Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-12-18

or SO, Charley got an answer from Jake,
brimful of news, aud jollity which closed
with II guess I won't get even with the
old woman after all"
Spring had come again, Charley's bust
ness had outgrown the circuInscribed linn
It's Of his own camp and he was over the
range.
That day Mrs. Munson no longer clad
in sombre black but arrayed in all the
colors Of the rainbow. burst upon the as
tonished gaze of the postmaster and other
folks gathered at the store, called Mr..
Mailem aside and together they walked up
the road, entered the former residence of
the brightly bedecked lady and returned
again to the store. MIR. Gilbert being alb
sent from town, a bill Of sale of the house
viii do said Mr. Mailem, .'The lot has
be had till the town is Incorporated, and
possession by means OF the house will do
me. Mrs. Munson,' he explained. as he
proceeded to draw up the bill of sale,
consideration, $3.50, Mrs. Maria Munson,
of-What town or city snsll [ put down,
MADAME" he asked as he proceeded to de
scribe the party Of the first part. "Oh,
this place is IS goods any, was her ms
Wer. She signed it: the witnesses added
their names: the money was paid, and with
a grand salaam she departed in a private
conveyance. After it was too late to en-
quire, several people wondered where the
widow was living now? and the remark
that she was dressed "within an inch of
her life," was generally concurred in.
That night Charley got home, heard the
news and wrote it to Jake, who sent back
. hurried answer concluding with
Send you the weekly.
"Iours JAKE"
Gilbert and Douglass had prospered
fairly we'll, had sold one prospect at a very
good figure and had another which prom
ised so well that Jake would resign his po-
sition il the spring and give his personal
attention to its development.
Charley had not been over twenty miles
away from camp in nearly two years, and
Jake's nose had been kept pretty close to
the newspaper grindstone for considerably
over i year. So by letter they agreed to
spend Christmas down in Denver. Both
needed 3 change, and why not have it?
The pair mel at a junction OF the d 81 R.G.
and together were ratified into the Queen
city of the plains. In those days of Colo
RADIOS booms and rich strikes, money was
plenty and freely spent in Denver. 1t was
the s%ojourning place at all seasons for men
with cash in their pockets, and as the fes-
tive season of winter holidays approached,
the mountains sent their quota of those
who had prospered. The best house in
town, with restaurant on the European
plan was none too rich for their young
blood and liberal dispositions, and SO the
hickman drove them to the then most ia
nous hnosteIrie in town. Next morning a
fashionable tailor was visited, they were
measured for a suit apiece of his best, and
by means of most urgent reasoning and an
extra tip were to be served Immediately if
not quicker.
The bill boards proclaimed a saturnalia
of amusements, ranging from tragedy at
the Opera house, to a free and easy over on
the West side. Holiday goods were dis
played in gorgeously ornamented shop
windows, and on little stands on the street
corners. The irrepressible boy footed his
little discordant fish-horn, while his little
sister toyed with a thread restrained gas
balloon.
Our worthy pair enjoyed themselves
with a zest-arrayed in fashionable attire,
living upon the fat of the land, amused to
their hearts content, they in seriocomic
gravity compared their present condition
and surroundings with those of recent and
other days up among the eternally snow
capped peaks. Declared that the %tailor's
artistic efforts failed to adorn "the human
form divine" as did the brown canvas
suits so fashionable in the mountains. As
serted that calf skin encasings for the ped
al extrenities were not half SO roomy as
the big boots with Q. X, in Hungarian
nails on the tap sole, Said that billed
shirts were much sitter than q flannel
shirt and wouldn't stand wearing a month.
Averred that a necktie was a nuisance, a
handkerchief a needless superiority, a stiff
hat a delusion. and a collar button an equa-
animity destroying snare.
At the table with a mock aversion said