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= DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF THE .
UNITED STATES.
Interest Allowed on Time Deposits.
General Banking Business Transacted.
Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent
DIRECTORS:
g. r. HAUSER. Presida 1
4. w. KNIGHT, Cashier
r. H. KLElNSCHMIDT, Asst. Cashier
GEO. II. HILL, End Asst. Cashier
GRANVILLE STUART, S~tockgrovor
HON. Z. G. POWER, U. y. Senator
J, G, CURTIN Clarke, Conrad d Curtin
r. 8. HAMILTON. Capitalist
O. X. ALLEN. Mining and Stockgrowsr
CHAH. K. WELLS, Merchant
A. n. HOTTER, . A. NJ. Hotter H'dwAre Co
ASSOCIATED BANKS:(
Southwestern Nat'nal Bank, Great Falls.
First National Bank, Niesoula.
First National Bank. Butte.
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LOR sALE-s25 FOR A GOOD LOT IN
j Northern W cifc addition No. 1: 25x1tO;
only $50 required down, or to q purchaser who
builds two years time given. Matleson & Co.
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IL On Nor, hern Pacific right of way for Sl0O;
quarter down, balance in 4, 8, and II months.
MathasOn & 10.
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EOR SALE-Sa0 WILL BUY A GOOD LOT
in Eliiston, within three minutes walk CT
postotHcei one-quarter down; balance on time.
Matheson & Co.
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IOR SALE-S90 PER LOT FOR 100 LOTS
in Boyce additions; perfect title. Matheson
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BOARD OF pIREoToRa.
Thomas Cruise, N. Sands,
8. 8. Huntley, A. X. Prescott,
A. j. Davidson, Moses Morris.
j.. n. Hershfield. Aaron Hershfeld.
J. Switzor.
First-olass City, County and State Seourities
bought and sold.
Exchange issued on the principal cities of thu
United States amt Europe. Transfers
of money made by telegraph.
Interest allowed on time deposits. Collections
promptly attended to.
Boxes for rOnt at reasonable prices In one of To
bsst constructed fire and burglar proof
Ea6s Deposit Vaults in the country.
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EOR SALT-DWELLiNG ON BENTON AVE-
Il nne: quite central; has eleven rooms, mod
ern, $i,50O; of which $500 can remain on mort
gage for any reasonable time; lot is 42x1l0, to
alle.. MatbpsCn q Co.
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LOR ~SALE-S1,MO SIX-ROOM HOUSE,
L large barn, sheds, well; lot 5oxli0, on Pros.
pect street; 500 down. balance on time, at eight
Mnthe. on & Co.
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EOR SALE-A $1,000 HOUSE WITH ALL
IL modern improvements, located on west side.
nearing Il $4,000 mortgage ut eight per cent, to
trade FOR 5. 900 uncncurnbered property. improved
Apply TO VIM. Muth. Rooms l13, IA, 2l5. Power
building.
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FOR sALE-HOUSE AND TWO LOTS ON
corner of Eighth avenue and Center street.
Inquire on the ground.
EOR SALE-1Go0 FEET IN THE AMES AID
L dition at Il bargain Tho Witherbee An
drew Co, Gold block.
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Tor SALE-FORTY ACRES VALENTINE
L Scrip, at John z. Nj, heills, Il Edward
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EOR RENT-6-ROOM HOUSE WITH BATH
L on Broadway. $50: 7-room house with bath
and furnace. $40. 7-room house, furnished. OF
Ninth avenue, $50: 7-room house on Peosta ave.
nue., s25: 5-room house on Peosta Avenue, $50.
Chandler & Heath.
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lar. NJ. HOCKMAN,
Physician, Surgeon, Accoucher. Oculist, Aurist
Member of San Francisco Medical Society.
also Nevada State Medical Society. Office on
Main ptreet, over Steinmetz Jewelry store.
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The Price Of Peace.

The oft-repeated assertion that the
world Is getting less war!ike is true only
iu the sense of the fact that the inven.
ton of guupowder has made pitched
battles rarer and less murderous. The
"tug of war;" where Greek met Greek,
was often decided only after the slaugh-
ter of four-6fths of the belligerents OF
both sides, and the Romans more than
once attempted the complete extirpat!on
of a hostile tri6c-a plan which was ac-
tually executed in Cornelius Dolabcllg's
campaign against the Scuuonian Gauls.
But for yearly four hundred years the
same Romars maintained the peace OF
three continents with standing army
varying from forty to tifty-fvc legions,
j. c., from eighty thousand to one hnu-
drcd and tea tnou.and men, while Eu-
rope alone now supports al armed fcrcc
of 1900, 900 garrison soldiers, besides
milltias and reserves. Warfare has be.
come less destructive, but The prepare
tions for wsr getting more aud more ru-
inous; for nearly two centuries ths price
Of peace Las yearly become more exorbl-
tapl. YWk Kpies,
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An Old Virginia Estate.

