Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-28

splendor but no sooner HAD the second
cork popped than the old woman dsap-
peared She returned presently with a
pretty 15-yearold girl whom she had In
duced to visit her for the purpose of learn
ing a new kind of embroidery "
CLEVER INNUENDo.
Thus the story is spun along in the rather
free style OF De Welt am Montag until
the moral turpitude of the duke and his
friend is fully established. 1t is not polite
literature. but as it is intended to nail the
duke publicly to his iniquty, and expose
him to the scorn of the world, it may be
forgiven. When the dukes habits have
been exposed in adequate detail, the guest
is allowed to conclude his narrative thus:
And this horrible creature received her
deserts-four years in prison, gentlemen
But the young duke" put in one lis
tener
" The duke interposed the counsellor.
All, gentlemen, do we put dukes in prison
for their crimes?"
Having stabbed the duke back and front,
and declared that the emperor's brother-in-
law is better fttcd fer the prison cell than
for the marriage altar Die Welt am Montng
returns placidly to the narrative in which
the anecdote Of the duke is supposed to be
merely an incident. Its innocent manner in
doing this is calculated to deceive even the
elect of Berlin society. Here is the con-
clusicn, following Immediately the coun-
" And now,' resumed the counsellor, as /
promised to tell my story after our guest
should finish his, l will proceed to do SO by
/ completing the interesting narrative with
which Re has entertained us. The lawyer
who defended the dukes female friend in this
case urged without censing that the duke
himself should be called as a witness at the
trial. Thereby he brought down on himself
in court a sharp call to order and a fine.
which, CT course, he richly deserved. But
that, apparently, was not enough. Since the
trial the crown officials have apparently re-
garded that lawyer a dangerous man He
takes hardly step without being shadowed
and spied on.
1.-THE carefully watched lawyer whom I
have described, gentlemen, is your humble
servant. My own particular spy aud
shadow is the agreeable individual who has
entertained us so capahly with the story of
the duke. He is the man who pursued and
arrested the dukes old accomplice il crime.
See, here is his picture, taken in Prenzlau
during the chase
The counsellor handed out a cabinet pho
tograph of Il group, and we eagerly put our
heads together over it. Ho was right There
was the man, line for line. When We looked
up from the picture to compare it with the
original, the spy was gone. Only the heel
of his boot IVES visible to us as the door
creaked to between us and his ret1eating
form"
That is "The Spy" as written for DIE Welt
am Montag by Simplcissimus. 1t displays
the acme produced by the laws for The pro
lection of royal families from disagreeable
publicity. II any proof of this assertion is
desired let the doubter consider the fact that
THE Spy" was published in the German
capita at the most inopportune moment i'm
Ggnable in the career of the emperor s
brother-in-law, yet publisher and editor went
unsce -Shed and not a copy of Die Welt am
Montag was seized by the police.
Bismarck has said that German editors are
men who have failed in other professions
BE that as it may, it is reasonably clear
that they have rot failed in the art of editing
without lese majestic.
After the examples already given it seems