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November 7. 
LEGAL QUESTIONS. 
Distribution of Personal Property. 
W ITAT is the law in regard to personal 
property in the States of Massachu¬ 
setts and New Hampshire? There 
are no children. Husband and wife both 
have personal property in their names. 
In case of death of husband what part 
of his personal property would wife get? 
In case of wife’s death what part of her 
personal property would the husband get? 
Massachusetts. G. w. H. 
In case of death of the husband the 
wife would get in Massachusetts such 
parts of the personal estate as the Pro¬ 
bate Court may allow as necessary for the 
widow and for reasonable sustenance of 
the family and the use of the house ami 
furniture for six months after death; 
then, after the payment of debts, funeral 
charges and expenses of administration, 
and where there are no children as in 
this case, the sum of $5,000 and half the 
remaining personal property or the whole 
if there are no kindred. The husband’s 
rights are in the personal estate of his 
deceased wife after the payment of debts, 
etc., the same, to-wit: $5,000 and half 
the remaining property or the whole if 
there are no kindred. 
In New Hampshire the surviving hus¬ 
band or wife of a decedent is entitled to 
the following share of the personal estate: 
one-third if decedent leaves issue by such 
survivor, but if decedent leaves no issue 
$1,500 where value of whole does not ex¬ 
ceed $5,000, and one-half where such val¬ 
ue is in excess of $5,000. M. B. D. 
Wife’s Interest in Real Property. 
My parents owned real property in 
New Jersey to the value of about $7,000. 
Recently my mother died without making 
a will. This property is free from debts. 
The family consists of one girl of age and 
six boys, four being minors. Father has 
a buyer for this city property winch he 
wishes to sell, and with the proceeds buy 
a farm in New York State on which he 
has: an option. To this we all agree ex¬ 
cept my oldest brother, who wants the 
property to stand as it is, and contends 
that the property cannot be sold without 
his signature. I am next oldest son, my 
father wants my assistance to take up 
farming; this I am willing to do, but be¬ 
fore going north I wish to know what 
there is to the argument my brother puts 
up. G. M. c. 
Florida. 
Very little real property is held in the 
names of both husband and wife and if 
your parents held this property in that 
way it is a bit unusual, and before any 
definite answer to your inquiry could be 
made it would be necessary to know 
whether the deed is in the name of your 
father or was to your father and mother. 
If the latter be the case, your father 
would seem to have his right of courtesy 
in your mother’s share for his life and 
then it would descend to the children, but 
if the title is in your father alone, your 
brother at this time would have no in¬ 
terest in the matter, and can take no 
steps to interfere with the sale of the 
property by your father. And if it were 
owned by both your father and mother, 
there seems to be no objection to a par¬ 
tition of it and a division of the proceeds. 
Your brother individually cannot inde¬ 
finitely hold up a sale where all the other 
parties consent. If your brother is ser¬ 
ious in his objection, it would be well to 
consult good local counsel. 
Descent of Wife’s Property. 
I have a neighbor who has raised her 
family. Eighteen years ago her husband 
gave her a quit-claim deed for their home 
when it became apparent that she must 
put in not only all her inheritance from 
her parents, but a lifetime’s hard work 
to save it. 8he now wishes to know, 
should she die before her husband, if her 
children will inherit the home, or if she 
must will it to them in order that they 
should inherit it, and if her husband has 
a lifetime interest therein. G. M. B. 
Ohio. 
She can accomplish nothing more by 
a will than she can by not leaving one. 
In either event, the property would go 
to the children, with the exception that 
possibly the husband would have a dower 
interest in one-third of her real property 
for his life, even though be has given her 
a quit-claim of the property. If he has 
a dower interest, she cannot defeat it by 
will and, if he has none, the property will 
descend entirely to the children. Dower 
rights of husband and wife are equal in 
Ohio. 
Judge : “Where did the automobile 
hit you?” ’Rastus: “Well, judge, if I’d 
been carrying a license numbah it would 
hab been ‘busted to a thousand pieces.”— 
Puck. 
ALL SORTS. 
Tar for the Bats. 
T HE house in which I live was badly 
infested with bats when I bought it. 
I got rid of them by daubing tar or 
rather a roofing paint, of which I had 
plenty, on their roosting places and satur¬ 
ated rags with the tar and stuffed into 
all cracks and crevices which they used. 
