The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-07-08
A Rid to the Brick Meetin., House.


MN LEEDS. July -, 1852.
\ ride This morning To the Brick Meeting
/ House gave an opportunity t" ,re The wheat
crop along the route. About home, much
of the heat had been cut and shocked, but
after left the Mon | SAW no more in
shocks, but all along the road to Zion and
the Brick, the wheat crop is Il remarka-
bly, good one indeed have never seen :"
fine Il crop, such good wheat, and SO large
an acreage. Along the line indicated !
think there is now four times rs much
wheat as was grown on these lands when
first remember them, fifty years ago. But
perhaps, that is about III keeping with
an increase of population, a il is found To
double itself in :he United States every
twenty :ive years and quadrupple itself i'll
fifty years. II will require some work to
produce Il wheat crop four times rs larg" is
the present, at the end Of the next fifty
years. Bat it can he done
The prospect of corn is not good this
seaSon-some very poor, and some poor
enough, with many intermediate grades. But
with favorable season there may be an
average crop. Corn is the most certain
crop We have. If it stands well, the ground
good, and we'll worked, it is a tolerably
certain crop. The best field ofcorn saw was
Hugh NJ. Camerons--it was uniform in size
and nearly as high as the fence. The grass
crop is tolerahiy fair, but potatoes seem to
have suffered from dry weather. The past
week has been very favorable for harvesting
and if the incoming one should prove rs
favorable the wheat Of the country will
generally be in shock.
\ new feature to me at the Brick Meeting
House, was n Sunday School. These schools
have become general and popular, and all
societies must keep up with the progress OF
the times or fall behind
There are many admirable traits in the
character and history of the puakerS.
While our country has always had to con-
tribute Il large sum Of money for the yearly
support of the poor, the Society of Friends
has never suffered any of its people to be-
come chargable ON the county, nor do we
find them thronging the courts charged
with violations of law.
They live temporarily and well, and are
noted for good health, and length of years
and are generally above the average size. If
any person wishes an illustration, let him
visit their yearly meeting On Arch street,
Philadelphia. In the city OF London where
the statistics have been kept with great care
for Il long period of years, it appears, that
OF all the persons born in that capital, not
more than one in forty, reaches the age Of
four score year, yet ofthe Society of Friends
born in that city more than one in ten act
ually reaches tuurscore years-a fact which
carries its own inference with it.
Sometimes we hear something said dis
paragingly of the Friends, but who can es-
cape the witicisms and jokes of the day.
There is an anecddte of the late John NJ.
Clayton, which runs on this wise: Mr.
Clayton had taken walk some distance
from his farm, when there was Il sudden
change in the weather, and he called on a
Quaker neighbour for the loan of Il cloak.
Thee can have it John, said he, but thee
must not swear while thee has it on an
unfortunate habit of his. Mr. Clayton re-
turned the cloak, and said to his friend,
did not swear while l had thy cloak on, but
strange to say, felt an unaccountable pro-
pensity for lying, indeed it was almost ire
sStiblt. NJ.