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~SP AS 'ifl~ S; ~!'ARTY. she had put out a sign on her house Shan had read, "Mrse Kruller's Samit ny" it would have only adver. . h - that Mrs. Kiruller !" e )r` i.her boardelrs had always , ie. tling of her and her 7 .... just like a mother S0',laaire She i< •.Was fri pio S--tur " ke the h. ,st of C{ -ris r 1 , - twi I:, 7 til I die. or- T' . ý ,. e saiod this he invari- o , )\a lia )a ia. In fact he - , ,),. t, of that young. lady : a t ntici l t' tthe interests Io be ,f whijii he was clerc.. v1is a rim and precise Suke:y to t),'-.b crea . ,: I.r" ,,,i f aa r, ri ld , tI u h 1 t , ' u,,itredi even : i-ss your heart, shet , . . ha, a eltf-willed, St.ic al little woiman of , an ~ bition for a mau's " a ila;it yla n wiltlngnes to '. I1 ,ha' ;inlo.r nothing p it blaa n1t been in her S :, hai. it did not run . e di!d nt have it alonga ,, at, and whoop. , it was not ne of the 1r,`, for it was a iaa.,1 h tl Vry income for S; i:' . ov to Miss Dana a.. fy a something that Si . :•'., gain, it was a case } a - aoti( .. She had a heart ,1 I art, too; but it had not beer. ia h:; t abed of sentimentalism. , ree, ogled and sighed and - e a in v fain over this woman ay ,. ,w t hairi great brown eyes, had ia; noiaing little nose, and ,iaa lipl of unfulfilled promises. She ,,i f,,r him, if she cared at all, a e passed her the potatoes or or inveigled to hler plate an Ira ,Bial of siweetnealt s, and acted at ::;,e as a useful friend at her elbow. I t ceuirse Mrs. Kruller had other as ia her "Ilappy Family." Her at·'m -s 10.11 ;bered twelve altogether. ,e ofciemi hall been with the genial e holy ever since fMr. Kruller was so Sat l a sIaa IS to tdie when his funeral a( i-,' tI lhe heaviest upon his .,,. I'i r aiad Miss Dana isa.aooaged of boladers. Bittler, of Si:oaih, was, however, a late cormer. He W va ,ung mian of thirty, who had al.donedl the aromatic pine forests into hh he had cut his wav; thrown down a ' settitn pi,,le of the log rafts on the ;r kis.ed at corn huskings for the t iim tie t robust Venuses of the farm; . in ot the hay-seed from his hair, i ue to th, city to be a lawyer. He :, !','i:-he had self assurance; he i v i-ia; hie had the impetus of an -:an:chla: lhe had also the impudence o,' arafedQonail convasser. What more . h1,, nerl. ,ir success ? S... . a.-. ,,-rn n!tit,ldn a Bid.,r brought his six Let two altitude t i . r.enut at the tabieof the "Happy S ('hipper iuntrouced him, and v i.i pa, the penalty iof his rashness by v e:'n his acquaintia't ce begin, at once, 1 imnd bve at Miss Dana. Amelia i.ui.d upon , . Anal was this to be .P.. r's re ard for his table servitude ? t le r.ere li the neglect and stopped I t.,he butter and urging the sauce a tiwmr; he refrained from surrepti- v 0t!y sacrificing the tenderloin, when r 'e wNa any given to him, to her c eiit. He became morose and I alnd!;ed te n.e ofperfumes. He even I h is hair go dry by total abstinence f n pomaites. He meditated for hours on U.he generalshin of Bitler, whose s ,tnot .and victorious ha ! ha ! ha ! e : to! his heart day after day, like s pisions of dynamite. Thel last feather that broke down his i tieee was when his rival actually i .!d and went to the opera with his s Itimt. He (Chipper) had never dared f ,ii'luk of such extravagance as that. He 1 thi. rc tvnge, though, when he tound s : couple had perched, like owls, in the 7 second ga lcrc, and that Miss Dana t 1,novcd by the height she rose I t mght . and he referred to that t Uation, mbut aliavs with delicacy and :X. whluevel r Bitter was out of h earing. a St; Chipiex was not afraid of the ex small an chopper, li'l! you what, Bitter, he began, that's e frescoiog at Mac's theater. I envied c t ycir v iemw of it. It isn't every one it gets so near. How did the Cupids c ike you, Miss Dana ?" r tke iidn't answer, but Bitler spoke a CTippe:, they reminded us of your iuess, ('Cupiz i are put up drugs on narket, you know. Don't you re -laber, I mentioned it to you at the e, Miss Dana ?" ie bit her lip, but said nothing. "'ve seen them ere things," broke in € iMlordaunt, the batchelor, "and I've is thought they orter to be put in the circle. They're too bald for com •4'.ything to get them out of Bitler's t ihborhood," piped Chipper. The per. referred to frowned ominously. After n.r he met his adversary in the hall. i Chipper," he said, "your a nice little ow, an ornament to your counter, per P' to your family, and possibly a real 5sity to the drug business; but"-- t he pushed up his coat el.eva-'if w UT , forther a e41t t .9W I ___Ime I_____ mm___imil_ _ i. nton s co t r.' VOL. V. FORT BENTON. M. T., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1879, NO. 27. 