1 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. So the days crept on the week CORTEX OF 6URUGK went round, the second began, and International Falls Abstract Co. ran to its close. He had now from three to nine days to live. Yet the -pain seemed an insignificant thing, Strange Diagnosis of a Prospective BURDICK, KREMER & KING Proprietors certainly no worse. It was a mere headache—surely O'Keefe was wrong! Bridegroom's Complaint ABSTRACTS. REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE Sometimes he could not feel it at all. by a Supposed Doctor. And yet, .under the cap of the skull that deadly wasting was cpntinuing, Collections, Conveancing and Loans eating away towards the cortex of Gurlick. By GEORGE MUNSON. Then it would reach it and he Three months before his marriage J. E. BURDICK, Manager would drop—he would just cease to Charles Bannon began to put in overtime. I INTERNATIONAL PALLS, breathe. The thought of Marian bereft This is a phenomenon by no MINNESOTA turned him sick at night. means rare among prospective husbands, "Dearest, what did the doctor say?" and is usually viewed indulgently she asked. And he put her off with by their employers, even 3SK some triviality. But he could not entirely though it means a double salary at hide his fears from her, and the end of the month. But Bannon's A. Setterlund & Co. she watched him with increasing concern. savings were scanty and the furniture had to be paid for. The third week ended. The twentysecond "Charles, you must positively atop," Economizes Butter, Flour, day went by. On the next declared his fiancee, Marian James, 1 Bannon felt better than he had felt when a month's overwork and lack Egggs makes the food more General Contractors for weeks. The time limit was gone,. of -exercise had showed itself in the and he still lived. He resolved to young man's pale and trembling appetizing and wholesome have his jest with the doctor. On hands. "I'm not going to have you the evening of the twenty-third day kill yourself, dear, for that horrid old he went to his house. This time the International Falls. furniture. How is that, insomnia you Minnesota Hie only Baking Powder made sitting room was filled. But, hearing were telling me about?". voices in the hall, he peered out, from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar "Pretty bad, Marian," admitted her and saw O'Keefe talking with a middle-aged, lover. "I think I shall go to a doctor bespectacled, bearded patient, about it." and, suddenly forgetful of the "Go to Dr. O'Keefe,' answered Marian others .who should have preceded him, promptly. "He is the greatest he ran into the hall. Hutchings Exploration Company nerve and brain specialist in the city. "Well,' doctor, you're wrong," he Esther Carter was telling me how he cried to O'Keefe. "You gave me cured her brother of neurasthenia. not less than 17 days to live, and Philip Carter was completely unbalanced Diamond Drilling S O E not more than 23, and the time limit until Dr. O'Keefe took him in expired this afternoon. You'd better hand, and now he's almost rational. LA ZENDA Churn Drilling make another diagnosis." And I'm not going to have you become "Will you have the goodness to wait unbalanced," she pouted, and sealed Contract WorK your turn, sir. and sit in the reception a her advice with kiss. Domestic room?" asked* the bearded man severely. That was how Bannon came to visit the great specialist. He entered the LA TRINCA Office: 602 Torrey Bldg.. DULUTH, MINN. "Will you be so kind as to mind comfortable waiting room in trepidation. your own business, sir?" returned It was not O'Keefe's regular Bannon, nettled. "My business is with hour, but the maid thought he would this gentleman here." Havana be in shortly. Would he wait? Bannon The younger man turned round. waited, turning over the leaves of "I have never, to my knowledge, had a AT ALL DEALERS six months' old magazine aimlessly, fHT7if*TltfgSK^ any business with you, sir," he said. and gradually becoming convinced 6 5 Northern Minnesota Hospital VOh, yes, doctor," answered Bannon. that all of his symptoms were Aggravated "Twenty-three days and five ones. Suddenly the doctor appeared hours ago you set a time limit upon at the door. my life, and here I am alive all the International falls, Minnesota He was quite a young man much same." BARGAIN® younger than Bannon had expected. The bearded man was smiling now But then of