Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 301, Hammond, Lake County, 10 June 1907 — Page 3

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Monday, June 10, 1907,

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES. PAGE THREE.

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Graduation Specials

Boys and dlrls JL Charms, Bracelets

Watches and Chains

Lockets jfA Pins

Brooches and Stick

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If You are Striving to Save Money and I should offer to give one dollar for every dollar you save wouldn't you Ilntenf If I should prove to you that I will actually do tlita wouldn't you be Interested f Could the banks make you such an OFFEK f If you buy a lot In our subdlvlvion on payments which amounts to 100 each year, and, If the lot w lileh you buy Increases In value at rate of $100 each year while you are paying for it, Isn't this really giving you oue dollar for every dollar you savef Isn't itf If any reasonably 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 VK WON'T ASK HIM TO BUY! Our Subdivision is less than 1C00 feet from the Hammond Court House.

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"Fhilip Morlandf It sounded curiously familiar in his ears. Ills mother was a Miss Morland prior to her marriage, but he Lad not noticed the odd coincidence that he should have been christened after the "Sir rhilip" of the packet of letters so fortunately left behind that morning.

"Address?" "Park lane." I The inspector began to write before the absurdity of thq reply dawned on him. lie stopped. "Is your mother a caretaker there or your father employed in a mews?" "My father and mother are dead." "Then will you kindly inform us what number in Park lane you live at?" "I have not determined that aa yet. I intend to buy a house there." Some constables lounging about the ofliee laughed, and the inspector, incensed out of his routine habits, shouted angrily: "This is no place for joking, boy. Answer me properly or it will be worse for you." "I have answered you quite properly. The constable who brought me herehas In his possession diamonds worth many thousands of pounds belonging to me. I own a hundred times as many. Surely I can buy a house in Park lane if I like." The inspector was staggered by this well bred Insolence. He was searching for some crushing legal threat that would frighten the boy into a state of due humility when Mr. Isaacstein entered. The Uatton Garden magnate again related the circumstances attending Philip's arrest, and ..the inspector promptly asked: "What charge shall I enter? You gave him into custody. Do you think he has stolen the diamonds?" Isaacstein had been thinking hard during a short cab drive. His reply was unexpectedly frank. "lie could not have stolen what never existed. There is no such known follection of meteoric diamonds in the world." "But there must be, because they are here." By this time the parcel of dirty white stones was lying open on the counter, and both merchant and policeman were gazing at them Intently. There was a nettling logic In the inspector's retort. "I cannot answer riddles," said Isaacstein shortly. "I can only state the facts. If any other man in the city of London is a higher authority

on diamonds than I, go to him and ask his opinion." "Mr. Isaacstein Is right," interposed

Philip. "No oue else owns diamonds like mine. No one else can obtain them. I have robbed no man. Give me my diamonds and let mo go." The inspector laughed officially, no gazed intently at rhilip and then sought illumination from Isaacsteln's perturbed countenance, but Isaacstein was moodily examining the contents of the paper and turning over both the stones and the scraps of iron with aa air of profound mystification. "I'll tell you what," said the Inspector jubilantly after a slight pause. "We will charge him with being In un

lawful possession of certain diamonds, supposed to have been stolen. lie has given me a false name and a silly address. Park lane, the young imp said he lived la." "A man in your position ougbt to be more accurate," interposed Philip. "I did not say I lived In Park lane. I told you I intended to buy a house there." Seldom indeed were the minor deities of the police station beardefl la this fashion, and by a callow youth, but the inspector was making the copperplate hair strokes which had gained him promotion, and his brain had gone back to

Its normal dullness.

and this was the only sntiont break in a wild Jumble of conflicting thoughts. The idea came to him that he must be dreaming that soon he would awaken amid the familiar surroundings of Johnson's Mews. To convince himself that this was not so, ho reviewed the history of the preceding twenty-four hours. At that time yesterday he was going to Fleet street with a capital of ninepence to buy a quire of newspapers, lie remembered where he had sold each of the five copies, where lie bought a penny bun and how he came to lose his stock and get cuffed into the bargain for rescuing a girl from an overturning carriage. Then his mind reverted to his fixed resolve to hang himself and his stolid

"Yes." "Can you form any estimate of their probable value?" "About GO,000!" The reply startled the magistrate, and it sent a thrill through the court.

