Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-09-30

The Reality Of Inter der Linden-H Health Of
the Kaiser-A National Prospect-Life
and Living I'm Berlin


Inter der Linden, writes Berlin
correspondent TO The NeU York Fee
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 a 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
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
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-
iage. There are many excellent spec
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 not-that is, at al conmensur-
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 as being fully established in
health, and as having worked for
hours the day before with his various
ministers and generals. That can moi
be; there is no more work in that head
or in that hand. And what has the
kaiser done for the peopleP Are there
any fewer poor old women and little
half nourished children, working or
their knees in the fields, tugging with
feeble fingers at the roots and weeds
as though their lives depended upor
it as, indeed, they do? And what
novels they crawl into when theil
days work is done, and what they eat
before they fall dead asleep All the
while strong husbands and brother!
are far away, watching lest an irritat
ed foe acquire means or revenge; anC
all the while, too, the emperor, "Al
lerhOechst, " is disturbing medals ant
hopors, which they have dug out o
the ground for him, though they ar,
poor. sick, ignorant, starving anc
helpless. There is not a second o
rest from labor for either play o
prayer; and what the emperor ha
done the nations about him must alsC
do, or Oe ingulfed. The strain mus
break so4n.
Another and more solemn side Oi
the question; Is the individual Ger,
man any better hammered than he was
twenty years ago? Is he any more
cleanly in his personal habits? Is he