The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-01

/ cheerful-iooking lady, who at once shock
both Of DR.. Talmegs's hands and then be-
slowed tue same saiuteti D on each Of the
balance OF the party. In the rueantine her
husband quickly apprshsnding the difficulty
we were ID, owing to our ignorance OF
French, Strengthened out matters IN
twinklinz, insisting in paving out
Of his own pocket such trihing fees
as materially assist ones way in q country
| where prospective gratuities constitute no
mean item in the computation of salaries.
| Then taking as much Of the hand osggage
a. be could manage to carry, be led the way
! 70 the waiting room, where be begged per-
mission % supply the ladies with luscious
pears and grapes there on sale. and without
waiting for reply bought sufficient for the
par Y. The acceptancs Of his friendly Of
fering made him feel proud as a king. Thus
encouraged he again took the lead. carrying
baggage in both hands and under both arms
% the train, whore, taking the conductor TO
a corner, he managed TO secure for Us
the sd a1tages OF q private compart-
menE from Calais TO Paris. Our
| Frenchman was an entire stranger to the
party, and thus far all We had ma aged to
| ascertain with regard TO him WAS that be
was $50 glad Of toe honneur to meet Mons.
| le docteur Talmache.n DR.. Talmage was
about To say that he was very thankful,
ETC., when tae Freedman promptly inter-
rupted him by saying: "Oh, We ride little
vay,n and, suiung the action 20 the word,
be and his wife. after politely bJwing US
all into the compartment, followed eud
closed the door behind them In another
moment the train began TO move and we
/ were OF.
Our strange friend, who spoke English
impsrfectly, addressed DR.. TaImags ex-
clusivelY, at the rate Of volume minute,
and lever stopped till the train arrived at
| ancient Calias, which II ten minutes distant
| frnu1 NJ
Calais.
His wife, on the other hand, addressed
the whole party. Her English was awfully
broken, and in her great anxiety to say ali
that was In her mind TO say, she Just
jammed her words together as II they ere
under hydraulic pressure Every half
minute her memory or TO que failed her In
her attempts to utter the suitabls word in
English, but she would promptly extricate
herself by using the French equivalent,
when she would sweetly smile, vYinking at
the same time, as much as to say, "Do you
catch onP'
We gathered that the pair had been
greatly Profted by reading the Brooklyn
sermons in the London Christian Herald
Not understanding English, they had man
aged TO carry themselves through them
with the aid OF a dictionary. Although en-
gagged as an engineer in q cracker bakery,
the good man foand considerable opportu-
nifty to do missionary work among his fell
low townsmen. and he found DR.. Talmage's
sermons exceedingly helpful to him in his
Christian activity. he belonged to the
Wesleyan denomination, in which he was
an exhorter. Such knowledge Of English
as be and his wife possessed they had gained
exclusively through their efforts to read
the Tabernacle sermons, and be was proud
of the fact that though he spoke English
but brokenly he could both read and write
tR L.
umns OF the paper named he and his part
ner had lear ed D. Talmages plans Of
travel, and, filled vi b a burning desire to
see the man whose sermon had done them
50 much good, they had -cided to go TO
the dock at Calais ard there await his ar
rival. To make sue of recognizing him
they had, before they eft home, studied the
features OF portrait that adorned the
walls Of their home.
AT THE EXPOSITION.
As we arrived in Paris the day after the
worlds exposition closed we were unfortua-
ately not able to see it Ia its glory. Getting
up early in the morning, however, we took
q coach aud drove over to the grounds in
order to see the famous Eiffel tower. When
questioned as to his impressions Of the
tower, DR.. Talmags said:
ut surpasses my expectations. never
before saw the exquisite and majestic so Of
fectively combined. The way to look at it
Is TO let your eye start at the base and very
slowly ascend, and by the time your sight
has Travelled to the top you will find your
self out OF breath with emotion. A man
who could build that tower could build a
world II he had the materia s and machinery
requisite. Nothing that will ever be built
on either continent, can take anything from
the originality and splendor Of the intellect
that planned that marvel before
yet its first two bars Of iron
were hinterlaced. But tho idea I
have seen in some newspapers that we ca mot
equal that structure for our American
exposition OF 1892. is an absurdity as high
as Elffel tower. Our American architec Is
and engineers are as talented, our building
materials as strong, our foundations as solid
our skies az lofty. Surely the lines of
be uty are not all exhau ted. warrant
you there are already dozen American
| artiss who have tower more graceful than
this, either in their brain or actually put in
diagram n. Give our American genius
| chance for such structure. The history
Of this EiRel tower proves not only
but that it will be- fiuan.
cially remuneratlve. AS sure as we live we
shall see in America in 1892 tower higher
stronger, more delioately graceful and with
large financial income. II the EifSel tower
| Is ], 900 feet high, we can have a )wer !, 800
feet hign IL that weighs 150, DOC, 900 pounds,
| we can have one weighing 100000, 600
| pounds; IL 10000 persons can stand in it at
one lime, we can have 5000 persons in
ours. As America has the greatest cataract
coming down she might as well have the
greatest tower going up"
LOUIS KLoPscH.