Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-07-31
A visi. To vienna.

/ -fJs sir.lI "a sloF
7 In Vienna everything, even the
fstrangest, grows up naturally from the
soil, and its open face tells 1t once the
reason why it is SO and nctiotherwise. II
And everything there, even the grand
est, is-as genuine objects generally are
80 busy in fulfilling Its own task and
enjoying its own existence, that it has
no time left for making a display. In
Vienna the traveller very soon becomes
not only aequainted, bnt quite familiar
with all that SURROUNDS him; and years
after he has left the city, he win re-
member it with a heartfelt enjoyment
very similar to that gladness with which
he remembers the pictures in his first g
spelling -book. Even traits Of the most
singular confusion, las for instance when :
the Kaiser walks in . solemn process -4i
sion through the streets, with crown on
his head, and with shands devoutly
clasped before his breast, to offer pray
ers in the cathedral for the salvation of
his poor people, while the Jewish bank
er who lent him money for the pageant
sits easy in his rocking chair smoking
bis cigar, and assuring his partner from
London that Austria is all right; OF
when the new caserne which was fin
ished yesterday, and cost tSo millions
of dollars, is inaugurated with grand
ball, the whole immense building glar-
ing with thousands of lights, bristling
with brilliant uniforms, and resound-
ing with Joyous and triumphant nelo- g
dies, while everybody knows that 1t
must be removed tomorrow In order
to give the Danube, canal its proper
course: or when the Chancellor har- ~
angues the Diet, on the eonsummation
of reform and progress and liberty
throughout the Austrian Empire, while
the soldiers, whether Lutherans, or
CaIyinists, or Jews, or Greeks, or Pa p
gans, are compelled by law to worship
every Sunday in the Catholic churches; gs
or when all the papers burst out with
Indignation at the poor Bishop of Inn
sprueko because he believes IN the in .
fsllibility of the Pope, while none of
them feel Indignant at his faith in the
waxen image of the Saviour in st.
church, whose beard must be o.
trimmed twice week on account ofifs
miraculous growth; even such incon-
yruities do not seem strange when
viewed on the spot where they actually
.ske place.. They are natural results Of
historical agencies. But everything that
was naturally born has a natural right '.'
o be-confusion as well. When con-
'usion is the true child of unavoidable d.
historical circumstances, it becomes log
CAL Its logic is the logic of the COM
.dy, and it exci,es a burst of merri-
nent rather than burst of indigna-
f1. n~lIInu fliiFtEl Nn Il.ts-
q Vienna is the capital of the Austrian
Empire, and this circumstance is the
ogic of her confusion. The Austrian sf
Empire has passed through three DIFF
erent phases. The first was mission,
he second an illusion, and. the third
rhine. 1t is now entering itsHfoHrth I,
DOOM 1t was built in the
middle ages as a wall against the Turk
sh invasion. At that time Austria had
mission, and she fulfilled it. More
han once she checked the Mohamme-
Ian hordes. More than once she shaved
from imminent danger
The modern civilization. is indebted to
Ier for some good work, and when she
,oasts of her Turkish trophies, > and
vhen she shows-not without certain s.
shrine of Kara Mustapha ui
0 the traveller--he ought to pay her
espectful compliment for her great
asst, But those times have gone by.
he Turk. is now dying man. The
noon, once the fulgent crescent, has
eeenerated into a faded stage decora-
ion in the diplomatic theater, and Aus
ria has no mission any more. After
be Turk ceased to be formidable, Aus
ria embraced the cause of Catholicism
he did not make wall against Pro-
for most of herown subjects
rere Protestants, but she made war
gainst the Lutheran princes in Ger
,any. This phase of her existence
yas not mission, but it looked like an
lea, and she fed heartily on the iliu-
ion. But the Illusion has burst. Those ulii-
mes, too, have passed away The bait
e between Catholicism and PROTESTANT
,m must be fought with other weapons
nan soldiers, or rather it has ceased to
e battle. Then, in the nineteenth
entury, Austria took upon herself 10 b
ght the spirit of liberalism, and 20 re- 81
lize the idea Of dynassical legitimacy;
ut although she played her part quite -
-eli, she excited disgust even among
crown subjects and when the idea Of
was proclaimed as heruling
rinciple of the history Of Europe, Au-
,ria's doom was sealed. Seventeen na-
ons are here bound together with no
ther bond than the Emperor. Each OF d.
aem has character and viii of Its
wn; each of them is trying to find
nd to walk in a path of It's. own; and
,e dissolution of the great Austrian
,mpire is only a question of time.
[eanwhile Vienna is the capital, that
| TO say, the battle-ground Of this con-
Petersen, in August '.
tald1y. -il .i1iios-iis "int .iassr.i
The Shah at Dinner.
When the Shah was at his first meal
18th the Prince OF Wales, at Marlboro