THE RURAL/ NEW-YORKER 
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The Regeneration of Sarah 
By Beulah Heaston and Anna Nixon 
(Continued from page 970.) 
Besides doing the heavier part of the 
housework, Alice, with Joe's help, man¬ 
aged to do most of the chores, so that 
nothing might interfere with Ben’s work 
in the field. Margaret helped with the 
housework, the poultry and garden ; but 
Sarah was too much occupied with her 
own interests, which were centered 
chiefly on her personal adornment, to do 
her share of the work. She was too 
thoughtless to observe how the others 
were overworked and too selfish to care. 
In addition to her home cares. Alice 
had a heavier burden to bear. Since the 
previous Fall she had been engaged to 
John Armstrong, a young physician of 
Westfield. They had not intended to 
marry until Alice was through school; 
but now she felt that she ought to break 
the engagement. She was neither willing 
to permit him to share her responsibili¬ 
ties, nor to ask him to wait, years per¬ 
haps, until she had discharged her debt 
she owed her brothers and sisters. She 
felt that it depended on her to keep the 
family together, and she was determined 
that the others should have every ad¬ 
vantage that she had had. 
Every time she had tried to tell Dr. 
Armstrong her courage had failed. She 
was only twenty-one, and it was no small 
matter to make such a sacrifice to duty. 
Night after night, tired, restless and un¬ 
happy, she had gone over every detail of 
the matter. It was a bitter struggle and 
she fought it out with herself again and 
again. She knew that it would take 
y ars of hard, unceasing toil before she 
would be free to consider her own hap¬ 
piness and follow her own inclinations. 
She pictured hex-self at the end of that 
time a spiritless, unattractive woman, 
and according to the standards of the 
neighborhood, a hopeless old maid. She 
had no natural aptitude for teaching and 
realized that it would be nothing short 
of drudgery; but her duty was clear. The 
matter weighed more and more heavily 
on her mind until one day early in May 
she decided that she would postpone it no 
longer, so she telephoned to Dr. Arm¬ 
strong and asked him to come to Hill- 
crest. 
When Alice came downstairs that 
evening, she found Dr. Armstrong, who 
was a favorite with the family, chatting 
with the others on the porch. With a 
woman’s inconsistency she had dressed 
with unusual care, and she made a 
charming picture as she stood in the 
door a moment before joining the little 
group on the pox-ch. She wore a simple 
white dress, cut low enough to show the 
soft curve of the round white throat. 
The coloring in the small, oval face, 
framed by soft waves of brown hair, had 
concenti-ated itself in a vivid spot on 
each cheek and in the lovely curve of 
her lips, while her bx-own eyes were 
luminous. Sarah and Dr. Armstrong 
made room for her on the old settee at 
the end of the porch, and she tried for a 
time to join in the conversation ; but she 
felt depressed and soon gave up the ef¬ 
fort. The doctor noted her silence and 
when the others had left them, turned to 
her anxiously and asked: “What’s the 
matter, Alice? You’ve scarcely said a ! 
word—you mustn’t grieve about your i 
mother, dear; she wouldn’t want you 
to do it.” 
She did not answer for a moment. 1 
then :—“It—it isn’t about her this time, 
John. I’ll tell you—I—I’ve wanted to 
tell you ever since I came home.” And 
between teax-less sobs Alice told him of 
her decision ; and when she had finished, 
she drew his ring from her finger and 
pressed it into his unwilling baud. 
Dx\ Armsti-ong sat in a dazed silence 
for a time. “You don’t mean it Alice— 
you can’t mean it!” he said at last. “Do 
you think I’ll let you slave away your 
life like that? I’m going to take cai-e 
of you, and we’ll arrange some way for 
the others. It’s just a foolish notion, 
Alice,” and he seized her hand and slip¬ 
ped the ring back on her finger. 
“It’s not a foolish notion, John. I’ve 
thought it over and over, and it’s the 
only way that’s fair to you. I-” But 
Alice got no further. Margaret, breath¬ 
less and excited, appeared in the door. 
“Oh, Dr. Armstrong! Mrs. Harding’s 
baby is dying and you're to come right 
away—they've been ’phoning everywhere 
for you.” 
“Tell them I’ll be there in ten 
minutes,” called the doctox-, already half 
way to the gate. 
Alice watched him drive down the 
road. She was not thinking of the Hard¬ 
ing baby—there was room for only one 
thought in her heart: she had not made 
him undex-stand. 
(To be continued.) 
Legal Questions. 
Application of Mortgage Payment. 
A holds a reducing mortgage on B’s 
farm ; terms $100 a year and interest at 
5 per cent. A also holds a chattel mort¬ 
gage to protect the real estate mortgage; 
also holds insurance papers for $2500 to 
cover $1800 mortgage. There is a water 
company going to flood several acres of 
pasture land and will pay damages. Can 
A claixxi the money paid, or can B hold 
it and use it for much needed repairs? 
New York. j. i. l. 
By his mortgage A has an interest in 
every part of B’s farm and every part is 
subject to it. If B could obtain money 
for one parcel and not turn it over to A 
he could for another, and little by little 
he could dispose of it all till the mort¬ 
gagee was without any security. If this 
land is condemned by the water company, 
or however they acquire it they must 
also acquire the interest of the mortgagee 
as represented by the mortgage, because 
the mortgage runs with the laud, and if 
the water company did not include the 
mortgagee they would take it subject to 
the mortgage. Your best policy would be 
to endeavor to persuade the mortgagee 
to allow you to use the proceeds in im¬ 
proving the balance of the property so 
that his security would be just as valu¬ 
able as it was before. 
Line Fences. 
1. Can a man compel another man, his 
neighbor, with a 10 days’ notice, to build 
a fence between them? No stock is kept 
there, but there is corn in the field on 
one side and oats in the lot on the other 
side; also no damage or claims for dam¬ 
age have been made. 2. Can an ail join¬ 
ing owner compel or serve notice upon 
his neighbor to build a legal fence or 
take any action to construct same, until 
lie has first put his own part of the fence 
in legal condition? w. A. G. 
New York. 
1. It is taken for granted that it has 
already been settled as to which part of 
the fence each of you will build and main¬ 
tain. It is only when the division fence 
has been destroyed or injured by floods 
or other casualty that the person bound 
to repair it. must do so within 10 days 
after being notified to that effect by 
an interested party. In other cases 
where the repairs are not made after no¬ 
tification the failing party is liable for 
all damages occasioned thereby, and if 
such neglect is continued for a month the 
party injured may make x-epairs at the 
othex-’s expense to be recovered with costs. 
2. The law doesn't specifically cover 
this point, but “he that seeks equity must 
do equity,” and it seems to be a good rule 
that one who seeks punishment for others 
must not be subject to it himself. If his 
part of the fence is out of order why not 
serve a notice to repair on him? 
Road Taxes. 
I recently purchased a small place, 
which is about one-quarter of a mile off 
the public highway, no part of the farm 
facing upon a public highway or nearer 
than one-quarter of a mile of one. I have 
a private road, all of which I keep up 
myself. The commissioners have a road 
tax of about $3 against this place. Can 
they collect it? If so shall I still have to 
maintain my private x-oad myself? 
Pennsylvania. h. f. b. 
i 
Every person must, of course, keep up 
his own private road through his land to 
the public highway, unless it is made into 
a public road, in which event anybody 
can use it at any time. If it runs 
through other property and is used by 
others, it should be dedicated to the pub¬ 
lic and its upkeep assumed by the town. 
The $3 is your proportion of the town 
tax for your use of the public roads and 
the commissioners may collect it. 
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