The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06

miles an hour, and don't you admit that your train should have stopped?'
 T see your point, sir replied the offi- ical, but the regulations say that any passenger presenting ticket at a station not named on the ticket must pay me
 Many absurd annoyances of this sort are likely 10 be encountered on trains, young man and his wife going from Bs Bsden-Baden to Ausburg bought first class tickets, so as to insure extra com fort for the young woman, who felt tired. When they boarded the train there was only ore first-class car on 1t, and that was marked s"Damen' reserves a carriage exclusively for the use of wo- men. here was no one on 1t and inc husband called the conductor.
 You had better take down that Da- men sign, he said so that l can go with my wife. I have bought frst-class tickets and there is no other first-class accommodation provided for me on the train. There is no one occupying 1t, you see,'' he added.
 Sorry, slr,' replied the conductor, but we are going to stop once more before Augsburg, and a woman with first class ticket might get on there. If 1t was not for that you could go in.
 So the two passengers, with their double pricked tickets, had to stand in the cor ridor beside the empty compartment be- cause of the hypothetical woman who might get on at the next station.
 Bewfldering situation.
 A young business man in. a great hur- ry caught one of the special trains from Muenchen to Berlin. He had his regular ticket covering the fare between the two points. but the little extra tax coupon always required on the special trains he had not had time to buy. When the con ductor came around this young man ex- plained his hurry and offered, instead of the ticket, the extra amount in cash The conductor was in a quandary.
 'I am not allowed, sir,'' he said polite ly, "to take. money. I must inquire of the officer in charge of the train what to do.' v
 He went off and called a council of all the officials on board. They found it q very puzzlng thing. It was obvious that the passenger had his regular ticket, and, therefore, they could not put him of But the extra fare was essential. Yet they could not take money. After half hours deIiberation the conductor went to the passenger and told him that the officers in consultation had decided that when he got to Berlin ne should go to the ticket window. buy the necessary ticket, and-tear 1t up. He did as di- rected, although he noticed that no one attempted to follow him to make sure that he did.
 Perhaps it would be unfair to other people to say that Germans are the most law-abiding, but it is certainly true that disobedience to an offical command Is re- gared as unimaginable there.
 It Is not usual for the traveller who re- mains in hotels to come in contact with these curious problems that arise when some exception to the rule must be pro- vided for Yet it would be too bad to omit the story of the man who registered at a hotel in Konigsberg and asked to be called at o'clock in the morning. He went to his room and was unpacking his bag. when a loud knock came on the door On hls opening 1t one of the numer- ous hall boys presented himself.
 Couldn't Be Called.
 ''I regret having to tell you, sir, he said with a bow. that we cannot have you called at 8 in the morning"
 Why not?'' demanded the guest some what puzzled.
 well, sir explained the lad the man whose work it is to call guests goes off duty at 7:8d
 In that far northern city it is customary it seems. to rise early, and any one who does not wish to do so cannot depend upon a human alarm clock,
 Natives of Germany or foreigners abid- ing there find themselves confronted ev- cry little while by something so won derfully and fearfully logical that the re- suit of applying it is chaos.
 There Is no question that chaos was the state one morning of the twos young