Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-27
EVENING STAR.
THE UNLUCKY TRIMMER.
An Anecdote of lIederu Hunpary

purpose OF discussing the favOrite topic-mar-
tial music was heard from morning till night
the European war was preparing Two per-
sonages were sitting together before a small
table at the hotel Macy Pipa, to whom the
herman saying might have been applied
7" Der eta schaoe7ght, den aRdere hort "a"
zone keeps silence the other listens to him y
for one of these two persons seemed attentive
ly considering the probable or possible cause
| OF his companions silence, casting from time
to time scrutinizing look on his countenance
intended to penetrate whatever dark object
might be passing within. This observant in
dividual was no other than the humane Mas
! ter Janos, police corporal and vice-jsilor of
! the noble city of Pesth and when we inform
our readers that he occupied this post during
NJ Metternich' 8 time, and that, notwithstanding
that ministers overthrow, he still retained his
positiOn-unlike the usual fate Of the adher-
| ents OF a fallen system-they will surely ad-
mat that the fayorite Of fortune could not he
hetter perSoniGed than by the same Master
Janos. Nor can it be denied that the indi
yIdual opposite was much prosecuted by the
| hckle goddess as the other was favored This
was obvious, not only from the fact that he
WAS at that moment the object Of honest Mas.
ter Janos's suspicious giances, but that he was
! ID that locality at all-that a nailsmiths ap-
| prentice from Vienna had wandered into Hun
gary, OF all places on earth, q country where
the craft is carried on wholesale at the corner
OF every village by the Wsllachian gipsie.
Master JanOs had not studied Lavater; but
i"rg experience had led him to conclude, af-
Ter minute examination Of the mans eouute.
nance, that Some counter revolutionary scheme
was turning his head; consequently he drew
BIS char nearer, and proceeded to break the
silence.
Where do you come from, sir, if L may
presume to ask 90 he inquired, with willy
glance 1T his companion
Hyay from Vienna" sighed the stran-
GER looking into the bottom of his glass
And what news from that city
Hyay' nothing good -
"Eh, what nothing good What bad,
them"
"Hysy? war is feared -
fear?"
"Hyay DO not fear, sir, al thirty leagues
distance; but once [ heard from the cellar
how they were bOmbarding the streets, and
found nothing agreeable in its
Master james found increased reasons fer
suspicion; be resolved to make the man
drink, expecting to come by this means upon
the traces of some dangerous plot
How much does nailsmth's stomach re-
quire At the second pitcher, his head sunk
slowly back, and his tongue moved with diff
Guilty ''Now for it, thought Master Janos,
filling mis- glass Ellen Liberty - be ex.
glasses. The latter was not long in respond
70 the invitation and echoed the word {" Eli
Jan' as we'll as his thckening tongue per-
mitted
Now, it is your turn to give toast, " said
the vice. -jailer, eysing his victim.
Indeed, L am not used to give toasts, sir
/ only drink them.
Come, be sociable drink TO anybody you
think the greatest man in the world
8 In the whole world ?" replied the nail.
smith, refesting that the world was very
large, and that he knew very little about it
q les, in the whole world, ," pursued Master
Janos, confidently.
The nailsmith hesitated, scratched his nose,
scratched his ears, scratched his whole head,
ana finally cried out 4" Success to Master Sill
max :" The vice-jailer shuddered at this
public demonstration. What could Master
Sllmak be but some low, plotting fellow
Without any further ado, he seizes the nail
smith by the collar, and escorting him t. the
town hall, DIR gged him into a narrow, omin-
GUS looking chamber, before stout red faced
gentleman
"This man is a suspicious character" he
exclaimed. " In the first place, he has the
audacity to fear war in the next he sat
from seven till half past nine-twO whole hours
and a haif-withOut opening his lips and
finally he was impious enough to give a pub
lie toast to a Master Slimak, who is puobabiy
H.
"Who is this SIimak?'. asked the stout
red faced gentleman.
I" Nobody, indeed" said the trembling VI
enese, " bat my former master, an honest
uailsmith, whom L served four years ant
would be serving still had his wife not beaten
me-"
Impossible :" CALCULATED the red faced
parsonage. /" 1t is not customary 20 give pub
lie tOasts to such people"
80 Rut Il hUn't Enow what the 4-Stoms
here -
elf you wished to give a toast, why did
you not drink to constitutional liberty, to the
Upper and Lower Danube armies, OF u free
dom Of the press"
Hyay, sir, / could moi learn all that in Z
month -
But in three months, daresay, you will
be able to learn we'll enough. Master JanO'
take that man into custody"
The humane Master JanOs again seized the
delinquent by the collar, anh escorted him to
the place appropriated to such malelactors,
where he had time to consider qc6Y be WAS
put there.
The three months passed slowly enough to
the nailsmith. 1t was now the middle OF
March Master Janos puuctually released
his prisoner; and the honest man determined
to prove the reform in his sentiments, and
thereby rise in Master Janos's opinion
"Success to liberty and the Hungarian
arms =" cried he. Master Jan0s stumbled
against the wall in speechless horror; and a
soon as he recovered his equilibrium, he seized
the astoniShed nailsmith, who when be hal
regained his terrified senses, found himself
again in the narrow, ominous looking cham
ber but now, instead of the stout red faced
gentleman, he stood before lean black one.
who, when he understood the charge against
the prisoner, without permitting any expla-
nation, condemned him to three months i'm
prisonment, informing him that henceforth,
unless he wished to fare worse, be must ex-
claim, IS Success to the imperial armies. the
great constitution, and the one and pows rful
Austria - And the naismith, having made
three steps beyond his prison door, was brought
back TO renew his captivity, and to ponder
over his strange fate.
The three months again passed, and it was
some time in June that Master J amos released
his captive The poor man, even at his prison
door, began to bawl out redeeming words
Long live Prince Windischgratz Success
to glorious Austria - cried he Mas.ar lanes