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Saturday, June 15, 1907.

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES.

PAGE THREE.

Graduation Specials

LJoys nnd Girls Watches unci Chains Lockets

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Charms, Bracelets Brooches and Stick: Pins

The lioys and these most if

Oirls

they are

will appreciate

the

Bastar & McQarry Quality 17 South Molimnn Street, HAMMOND

l KING gf ! DIAMONDS. 1

By Louis Tracy, Author of "Winjfs of the Mornintf," The Pillar of Light." Etc.

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I and If I

If Yon are

Strivm

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I Hhoull offer to lve one dollar for j on listen?

every dollar yon ave wouldn't

-wouldn't you be ln-

.1 id urove to you tliat I will actually do this

terrted f Could Use bank make you such an OFl'KKf If you buy a lot in our Mubdivinlon on payment which umnunta to 100 each year, and, If the lot which you buy Increanen In value at rnte of !?1CJ each year while you are paying for It, Un't tale really kIyIuk oi one dollur for every dollar you navef lan't It?

reanonuhly Intelligent person, while atanatng upon our properij, cannot nee that euch lot of oum will Increase In value faster than

reauire ulm to pay for It w I-J WU l aiv iii.h i" i .

Our Subdivision is less than 1C00 feet from the' Hammond Court House.

If any

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I r I Q Sewers, Sidewalks, Gas and all Improvements going In now. j 8 Choice 30 foot building lots at $400 and upward. E Money loaned to build. HOMES FOR SALE. R Ve will show you our property in ten minutes. B E. A. FJNKADE, builder 1 110 First National Bank Bldg. HAMMOND. 1 I 1 The Suits at the ggte reduced prices

I PIT ' embody Style Features pm J that represent the latI UffiWi est ideas of leading 5 IIP makers' !

(t'ontlaued from yenterday.) Received from PhiUp. a boy who refuses anv other name, but the same whom I saw In this office on tho 20th inst. and again at the Clerkenwcll poH.cs court on that date, thirty meteoric diamonds wciRhlns in the gross 029 carats. I hereby agree to dispose of the same and to render true account of the sak'3 to said Philip or his agents, my commission to be 1 per cunt, the expenses payable by

tne. I have today handed the said Philip j0 In gold and undertake to place 5,000 to lil credit tomorrow with my bankers. REUBEN I3AACSTEIN. After completing this acknowledgment he scribbled something else. There," he said, with a sisb. of relief, '"that is not a very formal document, but it will suffice. You can get it stamped tomorrow at Somerset House. Just sin this receipt for 50." Philip took the two papers and read them carefully. Isaacstein's handwriting wa.s a scrawl, but legible enough. The hoy reached for a pen and signed his Christian name. lie was on the poiut of adding hi.s surname in an un

guarded moment, but he felt the man s eye on him, so he simply wrote "Philacross the stamp at the foot of the receipt. Isaacstein fully appreciated the Incident and knew that his own eagerness defeated the chance, all the more powerful because it was involuntary, of ascertaining the name of thi3 marvelous youth. Philip gathered up his gold, not without countincr the coins. They felt

strangely heavy in his pocket much heavier than the stones they replaced, yet they formed but a thousandth part of the value of those flintlike pebbles. What a queer problem it was. this ratio of worth between a few stones and the bright minted sovereigns! "What time shall I call tomorrow?" he asked, standing cap in hand, ready to take his departure. "At 11. But wait one moment. Have you no friend3 to look after you? See what trouble y.ou may get into. Why, the mere possession of no much gold by a boy like you may" "I can take care of myself, Mr. Isaac

stein. I will be here at 11. Uooa ait-ernoon."

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Phone 10

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CHATTER VIII. T was 4 o'clock in the afternoon of a fine but chilly March day when Philip regained Holborn with foO making a lump in his pocket and

Isaacstein's letter safely lodged in his coat. The mere weight of the gold suggested an unpleasant possibility. His clothes were so worn that the frail calico might give way and every golden coin rattle forth to the pavement.

So with one of Mr. Abingdon's shillings he made his first purchase, a capacious tobacco pouch with a snap mouth, for which he paid ninepence. Then he adjourned to an aerated bread shop and ordered some refreshments. While the waitress was bringing his cup of tea and piece of cake he contrived to slip nil the sovereigns but one into the tobacco pouch. He did this with his hand in the pocket itself, and more than once there was a pleasant clink as the coins fell into their novel receptacle. A man sitting near caught the sound

and looked up suspiciously. Philip, whose senses were very much on the alert today, realized that his action was somewhat careless. Without even glancing at his neighbor, he took out his remaining couple of shillings and

the three pennies, and affected to count them with a certain degree of astonishment, as if some were missing. The ruse was satisfactory. The man gave him no further heed and sooa quitted the restaurant. Philip tendered the odd sovereign in payment of hU bill. The girl cashier seemed to be surprised that such a ragged youth should own so large a sum. "All silver, please," said Fhillp, when she began to count his change.

