p. 83 | NOT WORTH ITS COST

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1879

NOT WORTH ITS COST.

At the inter-oceanic canal congress lately held in Paris, there sat among the leaders of the enterprise there brought together, a noticeable gray-haired man, with keen eyes, and a melancholy look constantly upon his face. The company gathered around to congratulate him upon the approaching successful termination of one of the greatest engineering achievements of the century. He had been its head and front, and received the congratulations as a just meed of his labor. Then, turning to a friend at his left, “I have worked all my life,” said he, “for a little renown and a little wealth; and now in the moment of my triumph I find that neither is worth what it has cost me. Indeed, the only use of the money I have made is to help those who are less strong or less happy.” The speaker was Louis Favre, of Geneva, contractor of the famous St. Gothard tunnel, which has just entered upon its eighth and last year of construction. He went straight from the congress to Airolo, at the tunnel’s mouth, and was showing the levels to a French engineer, on the morning of Saturday, July 19, when he suddenly complained of cramp, called for a glass of water, and fell down dead.—N. Y. Herald.