'C.'he  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Frank  of  Peach  Hill 
By  Geo.  B.  Fiske 
(Continued  from  page  1131.) 
Our  guests  laughed  at  our  ways  of 
housekeeping.  “Just  like  boys,”  ex¬ 
claimed  Mrs.  Frost.  “Now  let  me  show 
you  how  to  wash  dishes." 
But  it  was  rinzel  who  gave  us  the 
lesson.  “First  I  pour  the  hot  water,  this 
way  and  let  it  per-r-colate.”  She  purred 
out  the  word  like  a  mischievous  kitten 
and  I  forgot  the  rest  of  the  lesson  watch¬ 
ing  her  neat  plump  hand  moving  capably 
about  with  the  soap  and  tinware. 
“I  served  ten  years  in  a  washery  wash, 
swabbing  off  dishes,  swishery  swash,” 
sang  Harry  as  he  flourished  his  own  de¬ 
vice,  a  newspaper  dish  towel.  “It’s  the 
Evening  Star,”  he  explained.  “It  makes 
a  good  towel  but  the  Daily  News  is  bet¬ 
ter.” 
“Because  it  is  larger,”  suggested  Mrs. 
Frost. 
“No,  because  it’s  such  a  dry  paper.” 
“Sometimes,”  concluded  Harry  with  a 
grin,  “we  hang  a  basket  of  dishes  in  the 
pond  hole,  three  meals  at  a  time,  and  let 
them  soak,” 
Then  Ilazel  told  us  of  some  of  the 
chores  and  everything  on  the  drive  at.  our 
hill  we  kept  him  pretty  well  occupied. 
As  for  the  Carey  crowd,  I  asked  them 
straight  out  to  leave  my  friend  alone, 
and  this  plain-speaking  did  not  add  to 
their  love  of  yours  truly.  T  had  a  talk 
with  the  church  folks  about  the  liquor 
nuisance  in  town.  There  were  no  reg¬ 
ular  saloons  allowed,  but  the  drugstores 
did  a  more  or  less  select  drink  business 
on  the  quiet.  The  Bill  Carey  crowd, 
included  that  red-faced  individual,  with 
Ben  Lauty  the  German  farmer,  old  Cap¬ 
tain  Carter,  an  aged  rum-soaked  veteran 
soldier,  Big  Jim  Flynn,  an  Irishman  who 
worked  a  good  farm  when  he  was  sober, 
and  a  few  . ockless  young  disciples  of  this 
precious  bunch  of  worthies.  They  spent 
much  of  their  time  hanging  about  one 
of  the  public  stables  kept  by  a  couple 
of  brothers,  named  Marks, 
“Why  don’t  you  jail  some  of  them 
when  they  get  drunk  and  make  a  nuis- 
auce  of  themselves?”  I  asked  of  John  Joy, 
who  was  oue  of  the  leading  men  at  the 
church. 
(To  be  continued.) 
Legal  Questions 
Disposal  of  Property 
I  would  like  some  information  in  re¬ 
gard  to  inherited  property  now  in  the 
possession  of  the  second  generation,  con¬ 
sisting  of  a  farm.  I  would  like  to  give 
a  deed  of  it  to  my  son,  and  have  some 
arrangements  in  it  to  retain  the  rents 
or  proceeds  as  long  as  I  or  my  husband 
lives,  and  to  have  the  privilege  of  selling 
it  if  it  should  become  aoeessax'y  and  buy 
another  place  or  do  as  sve  sec  fit  to  in¬ 
vest  the  money,  the  same  as  if  it  was 
before  the  deed  was  made  or  transferred, 
only  son  under  21  to  have  possession  of 
what  is  left  after  our  death.  Would  the 
deed  he  made  like  any  ordinary  deed  and 
then  add  these  provisions,  and  how  would 
it  be  made  to  read  so  there  will  be  no 
mistake?  m.  h.  D. 
New  York. 
The  way  you  would  probably  have  to 
do  this  would  be  by  means  of  a  trust 
deed,  by  which  the  title  would  be  held 
by  a  third  party  in  trust  for  you  during 
your  lifetime,  and  then  vest  in  your  sou. 
