The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-03-15

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rounded by a set of human leeches
who have purchased them, and who
offer to sell you one at for advanced
prices, and while you are buying one,
some one else is picking your pock-
cts, and this occurs in the most fash
ionable street of Berlin, right under
the nose of the police. Why the
Government should shut its eyes to
these frauds is incomprehensible to
one.
There is also feeling of fear and
distrust which a stranger not only
feels toward the people of Berlin,
but which one Berliner feels toward
another. The houses are generally
occupied by numerous families, but
no neighborly feelings are cultivated
among them. All doors are double
locked, and no one admitted except
by using the bells and previous close
inspection from some safe loop hole,
There are few brave, godly bands
here, whose light may yet penetrate
the gloom of this crime stained, un-
believing, needless city. Their light
is not allowed to smother under a
half bushel; on the contrary prayers
are made, hundreds of religious
tracts are fearlessly sent into the
deepest dens of infamy daily, and
their inmates exhorted to godliness,
and a great cry goes out from among
those little bands, "Lord save them
or they are lost" 1 was an invited
attendant at one of their meetings
at which Baron Sternberg acted a:
head and front, and was surprised al
the selfsacrifce, Christian devotion
and zeal, which was displayed here
for the benefit efthe needy of Berlin
There is at present terrible ep-
idemic of smallpox, typhus and
dyptheria, devastating this mass ot
human lille, and already good people
have been hurried to hasty, un
sought grave, since the close of the
war with France, but whether thif
is considered a punishment sent by
the Almighty, by the irring think
ing people of Berlin, Is yet to be
seen. But death, with his hungry
mouth wide open, swallows them uL
daily at the rate of 80 or 40 more
with smallpox alone, and still unap-
peased calls for more. The Black
Pail is met everywhere, and at all
hours of the day, carrying its ifeless
inmates to the grave, passing the
pleasure seeking, careless throng
the blasted, crime stained inebriate,
the thief and the prostitute; but the
silent, dreadful warning, goes by un
needed. WhaS is human life in Ber
lin? One life more or less, what is
that in city Of 700,0002
But we will draw q curtain over
this unpleasant picture and look at
brighter one-at Berlin itself
"Under the Linden is Berlin's finest
street, although but few respectable
specimens of this noble tree are
there, to give this street its name.
1t contains the palaces of Germa-
ny's most illustrious soYereigns and
princes, the elegant mansions of
other distinguished people, who are
often seen promenading in this street.
l had the honor to see the great
Emperor several times, and receive q
friendly salute at the swing Of my
hat. This street is the great gath
ering place of Berlin's great and low,
rich and poor, good and bad. The
street commences at the Branden-
burg Thor or gate; on the top of
which stands the Chariot of Tri-
umph, drawn by four horses abreast,
cast in copper, which the French
had once carried with them toFrance
as a trophy of their victorious
entrance into Berlin, but which the
Prussians in turn retook and
brougt with them in 1914. The
street has four rows of Indifferent
Linden trees, is 1000 PAGES long,and
p PAGES wide; and ends in the east
by crossing the river Spree near the
Emperor's Palace. Near the middle
stands the statue of Frederick the
II. by Rauch. The beautiful opera
place, on this side of the river, con-
tains statues of Bluecher, York, and
Another pretty spot
worthy to be seen is the Wilhelms-
place with its marble statues of the
Marshals of the Seven Year War,
Seidlitz, Winterfeld and
Keit erected by Frederick IL, Gen.
Ziethen by Frederick Wilhelm IL,
and Duke Dessau by Friedrich Will
helm Ill, removed to here from the
Lust Garden pleasure Garden). J.
The Emperor's Palace with its six
hundred elegant chambers and sal
oons, is magnificent. The Prince
Charles Palais, and the Palais of
Prince of Prussia, once also grand
and elegant structures, at the doors
Of which soldiers with drawn swords
are posted, who are kept in constant
terror and watchfulness, bobbing
their heads in every direction for
fear they might overlook one of the
officers who throng the
street and omit the required saluta-
lion.
Opposite the Emperors's Palace
stand the Museum, open to all;