The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-04
fJlICE OF SPAIN
In Andalusia They Are Seen In
All Their Shabby Glory.
ARSENALS ON MOVING LEGS
They Viii Put a Pistol to Your Head
With the Greatest Polteness ano
Lock You In Cell With Infinite
Courtesy-Mines of misinformation

Courtesy-Mines of isinformat,on-
he is polite. is the Spanish police !
nan. There is Il i've and let live air /
about him. He possesses neither the /
easy and kindly dignity of the polf'e- |
man of London nor the trucuience OF |
the policeman of New York. but he IL |
very. very human. And III has the |
blessed gift that no other brand or |
Policeman seems to possess of appear
ing % be more than an ordinary person
True be is armed. He is Ill arsenal
moving on legs But something tells
YOU that he wouldn't really hurt fly.
+, like him.
AID here | must say that he is not
| to he confnunded with the Guardia
| civil The cuardia civil is quite an
othe- person altogether He is stern
and austere and he patrols country
| districts and lonesome mountainous
! places He was used 10 put down the
| bandeeruS those adopts in the art OF
| swift forcefui borrowing. whose pres
ence did so much 10 heightpn the ro-
| nance of old sunny Spain. The guardlt
| civil killed off these gay tinanrlal art
ISIS bur now even after his job has
been finished. he still wears cold.
an>tere air He * indeed not to be
| comfnlmd.d with my friend the police
man.
The first time met the Spanish 20
| licenan was one night in Il certain
! town in AndaluSia. Truth conreiS me
to state thar | met him in Il profe>
MI fiSTiI ne
others in Il row when he appeared-in
force was gathered in by five OF
him But how polite he was, He put
III pistol to my head. or, rather. the
five of them put their pistols to my
! head and made me feel that | would
h.. doing him the greatest Of favors by
c"uliil@ with him 7" the police station
Tile whole affair was ""urt'ine>S II
self To be- arrested in >u"h Il u'Hii""r
! uHS Ia have Il privilege conferred upon
one At tn. police station WAS again
, trplteI with politenesS and in the emf
: with a locked door
The Spanish policeman is not to-"
we'll paid He sports not an aInn''s
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and order
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