Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — A Story About Boots. [ARTICLE]

A Story About Boots.

Dr. Muller, the head physician of the Prussian General Staff, was allowed to go to Japan, in order to assist in the arrangement of the new Japanese Military Academy. When the hour came for his presentation to the Mikado, he naturally clothed himself-in full uniform. The court officials informed him that he could not be permitted to enter the awful presence unless he complied with Japaneee usage, and pulled off his boots. Dr. Muller refused to comply. There was much debate over the difficulty, the Court Chamberlain insisting tbat the physician must unboot himself, and he declaring that he would not enter without his boots. At last Dr. Muller hit upon the ingenious notion of casting all the responsibility of the situation upon the Emperor Wilhelm. “My master, the German Kaiser,” said he “commanded me to present myself before the august Emperor of Japan in full Prussian uniform. Now the boots constitute an important part of the Prussian uniform, and I dare not appear $9 his representative without these

important accessories.” The Chamberlain went to the Mikado with this explanation, and the result was that Dr. Muller marched into the audience chamber in his boots. His was the first shoeleather whioh had ever desecrated the floor of the Mikado Palace, in Tokio.