The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-08-02
A Visit to Hartford.

OF all the people of this country the sons OF
Maryland are surely blessed. 1t is certainly
not exaggerating to say that no people in the
land enjoy better health and greater prosperity
than do the MarylanderS. This fact was most
strikingly impressed upon the mind Of the
writer II few weeks ago by a visit to Hartford.
especially to the west and northwestern pOr-
ton of Hartford yet while many good things
may be said about this part of the county, it
should be remembered that other parts or the
whole are equally as prosperous.
On leaving baltimore via the Northern FER
trail one is hurled away to the north at the rate
of forty to fifty miles per hour. The Traveller
is ut once struck with the beautiful scenery.
The rolling hills are covered with blue grass
and dotted here and there with magnificent
farm residences. AT almost every station one
sees the depot platform covered with milk
cans and butter buckets. On enquiry il will be
found that the larger part OF this produce
comes from western and northwestern Hur-
ford. From no point along the line is there
more produce shipped than from White Hall,
Il small railroad station near the northwestern
border of Hartford county. This seems 10 be
the general rendezvous for all the milk wagons
for miles around. If one is interested in farm
ing and daryl he may here take the daily
hack which runs out through the milk region.
This is certainly one of the finest farming and
dairying sections in the State. AT the villages
of Black Horse Jarrettsvile, Madonna, etc,
one meets "wcll-to-do" farmers of the highest
intelligence. In the neiShborhood of Madonna
the people are especially prosperous. Here i
located Bethel PreSby teriin Church, the largest
country church building i'll the county. The
membership numbers over two hundred and
fifty, and above all they have live and pro-
gressive pastor and pay him well. Rev. Will
liam A. Rice, graduate of Princeton Univer-
sity. has been with these pc ple number of
years. He is u scholar, Il christian and gen.
tleman, and is loved and houored by ull who
know him. From the church can be seen
many beautiful country residences, especially
that of DR.. McCurdy, vino has spent the best
days of his useful lie here healing and COM
forting not only those who have gone before
him, but many who still live and who will re-
member his name with reverence long after
his body is laid to its rest beneath the sod Of
the country church yard. While in this section
farmers children were met, and the cOunten-
ances of all seemed to bear the glad tiding OF
happiness and contentment. During one Or
two days drive over this part of the county
many fine farms were seen.
Several pleasant calls were made especially
those on Mr. J. G. Luckey and Hon. William
Elliott. Mr.. Luckey is Il farmer in the trueSt
sense of that word and the excellent condition
of his farm verifies the statement. His, as well
hood, breathes an airy freencss which the ner
vous business man or the professional man may
we'll envy. Hon. William Elliott is one the larg-
est and most prosperous farmers in the county:
He is one of those rare men whose natural
ability enables them to step, II necessary, from
the pillow to the helm of State. Such men are
rare indeed and the more we have of them the
better off is our country.
On the whole Hartford may well be proud of
this section of the country, Il more prosperous,
cultured and refined people can no where be
found than those Marylanders. The few who
leave the State, especially Hartford county, for
other parts may rest assured that they leave
not only 1.-THE land of corn and wine," but
land of milk and honey"