The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-17
Nominations of
Uncle Henry

Jear Editer, l take my pen in
hand to let you know that l am
~ritin to you again. l reelize that
good nanny people has likely been
astin about me all though nobody
has sayed anything to me about
why haint | been writin. You amt
asted me ether but l will now ex-
splane. 1t has been on account of
the war. l knowed every boldly was
waiting to heer my views on the sub
jock OF the war and haint so far
been able to get amy view on the
war. Some times think l have just
about got view an then some thing
happens to upset it, an l have to
start to work on a mother view and
so it goes from day to day. An that
is how it is. l want you to put in
your paper why haint eAspressed
any views on the war and tell folks
that as soon as l get VIEW l will
be only to glad to tell what that
there view is.
At the present time my mind is
all took UP with things here in
Lakeland, and we had all ought to
| take warnin from the war. Castin
our eyes acroSt the sees, We can see
what comes of lettin hunen beins
get all riled up. They amt nothin
more costly than lettin your feelins
run away with your he'd. They
amt anybody rich enough that he
can afford to let hisself get mad to
the pint Of losin his holt on his rees-
en-. 1t costs Teller time, and
helth and welth and trends to let
loose of his senses. 1t is all right for
a man to get interested enough to
speek his mind when the occasion
calls for the same. A mans feel
ms is like steem enjinc, which is
a good servent but a poor master
as the sayin is.
Then aein. if a good. cnest, SEN
sible man was to loose his temper
for oncet or twict ana was to say a
few things which he don't meen as
bad as they sound, other folks had
oueht to be willin to overlook such
Things. We are none of us perfecR
and this idee had ought to be took
into consideration Take me the
other day. That there yaller rooster
of ourn got ont of the chicken yaro
and into the strawberry patch where
lust got the new plants sot ONT
an what does he do, but go scratch
ing around looking for worms, lns'
like some peeple in this town, whl"i
| is willing to scratch up the eehere
n,hlick's strawberry patch sos
they can get few worms for thei'
own throtes-you understand VIVA
am drivin at, hope, in spite o
the literary stile | am putin on
and I come out and seen him, ant
saws to him, says I, "Well, yo'
dog-gone onery cross-eyed reptlle o
beest of pray" ! says. and CIV
him a kick which both amazed an
sirprized him. Now. ! didn't mee'
all 7 saycd. 4 good sensible MAJ
;nsted of a rooster would nav
knowcd that I did not meen 1t.
know as we'll as anybody in m
sensible hours that rooster coui
mot he crosseyed, havin lived anon
chickens all nay life. But that oiam
fool rooster did not have sens
enough to make amy lowance'
: tho next day when ! come bac
from town, here seen he had &c
hisself loose agin and had scratcne
! M all the garden seeds when
lust had got planted. And what
rho result of this spiteful acksion
: h,snqa have got him shet up fattei
IN for a week for Sunday dinner
i u.rthv don't coax me out OF the nj
.ion before then, or II ! don't get
n rea.ctin that he haint nothin Out
roos,er and had not therefore oug'
lto be expected to act with so'
10 sense and according TO the dic'a'
of conscience.
s I have took up so mu'