1888 
Cam. 
11 Every Man is presumed to know the Law; 
Nine-tenths of all Litigation arises from Ig¬ 
norance of Law .' 1 ' 1 
M. F., Ithaca, N. Y.— An incorporated 
cemetery association owns and has laid out 
into lots for burial purposes about five acres 
of land, adjacent to A’s farm. The association 
avows its intention of extending itself over 12 
or 15 acres of the choicer part of A’s farm. A 
holds a life interest in the farm and his child¬ 
ren desire that the farm should remain as it 
is, intact. 1. Has the cemetery a legal right 
to appropriate this land at all? 2. If it has, 
can it do so while any part of what it already 
owns is unoccupied— i. e. remains unsold for 
burial purposes? 3. Can A and his children 
place a barrier to this extension by planting 
an orchard or a vineyard? 4. What con¬ 
stitutes a legal orchard or vineyard for this 
purpose—one row of trees or vines, or two 
rows, or more? What age or size must be 
attained by trees or vines? 5. Are any other 
means of prevention open to A? 
Ans.— 1. It depends upon the charter of the 
cemetery association If the State has given 
it the right to condemn and take land for pub¬ 
lic use it can take what it requires in the man¬ 
ner provided by law, paying the value of the 
land as determined by a jury called for the 
purpose. In estimating the value of the land 
the damage to the rest of the property must 
be considered. 2. It is a question for the 
association to decide. 3 and 5. No planting 
would evade the right of the association to 
take the land if the legislature has granted it. 
It is not at all probable that the association 
has a right to condemn private property, but 
this is to be ascertained by examination of 
the charter of incorporation. A cemetery 
association is not a public corporation, but 
ODly quasi-public,that is, a private corporation 
existing for the convenience of the public. 
G. C., Warren Co., N. Y.— My grandfather 
on my mother’s side died and willed his prop¬ 
erty (which amounted to about $350) to his in¬ 
valid daughter and her stepmother. He ap¬ 
pointed A, my uncle, executor. The will was 
not proved, but the stepmother gave her share 
of the property to the invalid daughter. A, 
my uncle, said to my father: “I will take the 
property and she may come and live with me, 
or you may take it and let her live with you 
as she may choose.” Father consented, but 
gave no bonds or writings of any kind, nor 
did he make any agreement to support her for 
any certain time; but merely consented to 
take the property and let her come to live 
with him. She has lived with father 23 years. 
My uncle is dead; she is very old and a great 
trouble. Father is very feeble and unable to 
do anything, and her relatives now claim 
that his property is holden for her support. 
Can they hold him or his property (consisting 
of a farm and personal property) for her sup¬ 
port the remainder of her life? 
Ans.—U nless there is a written agreement 
signed by the party to be charged with the 
expense, there is no liability. Twenty-three 
years’ support is a satisfactory return for the 
amount of the property, and the old lady’s 
relatives have no claim on your father, but 
are bound in law to contribute to her support. 
A. M, L., Fuller's Station, N. Y. —Can the 
property of a deceased man, leaving a wife 
and minor children, without having made a 
will, be divided before all of the children be¬ 
come of age? Can the widow advance pay¬ 
ment to one or more of the children in case 
of marriage, and if so, would such advance 
bear interest? 
Ans. —The widow must take out letters of 
administration, and when appointed by the 
Court she is trustee of the whole estate for her 
own and her children’s benefit. No division 
can be made until the youngest child is of age. 
She cannot make any payment except under 
order of the Court, to which an administra¬ 
tor must apply for leave to make advances to 
the heirs. Any advances she may make with¬ 
out this authority are chargeable to her own 
share of the estate. 
L. G. S., Menta, N. Y.— An old zigzag rail 
fence divides fields belonging to A and B. A 
gets this property surveyed and finds B’s part 
of the fence six feet on his (A’s) property. B 
has been notified of the fact several times, 
but pays no attention to the matter. Has A 
any remedy? 
Ans.— In building the fence B had a right 
to place half of it on A’s property, if the fence 
was a lawful one; a space of six feet, how¬ 
ever, seems rather a large allowance for half 
of the room needed for one of those old-time 
wood and land-wasting Virginia fences. A’s 
best plan is to subject the whole question to 
the fence-viewers of his district. If they de¬ 
cide that the fence is not a proper one, or that 
it encroaches unduly on B’s land, they will 
order its removal. 