1)... .,nd mn Polf I'll shake the teeth out "He'.s i d arthf, d II 's nndl, th. I. .. 1, .". __.__. __ .. . - I Dj ana and myself I'll shake the teeth out of vour head, I will, ha ! ha ! ha!" and b, w ialked away. (I: The laugh was like a blow in the face st of Chipper ; it was so insultingly exultat. rc lie did not know much, but he was what a e sporting men call "gamey'" He danced ' after the gentleman from Oshkosh and b6 d cmauglht his sleeve. "See here, Bitler, I can't live in a state w of apprehension. You were kind enough st to promise me a shaking. Let us go into ti ,the alley, now, and fight it out. We will I in both feel better for it." tE D, "Don't annoy me," said Bitler. passing a of him "If I was on the Wolf now, I'd ,'s throw you into the water for your impu" h to dence." , Chipper looked at him in a very queer ii er way, and then remarked : ti an "Very well, sir You're only a coward: h Bitler, look out for yourself !"' a P "I have always done so," remarked the b he other, with a laugh, a Mrs. Kruller's "Happy Family" was 5 er- thus cracked, as in Paradise, by a woman. s n But poor little Miss Dana didn't kn w it. d cat She wecit on teaching school and sewing I se half the night. She did not care for srt Bitler nor for Chipper, nor for anybody r e:r save Ame. -t Dana and good Mrs. Kruller a m. who had been a mother to the lone girl. s nd Of course she was pleased when either I1 an Chipper or Bitler was kind to her, but as 1 s, for love, that was unthought of. t ad Mr. Chipper was something of a diplo- c ine matist, and after his unpleasantness with v l1, the gentleman from Oshkosh he began to t or plot against him- It was a mean and i an contemptible spirit for the man to show, a at but Chipper was prosaically mortal. He a w. knew nothing about chivalry and that s ter sort of mythology that went out with the 1 ecr knights two hundred or more years ago. er. Hie belonged to the nineteenth century, r ial an age that excuses the devil, invents c so new crimes, and honors the crimnialls. ral He did not plan to abduct anybody, to I his cut his throat or imprison the - object of t red his dislike in a dungeon but he propos of ed to make him ridiculous. First he wont He over Dot Kruller, the mischievous I tad daughter, then Mrs. Kruller, the mother, nto and then two married ladies. The con wn spirators proceeded with their work. They 1 he secured a mnn'o suit of Ctthle and ýbo,,a the the garments. They attached a pair of I m; boots to the dummy and put under the I air, bed of Miss Dana, wtth the feet just s He visible, and then awaited the return, at t he dark, o: that lady, who was down town on i an a shopping excursion. The only purpos: I o:' of the ladies was to secure the means of a ore good laugh at the expense of the teacher t when she should discover, as she would, de 1the famous "man under the bed." mdci - Mr. Chipper was not very clear as to what this plan would accomplish. He wanted it to produce, in some way, a } laugh against the object of his spite. IfI Miss Dana should be alarmed, well and good. If he could scare Bitler, he would take care that his fright, should be snown. .He said to himself: "If this plan works all right, this rustic with sun burned hair will hear Miss Dana's alarm, rush to her rescue, be hoaxed, and never hear the last of it. Or he may be a coward, which will be the worse for him. Whatever belittles Bitler aids me in having revenge. It's fun with a purpose !" Everything being arranged, the con spirators waited in the parlor for the explosion. They were full of humor and scarcely able to repress their feeling. Mrs. Kruller, however, was fidgety. Her imagination suddenly began to de pict disasters as a result of this plan, and she apprehended a danger which might follow the discovery of the supposed man by Miss Dana. Suppose the teacher should drop down dead or go crazy I The more she thought of these possibili ties the worse she felt, until at last, no longer able to endure her fears, she left { the room, skipped up the back stairs and withdrew the dummy. Meantime Bitler arrived and was reading an evening paper. Dot Krullerj was playing an accompaniment to Chipper's singing i and Mrs. Kruller, returned, was smiling over the trick she had prepared. Old Mordaunt, with his snufle and cough, came