"Really! So much!" Mr. Abingdon ; was almost scared. ! "If, after cutting, they turn out as

well as I expect, that is a moderate estimate of their worth."

i "I take it, from what you say, that ! meteoric diamonds are rare?" i Z

Isaacstein closed his throat with a j ; premonitory cough and bunched up j his shoulders. A slight wabble was j i : i v . . i .i .k - ;

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the greatest living authority on subject, and he knew it.

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Then Ms mind reverted to his fixed resolve to hamj himself. preparations for the last act in his young life's tragedy. Was that where the dream started or was the whole thing a definite reality, needing only a stout heart and unfaltering purpose to carry him through triumphantly? Yes. That was it. "Be strong and brave and all will be well with you." Suvely his mother had looked beyond the grave when she uttered her parting words. Perhaps if he lay down and closed his eyes he would see her. He always hoped to see her la his dreams, but never was the vision vouchsafed to him. Poor lad, he did not understand that his sleep was the sound sleep of health and innocence, when dreams If they come at all are but grotesque distortions of the simple facts of everyday existence. Only once had he dimly lm

agined her presence, and that was at a

moment which his sane mind now re

fused to resurrect. Nevertheless he was tired. Yieldln

to the conceit, he stretched himself on the wooden couch that ran along one

side of his narrow cell. Some one called to him, not unkindly,

"Now, youngster, jump up. The van is here." He was led through gloomy corridors and placed in a receptacle just large

enough to hold him uncomfortably in a huge, lumbering vehicle. He thought he was the only occupant, which was true enough, the prisoners' van having made a special call for his benefit. After a rumbling journey through unseen streets he emerged into another walled in courtyard. He was led through more corridors and told to "skip lively" up a winding staircase. At the top he came out into a big room, with a well-like space in front of him, filled with a huge table, around which sat several gentlemen, among them Mr. Isaacstein, while on an elevated platform beyond was an elderly man, who wore eyeglasses and who wrote

"I will just see if we cannot brinsl something in a book without looking ' 11 . 1 .

him before a magistrate at once, ' he said, addressing Mr. Isaacstein. "Can you make it convenient to attend the court within an hour, sir? Then we will get a week's remand, and we will soon find out"

'A week's remand, rhilip became

up when Philip's name was called out

A police inspector, whom rhilip had

not seen before, made a short statement and was followed by the constable who effected the arrest. His story was brief and correct, and then

the inspector stated that Mr. Wilson of

white again, and those large eyes of! Grant & Sons, Ludgate Circus, would his began to burn. "What have I ! be called at the next hearing, as he tjone" j he inspector would ask for a remand 'siimpp' Rfinrrh hiwi rarefnllv and! to enable inauiries to be made. Mean-

take him to the cells." The boy turned despairingly to Isaacstein. "Mr. Isaacstein." he sail, with a pitiful break in his voice, "why do you let them do this thing? You are a rich man and well known. Tell them they are wrong." But Isaacstein was -rabbling now ia a renewed state of excitement. "What can I do. boy?' he vociferat

ed, almost hysterically. "You must': say where you got these stones, and, then perhaps you can clear up every-; thing." I Philip's lips met in a thin seam. j "I will never tell you." he answered, j And not another word would ho utter.

while Mr. Isaacstein of Hatton Garden had made it convenient to attend that day and would be pleased to give evidence if his worship desired to hear him. "Certainly," said Mr. Abingdon, the

magistrate. "This seems to be a somewhat peculiar case, and I will be glad if Mr. Isaacstein can throw any light upon it." But Mr. Isaacstein could not do any such thing. He wound up a succinct account of Philip's visit and utterances by declaring that there was no collection of meteoric diamonds known to him from which such a remarkable set of stones could stolen. This emphatic statement impressed

xnond miners that diamonds fall from the skies in meteoric showers," he said. "There is some sort of foundation for this mistaken view, as the stones are found in volcanic pipes or columns of dinmantiferous material, and the crude idea is that gigantic meteors fell and plowed these deep holes, distribut

