The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-06-06

by adding an addition to the dwelling
house and putting up stabling. Mr..
Joseph T. Archer will occupy the property.
Mcssrs WoodIey, Willard and Grason
Pyle, of Philadelphia, paid a visit to their
parents at Stockton on Sunday.
Misses Minnie and Stella Smith. ofBal-
timore. were the guests of Mrs. Charles
| L. Creswcll for Il few DAYS last week
Mr. and Mrs. Frank WooIs, of Balti-
more. visited Mrs. Woods Iaunt, Mrs. H.
A Eogts, last Sunday.
Miss Clara Shipley, of Baltimore, is
spending few days with her parents at
| Mountain View"
Mrs. Lowe, an aged lady who lives with
Mr.. William A. Wilson at Jerusalem
Mills was badly injured couple ofweeks
ago by falling on stone. She is much
improved and will soon be able to get
about again.
We notice in the I>gis of May 23rd that
at meeting of the Deer Creek Farmers
Club the question of farm labor and emil
grafton was discussed. This seems to be
one of the most serious questions which
confront the farmer at present. With
the short crops, low prices of grain, as
rule. and scarcity of labor, the farmer
seems to be getting in a pretty tight
place. The latter, it seems to me, is a
good deal the fault of the farmer himself
Forty years ago, there was plenty of
hrst-class laboring men to be had, and at
wages that the farmer could afford to
pay. Nearly all of the white farm labor
ers of that time were natives of Germany
and Ireland. They were hired by the
farmers at about so cents per day and
board, the farmer, no matter how wealthy
he was, took his hired man in his home. ]
sat him at the table with his own family, |
gave him plenty ofgood substantial food
and endeavored to teach him the !
language, manners and customs of. the |
country, so that he might become an in |
telligent and useful citizen, as well as |
useful servant. Now all that is changed, if |
the hired man is boarded at all at. the |
farm house, he is put in the kitchen with |
the negroes and has to eat there, and often |
at the same table with the cook and hired |
negro men, Now any white man, be he q |
foreigner or not, if he has any self-respect |
at all, will not stand that very long, and
he pulls up and goes some.
where else where he will receive better
treatment. AS matter of course, if he
has any friends or relatives intending to
emigrate to this land, he advises them to
give such sections a wide berth, thus we
of Hartford are left with a number OF
good for-nothing negroes to depend upon
for our labor during the summer months
and to steal our chickens and pork dur
ing the winter. Another thing we noticed
at the Eagle Hotel meeting was that the
of those taking part i'll the dis
cussion were capitalists and not strictly
farmers, some of them were blaming one
thing and some another for the lack OF
farm labor, one gentleman even blamed
the county roads. Why the county roads
are race tracks, compared with what they
were forty years ago. Iftfose capitalists
would put their money into some good
enterprise and utilize
some of the fine water power of which
they speak, they might attract number
Of desirable citizens to helpswell the pop
ulation. 1t would also scatter a CON
amount of money among the
small farmers who would thus be able to
grow produce to sell to the workers i'll
hose manufactures, thereby enhancing
heir property and at the same time in
,rease the taxable basis of the county.
c. E. L.