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Bellefonte, Pa,, November 27, 1915.
HIGHWAY NO HUNTING GROUND
“I am in the public road now, I'll
hunt here as long as I please. When
you get ready, try and put me out of
here if you dare.”
Property owners in the country are
constantly being annoyed by this sort
of defiance from some irate hunter
who has been evicted from posted
lands. But the hunter is wrong in his
facts as well as his ethics. He is quite
as much on the private property of the
owner he is defying as he was before
he crossed the fence into the highway.
Very few highways are in any of
their parts public property nor are
they open to the public for any but
specific uses; neither is nut-gathering
nor berry-picking, even though the
trees and bushes from which the
gathering is done are of the wild va-
riety and wholly within the highway
limits. :
The property holders’ title of own-
ership nearly always extends to the
centre of the highway; if the same
man owns on both sides of the road,
his title covers the entire roadway
and its appurtenances, be they of a
vegetable or a mineral nature. Over
it the public holds a limited easement,
the right of free and unobstructed
travel. This includes all of the nec-
essary and probably the reasonable
exigencies that accompany its exer-
cise. It also includes the right of cer-
tain highway commissioners, selected
by the public for that purpose, to re-
pair and maintain the right of way in
a condition that will render travel
over it as expedient and agreeable as
may be. It includes, of course, the
right of these officers to remove any
obstacles, whether natural or trans-
ported, which may be shown to inter-
fere with travel over the highway or
with its maintenance. But in neither
the ground itself nor in the obstacles
removed from it has the public any
property rights whatsoever, and the
moment that a passer stops in pursuit
of some other object than that of
travel, his rights on that status cease
and he becomes a common trespasser.
Not only that; courts have decided
that his trespass begins, not with the
act of stopping, but from the moment
he comes opposite the property tres-
passed. In other words, his role of
traveler is no longer accepted in good
faith and his purpose from the first
is judged by the purposes which his
future acts disclose. For instance: C.
travels along the highway past B’s
premises with a gun over his shoulder.
To this B. may not object; he must ac-
cept C. as an ordinary traveler and
assume that his object is to pass
from one point to some other beyond
his premises. All this assumption
changes the instant C. stops in his
course or begins to work his dogs or
fire his gun. He has ceased to be a
traveler and loses his rights as such.
He is now hunting on B’s land and is
as much a trespasser as though he
were in the midst of his meadows or
his wood-lot. More than this, he has
destroyed the presumption that he
was a traveler in the first place.
Events have proved that his object
was hunting and not traveling, and
the public has no more right to hunt
across one portion of B’s land than
across any other portion of it. C’s
role as a traveler was from the first
a role assumed in the consumation of
his real object, hunting. It was there-
fore outside the rights which the high-
way easement could give him and, the
higher courts have held, he was a
trespasser on B. the first instant he
set foot on that part of the highway
belonging to B. and not merely from
the time when he made his first halt
or fired his first shot.
The right of a property owner to
evict a hunter does not come from any
claim which we may make on the
game being hunted, because any claim
of that sort is not valid. It lies sole-
ly in the absolute dominion which the
law gives to any property owner over
his own possessions for which he has
title. For that very purpose, for the
protection of that title, a part at least,
he pays tax. Against trespassers of
all kinds he has as much right to pro-
tect one part of his lands as another
and this includes the lands over which
the public have the easement of trav-
el. :
There has been an unfortunate
amount of misunderstanding about
the highway rights which the public
acquires and which the land-owner re-
tains. This has led to confusion, a
good deal of ill-feeling between pub-
lic and property owners and not a few
erroneous decisions before village
Squires and country justices. Al-
ways, though, the higher courts will
set aside these decisions and protect
the rights of the property owners and
it will be well for hunters to respect
those rights in the field if they do not
wish to risk paying for the privilege
of their defiance at some bar of jus-
tice. Every hunter who does not re-
spect those rights not only builds ad-
ditional prejudice against himself and
his favorite sport, but he also creates
against himself a case that the higher
Souris ave long ago decided against
m.—Ex.
Wilson Stamp to be Ready for Birth-
day Anniversary.
The new Woodrow Wilson postage
stamp will be either of 13 cents or 17
cents denomination and Postmaster
General New hopeseto have it on sale
in time for the celebration of the late
President’s birthday anniversary in
December.
A 13-cent stamp would be useful
for parcel post mailings while a 17
cent stamp would be used for regis-
tered letters. The late President con-
sidered “13” his lucky number.
