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Though Switzerland is restricted as to
its territorial limits, yet there is no one
language that it claims as its own ex
clusively or that is common to all its
cantons. The Northern, North Eastern
and Central have adopted as a means of
communication the German, the South
Kastern the Italian, and to a small ex
tent a peculiar patois, and the balance
the French. It has had its share of
tribulations, but notwithstanding, has
long maintained forms of popular gov
ernment in the very centre as it were
of monarchical Europe, and this too
whilst at Us side the most polished and
powerful empires upon the face of the
earth battled for supremacy, now with
success crowning victory, now to he
humiliated with loss of possessions or
crushed in the strife as though they
were but egg shells.
Turn where you may in Switzerland
and interesting associations will rise to
meet you. In its changeless barriers,
huge handicraft of nature, one ever re
calls the mighty achievement that has
linked the name of Bonaparte with that
of Hannibal. The peasant of Aargau yet
guides the stranger to the domestic
hearthstone whenoe the proud lihodolph
of Hapsburg went forth to conquest;
Altorf shows the spot upon which tradi
tion says Tell stood when he Bhot the
apple from the head of his son ; I'nter
walden points with patriotic pride to
the field of Sunpach (in the canton of
Lucerne) rendered famous hv the illus
trious example of Arnold of Winkelried.
At Zurich Zwingle proclaimed his doc
trines ; At Geneva Calvin and Knox
preached the Reformation and Rousseau
advanced his revolutionizing philosophy;
At Lausanne Edward Gibbon concluded
his world renowned labor of years "The
decline and fall of the Roman Empire
and Byron by his pathetic story "The
Prisoner of Chillon" has given that ven
erable and historic pile, almost the al
luring power of a Mecca for the lover of
poetic literature who has once read the
lines.
For beauty of mountain and lake
scenery the country has probably no
superior upon the globe. Some of the
loftiest peaks of the Alps, with heads
bound in turbans of eternal snow, rise
uwav from it to pierce the clouds them
selves and ever strike the beholder with
breathless awe who stands for tbe first
time surrounded by the mi\jestic grand
ure of the scene, its vastness rendered
doubly impressive by the solemn si
lence. Whilst in harmonious contrast,
spread lovely valleys and placid lakes,
elegant and inviting, far beyond the
power of human description.
In the South Western corner, a
French speaking locality, lies Lake
l.eman commonly called "The Lake of
Geneva," extending about fifty miles in
length and averaging from one to nine
miles in breadth. It is tbe greatest of
the pygmean seas of this pygmean reput>
lie. With the exception of about two
thirds upon the Southern side belong
ing to the Department of Upper Savoy
in France, the entire shore is Swiss
territory. A number of streams drain
ing large tracts of snowy mountain
country find their way into tin* lake at
different points, and these with many
inexhaustible subterranean or hidden
springs are the means of its supply.
The greatest of these surface feeders
and the sole outlet is the River Rhone.
It enters a roiled current into the East
ern end and pours out a clear blue flow
at the Western end, piercing the City of
Geneva and rolling onward into South
Eastern France, where it eventually be
comes an important artery of naviga
tion, floating away to the Mediterranean
the rich commerce of its hanks.
Upon the sloping hills along the
northern side of this lake between
Ouchy and Chillon are dotted pictur
esque villages, whilst upon the Southern
side the bold cliffs of Chahlais and
Meillerie reach high up. In clear mild
weather this great basin, depressed so
far below the surrounding country re
flects its close mountain walls from its
smooth surface in all their varied hues
and rich in their every detail.
