The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-20
OUR BEDDING
 NEWS LETTER
Amateur Jurists Discuss Dues ton Raised by. Pistol
 Carrying Case.
Sanford Land Committee .Ac- cept the Reduced Compensa- ton Offered by Water Cora-
 pany-West Side Complains
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 Bedding, Aug. 2o.-t'Why is a hen?' has been suppIanted as a subject of local discussion by t'When is a pistol?" Or to state the matter with complete ness, when is pistol a deadly weapon the carrying of which in concealment upon the person becomes an infrac- ton of the law? What brought the question to the front was the arrest on the Ridge a. few days since Of a Danbury man who displayed a revo1- yer during an unamiable interview with his wife, the. latter having left him to engage in domestic service with ] a prominent Ridge family. Carrying concealed weapons was one of the charges against the defendant. The pistol when taken from his person by Constable Banks, was un1oaded and it's possessor had no cartridges. Fur thermore the latter said he picked up the pistol from the roadway while driving from Danbury to the Ridge and that he was not in the habit of carrying Concealed weapons of any kind. The evidence being undisputed the trial justice dismissed the charge whereupon various and sundry anna teur jurists declared that the court had, judicial1y erred. A pistol was a pistol, they said, whether loaded or not, and the fact that its possessor
 
 have brought upon him the laws. pen alty.E The other side retorted that a gun devoid of lock, stock or barrel or any one of these constituent parts could not be classed as 8. deadly weapon and that a pistol without ann munition in it or near 1t belonged to the same category. At best it was a weapon only in the sense Of it's avail ability as a. bIudgeon and for use in that capacity short piece of plain iron or lead or even a stick of fire wood would make a more effective weapon. The arguments cited are only g. few of those advanced and the dis putants are still at it.
 A case having pathological interest and serving to show what physical adyersities some persons can some times survive was one of recent local occurrence. Late ons Wednesday af- ternoon a, well known character Of the Ridge section laid down in clnnp of bushes at the roadside Just below Milo Osborn's corner, having as his cherished companion a gallon jug filled with whiskey. On the following Sat urday afternon two farm hands in backing up team acctden tally came upon him. For three days he had been there pelted by showers, with out drink except for the raw whiskey and without any food whatever. The jug was empty and he wae in A stupor
 
 fort to rouse him to even partial con- sciousness Under the direction of Se- Iectman Barnes he was taken to his solitary home and placed in bed. Three days later he emerged appar- ent1y none the worse for wear, al- though he had received meanwhile no medical treatment and no nursing manifestations of any sort Severe as was his experience in this instance, it was in line with others of the same kind, although probably of lesser de- gree which have been part of the mans personal history for years. He is now between 50 and 50 and retainsf a. capacity for hard work which makes his services in steady demand. Not at all an heroic figure like the British officer who was written up by the late Prof. William James as an illustra- tion Of the wonderful latent forces or unsuspected reserve powers which hr- man beings possess, the cases of the two men have similarity from the viewpoint of sheer endurance Prof James man, it may be- recalled, was in chief command of one of the be- sieged South African settlements dur ing the oBer war. The incessant de- mands which his responsibilities ina- posed prevented him from eating or sleeping to anything like a normal ex- tent for two or three weeks. His ur- healed wounds caused blood poisoning
 
 period he absorbed incredible quanti- ties of brandy and opium, these stin- ulants and Q, tremendous will power furnishing the motor and sustaining forces which kept him from the col lapse constantly expected by his asso- ciates. Not only did he keep going, but he was still alive and in fairly good shape physically when Prof. James described the case several years later.
 The teaching staff of the Sanford school for the coming year comprises three new members. They are Rich. ard M. Hewitt, Wesleyan University. whose. subjects are English, French and manual training; Cyril Carpenter, Smith, Brown University, natural sci ences and math ernatics, physical train ing and athletics; Harrison M Lake Leland Stanford University common school branches, physiology, hygiene vocal expression and music. The yer satile and popular Herr Schoch re- l mains aa instructor in French Ger man, Spanish, drawing and music. and W. c. Sanford continues in charge of the department of agriculture, garden ing and manual training. The cIa ssi- cal matheIna tics, history and civil gov iernment will be taught by Headmas- ter D. $. Sanford and his wife It is maintain the schools reputation as one of the best preparatory schools in the country. The fall term opens on Sept. 23. For boarding pupils the | terms are $500 per year, for day pupils living in. 5Redding $50, and for day pu- pills living in other towns $10o.
 A settlement has been made by the Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. with John W. Banks, George w. Finn and Fra n cis Greene, the committee in the San ford land condemnation suit They asked $250 each for their services, but the company 3demurred to this figure and proffered MT. Finn and MT Greene $18o which they have accepted Mr l Banks was allowed $25o on account of | being a lawyer and having acted as the committees chairman
 Margaret Shubert, who had the re- markable record of a continuous pe-