The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-22


est morsei OF their old dominion. The Greeks have
made friends nip and sympathy, and with Russia
10 be the only successful tradesmen In this Vanity
FAIR.
TIE VANITY TAIR NATIONS
For II Is Vanity Fair, the important that has
been held since that in Vienna In 1875 when Taley-
rand and Wellington and Mssternich settled society
settled again, and have a real
peace, iasting peace And yet under all this con-
ndsnce there a something, you cannot tell what,
bet sense or uneasiness. You have read OF the
Vaccination which vesuvus has for terrified inhab-
itants when the smoke and FIRE shapes;
how all eyes turn TO IL and dwell upon and hold
their breaths; how the people leave their homes and
the fields. Somehow you iseI, even in this
select powerful society, that the real question
has NOT been rsached-that II not Turk or Bessars
bian whose tate Congress- that these states
men have their eyes turned TO vssuvius even
while their hands at work patching
and cutting and slicing the map OF
Europe. II you will walk TO- might Inter der
Linden, you Will come to palace The twilight 10
long in Berlin. Those midsummer evenings have a
strange almost melancholy beauty. 1t is late, but
still light enough to read. You win around this
palace string OF policemen who wave you to the
other side The Inn psrial nag bangles from flag staff.
You will see the statue ola mighty monarchthe last
OF the kings, even Frederick, with his generals
around him, in bronze; the one really fine monument
In Berlin. You win see open window, around
which Vines and rose bushes are growing.
In the recess OF this open window an old
maa sits, very old man, looking out into tho goan-
ing and watching the shadows tall over the statue Of
his glorious ancestor. There he sits all day. He tries
TO lift his hands, but they helpless Once or twice
he has sriven to walk across the ROOM bur only
weary hopeless way. He DOCS not 60 to the country
because they canaet move him. and so he sits all day
looking out upon the humming, busy town.
There are flowers around him, mounds Of
corn-aowers, whose delicate color delights
him Loving hands hover over him, aud
legions await his call, and people they pass walk
with solemn gait and looK this wAdow with
kindly nquirng syea But he has put away sceptre
and the sword. and sits all day looking out into the
warm summer air. This Is the Kaiser, whose fate has
made all hearts sad in Berlin l wonder what he
thinks OF the real questions before Europe. He
call the days when he rode with tho egions that con-
qucred Napoleon He remember his exile He
forget that OF ecstacy the palace OF
Versailles, when, amid the shout Of German princes,
ne assumed the crown OF a German emperor. And
what has 1t all como tor You may suy It only
the pistol OIL poor wretch who lies writing In some
hospital and that this a beloved Kaiser, whom
none but wretch could STAY. Is II sof am afraid
this 10 not the view the Emperor OF his Ministers
OF this Congress- whose eyes fixed on vesuvus.
THE SPIRIT OF UNREST ABROAD.
The spirit which pointed gun at the mperor
not inspired by any hatred OF him. For he Is kind,
good old man, ana only a short time live. But
there spirit of unrest abroad and Europe labors
under internal CONFUSION which congress OF
Beaoonsneids ana schouvalons can sssuage Look
around you'll France Is under arms Russia has
spent her last rouble and millions besides,
and Graves more soldiers. The Car, they say,
sits among his comrades, leaning over the back Of
= chair. drinking champagne oct OF q tumbler. ner-
vous and wanting to abdcate, and wondering what
It all means. For Nhism and communism and
pstrolsumism are In the air and under his palace
walls Turkey under arms and wants more SOL
diers, and thai poor trembling coward OF Sultan
shivers In his palace on the Bosphorus, shvers 1t
every sound, IS fearing the pistol or the
kniie, and charging his Ministers as often
he changes hts nose. Austria calls for more men,
var German quarrsIs that he become gray and
talks Of abdi0aLion. Germany, like an overburdcned
beast OF toll, stsggers and trembies under the load
OF her army, and men ask "Must We always pay This
price for . united Germany Must ever be
under . system which makes every man
sodisr-drains the country oil her sous IN tho
precious ssedtns Of their he which Expresses
the treasury, which makes mothers trembls whom
they look into the q % OF their ar.boru sons and
think OF these weary, weary, ever recurring warsY,
Il blood end iron wish ScbIcswig- blood
and iron with Austria, blood and iron with France
now It IL blood ana iron with. Germany. This
far Gsrmsnia, beautiful among the nations,
which to be the harbingsr OF peace aud
Industry ana brotherhood, whom all men we're
TO love and han her eomns-tbis comeiy Germsnia
OF which poets dreamed. She has come. The hope
of Barbarossa is realized. But she IN blood
and iron after ALL Suspicion regns. Detectives float
around you. Soldiers stand guard NJ every corner
You hear the beating OF the drums. You told Of
"stronger" and "stronger measures" II three or
four meet to chat they bidden 10 move on
Strangers are watched under the French Empire
and you see about you, you feel II In the
air, you feel that intense calm difculty
OF breathing that precedes thun derstorm there
. spirit rife which one seems undsrstauo, no
has controlled and that Europe, and especially
Germany, is IN q sad way. One wishes I wero other.
wise, for Who help loving this fine German ma
tion endowed with tho MODEST qualities oil a racer
But people crave something better than blood and
iron, and ono cannot help feeling that these
strange and uneasy symptoms this Emperor shooting
and namings Of Vesuvlus show how seriously this
military spirit 10 pressing upon Europe. Yet how can
II BIO amended THAT 10 the question. Thus far tho
kings have not succeeded. wonder II the people can
any bettcrf IT, for instance two peoples as ue In
all thai constitutes nation those Of France ami
Germany. csnEot see some way to live side by side
neighborsa friends without keeping million Of men
under arms, always making ready 10 each o,hors
throata This. perhaps, belongs 70 the senamsn,ssm
OF poscs But IL 10 the feeling that you IN
Germany. There are troubles which no Congress
cure, which must be cured By wise. msgnani.
nous stastonan or they viii cure themselves In a
terrible way. France 10 not the only nation that
under pressure wouid permit q Reign Of Terror
Let u hope that civilization has carried
Ms beyond that iesr, but 1 confess that wsre
king, would dread the spirit which
poisted pistols Of Roedsi and Nobins as much as
that which osd the hinges Of Robosperrc's guiIlo-
tine. can SEQ no difference, and perhaps cannot
better close shis letter tnan by quoting observation
that Tell from General Grant discussing this sub
ject. III see" he says, '1hey talk oil empire In