On an isolated rock but a few feet
from the Northern shore, and very near
the entrance of the Rhone, connected
with the mainland by a clumsy wooden
bridge, ancient and quaint, a stranger
to the science of modern warfare stands
the romantic castle of Chillon. Useless
as a fortress against to-day's military
enginery it has been degraded to the
condition ot a mere storehouse or sort of
arsenal. From without it seems like
some warrior of another age who has
sought this quiet retreat in which to
slumber, out of the paths of rapid pro
gress and bid'ien away from the busy
turmoil of life. History has searched iu
vain for its origin lost in the mists of a
full century. Seven hundred years ago
men carved the stone and raised her
walls. To-day silvered with age but un
changed in form sb looks the antique
of tbe twelfth century upon the modern
of the nineteetb. When Geneva was
contending with the Duke of Savoy,
Francois de Bonnivard, a Frenchman by
birth embraced the cause of the strug
gling little republic. In 1530 he unfor
tunately fell into the hands of the Duke
who caused him to be immured in tbe
dungeon of this castle, hut after six
years had elapsed, he was liberated by
his friends who throwing wide bis prison
door cried to him—
"Bonnivard you are free."
"And Geneva?" was his first utter
fcno*.
"She ia free too."
So runs the story. Byron in his ram
bles through Switzerland several times
visited the place, and upon returning
to tbe villa of Diodata near Geneva
wrote the beautiful poem that has
brought the castle into prominence as
an attraction, it is now asserted by
some that his "Prisoner of Chillon" and
Bonnivard were not one and the same
person. In the "Sonnet on Chillon"
the poet it will be seen distinctly men
tions the name Bonnivard.
"Kternal spirit of the rhftliilwt ml ml !
Itritfhtoflt In lihortjr I thou art,
For th<*re thy liahltatlon Is the heart
The heart which love of thee alone can hliul;
A nil when thy roii* to lettera are ronnlKiied —
To fetter* ami the damp vault* dayleea gloom,
Their country conquer* with thair'martyrdoui,
And Kreedom'* faiiie find* wing* on every wind—
tTilllon ! thy iirlnon i* a holy place
Ami thy •ad floor an altar—for't wa* trud,
Until hie very *te|>* have left a trace
Worn, a* If thy cold pavement were a nod,
lly lionnivard !--May none tlioae mark* efTare
For they appeal fiom tyranny to Uod."
At the time Byron had probably no
more information as to Bonnivard than
what he gained from the custodian.
In his journal he thus speaks of that
individual, "The corporal who showed
the wonders of Chillon was as drunk as
Blucher ; he was deaf also, and think
ing every one else so, roared out the
legends of the castle so fearfully." A
stranger to the complete story ol the un
fortunate man, he evidently weighed
the recital of the drunken corporal, put
a fair estimation upon it, and with a
license that WHS justified drew on his
vivid imagination for further facts to
give interest to the poem. For this
reason the lines are of course tar from
being borne out by comparison with the
history of Bonnivard. Yet as it was his
imprisonment that suggested them he
should be considered the subject of the
poem "The Prisoner of Chillon."
Bain was falling in torrents and a
cool wind was blowing fearfully on the
morning 1 left Lausanne in company
with two gentlemen friends for Chillon.
An uncomfortable car that was slowly
dropped by cable down an inclined
plane carried us to Oucby the little
neighboring port about a half mile dis
tant on the shore of the lake. Here the
steamers touch that follow the Northern
bank and ply between Geneva and Vil
leneuve. Having arrived an hour too
soon for the up boat, wo endeavored to
make ourselves comfortable by standing
in a sort of frame pen half full of freight,
with a very leaky loof and supposed to
be a waiting room for passengers. A
number of restless women clad in damp
summer clothing that clung to them
like closely drawn drapery on statuary,
had with a number of males secured all
the available seals in the place. As a
wilder gust of wind at times forced the
rain in showers through the well venti
lated sides of the building, three fourth
of the women would start up, peer out
anxiously at the lake, move around for
a few minutes, then one of them would
select the least exposed of the vacant
seats and settle in it. The rest would,
one at a time, follow her example until
they were all down again. Thus they
continued exchanging places with each
heavy blast as it came along. Finally
the large Geneva boat steamed up to
the pier when the entire party, hastily
gathered up bag* and bundles, anil
trudged on board through the driving
wind and rain. As 1 looked after them
filing out on to the pier. I was reminded
of the extraordinary and never-to-be
forgotten representations 1 used to see
when a boy, of the Noah family em
barking on the Ark ; it was but a moment
more and the boat floated them away.
I stood by the open door way looking
out at the angry and tempestuous lake. !
