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Drawing by Ray Walter*. KITING something for nothing la the W tune old popular delusion today that *y It has ever been. And as long as there are people who believe in this WtofevTOtoW ancient formula there will be those b'dlvtduals. Just a little b.'t \*J f slicker and a trifle more sophlstiBK rated, who will come forward with \ * * r schemes and plans founded on tills 4 unsound theory. The gold brick man and the pea and shell expert have forsaken three once productive devices for a much more modern and scientific lin-» of shady endeavor. Your up-to-date confidence man now goes In for “free lots" and similar < schemes which apparently involve stable finance in the wake of Investments Involving real estate. Poking as the representative of an eastern mortgage and security house, a confidence man of the new school has been swindling Montana investors with a “new plan of real estate financing." which, as a fraud, surjmsses “free lot" schemes 1 by crooked real estate developers, This Montana mountebank represents the new type confidence man. he who has given up the wire-tapping and gold-brick game of his forebears and. adopting the methods of bucket-shop operators. apj»eara to be a person skilled In matters of finance, especially as It relates to real estate operations This western harvester of “easy money” would approach well-known and active realty operators and tell them they had been gapaciaily “selected," because they ownot property In the city of their residence, were under fifty years of age. Insurable and prominent in their community. for “membership" In a new real estate financing company. Thia membership would make the persoft “selected" eligible to life Insurance on a single premium basis with a loan feature on a fully paid policy tn sums of not less than $40,000 and not more than ISO.OOO. Ah, Yea, the Advance Fee. s > The swindler represented that the policies were fawned by two well-known Insurance companies, each company writing a Joint policy and under- , writing half the amount The policy written ln‘the/ Dame of the new “member” was to be assigned to the “mortgage and security company" which the (chenier purported to represent In return the "memlter” was to receive loan credits which would apply to his account. A minimum advance fee was required In cash. To obtain this fee was the sole object of the game. When an adequate crop of victims had paid over their advance fees the promoter would disappear to fresh territory tn search of another harvest from gullible Investors. As soon as the victims made Inquiries of the named Insurance companies the fraud was dla- ■ covered. The companies declared that they were not' issuing such a type of policy, knew nothing of the “mortgage and security company," and had no representative of a description fitting the swindler. In keeping with his role, the confidence man was neatly dressed, appeared to be about seventy years of age. and had a dignified bearing. One doesn’t have to travel to Montana, however, to find the confidence man “In real estate." Attorneys of fraud bureaus tn the East have their hands full. In New Jersey a magnet to attract buyers was Issued tn the form of a metal disk which was distributed to "good prospects* with the Information that the recipient might be lucky enough to win a lot Before long, a group of holders received notice that they had won a lot and were requested to api>ear at the office of the developing company. There a benevolent looking gentleman Informed them that there would be a small charge of $47 for each free lot to cover “surveying, conveyance, etc." This sum generally represented more than the piece of property was worth. If You Win a Lot, Beware! Another method employed with a certain amount of success is to send a postal card to a person, informing him that he has won a lot. Calling by request at the office of the development company, he receives an Invitation to visit the development and view his property. To his chagrin he finds that the lot he has won. owing to an excessive amount of rock or high tide, is unsatisfactory. He wouldn't have It at any price, wouldn’t care to pay the “carrying charges." but yea, he would consider buying a different piece of property. This is known as the “pull-in" method, and It works.*

Explorers Have Hard Task in New Guinea

During the 400 yean since Dutch New Guinea was flrot seen by Europeans, the interior of the country baa never been explored owing to the dense fastnesses of the country- Tbv moontaina or marshes of the tatertor are suppoeed to. harbor tribes of pygmies who have never been seen By whites. Expeditions to reach theta have heretofore failed. The American-Dutch expedittoQ,

