The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-22
THE TRAVELLER ABROAD.
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF HIN
WHO DOES NOT STCDX THE LAW.
A Fine for Getting on Train and 81
Fine for Getting on one-TheoIogi-
cal Discussions in Police station.
4 Cure for Cigarette Smoking.


cal Discussions in a Police station.
4 Cure for Cigarette Smoking.
From the New York Tribune.
The American who got arrested and fined
recently at a Bavarian pleasure resort
because he was not sufficiently deferen>
| tial to some wo-penny-half-penny noble
man was by no means the only victim
to the petty oficialism Of the continent.
nor is Germany the only country ia which
| such things happen. In all European
countries there are rules and regulations
unheard OF in America. or even in Eng
| land. which the traveller is in hourly dan
ger Of transgressing in the most innocent
manner. But his innocence-or, rather, Ig
norance of the LAWS no excuse ana
will not save him from punishment. Amer
leans on the continent just as frequently.
perhaps even more so. get into these veN-
atious pitfalls
| A singularly exasperating and at the
same time amusing case was recently OBJ
served by a London Telegraph correspond
ent in Vienna. The victim was an Eng
lishman of high character and socia.
standing, who had been visiting at a wa
tering-place near Vienna, and who haG
set out thence for Hungary. His route
| led through Vienna, and he arranged to
| stop for an hour in that city TO trans
| act some business. His time being limit
| ed. he wished to utilize every moment
| of it. No sooner, therefore had the train
| reached the station than he stood on the
| platform and descended simultaneously
| with the conductor The latter approach
ed him with a dissatisfied mien, and SAID:
| you must not do that II beg pardon,
/ did not catch what you said" You
have no business to jump like that But
| the Englishman still failed to understand
| what the man was driving at and his
blank face said as much. You should
have waited till the train was at perfect
| rest and ! was on the ground. You got
| out as soon as / did myself, and you
have no right to do anything of the kind
oh l am very sorry" exclaimed the
| involuntary culprit But really did not
know However, it shall not occur again."
on this he was hurrying away, when
| beautifully dressed policeman with we'll
! waxed mustachious drew near and sol
| crnnly called on him TO stop. The English
| man grew pale and looked extremely put
out. for a crowd had gathered round him,
| and many were eying him very curiously
indeed He might, they felt. be only vul-
| gar cardsharper or clever thief, but II
| was not impossible that he should turn
out to be an interesting murderer or an
international Knight OF industry" Give
me your rationale" said the policeman.
| Il don't carry those things l am a for
eigner on my way to Hungary" Give me
your rationale" insisted the representa-
| tive of order. II don't know what you
want" HE wants your documents, your
| passport-you know said Jew who was
standing in front of the crowd. "Oh, yes.
| how stupid of me. Here is my passport"
| he ollie a q 10 ~ re-
| lief, as he handed the document to the
| official The latter opened il out, looked
at the top, the bottom and the sides hold
| ing ii a yards length from him. and then
| glanced suspciously at the owner saying:
| But / can't read this thing. May / do
1t into German for your" asked the Bri-
ton. mo, no, you are my prisoner. Please
| follow me-" But what on earth have
done? If l have incurred a fine by getting
out of the train before should have left
it, tell me so, and l will pay the fine, two
fines, if you like, only let me 20, for
am in a great hurry. / am going to Hun
gary" Come with me, please; come with
me-" was his only answer, and he was led
along the spacious terminus between two
rows OF curious people, some of whom,
having made his acquaintance at Baden
We're obviously ashamed to betray by a
glance that they had ever seen him be-
fore They drew back suddenly as he pass
ed them.
He and his captor reached a private door,
opened it., went into a room, out into
long corridor, down a flight of steps
and away till they reached a dark, ILL
smelling apartment in which were u
| bed a table, some clothes hanging on
nails, and a few poor people, one of whom
was pretty drunk. This, the policeman ex~
| planned, was the station. Come into the
eommissary's apartment" he added, ana
they entered into room, from which
they Immediately jumped out again as
| if stung-or, rather. the Englishman was
simply thrust out, the policeman doing the
jumping. THE imperal-royal commits
| sary is in his shirt sleeves; he has been
| reposing; we must walt until he is ready"
| explained the officer. wait again? But
good heavens. l shall not get to Hungary
to-day if we go on like this" 1t is not
part of my duty to help to get any man
to Hungary" replied the officer, "bnt to
assist the law to punish those who trans
| gress it. You must wait here quietly"
| There was nothing for it; so he did walt
there long, but not quietly. for the bite
of some insects is maddening, and the
name of the insects there was legion. BY
degrees the Englishman's temper became
| ruffied to degree, and every time he took
| out his watch he convinced himself that
| this, that and the other engagement would
have to be broken off if he meant to go
to Hungary that day
At last the door opened, and a stout,
sleepy headed man. attired in the costume
of a commissary-one of the higher police
I officers-exclaimed You can come in
now and they availed themselves of this
permission. whats it all about?" he
asked the policeman; whereupon the lat
ter told him the whole story in "his own
| language" which, besides being unintel-
| ligible to the prisoner was terribly tedious
| rs this true2" inquired the commissary
quite true" said the Englishman Then
you admit that you actually left the train
| before-before you had any right TO leave
/ it," THAT 1 do not know. / left it at
the very same time as the conductor"
But that's forbidden" Il always do it
! in London" Yes, but that is no excuse
London is i'm England. Vienna in Austria.
/ You ought to know it is forbidden. / was
never in England myself. but If go there
l will ask my fellow passengers to tell me
what is and what is not forbidden. You
should have done the same. You see each
| country has its own avs, and II a coun-
try's laws displease You, you can stay
away from that land altogether Now,
I when 1 went TO Rumanla FIVE years ago
was it f1v years ago? How time flies
| No. I'm wrong 1t was in 1SS6-let me see
it was in the very same year thar