Photograph from Frederick Simpich 



A GROUP OP MEXICAN CHILDREN, APTER THE CEREMONY OP BAPTISM 



In few places are children so numerous, so loved, and so well cared for, according to their 

 parents' lights, as among the peons of Mexico. 







MEXICAN RURALKS OP THE OLD REGIME 



© Hugo Brehme 



Mexico, synonym of disorder in recent months, under President Diaz had one of the 

 most efficient State police organizations in the world— the rural guards— who made the Re- 

 public entirely safe for the traveler. There is a tradition that Comonfort founded the organ- 

 ization on the theory of setting a bandit to catch a bandit, and formed from the outlaws 

 themselves the nucleus of this body, which, under what has been called the "military Diaz- 

 potism," operated like the Canadian mounted police and the Pennsylvania State constabulary. 



