Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-04-26
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
Former Editor Comments Upon Per-
sons. Places and Things

Recent issues of the daily papers
contained two criminal news items
which may well form the text for a
short financial sermon. a special
from Topeka speaks OF the arrest of
the secretary of the Uncle Sam Oil
Co. for using the u. S. mails for
swindling purposes. This corpora
ton has been very extensively adver-
tised and doubtless sold much OF its
stock to creulous people who had
more money than business caution.
The other special dealt with the ar
rest of eight mining operators who
had been indicted by the grand jury
at Pueblo last week for using the
mails to sell stock in fake mining
enterprises.
The moral OF the above recital is
to take stock in no corporation which
seeks your money through the mails,
the pages OF the great magazines, or
the columns of the newspapers. Per-
haps one in 100 of the corporations
which seek to thus unload stock on
the public is worthy OF patronage.
The other % are being operated sole
ly for the benefit of the promoters.
Some of the companies promise large
dividends and actually pay them-not
out of the profits OF the busines IS.
however. but with the money received
from suckers all over the country.
When the flow of checks and money
orders begins to slackcn the promot-
ers close their Offices and skip the
Country. Thanks to the easy" char
acter of the American public when
being worked on stock-selling
scheme the promoters have small for
tunes left after paying the batting div
idends for short time.
In taking this advice to fight shy
OF ALL corporations offering stock
for sale you run one chance in hum
dred OF missing good thing. The
one hundredth chance you have of
making a safe investment is so over
whelminGly against you that the I'd
vice to shun all investments in glow
ingly advertised stock companies is
justified. Your probabilities of prof.
its from such investments are about
equal to your chances OF being struck
by lightning.
The prosperity OF the Arkansas val
many readers Of the Enterprise have
surplus funds which ought to be safe
iy invested. Such readers will ask:
In what way shall we make prudent,
investments. Many times Il is easier
and safer to tell people what not TO
do than to advise them what TO do.
En, in this case advice can be given
withou, risk. Put your surplus mon
cy in Otero county lands or Rocky
Ford town property. Both arc cmi-
ncn,ly safe and have future prom
isinI satisfactory returns. The soil
Of the Rocky Ford country is safer
than savings bank.
Newspaper men rejoice at all evi.
denees OF the public's faith in the cor
rcetncss OF tho news they publish.
But an Indiana woman las, week car
ried this ercduliiy in the veracity OF
newspapers to an unwarrantcd cx-
,rcmc. She read in an Evansville
daily a rcpor, OF her own death and
a, once proceeded to die. Mark
Twain me; a similar report in a m orc
sensible manner. When the grca, hu-
morris; was living in England news
OF his death reached America. Al
friend eablcd to London to learn the
facts and the eablcgram fell into
Mr.. Clemens hands. He wired back:
Reports of my death greatly exag-
gcraicd."
Gardening in its FIRST stages Il at
traetivc and cniieing. You go OFT
in the cool Of a beautiful spring
morning. and famed by a bairny
breeze and eheered by tho music Of
the meadow lark you plant the spicy
radish, the odorifcrous onion. the
too;hsomc pea. and the bean that
eiimbcth the pole. This work is rea:-
ly enjoyable. but trouble begins when
the suns heat increases and the weeds
begin TO get in their industry -promo:-
ing influence. II Is one thing 10 plant
a garden some pleasant spring morn
ing and quite another to give II that
constant. laborious. pcrspiratory at
.tcn,ion needed to bring !, to useful
maturity. a shrcwd observer once
said that almost any man could take
his axe and go into tho woods and
make a farm. but tina, il took a
mighty smart man to keep ono Up.
This is simply stating tho all sum-
mcr grind gardening problem in an
other form.
The Denver Republican in cdi,o--
tally commenting upon Lawyer Del
mas closing address in the Thaw
case speaks of the large use he made
Of biblical language, his oratory be-
ing studded with the sonorous phrase
and musical diction OF the Hebrew
poets and prophets. and the brief.
compelling language of the Gospels.
The editorial says: Evidence is found
every day that in the art Of oratory
there is not much new under the sun,
and that he would reach the heart and
the convictions. of a jury or mass