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Show MUCH ADO ABOUT A PENNY Samplo of Extent to Which Red Tape Methods Prevail In Germany. Ger-many. Germouy, declares Mr. S. Baring-Gould Baring-Gould in Lis book, "Tho Laud of Teck," In absolutely swathed in rod tape. In Illustration, he tells an experience ex-perience of his own while Journoying by rail from Ober-Lenningen to Owen. I asked at Ober-Lenningen for a ' third-class tlckt to Owen, and sup- l posing that I had got what I asked for, stopped into a third-class carriage. On these branch lines nearly everyone travels fourth. Before reaching the next station only a mile from Ober Lenningcn, in fact the Inspector appeared. ap-peared. "Hah!" he Bald. "You have r fourth-cIarc ticket, and are in a third-class compartment. The fine Is aix marks." I explained, and offered at once to pa6B into a fourth-chaas carrlago or pay the difference in the price of tickets. "That will not do. You have infringed in-fringed the law, and must pay six marks," the man Insisted. "1 get out at Owen, and will explain matters to the station master," I said. I did so. "The fine is six marks," Bald the official, peremptorily. "But, Eald I, "I demanded a third-class third-class ticket, and was giTen one for which I had not asked This wae an overflight on tho part of the clerk." "You should have examined your ticket," the station master insisted. j The train was delayed five minutes while we IhreBhed out the question on tho platform in great detail, and the other passengers craned tholr necks out of the windows of tho carriages and listened with lively Interest At last, reluctantly, the station master yielded; bnt I must pay the difference "What Is It?" I asked. "One penny." |