F. F. Virgina , sends a long statement of a 
case, and asks for information with regard to 
it. It is a very risky thing to answer some 
questions in law, if one doesn’t know all the 
particulars—and often if he does. This is a 
case for an attorney who can examine the 
papers and the decree of the court. No satis¬ 
factory reply can be given without knowing 
the whole of the case. 
To Several Inquirers.— The' Farming 
• World, of Cincinnati, and its four-per-cent 
loan system have been frequently denounced 
as humbugs in this department. Lately it has 
taken to advertising pretty freely once more, 
after an interval of silence, and inquiries and 
complaints with regard to it are again sent in. 
Of course, no sensible person will have any¬ 
thing to do with the concern.The Page 
Cure for deafness has done some good in sev¬ 
eral cases, but the claims put forth in its be¬ 
half are greatly exaggerated. It wouldn’t 
pay anyone to invest in its “cure” without 
investigation. The party quotes the Rural 
as indorsing its preparations; but in doing so 
it misrepresents what was really said by quot¬ 
ing a single clause out of a quarter-column 
article. Among other things we said “The 
Page Cure is not a humbug, for it really does 
good in some cases; but the claims put forth 
in its behalf are greatly exaggerated.” In its 
circular it quotes the first clause only . 
The Standard Watch Company of Syracuse, 
New York, stands well in the reports of the 
mercantile agencies—capital from $10,000 to 
$20,000 .. .. We do not believe in the honesty 
of any agent in this or any other city who 
pretends to be able to find large estates in the 
“Old Country” for any client here who is 
foolish enough to advance money on any pre¬ 
text whatever. All these fellows are unmis¬ 
takable sharpers, who thrive on the greed and 
and gullibility of the public. There are no 
such estates nor are there any large unclaimed 
sums in the Bank of England or the English 
Court of Chancery awaiting unknown heirs. 
This has been officially declared over and over 
again by our Ministers in England, Belgium 
and Germany, and by the authorities in the 
House of Commons. All money invested in 
such “cloudland property” will be lost with 
absolute certainty.G. E. Lemon, claim 
agent, Washington, D. C., is reported to be or 
dinarily reliable.No such person as J.M. 
Currie, Cedar St., Hew York, is to be found 
at the address given by several inquirers. In 
such cases no one should deal with the person 
as, in nine cases out of ten, he is a trickster 
whose interest it is to keep out of the way... 
.. Again we repeat that nobody should invest 
a dollar in real estate of any kind in Florida, 
or indeed anywhere else, without investigat¬ 
ing its merits on the spot. We have a num¬ 
ber of inquires with regard to “The People’s 
Homestead Company,” and other colonizing 
schemes, and this must be our answer to all. 
Concerns Censured.— Under this caption 
the Eye-Opener will, from time to time, give 
the names of various concerns he has seen 
spoken against in other papers; but which 
have not been investigated- from the Rural 
Office. The New York World after investi¬ 
gation says “the Artistic Needle Work Com¬ 
pany” of this city is a “crooked concern”—a 
“bare-faced fraud.” It will not do business 
with people who call at its place on Eighth 
Street. It is one of those work-at-home swin¬ 
dles which have been frequently denounced 
by the Eye-Opener. This one was exposed 
here over four months ago. A Michigan 
sharper is swindling farmers in Northern Ohio 
with Sweedish Seed Oats, and also with mar¬ 
velous barley and wheat, after the style of the 
Bohemian Oats fraud_The Champion Man¬ 
ufacturing Company, Quincy, Ill., is de¬ 
nounced by a writer in the Michigan Farmer 
for selling a worthless sawing machine. We 
have also seen this affair denounced in other 
papers... 
tDjcroum’si XDxrirk. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY LOUISE TAPLIN. 
CHAT BY THE WAY. 
