Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-07-17

Emperor's Song to Aegir." u musical
composition of questionable merit, on
the subject of which his majesty is
inordinately sensitive. Most of these
people are teachers, professors of music
and literary people. persons compelled
to labor for their daily bread. whose
means of livelihood are seriously i'm
paired by the proceedings instituted
against them. in many cases the charges
against them being based on private
denunciations. 1t will readily be seen
from this how easy it is to make use of
his majesty's vanity as composer
means of secret vengeance. since all
that is necessary to bring an enemy
within the meshes of the law is merely
to assert that he has spoken in deroga.
tion of the "Song to Aegir," or even
that he has merely shrugged his
shoulders at mention of it.
AT Dresden young soldier who had
but recently Joined the oolors has been
condemned to four months close con-
finement in a cell for having been
caught whistling ON one of the streets
of the Saxon capital. His accuser, n
commissioned officer, claimed that
the tune whistled by the man was that
of one of the Socialist war songs. But
there is no other evidence to support
this, and the German newspapers,
which have taken up the case. have
succeeded in showing that the young
fellow had spent all his youth on
farm, occupied in herding cattle and
sheep. that he had never been affiliated
in any way with the Socialist move
mont, and that he had picked up the
tune, the character of which he entire
ly ignored, merely from having heard
1t III the street or in some beer garden.
Whistling, indeed, seems to be
dangerous diversion in Germany, for it
was not so very long ago that the hall
porter of fashionable hotel on Inter
den Linden at Berlin was run in'
by the police. brought before magis-
trate and condemned t,, fine, with
the alternative of Imprisonment, for
having whistled to summon cab for
guest at the hostelry. The proprietor
of the hotel appealed from the sentence
of tho police magistrate to higher
court, pleading that from time i'm
memorial it has been customary to
whistle in hailing hacks. This plea
the Judge rejected as irrelevant to the
point at issue, to-wit, the illegality of
whistling on public thoroughfare.
After all. this is only in keeping
With, tl.o soesv6 laws WHICH prevail IN
that essentially music-loving and
music-making country. Prussian peo-
pie are not allowed to play or sing in
their own apartment after 10 O'Clock,
unless with the express consent of their
neighbors. They may not keep on
their premises any furred or feathered
animal addicted to nocturnal utter
ances or sounds that murder sleep. The
conscientious dog prompted to bark
all night long by sense of duty. the
sentimental cat that gives vent to its
tenderest feelings in protracted series
of melancholy wailings. these and all
other noisy and vociferous members of
the brute creation bring their owners
within the clutches of the law in
quick order.
In the south of Austria, especially
d1OuB bDC sIoICS VI tIO auiiaoiOJ oAO
daisy is regarded by the authorities
as the emblem of disloyalty and of
that great revolutionary association
known as the "Italia Irredenta,"
which aims at the restoration to Italy
of all Austria S Italian speaking pro-
vinces.
The reason why this particular
flower has been adopted by the Irre-
dentists is because its Continental name
is synonymous with that of Italy's still
charming and popular Queen. Mar
guerite, and besides this it is SO abund'
ant that it is within the reach of even
the most poverty stricken peasant. At
the present moment there are men and
even women undergoing imprisonment
at Trieste and elsewhere whose only
offense consisted in their having worn
buttonhole and corsage bouquets OF
daisies.
Even in Republican France. SO far
ahead of all the other countries Of
Europe in democracy and enlighten-
ment, any person caught wearing a
piece of colored ribbon in his button
hole, be it temperance band, Loyal
Legion rosette, or merely the souvenir
of some fair lady. renders himself
liable to arrest, fine and imprisonment
unless he can show that he has re-
ceived special authority to do So Mem
bers of European orders of knighthood,
|, whose decorations have been conferred
by some regularly constituted govern
ment, alone have the right to wear in
, their buttonhole bow or rosete of
the ribbon of the particular order to
, which they belong while if they are
French subjects they cannot do so un-
less they have first obtained permission
, from the chancellor of the order of the
? Legion of Honor.
! Americans will naturally feel indig-
nant at all these restrictions. which
} they will justly denounce as remnants
r of medieval despotism, and for the
+ sake of consistency. it is perhaps just
b. 40 well that the LEGISLATURE of the