course all the great specialists —a cynical, mocking, yet human in every branch of work were smile. "I think that I begin to understand," young men nowadays. O'Keefe wan he said. "Good-bye Philip. You're certainly cured now." He IN turned to Bannon. "Won't you come in, sir?" he asked courteously. "I O E S A I N O S am Doctor O'Keefe." "You?" stammered Bannon. "Why, that gentleman is Doctor O'Keefe. jiiilt He examined me three weeks ago We have the following property for sale: and told me I had atrophy of Gurlick's convolution." Fifty feet near dorner of 7th street and 5ih avenue facing The other clapped him on the back A north for $700. $200 cash balance any terms at and laughed noisily. "Poor fellow— poor fellow!" he said. "That's Mr. 6 per cent. Carter, a patient of mine. He has Lots 17 and 18, Block 58, $740. Terms one third cash, been a little irrational, and I suppose R. H. MONAHAN, M. D. ELIZABETH MONAHAN. M. D. he got into my office and played my balance 6 to 12 months) MAKY C. GHOSTLEY, M. D. part. Gurlick's convolution? Oh, Office over International State Bank. Lots 4 and 5, Block 80 $700. Terms one-third cash bal6 yes, he must just have been reading of that in the 'Medical Record,' but to 12 months. it is a disease that only affects sheep in the tropics. I wonder," he continued Lots 23 and 24, Block 73, $625. Terms one-third cash, thoughtfully, "how many other brlance 6 to 12 months. Mi people Philip has scared. Did he Three Leaders charge you anything?" 9 room house with 50 ft. lot, $3600 6 room modern house "Ten dollars," Bannon replied. 37 V?. ft. lot, $2350, Easy terms, best snaps in city. Ah!" said the other, "that's very promising. I think he must be cured." 6 room modern house $3100 easy terms. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) 10 room house, water and plumbing roughed in for fixtures, Golden Grain Belt Beers Charge You Anything." AUNT HANNAH'S ONE HOBBY $2600. A snap. hardly thirty, and he looked excessively Old Lady, Restricted All Her Life. 160 acres, 30 miles from Int. Falls. A splendid land tired, as though his work had Harpers Whiskey Meant to Use Her Money almost unstrung him. proposition, $8.00 per acre. She Likert. as '"Come right in sir," he said cheerfully, After.being poor all her life, Aunt 4 room dwelling house, $1000. Close in. and Bannon followed him into Hannah had come into property. It Rock Spring Water his cozy office at the back of the was not much from some people's House and good lot. $6.00. $200 cash. Also close in. house, where he took a chair and began standpoint, only $1,000, but from to describe his symptoms. Dr. Aunt Hannah's standpoint it was O'Keefe listened with his lips pursed Choice Farm and Timber Claims in this Locality fortune. Considering previous deprivations, UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTH, LOCAL AGENTS and the fingers of his right hand she held her head pretty level pressed againot those of his left. Her only extravagance was telegrams. "You say your head aches.often?" International Falls, Minnesota. A Few Good Homesteads For Sale. She sent half a dozen of them the doctor asked. every day—great, long telegrams running "Yes, right here," answered the visitor, to as high as 100 words. Their and O'Keefe rose and gently WESTERN CANADA LAND CO. cost began to make inroads even on moved his fingers to the spot indicated. $1,000. A prospective heir felt constrained to remonstrate against the "A shooting pain—a sort of gyrating New litis Block. needless expense. pain?" he asked. "If you must telegraph to all those "Yes," answered Bannon. "Is it people," he said, "you ought to try to anything serious?" keep it down to ten words.** O'Keefe sat down, wrote out a prescription, Aunt Hannah displayed the first and suddenly tore it up. real emotion of years. FREE "You are not married?" he asked. It Wins Willard hotel "Ten words!" she retorted. "That is "Not yet," said Bannon, blushing. just what I will not do. All my life "I hope to be in March." Tins I have been restricted to ten-word Dr. O'Keefe arose again and placed 10th and St. Peter St., St. Paul BEAUTIFUL telegrams. I have never sent many, a fatherly hand upon the young man's PIIXOW^ for people as poor as I have always shoulder. "Go home," he said, "and its way ly service been have nobody to telegraph to nor write to her that you have changed American Plan from $2 per day —tinted nothing to telegraph about, but