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The
Gate-way
Route of
Comfort
Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
Interior Alaska
During the winter season of 1916-1 7 our regular train service will
be maintained North and South Bound between Skaguay
and VI hitehorse, trains leaving both terminals Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our Through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be oper
ated between Whitehorse and Dawson, affording every possible
facility for comfortable winter travel by means of a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
For full information apply to
C W. CASH A. F. ZIPF
Supt. Mail Service Dept. —OR— Traffic Manager
WHITEHOR3E. V. T. 612 Second Ave.. SEATTLE. Wash.
White Pass & Yukon Route
time table No. ss.
Morday, Wednesday and Friday
So. 1, N. Bound
1st Class
8:.50 a. m. Leave*
11:03 a. m. **
11:45 n. m.
12:40 p. in.
2.20 p. in. "
4:o0 p. hi. Arrlwti
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SKAGWAY
WHITE PASS
LOO CABIN
BENNETT
CARIBOU
WH1TSHORSE
So. 2, 8. Bound
1st Class
Arrives 3:50 p. m.
Leaves 2:20 p. in.
" J:30 p. ni.
" 12:50 p. m.
" 10:48 a. m.
" 8:00 a. m.
Passengers must be at depot l<a time to have Baggage in
spected and checked. Inspection Is stopped 30 ilnutew before
leaving time of train*. - ■
150 pound* of baggage will be checked free with each full
tare ticket and 75 pound* with each half fare ticket.
Relieves CATARRH o«
the
3L-A0DER
and ail
Discharges in
HOURS
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DEATH BY BOW
The Way Poisoners Fared In the
Old Days In England.
j TORTURE FOR MINOR CRIMES.
! Mutilation Used to Be a Favorite Forrr
of Punishment, and the Slanderer's
Tongue Was Plucked Out—The Pen
alty For High Treason.
In these merciful days, when a man
who publishes a Ubel on the king es
capes with a few months' imprison
ment, it seems scarcely credible that
as late as 1870 the punishment ordain
ed by the law for high treason was
that the offender should be drawn on
a hurdle to the place of execution and
there should be hanged by the neck
until ho was dead; that then his head
should be severed from his body, that
his body be divided into four quarters
and that his head and quarters be at
the disposal of the crown.
And this was by uo means the worst
fate that might befall a criminal In the
so called "good old days," as one John
Roose, a cook of Henry VIII.'s day.
found to his cost. Roose was convict
ed of the heinous crime of putting poi
son in the broth intended for the fami
ly of no less reverend a personage than
the bishop of Rochester. For such a
crime hanging, drawing and quarter
ing was too merciful a punishment
"Something lingering, with boiling oil,"
or at least water, was decided to be the
puuishuicnt that best fitted the crime,
and with this object a special act of
parliament was passed ordaining boil
ing alive as the punishment for this
felony. John Roose expiated his Bins
In a cauldron of hot water, and a few
years later, in 15-12. one Margaret Davy
met the sauie fate at Smithfleld.
So gravely was the crime of poison
iug regarded In these days of old that,
it is recorded, a Scotsman, one Thomas
Bellie, and his son were banished for
life for administering poison to a cou
ple of noisy hens belonging to a neigh
bor.
These were indeed days when the
man of violent temper or criminal
tendencies must operate warily. If by
any evil chance he came to blows and
drew blood within the precincts of the
king's palace he was inevitably con
demned to lose his right hand, and a
statute of Henry VIII. regulated the
whole grewsonie ceremony, with all
its functionaries, from the surgeon who
was to amputate the ofTendlug mem
ber, to the individual who used the
searing irons, the yeoman of the scul
lery who made the irons red hot at
bis fire and the sergeant of the cellar
who was provided "with a pot of red
wine to give the snice party after his
hand is so stricken off and the stump
seared."
Mutilation was a favorite form of
punishment in those good old days,
following, no doubt, the Scriptural pen
alty. "an e.ve for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth." Thus the slanderer's
tongue was pulled out. so that he
could at least utter slander no more,
and he who destroyed the sight of a
one eyed mau lost both his own eyes.
By I he Coventry net in the time of
Charles II. any person who should ma
liciously put out the eye, slit the nose
or disable any limb of another with in
tent to maim or disfigure him was to
pay for the wrong with his life. By
another act the man who fought with
weapons in a church had one of his
ears cut off. If he had already lost
both ears, us many a malefactor had,
he was branded in the cheek with the
letter "F."
By :iu art of Queen Elizabeth's reign
tlie forger was condemned to stand in
the pillory, to liave his ears cut off by
the common hangman, his nostrils slit
up and seared and to be imprisoned
for life, and by n statute of James I.
an unfortunate bankrupt was nailed
by au ear to the pillory for two hours,
and thou bis ear was cut off.
If an enterprising farmer were fool
ish enough to send any of his live
sheep out of the country he paid a
terrible price for his rashness, for his
goods were forfeited, he was sont to
jail for twelve months, and on recov
ering his liberty his left hand was cut
off in a public market and nailed up
there as a warning against the danger
of illicit exports. If he offended a sec
ond time lie paid for his daring with
his life. If lie set covetous eyes on a
neighbor's sheep and annexed one of
them he was unceremoniously hanged
by the neck until he was dead. In
deed. thousands of unfortunates paid
with their lives for thefts much more
Insignificant.
