The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-07-26
HOME COMING WEEK.


The excellent administration OF
Governor Warheld will soon pass
into history. In less than six months
it will be recorded with the past and
we predict it will be long referred to
al one in which the chief executive
more nearly took the people into con-
fidence and made each and all feel a
warm personal interest in the affairs
ofState than did any of his prede-
cessors. Approachable in manner
frank in utterance and sympathetic
in spirit, Governor Warheld has never
failed, when chance offered, to get in
close touch with the people OF the
State and take them into his conf
dence with regard to his administra-
ton. Especially has this been
demonstrated in his active interest
in a close acquaintanceship with the
schools of the State. No school has
been too small for him to honor with
his presence and counsel with kindly
advice, despite the heavy drain his
executive duties and the social func-
tions incident to his office have
made on his time; and the conse-
quence is he has aroused an interest
in education which is healthy
throughout the State and he has &C
quired practical knowledge of the
status of our public school system
which has been invaluable to him as
chairman to the State Board of Edu
cation.
But no phase of his administration
has added so much to its luster as
the civic pride he has encouraged In
her citizens and of which lie has been
a conspicuous personal example.
Wherever the history and achieve
ments of her heroes was to come be-
fore the public the Governor has been
their enthusiastic and eloquent ex-
positor, and now he aims in one
grand gathering in of her living sons
and daughters who have sought
their homes elsewhere to reach the
climax of his efforts to treat royalty
her living and do honor to the
memory of her dead.
Few OF us can read without emotion
those stirring words of the great
Lake poet:
"Breathes there man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
This Is my own, my native land ETC.;
and when we recall the many thous-
ands of men and women of high
standing throughout the country
who feel thus of their native State,
Maryland, we hail with delight the
chance to welcome them again, if
only for little while to their native
heath.
Maryland was not settled by any
band of religious refugees orpolitical
discontents; but, having been char
tered, settled and nurtured during
her infancy and developed during her
lusty youth by men of high birth
and noble purpose, it is not strange
that the same spirit which brought
our forefather here has CARRIED their
descendants beyond her narrow con-
fines into every corner of the Union.
Thus we learn that at least 100000
citizens scattered throughout the
Union were born in Maryland, while
as many more removed by one or
two generations owe the bigness of
their hearts and the breadth of their |
ideas to the good old Maryland blood
which tingles in their veins.
1t is now more than fitting that a
large proportion Of these should &C
cept MaryIand's paternal invitation
to them to return for week to the
scenes of their childhood, where, in
reminiscent musing they may say:
Sweet Memory. waited by thy gentle gale,
OFT up the stream of Time turn my sail.
TO view the fairy-haunts of lonR-lost hours.
B1est with far greener shades, far lovlier
flowers"
Just as New Hampshire a few years
ago gave birth to the custom, and
several of the older states have nur-
tured it in recent years, so it now isup
to Maryland to show them all what a
true Homecoming means in a state
whose inception rested on so broad a
whose early sons played