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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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this settled this iiart of Fanner Stone's 
argiiinont. It was a fact that his farm 
was destitute of springs; and when, as 
always hai)pened in dry seasons, the 
wells on his farm failed, life place was as 
dry as the Desert of Sahara. 
“Well, I’ll have to think about it. 1 
ain’t one of the kind to make up my 
mind in a hurry. You’d be willing to do 
that, would you, Tmke?” 
“Why, it’s more than I ought to do; 
hut if you’ll say right now that that’ll 
be satisfactory, 1 think we can close the 
bargain. To-morrow 1 might not want 
to do it. It’s making a great concession 
on my part, a great concession.” 
But Farmer Stone knew his advantage 
and pressed it. 
“All right. So far as I’m concerned it 
don’t make no difference.” There was a 
tone of independence in the voice which 
at once brought the commissioner to 
terms. 
“I didn’t propose it. but I always stand 
by what Mettie says I must, and I will 
now.” 
.Joshua felt his heart leap within him 
when Mettie gave him one of her most 
approving glances as the carriage drove 
away. All that evening, while the two 
were doing the chores. .Joshua labored 
with his father in behalf of the water 
trough. It was a joy to both of the 
young jteople when, the next day. Farm¬ 
er Stone allowed that he guessed they 
might go ahead with their line. The 
water trough was duly installed in the 
barnyard. The faucet was attached. 
Then, when all was ready on a certain 
day the water was let into toe main. B 
leaped into the i)ii)e and went sweeping 
down to give joy to the townspeople; l)ut 
not a drop came through the half-inch 
I)ipe which rose up from the main five 
feet below to the trough in the barnyard. 
Farmer Stone knew it was a conspir¬ 
acy against him. They never meant to 
do as they agreed. Luke Mathers always 
was a rascal. He might have known bet- 
ler (ban to trust him. JJut it was just 
as much of a imzx.le to the water com¬ 
missioner as to Farmer Stone himself 
why the water went so scornfully past 
the water trough. He went all over the 
line peering into the faucet and listen¬ 
ing with his ear close to its mouth in the 
vain endeavor to solve the problem. To 
satisfy himself that the work of laying 
the pipe and making the connections 
had been properly done, he directed the 
earth all be dug away and the pipe ex¬ 
amined. Everything was found to be all 
right; no defect anywhere. 
Finally an engineer from the neigh¬ 
boring city was engaged. After careful’y 
examining the line he decided that th” 
spring being so much higher than th" 
trough, the water came wit’n such force 
that it had no time to stop at Farmer 
Stone’s place. Some were so skeptical 
as to this man’s judgment, however, that 
another engineer of still higher repute, 
was summoned. His verdict was that 
the spring, instead of t;eing higher than 
the trough, was, in fact, lower, therefore 
there was no force to push the water up 
to the faucet. 
“Now it’s my turn to see what the 
law’ll do,” the farmer said. “They 
|)romised me water; they’ve got to fur¬ 
nish it.” 
Some one reminded the old man that 
the Commissioner had only agreed to 
furnish the trough and the faucet; the 
water was not in the contract. It was a 
novel situation. The town must either 
be deprived of water or the trough must 
be supplied with it, and Farmer Stone 
brought suit against the town officials. 
And now Joshua and Mettie were in 
trouble again. What would become of 
their hopes and prospects if things went 
on like this? 
“I know there must be some way to 
get water into that trough,” she de¬ 
clared. “If I had half the knowledge 
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while Teething. It is the Best.— Adr. 
some folks think they have it seems to 
me 1 could fix it.” 
Mettie suddenly developed a decided 
taste for studying water in its relation to 
supplying cities and towns through the 
medium of the gravity system. When 
all others were sound ateleep she would 
be poring over books bearing on this 
subject, borrowed from the city library. 
Then she made numerous visits tf) the 
spring. She measured the distance be¬ 
tween the spring and another larger 
spring, several rods higher up the hill¬ 
side as accurately as she could with her 
eye. 
Still further to complicate matters. 
Farmer Stone forbade Joshua ever to 
visit Mettie again. 
“We will have nothing to do with 
them.” he said. “They’re a bad lot. 1 
don’t know as I really ever heard of any¬ 
thing Luke done before this, and I used 
to think I’d like well enough to have 
Mettie for a daughter, but this thing’s 
enough to convince me that you never 
would have a minute’s peace if you mar¬ 
ried her. Chip of the old block.” 
