The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-22

Look here, interrupted the prisoner,
I am half mad as IL IS and II you 20 on
examining me like this. while I am on
pms and needles 10 get away and catch
my train for Hungary, I. I-weu. don't
know what may happen" Possibly you
may lose your tram: but there are other
trains. The law must be carried out, and
a material part Of the Jaw is made up
or forms which may seem tedious. ] am
afraid l must ask you where YOU were
born ION the ocean" "Wh-what2 on
the-o-ocean, did YOU say? ! cannot take
that as an answer. / mean / fear YOU
are trifiing with me-" 1T is the only re-
ply YOU will get. Here is my passport. II
that Is not enough, then you must rest
satisfied with my supplementary an
swcrs.' Are you married." YES"
we nat is your wife's Christian name %"
Hope" ''What?" Hope" THAT is
surely not "a Christian name. There is no
saint of that name, 10 my knowledge2''
Then my wife has a chance of 'be-
coming the first" How old is your
wife," You must ask her that question.
She would think me very impertinent If
1 came TO this country and confided her
secret to strangers. What are your re-
hgious opinions-your church. in fine2'
Il refuse 10 say but YOU have no right
to refuse. You must answer my ques-
tions. 1t is my duty TO fill up this printed
form. and unless you supply me with the
Now, look here, / have spent an age in
this d. dreary place, and one by one
have been throwing over all my engage
ments. Yes, l answered all your questions
relating TO myself. What is more, / ad-
mitted the charge against me from the
very beginning And now il will need the
greatest disDatch 70 catch nv train and
get to Hungary; If you keep me here
much longer and to-day is Saturday. To-
morrow l can transact no business. /
implore you to let me go. 1 will pay any
fine TO which am liable. but l must de-
cline TO discuss theological problems with
a police officer" You imagine that be-
cause l serve his majesty in the police, l
have no idea of theology? You are greatly
mistaken. | know much about high church
and low church. and other sccts of Pro
testantism Are you high church, L
refuse to answer because it would take
"A considerable time TO make il quite clear
to you what my theological views really
are. Besides, il would be ludiCrOus, ii il
were not disastrous. to think that, while
l am fretting and funing here, anxious
to do anything and everything in reason
so as to be allowed to go and catch my
train, police officer should be endeavor-
ing to draw me out on theology"
The examination. however, drew it's slow
length along for another hour the religi-
GUS question being discussed with great
animus. and in detail but TO no practical
purpose, for the prisoner refused TO name
his church. The train started at least a
coed hour" before the protocol was fin
ished signed, sealed, stamped and sanded.
and Hungary did not behold that tourist
on that day nor the next The upshot
of 1t all was that the Englishman in a
hurry was condemned TO pay a fine or
two florns-a mere triie in comparison
with the loss occasioned by the delay. The
the law, at least, was scrupulously OBJ
served. The same pedantic Journalism
characterzes the Austrian bureaucy in
everything and one is never sure that the
most innocent action may not result in
ones appearance before a commissary OF
a magistrate and the loss Of hours or
lays
foreigner once bought for himself a
,umber of cigarettes, about $50, in Aus
ria, and then came to Vienna. Here an
examination of luggage takes place for
The purpose of discovering whether any
eatabes, etc, are among the articles con
veyed-these things pay special tax.
which belongs to the city. His cigarettes
were found, and he was called on to pay
he duty and also a fine of about $40.
But they were purchased in Austria, &"
le pleaded. 1T does not matter. They
may have paid duty for all we know. but
unless you can prove that they have paid
iuty you must pay il here and the fine be-
sides" And suppose l pay all that. can
ever be called on to pay duty again. p
| YES If you lose the receipt which we
will give you, or If you give them TO some-
body else without the receipt" "All
right; I'll pay, for I'm in a hurry" But
he had 10 so into a room, sit down and
patiently wait, answer all the usual ques-
| tons about names, age, birthplace, wife,
| religions, etc, and by the time he was al
| lowed to pay the money and go he was
weary of life. He had given up smoking
and travelling in Austria.
OF course, Austrians are treated exactly
in the same way as foreigners, the only
advantage they possess being a better
knowledge of the shoals and quicksands
of the law. But even this is only relative,
as many native knows to his cost, a
Vienna merchant, Herr Liewehr among
| the number. This gentleman was seeing
"A lady off not long ago, at the western
terminus. In order to meet or see a friend
off at the railway station in any part Of
Austria you must first get ticket for
| the platform and then wait patiently in
a room until the doors are thrown open,
after which each ticket must be duly
punched and then only one is allowed
to enter Herr Liewehr however, full
filled all the conditions and accompanied
the lady to the compartment In which
she took a seat. Here he engaged her in
conversation, and it was only when the
third bell sounded that he became con-
sious of how quickly time can fly. He left
the train and turned his steps toward the
exit, when a railway official accosted him
! and informed him that he must pay fine
of 3 forms for having entered the train
without a ticket. Herr Liewehr said he
had never heard of such law or bylaw,
and that he did not think he ought to pay
the money, whereupon, without more ado.
the official called upon the police to do
their duty. This reused the merchant s
ire to the degree of defiance, and he said
he would not endure such things at the
hands of a railway official; that 1t was
impudent and impertinent. Herr Liewehr
was then taken before the commissary
and fined 3 forms for entering the train,
and IS forms for the too free expression
of his opinion. These sums he was com,
PEELED to pay then and there and only
when, he had done this was he allowed
to leave the station and reflect upon the
unforeseen miseries of life. But even then
his trials were not terminated. The pay
ment of IS forms merely ended the dsci-
plinary punishments. The unfortunate
man was brought up few days later be-
fore the district judge TO answer to the
charge Of having used insulting words
to a functionary in the discharge OF his
duty. The case having been carefully and
fully gone into, as is usual in Austria the
Judge condemned Herr Liewehr to pay 2S