Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-07-24
Ancient Romans Piled the Lash
Freely Upon Their Criminal.
and Their Slaves.
In Good Queen Bess's Time the With.
pingPost Was an Established IT,
stitution in Merrie England
How the Great Empress CATHERINE i
Russia Practiced Flagellatiop I'M
on the Ladies of Her Courf


where we ind that Pharaoh whipDa. ~.
oihcers Oh the Israelltes when they Jilr1,
furnish the required number of Eri.g
winch they were compelled to make &c.
day. very
In ancient times the Romans carried
whipping as a punishment farther +gs.
any other nation, and their judga. ra-,
surrounded with an army of diver. l.r5
OF whips well calculated TO alright t1..f
Tenders that might be Brought before t,.3'
The midest form of whipwas flat Ia5tba-
strap called the ferula. and one "A -.
most severe was the fagelum. which ,r-.
made of plated ox-hide and almost gs bsr}
as iron.
Not only was aageIlation in ysr;or.
forms used as a judicial punishment I'm,
it was also common practice to nrnis5
slaves by the same means. The Rom
ladies were greater offenders and sys1
more given to the practice of wbipni1-,
their slaves than the men. for in the ra;.-7
Of the Emperor Hadrian a Roman l-,r
was banished for FIVE years for urjns
cruelty to her slaves. The practira ~
whipping was in fact so prevalent flint i
furnished Pautus, in several cases viii
incidents for his plots. Thus. in Is.
hpicidus, a slave. who is the PRINCIPAL
character IN the play concludes that his
master has discovered all his scheme.
since he saw him in the morning purrb8s.
ing scourge at the shop where they were
sold.
From ancient times the use of WHINING
can be traced through the middle aces
down to, comparatively speaking, more
modern times, when it is easier to find re-.
cords Of the use of the rod
In Queen Elizabeth time the WHIPPING.
post was an established institution in al.
most every village in England, the munici.
pal records of the time informing us that
the usual fee to the eXecutioner for admin.
istering the punishment was Il pence
head. In addition to whipping being
thought an excellent corrective for crime
the authorities Of a certain town in Hunt
ingdonshire must have considered the
use Of the lash as a sort.of universal specif.
lie as well, for the records of this town
mention that they paid pence ITO
Thomas Hawkins for whipping two people
that had the smallpox.
In France and Holland whipping does
not seem to have been SO generally pral.
ticed. The last woman who was publicly
whipped in France by judicial decree was
Jeanne 81 Remi de Yalois, comtesse de Ia
Motto, for her share in the abstraction Of
that diamond necklace which has given
point to so many stories.
lnc0nnection with the history of dagel-
iation in France may be mentioned the
custom which prevailed there and also in
Italy, In Olden times of ladies visiting
their acquaintance while still in bed ON the
morning of the FESTIVAL Of the limo
cents, and whipping them for any in.
Jurles either real or fancied, which the
victims may have done to the fair Hagei-
lants during the past year. One Of the
explanations given for the rise of this
practice is astollows: On that day twas
the custom TO whip up children In the
morning, THAT the memory of Her1d
surrender of the irnOCents might stick the
closer, and in a moderate proportion TO act
the crueltie again in knife. There is
story based upon tins practice in the tales
Of the queen of Navarro.
Among the eastern nations the rod in
various forms played a prominent part.
and from what we read China might be
said TO be almost governed 10y it. Japan
is singularly free from the practice of
whipping, but makes up for it by having
a remarkably sang1inary criminal code
Russia is howey or. par excellence
home of the whip and the rod. the Rus
slams having been governed from time im
memorial by the use Of the lash
Many Of the Russian mouarchs We're
adopts i'm the use Of the whip and We're
also particularly ingeniol, in making
thing, unpleasant for those around them
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