The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-10-06

pupil in this country, which we are kindly per-
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81 WEST STRAsS, LEIPZIG,
September 18th, So.
My Dear -: Your last was some
thing long in the coming, and SO hope
you ii excuse my letters also being lit
tie behind time. Your last interested
me very much, and l thought of you as
my one-time Latin scholar 1 fear, how
ever, you are inclined to over-do the mat
ter; don't read too much so young; it
may injure your health you see know
having learned from apainful experiment
what the i'll effects of over-study are.
But my letter isn't to be sermon; on
the contrary l want to tell you some
things that L have seen and done, and
while related experience is never so in
teresting as an experienced one, yet you
may find something of interest in the re-
lation Some three weeks ago We (my
friend and y determined "all work and
no play makes Jack" etc., etc., and that
while we were not named Jack, and had
not been entirely without amusement,
yet little rest from Greek and Sanskrit
would be agreeable. Accordingly we
packed up our traps, and if you had
been on the right street right soon Mon.
day morning, August 10th, you'd have
seen US in a hack making for the Berlin
depot. About IL o'clock of the same day
we found ourselves in the great metropo-
lis, surrounded by busy, hustling, fat Ger
mans We went to a hotel. Your
name please" said my name was
-. He could not understand me. I
repeated it; with the same result, how
ever. then a0rote it; that he could not
read Cd Then happy idea struck US
we translated the name into German.
That he understood at once. So much
Where do you come FROM" was the
next question. Leipzig" Good. Where
were you born?" answered, "Ameri-
ca. In what city ?" Now 1 knew
there would be the rub. When you say
Petersburg" they understand 81. Pc
ter8bwrgh IN Russia, every time But
there was nothing else to do, and so l
bawled, Petersburg" Now you know
the Germans are anyhow tolerably dull
q mean, of course, the working class),
and the Leipzig, America, Karl -,
etc., etc, had dumbfounded and sadly
bewildered the poor man already; and
when 1 said Petersburg, he thought only
of Russia and how a man could have
two separate and distinct names, and live
in Leipzig, America, Virginia, and Rus
sia all 0t once, was too much for him.
In despair he finally said he'd see the
proprietor, and left US alone. Whether
the proprietor understood it any clearer
than the servant, is, | think, very doubt.
full And now for the sights. The first
day we saw great military man@uvre
(some 10000 soldiers being presently, and
the Kaiser himself appeared for Just a
few minutes; he stood as Virarda be-
fore the royal palace the whole affair
was in Pottsdamm. never did see such
display in my whole life it seemed to us
the soldiers came and came and came
until 1 thought there must be soldier
factory somewhere behind the palace,
where. they turned them out by the COM
pany and battalion I'll never forget
how the Kaiser looked You know, oil
course, it is very seldom that one has op-
portunity to see king, much less the
| Emperor himself He is very old, bowed
down, and walks with uncertain step
His personal body.guard must support
his left arm as he walks. He is in his
Goth year We next went to the palace
Sans Souci" There we saw the library
which Frederick the Great gathered, and
which Voltaire used during his stay with
the king. Every book in the room is in
French not one sentence German
saw also the clock that stopped Just a,
Frederick the Great died, and since ther
/ 200 years. has never gone it stands to-
day Just where it was then, 2:2O O'Clock
| z. M. We next visited the palace Char
luxembourg" There stands the cele
brated mausoleum Of the beautiful queer
" Sophia. You enter, escorted by q
royal servant, and see the queens figure
reclining in marble on a bed of whit,
Italian sculpture, and the whole apart
ment is filled with purple light, which
comes streaming in through the stained
glass window in the roof. The effect il
perfectly grand and awe-inspiring. w,
came back to Berlin. Next day we Wis