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4 Sabbath in the Mountains.
At*T f.'om the souni of the Sabbath ball,
Afar from the Sabbath throng,
"Whose voices to-day in worship swell
>r With jubilant notes of song,
•Alone on a lofty Alpine height,
■ Bathed in a flood of resplendent light,
With the glittering peaks of snow in sight,
We gather for morning prayer.
Though small may our congregation be,
Sqarcoly exceeding the “two or three,’’
The Master himself is there.
Ho poaling organ proclaims our praise,
No preacher’s voice is heard,
Our chorister’s psalm on this pearl of days
Is that of the happy bird;
Our music the sound of the rushing rills,
Pouring down from the snowy hills,
As each its appointed work fulfils
Leaping down through the flowery dell;
And the wonderful works of our Father
teach
More than the wisest and best could preach,
Or the tongue of the learned telL
Though they seem in eternal might ar
rayed,
There once was a day, wo know,
When the hill’s foundations first were laid
And first they were crowned with snow;
But when in fire at the last great day
All that is evil must pass away,
Do we not hope that the xuountains gray
May delight our awakening eyes?
Emblem of all that is pure and bright,
Pointing up to a world of light,
And a glory that never dies.
—[Lucy Taylor, in Word and Work,
BARREN HONORS.
My mother was left early a widow,
with five children, all girls. "We inher
ited nothing from our well-born ances
tors save well-formed noses, white
hands and low, cultivated voices. My
mother was a proud and courageous
woman. So scarce was money with us
that we early learned to rise from a
daintily-served dinner cruelly hungry,
and darn and redarn our spotlessly clean
though simple dresses. Poor mother,
hers was a stern rulo, but I think of the
long hours during which she played tho
part of housekeeper, governoss and
seamstress, and marvel at her strength
of mind and body.
When I was 17 I was invitod to spend
a few months with our father’s cousin,
a Mrs. Beaumont, who lived in great
style in London. She was that most
selfish of beings, a hypochondriac. That
I might do her somo credit, Mrs. Beau
mont ordered a suitable outfit for me,
and fino clothes and good food soon
transformed me from a pale, stooping,
dark eyed strip of a girl, into a tall, up
right, handsomo young woman. Sho
was too hopelessly sunk in self to ob
serve the change, and it was not until
her favorite nephew came on his annual
visit that the admiration which his
young face too plainly showed, opened
her eyes to tho fact that I was a penni
less beauty, the most dangerous being
in England, where men and women are
seldom given in marriage but often
bought and sold.
A scone was troublesome, therefore
my hostess contented herself with de
claring herself worse, and ordering her
doctor to prescribe sea air. Jack Beau
mont was requested to accompany her
to the Isle of Wight, and I was packed
off home. I shall never forget my
mother’s start of surprise when she saw
the change in my appearance. All that
evening she remained very thoughtful,
and I began to fear that my unexpected
return was hardly welcome, until two
lays later, when with her sweetest
imile she informed me that I was to put
oao of my most becoming dresses
and behave my prettiest, as she expect
ed an old friend to luncheon. My
younger sisters were ordered off to par
take of a cold dinner in the school
room, and my mother and I awaited
Lord Silurian in the drawing room. I
knew him to be one of the oldest, as to
title, of England’s peqrs, and I had
heard a whisper that mamma might
have been his countess had her youthful
beauty been made more attractive by
the hundred thousands of pounds ster
ling which the lady that he eventually
married had brought him.
Ho came, a grim-faced, stiffsold gen
tleman, who put a double eyeglass and
scanned me closely. A glanco of mu
tual intelligence passed between mam
ma hi: lordship, which did not
tend to put me at my ease. However,
I smiled and talked as well as I could,
with a beating heart. After luncheon
I was ordered off for a walk with the
others, and that evening my mother
kissed me, saying: “Lord Silurian will
bring his son, Lord Trenton, to call on
Wednesday.” There was something in
her look and tone that sene mo to my
bed with a 4 ‘sudden sinking” of heart.
What need to dwell on the wretched
details of the next few weeks. Lord
Trenton came, saw, and as it eventually
proved, conquered. I thought him a
most vacant youth, but my mother ex
plained that he was very much struck
with me, and “such a dear, simple,
shy boy, notwithstanding his great
wealth and high position.”
The wedding day came and I had
seen my bridegroom but twice. On
these occasions his father Lai been in
the room. Lady Silurian I had not
seen at all; her husband brought me a
magnificent tiara, necklace, earrings
asd bracelets of diamonds—the Silurian
diamonds were famed—-and regretted
that his wife was too great an invalid to
jiresent them in person.
