Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-25
THoRoFARE.

have SuTfeIt OF dreams HiXeaG "
Bring me no more from the sea.
Il was while staying in Switzerland that
met the gentleman from Tahiti. He had
spent several years in the South Sea Islands
had made comfortable fortune there,
and had returned to civilization, SO called
ITO loaf and invite his soul, He was fond
Of "Reminiscences and would talk often OF an
old German. whom he had met, who, like
all s.tha brotherhood Of South Sea beach
combers,' had, probably, left his country
for his country 5 good but who had worked
out delicious theory OF life for himself.
He had discovered the three islands, Of
which | have written before, which lie
along the one hundred and eightieth degree
Of longitude. AS have said, ships crossing
that longitude in one direction lose a day
and gain day when sailing in the opposite
direction, so shat BY shifting about from
one Of his islands to the other he could
turn to-day into tomorrow or either into
Yesterday as might suit his fancy or his
purpose. The middle one Of the three
islands was, or is, lying directly on the
meridian, where time is at ones mercy and
one on either side He named the central
one Nil, for, be said, when you think Of
it, the present is nothiDg;n and the other
or hope. So there was method In his mad
ness, you observe. With the present. OBJ
liberated, the past rubbed out, and the
future anticipated and annihilated, one
should be able to live rather oontented
life in blissful state OF nature, that is II
one has sense enough to cut loose from the
mistakes of yesterday and to await the
morrow like q philosopher. 70 look at it, 8
said the old gentleman, ''neither the future
nor the past has any real existence. To-day
is all. But we spend to day in morbid re-
Prospect or cringing foTeboding In look
ing over my life | ca see that all my
wretchedness has come from dreading what
meyer came or regretting what had ceased
to be. II one could only arrive at the
philosophy Of the old man, and be able TO
say, / am no longer siaYe Of Greenwich,
and on Whatever meridian Of longitude
find myself proclaim it to be the one hum
bred and eightieth east and west of my
center Of life; no mortgage Of yesterday
eneumberS to day-no, nor dares the
morrow unnerve me to-day It is a fools
paradise, and you are living on dreams,
the wise one's will say; but 1--WE are such
stuff as dreams are made Of, = until we.
wake TO know the nothingness Of every
thing that seems TO deny rs life. Steven
son calls the South Seas a sapphire sink, be-
cause, he says, only yagabond souls drift
thither--to forget, be forgotten and drown.
their past. Those who dare not live down
their mistakes at home--who dare not cry
their Nett, Nett It is not) in the teeth off
fate-who fancy that the errors of the past
have power to make the future fatal. But
one need not go to the South Sea Islands
to find them-fools and knayes who imagine
they win by running away from she battle>
Of life. 1t would be we'll for us if they
would all go there and fight it out, and
send us here the sapphire seas, and the
tropical warmth Of which we stand in
need.
The Rev. Garner H. Tullis is making a
series of interesting prayer-meeting talks
upon the Pilgrims Progress. The subject
last night was, Accompanying Christian
through the Valley of the Shadow Of
Deathn Those who heard it felt them
He has organized vocal class among the
young, also. This will meet in she base
ment Of the church, every Friday afternoon
after school.
a business meeting of the Epworth
League was held on last Thursday night at
the home Of the president, Mr.. H. A. De-
Hart Reports were read, and old business
having been disposed Of, it was decided TO
hold strawberry festival, in Wilkins Hall
on Saturday evening, May 18th. There
will be ice-cream and many other good
things besides strawberries.
The school board held meeting on last
Thursday night, when an increase of five
dollars month was added TO the salary of
Miss Ella Banks, one of the teachers ia the
Thorofare school,
About two hundred shares of stock in the
State Mutual Building and Loan Associat-
ion OF New Jersey, are held by Thorofare
citizens. A meeting was held on last
Thursday night, and Mr.. Charles w. Will
kins was appointed to attend the meeting
to be held in Camden to-night, April 25th.
Mr. William Cline brought his bride,
who was Miss Mabel Rose Fulton, Of Chi
cago, and spent some days with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cline, last week. The
young people will make their home In
Rochester, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs Jehu Cline and daughter,
Anna May, from Philadelphia, completed
the family party as Sunday guests IN the
home of their parents Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Cline.
Mrs. Joseph Trunoer, Of Hurffville, spent
a few days las week in the family Of her son
Mr.. Augustus Truncer
Mrs NJ Barrett visited her sister, Mrs.
Plummer Powell at Wenonah over Sun
day.
Miss Ruth Haines, from Westville was
an over Sunday guest Of Miss Laura
DeHart.
Mr.. Alonzo T. Rambo Jr. returned hon e
from PittsbuTg last Saturday evening.
Miss Sadie Mcbride, from Bridesburg
Pa, is guess in the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
William r. Gibbs
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cornell visited
friends in Germantown, last week.
Miss Jennie Human, from Paulsboro, is
visiting Miss Clara Zahn.
Miss Mary Budd, from Woodbury. was
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