Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 3, 1914, Page 8

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Ccme to ser us on Rose St. East of Light and Water Plant The Lakeland Feed and f Supply . ompany 8 Phone 275 W C OWENS.Mgr Terms Cash Don’t Forget, That New Year will soon be here, and ,‘ that we have some beautiful Holiday Goods to dispose of at very low prices Bathrobes and Slipper to match, $10 worth for $6.50 Ties and Stlk S_;‘)cl;‘s;‘m boxes for $1.00 and a host of other Holiday goods, including Initial Handkerchiefs in silk and all linen. All our cloth- ing in men and boys reduced in prices for the Holidays. Some good Hats at $1 DON'T FORGET THE STORE |0|tntter The Bart Schaifmer & Marx (lmlnl The Hub R TN ..THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., JAN. 3, 1914, A A A sl A3 AN AN AdEA A ABOUT THE FURNITURE By ERNEST THWING. { When Grandma Turnbull got the ' eollecting mania in her old age, no- body thought very much about it. But when she brought home a photo- graph of Washington crossing the Del- aware, taken by a snapshotter in the lConunental army, for which she had paid a hundred dollars, I felt that it was time to discourage her foolish- ness. Grandma’s capital could not have amounted to more than ten thou- ln.nd dollars and here was one per cent. of it gone for an outrageous fraud. I talked it over with Dorothy. Dor othy was Grandma Turnbull's grand- daughter, and we were as good as en- gaged. I had asked her ever so many times, but she had been holding off and trying to make me jealous by. | fiirting with Jim Bates, a sort of sec- ond cousin of ours, but belonging to the poorer branch and generally look- od down upon among us Lennards. . “Poor old thing! Don’t say any- ~| thing to hurt her feelings, Harry,” said Dorothy. “But, Dorothy, don’t you see?" I, urged.> “She’s buying up old furniture wholesale, and every crook in the county is bringing her so-called an- tiques. She must have spent five hun- dred in the last month or two. It that goes on, what will become of her capital?” . “Well, it's her capital, isn't it?” ask- ed Dorothy. “Yes, but some day it will be yours and mine,” I answered. “And I'd rather have what's left of the ten thousand or so than own a lot of fraudulent antiques.” ' Dorothy gave me a queer sort of look, but I went on: “The fact is, Dorothy, Grandma is getting senile. This collecting mania is one of the first signs. Now I'd like to move for a guardianship over her. Why not? Surely you don't sympa- thize with her, do you?” “Harry,” saild Dorothy, “Grandma put you through college when your father was bankrupt and started you To My Mind They Were Just Tables. in business. That's where most of her money has gone. If you have no more gratitude than that you needn't speak to me any more.” And she flounced out of the room. 1t's queer how women think. Here was I, bent only on securing to Dor othy and myself our righttul inherit- ance of Grandma's money, and she was up in the air, Things ran on as usual for a while, and then the crisis came. It came from Boston, in the shape of a deliv- ery man carrying two tables, for which Grandma had paid a thousand dollars apiece. “They are real Louis Quatorze, Har Ty, and the only specimens remaining from the workshop of Monsieur Ge- nappe,” said Grandma, beaming upon me and upon them. As soon as they had been unpack- ed and placed in Grandma's reception room I hurried in to look at them. To,my mind they were just tables. llo,vo' , 1 am just by nature. I gave Grandma the bepefit of the doudt. I knew a man who was a connolsseur in furniture, and I paid him a fee and brought him to the house in the guise of a friend. When he looked at the tables he stuffed his handkerchief to his mouth and ran:out of the rpom. I found him outside, having a fit. “0, gee!” he bubbled, holding his sides. “Two thousand dollars for those? Why, man, they’re nothing but stained oak, The stain isn’t even dry—look there!” He showed me his handkerchief. He had moistened it with turpentine and rubbed off a brown streak of stain, which, of course, he could not have done with Louis Quatorse furni- ture. . . That was the last straw. The next day I went round to a lywyer and an ranged to have proceedings taken to restrain Grandma. from spending any more money on rubbish. But before anything could come of It Grandma died—very suddenly, of apoplexy. I was a little bit sorry then, be- cause I knew Dorothy suspected what I bad done. However, her grandmoth- er's death had settled the whole matter. When the will was read the furniture went to Dorothy, and the money—there was only two thousand —to & Home for Animals. I didn't get a penny! 