White caps were curling away from the
dark rough surface and heavy waves
j were rolling in high ridges towards the
i shore. < iccaaionaliy one of these would
dash itself wildly against the projecting
little wooden pier beside n) > and leap
in hissing misty spray far over and be
| yond it. At length my eye caught a
cloud of smoke hoveriug far out on the
lake. A dark line that was fast growing
more distinct was visible beneath it.
i A moment more and I plainly made it
; out to be the little steamer pitching and
tossing towards shore. The rain hail by
i that time slackened, but the wind con
tinued as fierce as ever. The high cliffs
across on the Savoy side full eight miles
away, were beginning to loom up heavy
and brown, seemingly from the very
bosom of tbe tempestuous water*. Tbe
' view was grand. In the meanwhile the
struggling boat toiled |>erseveringly on
and in fifteen minutes more had wung
; round to the pier, rolling over to her
1 gunwale as her head was turned. The
men at tb snub-posts soon drew and
held her close to the framework, whilst
in her impatience *he wildly bent and
thumped against it. We started to go
on board. As we arrived at the pier an
open umbrella shot past us on to the
boat. Struggling with the handle of it
was atall,thin,stoophouldered French
man. Hanging to bis leftarrn was a fat,
Hashy girl of about twenty, well blown
iby her late efforts to keep on foot. 1
saw at a glance they were bride and
; groom. An ait of relief spread over their
countenances after they got fairly on
hoard, then shaking tbe water from her
J dress the bride j>ointed to the little
I hurricane deck and panting said "Let us
j go up there ! we can get a better view."
The groom evidently thought the sug
gestion a good one and they climbed up.
lie took her as far forward as |>o**ihle
and planted her where she was sure to
get her full share of the motion, then
he came down for the tickets, purchased
two for Chillon, and hurried bock to
join her. I stood in the hold and
watched the wharfmen as they cast off
the lines of the boat and let her go.
First she gave a roll followed by a start
and then leaped up on a wave, her how
clear out of waier. She was a small
atfair and the pilot, a brawny Swiss,
stood up exposed on a high elevation in
the stern, wrapped in a dread naught
coat and with a rubber car drawn down
closely over his head, ilia feet were
planted far apart to brace him as it re
quired his entire strength to control
the wheel. I had been on fresh water
lakes and salt water teas in my time,
but to gaze at that man continuoualy for
thirty seconds was to me anything but
comfortable. As I looked up at him he
would soar for a moment far above tbe
tall mountains and atand out with hia
wheel well defined againat tbe leaden
aky. Pausing there an instant he would
dart down until he seemed laid flat
against tbe tossing waves below me. 1
turned away and joined my friends in
the middle of tbe boat where I sat about
ten minutes in conversation, when sud
denly the idea entered my heed that
the bridal party might be a little
troubled. Out of curiosity I climbed to
the hurricane deck to look for them.
There they sat speech leas and pale as
death, each holding desperately to tbe
raila and with eyea wide open staring at
the other. They wanted to join each
other but both of them were afraid to
let go, I did not wonder at their
tenacity, for the mountains on the
Southern shore were sinking away just
under their eyes as the villages and
vineyards on the Northern shore went
up, then in turn the mountains would
rise whilst the villages and vineyards
went down. I looked at the groom.
With every heave of the boat he drew a
long breath. He was experiencing the
sickening sensation of rising as light as
a soap bubble and dropping back as
heavy as a lump of lead ; lie paid no at
tention to my approach. 1 saw his
terrible error and stooping over said to
him, "You should not have come up
here. 1 think you had better go below. '
He did not even turn hiß eyes ; the man
was uctually oblivious to my presence.
I repeated what I had said. He then
looked up at me as though to say, how
will I ever get there? I interpreted
his look, took his arm and helped him
down. He asked me to help his wife
down also. 1 went hack for iier. She
was willing to go, yes, wanted to go,
but instinctively clung to the rail as a
drowning person clings to a life pre
server. I doubted myself the propriety
of her letting go, as I thought of her
getting away from me and bouncing
over the rails iuto the boiling lake, or
dashing about the little deck like Hugo's
carronade. However she reluctantly
loosened her grasp and we started.
