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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15
A LETTER FROM H. A. De HART
Ny DEAR Mr.. CARpENTER:

MY DEAR MR.. CARPENTER:
1t gives me considerable pleasure to read
the DEMOCRAT in its new dress suit; it
surely will be appreciated both by readers
and advertisers. have been reading your
paper for the past twenty-three years and l
am always interested in the weekly items
from the various villages in our county.
Especially do | like to read of old West
Deptford and my own little village of
Thorofare. 1t has been said that as soou
as your paper reaches the home of the
subscriber the whole family rushes for it to
see what the correspondent of Thorofare
has to say. have read with pleasure and
profit of the nice things said of me and my
work, and feel highly honored to think I
should be the subject of debate While
Mrs t. might mean we'll enough in her last
article she does Mr.. Parker and my bust
ness an injustice when she says Mr. Parker
is not my foreman and have no need of
one. AS your excellent paper has in
creased with each succeeding year SO has
my business, and the number of wagons |
am turning out each week it would be i'm
possible to have the work done good as
well as quickly without foreman in each
department. With Mr.. Parker as general
foreman, my lumber is carefully selected
and goes through the various machines
properly set up into wagons by thorough
mechanics under his supervision and goes
to the buyer frst-class vehicle.
Mr.. Parker has been in my employ for a
number of years. He is a thorough me-
chanic, understands the ms and outs of the
wagon business; he not only knows how to
make wagon, he also knows how to sell
them and make settlements During my
illness last Winter l was out of my factory
three months. Mr.. Parker took full
charge looking after every detail of my
affairs, and when 1 arrived home from the
South he had several thousand dollars
worth of orders on hand as well as a snug
little bank account, after discounting his
bills and paying for new machinery and
other expenses. I want it understood that
Mr.. Parker is my foreman and sales-agent.
Anyone having business at my factory OF
any kind will be dealt with and treated as
well by him as if you were dealing with
me, No one was authorized to make any
statement contrary to the above.
Very truly yours,
HARRY A. De HART,
Thorofare, N. j., Oct. 10, 1908.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15
CLAYTON

Miss Bertha Steelman is attending Drexel
Institute.
DR.. johnson, of the Presbyterian Church
of this place, announced to his congrega-
tion on Sunday morning that he had ac-
cepted call to the First Presbyterian
Church of Washington, N. j. This is the
largest church in Newton Presbytery, and
will be much larger charge than he has in
this town. The congregation regret very
much that the doctor is going to leave, but
are glad that he goes to better charge.
Rob't McKeighan has closed out the
balance of his store stock by auction, and
will soon move into the house now occupied
by Jos. Richman.
Sam'l Williamson has secured position
in Philadelphia.
On account of the Indictment weather of
last Thursday and Friday evenings the
parade Of the Jr. O. U. A. NJ was post
poned until this Thursday evening. Ex-
tensive preparations have been made for a
big time.
The temperance meeting held in the
Presbyterian Church under the auspices OF
the Y. M. G. A. was largely attended and
Mr.. Boom, the speaker of the evening, was
appreciated by the entire assembly. Other
meetings are expected to follow in the
interest of this cause.
Isaac Evans and Frank Dilks will soon
move to Royersford, Pa.
Moore Bros. have added new delivery
wagon to their service.
BENZ. Paul, the Democratic candidate for
Surrogate, was in town last week and
created good impression.
About seven months ago Council ordered
some new electric lights of the power COM
pany. The borough is still without illu-
mination.
Rob't Harrison is visiting his daughter
in Boston, Mass.
The Presbyterian Christian Endeavor
Society held a social in the church on Tues
day evening.
VIM. A. Williamson is on the sick list.
Night school opened on Monday evening
with Prof Marts, of Franklinville, in
charge.
Miss Reba Butcher has returned after an
extended visit at Swedesboro.