I have small recollection of the core
mony; but I remember that my father
in-law bent over and guided his son’s
hand when he signed the registry,
laughing, and calling him a nervous
fellow. I wrote my maiden name,
Olive Chase, for the last time, and im
mediately after I, accompanied by my
father-in-law and husband, drove to
Limestone Towers, tho home of the
Silurian family.
There I made a hasty dinner alone in
one of the magnificent rooms which had
been set apart for mo, and slipping on
a gorgeous wrapper, I tried to forget
my woes in the pages of some of my
favorite books. Ero long my tired
head fell back on the sofa and I slept.
I awoke with a cry and a sense of
terror. A number of wax lights shed a
soft radiance over the handsome room,
the perfume of rare flowers filled tho
air, and bending over the couch on
which I lay, his hot breath fanning my
cheek, was tho man I had married,
with an expression on his face and in
his evil, shifty eyes, which God grant I
may never see on any human face again.
For a moment I was paralyzed with a
feeling of sickening terror, then I rose
from the sofa and moved toward the
table.
“Where are you going?” he cried.
“Not so fast. Don’t you know you aro
mine now?”
Ia an instant he had me in his arms,
and was holding mo so tightly clasped
in his embrace that I panted fo: - breath;
while he went on: “Yes, you’re mine,
safe enough now. I’ve got away lrom
that old imp who’s been standing be
tween us. He thinks I’m safe with
Black. He’s a deep one. Yes, you’ro
mine, and I can tear your great, sad,
black eyes out, or pinch your white
flo-b, or bite you until the blood
comes. ”
“Ok!” I gasped. “If you are mortal
r.nd not a fiend, take mo to Lady Silur
ian; take mo to your mother.”
My words called forth the wildest
laughter.
“Lady Silurian?’ ho cried. “You’ll
never see her, sh3’s mad, as mad as a
hatter; curse her, that’s where I get it
from. We’re all mad but that old imp
of a father of mine, and he’d be mad too
if ho were not tho evil one. Your
mother wanted the money, and she’s
got it; she’s got £50,000, and I’ve got
you.”
The look which lie cast on me froze
my vory blood, but by this time I began
to see all too clearly tho nature of the
snare into which I had fallen.
I moved forward but ho seized my
dress, and placed one hand over my
mouth and made his teeth meet in my
shoulder.
The pain was so intense that I almost
fainted, my knees gave way and I fell
to tho floor. gk
“By God!” ho criod, ‘mead al
ready I” The exclamation gave me an
idea: what if I were to feign death? I
acted on it, and presently hejird him
moving about the room, muttering to
himself. When I knew him to be at
some distance I half opened my eyes,
and saw to my horror that he appeared
to be trying to open the window. Sud
denly he desisted, and I heard him
murmur, “No, this side won’t do. I
want her to fall into tho moat and then
he won’t find her. The bedroom win
dow’s tho one.”
Ho turned his steps toward the bed
room, which adjoined.
I sprang to my feet, gained the door
which opened into the hall, as I sup
posed, and found myself in a long,
dark corridor. Down this I ran until I
reached a narrow staircase leading up
ward. Agonizing fear lent wrings to
my feet. I gained the upper floor, and
went swiftly down a long corridor
which ran the length of the opposite
wing of the house, hoping to find somo
maid-servant’s door ajar, for it was im
possible to leave the homo in my present
dress, or, rather, undress.
Fortune favored me. At tho far end
was a large closet, or, moro properly,
small room, around the walls of which
were hung the servants’ Sunday dresses.
I appropriated one of those, a black
shawl and plain bonnet, the veil o
which would serve to mask mo well.
I felt no fear as I glided down the
three long flights of oaken stops which
led to the back entrance hall, and in
ten minutes gained the high road, which
skirted the park walls. I set out brave
ly for my three miles’ walk to M— ,
where I could take the earliest train for
London. Here I knew I could dispose
of ono of my p’aincst rings to pay my
fare to the city.
In M I posted one line to my
mother. “When I can forgive you,” 1
wrote, “you shall see me again. ”
My disappearance was hushed up, but
I afterward learned that Lord Silurian,
my mother, and one other moved heaven
and earth to find me. Two handsome
rings, by which I might havo been
traced, I sold immediately in London,
and long before the money I thus gained
was exhausted I had been introduced
by a young woman who lodged in tho
same house with me to a manufacturer
of artificial fl >wers. He gave mo work,
and thus I lived, if such au < ristenco
may be called living, for three y ears.
