THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
10H 
The Regeneration of Sarah 
By Beulah Heaston and Anna Nixon 
(Continued from page 9S9.) 
CHAPTER II. 
John Armstrong was anything but 
happy as he drove away from the Hard¬ 
ing home that night. The baby had not 
been seriously ill after all, and the inter¬ 
ruption in his talk with Alice had been 
most inopportune. He refused to believe 
that her decision was final, and felt that 
he could have persuaded her to recon¬ 
sider When he reached the highway, in¬ 
stead of taking the shortest road to 
Westfield, he drove back past Ilillcrest. 
It was not late, and he hoped to find 
Alice still on the porch; but the porch 
was deserted and the house dark. 
“I’ll call her up tomorrow,” he re¬ 
solved. “She still has my ring, anyway.” 
But on the following day, before he 
had an opportunity to telephone to Alice, 
he received the ring and a letter, telling 
him that her decision was final and that 
she did not wish to discuss the matter 
with him again. In her effort to make 
it clear that their engagement was at an 
end Alice had made her letter very brief 
and cool. 
“If she feels that way about it, I don’t 
care,” he muttered. 
He might have received the letter in 
a different manner if he had known what 
it cost Alice to write it. When he was 
called away so suddenly the night before, 
her first thought had been that he had 
gone without being convinced of the final¬ 
ity of her decision. “I’ll write to him,” 
she decided, “and send the ring. I can’t 
discuss it with him again—it only makes 
it harder.” 
When Margaret started to school the 
next morning, Alice walked down the 
path with her and at the gate handed 
her the letter and a small package ad¬ 
dressed to Dr. Armstrong. In a few 
words she explained about the broken 
engagement; and in order to divert Mar¬ 
garet’s attention from the real cause, 
gave her the impression that there had 
been a quarrel. She led Sarah and Ben 
to infer the same, for Alice had no de¬ 
sire to pose as a martyr. She caried the 
matter off so successfully that the others 
decided that she had not cared much, 
after all. 
To take her mind from her own un¬ 
happiness, Alice plunged into the work 
with more determination than ever. Un¬ 
favorable weather had put Ben back 
with the farm work; and to add to his 
difficulties, the worn-out corn-planter re¬ 
fused to work, so the corn had to be 
planted by hand. Alice volunteered to 
help, and it was necessary to keep Mar¬ 
garet and Joe out of school for a few 
days. 
After the first few hours it was diffi¬ 
cult to keep Joe at work. He seemed to 
think that the sooner he emptied his pail 
of seed-corn the sooner the planting 
would be accomplished; and occasionally 
dropped a whole handful of corn in one 
hill. He amused himself by throwing stones 
and clods at the pilfering crows that fol¬ 
lowed hungrily behind; and at frequent 
intervals went to the spring-house for 
the ostensible purpose of re-filling the 
water pail, but in reality to visit the 
cookie jar. 
“Sarah,” Alice had said, going to her 
sister’s door before starting to the field 
the first morning of the corn planting, 
“you’ll find some sliced ham on the 
pantry shelf; and there’s a dish of baked 
beans in the cellar that you can warm 
up for dinner.” Sarah had not offered 
to help with the planting, and it had not 
even occurred to the others to ask her 
help, for she was sure to refuse. “Sarah, 
do you hear?” 
“All right—I hear you,” came a 
drowsy voice, muffled by the pillows. 
“And you can get anything else you 
like ” 
“Yes—don’t bother me any more;” 
and Sarah turned over and went to 
sleep. 
It was ten o’clock when she got up, 
and when she went to the kitchen the 
fire was out. If there was one thing 
which Sarah especially disliked, it was 
building a fire. After sevei’al efforts, in 
which she blackened her hands freely 
with soot, she succeeded in starting a 
feeble blaze. 
Racks for Drying Bean Vines. 
The West Virginia Experiment Sta¬ 
tion has issued a valuable little pamphlet 
on the field bean. This describes the 
method of growing the crop in West Vir¬ 
ginia. It is a practical, concise state- 
Rack for Bean Vines_Fig. 384. 
ment of the methods necessary for plant¬ 
ing, growing and handling a crop of 
beans. We have had quite a number of 
letters from people asking about this crop 
and how to produce it, and this pamphlet 
will be of great help to many of the peo¬ 
ple who have asked these questions. It 
is, of course, too late now to give in¬ 
struction about preparing the soil and 
planting. The matter of cultivation is 
much the same as that for corn or pota¬ 
toes. Shallow culture is best, and the 
beans should not be cultivated early in 
the morning while the dew is on, or close 
after a rain while the vines are wet. Cul¬ 
tivation at this time is likely to spread 
the disease of the vine. 
As for harvesting the bean, the crop 
should be gathered when the pods have 
turned brown, and the leaves are fallen. 
In West Virginia this occurs in late Au¬ 
gust or September. The vines are either 
pulled by hand, or cut by a bean harvest¬ 
er, which is a machine operating a slicer 
or knife which runs under the row and 
cuts off the roots. In many cases curing 
racks are used for drying the beans, and 
we have found that these are also very 
useful for curing cow pea vines or Soy 
beans for fodder. A sample of the curing 
rack is shown at Fig. 384. As will be 
seen, this simply makes a hollow pile. 
The beans are thrown over this rack, 
which keeps the pile or heap open at the 
center and allows the air to work in and 
through. A rack of this kind will often 
be found useful in curing other vines or 
even fodder during the late Fall. For 
instance, many farmers sow barley and 
rye in late Summer. The barley if cut in 
late October or November gives a small 
crop of hay. At this season of the year 
it is often difficult to cure such hay prop¬ 
erly, but with a few of such racks as are 
shown in the pictures, the fodder can be 
well cared for in much less time than 
would be inquired for natural curing. 
“I’ll make some cream puffs,” she de¬ 
cided. “I saw a recipe the other day 
that sounded good.” Sarah’s proficiency 
in cooking was limited to cakes and 
candies. 
It took fifteen minutes to find the di¬ 
rections, and a half hour to get the in¬ 
gredients together. She forgot about the 
fire and when the mixture was ready for 
baking, found that the oven was not hot 
enough ; but a glance at the clock showed 
her that it was almost dinner time, so 
she thrust the pan into the oven. She 
hastily prepared a custard for filling the 
puffs, and scorched it in the process. 
Then she hurriedly put the ham to cook, 
so that there would be some evidence of 
dinner when the others came in. 
“I won’t have time to get potatoes—I 
wonder what else Alice said I should 
have.” She could not remembei’, so she 
hurriedly set the table. 
“Wbat’re you going to have for din¬ 
ner?’ queried Joe, appearing at this 
juncture, 
“Don’t you ever think of anything but 
eating? YouTe always bothering around 
the kitchen.” 
“Nobody sees you bothering about the 
kitchen very often,” retorted Joe. 
“Aren’t you going to have potatoes?” 
asked Alice, coming into the kitchen. 
“And did you remember to warm up the 
beans?” 
(To be continued.) 
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