Miss Frances Porch is quite ill.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

The State of Indiana has lot of voting
machines manufactured by the United
States Voting Machine Company, and they
were given an official examination last
week. There were twenty-five persons
present at the examination, and one of them
showed how he could vote more than once
for candidate. This man showed how the
machine could be made to register for a
certain candidate every time the lever was
turned by a voter in casting his ballot
merely by putting little clamp on the key
inside of the machine which he did in a
second. The machine was Ssworked" be-
fore the eyes of the official representative
of the company and the only excuse he
had to offer was that with an honest cleo
ton board it could not be done. New Jer-
sey has eighty-one machines, at cost of
$500 each, and if the news from Indiana be
be true, this is case where our astute
Legislators had gold brick worked on them
last Winter.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

If Mr.. Avis reputation as legislator
begins and ends with the securing of the
$3.50 due this county for maintaining in
sane persons in our county asylum, as the
Constitution insists, then surely there is no
excuse for his election for third term, be-
cause there are no other county claims to
collect. For the sake of giving Editor AL
bright full nights rest we will temper
ally concede all be says this week, but all
the voters of the county know that Mr..
Avis did no more in that matter than any
representative would be expected to do.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15
REJECTED ALL AMENDMENTS.
Official Vote of jerseys Special Constitu-
tlonaI Election.

~~~~NJ ~ECN~r~~ (S>@A~@NN
tlonaI Election.
The State Board of canvassers met at
Trenton Tuesday afternoon and canvassed
the returns of the special election on the
proposed constitutional amendments: The
returns show total vote cast of 43, 9O5,
and of these 1884 ballots were rejected.
The vote is compiled ON basis of eight
amendments. All were rejected, the ma
jority against the principal amendment,
that for separate Court of Appeals, being
2709. The amendment for reorganiza-
ton of the Court of Pardons was rejected
by 1865 and the one relating to the
appointment and terms of Judges received
an adverse vote of 2313.
The following table shows the vote by
counties on the amendments for separate
Court of Appeals
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

Candidate Avis is said to be relying on
Democratic votes to secure his election this
year! Mr.. Avis isn't important enough
either to the county or State to receive the
honor of a single Democratic ballot.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

1t is now two weeks since Davidson,
Paul and Hillegass were nominated as can
didates of the Democracy, and no man has
questioned their patriotism, their ability
er their honesty. If Democrats vote this
year, all three will be elected.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

Assemblyman Harris, of Salem County,
deserves to be reelected by good major
ity. He was faithful representative dur
ing ing the sessions of the late legislature, and
the experience gained in his first year will
make his services valuable to his people
another year.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

1t is suggested that the recent floods that
have wrought so great financial loss to
property, were cause by the squeeze given
trust stocks during the late financial panic
Bot comparing loses, the panic has been
more disastrous to stockholders in Trusts
than the floods to property owners.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

The legislature is in session trying to
patch up the school law. Queer, isn't it,
that it is so difficult to enact constitu-
tional law under which so ancient an insti-
tuition as our public schools may be main
tanned
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

Congressman John j. Gardner launched
his boom for Governor at the Mt. Holly
Fair last week, fact that means that
Clerk in Chancery Stokes is not going to
have an unobstructed passage on the Re-
publican road into the Governors man.
sion. Congressman Gardner probably car
ries under his hat the heaviest intellectual
batteries in the Republican party in New
Jersey, and if he gets after Eddie Stokes in
earnest twill keep that gentleman bobbing
day and night till the race is finished
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

Election Day is two weeks from next
Tuesday. Democrats, remember the day,
and also the fact that the candidates of your
party are worthy your support.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

We are hardly clear of phenomenal
floods, when the astronomers announce the
discovery OF immense spots on the sun,
which promise serious electrical disturb
anoes. One great compensation Of these
doleful prophecies, is that we can do moth
ing to prevent or mitigate them, and so
will wait and see.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

The New York Central Railroad is said
to have discharged several thousand train
and track hands, because of shrinkage in
business Which is, after all, but another
link in the chain which is pulling all bust
ness into narrower compass.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

For pleasant physic take Chamberlain's
stomach and Liver Tablets. Easy to take.
