The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-03
WHERE MEN ARE TRUSTED.
4 Young American Student's Experience
In Germany.

| IN oCIuu8nys
| They were discussing race peculiari.
ties. 1t was cosmopolitan gathering.
| There were Englishmen. Germans and
Americans. Probably the most cosmo-
| politan of the crowd was the America a
"a New Yorker. who had lived many
| years abroad and acquired that indie
| Unable air Of the man of the world
which can only DE acquired by mingling
| with people of different nationalities.
He had visited every nook and corner
in Europe which Baedeker had-or
! had aforementioned. A scar across his
noSe-to those who knew him we'll
told the story of a duel at German
university. fought VIGOROUSLY against
q man who had insulted his country.
He was the leader. in the discussion
which took place in well-known club
house-as his companions felt that he
was their superior.
There are no people in the world.
said the American. replying to a re-
mark OF the Englishman. more honest
than the Germans. l could tell you a
number of instances to prove this, but
i Sndll lliQll Inv Sell W tuECC. L uc
first begins at Heidelberg. had been
ct the university for several semesters,
when the time came to go up for my
examination. 1t was in the middle of
the summer. My father had always
sent me a good allowance, and had
saved as :cuch as possible to pay my
examination fees, not wishing to tell
that I 70 for
ton, fearing that / would not pass
He had written me, however, that
he would meet me in Bremen
about the middle of August, and
would therefore not send me so
much money as usual. as it would be
unnecessary. managed to get through
all right with little money left and
started for Berlin to await telegram
summoning me to Bremen in few
days. But the days became weeks and
when the telegram came I had only
twenty marks left. After purchasing
my ticket l arrived in Brennan with
four marks, about one dollar went
to the best hotel, where we had planned
to meet, took good room and dined.
While at the table telegram was
brought to me, dated Brussels, and
reading: Meet me in Amsterdam
naming the hotel. You can imagine
my feelings! / had never been in Bre-
men. l had never seen the hotel pro-
prietor; my father was then ON his
way to Amsterdam and 1 had four
marks, which 1 already owed to the
hotel man. But / went to him with a
bold face.
Sir said. Y have been a student
at German university and just passed
my examination. expected to meet
my father here l got no further.
The man interrupted me by asking
how much money 1 needed: would ono
hundred marks do? / took fifty and
the man who had never seen me or
heard of me declined to take receipt
for it or to retain any of my property
for surety! Well, / met my father ali
right, thanks to the trusting hotel
man, and when told my father, who
is banker, the story, he wished to
travel to Bremen to see the proprietor.
OF course he got his money the next
day, as did not wish to destroy such
faith in human nature even by an
hours delay.
''At another time. when I was a stu
dent at the University of Berlin, en-
tered a restaurant where l had never
been. 1 ordered fine dinner, with
wine. When ! went to pay found to
my embarrassment that l had not a
cent with me, having changed my
clothes. ! offered to leave my watch
prise when the waiter said, opening
his pocketbook: Not at all. sir. May
/ have the honor to lend you some
thing until you have time to returnY
thanked him, of course, and gave him
q good fee when / paid him.
"A third instance was when first
arrived in Germany. had spent all
my change, and, arriving in Cologne.
not knowing a soul in al, the country,
was obliged to have my draft cashed.
The draft was on Leipzig. / entered
an express compaIy's Office and pre-
serted my draft. having no one to
IDENTIFY me. was then on my way to |
'Veimar. The manager Razed at me a. |
and said: We'll. sir. you look |
honest. l shall risk half this draft |
He paid me two hundred and fifty dol |
ars; l went on 10 Weimar A few DAYS |
alter L received the rest of the money.
bout fifty cents having been charged |
or the trouble"
No one in the company had had such
and they voted the Ger
mans, after the story, an honest ma
ion.-N. Y. Tribune.