Westover House, with its broad facade
of red brick, Its steep slated roof, and its
glorious row of overshadowing trees,
stands amid close.shaven lawns and wide
encompassing fields of wheat and clover,
close to the rivers edge. These fields
are to-day the pride not only of their
owner but of the State. One does not
readily forget o drive over grassy roads
behind feet Virginia horses, skirting on
one side thetence enclosing hundred
and forty acres of growing wheat, vast
sea of living green, rippled by winds of
May, but showing neither dimple nor
ridge in the soil below, and on the other,
clover as rich, wherein stand Jersey cat
tie knce-dcep in purple blossoms amid
the booming of inebriated bees. Tho
mansion and estate, more fortunate than
many others in being admirably kept up,
convey to modern guests some of the
same impressions carried away by Chas-
tcllux, the airy marquis, who, as he
journeyed through Virginia at the close
of the Revolutionary war, threw kisses
from his finger tips 10 his kindly enter
tainerz. At Westover the Frenchman
broke into peaus over the great extent
Of rich acres, the happy slaves, the ele-
gance indoors, the sport, the surgeons,
and the wall of honeysuckle covered
with humming-birds. Seen through the
hall, always open in summer weather
upon outer flights of quaint three-sided
steps of stone, the great gates, sur
rounded by the martlet crest, display
their iron tracery against background
Of wheat fields girdled in by woods.
To the right and the left of the door,
upon the river front, the avenues from
the boat.landing are cut off for vehicles
by smaller gates of delicste design,
wrought in England two hundred years
ago, their hinges moving stifly in the
embrace of the roses and the wistarla of
yesterday. The line of trees whose tops
caress the dormer windows of the roof
has grown up since the founding of the
house. Some of them have survived
Gre and lighlning-stroke. Looking out
through their branches by moonlight
from. the bedroom windows at the wide
reach of shining river beyond a lawn
washed in silver brightness, one may, If
he listens kecnly, hear them whisper the
secrets they have been boarding this CEN
Jury or so.-Ceatury Magazine.
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CHAPTER XIII.

AS the landau was rolling past, Gwen.
doine had just time to notice, in the
thickening twilight, that it was occupied
by Madame Ronceville and her brother,
when she in her turn was recognized,l as
Aunt Joan and she stepped hastily back
from the path of the vehicle.
"Cieu it is Miss Alworth," cried out
Adele. Stop the coach, Alphouse.
want to speak with her."
The coachnan, however, Ind overheard
her, and, understanding the motive OF
her first words, had already brought up
he put them to the turn.
Adele reached out her hand 10 Gwen
lolina aa tho Iattor rone ~ tn cid, ~
the coach, while Boncourt lifted his hat
MY dear Miss AlworIh. what are you
doing down here?" said Adele. who, how
ever, together with her bother, had taken
in the significance of the unloading fur
niture at first glance. Il didn't know
that YOU were acquainted with the dear
old fshwife. by the way, where did she
vanish to?"
Aunt Joan, inc eel, had beaten a hasty
retreat into her cottage, 'irectly upon
recognizing the occupants, beth OF whom
she dislikel and looked upon as specious
upst rts.
II thought sho was stan ling at my
side," said & GNendoline, looking around.
Yes, Madame bonneville, Aunt Joan is
a very old and good friend of ours. Your
entertainment was very grand. Are You
visiting already, SO sooil after the trouble
and care it must have cost you!"
NO; Alphonse and are out merely fol
the airing We usu My take at about this
hour. besides, day after Tomorrow We
90 to Lonou for week or more, and
wish to store up the freshest recollections
of these lovely views. But this looks as
though vol were contemplating sum-
mer,ng at the ed.v of the se t."
And she glanced ut tie van. which was
lust being driven off, the last Of It's load
having been carried into the cottage by
the two fl shermen. who were I"w stand
ing back in III, little garden. with thelI
mother.
1t is something more than summer
ing; my father aid l have 10 longer
home at Mr.. Mhlowe's," said Gwendo.
line and she conlrscendei to q few more
words in explanation.
Can il be possiule!' e1claime Adele,
with show of ind gua,ion. And after
you hau Iied tntre ali lnese yours
What could lave plompted Mr.. Marlowe
TO such mcanness:"
Il can't imagine" said '1wendoline
stimulated by her cwa bitterness into
saying more tLan sLe would otherwise
have done, "unless it is that I have been
so unaplrcc:alire ard ungrateful as 10
decline an offer of m Arriage made by MIR.
Croak, who is, as you know, very in.
innate friend Of Mr. MaIlowes."
"C'est horrible! But see the lawye1'f
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CHAPTER XXI.
REJECTED sUIvoR's SPITE.