The tar will gum their wings so that they 
cannot fly. They will not come back into 
that sticky place until it gets dry. Many 
will die from this treatment. Any other 
sticky substance would probably do as 
well. All cracks should be stopped up 
some, way so that they cannot come back 
after the tar dries. Brick houses, if old, 
are the hardest to fix, but it can be done. 
Sharpen an old steel umbrella stay and 
spear them out of the cracks around the 
window casings. Keep up a persistent 
war on them and show no mercy. Sul¬ 
phur will drive them out, but they will 
come back as soon as the smoke disap¬ 
pears. Don’t neglect to keep all holes and 
crevices stuffed with tarred rags. In 
fact tar everything that they occupy. The 
bat may be all right in his place, but no 
man cares to have them by the thousand 
in the attic as we had them. 
Iowa. 1). w. FORD. 
Expense of Vaccination 
I SAW an article in The R. N.-Y. in 
regard to the vaccination of children 
in public schools. Whose place is it 
to pay charges, the district or parents? 
New York. N. G. 
Regulation 31 of the new san'tary code 
for the State of New York says that “It 
shall be the duty of the board of health 
of every municipality to provide, at pub¬ 
lic expense, free vaccination for all per¬ 
sons in need of the same.” As it is the 
duty of school trustees to see that the 
compulsory vaccination law is enforced 
in their districts, provision for vaccina¬ 
tion of the school children seems to de¬ 
volve upon them, and in this vicinity 
trustees of district schools are employing 
physicians to inspect their schools and 
vaccinate such children as have not been 
vaccinated at the district’s expense. I am 
not sure but that, under the sanitary 
code, the expense of vaccination could be 
placed upon the municipality in which 
the school is located, rather than upon 
the district; that is. upon the town or 
village. But, as the taxpayers of the 
districts making up the municipality 
would bear the burden, in any event, this 
would seem to be immaterial. ii. b. d. 
Hiving Wild Bees. 
T HERE is an old free of little value 
on my farm containing a swarm of 
bees. I would like to cut the tree 
and secure the swarm for a hive. What 
would be the best way to do this, and 
would it pay better to keep these bees 
if I could get them into a hive than to 
buy a swarm? I have never kept bees. 
Philadelphia, Pa. F. M. 
• It would be hardly practical to secure 
these bees and sufficient brood and honey 
for a hive so late in the season ; you will 
probably find it more satisfactory to cut 
the tree and secure what honey there 
may be without attempting to save the 
bees. Bees should be transferred suffi¬ 
ciently early in the season to permit them 
to build up their colony and provide Win¬ 
ter stores before the honey flow for that 
season ceases. They may, of course, be 
helped out by artificial feeding, but this 
should not be depended upon. Better 
make your start by buying a newly hived 
swarm of bees next Spring. it. b. d. 
Cost of Horse Power. 
I T costs the farmer a fraction over 10 
cents an hour for each hour’s work 
done by a horse, according to the fig¬ 
ures of an Illinois farmer. Further, 
this farmer discovers that 2% hours a 
day is the average time each horse 
works. The total cost of feed annually 
is $08.70 the horse, and other charges, 
such as pasture, maintenance of build¬ 
ings, labor, interest, shoeing and sun¬ 
dries made the amount of maintaining a 
sinele animal for a year reach $92.50. 
He was in position to figure on increase 
in value on horses, while on the average 
farm there is a depreciation charge. He 
credited to the horse this increased val¬ 
ue, the value of the manure, and the net 
cost of maintaining the horse amounted 
to $87.50. It is apparent the cost of 
maintenance of a horse ’.s practically the 
same regardless its efficiency. It is evi¬ 
dent the farmer should equip his farm 
with mares, or have at least part of his 
horse power such as could produce young 
stock and credit him with annual in¬ 
crease in value. Many farmers could 
dispense with one or more horses, reduce 
or rearrange their farm equipment so 
as to accomplish the same work with less 
horses, and be dollars ahead by the re¬ 
duction. 
The Question of Fence. 
