1 oa^-cir,'^ ffl£& ^%'j rsxfm it c®rw .? A PPHS •*5"" h^IWr SlIP'.* W ^Wfes'iTXX'l ft S INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS 1 1 X' 1 PAGE THREE PROFESSIONAL CARDS 1 BLACK JOHN JOHN H. BROWN I-- TO REDUCE THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Attorney at Law. .U Office over O. M. Carr & Co. The M. & O. Power Company has purchased International Falls, Minnesota By Q. UNDERWOOD. the stock of the Border Meat & Grocery Co. and will reduce the price of all goods to the DR. H. H. IHRIG (Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.) lowest possible margin, and will sell strictly Dentist 7 There was not an atom of vice in for cash on the "Cash and Carry" basis. Office o»er Holler's Confectionery Black John,* but he was a fearsome International Falls, Minnesota beast for a weak-armed rider who did Deliveries will be made for 5 cents not understand his idiosyncrasies. Trained to "go against the bit" by GEO. S. LANGLAND IT WILL PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE, COME AND SEE the heavy-handed village blacksmith Lawyer from whom Casper Carson bought M. & 0. POWER CO. him, he had a mouth like gutta percha, In the litis Block on Fourth Avenue and jaw muscles like steel ropes. International Falls, Minnesota W Nannie Carson rode him frequently PROVISION STORE and sometimes to the discomfiture of F. J. McPARTLIN her escort, who, mounted on a horse of ordinary speed, found It difficult to Lawyer keep her in sight. Office over International State Bank It was probably admiration of Miss International Falls, Minnesota Carson's prowess as a horsewoman and The Press Office a desire to emulate it that induced Miss Lackland to accept Jasper Carson's JENNER PERRY CHANCE DR. offer to teach her to ride. Physician and Surgeon Stationery Store The riding lesson was given in the Office over litis Drug Store early morning, in order that the censorious might not see and deride Miss Phone 11 Lackard's inexperience. Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching But Jasper Carson had something International Falls, Minnesota in his heart to say to Miss Lackland, and he had promised himself to PHINNEY & CAMPBELL say it during one of these delightful GEORGE P. WATSON, Proprietor rides. It would be so easy, he thought, Lawyers to ease his soul of its burden while International Falls, Minnesota riding by her side. When the morning came he found the brave resolutions of the night before had vanished. W. E. LAWRENCE CARTOON FURNISHED THli" /SEW5PAPER OV "Mayn't I ride Black John tomorrow, This is the best place to trade for The RexalF Store THE MINNESOTA COfVALttlON OF PUBLIC, JAFETY Mr. Carson?" said Miss Lackland, LOOKING HIM OVER, SCHOOL, OFFICE AND HOME after her sixth lesson. "Your International Falls, Minnesota sister, Nannie, says he is perfectly STATIONERY SUPPLIES safe if you are along." DR. E. A. THOMPSON A Sacx Liv'".g Carpets of Matter. "Certainly you may," said Jasper Bulgarian Prfzed. A.s fulfill oe expected, it is anions Dentist Carson, flushing with pride. While carpets have been woven In ,iit iiihamtant of the water that we So it was that when Jasper Carson Bulgaria for neitrly 150 years the production Phone 245 Uh' flna simplest types of ,*t'e One rang the bell at the Lackland home of the finer qualities dates Office over litis Drug Store of the polyps, the hydra, illustrates .that golden morning, Black John bore from the "liberation" in 1878. Before how simple these structures sometimes International Falls, Minnesota a sidesaddle. Pens that time Bulgaria was a Turkish province are. This little creature is nothing "Isn't he the dearest thing?" said and the product of the looms was Pencils more than a sack of living matter, the Miss Lackland, as they cantered along for domestic use, little or no regard being W. E. MARTIN inside coating attending to the work the river road which was overhung had for the requirements of modern Tablets Contractor and Builder of digestion and the outside meinbran with locust trees. taste. Since then, and especially Rubbers doing the breathing. Yet the functions "He's a good old horse," said Jasper Repairs Promptly Done during the last ten years, progress in ol: the two membranes are so slightly Carson. "Hold your reins a the industry has been so marked that Phone 159 705 8th St. Mucilage specialized that the polyp may be trifle lower, Miss Lackland. There, Bulgarian carpets in design, texture, Letter Files turned inside out and the former stomach that's right." finish and style have surpassed those begins respiring, and the former "I'm so glad I have learned to ride," of Turkish, Roumanian, Serbian or DR. ELIZABETH MONAHAN Carbon Paper breathing apparatus digests food- she said. Grecian manufacture. Jasper Carson tried to say: "Won't Library Paste Anaesthetist you ride through life with me?" Fancy Stationery Asia Minor Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Puzzle. Human