Stronger minded parents than Mr.. AL.
worth would doubtless, ander the very
same circumstances, have been quite as
much shocked and paralyzed as WIS this
poor old gentleman at the announcement
that had fallen from hisdaughters lil g.
He was an Englishman OF Englishmen,
lacking scarcely one Of the strong in.
sular feelings casle ideas aad lnborn
sentiments of respect for noble rauk
which ale such powerful ingredients IN
the composition of his race.
And the idea of his daughter having
coolly, sanely, and promptly refused o
proHered alliance with q real nobleman
sion as, might have been an announce.
marriage with prince OF the royal family.
understanding, and not having ever un-
derstood, the character and disposition
of his daughter. For Gwendoline, while
being an Enslishwoman of English
women, WAS, nevertheless, possessed of q
respect that were all her own, and adver-
sity with her was but true task-mistress
whose discipline could only enlarge and
Refuse lord-a peer of the realm-a
dukes grandson!" exclaimed MIR. Alworth
as he gradually struggled up out of hit
pit into which he has suddenly been pre-
cipitated. But it can't belts a moral
impossibility!"
Not at all, my dear ,the-, Gwendoline
quietly replied. as she went on with hel
-. I
Then Mr.. Alworth, growing somewha
exasperated, indulsed in bit Of wrath,
or, rather, of impotent ,aporing.
What did You mean by it, thea?' ht
Ghrilled. Were you beside yourself. o,
idiotic? Refuse Lozd-squanderalll VIII!
did You do it?"
Simply because I did not love him
father"
'Oh, indeed! Then, IL you had iovet
him, suppose you would have deignee
to smile upon his UNIV worthy suite con
sent to wear his ba,onial coronet upol
your naughty brow?"
Not even then, father. I should hav,
refused him in any case"
as the world coming to an end?
gasped Mr.. Alworth. BLESS my stars
don't you tn NIX a nobleman good enough
for your husband?"
Certainly rot, when be chances 10 bs
a soulless profligate, 6. od-natured bu
gross roysterer, and one already stepped
in spite of his youth, in every species o,
vice md dissip ation, rs this particula,
lord is we'll known to be-" replied the
!oung girl, still qu etlr. Il would thinl
no man good enough for nv husband
who had not q good moaal average, n,
least"
6eforc her father could frame fresh
complaint, there was knock at the door,
aad q servant entered TO announce
with much reluctance, indeed, foi
Gwendoline was beloved and her father
pi.ied by sl-Mr. Miriowe's orders that
the attic rooms should be vacated that
very evening.
oh. Lord!" groaned Mr.. Alwor,h,
this is, indeed, being kicked out of doors
at lsstI"
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through a deeply Bhadowed road back ..
the town and the cliffs, that the silence

through deeply shadowed road back D.
the town and the cliffs, that the silence
was broken.
.Ah!" said Adele, with little start, as
though suddenly comin4 out Of troubled
reverie; that would simplify everything"
What would? And what is there to be
simpliied?" asked her brother, also SEEM
ing 10 st ,rt out of deep preoccupation.
IAN odd idea struck me. I'm going to
risk telling it, even if it may offend you"
II sha'n't be offended"
She gave q nervous little laugh.
Are you so sure Of that2 Well, it is
this: why can't you marry the beautiful
Miss Alworth yourself?"
He laughed low, contemptuous laugh,
whose cold. metallic bitterness caused
even her to shudder. If he had ever felt
athrill of tenderness for any other woman
than herself she had never known of it
In this regard his character was as much
of mystery to her as to the rest OF the
world.
.Of course, shall make no reply to
such ON idiotic question, Adele" said he,
after q pause. But to show you that
even that has not offended me will give
you an agreeable piece Of intelligence"
You're always kind, Alphonse.
Il only want to say that I dropped
Rollingstone few lines tonight, telling
him that his place is to be filed by an
, other, so far as his connection with me
is concerned. I further ordered him
never to show his face at our London apart
ments again, on pain of-well, he UNDER
stands me well enough to accept the wan'
ing"
-oh. am 80 grateful, Alphonse-mo1e
thaa I can speak! But, dear me! looki
Was not that flash of lightning2"
Yes; We shall have storm, said Bon
court; and, leaning forward, he called out
to the coachman to hurry the pace.
It was to be o storm rather Of wind
than rain, though the thunder began to
roll menscingly out to seaward. and the
electric flashes grew rapidly more frequent
and vivid.
They we're returning by way Of tho
cliffs, which at a certain point led them
suddenly down through wild, rocky gap,
after which they began to skirt the trees
and hedges of Jasmine Lodge, in the ap-
proach to the sea.
They had just entered this gap when
there burst out an exceptionally brilliant
| fash.
At the same instant Adele started up in
the landau with a cry.
Look, look, Alphonse'" she exclaimed
pointing to the roadside. That face
! that horrible face!"
ITO BE Continued
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The Baleful East Wind.

