GOVERNMENT TO KEEP WATCH ON CRIMINALS. The United States government at Washington, D. C., has established a criminal identification bureau, or what may be called an "Habitual Criminal Registry," for keeping the records of all men convicted of crimes against the federal laws, and also all indicted by grand juries of the United States courts. The bureau is to be under the supervision of the department of justice, and all prisons in the United States where government prisoners are or have been confined have been directed to send their records, consisting of photographs, Bertillon measurement cards and finger-print identification sheets immediately to the department of justice. This bureau is intended to be used for the identification of federal lawbreakers. It has been urged for some time by criminologists. Heretofore each prison in the United States has kept its own records, and a federal lawbreaker could serve a term in one prison and be freed without the fact ever becoming known that he had served a previous term for a similar offense in another penitentiary. Now all records are to be classified in Washington, and not in any of the federal jails or prisons. The Bertillon measurements, photographs and _finger prints_ of the convicts are to be taken and sent to the central bureau. Also, the records of all men suspected of being yeggmen, train or postoffice robbers are to be taken. Those held in federal jails under indictment, etc., are to be sent there. This bureau will ascertain the record of each man from the date he has, and if one not yet given trial proves to be an habitual criminal, this fact will be made known to the prosecuting attorney and the judge previous to the hearing, and if the man is convicted it will mean that he will be given the limit sentence. At the present time there are about 8,000 known criminals who violate the government laws, and a close tab is to be kept upon these in the future. It will go hard on a known criminal convicted in a United States court hereafter. BURGLARY A SCIENCE. Up-To-Date Professional Burglar Must Be Skilled in Latest Methods. ELECTRICITY NOW A FACTOR. It Has Taken the Place of Dynamite and the Jimmy in Advanced Safe Looting. Scientific Equipment of Burglar Includes High-Class Automobile. Jobs at Country Houses Usually Planned Far in Advance, and With Intimate Knowledge of Loot To Be Gained. [Illustration: _HOW BURGLAR UNLOCKS DOORS._ Unlocking a door is one of the easiest tasks of the professional burglar. His ingenuity defies the efforts of locksmiths to invent safety devices. The picture shows how an expert turns a key in the lock, and also a simple device to prevent this.]