. —An Irish attorney, not proverb-
ial for his probity, was robbed one
Jught in going from Wicklow to Dub-
in,
His father, next. day, meeting Bar-
on O'Grady, said, “My Lord, have you
heard of my son’s robbery?”
“No,” replied the baron; “whom did
he rob?”
COBRA SPITS DEATH
FROM FIFTEEN FEET
Jungle Has Many Other
Deadly Denizens.
To end a controversy over the death-
dealing effect of a “spitting” cobra at
a distance of 15 feet, C. Emerson
Brown, superintendent of the Zoologi-
cal gardens, is in. possession of addl-
tional expert advice that upholds his
contention. .
“Publicity given the purchase of the
deadly collection of snakes which were
brought here from New York has
aroused doubt in the minds of a num-
ber of persons who have informed me
in writing and by telephone that they
do not believe the snakes are so dead-
ly,” said Mr. Brown.
“One man wrote me he would not
be afraid to face the pair of ‘spitting’
cobras at a distance of 15 feet, with-
out any barriers between them. Of
course, I do not believe he would, but
he won't be given a chance, anyhow,”
added Mr. Brown.
Mr. Brown then offered a letter from
Raymond Ditmars, curator of reptiles
at the Bronx zoo, in New York, who is
reputed to be the greatest authority on
reptiles in this country. The letter
reads:
“The black cobras that spit poison
are the most dangerous of reptiles and
can spit venom 15 feet with deadly
precision and effect. At that distance,
poison hurled 4 feet high on the glass
of a case containing the species has
clouded the glass.
“This condition prevailed here re-
cently, when the cobras sent you and
the ones here in the zoo were exhibited
for the first time to visitors. The glass
had to be washed so the snakes coul?
be seen properly.
“Regarding the inquisitive gentle-
man who would face the cobras at a
“distance of 15 feet, he should equip
himself with a bucket of permanganate
of potash solution to duck his head in
to counteract the effect of the venom.
“Such an emphatic demonstration or
lesson in natural history as he would
stage might teach him something tan-
gible about the ways of African cobras
if he survived.”
The “spitting” cobra, like those in
the zoo, are black, with red blotches
on their underside, and the ones in the
zoo are six feet long and about three
Inches in diameter. The snakes are ir
specially constructed cages.
Of the seven deadly cobras in the
700, Mr. Brown says the green cobra
of the Mamba species is the fastest
snake in the world and strikes beyond
its length in any direction with its
head about five feet from the ground.
The green snake is twelve feet long,
has long fangs and is less than one
inch in diameters Mr. Brown added
the green cobra strikes without giving
a warning, and does not have to be
“egged” to do it, either.—Philadelphia
Record.
Better Train Handling
Passenger engineers are studying
the effect of “taking up slack” in
a long train by riding in the rear of
such a train under a plan devised for
better handling effected by the Rich-
mond, Fredericksburg & Potomac rail-
road, according to Railway Review. In
this way the enginemen are Impressed
Ly the fact that the handling of the
train, which they thought performed
with due caution from their cab, was
attended with serious discomfort to
those in the rear cars. The plan has
worked out satisfactorily, not only
from the actual physical experience
of the enginemen’s observations, but
from the psychological factor which
entered into the operation. :
Had an Alibi
“Want to join the Legion, buddy?”
asked a Legionnaire of a husky young
man of about his own age.
“Can’t; wasn’t in the service.”
“Why weren't you?” the veteran de
manded.
“My Intentions were good,” was the
rather reluctant explanation. “I went
to a recruiting office where they put
me In a room and told me to take off
my clothes. A doctor walked up to
me, looked at me kinda hard, an’ then
thumped me on the chest. I wasn’t in
the habit of letting strangers get
rough with me, so I thumped his chest
—an’ I didn’t get out of the hospital
untill the war was over.”—Americar
Legion Weekly,
Nature Was Before Them
At Bronson, Minn, Charles Falk
chose a rainy afternoon for butcher-
ing his fatted hog because the weather
was not suitable for other work, and
with the assistance of a neighbor the
necessary preparations were made.
When everything was ready the men
procecded to the pig-house to admin-
ister the stunning blow, but to their
amazement found the porker dead near
the door. It was found that lightning
had killed the animal.
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Oil Does Not Freeze
A very precious oil, suitable for!
aviation, since it does not congeal
even at a very high altitude, can be |
extracted from crickets, says consular |
advices to the Department of Com-'
merce from Algiers.