whenever your mind, and do not want to see European Plan from $1 per day on good I did telegraph I had to do it In her again." Special Weekly Rates. L. Smith & Bros. Typewriter quality Pare ten words. The meanness of it was "Why?" said Bannon, feeling his Linen Crash. awful. I ached to add just two or three heart leap and then flutter wildly. I words, but I couldn't afford it. I envied "Because you can't live three Take Hamline Union Depot All we uk ia that you buy .. (Ball Bearing—Long Wearing) the rich their telegrams. I often weeks," answered the specialist. of 6 Skein» car to 10th St. read them in the newspapers, those in I buying a typewriter you want a satisfactory answer to three questions: "That pain is Gurlick's convolution. It Richardson's divorce suits and breach-of-promise means atrophy of the breathing center. What will it do for me cases in particular. Telegrams as When the cortex is invaded you Grand Prize How well will it do it? long as a letter those people sent. I'd will drop—just drop. You will know nothing. There is no hope—I may as have been willing to figure in a lawsuit How long will it do it? Grecian Floss well be frank with ydu. You will live just to send one of them.' I am BIRTH DAY And By answering these queries with the needs of the typewriter owner and not less than 17 days/ and not more rich now, middling, so I telegraph. user in mind, the L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Company has attained than 23." Don't argue that it's silly. Maybe It with which to embroider it and a «pecially the front rank in the typewriter field. I WEDDING I Is, but it is harmless." Bannon got up and faced the specialist. written-diagram fcO COH iS He was breathing heavily. $ lesson for Some people think that a typewriter is a typewriter PRESEhTS "You've got it figured out accurately, Pacific island to College. and that is all there is to it. Machines may look alike and we will give you the Pillow Top doctor?" he said. but there is a lot pf difference in efficiency. The University of Minnesota has We have an endless assoitment and Back Abeolately Free. "Yes. Banta and Gurlick complied been offered a ten-acre tract on Cypress The: new Model Five is built not only for straight of appropriate gifts, representing a table of mortality from this rare island in the Pacific ocean, 50 correspondence but for tabulating, billing, and in fact fch2 newest ana finest products ol We have five other equally for every service needed in the average-business. disease. No, there is no possibility miles from Seattle, and buildings for the Je^2.°-s' Art. artistic Designs of a mistake. Ten dollars, please— use as a marine biological laboratory. Its ball bearings at all points where friction develores .! Wedding Rings, Beautiful through.action, permit close adjustment and insure and, my dear fellow, go home and The alumni of the university residing By mall Scents extra. correct and accurate typewriting. write that letter." Diamonds, Sparkling Jewels, in Washington have made the offer, Bannon did not write "that letter. It We would like the opportunity to tell yaa which is not yet a formal one. The Watches, Unique Silverware, We carry aTfull line of needlework more about it. was not that he doubted, but he preferred alumni also propose to give to the university, supplies. Stamping and order work a Sterling Novelties, Rich' Cut Write for free book of our new Model Five.' to die truthfully rand not besides the landings and buildings, specialty. a liar. He did not think Marian would Glass, Clocks, Etc. •«. whatever minor additions are THE BAZAAR L. C. SMITH & BROS. TYPEWRITER CO. want to think him disloyal. And, then necessary to maintain the station, and NELSON'S —famous as O'Keefe undoubtedly Head Office for Domestic and Foreign Business: SYRACUSE, N. Y., U. S. A. to give the university three or possibly j. .+r Branches in all P.rincipal Cities was, even.the shrewdest doctor sometimes International Falls. Minn. more scholarships to assist students Jewelry Store" erred. So he said nothing, but Minneapolis Branch, 420 Second Ave. desiring to take advanced work he we^| on working overtime, because Minneapolis* Minn See Setterlund In biology at the marine station. In 6 91] about that the time was so short now that notb case the offer cannot be accepted now contract.—Adv. & lng mattered very much. It will remain open for three rear»T sl&- \qDJlA repp's?# *rnf{