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per cent, of convictions. The men are so trained and schooled 

 in the criminal laws of the State that they know just what evi- 

 dence is necessary. They deal admirably with riots. Perhaps 

 there is nothing that they do better than the protection of women 

 in sparsely populated neighborhoods. Small wonder that the 

 criminal and disorderly classes dread them and eagerly hope for 

 their disbanding! 



Year by year the efficiency of the force has increased and its 

 usefulness has correspondingly increased. All good citizens in 

 Pennsylvania should heartily support the Pennsylvania State 

 Police. The sooner all our other States adopt similar systems, 

 the better it will be for the cause of law and order, and for the 

 upright administration of the laws in the interests of justice 

 throughout the Union. 



CANADA'S ROYAL NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE 1 



AGNES DEAN CAMERON 



THE Royal North-West Mounted Police, a handful of men less 

 than a thousand in' number, maintain order over an extent of 

 country as large as Continental Europe and do their work so 

 well that life and property are safer on the banks of the Atha- 

 basca and on Lesser Slave Lake than they are to-day in many 

 crowded corners of London and Liverpool. How largely looms 

 the individual in this vast land of Canada, this map that is half 

 unrolled! Men, real men, count for more here than they do in 

 Old World crowded centers. 



This is the most wonderful body of mounted men in the world. 

 Surely more individuality goes into the make-up of this force 

 than into any other ; it is a combination of all sorts of men drawn 

 together by the winds of heaven. Five years ago the roll-call of 

 one division disclosed an ex-midshipman ; a son of the governor 

 of a British colony; a medical student from Dublin; a grandson 

 of a captain of the line : a Cambridge B. A. ; three ex-troopers of 

 the Scots Greys; the brother of a Yorkshire baronet, and a 

 goodly sprinkling of the ubiquitous Scots. For years a son of 



i Adapted from LittclTs Living Age, 276: 658,659, March 8, 1913. 