Really, there is a wide latitude allowed in 
color, but spring is to be gorgeous in many 
reds. Terra-cotta, ox-blood, mahogany, and 
old red are to be much worn, and also some 
terribly trying scarlets. Women of quieter 
taste can select soft grays, olives, and browns; 
there are some lovely dove-like tints, and 
there is some revival of cadet and electric 
blues But the reds threaten to be as plenti¬ 
ful as the heliotropes last spring. However, 
sensible women whose gowns must see long 
service will choose the quieter tints. 
* * * 
Some of the loveliest new goods for spring 
wear are camel’s-hair woven with stripes in 
silk brocades. They are combined with plain 
goods, and come in all colors. A charming 
one was a very soft old red, with stripes in an 
arabesque pattern. 
For summer wear China and India silk will 
be very popular and handsome; it is both 
plain and figured, very smooth in texture, and 
very light for warm days. 
Cotton dress fabrics seem to grow hand¬ 
somer every year. The French and domestic 
sateens follow closely the designs of the fig¬ 
ured silks. 
Scotch ginghams and zephyrs are very 
handsome in fine checks, which are combined 
with plain goods of some harmonizing shade. 
Some of the hair-line check ginghams in dark 
colors really give the effect of a sateen, they 
are so highly finished. 
* * * 
Embroidered zephyrs and ginghams make 
very dainty suits in soft blues and pinks, and 
the same materials are made into pretty house- 
gowns. Embroidered muslins are endless in 
variety; simplicity of style is always desirable 
in these fabrics apart from the difficulty of 
washing anything very elaborate. 
* * * 
Moire is still the favorite ribbon, and there 
is a revival of ombrd or shaded colors. 
Whether they will be very extensively used 
remains to be seen, but the newest ribbons 
displayed show this effect. Electric blue, 
shading into old pink, was one combination; 
another was pistachio green shading into ter¬ 
ra-cotta. They differ from the ombrd ribbons 
formerly in vogue, which were variations of 
one tint. 
* * * 
Handsome buckles of cut metal are used 
in fastening clusters of drapery; in fact, fila¬ 
gree metal work and metallic braiding or 
passementerie seem as much in vogue as ever. 
Braid laid over a contrasting color is both 
handsome and stylish, and is much used on 
cloth gowns. Vests and panels of black braid 
over white are very effective on a dark-colored 
gown of blue, green, or dull red. 
Among the many shapely French corsets 
which we are now offered, the Diane is one of 
the prettiest. Of course, it would be an instru¬ 
ment of torture if a woman was bent on tight 
lacing, but one who wears it sensibly—of 
course, we all do—will find it shapely, dur¬ 
able, and comfortable. 
For information contained in these notes 
thanks are due Messrs. Jas. McCreery & Co., 
New York. 
HOME TEACHING. 
ALICE BROWN. 
I n spite of wintry breezes and nipping air, 
we women are beginning to think about 
our spring gowns. It it well to decide what 
we are going to wear now, before warm 
weather occupations come crowding upon us, 
to say nothing of the advantage gained by 
getting the sewing out of the way. A visit to 
one of the big importing dry-goods houses will 
enable us to form a shrewd guess as to the 
prevailing styles for the coming season. 
BARGAINS 
IN 
DRESS GOODS. 
JAMES McCREERY & CO. 
are offering Special Inducements in Wool 
Dress Goods : 
'2500 yards Tricotine in a variety oi Plain 
colors at 50c. a yard; good value at SI. 
1800 yards Ladies’ Cloth in sell colored 
checks, all wool; 44 inches wide, at 75 cents 
per yard; worth Si.00. 
‘-WOO yards Cheviot Checks, for tailor- 
made suits, all new designs, 54 inches wide, 
SI .00 per yard. 
1750 yards Plaid Suiting, all wool, 44 
inches wide, at 75 cents per yard; former 
price SI .25 
The above are suitable lor Spring and 
Summer wear, they are remarkable value, 
and should interest every purchaser of wool 
Dress Goods. 
ORDERS BYMAIli 
from any part of the country will receive 
careful and prompt attention. 
