THE RUKA L NEW-YORKER 
1221 
The Regeneration of Sarah 
By Beulah Heaston and Anna Nixon 
(Continued from page 1195.) 
Aunt Melissa Deems was seated in the 
Willard kitchen one forenoon in May, 
holding forth, as was her custom, in an 
uninterrupted flow of talk. “As I was 
saying,” she went on, “always plant your 
potatoes in the dark o’ the moon, and 
when the sign’s right. Now, if I’d just 
thought, I’d ha’ brought you some o’ them 
bunch beans to plant—the kind Cousin 
Hetty Long brought me from Pennsyl- 
vany ten years ago—poor soul! she died 
the very next Winter so that was her 
last visit. My land, Sary! are you still 
ironing at that same dress?” 
Sarah put her iron down on the stove 
with unnecessary emphasis. She disliked 
to be called “Sary” and she disliked the 
sharp-tongued old woman, but she made 
no reply; for Aunt Melissa had a kind 
heart, after all, and there was scarcely a 
family in the neighborhood but was in¬ 
debted to her for kindly ministrations in 
time of sickness. 
Alice feared that Sarah might make 
some sharp reply and hastened to guide 
the conversation into a safer channel. 
“You must go out and look at our gar¬ 
den, Aunt Melissa,” she said. “It’s grow¬ 
ing fine.” 
“It’s a pity I didn’t come over before 
you made garden, so I could ha’ told you 
when to plant the different seeds. I said 
to myself this morning, ‘there’s them Wil¬ 
lard children—I ain’t been over to see 
them for I don’t know how long; an’ I 
wonder how the poor things are getting 
along with no one to advise ’em’.” 
“We think we’re getting along pretty 
well,” said Alice. 
“Yes, lots o’ folks think they’re getting 
along all right and first thing they 
know-” 
“Oh, girls, the bees are swarming!” in¬ 
terrupted Margaret putting her head in at 
the kitchen door. 
Alice ran to the back porch, followed 
by Aunt Melissa’s substantial figur\ 
Even Sarah left her ironing and went to 
the door. 
“I believe they’re going to settle on the 
quince tree by the garden gate,” said 
Alice. 
“No; they’re going to light on the snow¬ 
ball bush” prophesied Margaret. 
“You never can tell,” put in Aunt Me¬ 
lissa. “Bees are contrary critters,” and 
she was right, for the swarm settled in 
the top of an apple tree. 
“Run and call Ben, Margaret,” directed 
Alice. “I’ll get a hive ready.” 
“While you’re doing that,” said Aunt 
Melissa, “I’ll get a bunch o’ lemon balm 
from the garden to brush out the hive. 
Sary, you run and get the mosquito bar.” 
Sarah paid no heed to this command, but 
returned to her ironing. 
Ben soon appeared with a tall ladder. 
Alice brought a square of mosquito net¬ 
ting and tied it over his broad-brimmed 
straw hat. lie put on a pair of gloves, 
and taking with him a saw, mounted the 
ladder. 
It was necessary to leave the ladder 
and climb out on a limb to reach the bees, 
lie had sawed half through the branch on 
which the bees were suspended, when the 
limb on which he was sitting broke, and 
he went crashing through the branches to 
the ground. 
“Oh, he’s killed !” screamed Alice, run¬ 
ning to where Ben lay, apparently lifeless 
on the ground. 
CHAPTER VI. 
“Hello, Ben! You’re an energetic far¬ 
mer, aren’t you—loafing in the shade 
when all your neighbors are plowing 
corn.” With these words Dr. Armstrong 
drew up by the Willard gate, wrapped the 
lines about the whip and tossed a maga¬ 
zine to the boy, who was lying on the 
grass under a maple. 
Ben’s fall from the apple tree a few 
weeks before had resulted in nothing more 
serious than a broken arm ; but it meant 
enforced idleness at a time when the farm 
work most needed his attention. 
