Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 16, Hammond, Lake County, 6 July 1907 — Page 3

Saturday, July G, 1907.

THE LAKE COUNTY TIIyIES.

CLEARANCE SALE We mention just a few of the many hundreds of bargains offered in this

great clearance

$25.00 Taffeta Dresses $14.75 20.00 French Lingerie Princess Dresses 10.50 7.50 Panama Skirts, all colors 4.98 18.00 Voile Skirts 9.98 25.00 Taffeta Skirts 12.50 5.00 Misses Coats 2.50 25.00 Tailor Made Suits 12.50 3.00 Wash Suits. 1.50 2.25 Heatherbloom Petticoats 1.25 5.00 Silk Waists 2.75 12.00 Cravenettes 5.00 2.00 Wash Skirts .98 But kindly remember that the first buyers will get the BBST SELECTIONS Dobson's Emporium 184 South Hohman Street, HAMMOND

I the lima of

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Graduation Specials

LJoyAi' unci Girls Watches unci Chains Lockets

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Charms, Urucuiuts Brooches unci Stick Pins

The Boys und Girls will appreciate these most If they ure the Bastar & McGarry Quality 175 South Hohman Street, HAMMOND

By LOUIS TRACY. Author of "Winji of the Morning. "The rilUr of Liht." Etc

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Full Page Ads

are no longer necessary in

selling property in oui

subdivision, 700 feet from the Hammond Court

House.

This little ad in the Lake County Times keeps our office busy making sales

Because

Sewers, sidewalks, street paving, gas and all improvements are going in now. Homes and Building lots on easy terms. Money loaned to build.

continued. Unsigned, it came from a town near Beltham. (Jrenier was satisfied. He lit a eiiircttL' with the message. At a. braiub. postuffice be dispatched two tlfgranis. The first to Evelyn: Will r-ir.ain In the north for a few days. Too busy to write today. Full letter tomorrow. Love. PHILIP. The second to Mr. Abingdon: Your message through Miss Atherley noted. J'i.-a- suspend all in lulri.-s. Affair quite unforeseen. Will explain by letter. Address today. Station htei, York.. ANSON.

Then he entered a bank and asked fur the manager. "My name may be known to you," he said to the ollieial, at the same time handing his card. "Mr. Anson, Park lanethe Mr. Anson." "I suppose I can flatter myself with the dentate article. I am staying here some few days and wish to carry out certain transactions requiring largo

sums of money. I will be glad to act through your bank, on special terms, of course, for opening a short account." "We will be delighted." "I will write a check new for 3,000. which kindly place to ray credit as soon as possible. Shall we say the day after tomorrow?" "That is quite possible. We will use all expedition." "Thank you. You understand, this is merely a preliminary. I will need a

much larger sum, but I will pay in my next check after bearing from London. I am not quite sure about: the amount of my private balance at the moment." The bank manager assured him there would be no difficulty whatever under such conditions. Grenier obtained his pass book and check book after writing a check on London before the other man's eyes. For a small amouut an introduction would have been necessary. In the case of Philip Anson, the millionaire, a man who handled thousands so readily, it was needless. Moreover, his procedure was unexceptionable strictly according to banking business. Grenier rushed off to the station, caught a train for Leeds, went to the bank of a different compauy with different London agents and carried through tho same maneuver. lie returned to York and secured the services of the hotel typist. lie wrote to Philip's bankers:

E. A. KINKADE, 110 First National Bank Bldg.

HOME BUILDER HAMMOND

LAWN-MOWERS, HOSE, WIRE SCREENINGS AND FENCING

Garden Tools

furnishing

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Goods

OUR WAGON WILL DELIVER THEM AT YOUR DOOR TELEPHONE 2251 AND LEAVE YOUR ORDER WITH

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216 Sibley Street

MUELLER HAMMOND, IND.

"Requiescat in Pace" Translated to English, this phrase means "Rests in peace." With an extension telephone in your bed-chamber, you may rest in peace and security. It is a guardian. For Residences Fifty Cents Per Month CHICAGO TELEPHONE .COMPANY

