Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 296, Hammond, Lake County, 4 June 1907 — Page 3

Tuesday, June 4, 1907.

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES. PAGE THREE

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Boys' and Girls' watches and Chains i Lockets TA

The Boys and Olrls will appreciate these most If they are the Bastar & McQarry Quality 175 South Hoh man Street, HAMMOND

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and Investors I am closing out our remaining frontage on one street at special prices and on easy terms This property is J 200 .feet from the Hammond Court House. EVERY IMPROVEMENT GOING IN NOV. SNAP WHILE IT LASTS

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This New Modern Home for sale on Easy Payments. E. A. KINKABE, Kder 110 First National Bank Bldg. HAMMOND.

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Fred Kunzmann FRESH and SALT MEATS GROCERIES Reasonable Prices, Prompt Delivery and the only Sausage Works in Hammond.

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COPYRIGHT. 1904. By (Continued from yesterday.) Somewhat to his surprise, he was obeyed. While Phil was devouring the food of which he stood so greatly in need the doctor reviewed the circumstances of this poverty stricken household so far as they were known to him. Mr. and Mrs. Anson had occupied a fairly good position In Dieppe, where Philip's father was the agent of an old established London firm of coal shippers. About two years onrlier both Lusband and wife were seriously Injured in a motor car accident Mr. Aason sustained concussion of the brain and practically never regained hla senses, though he lingered for some weeks and was subjected to two operations. Mrs. Anson's spine was damaged, with the result that she changed trom a bright and vigorous woman into a decrepit Invalid doomed to early death from slow paralysis. When the great expenses attendant on these mishaps were paid she found herself not only absolutely poor, but rendered incapable of the slightest effort to turn her many and varied talents to account In order to earn a livelihood. She came to Ixmdon, where her late husband's employers generously gave her rent free possession of the tenement in which she was lying dead, helped her with funds to furnish it modestly and found a clerkship for Thllip with a promise of early promotion. But the cup of sorrow is seldom left half filled. Barely had the widow settled down to a hopeful struggle on behalf of her beloved son than, a quarrel between partners led to the sale of the firm's business to a limited liability company. Economies were effected to make way for salaried directors. Phil ip was dismissed, with several other junior employees, and the stable yard was marked out a9 a suitable site for the storage of coal required by the local factories. This development took place early in the new year, and the new company allowed Mrs. Anson to occupy her tiny abode until the last day of March. It was now March 5, and how the widow and her son had lived during the past two months the doctor could only guess from the gradual depletion of their little store of furniture. Itwns odd that such an intelligent and well bred woman should 1 so completely shut off from the rest of the world, and his first question to Phil sought to determine this mystery. "Surely," he said, "there is some one to whom you can appeal for help. Your father and mother must have had some relatives, even distant cousins, and if they are written to a friendly hand may be forthcoming." Philip shook his head. The mere taste of food had provoked a ravenous appetite. He could not eat fast enough. The doctor stayed him. "Better wait a couple of hours, Phil, and then you can tackle a hearty meal. That's the thing. I like to see such prompt obedience, but you certainly have wonderful self control for one so young. I may tell you, to relieve present anxieties, that a few employees of your father's firm have guaranteed the expenses of your mother's funeral, and they also gave me a sovereign to tide you over the next few days." Funeral! The word struck with sledge hammer force. Phil had not thought of that. He remembered the dismal pomp of such events in this squalid locality, the loud sobbing of women, the hard faced agony of men, the frightened curiosity of children. His mother, so dear, so tender, so soft cheekol the bright, beautiful, laughing woman of their life in Dieppe to be taken away from him forever and permitted to fade slowly Into nothingness in some dreadful place, hidden from the sunshine and the flowers she loved! For the first time he understood death. When his father was killed, his mother was left. Anxious tending on her dispelled the horror of the greater tragedy. Xow all was lost. The tears that he hated were welling forth again, aud he savagely bit his lip. "You have been very good to us, doctor." he forced himself to say. "If ever I can repay you" "There, there, not a word! Bless my soul, yours is a difficult case." Again the doctor tackled his glove, lie glanced at his watch. "Four o'clock. I am an hour late on my rounds. No, Fhil. Don't go upstairs. There are some women coming. Wait until they have tended your mother. And one last word. It will do you no good to keop vigil by her side. Best think of her as living, not dead. You will be grateful for my advice in after life." The women arrived, coarse but kindly hearted creatures. One of them gave the boy a packet of letters. "I found 'em under the dear lydy's pillow," she said. Neither poverty nor death robbed Mrs. Ansoa of the respect paid to her by all who came in contact with her. lie sat down, untied a string which bound the letters together and looked at the address on the first envelope. It bore his mother's name and a recent postmark. Wondering dolefully what correspondence she could have had during these later months that demanded such careful preservation, he took .out the letter. Suddenly he hesi

