Trouble Between Country Neighbors 
My neighbor across lho road and I are 
not on speaking terms because I insisted 
that he should keep his chickens home. A 
brook runs through his place, south, 
crosses the road and runs east, crossing 
another road, at which point I had to get 
rny water, not having any on my place, 
lie erected a pigpen to straddle this 
brook (on his own property), knowing I 
got my water at a point below. Old- 
timers, coming along, told me he had no 
right to do this, and one suggested that I 
take it up with the town doctor. I went 
to the village and explained the situation 
to the doctor, who. without any comment 
on my part said: “Why, he can’t do that; 
it looks like spite work; I’ll take the mat¬ 
ter up with the president of the board of 
health." Two weeks later, being in the 
village, and seeing him, I asked what 
progress had been made. He said. “Noth¬ 
ing can be done in that matter; the presi¬ 
dent says you don't have to drink that 
water," (I would have to go three- 
fourths of a mile if I didn't get it, there.) 
Then I said to him, quite a lot of folks 
drank from that brook. He said, “Oh, we 
can’t look out for everybody.” Now, the 
question is, does the law rend the way 
the doctor told me? The folks here con¬ 
tinue to say he has no right to pollute 
the brook. He also keeps bees. Hast year 
he had them back to the side of his house; 
Ibis year, with increased hives, he has 
moved them out close to the road fence. 
Is there a law to make him keep them 
back from the road? reader. 
The great trouble with these quarrels 
between neighbors, us I have observed 
them, is that neither party to the dispute 
ever finds a [dace at which to stop. One 
many annoys or injures another; the 
other retaliates; that retaliation calls for 
an answer in kind, and this answer must 
have its appropriate rejoinder. The long¬ 
er the play of ill-will goes on, the harder 
it. is to quit- Hatred grows until, not in¬ 
frequently, it destroys all peace of mind 
and happiness. And that’s the Worst of 
it. Hating a neighbor and endeavoring to 
get. even with him for an injury wouldn't 
lie half had if one could do it and enjoy it, 
but no one can. There is nothing else on 
earth, and probably nothing anywhere 
else, that cau blot out happiness like hat¬ 
red. Not the happiness of the one hated; 
that would be fine if that could be done, 
but the happiness of the hater himself. 
Most men of mature years have found 
this out for themselves, and some, after 
having found it. out, have been wise 
euough to choke off in their infancy any 
disputes I hat threatened to lead to a 
neighbor's quarrel. They have done this 
been use they have found that a quarrel 
cannot be made to pay from any stand¬ 
point. not even from one of personal sat¬ 
isfaction. 
All this is suggested by your letter, and 
that without the slightest inference of 
blame upon your part. You were in¬ 
jured by your neighbor’s hens, and a hen 
can du more damage in a given space of 
time than any other animal of twice its 
size living. There can be no question 
about that. Very probably you com¬ 
pelled your neighbor to keep his hens at 
home, and, at this, he took offense. Now 
lie lias sought to retaliate by polluting 
your water supply, and it is in your 
mind that perhaps you can make him 
trouble by compelling him to move his 
bees. Where is it going to end? You 
have, as I have, seen these disputes car¬ 
ried through a long lifetime and finally 
ended only by being sodded over. 
As to the law in the matter, there is 
plenty of it. If one cares to go as far 
hack as Leviticus 10:18, no will find an 
ordinance covering the whole situation. 
The ancient Hebrews tmist have kept 
hens. If, however, you wish more mod¬ 
ern statutes, I am told by a good lawyer 
that recent court decisions have held that 
no one has a right so to pollute a run¬ 
ning stream as to render its waters unfit 
for domestic use. and that, injunctions 
have been granted restraining offenders 
from eontiuuing such pollution. The legal 
remedy, therefore, is evidently to secure a 
supreme court injunction restraining your 
un neighborly neighbor from continuing 
his indecent practices, but, ns I survey 
the situation from the standpoint of a 
disinterested observer, the question arises, 
“Where is this thing going to stop?" 
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