That wind from any one of the four
cardinal or intermediate points should
have a more depressing effect upon tho
human system than that from any or all
.hc other points seem like sheerest nom
sense. In these days however, we can
not forego scientific testimony. DR..
Richardson says: "That all nervous con-
ditions in which, for want Of more cor
rect term, we say the nervous tone is
lowered ore much intensified by the
cast wind. Indeed, the special action of
this peculiar wind is to produce want of
tone or debility. Under its influence al
most all sick persons say they are de-
pressed; they do not complain of reduced
appetite, nor of pain intensified, but they
declare that they are rendered PROSTATE,
both in mind and body. In brief, if a
single word were wanted to express the
morbid effect of an east wind on sick
man, that word would be 'prostration. 1"
The same eminent authority continues:
"That the presence of the east wind i'll
creases the mortality of those who arc
suffering from diseases of debility of every
kind, is fact that cannot be disputed.
The physician, during the prevalence OF
an cast wind, will find his patients COM
planning of not making satisfactory pro-
grcss, and will see extreme cases rendered
speedily hopcless-facts indicating the
existence of Il general and all-pervading
influence in the atmospheric sea itself a'
the cause of the whole evil. What that
influence is, how the air is modified no
one can cay, for up to this time no chem
ical examination of the cast wind has
been made with the object of dctermin-
ing its special physical properties. We
only know the effect of it and VIC know
no more."-&. Louis Republic.
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Chilean Railway Warfare.

\ correspondent il Chilli writes: "The
railway played Il very important part i'll
the war on the pampas, bcius used by
both armies. Field and Gutliug guns
were mounted on Hat ours, and fighting
was carried on from tho cars whenever
possible. Onc of the tricks adopted by
the revolutioaists WAS to make up Il long
train of cars, and, after putting Oh full
steam, Jump oil aud lit the train run
away and crash into the Government
train on the track ahead, with which
they had been fighting. This scheme
was adopted after running out OF AMI.
munitlop,"
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TEMPERANCE.
THE pRusKARD's aAeGrr wEAy.

The DHCNhAhD > hACGIT "EAN. ~
A wee bit raggit laddie gangs wanderin'
thrc' the street,
Wadin' mang the snaw wi his wee bare feet;
Shiverin' in the cauld blast, greetin' Wi the
pain, o..
Oh, wha's the wee bit Gallant: He's the
drunkard's raggit wean
He kens nae father luve, and he kens nae
mither's care,
Tae sooth his wee bit sorrows and tae kahn
his tawt it hair.
Tae kiss him when he waukens an tae
smooth his bed at cen; ,......
Oh, wha's the wee bit Gallant? He's the
drunkard's raggit wean.
Then surely We maun try on turn that sinfu
fathers HART, -..
An try an get the mither tae act mithers
part;
An max them leave the drunkard's cup an,
never taste again,
But cherish wi a parents care their wee bit
ragGit wean.-Voice.
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TIE ROOT OF ALL CRIME.

Mr.. Justice Hawkins said in l8s3 at the
opening of the Durham Asszes, that he ''had
considerable experience in courts Of law, and
every day he lived the more firmly did he
come to the conclusion that the root Of all
crime was drink. 1t affected people Of all
ages and both sexes-the middle-agei, the
young, the father, the son, the husband, and
the WIFE, 1t was drink which was the in
centlve to crimes Of dishonesty; man stole
in order that he might provide himself with
the means Of getting drink. It was drink
which caused homes to be impoverished, and
they could trace to its source the cause Of
misery which was to be found in many cot
tage home which had been denuded Of all the
necessities of life. He believed that nine
tenths Of the crimes of this country, and
certainly Of the county of Durham, were
engendered within public houses" And
again, on March 49, 1899, charging the grand
jury at Stafford, the same judge remarked
that he believed that eighty per cent. OF
the punishable crime Of this country was
caused by drink-at least eighty per cent. OF
IL
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TIE KINGS DEAREsf
BY CHARLES @. HAHN.

