $50 per day guaran.
teed )" employment, all classes, male or
female. in a highly lucrative business !"
"a fortune how by specializing in stocks
and bonds :" "Puts and calls; !" "Secrets Of
success in Wall Street :" these are few Of
the headings of strictly illegal" advertise
ments which draw many an unwary youth
into speculations which afford 6ne chance
to make money-ior some one else.
OF one thing all may rest assured Peo-
pie are not apt for the sum Of twenty-five
or fifty cents to impart information which is
actually worth FIVE, ten, or hundred dol
lars nor are shrewd business men in the
habit of giving "S5 to 20 per day" to every
one who comes along and starting them out
as agents. For those who invest in stock
speculations, or who send cash for packages
of counterfeit money We have small SYM
pathy when they find that they have been
duped and swindled out Of their money, and
have no means of redress. They undertook
to make money dishonesty, and were treat
ed as they would have treated others.
But there are plenty of cases which de-
serve sympathy, but which rarely get it.
In this instance San ounce of preventive is
worth pound of cure" If people would
realize the fact that money received without
being earned by adequate services is not
honestly received, and would set their faces
against all offers of sudden wealth, content
! ing themselves with earning a little at n
time and taking good care of that little,
they would be happier and more successful.
Generally the victims of advertising
swindlers are boys living in or near the viii
lagos, but all classes are fshed after by va
rious sharpers. The grangers are not ex.
empted, as we see by the tie following from
late issue OF the Prairie Farmer
During the past week another bold at
| tempt to swindle the people of the country
has been brought to light. This time it is
| an effort to beat THAT great monopoly, tho
sewing machine ring 1t was 20 be done
by supplying all the purchasers with En-
| glish machines, 1t being alleged in the first
| circular OF the operator, that the patents on
sewing machines had all expired there, that
labor was cheap, and that the cost of man
ufacturc was from So TO $40; that they
| could DO brought to Canada for 80 each, and
sold there for $40 and II fine profit realized.
| lie also protends to have an arrangement by
which he avoids the payment OF duties, eX-
cept to the amount of about "a. lle pro-
| poses to sell the machines at S22. lilo will
| ,,eE nf phal ar
and will take three months notes for tho
| balance.
or course, like all the sharks, he has
"Gone forn the grange trade. SO Inc issue:
the following circular;
OFFICE OF A. w. LOCKE, CHICAGO, Apr. |
"Since issuing my former circular. | have
been strongly urged TO have my business
made known to the people by sending my
circulars direct to the Secretaries or Mas
tiers Of different Oranges; and meeting with
| such good success, L have concluded 10 nc
the principal part Of my business through
| the assistance of the grange officers.
| desire that my business should become
widely known, and to do so am compelled
to restrict the number of orders from each
grange, owing to the limited number OF or
ders that can be filled this year, / cannO
fill more than four or five from each grange
and one or two orders would suit me better
rs it would not exhaust my supply in
few oranges but will enable me TO scatter
them through great many, and open thu
way for next years trade, when | shall b'
prepared TO fill much larger orders.
"Any Master or Secretary OF u grange u
hereby authorized TO act rs my agent II
their oranges, and when any order is sen
the amount of United States duties mus
be inclosed, rs the United States govern
ment don't trust, and the importer mus
pay down; but Mt this time OF the year mon
ey is usually scarce article among farm
ers, So have concluded to give, where it /
any object, three months time, which viii
put the day of payment after harvest 10
the balance due-$l0 And agents are au
thorZed to take three months notes of thos
who want time for the balance due, incroas
cd by ten per cent, which makes $l7,60
due three months after receipt Of machine
by my instructions these notes VIII be re
ceivable by the express company's agent n
pay for the balance, and will be collects
by him when due.
{ 1--WE are so far behind in filling order
that orders received this month cannot b
filled before June, and orders coming /
May and up TO June 18th, cannot be file
before July.
: ORDERS received after June 10th, will b
returned, rs they cannot be filled this sum
mer.
estate your nearest express Office. .Ad
; dress.
A.W. LOCKE, Lock Box 500, Chicago, III.
Tho date is little significant, but he VIII
/ invests will find II n costly "April Fool" 70
of course the whole thing is bareiace
fraud. The matter being givon 10 the pc
= lice, no A. w. Locke could be found, nor nm
office where he had been operating.
watch has been kept over his correspond
? ence at the post office, but ut last account
he had not called for his letters. larg
, number of which have accumulated in loo
box 500.
! The foregoing explains itself Such col
: Germs as the Eastern Book Co., which wi
f ventilated in the FARMER some time ag
. are quite numerous. Knowing the avidit
! with which boys generally seize upon ar
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