THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Regeneration of Sarah 
By Beulah Heaston and Anna Nixon 
(Continued from page 1293.) 
Alice had been overworked for so long, 
and her exhaustion had been so complete 
that she was very ill for several weeks. 
When she was well enough to take an in¬ 
terest in what was going on about the 
house, she noted that Sarah was trying, 
as well as she could, to fill her place; 
and Alice was deeply affected. Aunt 
Melissa prophesied that it would not 
last long; but Alice saw more deeply into 
the working of her sister’s mind, and 
knew there had been a great change in 
Sarah, who was now doing, with appar¬ 
ent willingness, the work she always had 
professed to hate. The older sister real¬ 
ized that Sarah’s good qualities merely 
had been overshadowed by vanity and sel¬ 
fishness, and that these unpleasant traits 
had been fostered by the rest of the fam¬ 
ily, who had yielded to Sarah’s whims, 
because that was the easiest way to get 
along with her. 
No ordinary experience would have 
affected Sarah, and she might have gone 
on for years in the same thoughtless man¬ 
ner, if she had not been brought face to 
face with the fact that her selfishness 
perhaps actually had endangered Alice’s 
life. As she sat by the window in x\lice’s 
Toom on the night of the Fourth, Sarah 
was thinking seriously for the first time 
in her life, and her thoughts were not 
pleasant. Heretofore, when she had 
been at fault, she had managed to find an 
excuse for herself, but tonight she faced 
the issue squarely; she not only had 
failed to help Alice and take upon herself 
a fair share of the work, but she had 
added to her sister's burdens. The ex¬ 
tra work occasioned by her new dress 
was only one of many such instances. 
All her life she had appropriated the 
best of everything as her right. She not 
only accepted the best—she had demand¬ 
ed it. Sarah did not spare herself in 
summing up her short-comings, and it 
was a humiliating experience to charge 
herself with the selfishness, the indol¬ 
ence, and the petty vanities which had 
been the chief factors of her whole life. 
Although Sarah had admitted to her¬ 
self that her shirking had been largely 
responsible for her sister’s illness, and 
had confessed it to Dr. Armstrong in 
the first hour of her anxiety and re¬ 
morse, she was not yet ready to acknowl¬ 
edge it openly to others, and only showed 
her contrition by meekly taking upon her¬ 
self the greater share of the housework. 
Sarah soon proved herself an excel¬ 
lent business woman. She returned one 
day from the mail box, dropped a hand¬ 
ful of newspapers and magazines into the 
hammock where Alice reclined, and sat 
down on the step to read a letter. “It’s 
from Rose Whitman,” she remarked pre¬ 
sently. “She asks if we could supply 
them with butter and eggs every week.” 
“It’s too bad we have none to spare,” 
said Alice regretfully. 
“Let’s send them some,” suggested 
Sarah. “We can quit selling to one of 
our Westfield customers. I don’t like 
to disappoint Mrs. Whitman.” 
“Oh, I hardly think we ought to do 
that,” demurred Alice. 
“Why not? Don’t you suppose that 
if those Westfield people could get as 
good butter for less than they pay us, 
they’d do it?” 
“Yes—I suppose they would,” Alice 
admitted. “But we wouldn’t get more— 
we couldn’t charge our friends more 
than others pay us.” 
“We’ll not charge more than they have 
to pay in Stafford. They’d expect to pay 
more than we get at Westfield. I believe 
I’ll send them a basket tomorrow There 
will be more than enough butter for our 
regular customers this week, and if ne¬ 
cessary I’ll economize a little in the cook¬ 
ing.” 
Alice made no further protest and 
Sarah wrote to Rose that evening, and 
told her that she was sending the basket 
of but^pr and eggs. She was very frank 
and business-like, and told Rose that it 
would not pay to send such a small 
amount each week, but that if the Whit¬ 
mans knew of two or three other fami¬ 
lies who would take butter, they would 
send it; also, that they would have to 
charge city prices because of the extra 
work and the added expense of trans¬ 
portation. 
Rose answered in a few days that sev¬ 
eral of her mother's friends would be 
glad to take all the butter and eggs the 
Willards could supply and were quite 
willing to pay a good price. 
Alice was by this time well enough to 
go about the house, hut was not well 
enough to take any active part in the 
work. As Sarah and Margaret had 
everything to do, she wisely refrained 
from criticising their methods, and left 
to them the management of affairs. 
Sarah’s good management in disposing 
of the butter and eggs made an apprecia¬ 
ble difference in the wekely income; and 
its success led her to seek a market in 
Stafford for the young chickens that were 
nearly ready to sell, with such satis¬ 
factory results that all their surplus 
poultry was engaged at a profitable 
figure. By this time she really was en¬ 
joying her work, and continually was on 
the lookout for new ways to add to their 
income. 
(To be continued.) 
“ More or Less” in Deed ; Fruit. 
1. A man sold this farm as a slice 
from a larger and in the original deed, 
after giving figures of survey said it 
was “estimated to contain 20 acres more 
or less.” The next two or three owners, 
being uneducated, never figured it out. 
After I had bought and papers were being 
made out I discovered that there was a 
little less than 19 acres. Could the first 
or any succeeding purchaser, have main¬ 
tained any action for recovery or dam¬ 
age on account of the shortage? 2. To 
whom would fruit on the trees belong by 
law, if possession was taken in August, 
nothing being said about it when the bar¬ 
gain was made? m. l. b. 
New York. 
1. The statement of “more or less” in 
a deed covers a reasonable divergence in 
the amount of land actually found. And 
this difference of something more than an 
acre in a 20-acre tract is not sufficient on 
which to base an action for damages. It 
could vary that much either way. 
2. The fruit would belong to the person, 
who took possession in August. Un¬ 
picked fruit is not produced by annual 
labor, such as is used to produce corn, 
peas, etc., and is not looked upon as per¬ 
sonal property. It therefore passes with, 
title to the land. 
Limitation on Actions. 
1. If I hold a note against a land- 
owner in Pennsylvania, either judgment 
or common note, how long will it be good 
if not entered on the county records? If 
the note is marked duplicate of a note 
that has been lost, what value has the 
note should the original not be found? 
2. How many years is a book account 
good in Pennsylvania if not presented 
for settlement. I sell a man some live 
stock and keep a book account of same. 
When must I ask for settlement? 
Illinois. t. H. M. 
1. Action on note must be brought 
within six years from the time the right 
of action accrues. The duplicate stands 
in the place of the original if that is not 
found. The payment of judgments will 
be presumed after 20 years, although, if 
it is not entered on the records, it does 
not become a lien. 
2. You must ask for a settlement or 
begin action within six years from the 
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