THE RURA.lv NEW-YORKER 
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The Regeneration of Sarah 
By Beulah Heaston and Anna Nixon 
(Continued from page 1011.) 
“I didn’t have time to get potatoes, 
and I forgot about the beans." 
"Oh, dear! What will the boys eat?” 
"I didn't know it was so late. I had 
to build a new fire and it wouldn’t burn 
at first. Oh, I forgot about the cream 
puffs!” and Sarah flew to the oven. The 
way she banged the door shut a moment 
later told that the puffs were a failure. 
Sarah’s compunctions over the failure 
uf this dinner led her to make a special 
effort with the meals during the rest of 
the week; with the result that the food 
was fairly well cooked and occasionally 
a meal was on time. 
Alice was successful in securing the 
teacher’s certificate at the June examina¬ 
tion, and felt confident that she would 
get the vacant position in the Westfield 
school; but when the teachers were 
elected the place was given to Jessie 
Blair, of Salem, who had the good 
fortune to be a niece of a member of the 
school board. 
Alice felt the disappointment keenly, 
and was troubled to know how they 
■would get along. She had counted so 
much on that money. She did not like to 
think of running an account for groceries. 
Her mother had always managed to sell 
enough butter and eggs to meet such ex¬ 
penses, but this Spring their one cow 
and few liens supplied only enough for 
their own table, Alice made excellent 
butter and knew that she could dispose 
of it at a good price to private families in 
in Westfield ; so she decided that they must 
have another cow. She figured it all out 
him long, for he knew that it had been 
his mother’s custom to take receipts for 
all money paid out. And he remembered 
how they had planned to get the money 
to buy Prince. They had sold old Bird, 
and with this money and the proceeds 
from the sale of several tons of hay, had 
made up the amount necessary to buy the 
younger horse. 
(To be continued.) 
Legal Questions. 
Liability lor Injury. 
Three men are sawing wood in the 
country into stove wood in the Winter, 
and as the frame is on sleds A tells B to 
lift the dog on the back sled so that he 
can back at the same time, leaving the 
engine and saw running. B.’s hand slips 
and the saw cuts off some of his fingers 
and injures his hand, requiring medical 
attendance. Upon recovery B claims 
that A is responsible for his accident and 
must pay the doctor’s bills. Is there any 
law (State of New Hampshire) that en¬ 
titles B to collect this amount? l. ». m. 
New Hampshire. 
Without knowing in what capacity A 
and B stood in regard to each other, that 
is, whether A was master and B the ser¬ 
vant or A and B co-partners, it is im¬ 
possible to state the liability of A. If A 
was hiring the other two and under all 
the circumstances he was negligent in not 
providing them a safe place in which to 
work, he would probably be liable; on 
the other hand, if they were working to¬ 
gether as co-partners, the mere fact that 
A told B to do this or that would not 
make A liable. If A was employing B 
under the circumstances described, it 
would be no more than fair, to say the 
least, that A should pay the doctor's bills. 
There is an employers’ liability law in 
your State, but I do not think it covers 
this case. M. n. 
Recovery for Injury to Animal. 
A sold B the coal under his place, but 
reserved the surface rights. A got C.’s 
horse to do some work on his place, and 
while plowing the surface gave way. and 
the horse fell into a hole, and in getting 
the horse out. it is thought they broke 
one >.f his legs, but they arc not sure if it 
was broken when he fell or while getting 
him out. A says (’ will have to go to B 
for damages, and B says he thinks he paid 
A for the surface rights. C is a poor 
man and cannot afford the loss. Which, 
A or B, should pay the damages? 
Pennsylvania. s. r>. ft. 
C certainly may look to A for his dam¬ 
ages to the horse, inasmuch as C had 
hired it to A and A was bound to return 
it in good condition. And A may recover 
of B unless this point was covered in the 
contract between them. The owner of 
the land when he sells mining rights im¬ 
pliedly retains the right to have his sur¬ 
face soil supported from beneath so that 
he may continue his farming operations. 
Parol Contract to Sell Land. 