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In St Louis recently a man was approached in the lobby of a motion picture theater and asked to sign a card, as he might be “selected" to receive a free lot Just for “advertising purposes.” The next day he was Informed that he had won a -lot valued by the developers at $350. Rut he found it was a peculiar lot. A river ran through it. There followed the offer of a lot "Just as good, if not better." elsewhere on the tract. This was valued at $1,150, Rut the company was willing to allow to the customer the value of the lot he had Won if be bought the higher-priced lot The latter was always priced high enough in, excess of the “free" lot to cover the company's generosity. Keyes Winter, deputy attorney general, in charge of the New York state fraud bureau. In a statement on the free-lot scheme, recently said: , The Wife Fall, for Thi». “The usual procedure is for some salesman to call at a person’s home when the man of the house Is away at business. The wife is informed that, through the recommendation of a friend, she has been placed on a list of prospective free lot winners selected to help advertise a development. About five days later the man reappears and Informs the woman she has won a lot and should call at the office of the developer to get her deed. Naturally she Is enthusiastic about her good fortune. >t "Once tn the office, which is as ornate as the old-time bucket shops, with their mahogany furniture, the woman Is informed there Is the small matter of $25 or S3O to pay for recording and registering the deed. Sometimes, the victim wakes up aVdhls point and leaves, but generally she pays and MS her deed. The next step Is to look over her property. and when she finally locates it. If it really exists, she discovers it is back tn the woods or far from the road. If she protests, a generous allowance, several times what she paid. Is offered to her If she will trade her 'free lot’ back as part purchase price on a much better piece of land. Rising to the last bit of halt, with her name on a contract to pay so much a month, the real estate sharks have finally landed their victim where they wanted her. She now is producing profits for them every month." The traveling public has long been the prey of petty crooks and swindlers, and although most of us have been a point where we now are wont to regard with suspicion anyone who appears a trifle too friendly on a train journey, we occasionally meet up with the shunters of the rail. Buys a Fruit Stand, But— On trains and In railway stations this type of crook still survives, and a single railroad employs a police force of ADO to prevent outrages those who travel. It is. of course, a difficult task that this road squad assumes, for it may take them over several thousand miles of railway, and not every train can carry a policeman. Rut enough trains can carry them to make the swindlers wary. Most crooks realise the increasing difficulties under which they must work, which Is one reason for the astounding decline in railway crookery during the past few years. Some of the schemes operated are ingenious; others are stupid. For instance, there Is “Slxtycent" Fleming, the railway stall >n confidence man, . who Is always just sixty cents short of the price of a ticket, and make SIOO a day hereby as invariably some kind-hearted traveler hands him sixty cents, or. more likely still, gives him a dollar. But this is a small affair compared to the game worked upon a young alien who landed In America with a few thousand dollars and fell among the railway-station wolves of his own nationality.

under the auspices of the Smithsontan institution, is now making the greatest effort ever made and in all probability wQI succeed. Cutting through the jungle, except for short distances, is practically out of the question. The English expedition of ISII spent five weeks advancing five miles across the country. Not only does a path have to be hewn with axes, but advance means frequently

wading through mud, and parasites make brushing through the undergrowth a serious and dangerous business. Almost every leaf harbors e leech with head stretched out eternally waiting to attach itself to man or beast. Prison for Gosslers Gossiping wives are put in Jan tn Custrin, a little Belgian town. On the complaint of husbands housewives who leave their morning work to hang over the back fence with the

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According to John R. Tunis, who has made a study of the problem confronting the railway police, the strangers took their victim into a large terminal, showed him the Information booth in the center of the great rotunda, and suggested that it would make a choice spot for a fruit stand. As they had papers which seemed to prove their option on the place, he gladly passed over $2,000. The next morning when he went in to establish his new business, it topk the combined efforts of eight railroad policemen, the station master, and a couple of city cops to dispossess him. Hanging’s Too Good for Him. Writing in the Elks Magazine, Mr. Tunis relates the unfortunate experience of an old couple who, arriving at a railway station, were taken in charge by one of the public porters hanging about the entrance. Fndlng that his charges had an hour to wait for the Chicago train, this obliging porter seated the couple in the waiting room, got the old lady a drink of water, and soon discovered that it was their first visit to a large city. Had they bought their tickets to Chicago? They had not So off he went, without, however, asking for any money. They never noticed this. In twenty minutes he was back, and standing outside the gate, he handed them two long green slips, assured them he was not allowed to go inside, told them their train was ready to go, and then collected twice s4l. the price of a Chicago ticket They tried to get In. were stopped, and showed their tickets to a guard. They were two long strips of subway tickets, worth exactly two dollars. Watch your baggage carefully until the train pulls out. is a good safety measure against a certain type of thief. Mr. Tunis says. This crook gets away with bags and suitcases by buying a ticket for the train’s first stop and so getting through the gate, or sneaking around to arwther gate and working up to the limited train. That they go through the pullmans, and when they observe a passenger outside waiting for the departure by taking a smoke on the platform, they pick up his bag and walk into the next ear. Just as the train starts they drop off. This man is the species of baggage thief. About A. Cohen, the Pullman car thieves are known as “creeps." and the most gifted of them was a character named Alphonse Cohen. Ills method was to take berths on the big trains out of Chicago and Denver and pick out likely victims during the hour tn the diner. Then he would wait until early morning, slip under the curtains, rifle the clothes and if possible the baggage of his victims, and slip off at the next station. A railroad man trailed him for eight months before getting him cold on a Job. Then there was Palmer, the college graduate. Quiet, well-dressed, looking the part of big bnsfnesa. he worked pullman trains in ranch the same way as Cohen. But bls method was far more efficient. He always left a certain sum of money in pocketbooks that he "dipped," and as a result the victim never realised his loss until he had left the train. But one night the detective of a western road discovered him emerging from a berth after a successful haul. Palmer climbed into his own berth while the detective quietly awakened the passenger and so discovered the theft Then he went for Palmer. Cornered, Palmer fought drew a pistol, and succeeded in opening the window of his berth and Jumping out He fell into the snow, but broke both ankles, and is now recuperating down in Atlanta where the climate Is far mors' suited to pajamas than the bleak stretches of the Dakotas tn midwinter.

neighbors can be committed by tbs authorities to the town bastile. Numerous complaints are made by huebands who invoke this revival of an old medieval law to keep their wives in hand. Says tAe Deacon Os course, had I been there to give Instructions when the world was tn the making, things would have bee® different, but there’d have been no living in the world thereafter.—Atlanta Constitution.

