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Little Latvia With

By CHARLES C. MULLER.

”>31; 15 degrees closer than
1 New York to the North Pole.
Intvia, the new Baltic repub-
liv his days shorter in winter and
rm”:- in summer than has New York.
1» x months, from September to April,
ii. ll {ow daylight hours, and those few
.w- “ill hmvyfimd dreary. Rising barely
tn thr- city‘s housetopsyand then slink-
mg norm: the skies just above the
hori'znn. the winter sun almost always
is partially obscured by a. haze. “'hen
Oii‘fiklfll'ii‘ll‘y the haze dissolves in late
morning or early afternoon unaccus-
toim-il xllirv on hard snow blinds eyes
‘ us‘ .: viii). in dull hum,
hut {rum April September the
will, rising \».i"iy .‘ml bright, beams
glorlnusl} ow-r llil' hurl. sinking into
the Baltic, fur izi 1h Ilortllu'vst, at
10 o'clock on M.iy iii: :15, omngu F91-

sla if they drove the Bolsheviks out.

promises. Prince Bermondt
north from Germany.

to his rule.

wrong,
was wrong back in the days

more or less to seed.

tn

leenth can tun:-

An Old Story That Had

lll" lirri‘ihx-swst twiligi iinil wakes to

half the Filili‘klli‘lg sun in the north- castle. surrounded by

 

was starving.
justice, for

’. 141- lm-4 ,‘V.ll'll¢'ll who wore Lut-

.'_-: 4 ‘i;.,:l ,.I =iillliiitunts, though lioness some

With this my and these alluring
started
Well on the
march, he rather forgot his promises
and seemed content to advance against
Riga, to take the city, and. by captur-
ing the capital, to subject the country

But Bermondt’s psychology was .
Just as German psychology
when
barons of Cour-land let the country go
In those days
peasants were permitted to starve and
no attention was paid to their cries
for food. while nobles reveled after the
Wild. unrestrained manner of. the six-

A lflodern Sequel

low and from in color and hug“ in “'20- ,
By the t’ll'l of June one lives continu- TWO ’“lndfmd mint: ljg’lxrlhelifl 3:511:
ally in illif’llflhl, for om goes to bod in in the dislilct- 0 1L 8‘ .

smog m that time an unconqueruble
a. great moat.
the Center of (l large community which
Peasants pleaded for
oil the food being

‘ ual Troubles ahdH-i-feg
Has Best Asset in People’s Physique and-W111

slan prisoners of war. to whom Ber-
mondt gave promises of land in Bus-

their homes.

lies Hagensberg. from

well equipped Germans were route

thoroughly.

him there. Perhaps the Letts won
dcred. too, but it was very like fit

when the natives nose in their ange
against the opprmsor to seize thei
liberty. -

A year ago Latvia. was officially

recognized as a republic by the coun
ti ies of the yvorid. On January 2, 1921

the Supreme Council at Paris recog~
nized do lure the little Baltic prov-
ince, in the name of Great Britain,
France, Italy, Japan and Belgium. On
day Finland also accorded the

that
some honor to the Letts. After year
oi struggle Latvia had secured

and many had no weapons other than
clubs. But at Riga they fought to:

Across the Duna River from Rig).
which town
Bermondt attacked the insignificant
Lettiah armyfan army lacking guns
and clothes. Then on‘November 11,
just as at Paris 'in 1914, when all
seemed bright and there was no doubc
of their reaching their goal, the strong,

then finally he halted,

Bermondt found himself in Germany,
wondering how the Letts had driven

castle episode in the sixteenth century,

its
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,fitmwaysiz hastriedtozlve'th'o .. ‘ I ' . '
. ts pos tions in civil omces or privy, , I 7 ,
............... p... Favors Return
uanlans, Russians. Jews, and others ',.
have had to take what they could find.
but even then ,there- is not work for “'
all and laws were passed in the re-
public‘s early existence to prohibit
any but,_na.tive born to stay in the
country. This law never has been
enforced.

.

3’920. Germany sent to Lfirtvia slxtyyio.
comotives and many cars as repam-
tion according ‘to the Versailles
treaty. , .. .' _ .