ing diamonds in all directions as they passed. But the so called pipes are really the vents of extinct volcanoes. Ignorant people do not realize that the chemical composition of the earth does not differ greatly from that of the bodies which surround it in space, so that the same process of manufacture under high temperature and at great pressure which creates a diamond in a meteor has equal powers here. In a word, what has happened in the outer universe has also happened at Klinberley. Iron acts as the solvent during the period of creation, so to speak. Then in the lapse of ages it oxidizes by the action of air or water and the diamonds remain." The magistrate nodded. "There are particles of a mineral that looks like iron among these stones?" he said. The question gave Isaacstein time to draw a fresh supply of breath. Sure of his audience now. he proceeded

more slowly. "That is a certain proof of a meteoric source. A striking confirmation of the fact is supplied by a district in Arizona. Here, on a plain five miles in diameter, are scattered thousands of masses of metallic iron varying in weight from half a ton to a fraction of one ounce. An enormous meteoric shower fell there at some period, and near the center Is a crater-like hole which suggests the impact of some very large body which burled itself in the earth. All mineralogists know the place as the Canyon Dlabolo, or Devil's gulch, and specimens of its ore are in every collection. Ordinary tools were spoiled and even emery wheels worn Ly some hard Ingredient in the Iron, and analysis has revealed the presence therein of three distinct forms of diamond the ordinary stone, like those now before you, both transparent and black graphite and amorphous carbon that is, carbon without crystallization." "I gather that the diamantiferous material was present in the form of tiny particles and not In stones at all approaching these in size?" said Mr. Abingdon. "Exactly. I have never either seen or heard of specimens like those. In 3SSC a meteor fell in Russia and contained 1 per cent of diamond in a slightly metamorphosed state. In 1840 the Ava meteorite fell in Hungary, and It held crystalline graphite in the bright as well as the dark form. But, again, the distribution was well diffused and of slight commercial value. Sir William Crookes or any eminent chemist will bear me out in the as

sumption that the diamonds now before your eyes are absolutely matchless by the product of any recorded

meteoric source."

Isaacstein, having delivered his little lecture, looked and felt Important. The magistrate bent forward, with a

pleasant smile.

"I am very much obliged to you for the highly interesting information you

have given," he said. "One more question. The inevitably corollary of your evidence is that the boy now in

the dock has either found a meteor or a meteoric deposit. Can you say if it is a matter of recent occurrence?" "Judging by the appearance of the accompanying scraps of iron ore, I should say that they have been quite recently in a state of flux from heat. The silicates seem to be almost eliminated." The magistrate was unquestionably puzzled. Queer incidents happen In police courts daily, and the most unexpected scientific and technical points are elucidated In the effort to secure an accurate comprehension of matters in dispute. But never during his long

tenancy of the court had he been called on to deal with a case of this nature. He smiled in his perplexity. "We all remember the copybook maxim, 'Let justice be done though the heavens fall,' " he said, "but here it is clearly shown that the ideal is not easily reached." Of course every one laughed, and the reporters plied pen and pencil with renewed activity. Here was a sensation with a vengeance worth all the display it demanded in the evening papers. Headlines would whoop through a quarter of a column, and Philip's meteor again run through space. (To be Continued.)

Ql State 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 Vz Story Brick on Summer, all modern conveniences, easy payments 3,100 Fine New Cottage on Easy Payments, Van Buren St. 37 'y2 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

Thev searched him and found noth- the magistrate."

lng In his pockets save a key, a broken ; knife, some bits cf string neatly colled and a couple of buttons, ne spent the next hour miserably in a whitewashed cell, ne refused some coffee andbrsad. br.o;jslit to hixa at 13 o'clock,

"Let me see them, he said. The parcel was handed up to him, and he examined its contents with obvious interest.

"Are you quite sure of their meteoric origin. Mr. Isaacstein?" he asked.

Not a Reading Community. The town of Charlerol, Pa., has a Carnegie library in which there are several thousand volumes and the town is roundly taxed to support the institution. Last year, according to a report by the librarian just made public, there was one solitary patron of the library. The librarian expressed the opinion that the people of the town were so much interested In roller skating, baseball games, bridge whist and poker that they had no time for book?

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INo less tnctn 20 so-called Hpcclnllats have

come and gone since ho locuted here, about lO

years ago, after ix wide experience In other cities.

HE II AS STOOD TI1E TEST.

After treating more thah 6,000 people In and about South Chicago, without

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