W E have been taking an auto trip 
through Palatine. St. Johnsvill'e, 
Rome, Camden, Richland, Pulaski, 
Mexico, Syracuse and Utica, taking in 
many places that lie between, with views 
of Lake Ontario and a visit to the State 
Fair. We passed through some fine farm¬ 
ing sections, and noticed that in these sec¬ 
tions there were no roadside fences, 
beautiful fields of corn, buckwheat, pota¬ 
toes and fruits with no protection, and 
yet I could not find one hill of corn 11 at 
had been disturbed by passersby. We 
also noticed the pastures were well 
fenced, and that set us thinking. “They 
do not pasture their meadows,” which wo 
do not believe in, and so the crops are 
better and they need no fencing. What a 
Contrast the poorer sections with their 
high roadside fences and poorer crops, 
not that we do not think the soil has most 
of all to do with it. But it all set us 
thinking of the possibilities of improve¬ 
ment even in the poorest sections. F. 
Heating Inside Air. 
O N page 1153 M. B. D„ in describing 
his hot air furnace, says he takes his 
cold air from inside the house. There 
may be a little economy in doing this, but 
I doubt it. Fresh air heats much easier 
than foul, and by doing so he is losing the 
one great advantage that hot-air heating 
has over all others, that is, a steady sup- 
p’y of good fresh air. nicely warmed and 
furnished all over the house. All other 
systems, steam, hot water, etc., simply 
warm the old, stale, vitiated air, over and 
over agn'n, and requ're some expens've 
method of ventilat'on to make them satis¬ 
factory and healthful. a. d. m. 
Maine. 
The criticism of the method of taking 
cold air from one of the rooms of the 
house would be perfectly valid in the case 
of an assembly hall, school room, or other 
place where a large number of people rap¬ 
idly vitiated the air. but the writer doubts 
whether it holds good in the case of an 
ordinary dwelling. The supply G f fresh 
air in most farmhouses is being constant¬ 
ly renewed through the numerous cracks 
about ill fitt'ng doors, windows, etc., and 
the number of peoole who contribute the 
waste products of respiration to it is 
small in proportion to its quantity. While 
the plan of re-warming air cannot be con¬ 
sidered ideal from a sanitary standpoint, 
its advantages probably outweigh its d’s- 
ad vantages and w’th the frequently 
opened doors and leaky walls it can hard¬ 
ly he ended unhealthful for a small family 
in a large house. m. b. d. 
The Purchase of a Patent. 
I TT AS very glad to see in a recent issue 
of your paper a hint at what I con¬ 
sider one of the most potent causes of 
our high cost of living, i.e., the fixing by 
the wholesaler of retail prices to the con¬ 
sumer sufficiently high to cover a profit 
to the retailer and all average losses, bad 
(•rrnvntft. shrinkage, etc., and have been 
hop’ng for a w : der discussion of this par- 
t’cnlar phase of the matter. It: also oc¬ 
curs to me to ask if it would be possible 
for the Federal Government to withdraw 
its protection, as afforded through the 
patent laws, from all patents, the pro¬ 
ducts of which, are so manipulated as to 
c-’”se unduly hirdi pr : ees to the consumer. 
Nearly all of the staples are controlled 
by the so-called trusts by reason of their 
ownership or control of patented devices 
cheapening the cost of production. With 
a lot of these patents free for anyone to 
use comoetit on would soon relieve us of 
some of our burdens. j. w. barney. 
R. N.-Y.—Some of these things are at¬ 
tempted in the new anti-trust law. Re¬ 
cent decisions of the Supreme Court have 
decided that the holder of a patent can¬ 
not dictate the price at which the re¬ 
tailer soils his articles. Formerly such 
a dealer was obliged to agree that he 
would not soli below a certain fixed price. 
There has been for years a growing be¬ 
lief that the government should have the 
right to buy. for the benefit of the pub- 
Lc, any patent which becomes an extor- 
tionnte monopoly. This would not be 
confiscation, but it would mean paying a 
fair valuation and then making the pat¬ 
ent free. 
Dry Wells. —You do not give suffi¬ 
cient information for a good guess why 
.T. I. C.’s well, page 1149, went dry. 
Blasting within five miles may cause a 
crack to open in the rocks and give 
the water a new passage. I have known 
operations 15 miles away to dry wells in 
Colorado. Near my home, wells 1500 feet 
deep, at a State institution, have dried 
all wells and springs for a mile radius. 
They force constant big streams, by air 
lifts, working night and day to take all 
the water. J. I. C. may look around with¬ 
in five miles and find the cause better 
than strangers can guess. J. G. 
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