Recently about 18 tons of crickets
were sent to Holland from Algeria. |
Part of this quantity was utilized for |
feeding poultry, and from the remain- |
der the oil for aviation purposes was |
extracted and has apparently given
every satisfaction.
Mining in Arizena
Gold, sliver, copper and lead to the
value of $99,610,379 were mined in Arf
zona in 1924.
~The World Court--Why Join It?
There are several reasons why we should join the World Court.
1. For the sake of our country.
Its history shows that the Court does settle the disputes and lessen
the friction that are likely to lead to war. And war would injure and
probably in the end involve ourselves. “Europe is infinitely less remote
from us both in time and in interest than Pennsylvania was from Massa-
chusetts in Washington's day. “I feel confident,” says Mr. Coolidge “that
such acticn would make a greater America, that it would be productive of
a higher and finer national spirit, and
2. For the sake of the world.
Power means responsibility and
of a more complete national life.”
our great nation can not escape it.
No people can be as strong as our own without having the duty to use its
strength for the common good. By joining the Court we should prove to
the world that we believe in the settlement not only of individual but of
international differences through law and justice rather than through
force.
3. For the sake of our dead.
Our boys fought in a war which
less we do our utmost to end war we
keep faith with them.
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we told them was to end war. Un-
make their sacrifice vain and fail to
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS, ,
1. Call on your Senators while they are at home.
2. Telegraph or write them when they are in Washington.
3. Discuss the World Court situation in your club, lodge and church
—in all of them—and move that resolutions be sent to the President and
your two Senators endorsing adherence to the World Court on the Hard-
ing-Hughes-Coolidge terms.
4. Organize a World Court committee to arrange a community
meeting this fall.
(a) Secure representation of all sympathetic organizations.
(b) Appoint a program committee to secure speakers and music,
using local talent if possible.
(¢) Appoint a finance committee to raise the money required.
(d) Appoint a
oughly.
publicity committee to advertise the meeting thor-
(e) Present resolutions endorsing the Harding-Hughes-Coolidge
World Court plan and send as above.
THE BUILDERS OF VIOLINS.
It was eight years ago in New York
on Pier No. 4, I first saw Litchafsy. He
was sitting on an upturned box, play-
ing a violin while waiting to load for
the other side; a strong-faced, slender
bodied boy, in a man’s years, dressed
in Uncle Sam’s khaki.
During my first talk he told me he
was American born, of Austrian par-
ents, by trade a carpenter, at heart a
maker of violins, who, since childhood,
had longed to build an instrument that
would sing the joy of his soul.
“Oh,” he exclaimed, if I could only
put into it the greatness of my hap-
piness, the song that continuously
sings and dances within me—but I’ve
failed. Always I think that within the
next lives a soul bubbling with mirth,
but always creeps in a note of sad-
ness—and I put it away and build an-
other.”
A year later I, with several physi-
cians, were detailed to accompany
home a shipload of our sick heroes,
and Litchafsy was one of them. He
was propped up on his cot, and instant-
ly his eyes arrested me, and he smiled
his same old smile.
“Hello, doctor!” he called. “Togeth-
er we journeyed from our happy land
so we travel back. I am so happy,”
he continued as I, trying to smile,
held his hand. “I want so much to
get back to my violins. You see with
these steel legs I can’t go back to my
carpenter work, therefore I can spend
all my time putting music into my
pieces of wood.”
That he had come out of the war's
hell with his soul still flaming, his
creed of joy, filled me with a surprise
which he saw, for he said:
“That back there is nothing—al-
ready I have forgotten its awfulness.
It is only for a moment that sorrow
has triumphed—happiness will beat it
back.”
“Where is your violin?” I asked.
“I gave it away, because the last
time I played it there in the hospital
it would not dance, it only cried, and
with it the men wept and I grew
angry, for I was going home and it
should have spoken my joy, so I threw
it aside, saying, I will build me an-
other that will not sing such notes.”
Yesterday in his little room ad-
joining his smaller workshop, I found
him smiling, though a mere shadow
of his former self, but his eyes were
changed. In them lived and burned
all the sorrows of a world, sorrow his
heart would not let him speak, yet
under them lay his soul, crushed.
He hobbled with me to his shop’
where lay his last soul-builded instru-
ment; a jewel in shape and beauty.