There are difficult tilings one may bo
called upon to perform in this life and
I am willing to concede that helping a
fat woman down stairs under ordinary
circumstances is not one of them ; but
when it comes to conducting one hun
dred and fifty pounds of limp female
adipose tissue, with just enough of life
in it to make it cumbersome, down a
steep narrow stair way with the steps
under your feet performing an almost
vertical movement of about thirty d
grees every three seconds, that I say is
no bagatelle. The moment 1 arrived
at the foot of tlio stairway with my
charge she threw herself forward on to
one of the wet plush covered seats he
side her mate, and as I had cautioned
them not to look at the lake both sat
for some time with closed eyes ; but
human endurance could brave it no
longer. A few whispers, and simultane
ously they staggered to opjiosite sides of
the boat and looked long and languidly
into the water. We were approaching
land. They were too much engaged to
notice it, and with a drooping figurehead
on each side the little craft rolled in. As
the pier was struck they raised their
heads, the groom rushed over to the
bride, there was a momentary counsel
of war and both startiyl for solid earth.
They had forgotten their umbrella and
I carried it out to them and said "this
is not Chillon !" With a dazed manner
the groom thanked me and replied,
"yes Monsieur, 1 know, but
adieu !" Both of them quickly turned
their backs to the water as though they
never wanted to see it again, I jumped
on the boat as she st* rted off. The wind
and rain had ceased and the agitated
lake was rapidly calming down. We
climbed to the hurricane deck and seat
ed ourselves. The air was fresh and the
scenery magnificent: along the southern
shore the precipitous cliff* seemed to
rise darker anil more massive in the
clearing atmosphere whilst on the north
ern shore, the Swiss villages like collec
tions of toy houses were scattered along
the water's edge. As we glided forwaril,
the stillness of nature was broken only
by the constant thud of our little en
gine. Opposite Vevav the pilot turned
the boat in ; we touched a moment and
then steamed on. Soon rising from the
water against a back ground of green
wooded hills the castle of Chillon came
in view with its gray white walls, and
cluster of conical and pyramidal cap
ped towers, the front towards the open
! lake duplicated on the clear surface
| that had already lost every vestige of
I its wrath and lay before us as smooth
as gla**.
As we approached I recalled the poet's
j description of the prisoner clambering
j up to his dungeon window and feasting
i his long restricted vision upon the tall
j mountains—the lske and the isle. I
i turned, it was all before me, the latter
i tar out seeming scarcely more than a
I sand bar with a few trees rising from it.
Byron, in his journal, says, "Went to
Chillon, through scenery worthy of I
know not whom, went over the castle
of Chillon again, on our return met an
English party in a carriage ; a ladv in it
fast aleep—fast asleep in the most anti
narcotic spot in the world—escellentl
I remember at Chamouni in the very
eye* of Mont Blanc, hearing another
' woman, English, also exclaim to her
! party. 'Hid you ever see any thing more
rural f —as if it was Highgate or llamp
stead, or Brootpton or Hayes. 'Rural!'
quotha ?—Rocks, pines, torrents, glac
iers, clouds and summits of eternal
snow fur above them—and 'rural.'"
We landed and followed a pathway
along the hill side to the castle. As we
crossed the wooden bridga connecting
it with the shore a party was about
forming to be escorted through by one
of the guardians, a great awkward Swisa,
with a good natured face, and wearing
a pair of soiled blue pantaloons, prolif
ically adorned with patches, and having
OD no coat. He had, it was evident,
been interrupted in the midst of other
work to go over the building and de
scribe it, as he had more than likely
done a half dozen times a day for the
past decade. He was hardly well start
ed before I concluded that he was about
to show us how quickly it was possible
for that thing to be done.
He first led us through several rooms
where canon and other warlike muni
tions of our day were heaped in a con
fusion that it ia to be hoped aome one
understood. At one place he showed
ua a dark well with a rough board rail
ing about it, where condemned of the
olden time were forced to walk down.
