Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-06
THoRoFARE.

Glimmers gay the leafless thieket
Close beside my garden gate
Where so light. from post to wicket, y
Hops the sparrow, hlithe, sedate:
Who with meekly folded wing
Comes TO sun himself and sing
And yet we are disposed to make war
upon the sparrow. 1t is time, he stays
with us all winter and is always blithe, and
his cheerful twitter may be heard on the
darkest days; but we have taken an unrea-
sonab!e prejudice to him, and so. without
inquiring into the truth Of it, we hunt him
down whenever and wherever possible.
saw some men dropping corn, the other
| day, IN the old-fashioned way. | had
fancied that there was machinery for that
sort OF thing nowadays, and / thought at
once Of the brown thrasher, or thrush,
which according to Thorcau, calls out to
the farmer planting his corn. drop it. ~
drop it, y cover it up, cover it up. =
| Numerous others of our birds would seem
to challenge attention by their calls and
notes. There is the Maryland yellow
throat, for instance, standing in the door
OF his bushy tent and calling out as you
approach, which way, sir - which
way, sir'' One Of the pewees says, stay
there - with great emphasis The cardi-
nal grosbeak calls out what cheer, . what
cheer;o the blue bird says. purity, 2 "pur-
| ity, = and the yellow breasted chat says,
who, :" sswho,' and tea bows
what the robin says caroling
that simple strain from the top OF The tall
maple, or the crow with his hardy lopc-
ea,c, or the meadowlark sounding his pierre
| ing and long drawn note in the spring mea-
dows, the poets ought to be able to tell us
| only know the birds all have language
which is very expressive, and which isl
easily transferable into the human tongue
1t is an evidence of how directly we are
related TO nature, that we more or less
/ sympathize with the weather, and take on
the color of the day Goethe said he
worked easiest on high barometer When
the sap begins to mount in the trees, and
the spring languor comes, does not one
grow restless indoors? The sun puts out the
fire, the people say, and the spring sun
certainly makes ones intellectual light
grow dim. Why should we not sympa-
thize with the seasons and the mode and
phases of nature?
Wilkins Hall never looked better than
on the occasion OF the bazaar held for the
benefit of the baseball club on Saturday
night of last week The decorations OF
pink and green were very effective and
lighted up well. There were many fancy
articles both beautiful and useful for sale,
and the ice cream, cake, and candies did
not go begging. The boys think they are
about 500 ahead.
Mr. Charles L. Dowler, Of Philadelphia,
was visitor in the home of Mr.. H. A. De-
Hart last week.
Mrs. Carrie Allen from Bridgeport was
guest in the home Of MI. and Mrs. Howard
Phifer last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tussey from Bridge
port visited Mr.. and Mrs Howard Phifer
last week.
An election of officers for the Sunday
School took place last Sunday afternoon
which resulted in Mr.. L. X. Wilkins for
superintendent; Mr.. A. S. Truncer, assist
ant superintendent; Richard Wilkins, sec
Rotary; Joseph X. Wilkins, assistant secre-
tary; Roy l.. Richards, treasurer; Alice
Gibbs, organist; Mrs. Lusie Reed, assistant
organist. and the Rev. Geo. S. Golf, chorus
ter.
The Missionary society elected the Rev
Geo. S. Golf, president; Joseph K. Wilkins,
secretary, and Miss Kizzie H. Wilkins,
treasurer