I am transacting some very important private business in the north of England ami have opened temporary accounts with the bank In York and the bank in Leeds, and I shall need a considerable sum of ready money. Possibly 1 may also open accounts-In Dradford and Sheffield. Today I have drawn two checks for 5,000 each. Kindly let me know by return the current balance to my credit, ns I dislike overdrafts and would prefer to realize some securities. The next letter ran: My Dear Abingdon Excuse a typewriter, but I am horribly busy. The Morlands' affair is a purely family and personal one. It brings into activity circumstances dating far back in my life and In the lives of my parents. Sir Philip is not

dying nor even dangerously ill. Lady Louisa ie in Yorkshire, and I am making arrangements which will close a long standing feud. Write me here if necessary, but kindly keep back all business or other communications, save those of a very urgent character, for at least a week or perhaps ten days. Sorry for this enforced absence from town. It simply cannot be avoided, and I am sure you will leave a detailed explanation lAtll we meet. I have signed the inclosed annual report of the home. Will you kindly forward it to the secretary? Yours sincerely. PHILIP ANSON. Grenier dictated this epistle from a carefully composed copy. lie understood the very . friendly relations that existed between Philip and his chief agent, and he thought that in adopting a semiapologetic, fraukly reticent tone he was striking the right key. The concluding reference to the Mary Ansou Home was smart, he imagined, while the main body of the letter dealt in safe generalities. Naturally, he knew nothing of the

conversation between the two men on this very topic a couple of months earlier. But Langdon's ample confessions had clearly revealed Philip's attitude, and the unscrupulous scoundrel was will

ing now to dare all in his attempt to gain a fortune. While he was dining a telegram was handed to him: You forgot to send your address, but Mr. AVingdon gave it to me. So grieved you are detained. What about blue atom? EVELYN. Did ever woman invent more tantalizing question than that concluding one? WLat was a. Jiite atom? No doult creation's scheme included blue atoms as well as black ones and red ones. But why this reference to any particular atom? He tried the words in every possible variety of meaning. He gave them the dignity of capitals BLUE ATOM. They became more inexplicable. In one respect they were effective. They spoiled his dinner. He had steeled himself against every possible form of surprise, but he was forced to admit that during the next three days he must succeed in persuading Evelyn Atherley that Philip Anson was alive and engaged la important matters in Yorkshire. That was imperative. Was his scheme to be wrecked by a blue atom?

Moreover, her query must be answered. His promise to write was, of course, a mere device. It would be manifestly absurd to send her a typewritten letter, and. excellently as he could copy Thilip's signature, he dared not put his skill as a forger to the test of inditing a letter to her, no matter bow brief. Finally he hit upon a compromise. He wired: Stupid of me to omit address. Your concluding sentence mixed up in transmission. Meaning not quite clear. Am feeling so lonely. PHILIP. Then he tried to resume his dinner, but his appetite was gone. In postal facilities, owing to its position on a main Mac, York i well served from London. At U p. m. two letters, one a bulky package and registered, reached him. The letter was from Mr. Abingdon. It briefly acknowledged his telegram, stated that a man in the Athenaeum who knew Sir Philip Morland had informed him in response to guarded inquiries that the baronet was exceedingly well off and called attention to

some Important leases inelosed which required his signature. The other note was from Evelyn. It was tender and loving and contained a reference that added to the mystification of her telegram. In the hurry of your departure yesterday we forgot to mention P.I'ie Atom. What is your opinion? The price H high, certainly, but, then, picture the Joy of it the only one in the world! And again came another message: I referred to Blue Atom, of course. What did the postoffice make it into? EVELYN. Blue Atom was assuming speetral dimensions. He cursed the thing fluently. It was high priced, a joy, alone

in solitary glory. What could it be? He strolled into the station and entered into conversation with a platform inspector. "By the way," he said casually, "have you ever heard of anything called a blue atom?" The man grinned. "Is that another name for D. T.'s, sir?" Grenier gave it up and resolved to

postpone a decision until the next morning. By a late train Philip's portmanteau arrived. It was locked, and the key reposed in the safe. Green, it ultimately transpired, solemnly opened the safe in the presence of the housekeeper and butler, locked it again without disturbing any of the other contents and handed the key to the butler, who placed it in the silver pantry. In the solitude of his room Grenier burst the lock. The rascal received one of the greatest shocks of his lifo when he examined the contents a quantity of old clothing, some worn boots, a ball of twine, a bed coverlet, a big iron key, the tattered letters and a variety of odds and ends that would have found no corner in a respectable ragshop.

He burst into a fit of hysterical

laughter. "Ye gods and little fishes!" he cried

"What a treasure'. The Clerkenwell

suit, I suppose, and a woman's skirt

and blouse. Oiu tuners, too. hy their stvle. His mother's, I expect. He

must have been fond of his mother." At that moment -locky Mason, beetle browed and resentful, was reading a letter which reached his lodgings two hours before his arrival, in an envelope bearing the ominous initials "O. II. M. S." It was from the Southwark police station. Sir Kindly make it convenient to attend here tomorrow evening at 8 p. m. Yours truly, T. BRADLEY, Inspector.