After a few steps the stairway ceased
and they were precipitated many feel
to the bottom. Next the Hall of Jus
tice, a plain, barren, unattractive room
in appearance. At length ha worked
ua down to the dungeon, its floor below
the level of the lake, standing as when
Byron looked upon it and conceived
hia exquaite Unes:
"Thr sr* wssa plUsn of (nthie nmul l.
In I'hllhm's
Tksrs sra H.tl miasms, owasy sad amy,
Mai with a dall Imprison '•) nip
A msUsa which hath part Its way.
Aad through tha crcries sad ha elert
or the thick wall Is fsilca sad lsft;
Creeping o'er the floor > damp,
Uka a marsh's meteor Isuip
This pert built (aa some' from collateral
fact choose to surmise) at least eleven
centuries ago. The windows, barely
moro than air slits in the wall, admitted
rays of light enabling us to examine the
damp, musty and dismal place. The
guide iudicated the column to which
Bonnivard had been chained. An iron
ring wan attached to it near the floor,
ami about breast high upon the stone
shaft BVKOS was cut. I lifted the ring
to hear it clank, and then impelled by
aorne inquisitive motive I rubbed rny
finger over the letters graven by the
great English bard. 1 observed also
that ua the other members of the party
caine to it they first read it and then
each instinctively did the same thing ;
a close inspection revealed the fact that
the edges had been rounded and worn
smooth by the lingers of thousands of
others, who were either juat as curious
or doubting. It seems to be a weakness
of the human race to not be content
with merely looking at a curiosity but
they also want to touch it. Finally we
were conducted to the apartment where
the condemned slept or rather were
supposed to sleep lite night before
their execution, lis solo furniture two
roughly draped pieces of rock, one
raised higher than the other, the upper
a bed for the prisoner and the lower,
and by far the most uncomfortable, n
lounge lor the guard. An American
gentleman of the party said, "That was
a little rougii on the guard, but I pre
sume the object was to keep hint
awake." As we passed out into the
open court-yard the guide held out In* 1
hand tor the fee. One of my friends, a* 1
a joke, dropped into it a collection of ;
eight or ten small coin of different j
countries, not worth in the aggregate
five cents in our money. As 1 stepped j
up lie had the little heap in the palm j
of his left hand stirring it around with
the index finger of hi* right, evidently
putting a value on it. I laid a franc on
the top of it and walked out. I con- i
suited my watch, we had been exactly
eighteen minutes doing the establish
ment. We took a hasty lunch at the
station, at the tail end of which a
young girl cutue in with the usual dish
of honey, and placing it before us apol
ogized for having forgotten it.
"You Swiss seem to liave honey at
every meal," I said.
"Generally, Monsieur. Ho they have
it often in England at meals ?"
"We are not English, we are Ameri
cans."
She smiled innocently, shook her
head and saiii, "s>'o, Mon-ieur, you are
English, Americans are dark complex*
ioned,"
"Savages you mean ?"
"Yes, Monsieur, 1 suppose."
"But we have been civilized."
She shrugged iter shoulders.
Without exaggeration, and in a few
words, I deacribed to her our country,
its people and the high slate of ad
vancement to which they bad arrived.
She looked at me in wonder, but when
1 went into detail and told her of the
cities many time* greater than Geneva,
and of the thousands of miles of rail
ways anil their elegant and comfortable
cars, that was too fabled for this child
of a world so far behind u* in improve
ment and invention. I saw from her
look she wa* growing sceptical, and
though I wa* telling 'lie truth I actual
ly toned it down. When 1 had finished
she doubtfully shook her head, and with
the persistency of Galileo, muttered a*
she laughed, "No, no, Monsieur i* Eng
lish."
We settler! our bill witli the doubting
damsel and hurried down to the plat
form to look for the train. The late
rain had filled the hollow* in the gravel
soil with clear pure water, 1 stooped at
a more deeply sunken spot to rinse my
fingers; a* I did so I said to one of my
friend* standing in the door way, "Gen
eral, look at my basin !" An elderly
lady sat upon a bench against the sta
tion wall, tieside her a small and tired
boy, with a very long Alpine stall, i
went up to them and turning to the
ladv said, "fan you tell me when the
train leaves for Lxusaune?",
Looking at me a moment she replied
in English, "I cannot talk French, this
young man can," fiointing with her
thumb to the youthful Humboldt at
her side, "but I know vou are from
Philadelphia!"
