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Show Persia's Domestic Spy System. I found that the easiest way to keep Persian servants or employes in order was to encourage the spy 6ystem and listen to informers among them. As they are quarrelsome and jealous, after acting on tUis principle many of my diffl- j cultic9 were lessened. So great is the feeling which sometimes exists in a Persian Per-sian menage among the servants, that I have known of a woman to place a dozen leeches under her hair and then bring complaint of having been struck on the head nnd grievously hurt by a fellow servant. The charge seemed about to bo substantiated and the alleged offender punished, when the judge, aware of tho character of the Persian domestic, ordered an examination. It was then discovered that the blood streaming down the face of the moaning woman was caused by leeches actually puncturing her temples at that very time. The case was dis- I missed. S. G. V. Benjamin's Letter. |