Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1912 — Austrian Bureaucracy. [ARTICLE]

Austrian Bureaucracy.

Austrian bureaucracy, especially matters connected with the collection of taxes, Is often extraordinarily pedantic. In a large vUlage in lower Austria there died last November a brick layer named Stephan Schmidt. A few days ago his. family received an official letter from the district tax office addressed to Herr Stephan Schmidt and reading as follows: “You are hereby officially notified that on account of yoar death taino for 1909 have been written ofi."