"I was taken for an Englishman a few
minutes ago, how do you know 1 am
from Philadelphia?"
"From your general accent, and when
you called to that gentleman I did not
hear you distinctly owing to the dis
tance, but I understood you to say, 'See
me basin !' Had you )>een from any city
! in the United States excepting from
' Philsdelphis. you would have said see
i my basin I"
"You certainly misunderstood my
enunciation, hut I am originally from
, Philadelphia," 1 said.
Here the conversation was broken off
hv the noise of the train that rushed in.
, We laughed, bid them good day, step
: ped on board, and were hurried back to
our starting point. The road runs along
high ground and commands a lovely
panoramic view. Having been over it
before I selected a place at the aide
1 looking out upon the lake. As we were
rolled along we at time* caught glim|ises
of the snow covered Alps rising far off
in the distance. Gradually the opposite
hills seemed to recede; the sheet of
water below us was growing wider ; we
were approachingOuchy. A little while
and again we were on the pier from
which we had embarked in the morn
ing. What a wondrous change! the aun
wa* shining brightly, the cliff* acroas in
Savoy stood up in msny subdued lints
under iU rays, scarcely a ripple disturb
ed the perfect calm of the lake's surface.
Again a Geneva boat came up to the
pier ; this time tee, went on board with
the crowd. Comfortable and ample she
carried us rapidly over the clear smooth
wa.ter. As w* sat upon the high deck
etyoying the delightful view the head
of the boat was thrown in towards Rolle.
1 walked to that tide and stood looking'
over the rail, there were but two person*
upon the pier—one the wharfman, the
other, from hia uniform, I took to be an
officer of cuatoma. A number of other
passengers came and stood beside me.
As the boat was made fast a black ob
ject, ahout five feet long and eighteen
inches wide and as many deep, looking
like a burial casket for a half grown
child was pushed out upon the landing.
"Hallool the smoke stack ia going
ashore," said one of the party.
I at once reoogniaed the thing and
turned and aaid, "I can tell you what
that ia, it ia n French trunk."
"They must bo ina'Jo liko stove jiipe
and Hold by the foot," naid ho.
WhiUt we were talking the owner
stepped out alter it. She was a tall,
Hlatternly Amazon. A* she net foot on
the pier the custom*, notwithstanding
the boat hud on the trip down touched
upon the Swiss aide only, took the lun j
ward end of the trunk and commenced
making the journey to ahore. Ihe own
er went up to hirn, there wa* a low con
versation between them during which
the Htrong hand of the law held on to
the trunk. At length he shook hia
head negatively and Blurted again ; the
owner remonstrated ; he brushed her
uiiide; she caught the other end, and
each pulled and tugged in oppOßite
directionH. Matters were getting inter
eHting. The universal desire to get
ahead of the custom house furnished
her with plenty of urdeut backers, and
a hundred throats urged her on Irorn
the boat in French, English and tier
man. .Suddenly, in the struggle, the
handle the law was holding came out
ami both went over on their backs, but
the favorite bad the spoils. She ws
up like lightning and darted around
her prostrate enemy for laud, lie, as
she passed, for want of a handle, seized
the trunk bodily in bis arms. The ad
ditional weight stopped her short, he
rove to Ins feet and shrieked at iter to
drop it. Not a word iii she utter, but
gave lnm u look of the most supreme
contempt. He tried in vain to twist 1 e
band loose. Then be changed Ins tac
tion and made the ttunk serve the
purpose of a battering ram. It was a
success; she yielded the handle, but
prepared to return the compliment.
It became almost a dead lock ; each
with lace purple and with artus knotted
around the subject of their contention,
stood for a few seconds bent over eyeing
the other. At length the law, from
sheer exhaustion, let go its hold ; the
crowd on the boat yelled louder than
ever. Stimulated, the victor defiantly
threw the trunk at her feet, and in her
excitement jumped straight up, coming
i down on the lid with a terrible thump.
