Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-11
THE GERMAN CAPITAL.
DAyomOto and Beer I'm Berlin.
z W. Lightuer's Letter In the Pittsbore Dispatch.
THE SOLDIER on Duty.

z W. Llghtuer's Letter In the Pittsbore Dispatch.
THE SOLDIER on DUTY.
There Is one feature, however. In which these
continental counties differ little. In every one
the soldier is an ever present spectacle. Go
where enc will the piping OF hugle and roll OF
drum Is heard. In town and city are barracks
filled with soldiers, and the training proceeds
as vigorously TO-DAY as though the battle were
to come tomorrow. Especially I'm the mon-
archial capitals is the soldier element consricu-
Gus. London, Rome, Vienna, Berlin are aprar-
emily in state of siege, and in Paris the war
like appearances on every SIDE are hardly less
In compass. Ia France the great standing army
Is not merely intended for foreign exploitation,
or to repsi a foreign foe, but also TO quen AN
ever pending revolution at home. And IN the
counties moi yet republican. revolt against gov
eminent and attacks upon the lives of rulers are
apparently as greatly feared as the waving OF
the standard OF the Commune by the bourgeois
government of Paris. Kings and emperors are
hemmed in by soldiers. Even in Rome. where
the son OF Garibaidis King is said To be so
greatly beloved, soldiers nil a portion OF the
royal palace, they swarm in adjacent barracks :,
they stand constant guard over every passage.
In Vienna the guard of the military over the
Imperial household and over every movement
OIL the Emperor, is yet more imposing.
Here IN Berlin the climax is reached. The
Car is not more impenetrably guarded than is
the aged Kaiser Wilhelm. His palace in the
Linden-"Unter den Linden"--is guarded nj all
points. No visitors are permitted In any part ot
II while IL contains the royal parsonage. 4
numerous guard is changed several times "A
day, and as each relief arrives and the relieved
guard departs, the venerable emperor if he be
physically able, shows himself at window
OIL the palace and bows TO the coming AID going
soldiers, To show his fon6ness for them and en-
courage loyalty in the miserable military
slaves. Across the Linden is the guardhou>c
wnsre there are ample arms and ammunition,
ana the soldiers on duty rest their mu>ket>
constantly against iron posts I'm front of the
building, that the passing mob may be i'm
pressed with the perennial readiness OF His
NsileStNS guards SET and SlaN their
fellow citizens who may differ somew hat from
MS Majesty on questions associated with he
feditary sovereignty, with forms of popular
representation, and perhaps, in regard TO the
the entire structure of society.
In Italy the apparition oi the soldiers was in
a measure overshadowed by the apparition OF
The priests. Here the military apparitipn is
dominant over all else. Varied uniforms. the
cifnk of spurs Jingle of swords, the sound Of
bugle, band and drum. the stiff-standing guards.
shiftin. weapons and positions with hideous.
automatic regularity and movement, combine
to afford the republican dreamer foreign
nightmare OF another kind. In Vienna alone
there Is a greater number OF soldiers than that
which comprises the standing army OF the
United States. In Berlin the number is even
greater. Every frontier pass is guarded. Noun
tain and river boundaries have bristling forts,
and every point of Vantage on nav gabe wa or,
is defended. This is the civilization of govern
ment by the few in their own interest, supported
by the commercial element who demand "A
strong government that they may exploit the
needy classes To their own iutiuite pecuniary
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
BEER rs PERENNIAL.
It is consumed in immeasurable quantities
Yet nobody gets intoxicated. In Vienna and in
Berlin have gone much among the great beer
gardens which abound every where as in them
the people may he best observed and have
not yet seen a single individual vino exhibited
the least sign OF intoxicaton. There are wish
bic no blOated, miserable forms OF men and
women such as one may see frequentng every
tap room of the large towns and cities of the
United Kingdom. The German beer is light,
ma tn <rn- rnr IN L..
American article. and UNNECESSARILY superior
TO the heavy aleS and beers OF England: and no
one except visiting Americans and English
men INDUCES in the whisky and BRADY. which
are the staple drinks in the states and the
kingdom.
The greatest beer gardens of the world are in
the large park, the Thergarten. which is en-
tered from the western terminus of the Cnter
den Linden. There is one gorgeous affair
where an admission fee is charged to lessen the
crowd. Ii Is SD immense that two bands, sta
toned ut opposite sides, are required To furnish
t muse. There is 10 end OF fountains and
plants and trees with mimic flowers of all
colors, in which are gas Jets, and the effect
when they are Illuminated at night is truly
magical. This is the garden of the elite The
common and lower classes patronize less gor-
geous and expensive gardens on the bank of a
stream which winds through the Thiergarten,
and here tens of thousands may be found every
afternoon and evening slipping beer aud chat
ting in the lfvelieSt manner, while excellent
bands fill the air with music. A feature OF the
fine geological garden also, is n vast beer rink
ing place with two large musical bands sta
toned a long distance from each other, in
pavilions constructed to reflect the sound
toward the audience; and these bands play
alternately during the after part OF the day. In
the city the beer gardens for all classes are ru-
merous, spacious, attractive and certainly well
patronzed.
AT the more extensively fitted ones beer is
sold for from 70 10 cents glass, while at the
common ones the Same beer will he sold i'm
larger glasses for 3 cents. The consumption o.
beer. ofsausages, whose name is legion, OF meat
puddinSS variodS and numerous whose ac-
Quaintance Americans have not vet made OF
cheeses. whose multifarious perfumes have not
penetrated across the Atlantic-wlich i in
deed strange, when one realizes the strength o.
those periumes-is certainly more marvellous
than picturesque. But the use of every particle
OF meat and vegetable, in some form which is
palatabie to the native, ii not TO the foreigner
and the almost complete absence OF waste,
enable the poor German to live and enjoy "a
fairly well-filled stomach, while with a similar
income the American would starve.
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