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Thursday, June G, 1007.

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Graduation Specials

Boys' and Girls' Wutches and Chains Lockets

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Charms, Bracelets Brooches and Stick: Pins

The Boys and Girls will appreciate these most If they are the Bastar & McGarry Quality l"7f South Hohman Street, H AJUMOIND

j eKING of 1 1 DIAMONDS- i

By Louis Tracy, Author of "Wings of the Morning," -The Pillar of Light." Etc.

If You are Striving to Save Money

and I honJI offer fo Rive one dollar for every dollar yon nav you listeuf

wouldn't

ouldn't you be in-

If I aliould prove to you that I will actually do thl

trrestedf Could the bnuku make you nurU an OFFER? If you buy a lot In our mibill vlislon on payments which amounts to 9100 each year, and, if the lot vrhich you buy Increases in value at rate of 9100 each year while you are paying for It, Isn't this really giving you oue dollar for every dollar you save? Isn't Itf If any reanonnbly Intelligent person, while standing; upon our property. cannot see that each lot of ours will increase In value faster than we require him to pay for It WE WON'T ASK HIM TO BUY! Our Subdivision is less than 1000 feet from the Hammond Court House.

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Sewers, Sidewalks, Ga3 and all Improvements going In now. Choice 30 foot building lots at $400 and upward. Money loaned to build. HOMES FOR SALE. We will show you our property In ten minutes.

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HOME BUILDER HAMMOND.

Fred Kunzmann FRESH and SALT MEATS

GROCERIES

Reasonable Prices, Prompt Delivery and the only Sausage Works in Hammond.

83 STATE STREET.

Telephone 77.

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XHIE BUST ADVERTISING Is persistent Advertising ELECTRIC LIGHT In your Windows will advertise your business 363 ISlghts In the year. IT MAKES SALES Telephone for estimate of cost of Installation.

(Continued from yesterday.) After he had eaten he Iried his damp garments and changed bis soaked boots for a pair so worn that they scarcely held together, but their dryness was comforting-. An odd feeling of contentment, largely Induced by the grateful heat of the fire, rendered his actions leisurely. Quite half an hour elapsed before he thought of peeping through the back window to ascertain the progress of external events. The rain was not now pelting down with abnormal fury. It was still falling, but with the quiet persistence that marks in London parlance "a genuine wet

day." The steam had almost vanished. When he removed his coat from the broken panes he saw with surprise that the flagstones In the yard were dry within a circle of two feet around the hole made by the meteor. Such drops as fell within that area were instantly obliterated, and tiny Jets of vapor from the hole itself betrayed th6 presence of the flery object beneath. His boyish curiosity being thoroughly aroused, he drew an old sack over his head and shoulders, unlocked a door which led into the yard from a tiny scullery and cautiously approached the place where the meteor had plowed its way into the ground. The stones were littered with debris, but the velocity of the heavy mass had been so great that a comparatively clean cut was made through the pavement The air was warm with the hot breath of an oven, and It was as much as Thillp could bear when he stood on the brink of the hole and peeped in. At a good depth, nearly half his own height he estimated, he saw a round ball firmly imbedded in the earth. It

was auny red, with its surtace all cracks and fissures as the result of the water poured onto it. Much larger than a football, it seemed to him at first sight to be the angry eye of some colossal demon glaring up at him from a dark socket. But the boy was absolutely a stranger to fear. lie procured the handle of a mop and prodded the meteor with it. The surface felt hard and brittle. Large sections broke away, though they did not crumble, and he received a sharp reminder of the potency of the heat still stored below when the wood burst into sudden flame. This ended his investigations for the night. lie used the sacking to block up the window, replenished the fire, set his coat to dry and dragged his mattress from the bedroom to the front of the fire. The warmth within and without the house had made him Intolerably drowsy, and he fell asleep while murmuring his prayers, a practice

abandoned since the hour of his mother's death. In reality Fhilip was undergoing a novel sort of Turkish bath, and the perspiration induced thereby probably saved him from a dangerous cold. He slept long and soundly. There was no need to attend to the fire. Long ere the coal in the grate was exhausted the presence of the meteor had penetrated the surrounding earth, and the house was far above its normal temperature when he awoke. The sun fcad risen in a cloudless sky. A lovely spring morning had succeeded a night of gloom and disaster, and the first sound that greeted his won

dering ears was the twittering of the busy sparrows on the housetops. Of

course he owned neither clock nor watch. These articles, with many others, were represented by a bundle of pawn tickets stuffed into one of the envelopes of his mother's packet of letters. But the experience of even a few weeks had taught him roughly how to estimate time by the sun, and ho guessed the hour to be S o'clock or

thereabouts.

