The Nome daily nugget., 1917-04-21

O1 the town up tO LHc iudThcl pilte Here the peasant women had just ar rived and set their goods--butter, eggs frui, and vegetables. In less than a moment the wild cohort conceived the idea of galloping through the crowd of into execution, and eggs, butter, cab bage and apples flew around the mar ket place to the huge delight of these nne gentlemen.
 At banquet which one regiment gave, Archduke Otto, one of the near est relative of the Emperor of Aus tria was the guest of honor. When the banquet was well advanced and most of the guest were seeing double, the archduke loudly demanded a drum. he then offered prize to the guest whose performance on the instrument should be most successful When every one had tried he awarded the palm to the colonel of the other reg1- ment.He then ordered champagne to be brought, and cutting the drum open at one end he filled it with that bev- craze to the brim. Ceremoniously, he advanced towards the unfortunate prize winner to bring him his reward. Don't get up." the archduke shouted. The co.opel, never imagining for q moment what was going to happen, sat still while the archduke poured the entire contents over his person!
 But the incidetns are harness com pared with some of the acts of Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the throne, whose death at Sarajeyo precipitated the European war. But he became more than ever afraid when t'rantz- Ferdinand used his influence to obtain the position of inspector- gen eral of the army. Frantz- Ferdinand who all his life had accumulated wealth at the expense of the commu1- ity, now used his newly acquired mi,i- tary power to make money even out of the soldiers. He knew only one code--the code of his own interests He actually took whole regiments of soldiers from thei" mi.itary duties to make them work on lmprovised es- tates which he bought oa speculation and put in order in this inexpensive way!
 While the Emperor was fully aware of this gross abuse of the i'm perial inspector geuerals authority, he had no way. of stopping it. He himself had al his life been a ruthless Conservative, strictly opposed to the Liberal hopes and ambitions of the Austro- Hungarian middle classes, and 1t is regrettable fact that the noble. men of Austria. landed gentlemen pos- sesslns great estates, are the most greedy of all the classes in Austria
 N' is''o Su'tiSdteu tleir property With selfish ends alone in view, and using accumulated wealth of centuries and their outright possessions of over half of the land of the empire they have become thoroughly commercial. They have formed themselves into a sort of trust which presses heavily on all classes. and especially on the poor. They have stopped the importation of practically all food and commodities which they themselves can furnish so as to keep prices up and competition down.
 It us call this whole business by It's right name. The high Austro- -Hun- garian nobility are sharks. and. while sit and write here, feel like shout ing Down with them!" It is idle to contend that the Austrian nobility are such charming people with such y-going manners, that they are ne plus ultra of breeding and refinement.
 A req. aristocracy confers an inesti- mable benefit on a country. It gives the people high standard of manners and propriety. But in Austria this is not the case; the aristocracy arc de- generate, not so much physically as morally. They imagine that a noc- chalant smhle, little jest, few af- fable words. make up the sum of tneir social duties. They are perfect en-