The following day it was Mason's duty to report himself under his ticket-of-leave, but it was quite unusual for the police to give a preliminary warning in this respect. Failure on his part meant arrest. That was all the officials looked after. "What's ?ip now?" he muttered. "Anyway, Grenier was right. This gives me a cast iron alibi. I'll acknowledge it at once." His accomplice, hoping to obtain sleep from champagne, consumed the contents of a small bottle in his bedroom, while hq scanned the columns of the local evening papers for any reference to a "seaside mystery" on tae Yorkshire const. There was none. Anson's body had not been recovered yot.

Before going to bed he wound Phil

ip's watch. lie examined it now with

greater interest than he had bestowed on it hitherto. Although silver, it appeared to be a good one. He opened the case to examine the works. Inside there was an inscription: Presented to Philip Anson, aged fifteen years, by the officers and mon of the Whitechapel division of the metropolitan police as a token of their admiration for his bravery in assisting to arrest a notorious burglar. Beneath was the date of Mason's capture. "Where was I ten years ago?" he mused. lie looked back through the soiled leaves of a sordid record and found that he was then acting in a melodrama entitled "The Wages of Sin." And the wages of sin is death! The drama insisted on the full measure of Biblical accuracy. Altogether Grenier lay down to rest under unenviable conditions. He dreamed that he was falling down precipices and striking sheets of blue

water with appalling splashes. Each time he was awakened by the shock. But he was a hardy rogue where conscience was concerned, and he swore himself to sleep again. Best he must have. He must arise with steady

1 head and clear brain.

He was early astir. His first act was to send for the Yorkshire morning papers. They contained no news of Philip Anson dead, but the local sheet chronicled his arrival at York. This was excellent. The banter

would see it. A few printed lines carry great weight in such matters. Then he signed the leases, dispatched them in a typewritten envelope and telegraphed: Documents forwarded this morning. Please meet wishes exj-essed in letter. "Surely," he reflected, "Abingdon will not give another thought to my proceedings. Philip Anson is not a boy ia leading strings." He wired to Evelyn: Sorry for misunderstanding. Blue Atom must wait until my return. Here was a way out. Whatever that wretched speck of color meant, it could be dealt with subsequently. But Evelyn's prompt reply only made confusion worse confounded: Delay is impossible. The man has put off the duchess two days already. So a man and a duchess and a period of time wre mixed up with a blue atom. He must do something desperatebegin his plan of alienation sooner than he iuteuded. He answered: Too busy to attend to matter further.

Going to Leeds today. Letters here as usual. And to Leeds he went. Residence in York was a fever a constant fret. In

L(tds he was removed from the arena. He passed the afternoon and evening in roaming the streets, consumed with a fiery desire to be doing, daring, braving dithculties. But he must wait at least another day before he could lay hands on any portion of Philip Anson's wealth save the money stolen from his pockets. At the hotel there was only one letter and no telegrams. The London bankers wrote: Ws beg to acknowledge yours of yesterday. Your cash balance at dte is 12.410 Ds. Id. Your securities in our possession amount to a net value at today's prices of about 920. WO, including 25o.000 consols at par. We will forward you a detailed list if desired and will be pleased to realize any securities as directed. Kindly note that instructions for sale should be given in your handwriting and not typed. There was joy, Intoxicating almost to

madness, in this communication, but it was not uulea cied by the elements of danger and delay. His signature had been accepted without demur. He could control an enormous sum without question. These were the entrancing certainties which dazzled his eyes for a time. But it was horribly annoying that a millionaire should keep his current ac

count so low, and the concluding paragraph held a bogey, not wholly unfore

seen, but looming largo when it actual ly presented itself. The memorandum in Philip's hand

writing on Lvelyn s letter was now

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yeiir-M ago, sifter wide, experience In other cities

UK HAS STOOD TIIK TIC ST. After treating- more than C.000 people in ar.d about South Chicago, without a failure to a.-complish all promised them in every Instance where they followed Ms instructions. We will now listen to what the LKjctor baa to Nay on the subject. SIX THOl SAND sick thkati:d. I have treated more than C.oOO sick people in and about South C'.'.lcagro and made many cures anions those classed as incurables. No uidt-ase too slight or too severe to command my careful attention. WHAT I TKKAT. I treat moet diseases where the-patient is uble to mil at my o:11ce and c;n sometimes make special arrangement to cull on thoc who uio not ablo to come to me. STOMACH TltOi ni.11". If you feel Repressed after meals, with a bloated condition of tho stomach and bowels, with belching of gas. I can give you prompt relief und & thorough euro. TIHKD FF.i:i.IG. I find so macy people who complain of belni tired from every lit? la exertion, or they are more tired in the morning man after a day's wo:U. Many of these do not Bleep well, but are continually disturbed by dream. 1 caJi always help tfcose cases promptly and cure them lu a bhort tliao. DisnAsi:s of womf.n. No other class f diseases are so badly treated as are the disease.! of women. I have Riven many years of careful attention to tl-is subject una have proven remedies that cure quickly. Call in and ask as many question as you wish.

