Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-11
Revival Of the Agricultural Society Of
Charles County.

| We read with pleasure "a we'll written cdito-
| rial in our always welcome exchange, The
I Maryland Independent" urgisg in strong
I terms the prOpriety of re-establishinR the
Charles County Agricultural Society. We do
earnestly hope that this string appeal will be
,ffcctual oh with what pleasure do We re-
member in the good old days of the past, the
joyous meetings in Port Tobacco ofthe whole
souled people of Charles, at the annual farm
er Festival. Yet memory is tngcd with sad
ness, when the crowd Of honorcd men and no.
bic women then and there assembled, are now
no more. But, for the sake Of their memories,
let their sons and daughters again take up the
work they left off and following their example,
organize an association which is calculated to
do great good toward agricultural and me-
chanical progress, and at least create gener-
GUS rivalry, while securing generous frater-
nifty OF feeling among all who have one com
mon interest-the welfare and prosperity of
the county ana its whole pesple.-Ad. Farmer.
Yes, they were farmers festivals not to be
forgotten. Those Of us, who were children
then, remember now with delight the happy
halcyon days of that long ago. The impress
sions then made were indelible and their ten
denotes were good, for memory is stored with
u wealth OF precious recollections that bind, as
FURNISHED links in the chain Of time, the dis
astrous present with the prosperous past We
readily detect in our valued cotemporar.' re-
trospection the tiRgc of sadness. Itperhaps is
natural it is 40, for mNsny-aI how many
| troubled years have come and gone since then
how many loving lips have ceased to speak
how many burthened hearts have ceased to
beat, how many and marked the mutations of
,nen a nj THINGS that have nntcd this opw,rd
flight of time, aud meditation always saddcns
most when it takes US back to contemplate the
attractive loyelines, Of the paradise we have
lost. Reflection may love to lnger there and
sword may flash its angry warning, yet above
those portals let us fancy no inscription of the
| legend that denies us hope 1t is rather like
thread Of gold interviewer, as it were, in the
wool of years to give support in tribulation, to
make with tenderness "reminiscences more holy,
yicisSitude more tolerahle, forttude more he
roic resolution more earnest and hope more
blessed. Then let us not rest like the stag.
nant pool while the sickly scum gathers on IT,
Let US restore these "farmer festivals" We
may not rival the pretentiouS efforts of richer
and more favored communities but We may at
least do the best we can. 1t will afford relief,
temporary at least, from pressing trouble. for
in the ioyousness of these occasions sorrow is
put aside and forgotten: it will enhance friend
ly fellowship and social intercourse by bring
ing our people in neighborly contact, and it
VIII vastly promote agriculture and other in
dustrial progress by the spirit of competition
1T will stimulate. Let US have the fairs again.
For ourselves we pledge TO do our part with
liberal hand in any way conducive TO that
end. We are glad to have our suggestion
backed by so high and deservedly popular a
journal AS the Maryland Farmer. We under
take to say its editor will show BY his presence
among US the interest he feels in the people of
whom he speaks so kindly. His coming will
take us back to other days. He is one of the
few left who was active with us then and in
whom long years Of useful and well spent
life have abated nothing of his zeal for the far
Ter's good. MAY time deal gently with him.