He would t:ike no more risks If he could avoid them. Not a single policeman in London would have failed to arrest him at that moment were his store of gold revealed by any chance. Yet Fhilip was rich honestly, and there were men driving away from the city at that hour whose banking accounts were plethoric with stolen money. For their carriages the policemen would stop the traffic. In neither instance could the guardians of the peace be held blameworthy, such is the impor

tance of mere appearance"!. The boy, during his short and terribly sharp tussle with London lite, had al

ready grasped this essential fact, and. with great skill and method, he set about the task of altering his own shabby exterior. In a side street leading out of Grays Inn road he found a secondhand

clothes shop. Here he purchased a worn, but decent, blue serge suit for 8 shillings sixpence, a pair of boots for 5 shillings, a cap for ninepence, a woolen shirt for 2 shillings and a linen collar for threepence. He haggled sufficiently over the bargain to suit the needs of a scanty purse. "I've cut m dahn low enough." said the shopkeeper mournfully. "Things isn't wot they was in the ole clo" line, let me tell yer. Not but what you do want a new rig-aht."

For the life of him he could not burlesque the cockney accent, and although he used the simplest phraseology the man glanced at him sharply. Philip rattled all his silver and coppers on to the counter. He counted out 1(3 shillings sixpence. "Not much left, is there?" he said. "Well, look 'ere," said the man.

"Gimme fifteen bob. You're a sharp 1 lad. You'll rayke yer w'y all right. Nex' time you want some duds come to me an I'll treat you fair." "Thank you very much," said Tbil'ip, considerably surprised by this generuus act. "I certainly will not forget you." "You can change in my little back room if you like. That lot you've got on ain't worth tykin' 'ome." "I am obliged for your kindness, but I must be off now. It is late, and I have a long way to go." "Where to? Ilolloway?" "No; cityward." The clothes and boots wore made tip

In a parcel by this time. Philip hurried away, glad to escape further questioning. Philip sprang rnto a bus for the Bank.

At the Royal Exchange he would catch

a green bus for the Mile End road.

It was almost dark when he reached

the Bank. Thus far the omnibuses go

ing east were not crowded. Now the

situation had changed.

The human eddy in that throbbing

center of life was sending off its swirls to all points of the compass, and the

eastbound vehicles were boarded by

an eager crowd almost before the pas

sengers arriving at the terminus could

descend.

A poor woman greatly hampered by

a baby was struggling with others to

obtain a seat in the Mile End road bus

Philip, coming late on the scene, saw

her swept ruthlessly aside by a num.

ber of men and boys. The conductor

ierked the bellrone several times.

There was no more room.

The woman, white faced and dlscp-

nointed. looked around with a vroebe

gone expression. Philip, who would have gladly paid for a cab to taks her to her destination, dared no nothing of the sort But he said: "Keep close to me. I will get you a seat in the next bus."

"Oh, I wish you would," she said, with a wan smile, "I am so tired. I have walked here from Shepherd's

Bush." "That's a long way to carry a baby." "What could I do? Teople won't take care of children without payment. I heard I could get work in a laundry there, so I went to look after it. There's nothing to be had down our way. is there?" "Thinsrs turn ur suddenly," said

Philip. ! "Not for the poor, my lad. I fear you know that without my telling you. But you are young and will soon be a man."

Her wistful tone went to his heart "Didn't you succeed at the laundry?" he inquired. "Yes; I ought to be thankful. I can earn 9 shillings a week there. I start on Monday." "Isn't your husband at work?" "He is dead.. Toor fellow, he caught cold last Christmas and was buried in January. God only knows how I have lived since. If it wasn't for the kind-

tipssj of neighbors, babv and I would

have starved. I can ill afford this tuppence, but I can't walk any further." "Well, look out now," he said cheeri

ly. "Here's our bus." As the vehicle drew up he caught the brass rail with his left hand and warded off assailants with the bundle under his right arm.

"Quick," he said to the woman as soon ns the people inside had descended. "Jump in." She essayed to do so, but was rudely thrust aside by a young man who had paused on the roof to light a cigarette. Philip sprang onto the step and butted the young gentleman in the stomach with his parcel, causing the other to sit down heavily on the stairs. The boy caught the woman's arm with his

diengasred hand and pulled her up. He dived in after her.