A boat in port'Was. and still is. an
event. All but ‘very few arriving ship-
monts are’ cargoes of American Red
Cross medical or, food supplies for dis-
tribution.’ and when 'the American
vessel ties fast to the quay crowds
of poorly clad, freezing men, women
and children stand at the gangDIank
to beg for a scrap of food. ‘White
bread, it only a bit of crust, is looked
upon as a. gift of the gods, These
ships bring the only white bread
within the borders of Latvia. In the
cities the very-poor daily take brcad
cards to government centers to get
only :1 quarter of a pound. Not (Wei-y-
one may have 3. card.

Practically all but money chnnzms
are poor. Men who under the old Rus—
. Slilll government were 503 captains
and imlortunt naval officers Work as
tug pilots for 750 rubies a month (a
ruble a cent) when, had the war not
come. they would have been
years on pension.

W’omcn and girls toil for 15 rubles
a day. chopping: ice" from railway
tracks or working on roarl.-:_

, on law enforcement. of e
Peasants and small landowners are 111.,

sturdy. Men and women alike are. Amefic?“ Bar Asmiatm.“ rem“
mold r _ the ,Whipplng post. He believes such
of gi‘ia‘ke'é‘éiifli flfihlafiug‘iiiii; raw... world have a gm effect m
development that Would astound» an the reduction '0‘ cx-11me. h a) .
athlete. Their .lot is to struggle un- He c.ted 9131111) es w ere ogg-iigg
remittingly, and usually for little tended to reduce crime, citing at t e
money and with small chance ever of same time figures showing the num-
acquiring more,*1ust as the Russian ber. of_murders in the large FlheSriill
peasant under the Tsarist system con- 1921" These were: St‘ Louis, . 426’
sidered himself fortunate if. after a Boston, 102: Washington. 69: Chicago.
year’s toil, he did not find himself in 206; 59‘” Yak: 231- ,

debt. This constant laboring just for Tbe'fudge Is Not a .
$3313.23? 3:? ii? intinfiiktfi‘é ' ”we" in “is “WM”
Lott. Robust in body, his mind needs wgé‘fgfie (iamgngiltls lfhenoritu‘: ”Ste "3,:
development to show him there‘ is whipping pigst. ‘ Many other learned

more in life than a mere grubbing a .
existence. the only one he knows: authorities have suggested the recs

7 tablishment of this almost obsolete in-
The stocky peasant. woman 90‘s 3 stitution. And these increasing dc—
mans manual labor, from Working on
roads with pick and shovel to low- mands from personages to whom the
j ,‘ . . " p public listens with more or less atten»
”g. fie‘ds 0" .drfvmg 5mm “mug tion would indeed be gratifyin" to
native Dailies blighted to crlude Woodleln those oldtime authorities who scarier.
cars, en t.e pony sues atte . , . ‘ . ‘ .- ..
startling sight of an automobile, the sistentl‘y Cla‘mEd that the whipping
Woman is just as strong in tugging p05; rightfully bfdongs wherev .
on the reins. and is just as fit‘ight- 3(1). (woman is subject ‘0 the temptation had perished.
cried herself as is her wide-eyed hus- . Ho wrong.
band. and er, these men whose long and s

the wheel. '

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and at the first blow, which drew bit.
from the veins, she fainted.’ '

