The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-03-23
THEY ARE DEAD.

the harp and the Tyre might discourse
sad strains, conveying still sadder sen
timents.
The flowers bloom and die; the gian'
oak, that from the grew, decays
and passes away the beasts walk II
the same narrow pathway; the birds OF
the air meet with the same sad fate
the same impartial Master comes tc
man.
In everything in which God implant'
life, death To take away.
Through its portal everything has gone
or must go. Tho beasts, the birds, tho
flowers pass away and nothing but Il
passing notice of them is made: but
when man dies, nan that is immortal,
whose soul never dies, it is appropriate
that around his bedside friends and
loved ones should gather to pay him
due respect. Likewise it is appropriate
for the favoritc newspaper 10 notice,
even sometimes at length, the death
that falls as an atIliction upon the
community. 1t falls to the lot of jour
nalists oftiMes to point out the virtues
and to overlook the vices that charac-
terized the dead and departed.
The INTELLIGENcER dislikes to print
an obituary, because 1t dlslikes to
record the death of any man who Is
worthy Of nm obituary. However, there
are times when duty commands that
they be written aud published, and an
honest editor will never shirk a well
defined duty.
Sometimes in the past, deaths have
occurred In Lexington which we have
not seen chropicled in any paper. They
are deaths that have fallen as an afflic-
ton upon this patient and long suffer-
ing community. They were supposed
to be christian men, but surely not, for
their souls are still on earth; they were
supposed to be patriots, but they are
dead to patriotic deeds; they were
supposed to have died rich, but they
plead poverty; they have never bad a
burial service, but if they get their just
deserts, they will have one o
Around their grave friends have never
and they e will if justice
deals out the reward. These men
number full q SCORE. They died as far as
this world is concerned, sometime in
the past, and 1t is safe to presume that
the reason they have not been trans
ported is because there is not a place
for them in either world to come. They
are doing no good, but their example
cursing the world, and before a God
al wise they will have to answer
for 1t.
We don't know whether it is exactly
right to say they are dead, because they
breathe, but II air cost anything, they
b too stingy to inhale enough
to keep them alive; il it cost anything
10 60 to church they would know
the preacher; il Bibles weren't so
cheap they would never have read the
precious promise Of life eternal; if it
cost anything to talk they would be as
dumb - q stone wall; If it cost any
hing to see, the world would be to
hem an. Egyptian midnight. They are
lead to humanity; they are dead to
enterprise, breakers to progress,
blocks to the success of
Obstacles along the pathway
,thers must journey. They are in the
always In the wrong place, and
will never get their deserts until The
Iudgment. They are IN for every n
that is free; they cast their
Vote because 1t costs nothing; they
lttend public meetings that are free TO
III, but when 1t comes to subscribing
,ne Of their boarded, rusty old dollars,
hen, they arc dead, dead, dead! They
ire doing this world harm; they are
Lexington; they are a curse to
humanity; they are ten thousand years
the times and Just that far ont
u their own sphere. Since the enter
citizens Of Lexington started
no bridge boom their tongues have
'een tireiess In wagging against it.
Their pocket books have been impene-
rable. While. they plead poverty, it is
Inown that they arc possessed of much
goods. They r just rs
that tho bridge be built as
puch meA % Jim NcGrew, John Taub-
nan, John Blackwell, Gus Hearle,
Chanslor, j. F. +. Winkler,
McCausland and scores Of
but they dare not say SO. While
hey admit 1t in their hearts they dare
,ot admit 1t in public; for admitting
his, they would have no good reason
!or net contributing to its erection.
They believe, too, that the bridge
will be built and they know they will
cap profits therefrom. They are not
going to steal these profits
hey will simply dead bead them. They
're going to accept of benefits which
hey know will not honestly belong to
benz.
The bridge will be built and it is a
q shame, that some means cannot
70 contrived by which their property
would not be benefited.
The INTELLIGENCER has no patience
With q niser, and less with a citizen
ost to patriotism and public duty.
But why talk Of the deadP The dead
'annOt hear, therefore they will not
reed. If they could read this article
hey wsuld know Lexlngton's opinion
u them, but they cannot read, and
hersfore no one will take exceptions
It.
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ors for the support Of sold maids"
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