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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. THE' PEOPLE’S PARTY. PROTECTIVE, PROGRESSIVE. PROSPEROUS, ODK PLATFORM: We Pledge Ourselves in Favor of PROTECTION OF OUR CUSTOMERS . From Overcharge and Misrepresentations. FREETRADE FOR EVERY ONE, With the Merchant who does most for his Customers. PROHIBITION Of Monopolistic Rings, Inflated values and op pressive high prices. Buy as you vote, intelligently. As candi dates for your patronage, we invite an examination of our business record in support of our claim for fair dealing. We promise for the future The Best in Quality, The Most in Quantity, And the Lowest Priest TO ALL CUSTOMERS, without dis tinction of nge or class, and behind our promise stands our enor mous stock of BARGAINS, which are being crowded upon us by our NEW YORK BUYER. Never have we been in condition to offer our patrons such advantages as at this time. Our MILLINERY DEPARTMENT has no equal. Our Stock the Largest, Assortment the Best, and Prices the Lowest. Our stoek of DRESS SOODS Below the Lowest. Our Fancy Goods Department will save you a handsome profit. STAPLE GOODS DEPARTMENT stands at the head for a money saver te our customers. OUR SEWING MACHINE DEPARTMENT includes all the LEAHS MACHINES IN THE COUNTRY, Starting in price at $5 and up. In this department we Buy,Sell, Exchangeand Repair ANY AND ALL KINDS. Remember that FOUR DAYS in each week we give away different articles to our customers. Some days we give to every 10th purchaser and some days tc every sth, and some days to all. Our patrons are well aware that we give • BETTER VALUE FOR THE MONEY* * Than any other house in CHATTANOOGA! Come along, and we will PROVE TO YOU That you can Save money by making your Purchases of us. H. H. SOUDER-