The Democratic advocate., 1909-08-13
MT. AIRY TOURNAMENT
GREAT CROWD PRESENT ON FRIDAY TO
HEAR GOVERNOR CROTHERS
COrnatiOn Address by Charles 0.
Clemson, OF the Westminster Bar

The great event in the life of Mt.
Airy is the annual fair, tournament
and horse show participated in by the
farmers of Carroll, Howard, Freder-
ick and Montgomery counties. The
seventh of these annual gatherings
was held on Friday and Saturday of
last week, and, like all the others,
was largely attended.
Governor Crothers was present on
Friday, and made a brief address,
speaking of the Improvement of our
public school system by the addition
of an agricultural course; the aboll-
| ton of toll roads and the betterment
of our highways; the maintenance OF
high standard of public sentiment;
the great mistake Of deVotlng all OF
ones energy to the building of for
tune to the exclusion of nobler OBJ
! jects, and wound up with high tr1b-
ute to women, whom, he said, are
superior to men in virtue, honesty
and often intelligence" The Cover
nor was introduced by E. 1. Lewis,
Mayor of Mt. Airy.
Professor Nicholas, Schmitz, of the
Maryland Agricultural College, spoke
of alfalfa and the possibilities of rails
ing it in Maryland.
Professor Patterson gave many
valuable suggestions as to the ways
in which our present rural school
system might be improved.
After the addresses, the crowd turn
ed it's attention to the horse show, the
prize winners being as follows
Saddle Horses-Frank Hobbs, of
Carroll county, first prize; Roland
Dorsey, of Carroll county, second !;
John Bohn, of Frederick county, third.
One-Year-Old Colts-HoWard Engle,
of Howard county, first; Aubrey Cla-
~, of Frederick county, second.
Two-Year-Old Colts -Someryille
Condor, of Howard county, first;
Charles Smith, of Mount Airy, second.
The young people enjoyed themsel-
YES in the dancing pavilion, where
the Mt. Airy Cornet Band furnished
music.
The crowning event of Saturday was
the tournament, in which the most
expert riders of the four counties
took part The course Of the tour
nament was lined by thousands OF
persons. Col. Caleb Hobbs was grand
Marshal. His aids We're Riggs Dor
sey, Gustavus Riggs, Carl xEorn and
Nathan Dorsey. The heralds were
Roland Dorsey and Frank M. Lewis.
The charge to the Knights was made
by J. Harry Steele in a well deliver
ed address The successful knights
were J. Gordon HOBBS, nrst, carrying
with it the right to crown the queen;
lR. H. Mercer, second G. Dorsey
Hobbs, third, and Frank B. Hobbs
fourth. The other knights contesting
were VernoH Carver, John Brady,
Harry Wartken and Robert Zepp
Lee Amos won the championship con-
test
Mr.. Hobbs, the winning knight
crowned as his queen Miss Rachel
Jones, of Lisbon. Mr.. Mercer, who
was second, relinqu1shed his right tc
Mr.. Brady, who selected Miss Elsie
Mcdonald as the first maid of honor
Dorsey Hobbs, who was third in the
list, gave the coronet of second maid
to his wife, and Frank Hobbs, the
fourth, conferred the wreath of third
maid upon Miss Berit Etzler, of Mount
Pleasant
The coronation address was de-
livered by Charles o. Clemson, of the
Westminster bar, as follows
''It is but a coincidence in time and
events that this occasion is the
seventh annual horse show, farmers
! fair and tournament held by the bust
ness men of Mt Airy in this grove
and my own seventh appearance here
in the capacity of a speaker. Incl
dentally, too, it is the conclusion OF
my seventh year in the practice OF
law.
"The ladies first, men and other
lesser things afterward, shall be the
order of my talk. Tournaments, fol
this is tournament day, continue tC
keep and hold our interest because
there is yet alive in mans heart the
relic of that old chivalry, that touch
of romance, that needs but the en-
kindling and ennobling influence OF
a pure woman's love to transform
the baser virtues into manly strength
and fortitude. Let us, then, do the
ladies homage, for that is our reason
for coming together here today. Be
fore all else, they are. This was not
always SO; man was first by creation
However, the order of creation has
been reversed, and creation itself has
taken on a new and different meaning
Creation once reverted to that mar
.rative in the Book of Genesis thai
recites the assembling of the forces
of nature in the making of the worlt
and of man. Then woman was ere.
I ated, taken out of man, it is said
made of a rib. Before woman came
creation meant every event that haC
happened on earth, in the sky, ant
in the waters under the earth. Bu
what a wondrous change was
wrought by Eve and her daughters
Creation is superseded, the existing
order of things rearranged, and time
dates from her advent. We no long
er speak of creation as referring tt
the assembling and making of the
world. Creation" now means tha
mysterious assembling, arranging
tucking, pleating and ber1bbonlng
crowned with a peach basket, tina
men like so much to try to under
stand, and for want of answer cal
MY Lady"
So much we willingly yield to tht
ladies as theirs by right.
What we yield not, the ladies take,
Our walk, our clothes, our talk o
note,
And now woman has her all at slaK'
Demanding even the right to vote.
Since she has gotten everything
| else she has asked for, it is but tt
be expected that the Legislature o
4 MARYLAND will pass a law conferrlnt
the right of suffrage upon women II
this State, and this is all the more
likely with bachelor Governor II
4 the chair as Chief Executive.
/ You, Sir knights, whose good for
i time If is to come here with victor,