The German treatment of a suspected crime for which no
arrests have yet been made, reminds one of the jokes which used
to appear, a few years ago, in the back part of Harper's Magazine,
where a good story was always being related of Bishop X, residing
in the town of Y, who, calling one afternoon upon Judge Z, said
to Master Egbert, the pet of the household, age four, and so on.
A German newspaper will daringly state that Banker ----, president
of the Bank of ---- at ---- who is suspected of sequestering the
funds of that institution to his own uses is reported to have
departed by stealth for the city of ----, taking with him the wife
of Herr ----.
And such is the high personal honor of the average Parisian news
gatherer that one Paris morning paper, which specializes in actual
news as counterdistinguished from the other Paris papers which
rely upon political screeds to fill their columns, locks its doors
and disconnects its telephones at 8 o'clock in the evening, so
that reporters coming in after that hour must stay in till press
time lest some of them--such is the fear--will peddle all the
exclusive stories off to less enterprising contemporaries.
English newspapers, though printed in a language resembling American
in many rudimentary respects, seem to our conceptions weird
propositions, too. It is interesting to find at the tail end of
an article a footnote by the editor stating that he has stopped
the presses to announce in connection with the foregoing that
nothing has occurred in connection with the foregoing which would
justify him in stopping the presses to announce it; or words to
that effect.
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