"You young" roared the discomfited smoker. " 'Ere! Come orf of it," said the conductor. "Why didn't ye git dahn before? D'ye want a lift?" Others hustled the protesting one out of the way. "Confound the East End. I say!" he

you have a good mother. You cau always tell what the parents are like when you see the children." "My mother was Indeed dear to me,"

he replied sadly, again driven out o' j himself by the mournful recollections i thus suddenly induced, "but she is : dead, lost to me forever." j Some people in the bus ceased talk- j lug. They were attracted by the ! strong, clear voice of this unkempt7 toy, whose diction and choke of words were so outrageously opposed to his garments. Luckily the silence warned him or Lis cew friend's sympathy might have brought about an emba.r- ; rassing position. "Poor thing! And Is your father dead too?" "Yes. He died long ago." "Where do you live now?" "Oh." he said, "I have been staying in north London, but will leave there soon, ami 1 have not settled anything definitely at present. Where is the laundry you siokeof? I will call some day if I may and learn how you are getting on."

"I will be so pleased. It is a little

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D-A.IL.V CAPACITY 25,000 GALLONS.

The Title

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place in James street, the only one , there. Ask for Mrs. Wrigley."

It is lucky you understand laundry

work or things miht go hard with ;

you. t

She laughed pitifully. j "I don't. They asked me if I was a

washer or an ironer. I thought wash- j ing required least experience, so I said )

was a washer. I am quirk to learn j

and will watch the other women, ir ! thev find me out, I may be disc harged." j

"Oh, cheer up'." he said pleasantly. I

"I don t suppose you'll hud it very i

hard."

Her voice sank almost to a whisper. I "It Is not the work I dread, but the !

purroupxiings. I was a schoolteacher j before mv marriage. My husband was!

an electrical engineer. We put all our savings into a little business, r.nd then --the end came."

"Not quite the end. I am only a boy, but I've had ups and downs enough to

know that the beginning of next week j may be a very different affair to the end of this. Goodby." They were passing the London hospital, and he thought it prudent to alight at some distance from Johnson's Mews. "Well, God bless you, anyhow," she 6aid earnestly. " E's got 'is 'ead screwed on tight, that lad," commented a man sitting next to her. "Better than that, he has a good heart," said Mrs. Wrigley. Most fortunate Mrs. Wrigley to have encountered rhilip In that hour, which she deemed tho blackest in her life. He hastened through the familiar

bustle of the busy thoroughfare with

heightened expectancy, It is true, but

devoid of the least fear that his meteor

had been discovered. His mother

would take good care of It. Why, the mere chance remark of the woman he had befriended showed that her gentle spirit watched over him wherever he went. Here was a stranger, a sad toller among the millions, who went out of her way to praise the goodness of one she had never seen. He laughed joyously. Mrs. Wrigley should have further cause to bless his mother's memory. TTf nnssed O'Brien's shoo. He saw

the old man seated behind the counter, j

Should he go in? No. Better Keep w holly to himself at present. Yet he hes

itated. Which was the more judicious course, to remain hidden, unknown, or or to drop quietly into the groove where he was recognized? With rare perspicacity for one so young, he reflected that only five days had elapsed since

he last saw the old pensioner. The period bulked largely in Philip's life; in O'Brien's it would be as naught. Yielding to the second thought, he entered the shop. "Glory be to God, Phil, but It's miself is glad to see ye!" cried his old friend. "Where have ye bin to. at all, at all?

nave yez heard what the murtherln war office is afther doin' to me? I

haven't had a sowl to sphake to about the throuble they've put on me in me owld age." This was not strictly accurate. O'Brien had pestered the whole neighborhood with the story of his withheld pension and the preposterous claim made on him by some red tape enthu

siast in Pall Mall. But his plaint effectually stopped all further reference to rhilip's disappearance. As to the "bit o shtone" that was "naythur

alum nor lime," he hadn't a word to say. rhilip borrowed a spade, a small sweeping brush and a strong sack without evoking the slightest comment from the pensioner, who discoursed incessantly on the iniquity of the "gov-

ermint" and whose farewell remark dealt with the attempt to rob him of "a hundred gowlden sov'rins." Decidedly tho boy was in luck's way. He had secured some necessary implements without attracting any attention. Watching a favorable opportunity, he slipped unseen into the gloom of Johnson's Mews, He tried the door of No. 3. It was locked. He inserted the kev and entered. The darkness within

"The Old Reliable Specialist" of So. Chicago luid- been fittingly jl ' o ri DR. RUCKEL

INV tHin 20 o-cllotl raclnllt have

oir nnd crr-r-it itrL2 ho l(C:tltOll here, about lO

years ago, wfter i wide experience In otlior eltle UK HAS STOOD T1IK TEST.