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i5 an opera company in which natives render them just'in their decisions which
sing scores of all nations in the Lct- offer as one Of their strongest argu-
tish tongue, and after months out in ments that the whipping post was a the victim‘s
the bleak, fiat, reckless country, with method or punishment “men in one for his arms.
the sun never brightening thwonot- form or another has been used in all Near the ground
cnous landscape, a visit to the opera ages and all lands. Furthermore. that the stake for the
is like coming out into the glorious “1.9 history of practically every nation the ankles 10 Pass through.
Sunshine at the end of a. long under—' shows that the legal administration of was spread to insure the firm motin.
ground journey. justice has been founded on the pub- of the chief executirmer. The post.
rim Ju‘e 23’ when days are longest lic whipping of all lawbreakers. Of usually erected in the public square so
and only a few hours of (215}; mark course this is true of some countries that the full suffering of the crimina}
what should. be night, farmers of the more than others. In a great many in might be enjoyed by all who cared to
land do honor to the Hay God who which the knou't has been used from see, was perhaps the. niOSt popular
guards their (‘rops_ No one sleeps this the first settlement of the inhabitants place in the town or village. And so
night; all keep watch. Each farmer until'to-day theX‘CJ'litS been practically great was the fear inspired by tho
when midnight draws near lights bar- no change. The whipping of petty of— sight of the b'undle ct knouis married
rcls filled with wood and tar on top of tenders, of criminals and of insur- by the two executioners that no mat-
tall poles that rise above every farm gents still continues to be the most tor how deeply movec. the onlookers
over the countryside, like a succession common punishment meted out by the might become not a single voice was
of br-ncons. - representatives of 1a“? in many for- lifted on behalf of the victim. .

Slowly circling around and around c‘ Very often, not satisfiéd with the

ign countries and even in Some parts
each flaming pole. all the householders of America. infliction of a l‘undrcd or more lashes.

igggtenggéz againtuaeyos‘zgtanggiefxolit; a Thiffast that in nearly 9‘:er case the branding of the criminal was added
., _ , ' ie 0 en crs were
ifgflh £392); $2.391 11:31:21 211111sz of their evil desires makes the rcturn amputated. .
mix-lands of iwildflo‘wers» carefully at the Whippingpost a matter to be Of course While America would per-
hraided (m mum «ma Shomd‘rs Fm- 52,10,131}. 001151 ’. (1. ,Its close alli- hops like to call herself the most civ.
cucntlv they halt the chant‘ and the once With the national administrations filled and advanced 03 all the nations
Rood housewife brings forth 'from the 09 past history shows that It has been “E has not been so very many 31%;",
scanty larder refreshments of brown 31.“?3‘5 a means 0f the enforcement of Since the e barbaric punish-
home. brew beer made from wheat" Justice looked upon with favor by all. ments as told above were used in tins
large quantities of yellow cheese 0!; When the recent agitation concern— country. 'And, to add to theirony of
the consistency and taSte of hard ing Judge Cami-mils Iavorable indorse- the Situation, most oflthe Victims upon

Later, when the blazing fire has merit of this institution spread over “horn the kncut 91‘ cat~o~mne4ajis§
burned the supporting pole and fallen the country'many curious facts were as It was called here, were the care Hiya
to thc ground. excitement grows in- broughtto-light, and one Of the least Quakers who came (WEI froniEngl
tense, for now midnight has passed known meidents {Clatn’e to the use and braved the unknown perils of the
and it is St. Johanne’s Day, the day made of the whipping post in the past sea in order to get away from the re-
or St. John the Baptist. On this day. was that it was not only to those who ”87-0115 despotism Of that country.
long. loci: ago, one Ligua, an unbe- modified the law that the whip was ap- Naturally, since
liever, refused to aceept Christianity. plied, but for many years lunatics, was the most popular formrof justice
Ho “Haw“.nnt trial by fire, and ‘step- smallpox and unwary victims of simi- in England and Scotland, the colonists
ping into a huge fire was burned im- lar diseases “‘91’9 treatfled in the some who first settled in America brought
mediaicly by flames which shot manner as the other 0 enders. ‘ the idea over with them to this coun-
straiarht as a die toward heaven. Indeed the. List of offenses which try, and some recently discovered vol~'

So if the beacon fire. after falling brought the penalty of the whipping umcs on the history of bOLh nations
to the ground, is seen to rise straight past on the heads of the laivbreakcrs tell in quaintly formed phrases that
toward the sky it is a symbol that all was one of the longest Which could be in 1911 the London Company scnt tc‘.
is well. The gods have seen and are made “1’ by the courts and represen-
satisfied. The Hay God is pleased. tatives 0f justice. They included
Tho following year will bring prosper- everything from the small crime or
ity to farmers, And then, to prove picking “'00‘1 in the forests to im-
mm is :i goof‘i Christian and can un- morality-

dcrgo the same ordeal that caused Whipping of Women Abolisbed
licrvtic Ligua's ruin, every peasant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the whipping p01;

colonists, in which whipping was .mad-s
the penalty for a long list of offenses;
In 1654, when the Govcriiorof New
Sweden visited Fort Casimir. on the
Delaware. part of the entertainment.”
End of Eighteenth Century and the part perhaps most; high‘m en—

