One of the results of the social isolation described is of a pecuniary nature. Instead of making for economy it frequently has the opposite effect. Furloughs are apt to become orgies of pleasure, and when a regiment exiled for years in the wilds gets transferred to anything in the shape of a town, with even the travesties of a town's allurements, the chronic want of cash from which the Austrian subaltern suffers grows suddenly acute. And this, unavoidably, brings him into contact with the Jew. Galicia, in especial, is to the Hebrew usurer the happiest of hunting-grounds. Thousands of the Chosen People, who have never in their lives done a stroke of useful work, live entirely upon the needs of subalterns. Nothing is easier for a hussar or Uhlan lieutenant to obtain money at a moment's notice, and nothing more difficult than to get out of the money-lender's hands whole, that is to say with his uniform on his back. The Jew does not wait to be sent for. Scarcely has a regiment marched into a new station than there is a swarm of usurers about it, with their pockets full of bank-notes, which they literally press upon even reluctant receivers, well aware that, however long the harvest may be in coming, the severity of Austrian military laws will cause the family in question to strain every possible resource in order to cancel the debt, and thus save young Hopeful's career. And the exorbitant interest demanded makes the harvest big when it comes.