Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 12, 1913, Page 7

THE EVENING TELEGRAM, : Condensed S.atement of BAN £ the Condition of the NAmNA € FIRST NATIONAL BANK gz POSIT At Close of Business, June 4th, 1913 RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts ......$516,988.65 Overdrafts ...... Risisien e et 2,826.00 U. S. Bonds and Premiums ... 20,942.71 1N Furnitures and Fixtures .. . 6,373.17 2 ¢ I*ue from U. S. Treasurer..... 93750 @4 L Cash on Hand and in Banks. 5,554 47 ed Her Favorite, Hot-Head- ed Nephew By FRANK FILSON. postman. thing odd, George.” was odd. into & combination. relativés and then made up with her will and then put their names had always kept the warmest spot in her heart for George Strang, her hand- some artist nephew, She had, indeed, supported him dur ing that period which comes to every $781,623.1) i LIABILITIES. Capital Stock $ 75,000.00 (0D J 0| BUBDIUE G« llen Wise v 15,000.00 Undivided Prciits .......e. 15,607.00 EHelntlon i i G s 18,750.00 DEPOBItE . culi waiiine s v 657,265.83 §781,623.19 st National Bank OF LAKELAND alty, T venue goods th good laundry work is what you are lecking fer and ot what we ary giviag. Try ma eland Steam Laundry Phone 136. West Main b s § i ifACI That the Wealthy Owrer: @ of property never allows his fire m Insurance To Exp're! [ b Is a strong hint to to the owner of the modest home who dill afford aloss;to be equally provident sk life preserverver to the man in a wreck, 'O fi;‘; Fire Insurance Policy to the owner of a home! a Speclaity of Attending to t verybody's Business— TP CPCCOTTROVEOVSCTRD 0L S » Pl Sr®T S SCd rw - 43 A = fe BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD-~ s HARCOURT &0, comocee X HA}(UFACI\MG EN.GRAVEM LOVISVILLR, KY,U.8.A. THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENT'S FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE: line of Densison's Gift Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's ved Specialties, Holiday and Fancy Goods, Toys, Ete, AKELAND BOOK STORE, UILDERS'SUPPLIES -.-I-u-uumumnm PROOFING. Sbow Cases and Fixtures, Plate aad Wiadow Glam STANDARD §EATS. for Schools, Churehes and Terra Cotta Roofing Tile. Geed Red Bulldiag Briek lots for prompt deliveries. Reinforeing Stesl. Get our prices befere buying 204 Twi, Street El: & CO Tamp‘a’;‘ Florida 0 artist, when he was struggling for fame and existence in a large city agalnst the wishes and despite the dis- gust of his own family. And now that he had married pretty Lucy Bent- wick and was In comfortable, if not af. fluent ciicumstances, she had sent him a wedding gift, “A china vase!™ exclaimed George Strang in disgust as he eyed the queer-looking object in his hand. It was. indeed, the most repulsive looking vase that he had ever seen. It was rotund and highly decorated with painted pink roses, and upon it was printed in small, black letters: “You may break, you may shatter the v~se if you will, “But the scent of the roses will cling to it still” “Blank!” said George. It was not “blank,” that he said, but it sounded like that, because Lucy promptly closed his mouth with her hand. “She might have sent me some- thing that we could keep on our man- tel,” sald George Strang ruefully, look- Ing upon the object with a shudder. “Fancy a thing like that in our liv- “A China Vase.” ing room, Lucy! Why, it will spoil the entire aspect of the place. And 1 bet,” he added, “that she sent the thing on purpose to get up a quarrel with me and then accuse me of quar reling with her. She'll drop in on us unexpectedly and see that the thing isn’t on view.” “But it must be on view, George, dear,” sald Mary. “You know how quarrelsome the old dear is. It she does drup in and doesn’t see it she'll cut you out of her will and then—O, George, be a little prudent!” But George refused point-blank to have the thing in their living room. “She knows it's horrible, Lucy,” he said, “and if she wants to quarrel with me let her have her way.” Which was precisely what she did have. For a few days later Aunt Mary did come up to town from Bay- ard’s Bridge and did drop in unexpect- edly, and the mantel was bare save for two antique Pompeilan vases. “Well, my dear,” said the old lady, taking in the situation Instantly, “I must say that I admire those orna- ments upon your mantel greatly, 1 fear my own poor efforts to please you | and George must have been singularly | unsuccesstul—" And then she stopped. For Lucy bad run into her bedroom when the old lady was announced to | get the china vase; but she had not | had time to place it upon the mantel and stood guiltily hiding it beneath her apron. “You may tell George,” she contin- ued, “that since he has seen fit to quarrel with me, who always supposed that he cared for me—since my en- deavors to make his home bappy and beautiful are so unappreciated, I shall waste no further time on him. And, incidentally, I shall bestow my money where it will be likely to promote greater service.” And with these words she stalked out of the apartmeat, leaving Luey in tears. She told George of the happening | when he returned from his studio. “Give me that infernal vase,” he shouted. “I'm going to break It to pleces and send her the fragments by parcel post. Old tyrant! Does she think sbe is going to doom us to & life | of artistic misery?” But Lucy hid the vase from him. “You