 

‘W-uzr- rinrts and bracelets have
“7;: nvrlr Lllk’lll from graves that
. in tho stone ages. Itis known,
elm tho mriy settlers were
.ll'l lighters. Accustomod to
~imv to fight. the present
. . i i ~ :w-iwss that is terrible

' ~ I - Ii iv: loose.
' r-liiiitry Lottlund
.l ig-ry, but in the
; 2 “'u'lllnd ls Lat-
- .i. rind from

gorged within the castle walls.

came louder than the baron's voice.
“1th
those pooplo hold within

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, :wnunciation
Latvia. Al-
.. .‘lhllii’ll‘l, speak

i, 'thz, Russian and
~~ my slunk Polish,
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ashes.

'll

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~7~rwr Established,
thvia Had to Fight
i-l :ig- .‘jiLll l‘t‘]rlllillC lit-gull
- ~\.'lli'lll'l' ullx'll I'i'iilcc
-;- l'lll.l'1 g1 nornl, in O'clo-
".-»;w l an army ostensl~
. llulshoviks. Among
- 'l‘Tihlln soldiers, who
lull who wore promised
:lnil many former R113-

of 11,000.

 

field guns and one lone plane.

They
Were told to go away—not to annoy
the good baron of the estate. In their
submissive manner. the peasants did
this until zit inst the cry for food be-

fl. rush of that fury which
themselves
pent up for a. rare opportunity to burst
forth, starving peasants stormed the
castle in the midst of a great midnight
“'hen the wrath of the
crowd had been appeased somewhat
the castle. was a mass of burned ruins
and lords and barons lay in smoldering

This fierce spirit has continued
down to the present generation, and
because of it Bermondt's plans turned
cut all wrong. W'ith an army of al-
most 40,000 men. on the night. of Oc-
tober 7, he attacked a. Lettlsh army
With 175 machine guns,
six airplanes and twenty-four field
Suns, he went against the Letts. th
lad only eleven machine guns. two
_ The
Lettish soldiers dressed in any clothes
they could find. They had no unl-
iorms. Most of the men had no shoes,

 

 

05": ”ll one “'ould b0 apt to quiries 8.8 to him. fist hlmtbe Whitlt
. ,. . I he will he seldom. ever. ransm s
, _ | m question. Do you theipredom'inant character to his off—
.. , ”"1" “Hem from your fa- spring. In a word the paternal par-
‘ ' ‘l r? by the somewhat out ofa boy is negligible. ,
.r' m bath. But there are “But the mother is indifferent thing.
li affirm that one or If she is carefu‘l, saving, smart, if
predominates invariably she has brought, up her children to
4. see the necessity,,ot‘order, it she has
.. wophicai to say that urged them to educate themselves
f“ "f CV91? house show and at the same time to_ cultivate
ww-rnnl traits than Ole character than I know her Sons are
:im- truth of this is Vfre- just-the material fiery manufacturer
“"1! hy experience. and needs. .1 my on the worth of this

, mm in hurklng back to product." ‘ '
~ thcir cleverness which A young woman who has made a.
Very careful study at heredity and

 
 

 

 

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‘h . - : successful in any line

Prove Certain Paints
Without attempting to
'.‘illc treatise that would
the schools (as if one
n'f'in that did!) some
minions, based on wit-
.ie at least worth look-

actly the opposite opinion. She said:

Nature Him Show: ‘
W Discrimination

"Unlessihetatheristoanex-
traordinary Gleam weaker in will and
intell’ect than the mother. dud even
16 such painful conditions it would
seem to me to be absurd to believe

Dresi- that'ail trait! predominating in the

View. Baldwin Locomotive anymore MM from theudlltaé:
“in M." “Willem” made and ia’side. Thh would. be ‘attribu ng 'd
in; “'4'“ ‘0 repeat. It is that nature qualities 0! discrimination 22¢!
2!! ...°°r"‘a‘~t With employment than elimination that» so far as I have r .
.8: ingoldlzwanm to know about a nature has never shown.
W . I. applyin tor a is .