in and proceeded direct to his room. Another person was heard to ouiter and go up the stairs, but no attention was paid to it. Then followed. Miss Dana, who poked her nose into the parlor, in quired if she was late for supper, and hastened away to prepare for the meal. Mrs. Kruller laughed behind her` back at the impatience of the other plotters. They were quiet and listening, and Bitler, hun gry as a bear, walked up and down the room. Suddenly there was a terrific cry. A door was slammed shut and somebody dashed down the back stairs, shrieking at every step. Chipper and Dot began to .augh. Mrs. Kruller, who could not oam r prehend the outcry, turned white with . fear. Bitler halted in his march and listened. Then they all rushed into the hall. At that same instant Miss Dana I burst through the rear door and ran . towards them, her hair streaming behind Sher, bheraeyeapend with teoriq, Sr.Ar fAce Prabasi. "Ie's under the bed ! He's under the 1 I bed !" she shouts. In her terror she dashes by the astonished group, up the stairs, opens the door again, looks into her room and comes back through the hall i and down the back stairs, repeating, I "He's under the bed ! He's under the I bed !" At this return, Mrs. Kruller, speechless P with wonder over a happening which s1 eems to her incomprehensible, catches the crazed woman in her arms, and Miss 1 Dana falls to the floor in a swoon. Mat ters looked serious. No such a disturb ance had been anticipated. I "Run for a policeman," said Chipper, L* huskily, to Bitlcr. "Go yourself," answered Bitler, push- r r ing the little fellow aside and going up the stairs three steps at a time. Chipper, losing his nerve, sinks back against the wall and waits. The women e begin to shriek. Bitler, who in a second had reached s Miss Dana's room, opens the door. He 1- sees at the bureau a tall man. He is t. dressed in Bitler's Sunday suit, with g Bitler's best tile on his head, and Bitler's >r $20 valise in his hand, and the lawyer y recalls thE:footsteps that preceded those r of Miss Dana. Then he sees the thief sweeping Miss Dana's jewelry, her rings, r er her watch, her ear-ring, her breast-pin, c Ls her porte-monnaie, her everything, into that valise. It was done almost with the 3- crook of the arm. Mr. Bitler does not h wait, but dashes upon the thief, who o turns, grasps the water pitcher and d brings it down upon the heid of his v, assailant, who drops to the fl,,or without [e a cry, and lies motionless, w'th the blood It streaming from an ugly cut cu his fore ºe head. o. Then follows a most extraordinary *, retreat. The women, yelliig like panth ts ers, attack the thief at the foot of the I ,. stairs. He does not strike them, but () hustles this way'and that way, and some of times strikes their heads together. Then Chipper, plucky and savage, only to dis oi appear-flung from the hall into the par is lor, as it' shot from a catapult. i ,I The thief smiled all the time he was doing this, just as if he was taking a y little exercise. His hand was upon the } ti dun . knahiý . _I ;ua o, cooesA hn ,i;ilt( of have been out of doors, when at snort waV re heard, and something half tumbled, half ; st slid down the stairs, landed on its feet on at the floor, and held to the face of the thief I >n the gleaming barrel of a revolver. The ±- figure was that of Mr.. Mordaunt, who, a hearing the uproar, had armed himself r and come to the front with startliuh d, agility. "Don't move ! I beg of you to hold up i hands," he said to the thief, poking the muzzle of the pistol under the thief's ind n se, and puffing from his exercise in such i a way that it was dangerous for the most um innocent of men to be in front of the weapon. "I don't want to spoil this car- est pet with your brains," he continued, "nor e( to alarm the ladies by firing a pistol. the r A ! Chipper, you there ? Please search thc r this man's pockets. Don't be afraid, e t Chipper, It1 keep him from hurting you. en Chipper had worked nimbly and had hah just unloaded the freight of the captive, ill when steps were heard without. It was a boi policeman. Transferring the prisoner to crc him, Mr. Mordaunt surveyed the scene. e The tableau was an impressive one. Mrs. I Kruller was holding Miss Dana's head in her lap,tanning her with one hand and keeping a bottle of salts to her nose with - the other. In her unsconscious condition shi I it suddenly struck the batchelor that Miss tar t Dana was very pretty, and he seemed fat 1 slow to take his eyes away from her. But sof Mrs. Kruller broke the charm. yet "Where is Mr. Bitler ?" she asked, "has jvet anybody seen him ?" im Sure enough, where was he ? Mr. Mor- cot t daunt came back to practical life from wil I his admiring consideration of Miss Dana Ne r and went hurriedly up.stairs. sai "Better run for a doctor, Chipper," said be( 3 some one, and Mr.