The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-04

expense to Milwaukee, Dubuque or Kansas City there to await telegraphic orders to what to do next you take it out in waiting. The orders never come and when you go back to the companys office you find that the com pany has foated away on the magic carpet, nobody knows where.
 But it was soon found by the swindlers that these devices, like the green goods game. were rather crude and almost equally unsafe. So to the education of the man who the half interest or employment scheme was add ed postgraduate course in high finance. It came to be recognized by the swindling gentry that there was nothing like a corporation when one wanted to do q really safe and pros porous business, Then, too, the corporation must have something somewhere. If it is mining company it must have a hole in the ground If a rubber coffee company it must have some sort of concession from the Mexican or a South American government, which is always very easy to get. If it is cotton concern it must have a fence corner somewhere down south These things are ac- tualy necessary in order to show in court when the time comes that the men who have taken your money have endeavored to carry out their part of the contract and that they have failed is merely their misfortune For 10 fail in business is net necessarily crime.
 There IS a firm in New York that collects and sells addresses of people who buy things through the mails or who have at some time evinced a desire to do so. These addresses are sold at $8 a thousand. They are assorted under various headings. If for example, 12, 900 men have sent in applications for wives to New York matrimonial bureau, that list is worth $96 to $3 diamond ring concern that is setting up a circular mill.
 Speaking of the matrimonial game, a New York man sent out 10 900 circulars advertising that a young widow with s40,000 wished to marry an industrious, frugal gentleman; no objection to the country The replies were to be sent to Bayonne, N. J.. where the advertiser had big mail box that soon stuffed with letters from marriageable men all over the country. The strange part of it all was that the greater number of these men were actually willing to pay half the travelling expenses of the widow, who invariably located such a dis tance from the wouldbe husband as would make said half expenses about $15.
 When the postal authorities stopped his mail the agent was indignant. He declared his business was perfectly legitimate, but when official demand was made for the pro- ducton of the widow and her $4O,000 he wilt ed. A big stack of letters containing checks and money orders was stamped Fraudulent" and returned to the senders.
 The brokerage plan of Frances M. Mclean of 26 Broadway, New York looked as straight as a string to J. B. M. Miller Cincinnati grocer. There couldn't be any fraud about it. because the circular referred to five eminent and reliable business firms in New York Still the shrewd Mir Miller thought it was just as well that the references be looked up, par ticularly the broker woman.
 Frances NJ. Mclean, of 26 Broadway said in her confidentially worded circular that she had for years been studying the "street" and insdously hinted that she had such relations with big fnancers to be able to extract from them information of tremendous value to her clients, one of whom, a Baltimore man, had made $3O0.000 through her advice and an-