{cf-:6 H “mm“ 11: h”. M . Wu Where there has been prog-
‘ld 54,“..M‘hln8 about the lather." scythe-130th” leeks.
. acclaim «and make no “1- pdhdrto seek.

.. #:lmuei Vauclaln.

 

3r” 1. ’ 5'0“ these are found in whose own traits would seem; to 1}
gm 3 » drawn from her great-grandfather,
03310.? 55,.‘156‘ and Experience noted publicist in ’1" “5" holds ex-

: tends to make the opinion ' 1 . Vau-

um .0 my cases or unfortunate-

m diode:

The news spread like wildfire through-
out the Country, and for two days lligi:
was the scene of Joyous exulwrunci-
Throngs, _wild with excitement. pm
rndcd the streets. Two months lair-r
Holland. too. recognized the republic.

Economically Latvia was in :1 lunl
way is first year of illtlvpvnvlvlicn.
Lacking wheat at the begimllnz of
its existence. little food was to be had.
Almost everyone was hungry. (.‘liil-
dren cried to be fed, and would have

died by the thousands without tbc~

opportune help of the American Re-
lief Adm lstration, the Hoover 0r-
ganizatiox which provided one meal
a day for every young boy and girl
in the land

Lacking coal, all factories Wore idlo.
Locomotives, of which there were
hardly half a dozen at Latvia in 1919
and of which only one or’ two ever
could be used at one time. ran on
wood. To travel from Rign'to Libau,
250 miles. took thirty-six hours. and
every few miles the engineer stopped
the train 50 passengers -might get 011'
to chop wood to keep up the engine's
steam. Cars were unheated, even in
zero cold of winter. Then. candy in

jumps three times over the fire.

. . Joyed by the onlookers, provid. ! ‘cy
Into this country came the Amer-i- It was not until the latter part of

. . Y the Dutch Commander was the fin.
doros, when there is work, earn 25 n Red Cross. Reaching Latvia via .thehcgglitefntl: centug, tha‘ta .Sti‘tu't: ping until absolutely unconscfoua o:
to 35 rubles a. day. Barons, biiron- Berlin. the commission interrupted pro ’ moi he" ‘1“ ”(:1 fj‘°°gmt‘ .0 three "jallbirds."
osscs and princesses are pennilcss, Bcrmondt‘s war While the Americans “omen “ab 133550" an or con unes

.. . . No respect for sex was allowed to
carried the entire equipment of a long agin'ieg‘sbtlig Ex“? ifigfiig: SEEMS exempt women from a share in tho
convoy over the Dunn River into Riga lashes [u on the bare backs of women degradation of this punishment here
previous to the attack on that city. 1). .. in America until much later, and it is

, , _ . in the maiket places or tied to the > . 1 , .
Doctors norked for days Without rest. _ cemain that women were publicly
end of a cart.
and every man drove ambulance or

for jewels and monuy long since have.
gone or been taken away by invading
governi‘iicnts. llurnns are to be found
in almost any department of thc pub-
lic service, working 15 clerks or book-

, . : whipped in New York stripped to the
- . . z ' “‘1 ‘n e will was a - . , ,. ’ . .
keepers {or a low rubles weekly truck tliiough the German bombard- plizdrliyotflfgnroyal 1132;! of apsovcrcigpn waist, as late as 1.745, and in Deiuwar.’
Fii'cno'sses 2i“! music 10550135 ‘0 ment, hour lifter hour, without relief. instead of the usual hangman who until 1875' .
daughters of si-m-ix‘xzitors. Princesses Hundreds of wounded Lettish soldiers ' ‘ ' in Boston the punishment was used

