Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-10-31
WatchfuI Police Abroad.

Records sOfpeople arrested in Austria
for wearing daisies, in Saxony for
whistling in the streets of the capital,
in Paris for wearing bit Of colored
ribbon in the buttonhole, and in Ber-
lin for criticising piece of music and
for smoking in the street-these are
among theitem of news brought across
the Atlantic by the recent mails, says
the New York Tribune
Of all the incidents referred to the
one most calculated to give rise to
public indignation was the arrest the
other day of Lieut. Won Unsinn at
Berlin.
It seems that the young officer, who
was off duty, was strolling along the
Friedrichstrasse, one of the main and
most crowded thoroughfares of the
Prussian capital, with an unhshted
cigar between his fingers. Suddenly
he found himself face to face with the
Emperor, who taxed him with smoking
in defiance of the regulation which he
had recently issued.
The Lieutenant, though much taken
aback by the recontre, as well as by
the brusquerie of his impetuous Males-
tvs address, still had sufficient presence
of mind to draw the Emperors atten-
ton to the fact that not only was the
cigar unlighted, but the end had not
even been cut OF bitten off.
No heed, however, was paid by the
angered monarch to these deferential
explanations Of the officer. He turned
deaf ear thereto, and, in fact, became
so infuristed that, instead Of merely
ordering Won Unsinn to report himself
as being under arrest, he summoned
couple of policemen, who, in full view
of the immense crowd that had assem-
bled, bundled the unfortunate officer
into a cab and drove him off to the
military prison, where he has remained
since, an object of universal sympathy,
not only Of members Of his profession,
but also to the people at large,
Everybody smokes on the continent.
and, save when on duty, it is rare to
see an officer who has not either cigar
or a cigarette between his lips. This
is all the more natural, seeing that
unlike United States and English Off
GERS; who invariably don mufti when
not on duty, their foreign comrades
are in uniform all the time.
Old Emperor William, who was GER
tainly martinez in military matters,
and who did not himself care about
smoking, never made any objection to
his officers doing so, while his son, the
late Emperor Frederick, and his
nephew, Prince Frederick Charles, both
successful and victorious commanders,
who had won their laurels on many a
blood-stained battlefield, were rarely
to be seen without cigar, "Unser
Fritz sometimes even going SO far as
to smoke one of those short porcelain
bowled German pipes when in uniform.
Emperor William, however, who does
not smoke anything save cigarettes,
and who knows nothing Of war save
by hearsay and book study, is Of the
opinion that the efficiency Of his troops
is likely to be impaired by smoking IN
public, and, accordingly, he issued a
sort of ukase a few weeks ago strictly
forbidding either officers or men to
smoke when in uniform on number
of the principal thoroughfares Of the
capital, the Friedrichstrasse and Inter
den Linden being among the number.
Now, It'll precisely on the thorough
fares thus prescribed that are situated
all the best and most frequented res
taurants and cafes Of the metropolis,
and thus wheneyera young nobleman,
who happens to belong to the army
wishes to indulge in post-prandial
cigar or cigarette, he is obliged to take
side street before lighting it.
In the cable dispatches published in
the course Of the last two weeks the
American public will have read that
there are at the present moment no
less than slXty-elght persons lh DeIIH'
some of them in jail and some out on
bail, awaiting "a criminal trial on
charges of lese majeste, their Ofense
consisting in having spoken in an IN
complimentary fashion Of the En-
peror's Song OF Aegis, musical
composition of which his Majesty Is
inordinately sensitive.
Most Of these people are teachers,
professors Of music and literary people.
persons compelled to labor for their
daily bread, whose means Of livelihood
are seriously impaired by the proceed
ing instituted against them, in many