Peculiarity. Before he could speak, a ragged "Asia Minor" is a geographical term It is interesting to read in the Journal urchin jumped from a tree, and shrieked: Typewriter Ribbons Phone 223 Office 800 2nd St. Of vague extension. It puzzles anyone "Yah! Yah!" of Heredity: "The remarkable to say exactly where it leaves off, The Black John's nerves were as invulnerable grasping power of a new-born infant Dame dates only from the fifth century. is cited as the survival of a trait that as his mouth, and he merely HELEN A. D*E WITTE A. D., when Orosius used it evidently possessed life-and-death importance in pricked liis ears in disapproval, but as a novelty. The Roman empire knew the ihare Carson rode was sensitive. the treetops. Finally with reference Public Stenographer no Asia Minor. Indeed, the Romnc to the mucli-talked-about upright position She plunged forward in a mad effort WRITING PAPER CHEAP Rex Hotel province of "Asia" was actually smail to bolt, and Miss Lackland, watching the author remarks succinctly er than this Lesser The alter- with alarm and admiration, Carson's We have a large amount of the best that 'the human child sits up before Asia. International Falls, Minnesota native name Anatolia (land of the snnrise skilled management, increased the grade bond paper in white and various it stands the human stock sat up be- or east), which has found favor !,re it stood.'" pressure on Black John's bit. The The Shoe Hospital colors, in tablet form but without with the Turks, is equally indeterminate horse accepted this as' a signal to covers, that we are selling out change his gait, and responded with at 5 cents each—a third of a pound REPAIRING WHILE YOU WAIT Volcano Hottest on Surface. cheerful alacrity. of good paper in each one. Also a appears that a volcano is hottest It Jasper Carson grasped the situation NATHAN NURICK, Proprietor Collective Noun. large number of scratch pads at 5 on its surface. This is the conclusion instantly and a cold chill struck to his 213 Third Street "M a says that the paper says that for 5 cents and 2 for 5 cents. drawn by a scientist who has made investigations heart. So long as the girl retained her the lodge gave you a vote of thanks. Next to Boston Lunch in Hawaii and has obtained presence of mind there was little danger Whit is a vote of thanks, dad?" "A samples of gases and lava before of her falling off, but as she simply vote of thanks is an expression of NORTHERN MINNESOTA they reached the air. Laboratory sat still and pulled on the bit, gratitude as a body that is In no way studies of these samples make it appear Black John would turn from the road HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION binding on the individual."—Judge. N, that much of the heat required into a bridle-path that led back home Subscribe for THE PRESS -The Popular Home Weekly Dr. C. C. Craig Phone 223 to keep an open lava basin in fluid condition and his rider would almost certainly Dr. Elizabeth Monahan Phone 223 is supplied by the chemical action be swept out of the saddle by the Linoleum. Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 of the gas^S. limb of a tree. The two main ingredients in the ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR Hospital Phone 79 Driving his spurs deep into the sides .usinufacture of linoleum are cork and Office over International State Bank of his mare, Carson gave chase. The linseed oil, to which are added smaller Seems to Uphold Darwin's Theory. Phone 155 mare had a strain of hunting blood In quantities of kuri gum, resin and pigment^ A baby's feet shows the unmistakable her and a good burst of speed, but of various kinds. International Falls, Minnesota descent of man from a primitive Black John was 200 yards in front Si creature living in trees. Its feet are when she got her stride, and the THE STUBEE turned inward, the holes being pressed S. E. THOMPSON & SON New Use for Carbonic Acid. bridle path was not more than a together in a state of rest exactly as Carbonic acid gas is used in a machine quarter of a mile away. tree-dwelling anthropoids place them of European invention to spray As Black John swept around a curve when resting. The- new-born infant mortar or plaster on a wall and hasten in the road. Carson lost sight of him has legs shorter in proportion to its Agents for the Its setting. and his fair rider. It was only 200 body length than has an adult man, Sash and Door Factory yards now to the bridle-path, and the exactly as the monkey has legs shorter single-footer had a lead of nearly onefourth than man. Optimistic Thought. that distance. HBisnKE'SKS! sua. Recreation is necessary to relieve IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS Urging the mare with heel, hand and from too con­ our minds and bodies voice, Jasper Carson dashed on, cursing stant Annatto Production. labor. and praying in turn. He fancied The shrubbery tree that yields annatto himself standing by Miss