know, dear,” she sald, “Aunt Mary will take you back into favor AUNT MARY WAS 0DD Strange Way in Which She Aid-| do her worst.” “A present from Aunt Mary!" said young Mrs, Strang as the oddly-wrap- ped parcel was handed to her by the “I just know that it's some- It must be odd, because Aunt Mary She was a queer little old spinster, with the kindest heart and the crankiest manners that ever went But though she bad quarreled with almost all her them, and alternately cut them out of back into muititudinous codicils, she LAR ELAND, FLA,, JUNE 11, 1913, again if only you give her time to for get. She is very fond of you really.” “She wanted to see how far she | could 80,” said George Strang gloom- ily. “It was a test. She couldn’t real- i ly have liked that vase. Well, let her And Aunt Mary did her worst speed- ily, for she took it into her crabbed old mind to have a sudden seizure a week later and die. But she had had time to carry her threat into effect. “To my nephew George,” the will read, “I had intended to leave the bulk of my property. But inasmuch as his love for me could not survive a little trial that I made of it, I bequeath to him instead the china vase which is now in his wife’s possession.” Yet, after all, it seemed that Aunt Mary had had singularly little to leave. For what she did leave to her dozen nephews and nieces amounted to ex- actly ninety-seven dollars and eighteen cents apiece, “George,” said Lucy in tears, when they got home from the funeral, “if Aunt Mary has any knowledge of what is happening now, don’t you think it would please her if we kept the vase on our mantel after all?” “I tell you what we'll do,” eaid George. “We'll put it on the mantel each anniversary of her death as a peace offering. The rest of the year please keep it out of my sight.” “Yes, dear,” sald Lucy. “Suppose we keep it there just for today, to show we have no hard feeling.” She brought ‘it out of its place of concealment and deposited it beside the Pompeiian jars. George looked at it—then suddenly, overcome by pas- sfon, he dashed it to the floor. The vase broke into a thousand pieces. “George!” exclaimed his wife wretchedly. “How could you have the heart to do that? Dear Aunt Mary! Why—there's paper inside!" There was indeed, for the vase was hollow, and on the floor lay a long, thin, folded package. “Bills!” shouted George Strang, as he unfolded it. And he shook out, one after another, nine bills of the value of a thousand dollars apiece. “Look! There's a letter!” sald Lucy Strang, picking up a piece of paper covered with Aunt Mary’s queer, crab- bed hieroglyphics. “My dear, hot-headed nephew,” George read aloud. “Forgive a cranky old woman who loves you with all her heart. I know how you will hate this vase. If you are hypocrite enough to keep it, or unkind enough to give it away, you will never read this note. But if you are honest enough to fol- low your impulse and shatter it you will be glad and forgive your loving old aunt.” “Dear old Aunt Mary!” said George Strang. “Lucy, dear, I'm going to have the old thing glued together and keep it in memory of her.” “Not—not—" began Lucy. “Yes, dear, upon the living room mantel.” (Copyrlxht. 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) FOR THOSE IN HIGH PLACES Immense Cost of Imperial Porphyry Put It Beyond Reach of All But the Very Rich. All students of the sculrture and architecture of the Imperial Roman age are familiar with the magnificent purple stone known as imperial por~ phyry, but it is probable that but few of the students know of the im- mense difficulties that were encounter~ ed in the procuring of the stone so much esteemed in that age of luxury, Weigall, who personally visited the reglon whence this stone emanated, reached the conclusion that the great distances between the quarries and the places where the stone was used must have given the price a “boost,” 80 that the porphyry was beyond all except the rulers of the earth. It appears that the quarries from which this porphyry was obtained are situated in the eastern Egyptian des- ert, that region known as Gebel Duk- han, “The Hills of Smoke.” The desert is about 27 miles from the Red seo, opposite the southern end of the pen- insula of Sinal. The quarries extended here and there into the hilleide without any re- semblance of regularity. The blocks of porphyry were pried from out of the rock wherever the work could be most easily done. They were trans- ported down the Nile, and, in fact to Rome, in the rough. This purple porphyry was not known to the an- | clent Egyptians. Some Roman pros pectors must have scoured the desert to find it. The barren coast of that re- glon was harborless. Each block of porphyry must, therefore, have been carried across the desert to Kench, on l the Nile, and thence shipped by river barge to the sea. Then it became necessary to transship it to the great Mediterranean galleys, and thus con- veyed across the treacherous waters to the port of Rome. There is no other place in the world where this porphyry i1s to be found, and when the quarries ceased to be worked, some time previous to the seventh century, the use of that stone had to cease also, nor has it since been procurable, Perils of the Bystander, Novel legal decisions? Ok, yes, they're still being made—no end to ‘em, In fact. 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