Luke in the meantime declared that 
Joshua never must darken his doors 
again. 
“Good enough fellow, but what’s bred 
in the bone will tell.” 
So matters stood for several weeks, 
until it was almost time for the trial of 
the suit. On the night preceding the 
day of the trial Farmer Stone was very 
restless. He had boasted that he had 
nevei- sued a man or been sued. Now 
the record was to be broken. Tossing 
on his i)illow not long aftei- the clock 
struck 12, a peculiar noise broke on his 
ear. The oftener it came the more mys¬ 
tified he grew. The moon was shining, 
and by its beams he could distinguish a 
man’s form standing near the spring on 
the hillside, while from the ditch came 
the sounds which had disturbed his 
dreams. 
Dressing as quickly as he could, he 
went out and skulked along the fence 
until he was within earshot. 
“Now, .Mettie, it is time you get out 
of that ditch,” a voice said. “It’s too 
hard work for you.” 
“All right, Joshua, but your hands are 
too sore to dig any more.” 
“I’ll bet yours are blistered all over. 
This old ditch will kill us all, I guess.” 
“They’ll get over it. if they are blis¬ 
tered,” came back the voice from the 
ditch, clear and strong. “We will see 
the end of this before we 'sleep.” 
Farmer Stone sprang toward the spot 
and looked down with astonished face 
into the ditch. There Mettie stood, pick 
in hand, her face flushed red as fire. 
“In the name of common sense, what’s 
goin’ on here?” he demanded. 
There was a little scream from Mettie 
and Joshua made a flying leap down the 
hill. There seemed to be no such waj' 
of escape for the brave Mettie, howbver, 
and she leaned against the bank of 
earth, her hand's still grasping the pick, 
her head bare to the night breeze. The 
long line of fresh earth which stretched 
away up the hillside showed the wonder¬ 
ing farmer that a new trench was being 
dug from the large spring to the end of 
the pipe which supplied the village. 
“Oh, Mr. Stone.” Mettie began, and 
something mai velously like a sob found 
its way along with the words, “you will 
not be out of patience with Joshua and 
me, will you? It’s all my fault anyway. 
I couldn’t think of letting that miser¬ 
able lawsuit go on over this trough. It 
has worried all of us ’moist to death. 1 
have studied all the books in the city. I 
guess; and finally I thought I would 
just use a little common sense. It seem¬ 
ed to me that there must be some reason 
why the water wouldn’t run up into that 
trough. 1 made up my mind that if 
there could be a little more force behind 
the other spring, that would be all tha! 
was needed. So Joshua and I have been 
digging this ditch. We have a pipe 
down as far as we have gone. Now we 
are almost to the spring. If you only 
hadn’t come just now!” Mettie turned 
her face away and dropped the pick. 
“Come, Father; go back to bed and let 
us finish the job.” Joshua pleaded, re¬ 
covering from his surprise. “We’ll have 
the water running into the trough in 
half an hour. All we have to do is to 
make the connection between the pipes 
in the lower spring.” “You go to bed 
yourself! I’ll not let Mettie dig here in 
the dark any longer!” And Farmer 
Stone sprang into the ditch and lifted 
her gently out of the narrow quarters 
in which she had been toiling so heroic¬ 
ally. A few minutes later the work was 
completed. The two pipes were joined 
by Lshua, who had provided himsell 
with a rude kit of tools for that pui- 
pose. Then they all three hastened 
down to the water trough in the barn¬ 
yard. With fingers which trembled £ 
little Mettie turned the faucet. A gurgh 
of joy greeted her ears and a moment 
afterward the water trickled through 
through the pipe, then fairly gushed out 
in a stream. She had solved the prob¬ 
lem which had defied the ingenuity of 
her father and all the rest of the wise 
men of the vicinity. They stood watch¬ 
ing the water for a few minutes in s 
lence. Then h''armer Stone took Mettii 
by the hand. 
“Now you go home and sleep good.” 
he said. “You’ve won two suits fair and 
square.” 
And that was the end of the trouble. 
But the town board did a fine thing for 
Joshua and Mettie, when, a few months 
later, they set up the family hearthstone. 
At the next meeting of that august body 
one of the members made a motion “that 
a pipe be laid from the village main tc 
the farmyard of these worthy people, 
supplying water for their stock free for 
all time, with a faucet at the back kitch¬ 
en door in easy reach of the charming 
mistress. ’ And the motion was agreed 
to without a dissenting voice.—Los An¬ 
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