“You just wait—I’ll be in that corn¬ 
field before you know it,” returned Ben. 
“Now listen, young man : you’re not go¬ 
ing to use that arm till I tell you it’s safe 
•—understand?” 
“You’ll have to make it pretty soon, 
then. We can’t get help more than half 
the time. Will my arm be out of this 
sling by commencement day?” 
“Hardly. But don’t worry about that,” 
laughed the doctor; “think what a hero 
you’ll be.” 
The doctor looked eagerly toward the 
house as he spoke, for the front door had 
opened and he thought that Alice was 
coming out. When it had been necessary 
for him to come to the house following 
Ben’s accident he had maintained a strict¬ 
ly professional attitude, and Alice had 
avoided him whenever she could. But it 
was Sarah who came down the walk. 
(To be continued.) 
Legal Questions 
Rights in Wells. 
We have permitted a neighbor the use 
of a well on our property (22 feet from 
the center of the highway, just outside 
the present fence on my side of the road) 
for 10 years, and to another family before 
that. We wish now to use the well and 
to compel them, if they use the well at 
all, to put a pump over it to protect our 
pipes from freezing. May we do this? 
Connecticut. E. w. ir. 
This family in 10 years could not obtain 
a prescriptive right as against you to 
the use of this spring. If this spring is 
on your land the only way this family 
could obtain any privilege in the spring 
would be by prescription, and this would 
necessitate a continued use of the water 
by them and their predecessors for 20 
years under a claim of right and adverse 
to you, and you must have known of 
their claim. If you can show they have 
acted under your permit only, then they 
have no rights except such as you allow 
them, and you may compel them to put 
in a pump, or may forbid them the use 
of the water entirely. 
Right to Disinherit. 
My father has recently died and left 
a very valuable farm, large timber lot 
and lots of stock, besides perhaps $1,000 
in bank. He left a will, and there are in 
the family my mother, one sister and one 
brother younger than I. He left the life 
use of the farm to my mother, $200 to 
my sister, and at my mother’s death 
everything, including personal property, 
real estate and money in the bank, to my 
brother. I was not even mentioned, and 
I want to know if the will is all right, or 
could I contest it and get my share of 
the property? E. A. 
Pennsylvania. 
A person in your State, and in nearly, 
if not all, of the States, may by his 
will disinherit his child or children liv¬ 
ing at the time of the execution of the 
will. Your only hope of participating in 
the estate would be by successfully con¬ 
testing the probate of the will, which 
could probably best be done, if at all, on 
the grounds that your father was unduly 
influenced against you at the time the 
will was made, or that he was then not 
of testamentary capacity, or that the will 
was not properly executed. Whatever 
action you undertake should be done im¬ 
mediately as the delay makes it harder 
for you to proceed. If you can estab¬ 
lish none of these things you would bet¬ 
ter try by peaceful and tactful measures 
to get your brother to give you some 
share of the estate. 
Damage by Change of Grade. 
The town superintendent is cutting 
down a hill a short distance north of my 
place, and grading in in front of my 
house, raising the grade between two and 
three feet, and as my barn is on the other 
side of the road I have to climb over 
this grade to get to the barn. I shall 
also have to raise my house at least two 
feet and fill in, costing me $75 or bet¬ 
ter. Please advise if Section 59 of the 
State Highway Law has been changed, 
as I understand that under that section 
if the grade of a road was raised so as 
to damage property the town was held 
for damages, but I have been told that I 
cannot do anything about the matter. It 
seems a strange law that will allow prop¬ 
erty to be damaged and the owner has 
nothing to say. E. w. 
New York. 
Section 59 has not been amended. It 
in substance provides that in any town 
in which a town highway shall be re¬ 
paired, graded and macadamized from 
curb to curb by the town authorities the 
owner of land adjacent to the highway 
shall be entitled to recover from the 
town the damages resulting from any 
change of grade. The claim, verified, 
must be presented to the town board 
within GO days after the change of grade 
is effected. 
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