-Chipper, with a vague pet idea that his revenge was murderously sin complete, and that he was in a sad plight nol I as a result of his plot, started for the in , physician. gei B Mr. Bitler was found unconscious upon sto r the floor. The shattered pitcher had an, 8 made several had wolqnds which had bled me profusely and weakened him greatly, Mr. he - Mordaunt dragged him 1o his own room wh I and attended to his ocuts. In the nmean- In: time Miss Dana had revived, tut t "Has he gone ?" aIw asked, opening the wO 5 her eyes. wo '.Who gone, my dear ?" asked Mrs. he Kruller, kissing the littie woe-an. col "That man under the bed. Oh, how Ge frightened I was !" There was silence no Sfor two or three moments, and then she on spoke again. "I saw in the glass his feet pIE o as they stuck out from under the bed. mn -lmpossible, Amelia,'" said Mrs. K., du thoughtlessly, "I put it away in the ti d closet, en 0 "What away ?" asked Amelia, "Mr. Chipper's dummy, my dear i he to a made it too scare you just a little, But I es put it out.of sight, boots and all. be .' "Ah I It could not have been the same. j in , xhi mau waa an :his .,t9t4 0 fi t'1t' - ;hiuny hut I saw him scratch onte foot hi ,With the other. Then I ran. th "So you did, my dear ; I never saw is ,ch runnin g. "And you were trying to scare me, tl: were you ?" asked the young lady, sitting ti !blt upright. "Now, I never take such a, practical jokes. and that man Chipper and at I can not live in the house together!" ai "Oh, Amelia !" "I mean it," said the teacher' "I have c, been imposed upon. I would not .be so r1 scared again for all the men in the world. g Chipper is a miserable. mean fellow. ci That man fro n Oshkosh is a hero beside h of him, and I will not stay if Chipper a remains." Just at that moment there was a knock 1 at the door. It was the doctor. He had a note for the landlady. It read : "My DEAR MRs. KRULLER-The event of this evening-the result of my fo-- n has been of such a character that I 'a i not return to your house. I will send for my trunk in the morning. I have not the r the courage to face the victims of my o joke. t. Very truly yours, CHARLES S. CHIPPER. Mr. Kruller would not, in her dilemma undeceived him: and so Amelia Dana remained-remained until Bitler was cured, until Mordaunt made a fool of himself for her ; until, in fact, a middle aged gentleman named Smith came from California and married her, spoiled the sequence of her surprise party, and broke 1 up the circle of' the "Happy Family." t N6d Cross, No Crown. t Decorations are dangerous distinctions t sometmes. A Parisian photograph deal- s er was invested with the cross of the c Legion during the siege, an honor secured I by his gallantry, which had ended by his s t having his jaw smashed by a rifle ball. c Unfortunately his conduct in civil life did e not bear out his military record, and in c 1873 a decision of the council of the c Order deprived him of the right to wear c its symbol. i s He took no note of the ban under whlich he was placed, continuing to orna e nment his lappel with the red ribbon so r .cl.= to the GTlic heart. He cl;i ..more. : On the basis of a letter once received fi frot a General F- , of the French t a army, he forged a most bombastic and f fulsome epistle, addressed to himself, l whom he beslavered with praise. On the a strength of this letter and the ribbon, he f succeeded in swindling a number of con- 1 fiding tradesman out of heavy sums. r When they began to clamor for payment, t he kept out of their way till one of them accidentally encountered and dunned him. His proud spirit chafed under the indignity, and he boxed the duna, r's d.ts most magnificently. The sorlid com- a mercial man then had him arrested. 