You  could  also  incorporate  in  the  trust 
deed  a  reservation  of  a  power  of  direc¬ 
tion  by  which  you  could  at  any  time  dur¬ 
ing  your  life  direct  the  trustee  to  sell 
the  property  and  invest  the  proceeds  in 
such  securities  as  you  shall  direct  or  in 
other  real  property.  To  proceed  with  a 
matter  of  this  kind  you  should  go  to  the 
best  local  attorney  you  cau  fiud  and  ex¬ 
plain  the  whole  situation  to  him.  This 
is  one  of  the  matters  where  it  pays,  and 
is  in  the  end  cheapest,  to  get  good  ad* 
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vice  before  you  proceed.  This  method  of 
disposal  is  better,  all  things  considered, 
than  to  dispose  of  the  property  outright 
and  then  have  to  depend  on  the  goodness 
of  the  one  to  whom  the  property  is  given 
for  a  living.  This  last  method  has  often 
led  to  hardships. 
Clipping  Branches  from  Trees  on  Line 
My  neighbor  has  a  row  of  Elberta 
peach  trees  four  feet  from  line.  These 
have  grown  three  Summers  and  after 
pruning  this  Spring  go  over  the  line  in 
some  places.  Now  I  want  to  know  if  I 
can  keep  trimming  off  all  growth  that 
passes  the  line,  and  what  I  can  do  when 
the  limbs  are  brought  down  on  top  of  the 
fence  as  they  will  be  when  bearing. 
New  Jersey.  i,  e.  j. 
Although  I  have  no  New  Jersey  cases, 
the  well-established  rule  is  that  if  the 
trunk  of  a  tree  be  wholly  on  one  man’s 
land  while  the  roots  extend  iuto  another’s 
soil  and  the  branches  ovprbang  it,  the  en¬ 
tire  tree  and  all  its  fruits,  if  any,  belong 
to  the  owner  of  the  land  on  which  the 
trunk  stands.  The  adjacent  owner,  how¬ 
ever,  may  lop  off  the  branches  and  roots 
at  the  dividing  line  between  the  two  lots 
of  land.  When,  on  the  other  hand,  the 
trunk  of  a  tree  stands  partly  on  one 
man's  laud  and  partly  on  another’s,  the 
dividing  line  between  the  lots  passing 
through  the  trunk,  whether  at  its  middle 
or  not,  the  entire  tree  and  its  fruits  be¬ 
long  to  the  two  land  owners  as  tenants 
in  common.  By  this  rule  you  may  pro¬ 
ceed  with  your  lopping  process  whenever 
any  limbs  come  over  the  line,  but  a  pure¬ 
ly  lay  suggestion  would  be  to  wait  until 
the  peaches  are  ripe  to  begin. 
handy  kinks  she  had  learned  in  the  cook¬ 
ery  course  at  school,  and  described  a  few 
fancy  dishes  which  sounded  pretty  choice, 
but  wore  hardly  iu  line  with  our  present 
cooking  facilities,  but  we  liked  to  watch 
her  tell  about  it,  and  the  two  ladies  at 
our  request,  gave  us  a  few  practical  bints 
■which  might  be  termed  first  aid  to  batch- 
elor  housekeepers. 
After  we  had  escorted  our  guests 
around  the  orchard  and  poultry  yard  and 
part  way  home  the  afternoon  was  near¬ 
ly  over,  the  first  pleasant  half  day  that 
I  had  taken  off  all  Summer,  but  we  were 
far  from  grudging  the  loss  of  time. 
“A  fine  woman  that;”  I  remarked, 
speaking  of  the  mother  but  thinking  per¬ 
haps  of  the  Other  also. 
“Glorious,"  agreed  Ilarry.  “if  you 
mean  the  daughter.  Say.  old  chap,  what 
do  you  suppose  Lena  would  think  of  the 
way  you  looked  at  this  Ilazel  girl?" 
“No.  I  didn’t.”  I  protested,  “and  if  I 
did,  it’s  nothing  beside  Lena’s  letting  you 
dance  around  her  all  last  Winter. 
Harry  eyed  me  shrewdly  and  for  him 
quite  soberly. 
“I’ll  give  you  to  understand  this 
much."  he  concluded,  finally.  “There'll 
be  no  more  holding  off  on  my  part  and 
you  might  as  well  know  it.  Lena  will 
decide  it  of  course,  but  I'm  goiug  in  to 
win  if  I  cau.” 
“Very  well,  my  son,”  I  replied,  rather 
surprised  at  my  own  good  nature,  as  I 
spoke.  v“You  are  safe  enough  here,  and 
1  think  I  can  find  ways  to  look  after  my 
own  interests."  Then  I  took  to  my 
thoughts.  There  are  times  when  more 
talk  is  worse  than  useless. 
“Take  a  handful  of  rice,  some  raisins 
and  spice.  Soak  ’em  and  cook  ’em  and 
it  tastes  mighty  nice,"  sing-songed  Harry 
as  he  started  the  next  morning's  meal. 