Straago to say, my landlady came
from near Limestone Towers, and
through her I learned that the Siluriaa
heir was generally supposed to be
“quoer” at times, and always dull, bru
tal and heavy; that his unfortunato
mother had been mad for years, and
that somo poor young lady had finally
married Lord Trenton, but bad left
him the next day never to return.
One evening, more weary and down
hearted than usual, I was dragging my
tired limbs slowly homoward, alter the
day’s work, when a passing hansom
stopped suddenly, from which sprang a
young man, who soized my arm, crying
“Thants God, Olive, you are found at
last."
It was Jack Beaumont. Jack, good,
dear, handsome as ever.
“Ob, Jack,” I cried, breaking down
and sobbing pitifully, “tell me all
about them, mamma and the girls, only
don’t tell them where I am else they
will want me to go back to Lord Silu
rian, and I can never forget him,
never.’’
“Old scoundrell I should think not.
But he can’t molest you, dear Olive;
now that his miserable son i 3 dead he
has no more authority over you than I
have.”
“Dead! Jack,” I cried.
“Yes, three months ago. Ah, Olive,
naughty girl to hide from me. If you
know how I havo suffered.”
On my twenty-first birthday I became
Mrs. John Beaumont. My mother to
this day thinks herself the aggrieved
party; and has to remember that my
purchase money enabled her to find
suitable husbands for all ber girls beforo
she can forgive mo for refusing to profit
by her excellent bargain.—[The Wis
consin.
The Stiletto.
Tho stiletto is a peculiar weapon.
Thcro is nothing of American manufac
ture like it. In length it runs from six
to fifteen inches. Tho blade is about
twice tho length of tho handle, dagger
edged, thick at the narrow guard, and
tapering off to excessive thinness at tho
point. At the guard the diameter of
the blade is diamond shaped and the
two extra edges run almost to the
point.
The real edges, which are rasor sharp,
make a wound which the auxiliary
edges, more blunt than sharp, aggra
vate to a terrible degree. So effective
is it and so murderous in the hands of
a dexterous man, that the Italian gov
ernment has recently been experiment
ing with it as a weapon at close quar
ters and in the Msssowah campaign sev
eral companies were armed with shields
and long stilettos. Tho weapon is car
ried in a sheath like an ordinary dagger.
Another knife, commonly carried and
frequently used by criminal Italians, is
what Professor Scannapieco, the Nea
politan fencing master, calls the “mol
letta.” The molletta bears some resem
blance to a razor, though considerably
longer. There is only ono edge and
the blade opens like a penknife. It
swings and when drawn
is opened hoi l of tho han
dle with the fingers and throwing the
blade outward. This requires practice
and dexterity. A small spring catches
the knife and holds it open. It is closed
by pressuro upon a tiny “button” on the
handle. Though not as effective a
weapon as the stiletto, it makes an ugly
wound when used by an expert, and can
bo opened almost as quickly as a stiletto
can be drawn from its sheath. The ease
with which it can be concealed adds to
tho frcquoncy of its use. The Candle
is hard wood or b ine.
There is an uptown establishment
that is said to import stilettos and other
Italian weapons. A small stiletto can
bo bought for $3 Tho largest size cost
$5 and SB. An imported molletta costs
$4. Tue price places tho real Italian
article out of tho reach of many of the
knife users who failed to bring their
cowardly weapons across the ocean,
and they content themselves with a
species of small dagger, crude ef
fective, and not infrequently made
themselves out of a well worn tablo
knife.—[New York Graphic.
Au Elephant on a Lark.
Considerable commotion was caused
at the little town of Stivos, Hunting
donshire, England, by tho inconsider
ate manner in which a big elephant
took a surreptitious holiday. The at
tractions of the traveling circus to
which ho was attached palled upon him,
and in tho small hours of the morning
ho let himself loose. Ho was first at
tracted by the effluvia of some ga»
works, which he entered after breaking
down a few trifling obstacles ia the
shape of three gates, two fences and a
brick wall. Then ho pulled out a plug
with his trunk and set freo a few thou
sand culic feet of gas, visited the re
tort house and frightened the solitary
watchman into fits, explored the neigh
boring* market gardens with disas
trous results to the owners, and wound
up by wrecking a barn and gorging
himself with new wheat. He was still
contentedly shoveling in grain when
hi 3 keepers discovered him, and with
difficulty induced him to return to his
quarters. Claims for damages are
pouring in upon his owners, and the
total will almost swallow up the profits
of a bad-season. —[New York Sun.
