Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-09

THERE
were thoroughly impressed with the
abuses liable to this trafic they desired
the management Of a man they could
trust.
Now, on that morning when the
young man and the young woman, ia
cob Murine and Sarah Tuttle passed
the ordinary at Hartford within the
taproom sat an Englishman who had
just made forty days voyage from
London to America for the purpose of
studying the manners and customs of
the colonists with the intention of
writing book about them on his re-
turn. He was sitting with the land
lord, who had just brewed a bowl OF
flip, q concoction of beer sweetened
with sugar, molasses or dried pump
kin and rum, into which had been
thrust a redhot iron called the logger
head, causing it to seethe and foam.
The landlord was giving his guest some
account of the said manners and Gus
toms in vogue in the colony Of New
Haven.
do you see that girl walking with
that young man? Well, there's trou-
bic brewing there. The girl is old
Goodman Tuttle's daughter, and she's
keeping company with young Murine
without her fathers permission. He'll
get fined a dozen lashes at the whip
ping post If he doesn't mind"
THE whipping post. Have parents
power here to whip those who pay at
tention to their daughters without their
consentT'
Indeed they have, and a goodly Gus
tom it is. The laws of the colony say
that any tempting without the parents
sanction cannot be done by speech,
writing message, company keeping, un-
necessary familiarity. disorderly night
meetings, sinful dalliance, gifts or in
any other way"
"And If they disobey this law?"
Heavy fines may be imposed with
! plentiful supply Of lashes to the in
veigier of the girl"
"And is she not punishedP
mot by the law. Her father can at
| tend to her case as he likes"
as the punishment in public or in
/ private?"
'1n public, of course. We have no
private punishment here in the colo
MES. Heaven knows there are in this
! desolate land few amusements. Our
punishments serve US in this respect in
/ good stead. When I was in Boston
| last, drinking with others a cup of sack,
we were much diverted at seeing a
man who had had too much of the
same mixture laid by the heels on the
( ground, with bar of iron fastened and
| locked to his legs with sliding shackles
! and a bolt There were salvages (sav-
ages present who stared at him. not
| understanding this method of torture"
While the two were talking Jacob
Murine, who had passed with his love
! out Of sight. repasSed, going the other
way, and under very different condl-
tons. A citizen held one arm, another
citizen held the other arm, while Good
man Tuttle. the father of the girl he
had been walking with, led the way.
On Tuttle's visage was a stern and re-
ientless look that boded the prisoner no
good.
Now said the landlord Of the Hart
ford ordinary, you have an opportuni-
| ty to witness one Of our customs, show
Ing how parents discharge the duties
the Lord has imposed upon them in the
case Of their offspring They Will take
the boy to the magistrate, where he
VIII be tried for inyeigiing the girl, and
later you may derive much pleasure at
seeing the cat o. nine tails laid on bis
back. And nayhap IL the Judge has
steady his nerves and replenish his
temper after the five bowls he had here
last night the pleasure derived may be
Heightened by the gashes on the SWANS
back being supplied with salt and vine