The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-22
Examinations
of Uncle Henry

! nobody ketched that teller flames Is
because they amt gOin about it in
=. reesenin way. There amt no sense
in rushing up to every suspeshus-
| IOOkin man and astin him, because
every body is suspeshus lOOkin when
you are feelin suspeshus. You have
lot to set down and think out what
kind of a Teller dos Rafles appear
TO be, and then say, who is there
that ansers this disruption. Now.
I've got it figgered out that he is
r. Teller that enjoys a joke. That does
away with all the grouches at one
lick. There amt no sense in astin
sour lookin man is he Rafles. And
| have got few more pints studyd
cut to ketch him on If | beside to
do SO. could have been good de-
tecktive If | had of took enough in
terest. subscribed one time to .
paper that had the pitchers of all the
roges that was wanted anywhere In
the y. S.. but We was Twin in
cut-of-the-way kind of town then
and they didn't NANNY roges come
there except such as lived there and
they alters left for somewheres else
before there pitchers got in this pa
per. But just to show you how these
things has got to be thought out !
will ts1t you about the time ketched
the Downing brothers, which stoled
three hams from the Wilder Davises
smoke house one night. First, | says.
the theaves lives near at hand be-
cause theaves from afar of would
have took more SO as to make there
trip wuth while. Then, says l. they
didn't come in a Vaughn or buggy or
they would have took more anyway.
Then, says l, how could man carry
away three hams and, says I to my
self, he couldn't. Then, says I, there
was more than one thcaf Then, says
I, If there was two, why didn't they
take four hams. one under each arm,
and then, says I, one arm man
couldn't take but one. Then, I say'.
where is there a ono arm man in
this locality, and, says |, Jim Down
| ing. And, there | had it clear as
| daylight. So tcnk a few men and
we sarchcd the house whore the two
| DOwnincs lived and we found thom
three hams with few slices took
eff Of ono for breakfast The Widdcr
Davis was right glad to get them
back again. This is what comes OF
recsenin instcd of rushin into things
heltcr-skeltcr and pell-mcll.
! I seen few remarks you had
wrote in the paper about the pcp.c
not appreshiatin the natural beauty.
of our fare city This is sad and
true. and your remarks is very an
rrOpriate at this time. for have
been intending to write to YOU about
some talk that | hccr OF putin thai
lildin wait Till asst Martly how
the dun thing is spelled the Chau-
tauqua hildin right where il viii
aaGt of the vcw of Lake Mirror from
The pass, rsby and sojourGcrs VIII
may be walkin down past the IRE
monl hutell. anksbus and hunger,
ior site of one OF our beautiful
atd far-famrd lakes. SitcIens, thl
. Lad not cnchl io he. Such hrat,iir.
as ~ have here. although in album
dencr had ont to b. preserved. !
i c.s.,r to Keep from putin up
ildin in the rong place than il l.
To get it moved afterwards. Pcph
comes to Lakeland for the nature
beauty and this had ought to be add
ed to rather than took from If W,
Ccpcnd on our beautiful bildins I,
attrack pcple. We shall fale for som,
l other town like Arcadia or Orland,
IS apt to get hustle on at any tim
4 and put up some that is more plesil
to the eye. Peplc dos not come her,
] 10 see the peple. There is peple ey
: erywhere. and they look pretty mucl
= the same, some ugly as Saten befor
: daylight and others fare as the rose
3 and some fare to middlin. The graf
attrackshun Lakeland has to pre
I sent to the outside world, as l hay
5 found from speekin with large mum
e bers Of hOmeseekers and new com
ers. is her crate beauty. Citezens
we have been grately blesst by tn
hand of Nature-that is, | meen. a
!, city. We have been grately blessr
: etc. and We had ought to appreshi
e ate that fact by takin care of OH
r good lOoks-I am still speekin of tn
4 city. Now, instead of putin tina