1' He talked so much of he exalted estate before the magistrate tha; the latter became suspicious of a gentlnman who ti thought so much of himself, :nd finally c investigated him to the extent of discov U ering his imposture. He is rw in the Shands of the police awaitin; trial on charge of forgery, false pretuses, and ic illegal weariig of the decoratin. Having --. borne his cross he is likely to secure a i )crown, too, but a thorny one. Is Grant Becoming. Inane ? Rumors are afloat that Gerral Grant shows signs of a malady that is heredit tary in his family. It is sat that his father, Jesse Grant, was affliced with the t softening of the brain before b was fifty years of age, and that durig the last years of his life he was little nore than a imbecile. Orville Grant, whse eccentric conduct in California less tha a year ago will be remembered, has sine been in an New Jersey insane asylum. It is also said that one of the General; sisters has I been afflicted in the same mnuer. Many p people who have seen Goeral Grant since his arrival in San 'Fincisco, have { noticed an occasional wild,strange look 3 in his eye. Often when cokersing with gentlemen, and even with di friends, he i stopped short in the middl(bf a sentence and hesitated, softetimes f1 a full mo ment, before coml~leting it. At San Jose I he was introduced to a nuzber of men Swho fought under him at brt Donelson. h Instead of greeting ther cordially, he turned half around, and siply stared at i them over his shoulder, at never said a word, again at Stocktoi and Maderia I he was presented to a nunlr of his old t comrades in the Mexicad yar. bult the t y Genes.l treated them in t coolest man- i ner, and in a way that leflhe iimpression t e on every one present tha he was dis t ple:ised at meeting the These, and many other instances of peculiar con ,, duct go to show that it isý sad probabilb i e ity that his mind is comu(cing to weak en, While in the presid ial chair, Qeo. Grant was noted for his able greetiags I e to all his visitors, and ont other hypoth a Stesis can the great changn his manners I be placed than there is ~iething wrong i fin hismental tcuhlties. khaps the great 10 Arai**" ii4ia-WPb: · _6M ha· leil· - of Is Grant Becoming. Inane ? Rumors are afloat that Gerral Grant shows signs of a malady that is heredit tary in his family. It is sat that his father, Jesse Grant, was affliced with the t softening of the brain before b was fifty years of age, and that durig the last years of his life he was little nore than a imbecile. Orville Grant, whse eccentric conduct in California less tha a year ago will be remembered, has sine been in an New Jersey insane asylum. It is also said that one of the General; sisters has I been afflicted in the same mnuer. Many p people who have seen Goeral Grant since his arrival in San 'Fincisco, have { noticed an occasional wild,strange look 3 in his eye. Often when cokersing with gentlemen, and even with di friends, he i stopped short in the middl(bf a sentence and hesitated, softetimes f1 a full mo ment, before coml~leting it. At San Jose I he was introduced to a nuzber of men Swho fought under him at brt Donelson. h Instead of greeting ther cordially, he turned half around, and siply stared at i them over his shoulder, at never said a word, again at Stocktoi and Maderia I he was presented to a nunlr of his old t comrades in the Mexicad yar. bult the t y Genes.l treated them in t coolest man- i ner, and in a way that leflhe iimpression t e on every one present tha he was dis t ple:ised at meeting the These, and many other instances of peculiar con ,, duct go to show that it isý sad probabilb i e ity that his mind is comu(cing to weak en, While in the presid ial chair, Qeo. Grant was noted for his able greetiags I e to all his visitors, and ont other hypoth a Stesis can the great changn his manners I be placed than there is ~iething wrong i fin hismental tcuhlties. khaps the great 10 Arai**" ii4ia-WPb: · _6M ha· leil· - of 0 his eminent public career has had some thing to do with the change in him tha' is now so painfillly observable. Another evidence of his approaching affliction is the unevenness of his conversations. At times he will talk with fluency and ease, and then in a few minutes relapse into ai. I attitude of perfect silence, and only answer questions by a "Yes," or a "No." We most sincerely hope that the great calamity of "a mind o'erthrown" ma. 3 never be visited upon the illustrious general and statesman whom San Fran cisco and all the world has delighted to e honor. It would be a national affliction r were he to become incapacitated for future usefulness.