THE CROW INDIAN.
Habits of a Copper-Colored Resi
dent of Western Plains.
He is Crafty and Brave, and is
Utilized as a Scout.
In personal appearanco the Crow
Indian men are fine looking, tall and
well formed. The women are small and
inferior in appearance. Their vocal
language is coarse and harsh, and does
not seem to have a rich vocabulary.
They are poor ia tradition.' Tho men
cut tho hair squarely off round the fore
head, leaving this bang from four to six
inches in length, which, when ia full
dress, is made to stand upright by
dressing it with clay, which is some
times made more adhesive by admixtu e
with a sticky substance obtained by
boiling gummy weeds and bushes.
The side hair is at limes Iraided and
tho hair on tho back of the head sepa
rated into sovernl “strips,” which are
held in place by gluo placed at regular
intervals. To give them the appear
ance of vory ioug hair, of which they are
extremely proui, that which has been
cut off in mourning, or that taken from
their ponies’ tails and manes, is glued
on to lengthen out. They do not pull
out eyebrows or lashes. In dress, the
men wear the hooded coat made of
blanket. At the shoulder, wrist of the
coat and down the leggings a coarse
fringe is fastened. The women wear
short skirts made of raw material, and
caro little for colored ribbons or
trinkets.
Tho Crow 3 havo an excellent reputa
tion among other tribes for their cun
ning, crafty skill ar.d bravery in war.
With tho whites, as a rule, they have
been friendly, and since 1876 have ren
dered valuable services to the govern
ment as enlisted scouts. At preseat
they are better armed and better mount
ed than any other trib3 of Indians.
The Crows have a sun dance of their
own as it differs essentially from that of
the Sioux and other tribes. Tho dance
originates “ia a spirit of revenge, and
through it they seek to secure the assis
tance of the Supreme Being in carrying
out their plans for vengeance, and ia
prosecuting their wars and t horse -steal
ing expeditions.
Besides tho strings by which the
dancer is fastened through the sinews
of the chest and back to a long pole,
the brave endeavors to produce good
luck by mutilating himself with knives
in many parts of tho body. Soma of
tho young men fasten buffalo heads to
the muscles of tho back and dance them
selves freo and through and about
camp.
Their legends say that God made
them first of all human beings, the
other Indians next, and the white man
at the lari as a punishment for some
offenses.
How much bodily pain ono of these
Crow warriors can undergo I witnessed
in 1880, near this post. It was ia the
fall of that year when tho Hon. Carl
Schurz (tho then secretary of the inter
ior) visited the captured Sioux and
Cheyennes near Fort Keogh. The hon
orable gentleman desired to observe the
nativos at one of their dances and feasts,
and General Miles, our commanding
officer, conducted him to the neighbor
ing encampment. Tho writer accom
panied tho parly, which went on horse
back. As we neared the spot we be
held several hundreds of Indians squat
ted down on the grass, singing, shout
ing and drumming. They were not
dancing just then, £ut were enjoying a
star performance by a solitary warrior,
a Crow Indian—something of an ex
cruciatingly humorous character, a
highly-seasoned and palatable side dish
in the feast, so to speak.
Tho stalwart Crow stood in tho cen
tre of the circle; the blood was stream
ing from a hundred gashes which he
was self-inflicting upon chest, shoul
ders, abdomen, arms and legs with
sharp-edged knives, handed to him al
ternately by some of the Sioux and
Cheyenne braves.
The sight was too much for the some
what sensitive organization of the fas
tidious Secretary, and. giving his horse
the spurs, he soon escaped from the
disgusting spectacle. Tho attending
Indians enjoyed tho performance huge
ly, for they were chatting away and
laughing gayly while the horrible and
certainly very painful mutilation was
going on. Tho interpreter
informed me that it was an
atonemont ceremony on the part of the
Crow, who had in tho proceeding win
ter killed a Sioux. From * the same
source I learned afterward tl&t tho very
height of tho festivity was reached by
the audience when tho performer final
ly permitted his body to bo washed with
vinegar, after which ho indulged in fits
and convulsions. —[Cincinnati Enquirer.
The great Warwick of E the
putter-up and the puller-down of kings, j
did not know his letters. Marshall |
Soylt, the greatest of Napoleon’s mar
shals, could not write a single correct
sentence in French. Slevenson, the
inventor of the locomotive, could no' i
read when he was twcnty-OLe y. ars old.