After treatinc- mor than 6.000 people In and about South Chli-apo.

ta lure to accomplish all tromlaetl them in every

We will now listen to

without

Instance where they lol-

what the uocior ruia o y

Many

1 can

lowed his instructions.

on the subject. SIX T1IOI SANU SICK TUEATKIK I have treated more than 6,000 sick people In anil about South Chicago and made many cures among those classed as Incurable. No disease too slight or too severe to command my careful attention. WHAT I THEAT. I treat most diseases where the patltnt is able to call at my office and can sometimes make special arrangements to call on thoso who ure not ajie to come to me. STOMACH TMOVBLES. If you feel depressed after meals, with a bloated condition of the stomach and bowels, with belching of gaa, 1 can give you prompt relief and & thorough cure. TIltED FEEl.no. I find so many people who complain of being: tired from every little r-

tlon. or thoy are more tired in the morning man nurr a uay e num. of these do not sleep well, but are continually disturbed by drtatua.

always he d those cases promptly ana cure mem in a snori uiua.

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I treat blood poison with marked success, givo prompt relief and guarantee

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t rp.it w.-Ak and fallinir memory and nervousnes? In hot!

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In many cases a single prescription la all that Is needed to cure; In others.

considerable tlma ana meaicines are requjreu. LEGAL WRITTEN CONTRACT.

tf i-ou r desire I will give you a written contract to cure you for a speci

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Yn will find mv charges reasonable. I don't believe In takln? advantage

of people, who need my services, by charging enormous Ices only

hold within my grasp the remedy that will cure them.

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y promise

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men and women

because I

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that one-half of the business of the world Is don oa

growled as he crossed to the Mansion was tna 0f utter blindness, but he House. "What the deuce Lady Louise j flumped his impedimenta on the floor

Morland wants to keep on sending me

to that wretched rcews for I can't

and locked the door behind him

Then he groped his doubtful path to

imagine. Anyway I can tell her this J mantelpiece where he had left a

time that the place is empty ana will be pxilled down next wvek." And thus it was that rhilip collided with Messrs. Sharpe & Smith's clerk, detailed by the anxious Lady Morland to discover his whereabouts. They met and bumped Into each other In the

whirlpool of London just as two ships j might crash together by night in mid-1 Atlantic and draw apart with rufied feelings, or scraped paint, which is the j same thing, without the slightest ; knowledge of each other's Identltv. i Within the omnibus the woman was volubly grateful. She had a kindly Iieart and timidly essayed questions as

to Philip's relatives, hoping that sue

II IS UOl gSneidllJ HUeilU borrowed money. Wti LOAN MONEY oa Paroitare

!. . r, mk.r nawint nranrrtT. without removal m jasi no raano wt,r a. iun

borrows money on his rel estate. You can got n unonnt from 0 to 1.UjQ in a few hours after mklD application. You repay iu suiall we kly or racntn.y paymeaU to suit your purse and at a very low cost. Posltlvaly ne Inquiries made, which ineures against publicity. Our contraos are drawn for from one month to ooe yesr and a rebate la allowed I paid before contract eipirea. If you cannot call, write or phone for our representative. THE CHICAGO DISCOUNT CO. 2oom 200 9138-40 Commercial Ave. South Chicago

Telephone South Whlcauo

Open Mon Thuns. and SaU ereninxs until 9 P. II. We cloee o'.her even!

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candle and a box of matches. His boots

crunched as he went on what he knew to be mostly diamonds, and he stum

bled over the mattress in front of the fireplace. Yes. the candle was there. Soon he had a light. The tiny gleam lifted the black etirtain, and he surveyed hia domain. A single glance showed him that all things remained exactly ns he left them on Saturday morning. The packet of letters rested on the oroken chair, the old sack was stuffed

Into the window and the rope that Dever to be forgotten rope dangled from the hook to which he had fastened it. (To be Continued.)

LakeC

ounty Title & Guarantee Go.

H ABSTRACTERS

Rates 1

Abstracts Furnished

(omlnal

F. R. MOTT, President

FRANK HAMMOND, Vice i'res. J. S. BLACKMUX. Secretary A. H. TAPPER, Treasurer S. A. CULVER, Manager

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! "les." said PhLip. "I've got a joa . Ulisht make their acquaintance, i and caa't keua it vuilfcss I look AeC' fee bouai nojrA" ske said, "tlsat

Aalc the family oDstaira ta nbeciibe.

Secretary's Office in Majestic Bldg. HAMMOND

HAMMOND AND

CSOWN FOINT, IND.

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