was the natural master of the art of . ' ’
~ whipping, there would be added to the frequently in the attempt to 3*?0‘15“
degradation and suffering of the pris- the Quaker sect, _and many. 30““3
oncr the most horrible mutilation, Women og'fme famxhes and retinemcnt
which in most cases resulted in the W" e publicly “‘3“ to the “’h‘l‘E‘mg 130’“
death of the victim. ‘ and flayed, until they had fainted, by
This was particularly true of Rus- the ordcis of the City executives, wh)
sin. where, 5 every one knows, the handed those with the new faith. in
knout might e rightly called the true the ,same order as murderers. crim—
served with the expeditionary forces smfldam of the country, and many inals,‘&c.
in France. Medicines and clothing; terrible stories have been unearthed One of the most popular uses of the
found their way'as far as Narva, on which reveal the wide extent of the whipping post consisted of the flog—
the north border of Esthonia. and as power and use of the whip. ging being administered in the market
far as "\‘iina. in the south of Lithua- Every 91,395...)er empress, with the place of the city, and when the skid
nia, and workers went into Finland, 9055“)“, exception of one or two in the of the victim had been thoroughly tom
too. . entire list of rulers of that nation. by the knoutnand the branding “‘03
All over Latvia. in Wolmar. Re— made the' skimp their constant scepterfibad been applied to the forehead and
shitza, Dunaburg, Riga. Windau, 14- History tells us that Catherine when back, he or she was then sent to the
ban and small towns ragged natives moved {0 angel.“ by the slightest pré- next townywhlch may have P99?! 0Y9?
received clothing. Established hoSpl- text would take her silver handled thirty miles distant, armed With a note

how liccozfic S‘u‘llu; .phers.

“'ith' eggs :2 and 3 rubles each.
and all other commodities in prOpo‘r-
tlon. a. daily lnCUfllt.‘ of 15 rubles
hardly permits one to live. Soldiers
receive 150 nude-.- ii month to send
to their families. Shoes cost from
500 to 750 rubies and 150 for resol-
ing. Small Wonder rags. burlap, ;‘string
and bits of ll'ilfllvjl" and scraps of all
sorts are highly prize-d as component
parts of wearing: apparel. Thread is
uheyond purchase and linen is not to
be found in the country. Barbers give
haircuts for 2 rubles. 2 cents! let
life and Lettisli Governmelrlit money

rcsscs roll eterna ;' on.
pri‘nrtiggsézh conditions to combat. the
Government has had a hard time of

 

V’el‘o saved from death by the Ameri—
cans during the attack. ,

,. The war over, headquarters were
established in Riga. shiploads of sup-
plies came from French bases, and
all through the Baltic states the Red
CroSs opened branch‘ stations in
charge of American boys who had

 

cation, precept and example to up-
root bad qualities that have descended
from the father. Sometimes a de-
voted mother succeeds in her pious
purpose, _very often her labor goes for
naught. .

"This conclusion may not be phil-
osophy, but it is based on experience
and not conjecture.

"Why“ it the contrary opinion were
true and should be carried out to
a legitimate conclusion what kind of
a. race of males would be produced
by humanity? If they drew more and
more from the feminine the final re-
sult would be the-utter destruction of
man, or we would have aiistat'e at
things like the bees where but one is
required to fecundate‘the hive." .

In spite of the sureness ptconviction
of this speaker the, history of many
of the\ geniuses ot the world ’therl
clain seem , at least reaso le.1; We
know. ’ it is true. verymlittlenlbous

Mary Arden, Shakespeare's"mqtter. ’

but the tact that she m‘otTTNghé

social type than her, butcher-husband.-

may account for the poet's" natural

liking for friends of rank. Itsmay
even supply ii reason to;- hisambifloua
desire to be able to write after