CHAPTER  XVI. 
The  Raid. 
The  trouble  with  Bill  Carey's  crowd 
began  about  midsummer.  Ilarry  iu  his 
rather  lonesome  wanderings  about  town 
of  evenings,  bad  fallen  in  with  some  of 
that  sporty  set,  and  came  back  to  the 
bill  with  his  manner  far  too  lively,  even 
for  him,  and  his  breath  smelling  of  beer, 
or  stronger,  reminding  me  of  old  exper¬ 
iences  of  which  I  was  well  enough 
ashamed.  « 
“I  promised  to  keep  you  out  of  mis¬ 
chief.  Ilarry,”  I  said,  next  morning.  “No 
more  of  this,  or  a  letter  to  your  folks 
and  a  return  ticket  to  the  city  will  be 
the  only  thing  to  do.” 
lie  was  sorry  enough,  and  promised 
readily,  as  usual.  For  my  part,  from 
that  time,  I  did  what  I  could  to  see  that 
be  kept  out  of  such  trouble.  I  had  Un¬ 
cle  Ed  lend  us  their  grapbopboue  with 
plenty  of  records,  lively  tunes  and  vaude¬ 
ville.  and  we  ground  them  out  cveuiugs 
after  work.  I  tried  without  success  to 
interest  him  iu  my  farm  books  and  bul¬ 
letins,  but  had  liis  parent  ship  him  out 
some  of  his  few  pet  books.  I  even  got 
a  few  of  the  young  people  iu  church  to 
look  after  him  a  little  and  invite  him 
out,  and  altogether  with  our  abundant 
What’s  Under 
Any  good  anti -friction  bearing  can 
give  satisfactory  service  at  certain 
points  in  a  motor  car,  but  a  vital  ques¬ 
tion  to  the  car  owner  is — What’s  Under 
the  Hub  Cap  ? 
There  is  a  vast  difference  between  the 
tests  that  bearings  have  to  meet  on  the 
fan  shaft  of  a  motor  or  the  stem  gear  of 
the  transmission  and  those  which  they 
must  meet  in  the  hubs  of  the  wheels. 
Under  the  hub  caps,  the  bearings  in 
your  car  fight  the  forces  of  weight  from 
above  and  pressure  from  the  side.  Resil¬ 
ient  springs  and  deep  upholstery  cushion 
the  road  shocks  for  the  occupants  of  the 
car,  but  the  bearings  in  the  wheels  must 
take  them  for  hours  without  relief. 
Every  cobblestone,  rut  and  car  track 
delivers  its  blow  with  the  force  of  a 
sledge  hammer. 
Will  the  bearings  in  your  car  mea¬ 
sure  up  to  this  test? 
•  Some  bearings  can. 
Timken  Bearings  do — 
And  the  proof  of  that  statement  lies 
in  the  fact  that  one  hundred  and  fifty - 
nine  makers  of  motor  cars — pleasure 
the  Hub  Cap? 
and  commercial — put  Timken  Bear¬ 
ings  under  their  hub  caps. 
Long  before  the  first  motor  car  was 
built  Timken  Bearings  were  used  in  the 
hubs  of  heavy  horse-drawn  vehicles,  and 
they  made  good  because  the  basic  prin¬ 
ciples  of  their  design  (which  have  never 
been  changed)  enabled  them  to  resist 
the  forces  that  caused  other  bearings  to 
wear  out. 
Timken  Bearings  have  proven  their 
ability  to  stand  the  punishment  no 
wheel  bearings  can  escape.  But  there 
are  still  other  places  where  good  bearings 
are  equally  essential — fully  as  important. 
On  the  pinion  shaft  and  at  the  differen¬ 
tial  where  gears  must  be  held  in  perfect 
mesh  and  shafts  in  true  alignment — in  the 
transmission  through  which  full  power 
must  come  to  the  rear  axle.  Here,  too, 
you  need  Timken  Bearings. 
Send  for  booklet  F-2  7,  “TheCompanies  Timken  Keeps.” 
Know  what  cars  useTimken  Bearings — where  they  are  and 
how  many  they  have.  You  may  have  this  book  free  to¬ 
gether  with  another  book  on  the  “Care  and  Character  of 
Bearings”  which  will  give  you  even  a  better  understanding 
of  the  question,  “What’s  Under  the  Hub  Cap?" 
TIMKEN  ROLLER  BEARING  CO.VrB/ 
Canton,  Ohio  V/ 
