Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-09-04
THE GERMAN CAPITAL.
The Reality Of Inter der Linden Health Of
the kaiser-A National Prospect--Life
and Living in ppritu
and Living ia Berlin.


Unter der Linden, writes Berlin
correspondent to The Neso York EUe-
ming Post, has a very fine sound. The
lime tree is as much like an elm as it
is like any other tree, and Meath the
Elms' is the idea the American can
understand, and the idea "Unter der
Linden" is intended to convey, and
does convey until the thing has been
seen. Meath the Elms,'' broad
spreading, thickly shadowing, with
grass underneath upon which, to
stretch ones self at full length and
think of all lovely things and all this
in the midst of vast city. Let
us start at once, and there make our
home.
The reality is sad enough. Inter
der Linden is street, with houses,
numbers, shops, palaces, ETC., about a
mile long, and about two hundred
feet broad. In the middle is dirt
walk perhaps fifty feet wide, row of
trees on each side of it, guarded by
iron rails supported in very ordinary
stone posts. Upon one side of the dirt
footpath are about twenty feet of
! thicker dirt for horsemen; upon the
other side about twenty feet of stone
roadway. Then come two more rows
of trees those of the roadway being in
a narrow plate bande. Then on each
side follow ordinary street and side
walk reaching to succeed shops,
hotels, and palaces. The lime tree in
its proper growing places is a lovely
tree; not very large, but large enough,
with dark green and very thick fol-
linens in the Thier garten, and even
in some of the squares where grass is
allowed to grow beneath, seeming to
require the companionship of verdure.
But just where of all places they ought
to grow and flourish, just there they
will motifs is, at AL commensur-
ately with the expectations of hopes
OF those who put them out AS lines
will not grow, experiments are being
made with other trees. Naples, elms,
and horse chestnuts have been substi-
tuted, but none of them seems hearty.
The one thing to do IN Berlin just
now is to see the emperor, that one
may know of ones own knowledge
so far as eyesight imparts knowledge
- his physical condition and prospects.
According TO my eyesight, the change
since the last time / saw him is pain
fully startling. He is no longer up
right, his chest has fallen away SO
that his orders overlap; he has hardly
strength TO reach his hand to his he'll
met; his eye is dull and heavy. The
newspapers speak of him every morn
ing rs being fully re-established il
health, and as having worked fol
hours the day before with his various
ministers and generals That can no
be; there is no more work in that head
or in that hand. And what has tn,
kaiser done for the peopleP Are ther,
any fewer poor old women and little
half nourished children, working OF
their knees in the fields, tugging will
feeble fingers at the roots and weeds
as though their lives depended upol
, it as, jndeed, they do? And wha
novels they crawl into when thei
days work is done, and what they ca
before they fall dead asleep! All tn
while strong husbands and brother
. are far away, watching lest an irritat
? ed foe acquire means or revenge; an
all the while, too, tbs emperor, "Al
lerhoechst, " is disturbing medals an
{ honors, which they have dug out q
! the grolnd for him, though they ar
, poor, sick, ignorant, starving aB
, helpless. There is not a second e
rest from labor foc either play O
prayer; and what the emperor Ia
/ done the nations about him must ais
do, or be ingulfed. The strain mus
break soon.
Another and more solemn side o
the question: Is the individual Ger
man any better mannered than he wa
twenty years ago? Is he any NOR
cleanly in his personal habitsP Is h,