 

name the word ‘ entlemaim‘, ,

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haslettnomarkonhbtbryfi ,and

tals, received medical supplies and knout and apply it not only to the ten- bearing instructions to the effeg that
new hospitals were fully equipped der flesh of her young Iadies-in-wait- the cnmmal was to be giv, 100
her lovers as .Well. lashes, heartily and thoroughly ap-

i V > ’ ‘ er .7 V inémli beiildto agrfiicfl'qgsuldments- ing but 01: “3%; to, fix d th ' plied upon his arrival andrafter the
S Talent From Mother or Fath . . . . y y .. .....- . mm, , , ,

vmer homes opened for them. Medical number of blows m be given by the heating, was again ,to be sent on foot

supplies. underwear, socks and shirts knout as 101, and hardly any individ- to the next town. This was giant “It
were issued the Lettish army, which uai who received 1mg pulfishmefit ever until the offender either died morn cs-
had so courageously beaten Bermondt survived—they were usually dead long hasstiotnleonézhe road or else perisced
out Of t 6 new republic; ‘ before the number. fixed had been un er 1‘ - _
Now Ehe feliet program includes reached; . The last instance of an American
only ‘child welfare, and all but physi- The’rpublic hangman was the one woman melvmg the knout £01: 9‘8‘18
clans have‘lett the commission. The usually appointed to administer the accused 0‘ immorality occurred in 1 6-1

a ‘a ower in her family and in
guf'ope Iand wielded it automatically
from First Consul to Emperor days.

Goethe's mother transmitted great .
qualities to the poet: his fatherga
great character in his way, was a
stumbling block to his progress.

Herschel has told of the tremendous
influence eXerted on hint by his
mother and sister, the latter as great
as himself, and for his success he
credits these women. It was Tenny-
son’s mother who nursed the genius
she had bestowed on her son through

sidered so efficient a. means ,0: stamp,-
ing out crime, for togetherrwith the

suffered therein theaddeddegrada

been going on forever 61 the public exhibition clinch-sip "a.”
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they walked and taught in [haggar-
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physicians, with, the help of American flogging, and a long apprenticeship . . . . .
nurses, have opened 140 clinics and was necessary to make every blow the efficacy 0‘ gilisffgthfS-léifict‘; ’2
health stations, driven motor dispen- count. It became a matter of science Sf_h18hly thong a thy tfi e a
sarics into devamted and thinly pop- , to the executioner—so much so that, .iv 15 St?“ sane 9119 ere. ,
ulated areas, established day nurs— according e instructions he re- Just the other day the whipping post
erles. children's homes anda tuber ‘ceived an > the practice.he followed, in Newmatle county, Delaware, was
culosis camp. as well as fed "and _ , , ,
clothed thousands of children, cared would happen-to the victim after the cused ot petty felony. and five men
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him recognition. .1 tan , th flLatvla’s hope 15 in ‘its:younge st 1 gen-1 . , .. > e. 0.: a‘small coin, but be: However, the citizens and the Alder;
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UDGE W. M. GAMMILL of Chi- very graciously allowed the scnfem‘ .7 ' 7
oago has advised the committee to be slightly changed, and knouiinl; ,
and banishment were substituted for "

Mme. Lapuchin had been well know! ,_*
at court for her wit and beauty, and”
when .she mounted the scaffold and
saw before her a crowd of ignorant
people eager to see the blood flow. sh!
gréw pale and wept bitterly. Despite ,
her desperate efforts to escape the ex- .
ecutioner,began to strip ’theidainw - '
dress she wore from her shoulders,

, Again and again the heavy stroke!
'were applied until not a particle o!
the skin remained and thesbouldcrs
were completely flayed. Blood poured
in torrents and even the mantles.
crowd was moved to show signs of
When, however, the blows had
ceased the tongue was cut on: and he!
mutilated body sent to Siberhs in exile.
She survived these horrors,'nev‘rthe-
less, and lived to be recalled from
~hanishment in. the next reign, thud
offering one of the raiest examples of
a victim of the knout surviving a pun-
61” man isment under which most strong men
The whipping post in Russia. was 2"»
take driven firmly into the ground
top of
three semi-circles were hole
lowed out; one—the central one—1'0!
neck, and the two other:
Lhere was a hole in

cord which bound
A ma. \

so effectively cured and variOUS parts of the hand were»

Jamestown, Va. :3. code of laws for thus

would be able to tell exactly. what ‘used for punishing some criminalsac-g

This is why the whipping pest is cans.

pain and physical agony which are '

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