I will answer them and guarantee all I promise. Iso charge for advice. HISUASi;S OF MEX. I have studied the subject carefully and made th discovery of (tome rery Important remedies in recent years, which enables me to perform perfect cures in les than one-fourth the time formerly required. You wil notice the Improvement in a few hours after beginning treatment. Call in and talk over your troubles with me. 1 will explain just what can be done for you and what the cost of a cure will bo. 1 guarantee all I promise. Is'o charge for advice. COKSTIIV4TIOX AMD 1MLKS. I treat successfully all cases ef constipation and piles. KIIJNttY DISKASMS. If you have any difficulty with your kidneys or bladder, call and get my, opinion. m.ooi) foisox. I treat blood poison with marked success, give prompt relief and guarantee a cure in every case where instructions are followed. W'KAIv AND FAILING SIKMOUV. I treat weak and failing mejnory and nervousness in Loth men and women and give prompt rel.cf from the distressing malady. cost of rt'uii I make no charge for telling you Just what it will cost to cure you. OXE CAM WILL tl llU. In many cases a single prescription is all that Is needed to cure; la thers, considerable time and medicines are required. LKCiAL W1UTTEX COX Til ACT. If you so desire I will give you a written contract to cure you for m. specllied price, which we may agree upon. C1IAKGKS ItEASONAnrrc.

You will find my charges reasonable. I don't believo In taking- advantage of people, who need my services, by charging enormous fees only because I

hold within my grasp tho remedy that will cure theiu. DON'T DELAY. Don't delav. for the longer a disease runs tho harder It Is to cure.

If you follow my advice you will not bo disappointed in any promise X

make you. 1 mean every word of this advertisement and will stand by It. Onlce Hours: 9 to 12 a. m; 1:30 to 5, end 7 to &:3t) y. in. No Sunday Hours. No Cuarge for Advice.

Inside the tcatch there was tui inscrip f ion..

J. F. RUCKEL, M .D,

OVEIl POSTOFFICE.

92nd St. $i Commercial Ave.

SO. CHICAGd

thrice precious. He hurriedly scruti

nized it and at once commenced to practice the words. "Devonshire" and "Sharpe" gave him the capitals for "Dear Sirs." He wm.s

at a loss for a capital "C," but he saw that Philip used the simplest and boldest outlines in his cali.sraphy, and he must risk a "C" without the upper loop. Ia ''Lady M.," too, ha had the foundation of the "" to precede tho requisite figures. Soon he framed a letter in the fewest words possible: Yours of today's date received. Kindly sell consols value 150,000 and place tho same to my credit. He copied it again and again, until It was written freely and carelessly, and every letter available compared favorably with the orginal in his possession. Then he posted, it, thus saving a day, according to hi3 calculations. With this missive committed irrevocably to the care of his majesty's mails, Victor Grenier's spirits rose. Now, indeed, he was In the whirlpool. Would he emerge high and dry ia the El Dorado of gilded vice which he longed to enter, or would fortune consign him to Tortland again perchance to the scaffold? He could not say. He would not feel safe until Thilip Ansou was a myth and Victor Grenier a reality, with many thousands In the bank.

Already he was planning plausible

lies to keep Mason out of bis fair share of the plunder. A few- more forged letters would easily establish

the fact that he was unable to obtain a bigger haul than, say, 50,000. And what did Mason want with 25.000? He was a gnarled man, with crude tastes. Twenty, fifteen, ten thousand would be ample for his wants. The sooner he drank himself to death the better. With each fre?h cigar Mason's moiety shrank in dimensions. The murder

was a mere affair of a vengeful blow, but this steady sucking of the million- I aire's riches required finesse, a dashing i adroitness, tho superb impudence of a j Cagliostro. j (To tie Continued.) 1

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1 Abstracts Furnished lit

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IN'omlnal Rates

MOTT, President FRANK HAMMOND, Vice Pres. J. S. BLACKMUN, Secretary A. II. TAPPER. Treasurer

S. A. CULVER, Manager

Secretary's Office in Majestic Bldg. HAMMOND

HAMMOND AND

CROWN POINT, IND.

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?

Cor. Hohman and Sibley Sts. Opposite First Nat'l Bank.

HAMMOND. OPEN EVENLNGS

THE HAMMOND DISTILLING GO. DAILY CAPACITY 25,000 GALLONS.