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The secret service of the French republic is generally considered to be the most perfect spy system in the world, said a traveling man of St. Louis, but in my humble opinion the department of private intelligence supported by Mexico surpasses it both in extent and intricacy. A couple of years ago I was accidentally permitted to get an insight into its workings, and I was astounded. One would imagine that a great private detective agency would be a necessity only in a country like Russia, when the life of the ruler is constantly threatened, but down in Mexico there is a system of espionage that extends to every part of it. The motives of every public man in Mexico are not only perfectly well known to the government, but every visitor is subject ot scrutiny. It was President Diaz who first established the chain of secrecy that now holds all the people first established the chain of secrecy that now holds all the people in its links. Every now and then one will be surprised to see a body of Mexican troops hurried off to some remote place in a far-off state. None will know the reason, but the fact will soon become known that the government has prevented an embryo revolution from gaining strength and force. A considerable number of Americans residing in Mexico do so because the law will make it unpleasant for them in their native places. The Mexican secret service has the private record of each of these, and if any of them show too much activity in Mexican affairs there is an arrest; the United States authorities are notified, and extradition of the prisoner follows. Yes, sir, the Mexican secret service is the greatest of them all, and its ramification extends everywhere over the republic, and a good ways on this side of the border.Washington Star

He was a regular patron of the restaurant. perhaps that is why he felt justified in making clever remarks to the waitresses, remarks which they were puzzled. how to answer. One day, however, the smallest and tiniest girl happened to be serving this irritating customer, and it fell to her to answer him in kind.

“I’ll have some steak,” he said, coming in late for dinner, “and some squash, and some—got some baked potatoes, fine, brown, baked potatoes?”

“Baked potatoes are all over,” said the girl.

He leaned back in his chair and gazed at her quizzically.

“Baked potatoes all over, are they?” he repeated. “All over what?”

“With,” she replied, simply.—Youth's Companion

About 15 years ago some of the old medics of the Twin Cities decided that they were getting to be too many doctors. It was decided to raise the M. D. course at the University from 4 to 6 years. As the old practitioneers die off there is no one to take their places. That is in the country. Very few young men in proportion can raise the funds to take the six year course and as a result there are dozens of towns with no doctor. In Aitkin county there is a stretch of forty-six miles on the Soo line and no doctor.

and don’t let yourself be swindled by a crooked horse dealer on any of the score of tricks he has up his sleeve.

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A bill has been framed in the senate committee on military affairs prescribing regulations that shall govern the dismissal of West Point cadets for the practice of “hazing,” and defining in explicit language what is meant by the term itself. It seems that the dictionary definitions have not proven satisfactory either to the senate committee or to the executive heads of the war department, and in lieu of a satisfactory translation of the comprehensive term it becomes necessary for the law givers to frame one for themselves. It is in many case easier to offer an example than a synonym, says Philadelphia Ledger. Anyone who knows “hazing” when he sees it, and every thoughtful person deplores the brutal disregard of another’s feelings that is involved in the reprehensible practice. No definition would be complete that failed to take into consideration the fact that mental anguish is sometimes much more painful than physical sufferings. A man’s—or boy’s—mind may be hazed not less effectually than his body. In order to “haze” successfully it is not necessary to use instruments of torture. Some of the most brutal instances of hazing on record have been those in which the imagination for the chosen victim has been ingeniously assailed by the soul-harrowing dread of things that did not happen.

I was a passenger on a Chicago South Side elevated train the other evening and was standing in the aisle holding a strap when a young woman approached and in thhe crowd tore my face with her hat pin as she passed. I was very fortunate that my eye was not seriously injured.

Had she been a little taller or had I been shorter such an injury would have resulted. The pin projected fully two or three inches over the side of her hat.

It seems almost incredible that in a civilized community women will wear such dangerous weapons in their hats.

If they must wear them, why not have the sharp projecting ends protected by some kind of shield?

Would it not be a good thing for the city fathers to take notice of this pestiferous and dangerous menace to life and limb?

The writer is not actuated by any desire to be frivolous, but as a victim of that hat pin he would be glad to save some other person from a like injury.