M ost little children receive their first les¬ 
sons from their mother, an auntie, or an 
older sister, and many receive their two or 
three first years of lessons at home. Usually 
reading, spelling, writing and a little arith¬ 
metic fill this time, and reading especially is 
made important because when the public 
school life begins reading will be the key to 
unlock all the rest, and until a child can read 
intelligently he can usually make no progress 
beyond that in any direction in the public 
school. But this is in some respects one-sided 
and causes the little student to go very lamely 
for awhile after entering school. One other 
study ought to be taken up as soon almost as 
the Primer is finished, and given a daily place 
among the lessons. This is geography. There 
is no other time when it will seem so delight¬ 
ful and so interesting as when the little folks 
receive it sugar-coated in stories and when 
they feel that it is a wonderful thing for them 
to learn something of a study with a name so 
long they can scarcely pronounce it. By the 
time the Third Reader »s reached there will be 
many allusions in the reading lessons to dif¬ 
ferent parts of the world. India, Africa, Ger¬ 
many will be mentioned, and easily remem¬ 
bered facts about their climates, animals, or 
peoples will be given. If the positions of these 
countries are already familiar to the children 
they will carry these facts clearly compre¬ 
hended through.life with them. For of all the 
books we study none ever make the impres¬ 
sion that the first ones do; after Latin and 
Greek have grown dim from disuse the story 
will remain of the boy who was drowned be¬ 
cause he played by the water instead of go¬ 
ing to school, or of the little dog which carried 
his boy master a pear when the boy’s miscon¬ 
duct had resulted in his becoming a prisoner 
in his room while his playmates gathered all 
the luscious pears from the one tree bearing 
ripe fruit. So the stories of India or Egypt in 
Broadway and 11th St., 
Slew York. 
the Readers will remain unforgotten if the lo¬ 
cations of these countries are known. 
In beginning lessons in geography a little 
talk can well be the first lesson about the miles 
and miles of land that spread over the world, 
and about the great oceans where ships can 
sail for many days without seeing land, and 
brought to the point of study by explaining 
that all these things have names, just as each 
boy and girl has a name. No matter how slow 
the little learner may be, the lessons should 
not be longer than he can learn perfectly 
without getting cross; for impatience is often 
the sign that the head is getting tired, and the 
brain has refused to take any more strange 
facts willingly. If only two names can be 
learned in three days, at first, and something 
interesting connected with the names, that is 
better than a longer list that has made the 
child so tired and unhappy that all interest is 
gone. 
As a rule, all time spent in crying over les¬ 
sons is worse than wasted, and some method 
that will chase the tears away ought to be 
hunted for, if they will fall daily over the 
school books. 
A good geography with interesting pictures 
ought to be owned by the teacher, but maps 
pasted on to cardboard, pasteboard or muslin 
will last better for the pupils, and the study 
of the pictures in the books can be reserved as 
an entertainment for them. 
In the course of two years a general outline 
of geography can be taught in this way be¬ 
fore any facts could be gained from the print¬ 
ed books by the scholar. The names of the 
principal countries, seas, lakes, rivers, capes, 
islands, mountains and a few important cities 
learned thus will give a boy or girl so good a 
start that the printed lessons will be half 
learned before the book is opened, and every 
reference to places, made in the talk they hear, 
or the little books they read, will mean some¬ 
thing from the very beginning of their edu¬ 
cation, and they will not have a medley of 
strange names, waiting for their meanings 
until geography is reached in the regular 
course at school. 
After the name of a place has been learned 
events-connected with it may be mentioned 
often, to give a reality to the child’s 
idea of the place. The story might 
be told of the earthquake in South 
Carolina and its severity in Charles¬ 
ton, the terror and losses caused by it, and 
the fright felt by the people for long after the 
severe shocks. If told while the listener looked 
at the map, and if possible at pictures of the 
city too, Charleston would seem more really a 
city, adding other stories, not too fast, such as 
the fall of Fort Sumter, or the earlier story 
of the successful naval battle fought there by 
the colonists against England, then the proud 
“Mistress of the Seas.” 
Geography lies at the foundation of a cor¬ 
rect knowledge of history, both natural and 
political, and is a necessary aid in understand¬ 
ing the events of current history. Otherwise 
the account of the war in Abyssinia and the 
report of trouble between the Venzuelans and 
the colonists of British Guiana will jumble 
themselves in the mind with vague ideas of 
Australia and the remoter parts of Asia, in¬ 
stead of suggesting Africa and South America. 
