The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-01-10
Examinations of
Uncle Henry

Dear f.diier: was thinkin this
mornin a little lazy-like about Lett
Tia Wilson's garrit. Tishy comes near
hein a relation to Marthy. bein her
Aunt Caroline's step-daughter by her
second husband. and one day when
Marthy went over to see Tishy about
some church dOins. there was Tishy
up in the garrit a-reddin things up,
and she calls to Mar,hy to come on
up for she was to busy to ,Ome down.
Marthy says she never seen such a
sight in her life rs Tisn, wo kin
like all possessed among hem things
that she'd had near about ever sencc
the flood. Marthy says there set
every stick of furniter that ever was
in the house and every s;ich oil close
that Tishy ever had, and lOr OF
things that was broke and II, good
10 anybody.
Land O Twin" says Marthy.
what on airth have you got all them
Kings here for
Because. they're mine. says
Tishy. little sharp. i've alters had
them, and expect always to have
hem. Nobody can tell when they II
come in handy"
Well. | should think. says Marthy
that a woman OF your age and COM
plection and the figger you've got to
he would know you aint apt to need
that peach-blOssOm pink satin dress,
and it all out of stle and split in 4
thousand places" hut she says she
seen she was saying too much to suite
Tishy, and after Tishy said she want
10 spendthrift if other folks was.
Marthy changed the subject and
didn't say no more.
Well, while was thinkin OF thi,
with lots of amusement, il come to
me that there was nanny Other
things in this world which is kept
and kept long past the days of there
usefulness. "Why." says | TO my
self fer instance, dos peplc keep
saying rCheep land in Florida?' The
eyes Of the hull country is turned tn
Florida, and We keep passin out tn,
word that there is cheap land here,
/ .Orgettin tina! the price OF land has
,onc up hrrp since we begun to
say that. There is places in Kansas
and Missouri where farms is for sale
| Tor thirty-iiNc or forty dollars acre.
and some perhaps for half that,
but | am saying that there is plenty
OF places where the land such as il
IS. is cheepcr than il is here. The
| 4, ime was when the ohecpness of Flor
| ida land was the most notisablc thin :,
about it, but that time has passed.
/ II we keep ON talkin about land be-
ing cheap here, We are liable to make
some people think that i; all there is
tc say about it, and oth,r prplc that
comes here from places where i'm
proved land is thirty-tiNc dollars 4
acre is apt to be disappointed, 1t j.,
;lmc to say GOOD LAND IN +! OR
! IDA" That is now the most n0liS-
/, able thing about the land a.Onn j
lakeland. anyway. II there is places
in this state where the best thin =
| there is to he said for the land j.
We will lift our voices mp and per
lame to he world that We have 80,
,God land. Smart prple is lookin%
first for good land and then they are
nquirine about The price.
/ Yes. thinks. l. there ar" more fcols
u this world than Tiahy Wilson vita
her trunks and boxes of worc-out AMI
mi Of stic close \ idcr whi,h !,
worn out and ont O fsiile Is a. hal
and | dunuo but what il is wrr-' ,
5ays 10 myself.
Marthy wants ny" - walk NJ 20" "a
with hey, 50 10 mere al present. IRON
your humble serycnt,
UNCLE HENRY.