The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-03-11

expense to Milwaukee. Dubuque Kansas
City there to await Geographic orders to
what to do next, you take it out in waiting.
The orders never come and when you go back
to the company's office you find that the COM
pany has foated away the magic carpet.
nobody knows where.
But it was soon found by the swindlers
that these devices. like the green goods game.
rather crude and almost equally unsafe.
So to the education of the man who ran the
half interest employment scheme was add
ed postgraduate course in high finance. 1t
came to be recognized by the swindling gentry
that there nothing like a corporation
when wanted to do really safe and pros
porous business. Then. too. the corporation
must have something somewhere. If it is
mining company it must have hole in the
ground If a rubber coffee company it
must have some sort of concession from the
Mexican a South American government.
which is always very easy to get. IL it is a
cotton concern it must have a fence corner
somewhere down south. These things
tually 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
to fail in business is not necessarily crime
There is a firm in New York that collects
and sells addresses of people who buy things
through the mails who have at some time
evinced a desire to do These addresses
sold at IS thousand. They are assorted
under various headings. IT, for example, IL 600
men have sent in applications for wives to
New York matrimonial bureau. that list is
worth $50 to So diamond ring concern that
is setting up circular mill.
Speaking of the matrimonial game. a New
York sent out 10000 circulars advertising
that a young widow with $4,000 wished to
marry industrious, frugal gentleman;
objection to the country. The replies were to
be sent to Bayonne. n. J.. where the advertiser
had big mail box that stuffed with
letters from manageable men all the
country. The strange part of il 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 dis
lance from the would be husband would
make said half expenses about SIS.
When the postal authorities stopped his
mail the agent indignant. He declared
his business perfectly legitimate. but
when official demand was made for the pro-
duction of the widow and her $4,000 he wilt
ed. A big stack of letters containing checks
and money orders stamped Fraudulent"
and returned to the senders.
The brokerage plan of Frances M. Mclean
of &c Broadway, New York. looked as straight
as a string to J. B. NJ 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 Mr.. Miller thought it just
we'll that the references be looked up. par
ticuIarly the broker was woman
Frances NJ. Mclean, of 26 Broadway, said
in her confdentaly worded circular that she
had for years been studying the street" and
insidiously limited that she had such relations
with big fnancers to be able to extract
from them information of tremendous value to
her clients, of whom Baltimore man.
had made 100000 through her advice and