The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-14
Examinations of
Uncle Henry
Dear Editer, l see that my crate

said onct before. And l am writin
now to speek a few words on the
subjeck of jellussy. This town is
CROWN every day and that meens
that peple which haint had no CON-
peteshun up to the present time Is
apt to experience the same at any
time, and there Is some peple In this
town which needs talkin to on this
subjeck of jellussy anyway. For one
thing II a man amt better than you
are there amt no rees0n for you to
be jellus and if he is better. you had
ought to get a hamp on yourself and
get up to the place where you are
better than he is. And ii you Amt
able or willin to do that you had
ought to Jest admit to his bein the
better man and let things 60 at that.
These is my views on the subjeck o.
jellussy. Now, another thing, IT any
body is runnin a old one-horse kind
Of business they have got to expect
that there will be somebody come
along that will see the chanel to &c:
all the trade by running the same
kind of BUSINESS in a up-tO-date kind
Of way. Such persen has got no
boldly to kick but hisself when such
another persen comes along. Then
there is another thing and that Is,
it amt safe to say meen things about
some boldly else jest for spite for
such speekin alters hurts the one
that is talkin the worst of anybody
That make me think Of Matt Jen-
nings. He was runnin a grOsery
store back where we used to live and
he was the only one there was in
Liberty. which was a little cross
roads town, you might say, about five
miles from the town We was livin
in. And, he had a pretty dirty look
in place, still he got good deel OF
trade from folks that didn't have time
to go further. Well, Sam Myerses
second Oldest boy forget his name,
kinder sickly from living
in a big city so long--he'd been in
Chicago sence he was eighteen or so,
and the doctors told him to go back
to the country where he had ought
to have stayed in the first place, and
the first thing We knowed he was OPP
pnin grOsery store right acrOst
from Mats store And Matt was
mad as wet hen. He kept sayin
around that Liberty couldn't keep up
no two grosery stores. He lowed he
was lOsin money every year, and was
Just kecpin up the store for the pies
ure it was to him. hut still young
Myers he went on a-fiNin NJ his store.
He put in a bic glass windcr all shot
up in he back to keep the dust often
the things in the winder. he said.
md lhtn Matt he lowed the you're
'ool had lost what little sense h"
n4ieht onct have had, to he tryin any
things like that in a
town the size of Liberty. When young
Myers cot through iixin up. he had
is pretty a store as | ever have set
cot into before or scncc. And. Matt
said that he guessed the folks that
lad traded with him for the last fif-
teen yeers wasn't goin to be took in
~ the fancy looks of the store acrost
he street. But they was. BY gum.
t want long till they was goin out
rom our town to Liberty to buy
hings from young Myers. Marthy
vent sometimes herself. She said ii
vas a plesure to buy where things
vas SO eileen and fixed up so plesin to
he eye. all for the same price. Then
Matt he tried cuttin prices. but young
Myers never took no motifs of that,
md still the peplc kept eoin to the
lew store. Well. one day Matt puts
mt sine with reedin on it like |
his: DO not go acrost the street |
. b. cheeted. Come in here" He |
rent that for = hint agin the hon
sly of young Myers, but the peple
ldnt take it that way. and they all
OF 10 latin about that sine Then
latt moved his store over to Jack
on 5 Corners and | recken he is there
ct. If they amt no cleener store
tarted up there by this time. The
eeson | was thinkin of Matt is be-
ause ii is generally the case that If
nybody tries TO think up somethin