pleasant in effect. For sale by A. s. Mar
shall, Woodbury.; W. C. Finkeni, Mullica
Hill.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

Governor Murphy is in favor of Con-
stitutional Convention to devise a new State
Constitution. The Governor is in favor of
new Senatorial lines on a basis of popula-
ton, the establishment of assembly dis
tricts and the wiping out of the constitu-
tional provision which prohibits special
legislation. The Governor must have some
thing special up his sleeve.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

The concensus of loca opinion is that
the saloon ordinance is dead.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

T7t5s paper is entered in the Post 06ice al Wood
bury, N. J., as second-cIaSS matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15

to possess. These. an antique torso and a Cupid
carved by Michael Angelo, were acquired in the
stress OF by Cesare from Isabella's own
brOther-in-law Guidobaldo. Duke Of Urbino
She sympathized with the latter in his woe but
she was not blinded to her own interests She
wanted the marbles. and through her brother.
Cardinal IppoIito d'Este she got at the free
booter in whose possession they were and that
amiable individual lost no time in meeting her
wishes. Poor GuidobaldO. by the way. after
ward tried to persuade Isabella to restore at
least the Cupid. but she was memorable. She al
ways was memorable about works of art. For
a modern thing the Cupid has equal" she
wrote to CeSare's chamberlain. when the treas
ure reached her. and that the kind of
thing she liked to have near her. She was
good wife and mother: she had the governing
capacity. and used it to good purpose. but she
was, above all else. born collector. Mrs. Ady
can never forget this. She never tires of talk
ing ABOUT Isabella's relationS>with great artists
We can hardly blame her. 1t is true that by
dint of dwelling on this topic she unconsciOusIy
distorts the perspective in which the marchion-
ess should be studied. The reader wants to see
more Of Isabella as the stalwaTt figure in public
life, the talker sharing in the free conversation
Of her day. as a woman. in short. not without
certain cynical ruggedness. But there is no
denying her charm, simply as woman of ar
tistic taste One of her letters to an agent of
her fathers. who was starting a journey to
France. gives a vivid idea of how Jealous she
in the pursuit of finery:
send you a hundred ducats and wish YOU TO
understand that you are not to return the
money if any of it is left. after buying the
things which I want. but to spend it in
buying some gold chain or anything else that
is and el giant. And If more is required
spend that too. for l had rather be in your
debt so long as YOU bring me the latest novel
ties. But these are the Kind of things L wish to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15

never entered her head to make herself MIS-
cradle over anybody's misdoings-except WHEN
they affected her own comfort and convenience
and then. with the readiest spirit In the woriu'
she set about rearranging the situation SO tiii'
it would be more in harmony with her desHe'
Take. for example. her relations with the III
famous Cesare BOrgia. She was fuiiy a"d4O
of the cruelty and treachery OF his menloI''Oi0
coup at Sinigaglia. but she thought nothing Oh
congratuIating him soon after on his glorious
victories" and sent him with the letter q gliI
Of a hundred masks 'as a token OF our sincere
good will and affection for your exceilency.
1t is obvious that both letter and present stand
for a policy of statesmanlike Cancellation toward
a powerful and perhaps dangerous man. OuC
aside from this it is unlikely that the mar
chioness felt anything like the horror OF Bor-
gia's acts that we feel to-day. Crimes such as
he committed were constantly occurring In her
time She was thoroughly used 20 them. and
regarded them. as all people of the Renaissance
regarded them. as part and parcel of the mum
dane fabric.
