Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-09-29
THoRoFARE.


and thee built their gods a brazen pillar high
AS the sky,
Yet reserved a thousand chariots in full force
Gold, OF course
For whole centuries OF folly noise and stint
| Shut them in
With their triumphs, and their glories. and the
rest.
/ Which is best9',
1t must grieve the lover of luxury to
know that where once stood the ancient
Italian city OF Sybaris is now only a malo-
dorous marsh. Let this city, of all places
n the world, IN any age, was suprenely
the city Of sumptuous delights. Here
pleasure was practised as the chief science,
and from its name our language derives its
most forceful words expressive Of luxurious
leisure. Even employment of a noisy sort
was forbidden within the city limits, lest
the slumbrous ease of the citizens be dis
turbed. But if in the art of enjoying the
ancients demonstrated themselves our SUI
periors in aesthetcism, we to-day find an
enjoyment in the realm of Thought, and in
the search for knowledge which they did
not possess. There is certainly more in
tense pleasure in the discovery of new
truth, than succession OF good suppers, or
any merely physical qualification can pos
slbly afford; and the man who makes their
dlscovery--Whoseh highest happiness and de-
| light is some new attainment in knowledge
is the one whom we crown sovereign. The
| naturallsts, the astronomers, the philos-
| ophers, these conquerors in broad intellec-
tual domains these victorious commanders
ln-chlef in the warfare against powerful
errors are our kings and our-distinguished
ancestors to be related to whom-and to be
descended from whom--in however remote
a degrees source OF the greatest pride
and exultation And all of us who have
any share in the civilization of the age be-
long to the family Of these intellectual
sovreigns. We all bear family resem-
blance to the illustrions heads on coins and
medals, and we all have in our possession
family jewels - ideas and conceptions
which we have inherited from these an
cestors They toiled for us like giants,
and we are now living amid certain pos
sessions in the way Of knowledge, the ac-
QUESTION OF which was a far more wonder
full task than all the twelve labors of Her
cules combined There is no more inter
esting study than the history of the de-
yelopment of our race from it's first APP
pearance upon the earth to the present day
Those first human beings who's skulls
have been discovered in the valley of the
| Neander, were not much above the more
gifted animals perhaps not the equal of the
trained poodle which is now being taught
to read; but they were the only creatures
among the long series OF living beings
known to us who did not calmly
accept their fate, but took up arms
against the conditions imposed upon
them by nature. They were naked -
They procured coverings for themselves
from the mystical fig leaf to the silk and
| cot IF he foot = ;c+a -
the metropolis. The rain annoyed them?
They built shelter for themselves, and
the rest of interviewer branches in a tree
grew to be the done of st. Peters, and
they found time between whites for such
i little jokes as the umbrella, the panama
hat and the undress cap. They did not
run fast enough ?-They first broke the
horse to harness and finally attained to the
Lightning Express, amusing their minds,
on the way, with the bicycle, the electric
car, and the automobile Never standing
still, constantly pressing forward, they have
kept advancing farther and farther, higher
and higher, but not solely for their own
material advantage. The advance guard
of the army of thought have fought-are
still fighting for the right to breathe in an
atmosphere of truth, to utter aloud the
lightest whisper in their Utmost soul, and
to bring their actions into harmony with
their views
At the Grange on last Monday night the
following persons were taken in as new
members: Mr.. and Mrs. Roland V. Packer,
Charles B. Leonard son of Mr.. J. Wilmer
Leonard, and Lewis Clement, son of Mr..
Elmer Clement.
Mrs. Edmund Shirk spent some days,
last week, with her mother, Mrs. George
H. Parker, at sewell.
Miss Rae Benton, from Philadelphia, has
been recent guest in the home of her
uncle, the Rey Isaac L. Fowler.
Mrs. Rebecca Gleason visited her aunts,
Mrs E. E. Cowgirl, and Miss Lydia Wit
sell, in Paulsboro, last week.
Mrs. Charles Reeves, and son Harry and
daughter Luella, from Sewell Heights, were
guests, last week, in the home OF Mrs.
/ Style Denton.
Mr.. Walter MARBLE was taken to Cooper
Hospital, on last Tuesday, very i'll with
typhoid fever. Mrs. Marble gave birth to
a little daughter on Friday morning.
Mr.. H. G. Hammell, conductor on
freight train running between Camden and
Jersey City, met with an accident recently.
His train ran up on another train, he
Jumped and strained the leaders in his right
side. He is rapidly recovering.
The team of Mr. John Reed, a farmer
near Paulsboro, was ON its way home from
market on last Thursday morning. The
two boys in charge of it were asleep. As
the shelving crossed the tracks train struck
! the back end, and wrecked it, but the boys
and the horses escaped serious injury.