The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-06-30
FOUNDATIONS
UNCLE HENRY:
Dear Editer:

same. ! would have wrote sooner but
/ have ben busy. We are lookins
for Bobbie home tomorrow mite anC
Clare Louise will come as soon al
she is through bein bridesmaids al
June weddins. Marthy has Der
dead set on havin the chicken house
white washed inside before the chill.
dren got here and have not had
time to write before this. | am sor.
ry, would like to of ben helpin you
out a little with your work while
Uncle Joe is away. The lot of a
newspaper man is not what 1t is
cracked up to be by them that don't
no nothin about it. | no a good deel
havin ben writin for pappers off ana
on for about fourty yeers, and have
also took motifs good deel. There
was Teller back wheer we used to
live that come there to run the pa
per and he had dickens of time.
His trubbles come about most from
not lissenin to me. Says l, Young
# Her, don't start out with too nanny
rules for yourself. Do the best you
can" says l, land let it go at that.
He looked at. me scornfull and says,
II callate to have one motto says
he, this is goin to be the paper
that prints no retracksions," says he.
Il am goin to print the truth in
the first place from good authority
and after that ! shall stand nv
ground" | says, says |, "A church
deekin is apt to be mistaken and
some of them will lie." Howsueyer,
he didn't look Interested. and to
make a long story short, he wasn't
Interested. But they was things he
didn't no, which he learned later.
They was blacksmith in town
and his name was Jedediah Horn
well. He was the healthiest lookin
Teller in town recken. He wun
lots Of prizes at fares and SIGH with
his feets Of strenth. One day this
Teller More. the editer--I asst George
Moore here one day if the Teller was
any relation to him, and he says not
he seen the dead waggen goin
along and he was in the midst of
gettin the weakly paper printed.
but he stops work and calls up the
wife and asted her who
was dead and she says, "Jed Horn
we'll" "Aint it little sudden for
him." says More. Not SO you can
notis," says she, "h'e he'd consum.
sion for five yeers Mrs. Hornwell
has had black dress KEEP on hands.
for four yeers." Well, More he
was pretty smart touched, reckon
ard he writ up as fine a peece as |
guess | most ever seen about Jed
tein smit down in the prime of life
and full Of vigger, and how he was
brave and KEEP up with the dre1 dis
ease having at his vittles, and spoke
O. in the midst of life we are in
deth. More told me afterwards he
wished to heavens he had left out
about his being our enterprisi,l
blacksmith. He says they want
Eothin else in the peece but
what could have ben explained by
his poets lisense Any way, Jed
i!ornwell come down to, the. offs and
what he done to More was a cawtion
tryin to get him to say he would en-
plane it different next week, and
More wouldn't promis. He never
cid promis either, ! give him credet
for that. You see, Jed want the one.
Il was his cousen, another Jed Horn
well lived out East town that More
never had heern tell Of as 1t hap
rcned The next week More wrote
ur the funeral but never mensione1
anything about it not bin the black
smith that was dead, and when the
Jed Hornwell that was alive read
the nice peece about the funerel, he
felt a little better. After that ,ohw-
sumever, More statred off his deth
rGtises with the words, 1T is room
cred On our streets etc. | says to
More afterwards, says l, "Your idee
Of not takin nothin back Is a good
iGee," says l, "but i recken it Is
mighty announcement at times" And
he started in givin me fits because i
never told him they was two Jed
Hornwells in the naberhood, and say
ing things abut fool mothers that
named there children alike to start
with.
What | am writin to you about |.
this. We have got to commenst
thinkin about fall and winter comm
on, and get things In good shape
Are we goin to have the White Way