Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-07

the boy, William Herschel, the astronomer
was going to England from Hanover the
turning his flute into a telescope to discov-
er the Georg1um Eidus, or Uranus he might
have MED and tromboned here among the
wild rustics who soften no more than the
stones Of the ragged region to the pipe of
Orpheus
Hardly was this fort completed when
Handel. the blind giant who taught Eng
land music. passed from his orchestra into
that music OF the spheres Isaac Newton
had SO well solved. These, the authors Of
sense and civilization. left the lesson po-
tent yer. that when politicians grow dirty
ana cannot wash themselves clean there
remains recreations away from the earth
ana harmonies that family and party vio-
lence die unconscious Of
Social Influence of the Canal
Nothing happened in Maryland after the
Georgian age except the rise of Baltimore
city and the extension of its railroad along
the Potomac. coincident with the Potomac
canal The canal has had more social in
nuence on this thin state of mountain step
pes than the railroad. For a time the ma
uonal turnpike turned an orchestra of life
through the cartilagenous caudal of the
| state similar to an eXertion of the spinal
marrow in a dogs tail. This failing, a live
coal was put under the tail In the shape of
the coal mines beyond Cumberland which
alone sustain the canal and mainly the rail-
road.
1 feel prepared to defend the assertion
that the brief history and tradition of most
or the American sovereign" states has
been to the disadvantage of the knowledge
and character of their people.
The tight corset of old province lines
cramps the growth OF the procreant health,
takes the breath of life away, dwarfs the
afiluent bosom and breaks down the youth
and beauty Of the inhabitant.
Here is state, Maryland just wide
enough to pass a turnpike through its boun-
oar1es and not wide enough to pass a rail-
road or canal yet ii can pass notions and
Keep on IDEAS In that limited belt which is
a puzzle Of anatomy, like the belt of the
Siamese twins. state having length with
out breadth or thickness is upper Maryland
From want of area to hold enterprises
OF great pith and moment the political life
Is stagnant and has no development The
metropolis and the provinces have separate
existences. like purple fungus on a wither-
ed locust tree. About 50 many of our
voters are for sale" said a political leader
to me. who was In the majority party.
II this be so. IL is because politics are
without other application or use than the
advantages Of a few who deal in IL, like the
butter, egg and chicken man, who passes
on the road once a week and pays cash as
low as he can to them who already owe the
country store.
If it is a disadvantage to most OF the
older states to have been developed by
schemes or corporations. the present age Of
redevelopment by railroads is a qualified
improvement.
Take Hagerstown. the new center OF
western Maryland, since Frederick city re-
ceived the side tracking OF a century!
No train waits In Hagerstown for the
passengers by any other line. The red
lights of the receding last car as IL goes
out Of town affect the poor man or child by
another road who would catch II like the
shipwrecked one who sees a great steamer
show to him he- stern. Was there a Christ
who lived indeed and had no greater In
huence than this?
1t is the business of all right government
to expedite the traveller on his way II is
the voice from Jericho and the good Samar-
itan calling to us. Why can we not make
these corporations behave like agencies OF
a great nation?
Because we were provinces once and are
provincial yet.
To blow up the flame Of local spite and
selfshness and give away great privileges
which the people are too mean to keep 10 the
method and secret Of state politics.
national man We cannot have, as when
funded their larcenies and went their
security a nation.
Every local interest, even train robbing.
can have its agent In Congress. but there
Is none for the whole.
Original Settlers.
These ideas strike one forcibly at the
mountain foothills 30 near the capital OF
the country and where the social movement
Is hardly noticeable since the age OF old
Fort Frederick.
Mcmahon, in his abortive history of Ma
ryland. the n tive OF which was to demand
from Virginia more width between the two
Potomacs, says Of the period about 1850:
'fThe number Of convicts imported into
Maryland during this era must have
amounted, upon the lowest estimate to
fifteen or twenty thousand. They were i'm
ported by private shippers. under q contract
with the crown. and sold into servftude in
the colony. for their term OF transporta-
ton"
The total white population OF Maryland
was then but 10000
In like manner George washington's
brother. Lawrence Washington. wrote to
Mr.. Hamburg Of London in favor of coloniz-
ing Virginia with Pennsylvania Dutch. say
ing: I'VE have increased in Virginia by
slow degrees. except negroes and convicts.
George Calvert. King James secretary
was the commencer of this system OF
transportation. as appears from Mr.. Neilrs
history Of the Virginia company-Mr. Nell,
the only efficient historian Maryland Ia 5
had, who was one Of Abraham Lincoln's
secretaries.
Secretary Calvert. touching the trans
portation OF men prest by his majesty, said
that the kings desire admitted no delaies,
but forthwith to have fifty OF the one hum
dred shipt with all speed. They could not
go in less than four ships. for fear. they
being many together. may draw more (con-
victs) into them. and so mutiny and carry
away the ships. which would stand the
company in four thousand pounds"
~.
makes sure that he Is not to be returned
to prison, and hastens to the mountains.
In time We behold a trans-mountain race
Of train robbers bloody feud fighters and
manslayers.
Here originated the Quantrells in western
Maryland. a convict father who counter
feited. gambled and stabbed, and progeny
in Ohio. which escaped to the plains OF
Missouri. and there deliberately trained an
army OF pirates. among the youngest of
whom were the James boys. preachers
sons"
The train robber Of today is probably the
consequent OF the seventeenth century
transportation of convicts to America The
mob of Botetourt rustics who attacked the
jail at Roanoke but yesterday probably
came from the assassin coventers ana other
felon classes which sprang from the ship to
the mountains. and rocked not the want of
pillow or hoe IL they could whet a lirx or
steal blunderbuss.
Here as 1 stood by old Fort Frederick in
the evening light. haunted by the darksome
classes Of the Georgian years, / heard a
bugle played across the moon rays by a
bargeman again and again, with intervals
as sweet
They seemed to say: What f. man but
his public works? What is here but the
old. the organic state canal? Blow, insti.
| tutions! blown GATH.
1T DIDN'T WORK.
The Woman Was Not Unfeeliue, but
She Didn't Have Any Sentiment.
From he Detroif Trth,na