Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — Tricks on Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Tricks on Farmers.

r Attemtioe has already bpenfanedtte a bill passed by one Hoose of the LegislaJftre to promissory notea.end tracts altered, after being made, by interpolation or erasures. It is intended to protect farmers from the fraudulent devices of traveling sharpen. The propriety'of it is illustrated by a cheat now being practised in some parts of this State by cloth peddlen. They are very accommodating; they do not want money; ,they are willing to sell their,«goods, not ofily very cheap, but on sb; of nine months’ credit. Tney offer several pieces Of cloth and dress-suods, enough to make a suit

is real value—and agree to taka the farmer’s note at six months In payment. The bargain is so enticing that it is caught at immediately, and. the note, drawn by the peddler, is signed, and the sharper takes his departure to play the same trick on others. Bix months afterward the farmer is notified by the bank or a note-broker ip the neighboring town that his note for SIW or $l2O is 'due and must be paid. The farmer is surprised; he endeavors to explain, that the note in question was for only $lO or S2O; but tliere are the figures to speak, for themselves; an additional one had been prefixed,‘so as to increase the note by SIOO, and the unsuspecting farmer finds himself caught in a trap. If the purchaser, proposes at the titpe of the transaction to pay for the goods in cash, the rascally peddler declines to receive it, qtating that he is only the agent of a Chicago house, and is not permitted to receive mdney. It will be.well for Missouri farm-, ers to be : ml their guard against all such traveling knaves as these.— St. Louie Hepublican. ' " r, ' i ‘ '