The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-11-23
!, FOUNDATIONS
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: UNCLE HENRY

Dear Editer, | have not writ 10
YOU for a long time. guess you
rotised that, but guess yon ain,
mad Mrs II. amt. can tell by
the way she specks to me on tn"
street Sho M alters been nice to
ne. but am fefull not to say that
la Marthy. She has saycd nanny Il
time that would not he so keen
On wri,n /. they want a gOod-lOOkln
woman in the oils. Well. as | have
saycd TO her in reply, IL admit u
il that would rlther look at a good
lckin woman than ii woman which
aint good look in But when Il
comes to writin | think would
write anyway. | have alters made
practis OF writn for the newspa-
pcrs wherever may be. don't
, think there is much use for me 10
write for magazine think
there is too nanny pCnle writ
in for them. They get a little stuc!.
Up about the things that is put in
trcir papers. Now. you folks amt
that way. at all Mrs. II. has saycd
to me lots of time that You are glad
! to get my writins. She says that
nanny Il time If ii want for my
vriiin you would have to put some
thing else in the paper. am alters
t"yin to help along in any enterprise
| would have been willin to of spoke
at the Hord Of Trade mcctin the 9th
er night. If had been asst. think
Mr.. Cox or Mr.. Mcndenhall would
OF asst me if they had of thought Of
il. They are both reel nice to me Oh
the street and think they both OF
them rcelze that | have done a good
decl for the BOrd of Trade in tn"
suggestions have made from time
, t. time in the paper. II haint any
use to asst me to sing. | can't sing
r'uch. guess could If ever tOoN
! time to practis little, but | have
spent most of my time writin and
practisin for lecturin. Some of these
days someone will think to asst me to
lake a speech and | will be found
with my lamp of clliuucns trimmed
and burnin.
Some peplc is not that way. they
lay awake nights wOnderin have
they been careless enough to do
somethin which would help some
boldly else some or the town. | get
reel riled up sometimes. The worst,
is when heer men saying they don ,
want any improvements made here
in this town becase it will rase the
taxes II there is anythin man
had ought TO pay cheerful it is gros-
. cry bills and taxes. especially taxes
Some peplc is too dun to see things
like they are. They is a man i'm
this town which sayed he didn
want the streets paved on account OF
bow much ii would cost and | have
counted up, and the leest | can maxi.
out is that his land, making allow.
cnce off for the bildins he has pr,
: up. and his land is worth four hun.
derd times what it was worth tif
teen yeers ago. Now. he hant mad
that difference hisself, becase that i.
{ without countin what he has don,
tisself. All that four hundred time.
has been made for him by other pc
f PIE, by the City of Lakeland. and h,
e is growlin all the time that take.
!, is high and he is worrying that the,
. are going to be higher. Seems lik,
/ he could well afford to pay taxes II,
. won't get that four HUNDRED time,
paved back to the City if he live
TO be old as Muthusilem, and tn,
: Lord knows what his land will b,
e worth by that time again, and look
o In at it that way, there couldn
come time when he would be dol,
e more for Lakeland than Lakelan,
is was doin for him. And, bet h
IT would hate to spend fifty cents 70
1t the womens club entertainment i
e ne couldn't help thinkin he wa
: helpin the town along.
D l will now draw this letter to
. close, so no more at present from
IL UNCLE HENRY.
e P. 81 hope all them which hate
q to pay there taxes will read this an,
e think on it deeply.