as guide and interpreter, was sent to place Almighty Voice under arrest. The two men started out and finally came upon the Indian in camp.

"Tell him that I have come to arrest him for killing cattle," said the officer to the interpreter.

"Tell him that if he advances I'll kill him," answered Almighty Voice.

Unmoved by this threat the officer rode forward without even a weapon in his hand, for the standing orders of the police are to arrest and not to kill. Another warning came from Almighty Voice, but the officer rode on; according to the code of these police, they dare not retire, even to save their lives. The sergeant had advanced but a few paces more when a shot from the Indian's gun went through his heart.

This act made Almighty Voice an outlaw, and the whole of the Northwest Mounted Police were aroused. A price was set upon the murderer's head and the country was scoured for a thousand miles in every direction. It was many months, however, before the murderer was seen by the white men, though several of the police had meanwhile fallen before his gun.

One day a horse was stolen from a camp, and a member of the force who followed the thief recognized Almighty Voice. The news flashed over the wires to Prince Albert and a detachment of the police rode eighty miles that night. In the morning the outlaw and two other renegades were located on a bluff where they had made an ambuscade. It cost the lives of three more members of the force, but in the end Almighty Voice and his companions were sent to the Happy Hunting Grounds. The relentless persistency of the chase and the ultimate triumph of law made a great impression on the other Indians.

POLICING THE BRITISH EMPIRE

Wherever the British flag floats will be found an excellent police system after the model of the mother country. In India there is a force of more than 150,000, and this does not include the native village police who are twice that number. In Siam and British Burma there is an additional police force of perhaps 147,000. It is the duty of every village head-man at once to give

information of any offence occurring in his village, to secure the offender if possible. and to turn him over to the proper representative of the Government. In the Asiatic and African colonies it is the custom to employ natives in the police service, but the higher officers are Englishmen.

The Sikhs of India have developed into the best native policemen that Great Britain has yet discovered. These handsome, stalwart men may be seen all over the British Oriental possessions. A good Sikh is a fine specimen of the Oriental and his knowl edge of the Oriental nature is greater than an Englishman could hope to acquire in years of residence. The Sikh likes police duty and his loyalty to the white man is unquestioned. Nothing suits him better than to swing an obstreperous Chinaman around by his pigtail.

The police of the entire British Empire. if joined together, would make an immense army. There is an army of about one policeman to 571 people, and one to every ten square-miles of territory, taking the whole empire over. If they should march by a reviewing stand, one would see almost every nationality represented. Following in the lead of the City of London police, who are generally six-footers, would come giant Chinese policemen from Hong Kong, thinlegged and turbaned East Indians, tall Zulus of Natal (the aristocrats of the black race), Negro police of Jamaica and Belize, dark-skinned Egyptians, tattooed Maoris of New Zealand, and the incomparable white policemen of Cape Colony, Canada, and Australia.

In the old City of London, which constitutes only a small portion of the city proper, there are about 1,000 policemen -a very efficient body of men of large stature and imposing appearance. Their will is absolute law, and woe be to the driver who disobeys this czar of the streets. In the entire county of London there are more than 16,000 of these uniformed officers of the law. The headquarters of the department are at the Scotland Yard, a name known the world over.

The same efficient police system is found all over the British Isles; and there are more than 30,000 borough police in the forty counties of England alone. The Royal

Irish Constabulary is a separate force, numbering about 11,000. They are a semimilitary organization, live in barracks, and are armed with rifles, swords, and other weapons.

In all of the countries of continental Europe the police act in a dual capacity. Primarily they are guardians of the peace; secondarily, they act as spies for the Government; in an absolute government like Russia, the relative importance of the two duties might be reversed. In France, since the time of Napoleon, the police have been under the supervision of one of the cabinet officers. For police purposes the

ONE OF MEXICO'S REFORMED BANDITS, THE "RURALES"

entire republic is divided into departments and communes, which are under the direction of prefects and sub-prefects and their assistants, and all of them are under the control of the Minister of the Interior.

The same system with slight modifications prevails in other parts of the Continent. In some of them - Germany, for instance the police have the appearance of soldiers rather than of civic officials, and they could, in fact, be used as a branch of the military service.

One unusual feature of the police service in some of the cities of Europe is the employ

ment of dogs. In Paris they are used along

The traffic policeman is the only man in New York who can bring the procession of trucks and automobiles to a standstill with one motion of his hand