Worshipfully he gazed upon it, car-
ressing it as tenderly as a mother | 55
yearning over her first born. |
“Twice before I failed,” he said |
softly, “and each was greater than be- |
fore. Each wept and moaned in sor-
row, and I sold them. But this time
I have not failed! See the wood,
grown in sunny Italy! Not yet has |
it sounded!” His voice fell to a
whisper.
had spoken, the song of it will sing.
My heart already hears its glorious
notes, its melody of purest happiness, |
| that will set the world to swaying in |
an ecstacy of delight!” i
Before I left I prevailed upon him
to let me bring a few friends. You
know how we gathered in his little | [L
shop; how he tenderly lifted the in-
strument from its bed of cotton, and
you must have seen by the expression
of his eyes that he seemed to be look- |
ing into another world; that his smile
was infinitely tender. Then you saw
the bow touch the strings; heard a
glorious sound pour forth, filling not
only the little room but all outside.
0 me the walls vanished and I
heard the marching of soldiers, the
thunder of tramping horses, the roar-
ing of motors, the purring of machine
guns, the shrieks, groans, yells, pray-
ers, curses of maddened and tortured
men. In all its horror, war screamed
from the wondrous instrument. Then
came the saddest notes the ear of man
ever heard; it was the prayers, moan-
ings, sorrowing of a world of mothers,
sweethearts, fathers, friend, a world
stricken. Suddenly it stopped, and we
with hearts beating to suffocation,
watched him the maker of it all, look
“But I know, as though it
in wonderment at the instrument that
terribly deceived him.
Over and over he turned it, seemingly
unable to recognize it. Bewildered, he
looked at his box and back, and I saw
death chilling his features. Then he
smiled, and death, overtaking, froze
it. Yet his eyes lived and glowed with
a fire kept alive by the great God, and
again he played. This time the notes
sang in a volume of unearthly re-
joicing, and beneath were the won-
drous dancing notes he had sought so
ong.
Under his magic rhythm the world
must have moved and sung. Higher
it rose to an ecstacy of all things
glorious. At last from a world unseen
by other eyes than his, he was send-
ing forth his message of peace and
happiness. Gradually the bow traveled
slower and slower. Softer and farther
away sounded the notes until their
melody seemed to float to us, a breath
from beyond, and, looking into his
eyes, I knew he was dead. :
Incapable of movement, we watched
him topple, saw the instrument fall,
heard it crash against the sharp end
of an iron mold, saw the jagged hole,
and with him, its master passed.—Our
i Paper.
Life Saving Cork.
The bureau of standards says the
amount of cork used to support a
body in water depends entirely upon
consideration, such as the bones and
flesh. Nine out of ten people float
naturally because the body is suppos-
ed to be as light as water. In gen-
eral, if the body is as light as the
water and 25 pounds of the 150 pounds
1s out of water, such as the head, neck,
shoulders and arms, it would take six
pounds and ten ounces of cork to sup-
port the body.—Exchange.
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
Real Estate Transfers.
Glenn Rogers, et ux, to D. Peters,
tract in Walker township; $975.
James L. Leathers, et ux, to War-
ren W. Carson, tract in Howard bor-
ough; $5,000.
L. G. Stanton, et ux, to Mary J.
Miller, tract in Huston township;
$600.
Cora. E. Gramley to C. R. Boob,
tract in Miles township; $950.
I. G. Gordon Foster, et al, to Edith
M. Green, tract in State College; $975.
Daniel C. Keller to Trustees of the
Centre Hall Reformed Parsonage,
tract in Centre Hall; $250.
D. A. Boozer, et al, to James D.
Searson, tract in Centre Hall; $2,750.
Edward A. Peters, et ux, to Martin
Kresevich, tract in Spring township;
$2,150.
J. W. Henszey, et ux, to A. J. Wood,
oti tract in College township; $1,
Stella Smiley, et bar, to J. W. Stein,
tract in Philipsburg; $1,500.
Dora M. Ghener to Joseph Mastiski,
tract in Patton township; $1,800.
J. W. Henszey, et ux, to Bugene H.
Ledderer, tract in State College; $1.
A.J. Wood, etel, to Tau Co., Delp
Tau Delta Fraternity, tract in State
College; $1. i
Abraham Weber, et ux, to. the
School District of Howard - borough,
tract in Howard; $600.
to ihe
Abraham Weber, et ux,
School District of Howard . boxough,.
tract in Howard; $400.
S. J. Reber, et ux, to the School. Dis-
trict of Howard borough, , tract Jin
Howard; $800. Es
F. M. Fisher, et ux, to Charles Wa
Swartz, tract in Centre Hall; 35250:
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