His first thought was of the meteor. His toilet was that of primeval man, being a mere matter of rising and stretching his stiff limbs. While lacing his boots he noticed that the floor wa3 littered with tiny white specks, the largest of which was not bigger than a grain of bird seed. These were the particles which shot through the broken window during the previous night. lie picked up a few and ex

amined them. They were hard, cold to the touch and a dull white color. On entering the yard he saw hundreds of these queer little rough pebbles, many of them as larga as peas, some the size of marbles and a few bigger ones. They had evidently flown on all sides, but, encountering lofty walls, save where they forced a way through the thin glass of the window, had fallen back to the ground. Interspersed with them he found pieces of broken stone and Jagged lumps of material that looked and felt like Iron. By this time the meteor Itself had

assisted by the bus conductor and various passengers. Thilip laughed heartily for the first

time since his mother's death. lie S waited until the driver and th$ wag- j oner had exchanged their farewell com- j pliments; then he made off briskly to- i ward an establishment where three t halfpence would purchase a cup of j

coffee and a bun. In ten minutes he felt much refresh

ed, and his busy mind reverted to the j mysterious package he carried. Think- j lug it best to seek the counsel of an j older head, he wnt to O'Brleu's shop, i The old man was taking down tho ! -.x... . , . . : . . 1 fe

fcuuiitrs anu iouna xa uisk noue icn easy. Without a word Philip helped him. and soon the pensioner was wip-

spectacles in the shelter of the

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South Shore Gas & Elec. Co.

St. Rhone lO HAMMOND

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TIIE MASTER PIECE BY A MASTER BAKER

Manufactured by BAKING CO.

THE HAMMOND lac. Hammond Bldg.

'T am jolly glad that thing didn't Jail on my head." that had its advent been delayed a second or two the precise locality selected for Its impact would not have mattered much to him. "I wonder what it is," he went on. "Is it worth a-thing? Perhaps if I dig it out I may be able to sell it as a curiosity." A moment's reflection told him, however, that he would not be able to disinter it that day, even if he possessed the requisite implements. On its lower side it was probably still red hot. Through the soles of his boots, broken as they were, be could easily feel the heat of the ground, so the experiment must be deferred for twenty-four hours, perhaps longer. At any rate, he was sure that his mysterious visitor represented a realizable asset, and the knowledge gave him a sudden dis

taste for coffee grounds and stale crusts. He resolved to spend his remaining three halfpence on a breakfast and at the same time make some guarded Inquiries as to the nature and possible cash value of the meteor itself. Evidently its fall had attracted no public attention. The fury of the elements and the subsequent heavy rain were effectual safeguards in this respect, and Johnson's Slews, marked out for demolition a fortnight later, were practically deserted now day and night. Philip did not then know that London had already much to talk about in the recorded incidents of the two storms. The morning newspapers were

hysterical with headlines announcing fires, collapse of buildings, street accidents and lamentable loss of life in all parts of the metropolis. As the day wore and full details came to hand the list of mishaps would be doubled, while scientific observers would begin a nine days' wrangle In the effort to determine the precise reason why the electrical disturbance should have been wholly confined to the metropolitan area. Thilip Anson, a ragged boy of fifteen, residing in a desolate nook of

the most disheveled district in the East End, possessed the very genesis of the mystery, yet the web of fate was destined to weave a spell that would deftly close his lips. Meanwhile he wanted his breakfast. Tie gathered thirty fair sized, white pebbles and a few jagged lumps of the Ironlike material. These he wrapped in a piece of newspaper, screwed up the small package tightly and placed it in his trousers' pocket. Thinking deeply about the awesome incidents of the previous night, he donned bis coat and did not notice the packet of letters lying in the chair. Xever before had these documents left his possession.

The door was locked and the key In his pocket before he missed them. It was in his mind to turn back. In another second he would have obeyed the impulse-had not a mighty gust of wind swept through the yard and carried hi3 tattered cap into the passage. That

settled it. Philip ran after his headgear and so was blown into a strange sea of events. "They are quite safe there," b thought. "In any case, it will be best not to carry them about in future. They get so frayed, and some day I may want them." Emerging from the haven of the Mews, he found the unrldv Ufa of the

Milt 'Pnil mail .1 vf n r in rttlfa fan- !

