Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-05-11
THoRoFARE.

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And it's will you go with us?''-they sing
.'Oh the lights are lit on the shady way
And the chime OF the harebells ring and ring, f
And sun-aust gold is the fare you pay.
The lights swing close Will You go? Will /
you go?
s.Whither''-you ask-snot there or here?'' I
Happy tbs farther than last years snow,
Happy more near than the dark is near
just now one feels that she would be
willing to 60 almost anywhere. The south
wind and the warm sun, although we have
not had too much of them, set US to longing
for the lands where they linger throughout
the year, and we think, perhaps plan, that
before the snow and ice Of another winter (
shall reach US we will wander among the
pyramids and sphinxes of Egypt, or the /
mosques and minarets Of Algiers, or the /
palaces and slave markets of Morocco. We /
remember regretfully Cairo-what has call /
ed, "the Mecca Of the personally conducted
tourist even Cairo modern, theatre
going, afternoon calling, fve-o'clock-tea
Cairo. For US there is waiting ara6eyah I
and a drive-rapidiy past the hotels, vast 7
hostelries OF brick and stucco, vulgar insults |
flung in the teeth of the Tharaohs; with T
dignity past the carriages Of the pashas
ladies; slowly past the kiosks Of the harm
ems in the palaces of the Khediyal princes
almost to the Nile A sharp turn to the
left, and there among the great houses of
residential Cairo, through Moorish arch I
into a marble court, fragrant with myrtle is
the Mecca Of our dreams. There are
other beautiful resting placss between
the Red Sea and the Atlantic-Tunis,
with its glorious, almond-eyed women
OF Israel; Agiers-Algiers!-abo all,
with its terraced hills, its nesting
villas, its lapis-lazuli foreground; Tangiers
the barbaric, with its cleaning houses, its
olive trees, and its date palms. AS you
and / sail away from it, once more west
ward, in our thought, the words OF the
Arabic saying in our mouths; Il brought
you good will and a blessing Salaam
aleyki Peace be with yon!' And
then we raise our eyes and when they fall
again they rest upon the dandelions which
glitter in the grass, and we say, when did
barbaric gold shine like these? And one
begins to say, Shall no one remark
this sun and wind, the sky-blue river,
and the riyer-blue sky, the waving
| meadow, and stone-gray house in the
| distance. An occasional butterfly fits
| by and one wonders whether it remem-
bers its caterpillar life, or the dark
cocoon from which it has emerged. !
! As it is the generally accepted emblem Of
Immortality 1t might settle a mooted ques
tion in theology if the butterfly could speak.
The wasps and the humble-bees are out in
great numbers, building their nests, and
seeking among the flowers their fayorite
sweets. They are as intensely occupied as
though they had hundred years to live
instead Of one short summer. But, after
all, which Of us would not choose to be one
of these insects, bugs of splendid fate,
1sxyfV, -44xxxr .fof ot,di
roses, and dying by an apoplexy Of sweet
sensations in the golden middle days of
July! Yes, Notwithstanding its cruel win
ters and the extreme sultriness of It's sum-
mers the west has an undoubted charm,
our own summers are luxuriant enough to
compensate for the dreariness of our win
ters. And if, ITO the high air shadow
and cloud are one, perhaps we are made
better by the contrast.
Here showers the the lightin golden spots,
There sleeps the light in ebon spots
And SO we will take them both, the light
and the shade, the sun and the cloud, the
lavish beauty of the summer, and the still
white beauty of the winter and we will call
them all ours-Our Country.
The Rev. George S. Goff preached fine
sermon on last Sunday morning to good
congregation. His sermon at night was
upon Prohibition, and was strong, earn
est, well-directed effort and should bring
reward.
The w. C. T.. U. met on last Tuesday
afternoon, in the basement of the church,
with the President, Mrs. Mary R. Low, in
the chair. After the usual formalites, and
the business had been disposed of, the topic
discussed was peace and Arbitration" !"
Mrs Julia Gibbs read an inspirationaf arti- |
Gle upon the subject, and the Rev. George
S. Golf made happy little address much
to the qualification of those present.
At the Spring Institute of the w. G. T.
U. of Gloucester county, to be held in
Bridgeton, on Thursday, May 25th, the
afternoon devotions will be conducted by
Mrs. Mary R. Low, President OF the Thoro-
fare Union.
The Rev. Edward Mount, of the West
Asbury NJ. E. Church, his wife, Mrs.
Mount, and daughter, Miss Irene Mount |
all Of Asbury Park, were guests in the
home Of the Rev. George S. Goff some days
last week.
The planked shad supper was the usual
Thorofare success, if not-more so. The I
shad were fine, and deliciously cooked, the
hall looked well, the girls were at their
best, and looked their prettiest, and the
people turned out en- adsse and ate Of that I
supper and went away convinced that
Thorofare supper, no matter what name it I
bore, was the best of its kind.
Miss Hilda Brantigan, of Philadelphia,
was visitor over Sunday with Miss Laura
DeHart