The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1891-01-17
OF AGE.

This number of the Intelligencer is
the itty-second in the twentieth year of
Its existence. With the next issue the
journal will be twenty-one years of
age.
What memories this short announce
ment calls upl How many stirring
scenes have taken placed How many
aud how many are the incidents we
have Lad to recount. Here a merry
making, there a funeral; here a birth
and there a death; here a marriage and
there a mourning. AS occasion de-
manded there have been denunciation
of wroDg-doing on the part of the
derelict and commentator of the
faahful. The struggling have been
encouraged with a cheerful word, the
needy have been aided, the weak
strengthened and the naughty rebuked.
Temperance ,frugality, honesty religion
aud patriotism have been upheld, and
their antithesis discouraged. Tied to
no faction,the organ of no man, indie
pendent and fearless, from the day 1t
was founded by Judge Young and
others, through the time when Latay-
elite Groves, its editor, was murdered
or defending the rights OF the people,
down through every day of its career
until now, the good old paper has been
so conducted that it can hold upErts
head with prIde,a and claim to iiavs done
ito duty BY tiss putIicf = -
"A has been polite, coEs) aerfte, decent.
II has kept above baax sarrsis and
tittle-tattle. IT has csoseh the world
for its stage, and not .Ae corner OF a
village. 1t has endeavored to make
the familiars of the everyday life OF Its
readers the Bismarcks, Gladstones,
Gambettis aud Gortschskofis OF the old
world, as we'll as the Lincolns, Davises,
Grants, Lees, Garfields and Tildens of
the new. 1t has recorded in its personal
columns with equal Importance the
names of our W sweet woman with
those of the crowned heads of Europe.
Upon the bro ws of these last may rest
diadems Of gold, sapphires ana dls-
monds, but these brilliants never shone
more brightly than do the eyes of
Lafayette's fair daughters, and no gold
vas Q truer and purer than their
hearts. Wa have felt q pride In serv-
ing such a people, and we have tried to
do 1t well. No doubt there haye been
errors of the head, we claim no exemp-
ton from mistakes, but our purposes
have ever been pure, our eyes have
been dxed upon the star OF duty.
Our readers have become to us old
friends. We know them In every
corner of the c%ounty-the kindly old
man with frosted hairs and bent form
who has so often had q kindly word OF
encouragemen ut or praise tor US, occa-
sionally, too, something of advice or
criticism; the stalwart son of our
noble prairies, In the full bloom OF
manhood, as sturdy, as strong, as free
aud as independent as men are ever
made. We haye ielt his warm hand.
clasps, and knew that we had a friend
n, hypocrisy there no Interior motive,
no self-seekiDg. 1t Is q privilege to
have known him and to have had his
The youth whom we have
met, full OF aspirations and hopes.
Then the mothers, God bless them! is
there anything in nature that is nobler2
Aud the maidens and the children. To
some OF these we have gone once q
week for twenty one years. With this
issue we beco me Of age, dear reader
have loved and cared tor you; we
have sought to do you good; We have
preached to y ou at times, we have tried
to make you laugh; we have entered
into your joys and into your sorrows.
nave worn out three or four dresses
waiting on You, ana we need q new
snd Wa mean 70 have it aeon.
The constituency OF the Inteliigsncsr,
is co-e xtensise with ssefy NOOK
and corner of Lafayette county, which
spreads out o YER Missouri, the United
and even into Europe. South
. nerica and China, is entitled to the
best and it must have il.
We have attained our majority. We
are no longer a fedgling in adolescence,
and we make our most profound
bow, and most grateful acknowledge
msuts. We have to thank the public
for their generous favor, for their
and material support, bul
not tor these alone, or chiefly but much
more for their confidence, their esteem
and their he arty good will. In the
OF this paper 1t has never
1e seived them. II has neyer palmed
of on them O paid advertisement a. an
editorial. II has never had an editor
who called any man masters. II has
Its own thoughts aud said its
say. 30 having made our little
obeisance, and crowed our litle crow,
we deyoutelY say, may God bless u
lrienus, and forgive our enemies, II we
have any, which heaven forfend. Why
should q new psper have enemies? But
whatever comes or whatever goes we
ask you to continue to be good to the
Intelligencer.
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