The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-27

Charles Roades, D. D., State Superinten-
dent of the Maryland Sunday School AS
ISOLATION will have charge of these meet
ings. Every pastor, superintendent and
| teacher, as we'll as the scholars are urged
to be present.
Mr.. |. Lawrence Mccormick, inspec-
tor for the Hartford Mutual Fire lnsur-
ance Company, made an official trip
through Montgomery county last week,
inspecting the risks of the Hartford
! Mutual in that section and adjusting its
| loss on the barn and wagon house Of Mr..
f. P. Thomas. the president of the Mont
gomery Mutual Insurance Company.
This property was destroyed by fire
about two weeks ago with no definite
proof of its origin, but 1t was generally
believed to be a case of spontaneous COM
bustion In the hay nov. The loss OF the
Hartford Mutual on the risk was ST ,634.
We are In receipt of the prospectus of
the Maryland School for the Deaf located
at Frederick, OF which Mr.. Charles w.
Ely Is the principal. This institution is
endowed by the State and no charge is
collected from Maryland students for
board and tuition. The State wisely
pursues the policy of aiding all un-
fortunate citizens as far as possible to
become self producing and selfsustaining;
and few classes are more In need OF this
fostering care than are her deaf youth.
Besides giving them an earning capacity
1t opens their minds and makes life worth
living to a class who otherwise must go
through the world literally alone. We
are glad to say that Hartford parents con-
tinually take advantage of their oppor-
tunity In this line
We are pleased to state that Mr..
Joseph T. Hopes has made satisfactory
arrangements with his dealers in Balti-
more by which it will not be necessary
for him to close out his dairy business as
he had fully intended to do. Vixen mott
fed of his intention to quit they insisted
upon his naming his own terms on which
he would continue to supply them, and
when he had done so promptly accept
ed his terms. 1t would have been
one of the most serious blows Hartford
has received in recent years to lose this
lot of high-bred stock and business which
they developed. 1t is pretty plain that
dairymen are going to secure better prices
for milk, and if the labor problem can be
solved there will be a living in the bust
ness for the producer.
We have received from one of our
friends connected with the Coharie Lum,
Der Company in southern North Carolina
some maturing cotton pods, which in
dictate that they are nearly ready tor the
pickers. Several of the pods have already
burst and look like fluffy snow balls.
The Coharie is not so far from the
famous "sea island cotton but we
imagine our friends expect to find their
fortune in saw dust rather than cotton.
North Carolina has gradually developed
into manufacturing state of no mean
Importance, and consumes in its mills
more cotton than it grows; the state is
dotted all over with thrifty towns having
a population of from one to ten thousand
while the county sections are almost
entirely in the hands of negroes.
Colonel George T. Hodgson, of Hodg-
son and Rich, Reading, Pennsylvania,
was an agreeable visitor at the Bel Air
banks few days ago, representing the
interests of Fish and Robinson, brokers
of New York, who deal in securities. He
aptly illustrated how knight of fortune
may sometimes make handsome strike
with really nothing at stake. When the
Philippine loan was negotiated a few
years ago by the United States govern
ment provision was made for taking
popular bids for the bonds through the
mail. In the case at issue an impecuni-
Gus party bid for and was awarded
100000 worth of these bonds, and be-
house at clear profit of SOS. 900 with
out putting up a cent of money himself.
Mr.. S. A Williams returned on Satur-
day from Peoria, Illinois, where for some
days he had been engaged before the
Court in the case of Allen versus Allen,
the issue being whether or not the will in
question should be admitted to probate.
DR.. Allen, who was half. brother of the
late Edward M. Allen, came to Darling
ton few years ago from Illinois, where
he had for many years resided, and soon
afterwards married Miss Lizzie Forwood,
of that town. Upon his death about six
months ago, Mr.. Henry Denhart, of Hi
nois, who was named as executor, offered
his will for probate, which was resisted
by the Doctors only son, Robert, so far
as it related to requests in favor of his
widow. Mr.. Williams speaks in a most
interesting way not only of the magniti-
cent country surrounding Peoria, but of
the thrift of the court in which he was
engaged. Beginning at A. NJ, at noon
| a recess of one and a-half hours was
taken, after which court reconvened and
sat until O'Clock. On the last day of
his stay the heat was so intense the Court
| was impelled in mercy to advise jurors
! and barristers to divest themselves of
coats, which all hands promptly proceed
| ed to do, while he descended from the
| bench and preserved the dignity of the
court while sitting at the open window