Lackland's We Are Well Equipped to do All Kinds of is now extensively cultivated in corpse, and wondered could he live after tropical America. The ripe capsules Decay of Tin. MILLWORK that. are gathered by women and children, The most remarkable example of When Black John turned into the the seeds extracted and boiled and the alio tropic disintegration of metals and you will make no mistake by getting bridle path the mare's lean brown head liquid, after straining out the Seeds, is pnliaps that of tin. Investigation their prices before ordering elsewhere allowed ferment. The dye settles to has shown that the disease can only was at his flank. the bottom and is evaporated in pans occur in a temperature not exceeding "Whoa, John!" shouted Carson. to the consistency of putty. Wrapped 64.5 degrees Fahrenheit. Tin decay is, But John felt the pull at the bit, Building and Contracting a Specialty in banana leaVes, it is the annatto of therefore, most prevalent in cold climates. Detroit Vapor and hearing the clfcer of the mare's Qpmmerce. hoofs, thought It was a race, and put All Work Guaranteed on a little more steam. Miss Lackland's wrists ached, and Catching Game Fish. Eucalyptus Outgrows Cedar she was frightened too badly to heed LARS STUBEE, Prop. TKeonly absolutely The taking of huge game fish with A cedar tree requires more than a Carson's prayers to her to drop the rod and line has lntterly become one century to grow large enough to yield Wickless Oil Stove reins. 2nd Ave. and 6th St. Phone 50 of the most exciting and fascinating a 30-foot telephone pole. The eucalyptus _Jasper Carson cursed aloud in his on the market. sports in the world. One of the gamiest will attain a larger growth in 30 agony when he saw, 50 feet in front Burns just like gas. fishes, beating even the salmon of years, and its wood is quite as desirable. of Black John, the thick limb of a tree Call and let us Scotch rivers, is the tuna. It commonly barely high enough for a crouching runs to 200 pounds, and the first horseman to pass under. If Miss Lackland show you. thing it does, when hooked is to rush struck the limb, it meant death. the Euphrates. Crossed away at tpjrrific speed. A hooked tuna She saw it, too, and bent low in her The word Hebrew first occurs as has been known to tow a boat for 14 saddle. As she crouched she,, loosed given to Abraham by the Canaanites S. E. THOMPSON & SON hours and ultimately escape. JOHN M. GISH her hold on the reins. (Genesis 14:13) because he had crossed "Whoa, John shouted Carson, pulling the Euphrates, the name signifying up so suddenly that his mare slid Immense Wealth From Iron Ores. "beyond, on the other side." forward on her haunches. Watchmaker and Jeweler The foundation of the wealth of the Black John heard the command at Biscayan provinces of Spain lies in *9# the instant the pressure on the bit was jr Majestic Hotel Cruel Constable. the large deposits of high-grade iron released, and stopped in his most abrupt Country Constable (to motorist)*^ ores for which the section is famous. style. His head had passed under ?ou have evidently been drinking to These deposits have been immensely the bough. excess. There is hardly enough left Cor. Seventh Street and Hennepin Avenue profitable, with the result that Bilbao, Agent for Singer Sewing Miss Lackland plunged forward, and MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA in this bottle to soften my heart sufficiently which is the center of the Industry, is would have gone over Black John's to release you!!—Life, reputed to be the wealthiest city of its THE ONLY MODERN head but for a friendly snag that Machine Company and POPULAR PRICED HOTEL size in Europe. caught her hair and jerked her back. Work* Within one block of ten theatre* and principal Jasper Carson ran up and lifted her Kempis' Translated. Woodstock Typewriter. department store*. were from the horse. The works of Thomas Kempis 45 ROOMS 45 ROOMS with Apt Childish Comparison. "Speak to me, my darling," he said. At Bath written in Latin, but they have been Our canary bird had begun to molt. 75c —$1.00 SI.25—$1.50 "Are you hurt? Speak, please. I love translated into the language of aimnst My small sister saw the feathers flying you so dearly." every civilized people. around and lying on the floor. At Hot end CeM Running Water* Loeal and Miss Lackland nestled her head close Long Distance Phono* In Every Room. (his time the leaves of the trees had Also dealer in to Jasper Carson's shoulder, looked at !egun to fall also, and her little brain Managed by RAY BOYD vv Injured oy Prosperity, him .with a half shy, half triumphant •iiade a comparison, and she said: Wear-U-W«ll Formerly Chief Clerk Vcndoae Hotel Shoes r"Mr- :aind-- is more injured (by proa smile, and ^whispered.: "I am so glad (Hi, look.. Daddy's shedding ills Our Rates are Always AS ADVERTISED parity inuii by you let me ride Black John." ..• »aves!"—Chicago Tribune. •KSsigfeS? T- rjfi •V"