The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-09-14
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I lie ulOSL luiqultouS 1855 |
thing in this or any O1
other town is the char lN
acter assassin. There "
are some here in this ThIl w.
town, who, il paid by
the foot for all the lies
they tell on their neigh
bors, would have such
an income as to make
them valuable in assist, w
ing to maintain the gold
reserve in the Ma p
tional treasury. S
There are little liars u
and big ones; little scandal mongers =
hig ones. l know a man who wouid
walk ten miles to circulate a lie. and
would walk back before he would tell
the truth. Stealing is bad, but lying IS
worse. It's as bad as MURDER,
it is murder to characters.
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1.-THE least money, proportionately;
that we spend. is that which we expend
| towards building up our Masters King
| dom on EARTH" said a prominent CHRIS
tan man in my presence the other DAY.
And I believe It. l am convinced thai
there are twenty-five prOfesSed Chris
tians in this city who pay for
| tobacco than they give to the church.
/ will 90 further, and say that there are
TWENTY-FIVE members in every church IN
| this town who pay more for Injuries IN
six years than they give to God IN SIX
months. Now, this may SOUND very
strange; but the habit OF giving nOtning
to the church is very common these
days.
Our schools are all open, and the boys
and girls arc hard at work. Lexington
Is q college town, and it knows now 10
ING. as well as to welcome all who come
to Them. The girls that attend school
at our colleges are the prettiest n the
land. The boys are q fine set OF gooo
fellows, They have come to the ri9nl
schools. If the schools do good worR
| many of the students will not know q
much when they graduate as they think
thew know now. The greatest lesson 9
we'll conducted college teaches is thai
one which teaches the pupils how muc1
they do not know.
A good, live humane society 10 TIM
town would do a vast deal of good. W.
need q little more humanity here.
Nearly every church in this town own,
a bell. Why, I cannot tell you, bul
} thew are here. No bell calls me to my
work on week days. No bell tells me Il
20 home to dinner. No bell calls me q
q circus: none to Q county fair. NO Del
will toll the hour that / must leave 20!
work and 20 to . mass meeting. bul
when Sunday comes q thousand dollal
bell rings for me to come TO church or u
Sunday school. The bell seems necee
sary for the church, but the circus don
need one.
Lexington has all kinds of citizens
RANRLER meets several species ever.
, dav. am convinced that II Q census o
the Better World were taken Lexington
would have some Of every kind f0un(
there; and I fear that were the TACT
known, Ne could match most anythinl
10 the internal regions.
."
Lexington needs Q thorough shaktnl
ND. II should 20 through what house
keepers call Q ''spriug cleaning" IN
: weeds ought to Be cut; the old porche
in front OF our business houses shouli
, be made into q bonfire. There are hole
In the street that are crying TOR . fev
perch of mocadom. There ere 0ullolng
that need Q few strokes OF the pain
brush, and there are people who need
I lot in the cemetery. The latter ougn
to be provided tor 6rst.
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When the reins Of city government
were turned over to Mayor Taubman
|, the city was about $1,000 In debt. ID
has Just now entered his second Yea!
and our city owes no man Q dollar. I'M
. record that Mayor Taubman ough
to be proud Of.
Lexipgton has its faults; all town
have, but there is no city OF It's saze y
this COUNTRY where $l5O,0O0 for Q publ
epterprise can be raised in as short
: time as It was in this city, in the heal
OF 9 panic. This IL the place to livt
keep awake, educate your children an
be happy. ,aoAt
. The new woman" has not yet struc
= Lexington and + hope she never viii
II Lexington 10 cOntept with anything
:. IL IL with the women bhe already IA,
" Olcouree there are some here that ouGt
to learn how to do, eomething beside
read trashy novels, dance. snd go. :
, ssawcisty,n but ~ tn insy n ore rev !. III 4 v cnaSs
and II the new woman wants I
bloom, Let her bloom where she II. N
, bloomers are needed In Lexington.
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There are some men who catch %
/. eye that ] absolutely love. know eoul
men whom ] ofttmes think ese @eq
not used for the perfect man, ana
Q don't believe In waiting for him to d
before I disclose the secret that ] thin
be IL Q noble citizen. While ] am VII
ing this / am thinking about . score
V more whom I meet every day, " pe
ticulsrly OF E. N. McCausland. Whe
l think how he started In life, elWol
penniless, but endowed with an hone
name and possessed Of Q sterling cha
acter; and when / consider his preeeI
standing, I say away with your traa
: ebout money making the man..
!" don't do it, and it don't help do ",
= man is not . bank account. The meal
est piece OF property In this town
"a aver lived that have nothing th,
" could be converted into Q dollar j. Cha
acter Ia what makes Q man. Money cul
diamonds, palaces, and sometimes poll
icai fame, but it never bought goo
character, and it never will. But "a,
was saying, I am Ernest McCausland
b friend, because I admire the way he hl
., lived, IL living, and envy his prO1poc
for the future world. He 10 now c0u
fortably ''well or" and Whist ha, III
represents an honest, Christian caree
% He makes this town Q good citizen, on
.. his church Q live member. BY and. !
!, he will inherit Q crown and play q; b,
under an olive tree In Heaven.