The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-03-02

The Country Paper.
alt is 8 fashion, l know, among city
newspaper f6lk who are the mere hire
liugs Of capital, to ridicule the country
paper says a reformed travelling man,
..but l have been = regular subscriber
10 the Unionville Banner for over so
years. There's . evening 10 the
week that | look forward to with zesi.
That's Monday night, when l light my
old pipe. put on my slippers, and lie
back in the rocker for a musing and a
dreaming over my copy Of the Banner
ii turn to the front page first, Of
course, and here, in my Local News
ASCERTAIN that Miss Ella Stuart has
quite a class Of music pupils here in
Town and also conducts a class In Pat
t~onsburg. MISS Stuart has a good
quality OF musical talent Why, dear
mel don't IL beat ali how things do
move, Why, used 10 60 to the high
school in Unionville with Ella Siuau's
mother. And many a time have hung
May baskets with her aud then hung
over the old white paling gate and held
her hand until an ominous raising of
an upper window Indicated that a par
ent OF Elias mother desired the daugh.
Ier's presence within.
"And, let's see! Why, here's some
thing: walter Thomas has been to the
city this week, laying in a new stock
Of goods. Peter Figel is helping out
IN the Emporium during Walters alb
sence.' Well, ii is surprising how some
bOysTl come up in the world IN spite
Of poverty and distress. Know who
that Walter Thomas tsp Well, sir, he's
the grandson OF old Pap Thomas, as
we used 10 call him, who used to live
away down there by the railroad in
that little hut Of q place, and had a
cabbage patch all around the house.
Desolate = looking place as you ever
saw. Pap was sort Of half-witted and
bad s son who l should say was fully
three quarters witted. A ~peaeesble,
law abiding well digger he came to be.
Married a real bright girl, really con
siderably above the average, and here:
their sons become the leading mer-
chant IN UnicnUllel This Peter FIgeI
Is g relation-son, maybe-of an old
foreigner who settled down in Union
vile aud earned a living at cobblng,
Said 10 be Of noble birth be was, and
mysterious generally.
al shouldn't know the faces that
would greet me on Main street, | sup
pose, now. Most Of 'em come up since
! was > boy. l wonder who really
has made the truest success, the boys
who stayed at home or those who were
gong to conquer the great world out
side. There we're my sehoolmales who
married and settled down in Union
VILE, and their sons and daughters are
today young men and women. was
going to do such big things when
struck the city that ! couldn't exactly
make up my mind to take time to come
back and court Susie Williams. ! kept
putting it off and putting II off until
| should get a little better and a little
better position, until the first thing
/ knew, Phil Kerns up and married her
aud | was left. So that's how 1t is,
and bless me II I don't wonder some
times as | muse over the old Banner Il
the uuys who stayed to home haSS
made such a miserable failure Of 1t
after all.
$50 1 read along to ponder over the
memories that those quaint items in
the Local News call forth. Well, you
city newspaper men may poke fun at
the country weekly as you will, but l
fail to see why the fact that "a resident
of KNOXVILLE has lately bought The
place of another resident Of Unionyllle,
and intends to move into it, may not be
as well worth chronicling IN the local
paper of U%nionyllle as the fact that a
dog Of 8 famous actress died lon the
steamer is worth two-column pictures
and a half-column description in .chy
daIlies. Blamed'f I a see much dIf-
ference IN merit between a poodle dog
editorial in a city daily and "a big
cabbage just laid on the desk Of ye
editor Of a country weekly"