1 wasn't going to fight the animals’ home for two thousand, because I knew it would cost that much to break the will. ‘The fact is, { was 80 | “Congratulate me, old man,” S e . o mawaeen A1 disgusted with Grandma's duplicity: that I hadn’t any heart left for any- thing. And as for Dorothy—she had been snubbing me unmercifully all along, because she thought she was going to get that tem thousand, and all she got was emough rubbish to ll a couple of junk carts. I told her just what I thought of her. She had had me on a string, and now the tables were turned, and while I admitted I might ask her to marry me some day, I felt that under the circumstances she had only brought her own fate upon herself. The little wretch looked at me and burst out laughing. “It may interest you to know that Jim and I have been engaged for & month—with Grandma’s tull sanction,” she said. I knew that was untrue, but I con- gratulated her on having got & bar gain, and left her. And I wasn't sor ry, because I had known for a long time that Dorothy would never make s wife for me, though I'm not the sort of maa to go back on my word. They got married soon after, while [ was on my vacation. The boss had given me a month, and as soon as I had left he had the disgusting ef- frontery to write to me npt to.come back, as he had filled. my place. I didn't care much, because 1 knew my brother, who is rich, would help me out in need—which he did. So I put in the summer fishing and having & good time, I got back soon after, just when they had returned from their honeymoon. The first man I met was Jim Bates. He buttonholed me in the street. he sald. “What about?” I asked, thinking . he was going to say his marriage, But he didn't. 'NO CHANGE IN HUMAN FRAMEl “Why, about that furniture,” he an- swered. “Haven't you heard?” “I've heard all I want to hear,” 1 answered. “Then I guess you haven't,” he an- swered.. “You remember those two tables? Do you know what they were? Louis Quatorze, teakwood inlaid with lapis lazuli, and we've just sold them for five thousand apiece.” | +“What!"” I yelled. “Its a fact,” he answered. “Did ‘you know Grandma was one of the most famous connoisseurs in Ameri- ca? And we never suspected it until the letters came pouring in after her death. She'd been living a sort of double lite, it seems. Well, she pick- ed those tables up in an old farm- house, paid a couple of thousand when she could have got them for a song, and had them stained mahogany color to disguise them. I can't imagine why, unless she was afraid somebody would take them away from her. And we've realized in all, seventeen thousand out of her things, and, best of all, she left a letter authorizing Dorothy to sell everything and—" All I have to say is, if Dorothy had been as clever as she was cunning, she could have got me instead of Jim Bates. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) Anatomists Find No Alterations Have Taken Place in Severay Thou- sand Years. A discussion has arisen recently over the brain capacity of the ancient person, fragments of whose skull were | dug up in England not long ago and became known as the Piltdown skull. The first reconstruction of the skull indicated an exceedingly small brain capacity. But when a famous anato- mist, Dr, Arthur Keith, examined into the matter, he reported that a proper reconstruction would show a skull of normal size. The fact is that the anatomists haven't .found any particular change in the human frame in the last few. thousand yegrs. It was feared a few years ago that the British natiopal physique was in a process of decay. But an exhaustive series of compari- sons proved, as Prof. Karl Parsons sald, “that the average Englishman of today is certainly not behind hia Anglo-Saxon ancestor” A tweatieth century man could wear his ancestor's armor if he had to. s The only bodily features that are undqrgolng‘ changes that have been observed, as Professor Keith says in his interesting little volume on “Man; a History of the Human Body,” are thosg of the throat and jaw and per “ h&o o; the lower intestines. ® has examined more th skullg of Neolithic mple—peop.l.: :& \ lived in Britain 4,000 years ago or more—and has seen only one with a |, contracted palate and irregular teeth. Contraction in the width of the face and obstructions of the nose and throat are fairly common nowadays. The change Professor Keith attrib | to the less vigorous jaw action nq‘tx‘: teeth, of anclent man bear witness to the time when he ate shreds of “lm o 0 shreds of Appendicitis and certatn other tn tinal affections the Drofessor is :l: ?olqd to attribute to this same TOm & raw to a cooked diet, Of oth signs of physical ¢ - po. v change he finds no The huban body has proved marve ously adaptable to new lnrroundin: It may not sprout wings in the next hundred generations. But it is pretty sure to keep a serviceable pair of legs and a robust constitution. e iasisins — | Literally, “Can you give of highway robbell";r'. #0od tnstance Tm"; paving swindles” sold here from a thin to a heavy — THE PHOEN Christmgs. Call again during 1914, bring a friend. & L. E. PEACOCK T .. MAN The PHOENIX BARBER & From agl, dainty is fy e appetising = from a g|, 8 “jars your in Attention, H_ousewiv 18 1bs, Sugar AR 10 lbs Snowdrift ........ Feteo o sl 4 lbs Snowdrift ........ SR At 10 1bs Cottoline ........ L SRb e e 4 lbs Cottoline ...Compound Lard .............. c0onen ARl 12 1bs Best Flour ..... e el 24 1bg Rest Flour ..... s SEoi 12 1bs Best 8. R. Flour .......... . . 24 Ibs Best 8. R. Flour 1 1b White House Coffee .. .. ... ...... e 1 1b Caraga or Cracker Boy...... ... ; 1 1b Coffee and Chickory ...Good Loose Coffee .. .Best Butter ..... Rl L e e 2 1bs Best Tomatoes, 3 for _ .Best Rice ,.... R R R R I I S 2 Cans Bakter’s or B. L. Corn.. 6 Soap or Washing Powder...... 0 1 Peck Irish Potatoes fOr......... ..............= 10 1bs Meal or Grits (Hudnut’s) gt These prices are spot cash delivered to any pan city, everything guaranteed first class and exactly sented. These are just a few of the prices which! feting; everything else in proportion. If you wani goods at the right pricestogether with good delivery,r* s trlal. PHONES 119 and 234. 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