The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-04-19

basket.
After the ceremony the happy pair received
a number of friends at the brides home, who
also Joined in the wedding breakfast. The
couple left for a northern trip.
The wedding presents were both handsome
and numerous, including many jeweled arti
cles and carved ware, numbering over 12s
pieces.
A SATIRE on THE BoYs.-On petition of the
boys of the Bel Air Academy and Graded
School the trustees ordered five of the trees on
the school ground to be cut down, to make
more room for ball playing. Miss Allis f,
Mitchell, of the ninth grade, wrote the fol
lowing poem for Arbor Day:
MORAL AND TALE.
When the soft sunlit breezes were blowing
Thro' the fair April days, ninety-four,
Five trees on the campus were growing,
Alas, but they stand there no more.
My hearers, l fain
Would spare you this pain,
But the day of their destiny is DER.
Then list to the ditty pathetic,
That telleth the tale of their fall,
The boys took a craze so athletic,
For playing-or working-foot ball.
''Ah, It's glorious " they say,
But with trees in the way
Why we never can manage at all
Down, down with the theory inflated,
That trees are essential to man;
Why there's nothing that Natures created
Since the time that creation began
Can compare with the crush
OF grand center rush.
Dispute it, We sages, who can"
III it speaks for our honor, or glory,
But the boys run the world us they please
All, shudder in telling the story.
But they cut down those beautiful trees
Yes the dark sod above
Natures labor of love
Lay victim to human caprice.
And so, thro' the long sultry silence,
The sun, from the heights OF the sky,
Beats down with tropical violence
We now have no means to defy.
Oh, again for a breeze
Thro' those shadowy trees.
But, the boys must play foot ball, or die.
Attention, then mortals benighted,
A moral I'd point if you please,
The boys, they are not to be sighted
In times so progressive as these:
So next Arbor Day
1t were best we should say
To plant foot balls, kind patrons, not trees.
Easter Monday yestry Elections.
Elections for vestrymen and other church
officers were held in the Protestant Episc opal
Churches Of the county last Monday, as fol-
lows:
Emmanuel Church, Bel Air, Rec. DR.. Litteu,
Rector in Tqe.-Vestrymen.-J.M Street,
&. Smith Norris, A. M. Fulford, Richard Dali
lam, William II. Harlan, j. T. c. Hopkins, j.
Smith Norris and Harold Scarboro. Register
Richard Dallam. Ushers.-J. T. c. Hopkins,
Jr., Jack Quarles and Frank Fulford. Dele
gate to Diocesan Convention, j. NJ. STREET. :;
Alternate, j. A. Hunter.
St ldry's EntmOrtOn, Rec. William f.
Brand, S. 7. d: Rector estrymen.-H Henry
liams, Edward H. Hall, E. Ii. d. Pue, F. W.
Baker, Alex. $. Bell, William Dallam, JT.
Wardens.-Edward H. Hall, w. Boyd Bell
Register, F. W. Baker
ChrchviHe Parish, Rcr. T.. A. Colbum
Rector Vestrymen.-Isaac w. Cole, b. F.
Hanway, James Lee, w. B. Harlan, II. d.
d., w. d. Lee. Wardens.-Henry Wilson, N.
w. s. Hays. Register, w. b. Harlan. Dele
gate to Convention, James Lee; alternate,
W. B. Harlan.
ST. Georges Church. Pe,7ymaa, Rer. W. H.
Alrich, Acknowledgements Charles w.
Michael, Robert H. Smith, ST., Samuel s.
Jay, Lemuel E. Matthews, Cornelius Cole
Towner. Wardens.-PhiIlips NJ. Hall, Louis
I. Michael. Register, Samuel 5. Jay. Treas
urer, Charles w. Michael. Delegate to Con-
vention, Charles W. Michael; alternate, Jay
F. Towner
ST. Joha's Church, Hare dc Grace, Rer. f.
Humphrey, Rector Vestrymen.-Dr W. w.
Hopkins, J. William O'Neill, Bennett Char
shee, Z. W. Culley. Hon. Murray Vandiver,
DR.. John II. Cochran, Edward Hall. William
Z. Kenly. Wardens.-J. T. c. Kenly, Sam
uel j. Maslin. Register, DR.. w. w. Hopkins.
Treasurer. j. William O'Neill. Delegate to
Convention, DR.. w. w. Hopkins /; alternate,
William E. kenly. The Easter congregations
were very large and the music fitting for the
occasion. The offerings aggregated over S175.
Christ Church, Rock Spring, Rec. L. j..
Sothoron, Rector -Vestrymen.-John Moores,
John b. Wysong, Thomas Allibone, William
E. Hanway, John r. STREET., w. II. Waters,
e. A. Rutledge, NJ. D., Charles A. Bull.
Wardens.-David Davidson, Joshua Wann.
Register and Treasurer, j. B. Wysong Sex
ton, f. Stewart. Delegate to Convention,
John Moores alternate, William E. Ilanway.
Deer Greek PTish.-V estrymen. ID. c. W.
Smith, DR.. John Sappington, d. E. Price,
Henry E. Selfe, George w. Jones, E. NJ. Allen
Jr., e. Lewis Ellicot and Philip j. Scarboro.
Wardens, VIM. B. Selfe AMI MorGecai Scarboro.
Treasurer, d. E. Price. Register, E. NJ. Al
len Jr. Delegate, to Convention, d. &. War
ton Smith. Alternate, ID. E Price.