1estilence was stalking broadcast
Through the Kingdom OF the Rivers,
Through the kingdom o'er which Nimrans
The god king Of all the rivers,
Ruled, and, ruling, pleased the people.
Glad they were TO call him morarcni
Gladly welcomed him returning
Home from wars in which, tnumphans
Always, he new countries TO the
Kingdom added, or in battle
Held the foe who sought to rovtsh-
Gladly welcomed him In visit
To each city in the kingdom;
Welcomed him whcre'er he Travelled,
welcomed him, the god-crowned monarch
But pestilence was spreading.
And the people were in mourning,
Weeping for their cold, dead children;
Children weeping for dead parents,
And the pcstilence was spreading.
White-robed priests In conclave gathered
To consult the gods and pray them
To let death pass from the country.
For three days in consultation
Met they. and the fourth they came forth
And, with solemn face and manner,
Slowly paced unto the palace.
Out to meet them went King Ninram,
Asked the meaning Of the direful
Hand OF death stretched DER the countrys
Why the pestilence was spreading;
What the gods said; what they vented
What would satisfy or please them.
Made they answer with great SORROW:
sGreat art thou, o King OF Rivers,
King Of kings art thou, and only
Through thee will the gods give succori
Satisfaction will be given
When the King gives up tho dearest
Thing he holds within his bosom.
So the gods said to thy servants.
wilt thou do it. o King Nimram?
Hr,ok 1;va u-I1t fhof, ,oafn cnffproS
And King Nimram answered promptlys
sYea, I'll suffer- What is dearest
To the king? Whate'er it may be,
Take it; let the gods be pleased
Not long did they wait In silence.
sThen, o King, give to thy people,
10 be sacri 6ced for us,
That which is the dearest, thine own
Bon, Amnon, the heir apparent"
With sad eyes the King made answers
@Ye have spoken, let it be SO.
He Is dearest, take him with you.
And they led away his dearest.
On the sacrificial altar
Lay the son Of good King Nimran,
And the cleaning knife was held to
Plunge into his passive bosom,
When q shrek was heard; the mothed
Struggled to approach her darling,
Crying, Il, the wife, nm dearest;
Take me. Save my son, for am
Dearest to your king, my husband
But the King strobe fiercely forward,
Led her bnck and cried. You shall not
Let the sacrifice continue"
But tho priest paused, knife uplifted
And replied in accents joyful,
what Is dearest take We only"
And the son went free, and on the
Altar bound they Nimraln's loved one.
Bound his dearest, bound his wife.
HUTCHINSON, Kan.
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DARKEST LONDON.

London has S325 miles Of streets and q
population Of 5, ,847, 600; more than the whole
of Scotland or of Ireland. It has only 439
church buildings II has about $500 people
to the square mile; 145, 900 paupers, one
third Of whom are children. London has
over 81, 600 registered habitual criminals.
There are over II, 600 policemen, which cost
the city over 81, ,000, 600 year. London has
also IA 600 grog-shops How much these
cost nobody can figure up. Never will there
beany way out Of the darkest" London, or
the bottomless miseries and degradation Of
any other city, so long as the grog-shop curse
Is tolerated. d.-Aduunce.
THE BEER.DRINK1Na NATIONS.
According to recent article on beer and
the beer trade in German periodical. it ap.
pears that in 18SS-S9 Germany was the lare.
est beer producing country; that Great
Britain and Ireland stood second, and the
United States third; in proportion to drink
ing, Belgium, according to this authority,
leads the other nationalities; Great Britain
and Ireland next; Germany third; Denmark
fourth, and the United States fifth. But as
the proportion of abstainers in the United
States is much larger than in either Of these,
countries it seems probable that the per,
capita quantity of beer consumed by actual
beer drinkers here. is at present larger than
in either country. There Is urgent need OF
increased missionary labor on this side Of
the Atlantic, as well as the other, to pro.
mote the teaching and the practice Of total
abstinence from all Observation-Disclosures
Adroc1te
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/ be was Iaborlng under; ne al
once assumed o new bearing
toward Mr.. Croak, which was
in striking and somewhat
ludicrous contrast with his oh.
seuuiousness of but q short
time before.
"Ah, sir!" said he, his breast
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THE BANKERS CRIME
-OR-
Diamond Gut Diamond.
By NATHAN D. URNER.
CHAPTER XXI.
YlwyER CROLK ASTOSISHED.

UT a 8 "a d d g u
change had come
o yer the spirit
Of poor MIR. AL
worth's dreams,
and vainly did
G wendoline seek
TO catch his eye,
in order TO ap-
prise him of the
fresh delusiop