ORCHARD qirAM\G5 DYNAMITE USEFUL TO LOOSEN SOIL “The use of dynamite in digging the hole for tree planting may be helpful where the soil is dry and hard, and where the top soil is thin and rests ui>on shale or subsoil that is mixed with stones and gravel; It is not necessary. however, when soil conditions are favorable to digging," says F. H. Ballou, associate horticulturist. Ohio experiment station. “Where the top soil is fully a shovel blade In depth, is underlaid with a clay subsoil, is moist and In condition to be readily handled with a shovel, there is no advantage in using dynamite. Under these conditions trees come Into fruiting as soon and do as well In every respect as those set in excavations made by blasting. As the roots spread rapidly in every direction, they soon outgrow the small space loosened for them by blasting. "However, dynamite may prove helpful In digging holes when the soil is dry and hard and difficult to loosen and remove with pick and shovel, or even where the soil is moist but lies shallow over hard or’stony subsoil. "To dynamite for tree planting, onefourth or third of a stick of dynamite is placed at tne bottom of a hole drilled IS or 20 inches'deep where the tree is to stand. Fine soil is tirmly tamped above the charge, which is then exploded, finely shattering and bulging, but not throwing out the hard dry earth. This makes easy work of shoveling out the soil. “I‘ynamite should not be used in a moist clay subsoil in spring, for the blasting will leave cavernous openings around which the clay subsoil will dry hard. These will cause the soil about the tree roots to settle unevenly, throwing rhe tree out of position.” Wire Screen Is Best to Stop Girdling of Trees Another problem, that of protecting trees against rabbits, will l»e added to the orchardist’s list with the coming < ,of cold weather. It is during the cold winter months that rabbits search more diligently for food such as succulent bark, leaves, grass and different herbage available. When winter snows cover the ground young trees are usually attacked and may be completely girdled if found to the rabbit’s liking. Wire has been found the most practical and efficient means of protection against rabbits and its use in the orchard may be a means of saving many trees. It is pointed out by authorities at the college of agriculture, University of Illinois. Repetlants. such as coal tar, limesulphur and other materials have not proven satisfactory*. One-quarter-ifich mesh wire is preferable to the half or one-inch mesh for the reason that when it is set down a half-inch below the ground surface, it will also be a. protection against girdling by the meadow mouse. If the orchard is clean cultivated, and without an infestation of field mice, the one-inch mesh of No. 20 galvanized wire will be satisfactory.. The wire should be cut in not less than one-foot lengths and should be large enough to allow for the growth of the tree for several years.

Increased Fire Blight Attributed to Insects FJre blight in apple and pear orchards this season is the worst In recent years, causing pomologists at the Graham Horticultural Experiment station at Grand Rapids to feel that there Is some definite relationship between the percentage of bloom in the spring and the prevalence of the blight In midseason. The worst infections are in orchards which bloomed heavily last spring. Blocks that did not bloom have little or no tip blight. Spread of the disease is attributed to insects which carry germs from Infected blossoms to other trees as they gather honey. Horticultural Facts The locust tree js a legume. • • • One can weaken a tree by pruning It too much. Dry. unleached wood ashes furnish potash to the soil and benefit it In other ways. New York planted 12.0«X000 trees last spring. The object is to supply timber and recreation grounds for the future. • • • Lending farm machinery Is bad business. It generally comes back in poor shape and Just at the time that you want to use It. • • • Cockleburs are annual plants, which means that they must grow each year from the seed. Gathering vegetables, flowers, fruit and so on as soon as they are ready for use encourages longer bearing. •• • • For a new strawberry patch to be planted next spring the best location Is a piece of well-drained clover sod, plowed this fall. Don’t lime it —strawberries like a somewhat acid soil. But manure the land pretty heavily befort plowing, for the best results. • • • Forest plantations with a minimum care yield large profits on soil too poor for other crops. • • * It Is always a good plan to shelter the farm machinery, as its life may be doubled by proper care and housing. The greatest variation in pruning practice with raspberries is in heading in. With the reds it usually takes place In the spring and may consist in cutting off only the portion of the cane injured during the winter to cutting back the canes to about five feet.

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