Gloucester County Democrat., 1904-02-18


We give it up--the winter, ! mean. Il
has been just as cold as cold could be, and
I feel assured il will never be any warmer.
The other day we did have thaw, and
began to feel little encouraged. ] was
writing to the DEMOCRAT that night, and
Thought OF mentioning the fact that there
would be burial next morning, and /
feared that Mrs. Brown would find wat
cry grave in the "Thorofare Cemetery J"
But before the ink was dry. the wind be-
gan to howl and fore-saw that the ground
would be frozen as hard next morning as it
proved to be. II spring should ever come,
and there ever should be another thaw, it
is hoped that the trustees Of that sceme-
teryn will find time and means to put a
drain or two in it, so as to make is sort of
halfway comfortable before our time
comes Speaking of grave-yards. or church
yards, which they used to he called, re-
minds me OF a specimen of Welsh hum0r,
which may amuss you. We visited the
old church in Conway, and the verger
pointed out the two graves Of, My sister
and my brother,0 mentioned by Wods-
worth in the poem: I'VE are seven.n The
/ old sexton assured MS that mo person liy-
ing in that parish was ever buried in the
church-yard of which he was the custodian
Finding that we were puzzled, he chuckled
to his hearts content over the success of
his play upon the word iying.' But we
were not SO easily caught by the next old
fossil, who solemnly assured us that s'only
the deaf, dumb and blind were inferred in
that particular spot.
We have made the centuries of the past
our own, and have learned to fore-tell the
future, and so, it has become hut a step
from old Wales. to young and aspiring
rhorofare. We did not celebrate LincDln's
birthday in Thorofare. You see, Thoro-
fare just bristles with patriots, and it is
possible that the people think a i've pat
riot better than dead hero. However
this may be, school kept as usual; business
and social life pursued the even tenor of its
way, and no flag was flung to any breeze
whatever. The flag will wave vociferously
IN our next speeches, and proclaim:
'swe are people yet,
We have voice with which to pay the debt
or boundless love and and reverence and
regret
To those great men who fought, and kept
il ours.''
It did seem sad that the man who had
risked so much, suffered so much, and who
had gained so much for his country and his
flag, should have been SO entirely forgotten,
even by Thorofare-
On Thursday night of this week. what
the w. c. T. U is pleased to call, the
Heavenly birthday of Miss Frances Will
lard wi be celebrated in the church
There will be music, and recitations, and
refreshments, am told.
On Friday night the Literary and Debat-
ing Society will hold forth in the basement
of the church I think the Question is:
Resolved that women have equal rights of
suffrage with men,"
On last Sunday morning Mr.. Robert
Hudson was seized with stroke of paraly-
sis. His physician gives no hope of his
final recovery.
Mrs Mary Hudson is very i'll with Sc
we're attack of grippe. Her condition is
almost as precari0us as that of her husband.
Miss Lizzie Hammell, from Philadelphia,
and Mrs Joseph Thompson, of Paulshoro,
were visitors in the home of their mother,
Mrs. Margaret Hammell, during the past
week.
The Grange took in class of twelve on
last Monday night. Some very interest
ing questions have heen discussed in the
Grange of late. A very spirited talk
followed question concerning immigra-
ton into this country, and the best means
of controlling and caring for the immigrant
when here The general method employed
in the past has heen to rob him of what
ever money he might have, and then turn
him loose to shift for himself. 1t was dis
covered during the debate that we are all
immio raufs.- that the Indian has the on y
real right to the soil, and we are going to
United States Governments shall re-instate
him politically and restore to him the land
which has been stolen from him. / am not
sure that that last remark was made in the
Grange, bat it should have been.