The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1910-03-03

expense, to Milwaukee. Dubuque or Kansas
City, there to await telegraphic orders as to
what to do next, you take il out In waiting.
The orders never come and when you go back
to the company's Office you find thct the com.
pany has noated away on the magic carpet.
nobody knows where.
But il was soon found by the swlndlers
that these devices. like the green goods game.
were rather crude and almost equally unsafe.
So TO the education OF the man who ran the
half interest or employment scheme was add
ed a postgraduate course In high finance. Il
came 10 be recognized by the swindling gentry
that there was nothing like a corporation
when one wanted 10 do a really safe and pros.
porous business. Then, too, the corporation
must have something somewhere. II il is a
mining company IL must have n hole I'm the
ground. II a rubber or coffee company II
must have some sort OF concession from The
Mexican or a South American government,
which is always very easy 20 get. II it IS e
cotton concern II must have a fence corner
somewhere down south. These things are a..
tually necessary In order TO show IN court
when the time comes that the men who have
taken your money have endeayored to carry
out their part OF the contract and that they
have failed Is merely their misfortune. For
10 fan In business Is not necessarily a crime
There IS a firm IN New York that collects
and soils addresses OF people who buy things
through the mails or who have at some time
eviuced a desire 10 do so. These addresses
are sold at s. a thousand. They are assorted
under various headings. II. for example. -. 900
men have sent "a applications for wives TO a
New York matrimonial bureau, that list is
worth SOC TO a 50 diamond ring concern that
IS setting up a circular mill.
Speaking Of the matrimonial game. a New
York man sent out 10000 circulars advertising
that a young widow with 100000 wished 10
marry an industrious. frugal gentleman. no
objection 90 the country. The replica we're 70
be- sent 20 Bayuuue, n. J., where The advertiser
had a big mail box that was soon stuffed with
letters from manageable men an over the
country. The strange part OF Il an was that
the greater number OF these men were actually
willing 90 pay half the travelling expenses of
the widow, who invariably located such a dis.
lance from the would-be husband as would
make said half expenses about Sl5.
When the postal authorities stopped his
mail the agent was Indignant Ho declared
his business was perfectly legitimate. but
when an Official demand was made for the pro
ductlon Of the widow and her $4,000 he wilt.
ed. A big stack OF letters containing checks
and money orders was stamped Fraudulent
and returned 20 the senders.
The brokerage plan Of Frances N. Mclean
OF 20 Broadway. New York. looked as straight
as a string 90 J. B. 81. Miller. a Cincinnati
grocer. There couldn't be any fraud about Il.
because the circular referred 20 five eminent
and reliable business firms IN New York. stul
the shrewd Mr.. Miller thought II was just as
well that the references be looked up. par.
ucularly as the broker was a woman.
Frances NJ. Mclean. Of 20 Broadway. said
In her conhdentially worded circular that she
had for years been studying the street" aud
insidiousiy limited that she had such relations
with big hnanciers as to be able 20 extract
from them information OF tremendous value 10
her clients, one OF whom. a Baltimore man,
had made $500. 900 through her advice ana an.