The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-01-18

If one of those men could lay ten cents on
top of the ground and see each cent put
out sprout, upon which grew another
cent, he might be content to leave them
| there for a while, but if he had to bury
them out of his sight, and exercise his faith
and patience till the newly-sprouted cents
came up, he would put the seed cents in
his pocket, button that up, and walk off,
thinking himself wiser than his day and
generation. Such Hartford man, when
he has kept his family without schooling
" newspapers; his wife without any help
and worked her to death brought up his
boys to be ignorant clod-hoppers,his daugh-
tiers illiterate drudges; all to enable him to
scrape together some money, takes it to the
awyer's or brokers', and says, II hear
here's good many poor fellows wants to
borrow few dollars. don't believe in
folks dom no good with what little they've
got. Here's Il little money. You can lend
1t to them that's in need, but mind, for
every twenty you lend them they've got to
pay me thirty for obligin' of 'em. You
know how to fix it up so it will square with
the law, and of course, I'll give you some
thin for your trouble" Then he goes on
his way, thinking himself righteous man
and beneficent citizen. When his final
settling up comes; when he is out of reach
Of human law or help, it may be he will
wish he had given his surplus to help to
build Il railroad.
1t is shame to the people of Hartford
county that such beautiful and produc-
tive country as lies within her borders
should be walled in from the rest of the
world for want of the few thousand dollars
required to put its beauty and fertility
within easy sight and reach of outsiders.
Compared with the value of the property
in Hartford they are really but Il few thous-
ands that are needed, and it will be worse
than shame if the projected railroad falls
through now for want of those few. If it
be really so that no more money is to be
obtained along the line of road, there is
plenty of money elsewhere; and, pending
the time consumed in Legislation and the
uncertainty Of anything satisfactory being
obtained by that means, obviously the only
way to get help is to go and seek it. For
tunately for many an enterprise, there are
men with capital who are not afraid of
little risk and will put it into railroads,
steamboat lines, &C., without exacting the
warrant that such lines must run just out
side their front gates. Once let the natural
resources Of Hartford become known among
men who are reaching out for ways to in
crease their wealth and extend their in
huence, and she will not want for help to
build her railroads and develop her capa-
bilities. New York capital is building
railroads, digging canals, sailing ships and
steamboats,, to open up the widest wilder
nesses, in many cases thousands of miles
away to bring into market commodities
which abound within the limits of Hartford.
Would it not be good thing for the Pres
ident and Directors to send some honest
man, duly accredited, to confer with some
of the great capitalists of New York and
see what might be done Let them select
as envoy some one acquainted with New
York and New York ways of doing bust
ness, and send by him good and fair speci-
men of each of the minerals which are so
plentiful throughout the county, particular
ly its upper section. Select some nice
blocks Of Deer Creek rocks of the several
kinds existing along its course; furnish him
with statement OF the grain-producing
capacity of the land, number of acres cul-
tivated, &C., with map of the county,
showing particularly the number of streams
available for manufacturing purposes. The
fact that the streams of Hartford furnish
force nearly or quite equal to tlcenty M0us-
and horse p0acer, will be telling appeal to
those anxious to extend their manufactur-
ing establishments within convenient reach
of the great markets. Any other data that
may be in his favor should be placed in the
ENJOYS possession, and he be empowered
g., III c,,Lc yrl, ha I,o
able to secure them.
These remarks are offered as mere sug-
gestion of what might be done by energy
and perseverance. Were there time and
space, the subject offers capabilities for
very lengthy article and then not cover all
the ground.
Scripture counsels that the "candle be
set upon a candlestick, that it may give
light unto all the house." If Hartford
county does not make herself known, she
will remain, perhaps, for generations as she
now is, almost an unknown land in the
great centre of commerce and manufactures.
There are scores of pages of letters pub
lished IN the great city papers, calling at
tention to regions of country not half so
desirable as our own healthy, beautiful
county. Why does not some literary citi
zen write of Hartford and her hidden re-
sources, and it may be, call hither attention,
which may result in her great gain
Nature has given the people of Hartford
county as beautiful a home as man need
wish, and has placed within their reach
wealth which to develop is a duty they
owe not only to themselves but to the rest
of the world This it is impossible to ac-
complish without easy and efficient means
of transportation. These can only be OBJ
tanned by building railroad, and now is
the time to do that, and nothing should be
left undone or untried thar will in any
way further that end. Fail now, and this
generation may give up all hope of ever
hearing the whistle of the locomotive re-
sound through the green vallies of Hartford.
Each encouragement only places the end
further off. 1t is far harder to rekinde ii
fire that has been put out than it is to start
a new one. w.
Philanthropy of Common Life.
There are those who, with u kind of no.