-San Franciseo News k Letter. An Electrified Pine Forest. w A St. Elm's Fire is the name given by mariners to a weird glow and lightning like flames sometimes seen around the spars and rigging of ships at sea. It is in e reality a species of lightning, in the form Y of a silent discharge of electricity from the loftiest points of the ship into the atmosphere ; and it is produced by a mass of electrified clouds or air over the ship. a inducing a charge of opposite' electricity on the sea underneath, and drawing it off by the masts of the vessel, which in this case acts as lightning rods. A splendid instance of the same phenomenon was l!ately witnessed in the Jura at St. Cer e gues, where a whole forest of pine trees was seen to be aglow with light, like a phosphorescent sea in the tropics. A thunderstorm was raging at the time, and t rt every flash of lightning the iliuminira is tion suddenly disappeared, but soon i - shone forth again until the next flash to came. Before the appearance of this St. li d Elmo's Fire, heavy rains had fallen and t is soaked the forest, so as to render it con 1. ductive of electricity, 'and the thunder d cloud overhead heavily charged with i% electricity had induced an opposite e charge, on the ground below, which dis Lr charged itself' into the air by the pointed needles of the pine trees. r,,I e The Power of Judgment, 4nrmises and suppositions canuuot fill the place of oFtuions torr~d 1b pIuieTra tion and discernment. A man of pene tration is as slow to decide, as he is quick to apprehend, calmly and deliber ately weighing every opposite reason that is offered and tracing it with a most judicious penetration. All these one must possess to have the judgment of Plutarch, to discriminate between right and wrong; while to have the clear perception of Gceth one must be willing to breath a foreign atmosphere, and, freed from pre judice, feel the inspiration of other scenes and conditions. If, in fact, we wish our life structure to be perfect, we must give it our personal care, lest, while we sit with folded ha ds and placid minds, the tottering structure over us falls with crushing violence to the earth, burying as amid the ruins. When the President of a Court martial or the Chief of Police have occasion to j cross a public square in St Petersburg they duck their heads and assume a dog trot, It is not pleasant to be made a target for the pop guns of Nihilists. "Sympathetic pipes" are a recent nov elty. The bowl of a meerschaum mhay be colored in five minutes, by first tinting it with a solution of nitrate of silver in ether and alcohol, to which essence of roses and camphor are added. Figures of any pattern are produced by the heat of the tobacco, and when produced are permnanent. Law, physic and divinity are well sup plied with feminine members in the United States, The lady doctors number 630, and feminine dentists 420, while 68 preaches and five practice as lawyers. Some ladies adopt two or three callings at once. A Mrs. Gibbs, living in St. Louis, notifies on her door plate that she is an "elocutionist; poetess, washer, and an ironer." A Londoner of fortune, named, East laie, has committed suicide in a aitgualar manner. He filled the pockets of his coat with stones, tied a rope to the center seat of a boat, t.stened the other end round his body and then threw himself into the water. In a note found upon the nody the suicide explained that he lead resolved to be "tormented no longer by the riddle"-some question iu natural iistory or geology which he had vainly tried to solve. In the Northwest there has been dis- j covered a curious bug that lies concealed in flowers and seizes bees and wasps, which it holds at arws length, and from 7 wilch it sucks the iife. It alao destr'oy plant lice, beetles, butterfiies, catapiiiars and all such insects. They have also been known to inflict a painful puncture or sting on the human hand. The bug is g'neraUy of a'yeliowv color, but some' SOLT"EJ I-TOTCTSJ Hotel and Restaurant. ON THE EUROPEAN PLANI JOHN H. EVANS, Proprietor. Meals at all hours of the day or night KLEINSCHMIDT & BRO, FORT BENTON, M. T. KLEINSCHMIDT kA BO., RIELENA, X. T. W. H. WEIMAR & CO., DEER LODGE., MT. L. i. FOSTER I CO. BUTTE, M. T. KLEINSCHMIDT & BRO" Groceries, WholegIle and Retail Dealers in Liquors and Cigars, Drygoods and Notions, Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Geed*, HatS and Caps, Boots and Shoes. --ALSO General Forwarders, Freighters, and Commission Merchants. Owning six of the largest Mercantile Houses in Montana, being i the heaviest shippers in the Territory, and having the best buyers -in the Ea.tern Markets, we are prepared to sell our Goods and n f'urnish general outfits at prices that defy comnetition. . 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