One of the most Characteristic episodes in her
career Is that in which she was involved with
Borgia over a couple Of works Of art she longed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15

violence as there is nothing in the least unnat-
uraI about their thoughtIess acquiescence in
most if not all, of the evil conditions surround
ing them. It is difficult for the modern mind
to comprehend them. We talk glibly enough
about human nature being the same in all cen
turtles, but the changes worked in manners and
morals by the passage of time steadily beguile
US from impartial attitude toward the past
and we bIithely retry old cases by new stand
ards never doubling right so to do, or hesi-
tating ABOUT pronouncing judgment Mrs. Ady's
two hercines and the extraordinary woman por-
trayed by Gregorovius are only to be appre-
hended with accuracy when deliberately for
get our own environment. and see them steadily
in theirs. So apprehended, they are singulary
human types. Illustrating in all that they were
and in all that they did the raciest qualities of
familiar life in fifteenth century italy.
Mrs. Ady. though a candid writer might have
made her portraits of the Marchioness OF Man
tua and the Duchess of Milan even more
effective if she had been less in love with her
subjects. 1t is not that she suppresses any
thing; it is rather that when she has more
or less modifying trait to deal with she intro
duceS 1t with only half enough courage. 1t
is unnecessary to apologize to seek in any
way to minimize the darker side. Far wiser is
it to take Isabella, say, for precisely what she
was, a woman born and bred i'm a certain
miltcu and accustomed to live according to its
lights. fair foul She is, indeed. the natural
woman of the Renaissance, a perfect embodi-
ment of its energy, taste, and curiously i'm
personal regosity. She loved beauty and all
the things that make life pleasant. When Oc-
casion required she could give her attention
to affairs of state without making any effort
whatever. for she had intellect and character
She was piOus, after the superstitious and we'll
meaning fashion of her contemporaries but it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15

Mr.. Andrew Lang, Analysing the recent Car
lyle controversy, asks Sir James Crichton-
Browne and Mr. Alexander Carlyle, in words
used by Lord Melbourne on appropriate Occa-
sions: Can you not leave it alone?" He CO.
gently observes that if they had refrained from
their attacks on FrOude in their New Letters
and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle" Froude'S
now familiar apologize would not have seen the
light. and we would have been spared Il guam
tity of acrimonious debate. But we are glad
that Mr.. Lang himself has not been persuaded
TO let the subject alone, for his essay in Long
mans is Il valuable contribution to the discus
sion. Especially are we grateful for his re-
marks on FrOude's honesty as an historian He
fatty denies the assumption of The Times"
that Froude made no really adequate investga-
ton Of the archives at Simanacas and Hatfield
when lie was writing his great History of Eng
lana" and points out that in giving his manu-
scripts TO the nation, so that other students
could 90 to the British Museum and make use
of them, and discover his errors, he gave the
best proof of his good faith. FrOude was sub
ject 10 error, Mr.. Lang thinks. like most if not
IL historians" but lie is convinced that he
Eever Wlfully and consciously attempted to
mSle;.G his readers" He did not do this in
Writia- on historical themes. He did not do it
il writing about Carlyle. One of the worst
phases Of the new controversy raised over bis
portrayal Of his friend is that due to the dis
POSITION of many Of his critics to sound again
t;e old charge of inaccuracy, and even of dis
honesty 1t has been sadly oyerworked and
ougEc 10 be given a rest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15
THREE F4IR ITALIANS.
The Parts They Played in the HIS
torn of the Renaissance.

