The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-29
Examinations
of Uncle Henry


about il vii! tell you about Zeke
StaItons COW. Zcke didn't like to
20 by that name. because he come
cut into our neis hborhood straight
from town, when he was still Twin
on the arm, and in town his name
was +. Anthony Stanton, and he was
runnin a insurance business. But,
after his father died, Zeke come back
20 the old home place which he LEFT
as IA young man. thinkin he could do
better in town. but | guess he wished
nanny a time he had stayed on the
farm. Well, anyway, what Zeke
didn't know about tarmin would fill
a book. as the sayin is. and he didn't
wan, TO be cold. We had lots Of
fun with Zeke larnin MIN things.
Well, as | was passin by one day.
there | se,N Zeiie's COWS in old man
Anderson corn field, the corn bein
al that time Young and green and
:rately desired by COWS but Nlr from
GOOD for them. "Zeke," says |. when
cCme TO where he was wOrkin
your COWS is all over in old mah
Anderson corn field, a-filln them
elves with green corn. Il don't
give hang if they are, says Zcke.
let him look after his fences lit
he better. If he wants to furnish
feed or my COWS, all right ! was
80 disguised with Zckcs selfish way
CT loOkin at il, the old man bein
seventy-odd year old and with rheu-
ratism in both legs, real bad, that
went on about my BUSINESS, and
that night three of Xeke's five cows
PASSED away in CRATE agony from
eatn too much green corn.
There is lots OF people which is so
alradc Of dom somebody else inNor,
AZ, they lnilick CRATE inj"rys on
themselves koepin from it. What !
am writin about is the solcm faek
that peple livin in town thinks they
are wastin mony ii they do some
tnin 10 help he country folks, ami
folks liyn in the country thinks
ihcy are wastin therein il they d.
somcthin to help the town. \ Town
and the surrounding country Is a
necessary TO the maxim OF Il COM
munity as Il man and wife is to the
cstablishin of a reel home. \ old
made by herself amt home and
neither is old batcheler A town
/ set off by itself in barren dessert
wont never thrive. and country
without town aint goin to thrive
and why? Because you cant have
one without the tother. They belong
together. The more the town grows
and furnishes the more the country
prospers and the more the country
prospcrS the more the town grows
and expands. These is Jacks which
| has been too often overlooked. If Il
town is wicked or unhelthy. tn,
country surrOundin will get tina,
say. That is why a man livin miles
away srom town had ought to take Z,
! interest in what is goin on in town
| knowing that it makes a difference
| to him after all. If a country /,
/ prosperous and maxim mony, thr
town will do the same and yicy vcr-
/ sy The pople that lives in town hal
ought to let there sympathy extend
ont to the outermost borders OF the
surroundin country. They had ough,
10 care whether there is good roaes
and good churches and schools and
| Ill sich out in the country. Then. on
the other hand. the pcplc that lives
in the country had ought TO lend
there willin ade to everything that
is any good to the town. When there
is talk of a new ralerode that
blamed word don't look like its
spelled in the usal way. but | guess
you will kctch the idcc-comin into
town. or any new enterprise. or just
a monument III the puhlick square,
the country peple had ought to think
that that will help them if it is
addin any buty or grace or usefulness
20 the town. hope everybody that
reeds these lines will think about
these things and remember what
happened to Zeke because he
thought ~ he driv his cows out of
his nabor's field he would be con-
ierrin a faycr on his nabor. There
is lots of pcple and towns and cum
munitys which has stood in there
own light TO as CRATE extent or
verse than Zckc done that time.
Will close for this time, by men,
tionin that | hope the peple of this
town is still kecpin in mind the