to Edmonton to testify at the trial. But King was finally convicted and hanged. All this cost the Canadian government more than thirty thousand dollars, yet it was not considered a waste of money." I inquired of the inspector the cause of most of the crime in his division. He replied: "One of our troubles is with smuggled liquor. We try especially to keep it from the Indians, but nevertheless it gets in. In one instance bottles of whisky were shipped to the Yukon inside the carcasses of dressed hogs. In another a woman contrived a rubber sleeve, which she filled with whisky. All one had to do for a drink was to give her arm a hard squeeze." I asked how it was that the Mounted Police are so feared by bad characters that this whole territory can be controlled by a handful of them. The officer replied: "Every man in frontier Canada knows that if he is wanted by the Mounted Police, they are sure to get him. A fugitive from justice could very easily kill one of our men sent after him, but he realizes that if he does so, another will follow, and as many more as are necessary until he is brought in. I have seen constables arrest men of twice their weight and strength, and have had one or two men round up a mob and bring them all to jail. This is true not only of our own bad men, but also of those who come across from Alaska. They may be dangerous on the other side of the border, but they are always gentle enough when they get here. "The big thing that helps us," concluded the head of the police, "is that the government supports us up to the limit. For example, it cost us two hundred thousand dollars to convict in one famous murder case, but it was done and the guilty man hanged. Ottawa always tells us that it is prepared to spend any amount of money rather than have a murderer go unpunished. It is that policy that enables us to keep order here." THE END SEEING THE WORLD WITH FRANK G. CARPENTER Doubleday, Page & Company, in response to the demand from Carpenter readers, are now publishing the complete story of CARPENTER'S WORLD TRAVELS, of which this book is the tenth in the series. Those now available are: 3. 4. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Tripoli "Alaska, Our Northern Wonderland" Chile and Argentina 5. "From Cairo to Kisumu" Egypt, the Sudan, and Kenya Colony 6. "Java and the East Indies" Java, Sumatra, the Moluccas, New Guinea, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula 7. "France to Scandinavia" France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden 9. 10. "Australia, New Zealand, and Some Islands of the South Seas" Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, the Samoas, "Canada" and Newfoundland Millions of Americans have already found Carpenter their ideal fellow traveller, and have enjoyed visiting with him all the corners of the globe. He tells his readers what they want to know, shows them what they want to see, and makes them feel that they are there. CARPENTER'S WORLD TRAVELS are the only works of their kind. These books are familiar talks about the countries and peoples of the earth, with the author on the spot and the reader in his home. No other one man has visited so much of the globe and written on the ground, in plain and simple language, the story of what he has found. CARPENTER'S WORLD TRAVELS are not the casual record of incidents of the journey, but the painstaking study of a trained observer, devoting his life to the task of international reporting. Each book is complete in itself; together they form the most vivid, interesting, and understandable picture of our modern world ever published. They are the fruit of more than thirty years of unparalleled success in writing for the American people, and the capstone of distinguished services to the teaching of geography in our public schools, which have used some four million copies of the Carpenter Geographical Readers. |