Burning alive was. of course, a com
mon punishment for witchcraft for
uiauy a century, down to a couple of
hundred years ago, and many of the
victims who were accused of "selling
their souls to the devil" were children
under ten years of age.
In 1720 Edward Burnworth, a high
wayman. refusing to plead, was loaded
with boards and weights. For more
than an hour he bore a mass of metal
weighing nearly four hundredweight,
when bumau flesh could bear the agony
no more, and he prayed to be put to
the bar again. De pleaded "Not guil
ty," but was nevertheless found guilty
and ended tis days on the scaffold.
This cruel punishment survived to
(Jeorge IIl.'s time.— T/indon Tit-Bits.
Literal Apprehension.
She—Let's make up our minds to tell
the folks we're engaged. He—But,
darling. I am afraid your father will
kick. -Baltimore American.
Discretion of speech Is more desir
able tban eloquence.
A CONSUL'S DUTIES
They Are Highly Important From
a Commercial Viewpoint.
jHIS WORK IS ALL FOR TRADE.
' He Must Guard Zealously the Interests
J of Our Land In Shipping Matters and
In All Lines of Business, and Must
Bo Ever Alert and Tactful.
If the United States were so great
that it could be entirely independent of
the rest of the world it would need no
diplomatic or consular service, but no
country in the world is so great as
that.
The diplomatic representative must
concern himself very largely with po
litical matters, must be in constant
communication with the leading states
men and with the court—if there is
one—in the country to which he is ac
credited; he must give dinners and
parties and mingle in what is called
"society," but he Is useless if only
ornamental.
The consul is expected to occupy
himself with all commercial matters,
to guard jealously the shipping Inter
ests of his country and to report ex
haustively to his government on con
ditions of trade as far as they affect
the interests of his country. He does
not have to spend so much money for
social entertainments as his colleagues
in the diplomatic service or worry bo
much about the irksome details of pre
cedence and etiquette. Except on very
rare occasions lie does not go to court.
The consular service of the United
States is growing in importance and
efficiency every year. Commercial
questions between nations are the
causes very often of difficulties that
the diplomatic representative must try
to settle, but the foundation of the
practical side of our diplomacy rests
on the consuls. On their experience
and alertness depend our trade oppor
tunities.
The consul deals in a business way
with business people, and he must
learn their methods of managing af
fairs. There are young men who look
on experience in American consulates
as the best possible preparation for
active business at home But, as a
rule, those who enter the public serv
ice in foreign countries ought to make
it their life work, especially as our
government has taken the wise course
of making it a career and not a re
ward for political loyalty.
A consul may live as quietly as he
pleases; he is not expected to entertain
either visiting Americans or the people
of the country in which his post is.
The reports that he must make often
interest him greatly; his advancement
now depends on his efficiency. He
most have tact, and he must be able
to adapt himself to new conditions,
lie should not overlook any chance to
further the interests of his country,
but our goveruiucnt does not expect
its representatives to be utterly selfish,
and usually the consul finds that he
does best when he helps toward the
progress of both countries.
The examinations for consulships are
held at certain intervals in the state
department at Washington. A candi
date can obtain examples of examina
tion questions which will show him
very plainly the subjects that he must
master. If, while at school or college,
he determines to enter the consular
service he can acquire the necessary
information from the stale department
and mold his studies in accordance
with the object in view.
The state department is always in
need of serious minded men for serv
ice abroad, and. in spite of the seem
ing necessity of political influence, a
man of merit anil perseverance is sure
to pet his opportunity to enter the
service. He may have to begin, to be
sure, in some desolate place in Arabia
or in some unwholesome spot in China,
but when he lias proved his efficiency
the department of state will give him
the proper promotion.
A man who enters the foreign service
must reconcile himself to leaving his
American surroundings. Tie is entitled
to a leave of absence, with permission
to visit the United States, probably ev
ery second year. But of course the
trip home means expense. lie must
adapt himsea to the ways of a new
country and show himself sympathetic,
firm, alert and tolerant, and he must
often learn a new language. The sal
aries in the consular service begin at
$2,000 and end at $12,000.
The usual objection that the positions
of neifher secretaries of legation nor
consuls are permanent does not hold
rnder the law as it is now. Since the
reorganization of 1U0G no man has
teen dropped from either service for
political reasons.
The foreign service of the United
States offers great opportunities to the
right man and also many chances for
patriotic self sacrifice. As in all other
vocations of life, a man ought to have
a special inclination for it and a de
vouring desire to make himself as fit
as possible for the work. There Is no
doubt that it will become, as the years
go by, more and more worthy of the
consideration of earnest, energetic and
well educated Americans.—Hon. Mau
rice F. Egan In Youth's Companion.
He Knew the Symptoms.
"Steward, how long will it be before
we reach port?"
"Abont two hours, ma'am."
"Oh, dear, 1 shall die before then!"
"Very likely, ma'am. But you'll be
all right again when you've been
ashore a little while."—Boston Tran
script.
Common sense is in spite of, not the
result of education.—Victor Hugo.
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