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EDWARD J. CLODE. tated. Perhaps these documents alluded to something which his mother did not wish him to know. For an instant his impulse was to consign the packet to the fire. No; that might be wrong. He would glance at their general purport and then commit them to the flames if he thought fit. The letter in his hand was headed. "The Hall, Beltham, Devon," and dated about a month earlier. It read: Dear Madam I am requested by PIr Philip JlorlanJ to ask you not to trouble him with further correspondence. Thl3 Is the fourth tima I have been desired by him to write in these terms, bo please note that your letters will in future remain unanswered. Yours truly, LOUISA MORLAN'D. The curt incivility of the note brought an angry flush to the boy's face. Who was Sir Philip Morland that he should dare to offer this insult to a lady? Evidently a relative, and a near one, for Morlnnd was his mother's name, and his own Christian name suggested a family connectlou. Yet she had never spoken of any such person. Three other letters of preceding dates 6howed that "Louisa Morland" kept accurate reckoning. There were half a dozen more, from a firm of solicitors. Some of these were merely formal acknowledgments of letters received and forwarded, but one stated that they "were instructed by Lady Morland to Inform Mi3. Anson that Sir Philip Morland declined either to see or hear from her." That was all. Philip sprang up with face aflame. He was alone in the house now, alone with his dead mother. He went upstairs, with the letters crushed in his right hand as though he would choke a reptile which had stuug the only being he loved. He bent over the shrunken form, so placid, so resigned, so angelic in the peace of death, and his hot tears fell unchecked. "You poor darling!" he murmured. "I believe you humbled yourself even to beg from these people for my sake. What can I do to show my love for you?" CTIAPTER II. ON Friday evening, March 19, a thunderstorm of unusual violence broke over London. It was notably peculiar in certain of its aspects. The weather was cold and showery, a typical day of the March equinox. Under such conditions barometric pressure remains fixed rather than variable, yet many whose business or hobby it Is to record such facts observed a rapid shrinkage of the mercury column between the hours of 0 and 7. A deluge of rain fell for many minutes and was followed about 7:30 p. m. by a mad turmoil of thunder and an astounding electrical display not often witnessed beyond the confines of the giant mountain ranges of the world. So violent and unnerving was the outburst that the social life of London was paralyzed for the hour. Theater parties, diners in the fashionable restaurants, the greater millions anxious to get away from offices and shops, those eager alike to enter and leave the charmed circle of the four mile radius, were ruthlessly bidden to wait while the awesome forces of nature made mad racket in the streets. All horseflesh was afraid. The drivers of cabs and omnibuses were unable to make progress. They had sufficient ado to restrain their maddened ani mals from adding the havoc of blind charges through the streets to the gen eral confusion caused by the warring elements. Telegraph and telephone wires became not only useless, but dangerous, and the suburban train service was consequently plunged into a tangle from which it was not extri cated until midnight. So general was the confusion, eo widespread the public alarm, that the sudden cessation of the uproar at 8 o'clock caused more prayers of thank fulness to le uttered in the metropolis A Lny ran for tear d to ojcr his services at the carriage door. than had been heard for many a day. But worse remained. Thus far the lightning had been appalling, brilliantly lurid, but harmless. At 10 o'clock

out the preliminary downfall or rain, end the lightning, though less sensational in appearance, was demoniac in effect, levying a toll on human lives, causing fires and general damage- to property, accounts of which filled many columns of the newspapers next morning. This second outburst was succeeded by heavy and continuous rain. At the hour when the theaters emptied their diminishing audiences into the streets London wore its normal raia sodden aspect. It was not until the following day that peonle

