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whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous
and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him—
he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but
the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible
to him.

The prayer concealed in what I have been saying is,
not that patriotism should cease and not that the talk
about universal brotherhood should cease, but that the
incongruous firm be dissolved and each limb of it be re-
quired to transact business by itself, for the future.

Monday, July 19. Tea was forgotten in the arrange-
ments. It has been added and costs $21 a month and we
furnish the tea.

The hired piano came from Lucerne. It got wedged in
the front door and stayed so two hours and blocked the
way—the family on the inside, I on the outside, they
anxious to get out, merely because they couldn't, I burn-
ing to get in, for the same reason. The piano with rent,
handling and transportation, elevates the expense further.

Struck one economy anyhow—plenty good enough
cigars at $5 a thousand, or £10 a barrel. In London the
cheapest were $4 a hundred.

We are under the eaves of the Rigi and our part of the
lake is fenced in in all directions by lofty mountain bulks
—Pilatus the tallest. A most superb and impressive
prospect.

Villa EuUegg

It takes a person not born and reared among moun-
tains a long time to find out that when he has looked
across the lake at a towering bulk like Pilatus once, he
has not yet seen it; that when he has looked across at it
daily for 20 days he is not yet acquainted with it; that
when he has done this for a hundred days it still has a
thousand details, a thousand charms, fascinations, ex-

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