A sold B one-half acre of timber ground 
and received $1 to bind bargain. B cuts 
timber and cleans up patch. A resolved 
that he did not want to sell and backs out. 
although B has taken the timber all off 
and will not back out. A deeds farm to 
daughter, including one-half acre. Daugh¬ 
ter moves on farm. B still claims the 
one-half acre although there has never 
neon any deed drawn or corners estab¬ 
lished. Can I> rightly claim it? F. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
The laws of your State provide that all 
estates in lands, except leases for not 
more than three years, made by parol 
and not put in writing shall merely 
create estates at will and shall 
have no other or greater effect. But 
where the party (B for instance), takes 
possession immediately after the oral con¬ 
tract is made and maintains it contin¬ 
uously and exclusively and he cannot be 
put back in his original position with¬ 
out great loss to himself,'this rule that 
the contract shall be in writing is not 
always enforced. In your case B has 
gained everything; has not paid the con- 
traet price, and while he took possession 
long enough to get the lumber off lie has 
not maintained it continuously and tin 1 
probability is against his being able to 
compel you to perform the contract. The 
equities and rights appear to be with you 
and you should do nothing toward volun¬ 
tarily giving him a deed. M n. 
Buying Hay for Tenant. 
The tenant farmer on my place has 
asked me to buy hay for him, and 1 do 
not think the demand fair. This is his 
first year on tin' place and the hay will 
run short. He farms on shares, I to get 
half the grain, to pay half for seed and 
fertilizer; all for lime. Nothing at all is 
said about feed or hay, and at no time 
before has it been said or inferred that I 
was to buy either. lie lias been buying 
what feed he needed himself. 
Pennsylvania. puzzled. 
From this statement of the agreement 
we do not see that you should buy the 
hay. You are not under obligation to do 
so by your contract, and the farm should 
provide the rough fodder. 
“See that old chap?” remarked the 
clubman, pointing out the window to an 
old peddler who carried a basket of shoe¬ 
laces. “Well, he came to this country 
from Russia ten years ago. He borrowed 
some money to purchase a basket and be¬ 
gan to peddle shoe-laces. How much do 
you think lie’s worth today? Just make 
a guess.” Several large sums were men¬ 
tioned expectantly. “Wrong,” said the 
clubman. Tie isn’t worth a cent and he 
still owes for the basket.”—Credit Lost. 
before mentioning the matter to Ben; if 
they continued to buy their groceries on 
credit, by the end of the Summer the bill 
would amount to the price of a cow. She 
and Margaret were having the best suc¬ 
cess with their flock of two hundred 
young chickens, and from these and the 
butter she felt sure they could realize 
enough to meet the household expenses. 
They were in debt to the hardware 
dealer forty dollars for a plow, a spray¬ 
ing outfit, and a few other necessary 
implements; and their grocery bill up to 
this time amounted to fifteen dollars. 
She estimated that by the time they paid 
for help during haying and harvesting, 
and bought the cow, their debts would 
amount to at least one hundred and fifty 
dollars. They had a small flock of sheep, 
and the wool money would pay the taxes. 
Ben readily agreed to her plan. “I 
heard some one say that Ezra Dawson 
has some cows for sale. We’d better buy 
one there—he has a good herd.” 
“He’d never let us have it unless we 
paid cash,” declared Alice, “and you 
know we can’t do that. I wonder if we 
couldn’t borow the money from Mr. Wil¬ 
son. If he won’t let us have it, no one 
will. But 1 do dread asking such a favor 
of him or any one/’ 
Good-hearted, generous John Wilson 
readily agreed to advance the money and 
the cow was bought. Affairs were mov¬ 
ing smoothly along and Alice and Ben 
were beginning to feel quite hopeful 
about their prospects, when Ben, coming 
home from town one day met Jim Scott. 
He was an unscrupulous neighbor from 
whom Mrs. Willard had purchased a 
horse late in the Winter. They had stop¬ 
ped for a moment to exchange greetings 
when Scott said: 
“Say, Ben, as soon as it’s convenient. 
I’d like to have the money for that horse 
your mother bought in February. I could 
use that sum real handy just now.” 
Ben looked at the other in amazement. 
“Why, mother paid you for Prince.” 
“I guess you’re mistaken, young man. 
But I don’t want to have trouble with 
my neighbors, and I'll tell you what I’ll 
do; you pay half the money now and 
I’ll let the rest run till Fall.” 
“See here, Jim Scott! You know that 
horse was paid for. I know mother took 
a receipt for the money—she always 
did.” 
Scott laughed sneeringly. “Of course, 
I’ll have to give in when I see that re¬ 
ceipt; so bring it along if you think you 
have one;” and he drove away. 
The man’s confident manner worried 
Fen a little, but he did not let it trouble 
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