Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-04-30
.THOROFARE.


! AS ] sit at my window, look down
| through long arcade of green foliage,
frescoed with apple blossoms pink and
white, and see at the end the blue waters
| of the Delaware, blue and sparkling, and
touched with gold in the morning sun
| light. Sometimes full-rigged ship stands
a moment, and is gone, like some phantom
from the past:
sAnd ali 50 still So still the air
That duty drops the web of caren
Sometimes it stands there-the same
ship, perhaps with sails furled and bare
masts, and, with the blue crystals at her
| lip mods and beckons to us, and, we
think, waits for us. And we? O, we are
learning to resist temptation. It is part
Of the discipline allotted to some of us poor
mortals here below, to always "hear the
music 60 down the other street." Some
one has said: ''Masts are always dreamy
to look at; they speak romance of the
sea, Of unknown lands and of distant
forests aglow with tropical eolors. In the
hearts of most of us there is Away desire
for.something beyond experience. Almost all
Of us have thought, sSomeday will go on
a long voyage; but the years go by and
still we have not sailed. !"
However, changes of some sort do come
to most of u.s. and a very sad one came to
Mr. Harry Kircher and family on the day
last week that their house burned. As
there is no evil without some attendant
good, so the fact that the fire occurred in
the afternoon enabled them to save some
clothing and furniture, though much
Of the latter was in damaged
condition. The fire originated in the
top of the house, and it is supposed
that it was caused by defective
fue. The household effects of Mr.. Kir-
cher were not insured, but the house which
belonged to Mr.. Joseph Green was insured,
and will, we are told, be rebuilt at once.
Mr. John T. Case and wife spent few
days last week with the family of Mr.. HI.
A. DeHart. Mr.. Cases home is at Clover
Hill, N. j., and while he expressed the
greatest admiration for Thorofare, and
thought farming here almost too easy; yet,
as compared with the outlook from the
hills Of Hunterdon Co., he also thought
that in Thorofare-stWe mortals miss far
prospects by level bliss. y
Mrs James Lanning, from New York
City, and Mrs. George w. Lanning, of
Trenton, n. j., were visitors last week in
the home of Mr.. L. K Wilkins. They,
also, are delighted with Thorofare.
Mr. John johnson and family, spent last
Sunday at the parsonage, with their broth
er, the Rev. George S. johnson. A cousin
from foreign parts accompanied them.
Miss Mary Carter from Woodbury. spent
last Sunday with the Misses Heritage.
There was large turnout at the Grange
on last Monday night, and about twenty
five new members were taken in. One Of
the questions over which the Granger has
been puzzling his head is: EHow does the
farming of to-day compare with that of
fifty years ago, and is it so successful now
as then ~ We conclude that this question
must be Intended for the s'hoary heads
AS a recent election the following officers
were chosen for the Sunday School: For
superintendent, Mr.. L. K. Wilkins; assist
ant superintendent, Mr.. James Bndd Sec
retary, Charles Davis; assistant secretary,
Joseph Wilkins; treasurer, Miss Kizzie
Wilkins; librarians Harry DeHart and
Joseph Porch; organist, Mrs. Elsie Estlack;
assistant organist, Alice Gibbs; superinten-
dent of the home department, Miss Marga-
retta Porch; of the primary department,
Miss Sue Heritage and Mrs. Bertha Shirk,
assisted by Mrs. Mary Lowe.