The Editor of the New England Homestead kindly informs us that some scamp is pretending to be a correspondent of our two papers, and " for a consideration," will insert in his correspondence a "puff" of their establishments.

Parties who sell counterfeit money and then cheat their dupes out of money advanced, by giving them nothing, are safe because they know that the intention of their dupes to be a party to the fraud, would criminate the dupes if known. They keep quiet, for no one sympathizes with them when the facts are known.

So with these dupes, any man who pays for a puffin an article intended to appear as reading matter, is a party to a fraud and ought to suffer.

But is it not wonderful that anybody will give money to a stranger for any purpose whatever ?