fusion through a gale. The gaunt, high walls surroundiilg his secluded dwelling had sheltered him from the blustering March wind that was now drying the streets and creating much 111 tern-

cooled sufficiently to reveal the nature j per la the (hearts of carters, stall own

of its outer crust. It appeared to do j an amalgam of the dark Ironlike min- j eral and the white pebbles. Through ,

one deep fissure he could still see the flerv heart of the thing, and he Im

agined that when the internal heat j had quite exhausted itself the great j ball would easily break into pieces, , for it was rent in all directions. ! Ills first exclamation was one of j thankfulness. -I am Jolly glad that thing didn't fall 1 An niK.hASLd' he ffaH y loud. -forgetting

ers and girls with large hats and full skirt3. In a word, everything that could be Capped or shaken or rudely swept anywhere out of its rightful place was dealt with accordingly. In one Instance a heavy tarpaulin was lifted clean off a wagon and neatly

lodged over the heads of the driver and horses of a passing omnibus. They were not extricated from its close embrace, without some difficulty and a great quantity of Bevere yet cogent re-

ing his

shop. "I dunno what the weather is con.:ln' to at all at all." he grumbled. "Lust nljht was like the takin' uv the Redan.

in' th'; njornin reminds me uv crossin

tae uay o i.iscay.

"It certainly was a fearful thunderstorm," said Philip. 'Taix. boy, that's a thrue word. It was just like ould times In the hills in Injia, where the divil himself holds coort some nights. But what's tho matter? Didn't you get that job?" Philip laughed again. ,-I am not sure yet," he replied. "I really came in to ask you what this is." With his hand in his pocket, he had untwisted the paper and taken out a white pebble, which he now handed to O'Brien. The old man took it, smelt it and adjusted his glasses for a critical examination. "It ain't alum," he announced. "No, I think not." "An' it ain't glass." "Probably not." "Where did yer get it?" "I found it lying on the pavement." O'Brien scratched his head. " 'Tis a quare looking objec', anyhow. What good is it?" "I cannot tell you. I thought that possibly it might hive some value." "What! A scrap of white shtone like that. Arrah, what's come over ye?" "There is no harm la asking, Is there? Some one should be able to tell me

what It i3 made.of." Philip from his small store of physical geography knew that meteors were articles of sufficient rarity to attract attention, and he was tenacious withal. "I suppose that a jeweler would be the best man to judge. He must understand about stones," he went on. "Maybe. But I don't see what's the use. 'Tis a sheer waste of time. But if y're set on findin' out go to a big man. These German Jews round about here are omadhauns. They don't know a watch from a clock, an' if they did they'd chate ye." "I never thought of that, yet I ought

to know by this time. Thank you. I will go into the city." He took the pebble, which he placed in his waistcoat pocket. Walking briskly, he traversed some part of the sorrowful journey of barely twelve hours earlier. What had happened to change his mood he did not know and scarcely troubled to Inquire. Last night he hurried througli these streets In a frenzied quest for death. Now he

strode along full of hope, Joyous in the confidence of life and youth. Ills one dominant thought was that his mother had protected him, had snatched hint from the dark gate of eternity. Oddly enough, he laid far more stress on hU escape from the meteor than on the accident that prevented his contemplated suicide. This latter idea had

vanished with the madness that induced it. Philip was sane again, morally and mentally. He was keenly a uxlous to justify his mother's trust in him. The blustering wind, annoying to most wayfarers, only aroused In him a spirit of resistance, of fortitude. He breasted it so manfully that when at last he paused at the door of a great Jewelry establishment in Ludgate Hill his face was riuslied and his manner eager and animated. He opened the door, but was rudely

brought back to a sense of his surroundings by the suspicious question of a shopwalker: "Now, boy, what do you want here?" The unconscious stress In the man's words was certainly borne out by the contrast between Philip, a social pariah In attire, and the wealth of gold and precious stones cut off from him by panes of thick glass and Iron bars. What indeed, did this outcast want there? Confused by the sudden demand and no less by ite complete obviousness, Philip flushed and stammered: "I er only wished to obtain some information, sir," he answered. Like all others, the shopman was

amazed by the difference between the boy's manners and his appearance. "Information?" he repeated in hi3

surprise. "What Information can we ; gve yen?" The wealth of the firm oppressed this man. He could only speak in accents of adulation where the shop was concerned. Philip produced his white pebble. "What Is this?" he said. The directness of the query again took his hearer aback. Without a word, he bent and examined the stone. Professional Instinct mastered all other considerations. "You must apply to that department" ne majestically waved hi3 hand toward a side counter. Philip obeyed silently and approached a small, elderly personage, a man with clever, kindly eyes, who was submitting to microscopical examination a number of tiny stones spread out on a chamois leather folding case. He quietly removed the case when his glance rested on the boy. (To be Continued.)

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IV o than 20 wo-cnllecl wpccinlt-sits havo com und gono Mince ho locntucl here, about lO yeur jjo,.iftcsr a wldo experience In other el tie.

After treating: morn

HE HAS STOOD TIIE TEST.

than 6,000 people In and about

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WHAT I THE AT. treat most diseases where the patient is able to caII at my oftlce and cn

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