Sitka In Alaska.
The most interesting place in the
Territory of Alaska is Sitka, the capi
tal, an old Russian town. It is beauti
fully situated, surrounded, save on the
seaside, by high mountains, and tho
harbor is formed by many low, small
wooded islands. There is some level
ground on which a town might be
built. Nearly all the housos seem go
ing to decay, and there is almost nc
building going on. Our government
officers reside here, and there i 3 some
pleasant society. There is a large and
flourishing mission school of tho Pres
byterian Church, where 160 young na
tives of both sexes are educated. The
old Russian church is tho great attrac
tion, with its paintings and Greek ser
vice. I attended service, but was not
able to seo much difference between its
ceremonial and the Roman Catholic,
save at the end all tho congregation
went up and kissed the cross in the
hands of the priest. Some of the paint
ings are covered, save the face, with
silver and gold in a manner I never saw
elsewhere. The church i 3 small, with
a congregation of perhaps 100, mostly
natives or half-breeds. Besides the
three towns mentioned, wo stopped at
no place in Alaska save at a few places
for canning firii. Mining, fishing and
hunting seem the only industries of
Alaska worthy of mention. The former
13 so undeveloped, save in one instance,
■ hat its future cannot bo predicted.
Fishing occupies but three or four
months of tho year. There is no evi
dence on the coast that there can be
ever any agriculture of importance.
Almost everywhere the hills, when not
snow-clad, are covered with small
spruce, too small for lumber. There
seems no reason to think that tho for
ests will be cleared, either for the lum
ber or tho rocky soil beneath.
Tho most of tho native huts seem of
the poorest, with an opening in the
centre to let out tho smoke. Alaska,
with its fishing and hunting, is well
adapted to a savage population. Un
less through its mines, it is difficult to
see how it can support any considerable
number of civilized people. The natives
are fairly teachable, but the most diffi
cult problem is to find occupation
which will support them in a civilized
way. —[Detroit Free Press.
Keene’s Fortune.
Jim Keene owed his fortune to a
woman. The impoverished widow of
an old friend of his came to him once
with SBOO worth of diamonds, all sho
had left, eagerly begging him to buy
that amount of a certain stock. “Bat
why?’’ She had been employed as a
seamstress at the homes of F.ood, Fair
and O'Brien, all former friends of her
husband’s. At one of these houses she
had overheard an account of a wonder
ful bonanza just then discovered near
Virginia City. Keene took the dia
monds, a wedding gilt to thU poor lit
tle woman from her mother. He in
vested their value in tho stock desired.
O.i the announcement of tho new dis
coveries the stock jumped from S2B to
S6O, then rose to SIOO, $l6O,
up to $285. At that point sho
asked him to sell. She thought
herself worth about $25,000. She was
in a fever of excitement. Keene, slim
and tall, was ns cool as a cucumber.
“See how much Mrs. has with
us,” he told his cashior. The answer
came, “Mrs. has $570,000, less
commissions, making $562,870.” Keene
asked if she would havo a check for tho
amount then, but, receiving no answer,
found she had fainted. Ho had made
$10,000,000 himself in the deal, all of
which has he.since lost in the American
Monte Carlo —Wall street. The little
woman whom ho enriched now dazzles
people with her diamonds, keeping her
mother’s gift as a talisman.—[America.
Jay Gould’s Doctor.
Mr. Gould sat on the porch of his Ir
vington residence and in his lap was a
baby, the second son of his son George,
who married Edith Kingdon, tho pretty
actress. The report that this new comer
is to bo named after his grandfather is a
mistake, because his brother, now about
a year and a half old, bears the name of
Jay Kingdon Gould. Near by sat Dr.
William Munn, to whom Jay Gould pays
a sufficient salary to command his entire
time. The amount is said to be $20,000
a year, and that is reasonable consider*
iag that Dr. Munn gave up an exten
sive practice to take this special job,
and is rather a rich man, The
contract covers a period of twenty
years unless terminated earlier by the
death of the opulent patient. Thus it
will bo seen that Gould has male an in
vestment of nearly $250,000 in medical
attendance.—[Philadelphia Times.
She Hitched.
Sho was an old fashioned woman.
She stood on the step of an open car,
and the lady at tho end of the seat
sulkily refused to slide along. The old
fashioned stood there for a long minute
with tho driver looking back and ready
to move on, and then loudly demanded:
“Well, haia’t you going to hitch?’’
The lady gavo her one awful look and
agitated herself clear to the far end.—
[D.troit Free Prc33.
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