This she repeated a number of times,
and as often as she did so she spit
straight into the face of her allnoyer.
i This was too direct an insult, and lie
prepared to outgeneral her by placing
himself so as to cut off her communi
cation with the shore. Just then a
voice from below cried out in French,
i "Are you going to starve her out?''
' The captain would bold the boat no
i longer and we moved off. Alter we
had pas ed a long distance the customs
renewed bis efforts to get the trunk by
> force. The patient wliarfman kept bit
place and not once offered to interfere.
Finally the entire scene formed a black
\ silhouette in the evening light, and as
i we lost sight of theiu the three were
: still upon the pier, the combatants
: seeming but struggling insects.
The fresh air bad sharpened our ap*
| petites and we wtnt down to the saloon
for dinner, there a short thick neck
; ed individual whq pas very drunk and
t rapidly growing drunker, sat by a table
I idiotically leering over two bottles
| standing before him. the one contain*
' ing brandy and the other soda. Every
i tew minutes he addressed mixed thick
i tongued questions to a gentleman near
[ him who was reading, and who to get rid
j of bun gave monosyllabic answers with
out looking away from bis paper. Each
i frequent sizzle of the soda as be turned
( the spigot indicated that he had gone
; down another degree into the brandy.
1 At length be poured a flood of object*
1 less question* at two young (ienevese
! la<lies sitting at our table, then got up
and came over and sat down beside
them. The weak kneed steward in at
tendance saw they were annoyed, but
afraid to remonstrate, be merely smiled
and treated the affair as though he con
sidered it a joke all around.
1 spoke up and said "Why do you not
stop annoying those ladies
"And wtio are you ?"
Then commenced a long and inter
esting dialogue that ended in my
, telling him that I would pitch him ovei*
I-card if lie continued. Here the ladies
interfered, he went back in bis old aeat,
one of them said to me, "we know bis
family, it is such a pity I"—"pity"
came echoed in broken syllables from
birn, sizzle went the soda and again be
took a seat near us, he was gloriously
drunk. Whenever a remark was made
he sent buck the last halt of the last
sentence and snnied. I could scarcely
refrain from laughing out, the steward
enjoyed the thing hugely. < ince 1 tried
to make the ladies understand in
English, they said they had studied it,
but here just where it was wanted it
failed them, be, however, waa equal to
the emergency and gave it back to me
just as I said it. He was too much for
1 me and we all went on deck to be reliev
ed of him. The boat was in the narrow
part of the like and approaching Cop*
! pet. once the home of Necker and his
daughter Madame l*e SUel, celebrated
as the most literary woman of her time
, in Europe, it was her prison too, for
| here Napoleon forced her to long re
| main under strict surveillance. As we
i advanced further down the lake it nat
urally grew more narrow till finally (Jen
eva appeared a dark mass at the end of
it. Ihe boat had been delayed upon
the trip and as she approached twilight
was about merging into night, already
the lights of the city were shining and
rapidly increasing in number. As we
gilded swiftly by, I caught a glimpse
upon our right of a great building, its
front a blaze of gas jeta, from the cen
tre of which atood out in bold relief
the red Geneva cross.
We stepped from the quay a few
minutes later and turned to croaa the
Mont Blenc budge, suddenly the air in
the vicinity of the illuminated building
was made alive with pyrotechnics. I
asked a burly Englishman who was
hurrying past, what it meant. "1 do not
know what it is about, but it is a party
of Americans that are having some lit
tle performance," he aaid, and hurried
on. for the first time since rising in
the morning, we recalled that it was
the Fourth of July, and as another fiery
messenger yet more conspicuous, bear
ing joyous greeting from the greatest to
one of tbe least of the earth's Republics
went hisaing and with a long roar far
into space, scattering behind it on its
pathway a golden train, our gate follow
ed to its dizzy light, and aa it burst
forth in many brilliant colors that drop
ped towards-earth like a shower of
meteors, we took off our hate and gave
a true ankee cheer.
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