fully understood the magnitude and terrifying results of the later display, i About a quarter to S, while the first i storm was at its height, a carriage and ! pair dashed into a fashionable West End square and pulled up outside a mansion cast in the stereotyped mold of the early Victorian period. The horses, overfed and underworked, had been rendered frantic by the drive through the park from the farther west. Fortunately, they knew this halting place, or the coachman would never have succeeded in stopping j them. As it was, they sweated white with fear, and the footman, shouting to the occupants of the carriage that he could not attend to the door, ran : to their heads after giving a vigorous j tug at the house bell. A boy, tall and thin, and scantily at- j tired for such weather, who had taken shelter in the dark portico of the mansion, ran forward to offer his services at the carriage door. A bundle of evening papers, covered with a piece of sacking, somewhat impeded the use of his left hand, and, as it happened, in his right he held a large bun on which he had Just commenced to dine. Before he could turn the handle the carriage door opened from the inside. A man sprang out. "Get out of the way," he said impatiently, and the newsboy obeyed, glad that he had not followed his first impulse and flung away the bun. A vivid flash of lightning made the horses rear and plunge. "Look sharp, Elf'" cried the stranger in no more cordial tone. "Gather your wraps and jump out. On a night like this these nervous brutes" A peal of thunder that rattled the windows interrupted him. The two animals reared and backed with one accord. The plucky footman, hanging on to the crossbars of the bits, was lifted off his feet and banged violently against the pole. lie was forced to let go and fell, staggering backward some yards before be dropped. There was a smash of iron and wood, and the near hind wheel of the carriage Jam med against the curb. A slight scream came from the interior. Certain that the vehicle would turn over Instantly, the man who had alighted slammed the door and sprang clear. In doing so he tripped over the newloy and fell heavily on the pavement. The boy, quicker to note that the breaking of the pole had given a momentary res pite, rushed into the roadway, throw ing away both precious bun and still more precious stock of unsold papers. He wrenched the other door open and shouted: "This way, madam. Quick!" "Madam" was quick. She sprang right into his arms and proved to be a girl of twelve or thereabouts, dressed all In white and wrapped in an ermine cloak. Over went the carriage with a fearful crash. The coachman managed to jump from the box Into the roadway. He retained the rein3 and whip In his grasp and now, losing his temper, lashed the struggling horses savagely. Thia cowed them, and they ceased their antics. The boy and the girl found themselves standing on the sidewalk close to the ruined vehicle. "You have saved my life!" said the girl sweetly and without any trace of the nervousness which might naturally be expected after such a narrow escape from a serious accident. The boy noted that her eyes were large and blue, that she wore a great shining ornament In tier hair and that she appeared to be dressed in somewhat fanciful manner, though the big cloak she wore concealed the details. The door of the mansion opened, and servants came running out. Suddenly the boy received a violent blow on the side of the head. "Confound you!" shouted the man who had fallen on the pavement, "why didn't you get out of the way when I told you?" The boy, astounded by such recognition of his timely help, made no reply, but the girl protested vehemently. "Oh, uncle," she cried, "why did you strike him? He got me out of the carriage just before it turned over. He did, indeed!" Another vivid flash of lightning il lumined the scene. It lit up the group j with startling brilliancy. The boy,' still somewhat shaken by the vicious! blow, was nevertheless able to see clearly the pale, handsome, but dlssi- j pated features, of his enraged assail-j ant, whose evening dress and immacu- j late linen were soiled by the black j mud of the pavement. The girl, dainty j and fairy like, a little maid of aristo-! cratic type, and of a beauty that prom-; lsed much In later years, was distress- j ed now and almost tearful. I Through the crowd of frightened ; servants, augmented by a few daring I pedestrians, a burly policeman, gi-1 gantic in waterproof overalls, wa- advancing with official bluster. "What has happened?" he dec;;nded. "Is anybody hurt?" The man answered: "My horses were startled by the storm. I jumped out and was endeavoring to extricate my niece when this wretched boy got in the way. "Uncle," protested the girl, "yon closed the door on me, and the boy" "Shut up!" he growled curtly. "Go Inside the house T But his niece shared with him at least one characteristic. She possessed the family temper. (To be Concluded Tomorrow.)