ISABELLA D'ESTE. MARCHiOS f"o5 or ~,
TIA 14T4-I5S9 A Study Of the ftentlsSAice DS
Julia Cartwright (AIrs. Adyl In Two V2 a sEs
Illustrated Octave, pp. xiv. 1872; xiv. 4i'- IT,
L. Dutton * Coz
pr.rpIrE, T,,EST-E DUCHESS OF MILAN. 1l75-
1897 Study of the Renaissance 10y JulIt
Cartwright CNrs. Ady). New Edition iIiIStr dteu
octave mn XIX g7 (E. l.. Dutton & Coz
IUCPETIA RORGIA. According 10 orlGlnil DoGu-
ments and Correspondence OF het, Dpay. 10
Ferdinand C;reeorOyius. Translated from the
lbird German Edition by John Leslie Garner
Illustrated Octave pp. xiii. SiS ID Appleton
& Coz
The time of the Renaissance in italy was
masculine time if ever there was one. but GER
tain women, notably the three concentrated
in the books that lie before US. remain among
its most representative types. Ihey were very
fair, and in many ways very 1ehliihhe' YET
there is nothing incongruous about the delicate
charm which they exerted in an age of bloody
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15

The blessing of yesterday may be the affliction
Of today but in the case of the disconnected
critic who has been rolling this pious platitude
hAe morscl under his tongue, with a dOleful
eye upon 1.-The pocket edition." we fear that the
origin Of his pessimism is to be found in desire
TO seem uncO' wise. The pocket editions have
been commercially successful. Even the doleful
one admits this. They are bought he says, 'or
they would not be still announce monthly by
various firms, and they will continue to be
lOU glt" But then comes terrible thought at
is not certain that they are read" and book
seller is proudly cited to support the contention
that decorative pocket editions are in reality
taking the place of the gift book" which no
body is ever supposed to read. Perhaps this is
the case but, in truth it would be well if public
commentators would cultivate 4 less dOgmatic
tone in talking about what people read or do not
read. 1t is tempting to speculate on the sub
ject But well founded suspicion that thou
sands OF readers waste their time trash
ought not to lure the critic into believing that
few people read good books. 1t is the favOrite
cry OF many writer's, and it is 4 prcsumptuous
raTrOtlhC cry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15
gDe Nsm1alork gribmaas
ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1908.

Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch has just at
tenn ytcd in The Fortnightly," to revive interest
in lfarc Bashkirtseff. He finds that dates have
bcesl enormously given in her diary, as pub
lished They caused us-or, at least, some OF US
to marvel lat the precocity, the maturity, the
depth of soul with which Marie wrote at the
age of twelve" Her defender points out that
when she wrote some OF her ''prec0cious' re-
marks Marie was sixteen or seventeen years or
are. and therefore not so marvellous after all.
In the light of the real, plain, unvarniShed
truth" he says, Marie is no longer freak, 4
phenomenon; she leaves Barnum's show for the
ranks of ordinary people, and if she loses some
thing in novelty / am quite sure that she gains
greatly in interest" We cannot agree with the
last clause in this statement We are glad to
hear that Marie Bashkirtsef was not as much
Of 4 freak" as she has seemed to Il great many
people 1t is good TO know that the sentlmen-
taIity of her relations with BaStien-Lcpage can
10 longer be accepted as beyond question:; to
prt their friendship in q clearer light is to rem
der excellent service to both the man and the
woman But Prince BOjidar himself states that
at table she used to announce to Dina and
myself that she had just written pages COM
pared to which the writing of all the so-cailed
aesthetics philosophers and other literary men
were nothing but nonsense" In other words.
Marie Bashkirtseff was capable of foOlishneSs
She remains, when all is said, a type of small
value to the world. Sne was never seriously
interesting, and these new revelations concern
ing her are powerless to change that fact
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15
FROM THE GREEK.
BY LORD CRoMER.

BY LORD CRoMER.
The bark of life puts out from port.
We hoist the mast and trim the sail.
Under the summer sky we sport,
At times we feel the wintry gale.
We know not where our lot is cast.
our pilot, Chance, may wreck or save
whate'er betide, the voyage past,
All cast their anchors i'm the grave.
Amador ledger., 1903-08-07
Cures For Rheum,tism

In Michigan a double cedar knot is
carried in the pocket to cure rheu-
matism, and in New Hampshire a man
carried gall from the stems of gold
enrod for the same disease. A small
white grub is in the gall and he
thought as long as the grub remained
alive no rheumatism could get hold of
him. Hickory nuts, the buckeye and
its cousin, the horse chestnut which
brings good luck in New Jersey, are
other foes to rheumatism in different
localities.
Some people wear a strange ring
made of potato with a hole bored
through it for rheumatism and others
carry plain potato in the pocket The
charm is more potent If the potato has
been stolen. Almost anything seems
to have rheumatism fighting properties,
for in southern Michigan pebble in
the pocket serves to ward it off.