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GOSTLIN, MEYN & CO. 91 Stnto Street, HAMMOND We offer for this week the following BARGAINS : 2 Flat Building on Hohman Street, price $5,000 6 room Cottage on Douglass, 50 ft lot splendid location. .. . 2,400 y2 Story Brick on Summer, all modern conveniences, easy payments 3,100 Fine New Cottage on Easy Payments, Van Buren St 37 feet, price 1,500 Cottage on Hanover Street, Easy Payments, price 1,050 Large 2 Story House, 94 ft front on Oakley Ave., price 5,000 34 ft Ground, rental value $45 per month,. a bargain

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IV o less than 20 so come and trono since he years ago, after a wide Iin II AS STOOD After treating: more than 6,000 peoplo railure to accomDllsh all troml8d lowed his instructions. We will now on the subject.

SIX THOUSAND SICK TREATED, have treated more than C.000 sick neoole In and about Sooth Chlcaco and

made many cures among those claused or too severe to command my careful

WHAT I TREAT. treat most diseases where the patient Is able to caJl at ray office and can

sometimes make special arrangements to come to me. STOMACH

If you feel depressed after meals, with a bloated condition of the stomach and bowels, with belchintr of gas. I can rive you prompt relief and a thor

ough cure. TIRED I find so many peode who comnlain tion, or they are more tired in the of these do not sleeD well, but are always help those cases promptly and

DISEASES OF WOME.V. No other class ofdiseases are eo badly treated as are the diseases of women. I have given many years of careful attention to this subject and have proven remedies that cure quickly. Call in and ask as many questions as you wish. I will answer them and guarantee all 1 promise. No charge for advice. DISEASES OK MBS. I have studied the subject carefully and made the discovery of soma Tery important remedies in recent years, which enables me to perform perfect cures in less than one-fourth the time formerly required. You will notice the improvement in a few hours after beginning treatment. Call in and talk over your troubles with me. I will explain Just what can be done for you and what the cost of a cure will bt. 1 guarantee all I promise. No charge for advice. CONSTIPATION AND PILES. I treat successfully all cases of constipation and piles. KIDNEY DISEASES. If you have any difficulty with your kidneys or bladder, call and get my

opinion. IJLOOI) POISON. I treat blood poison with marked success, give prompt relief and guarantee a cure in every caso where instructions are followed. WEAK AND FAILING MEMORY. I treat weak and failing memory and nervousness in both men and women and give prompt relief from the distressing malady. COST OF Cl ItE. I make no charge for telling you Just what it will cost to cure you. ONE CALL WILL Cl'RE. In many cases a single prescription is all that is needed to cure; in thers, considerable time and medicines are required. LEGAL WRITTEN CONTRACT. If you so desire I will give you a written contract to cure you for ft specified price, which we may agree upon. CHARGES REASON All I.E. You will find my charges reasonable. I don't believe in taking advantage of people, who need my services, by charging enormous fees only because I hold within my grasp the remedy that will cure them. DONT DELAY. Don't delay, for the longer a disease runs the harder it is to cure. If you follow my advice you will not be disappointed in any promise I make you. I mean every word of this advertisement and will stand by it. Office Hours: 9 to 12 a. m; 1:30 to 6, and 7 to 8:30 p. m. No Sunday Hours, No Charge for Advice. J. F. RUCKEL, M .D. OVER POSTOFFICE. ,Q2nd St. & Commercial Ave. SO. CHICAGO,

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CONTRACTORS and Builders Estimates Furnished on Short Notice. Phone 1983 Office 25 Rimbach Building HAMMOND

WOLF THE TAILOR Can Fit You and Fit You Right. i invite the inspection of all interested in good goods, and a stylish fit. Easter Suits and Fashionable Checks $16.00 and UP Can YoU Beat It?

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8 f The TitI "The Old Reliable; Specialist" of So. Chicago hfUi been fittingly filvn DR. RUCKEL - cnlled specialists havo located here, about lO experience In other cities. THE TEST. in and about South Chicago without them In everv initance whers thy fol liaten to what tho Doctor haa to aay as incurables. No disease too slight attention. to cull on those who are not able TUOlTBI.ES. FEELING. of beintr tired from every littla exer

mornlne than after a day a work. Many

continually disturbed by dreams. X can cure them in a short time. HAMMOND.

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