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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
WILLIAM 3. ALLISON.

result of a serious sinking spell, due to
a prostate enlargement, complicated
with kidney disease, and during a
period of unconsciousnes which had
lasted since Saturday afternoon.
Two weeks ago the senator left his
home in the city to escape the heat.
He went to the home of Mrs. Fannie
Stout, friend of the family. living on
the Asbury road few miles from
town. For few days his condition
seemed to improve, but he later began
to grow worse. Medical advisers urged
that an operation be performed to re-
lieve the prostate enlargement which
was bringing his condition to crisis.
Saturday morning the senator was
brought back home. Soon afterwards
he relapsed into a condition of semi
Inconsistencies Except for brief per-
iods of partial recovery he remained
in this condition until death came.
News of the serious illness of the
aged senator was kept from the public
as much as possible, and his death
came as a surprise to his thousands of
friends residing in this city Only the
more intimate friends of the family
were aware of his critical condition.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
Gaze DE- SKIRTS.
How to cisans Press and Lay Them
Away Properly.


Here is 4 pe2e4issd plan for cleaning
and pressing slzirts says the New
York A:aeas 81. 3riish tiian arst then
whisk off With i eiean 8s'asA lamp
ened in ammonia AMI a1n aale
Any stain can Pc felso ~ If rubbed
out at ossee aia i ifsse Of equal
parts OF am pslisi. slleaael aud water
After the skirt s. thoroughly cleaned,
brushed .:.lsi t...a.l iar il on the press
ing taa:e o. II ~ si.l each piait down
in the proper fold eoser the skirt with
piece Of lfark WOODEN goods which
has been presis0Sls slampened and
then press
To remove fN:;:t from silk skirts do
not use a lAssh. bet wipe them with a
piece Of veiyeteen. which will not wear
the silk and Will remove the dust very
much more satisfactorily than a brush.
Silk or rufiied skirts should be fitted
out with tapes sewed on the lower
ruffies. by which they may be hung
upside down This prevents the skirt
from sagging and the ruffies from
dropping.
Gowns of delicate material should be
put away in long boxes or drawers.
each skirt being folded in piaits. into
which 1t should fall when being worn.
The bodices should be stuffed with
tissue paper: also the sleeves and
trimmings filed out with the paper.
Wash frocks should always be put
away in trunks, boxes or drawers.
whether they have been worn or not.
for in hanging they grow stringy, are
more easily affected by dampness and
lose their freshness before they are
worn.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
BRONSON HOWARD
DIES SUDDENLY
Noted Author Passes Away at
Avon-by-the- Sea, N. ].

New York, Aug. 5.-Bronson How
ard, dramatist and author, writer of
several plays which stand as land
marks in the American dramatic field,
died of heart failure at Avon-by-the-
Sea. N. T., after an illness OF about a
year. Mr.. Howard went to the coast
resort on June % in the hope that the
sea air might benefit him. Mrs. How
ard and several relatives We're with
him as he died. He was sixty-eight
years of age.
Bronson Howard began his journal
istic career in 1859, when he came TO
this city He was connected at various
times with the Tribune, the Evening
Mail and the Evening Post He practi-
cally retired from newspaper work in
1872, devoting himself largely thereaf-
ter to dramatic work. AS a dramatist
Mr. Howard was best known by rea-
son of the successes of Saratoga
"The Bankers Daughter 'Old Love
Letters, Young Mrs. Winthrop Z
.The Henrietta" Shenandoah and
'Aristocracy."
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
How to Mend Mattina.

Often in moving a heavy piece of
furniture the mating on the floor viii
have an ugly hole torn in it, says the
Chicago News. The torn place is usu-
ally where it is the most noticeabse
and cannot be covered with rug.
There is an excellent way to remedy
this defect by darning the place with
"a fla of colors to match the mating
straw. It is much better than threads,
and the work can be neatly done It
may be necessary TO run heavy cords
across the work through which the
raffia is to be woven. The threads are
sewed in place With large darning
needle Torn places on the edge OF
mating can be rcmedied i'll the same
manner. 1t is best to sew mating to-
gether with a loose stitch. using very
heavy linen thread for the purpose,
but where this cannot be done then use
the regular mating tacks or ordinary
lacks, placing first one side. then the
opposite side, to prevent the baggy APP
pearance which so often occurs. New
er use a claw hammer to lift taeks
from mating, since 1t invariably breaks
the straw. Get an old blunt ehlseE.
place it beneath the mating and tack
head, pound gently with the hammer
and pry the tack up. This will draw
the tack out straight and leave the
mating unbroken
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

Dennis A. Hayes, vice president OF the
American Federation of Labor, aud presi-
dent of the Glass Bottle Blowers Union,
says that the moral courage Of William J..
Bryan has fred the interest Of the labor
men, and that lit IS extremely likely that
the bulk of the labor vote will be Demo-
cratic this fall
In a recent interview, Hayes denied that
any effort would be made By Samuel Com
pers to influence the members of the Ame-
rican Federation Of Labor to support the
Democratic ticket, other than to show to
them clearly the difference in the treatment
the two conventions gave the requests he
preferred.
ssWe have resented the arbitrary fashion
with which we were treated by Speaker
Cannon last winter, he said, and although
believe shat the solid labor vote would go
to President Roosevelt or to support his
candidate if his honorable intentions to-
ward us could have prevailed, think the
attitude of Mr.. Cannon and the men in the
House of Representative haye wholly null
lieu tuc AiBO4g CAAU4 Do Va Nh 4tUVSCFEkt
We do not care anything about partisan
supremacy, nor about the several virtues of
the candidates. We are not primarily in
terested in politics, as body, bat we do
want our rights as citizens, and we will
naturally lend our votes to the party which
appears most likely TO further our ends.
sWe know that organized capital went
to Chicago to influence the Republican
convention. We believe that it succeeded.
We know that the Republican anti-injunc-
tion plank is disingenuous and evasye. Its
phraseologY is an affrons to US. It's eau
tious protection of the dignity Of the courts
is wholly unnecessary, considering that we
never attached it. We want abuses ourtail-
ed, but we are not clarmoring for anarch-
istic impertinence to the recognized order
of things
sMr Canuon's high-handed dismissal of
our appeals on the ground that labor men
want special legislation is not only absurd
and unfair, and tending to strain our
fricndliness 10 all things Republican, but is
is absolutely untrue. All we want is a
restrictive law upon courts which it would
be idle cavilling so say have not at some
time laid themselves open TO charges OF cor
ruplion. He treats us as if we were herd
of ignorant, unlettered, unenlightenod men
who are clamoring for special enactments,
as If we were not American citizens.
''It is past the limit OF human achieve
ment now to deliver the labor vote in a
lump sum to any political party The
labor men are not analytical, and they
rarely think things out, but they have a
way Of feeling situations. They know that
by an insidious and slow-growing change
in industrial processes it has become pos
sible to produce articles in this country and
sell them in others at less cost than the
factories of the other countries can produce
them for themselves. Labor men see sud-
denly that the protective tariff shoe has got
onto the other foot, and that she first thing
we know we will have so be facing the
tariffs Of other counsriessprotecting them
selves against u.s.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
cADoRA.

Mrs. Henry Harris OF Bridgeton has been
spending sometime With Mrs J. W Rich
ards
Edward Marquis, OF Philadelphia, spent
Sunday with his father at she Cade home
stead.
George Watson and family entertained
Otis Fox and wife and son over Sunday.
Benjamin Murphy and family were guests
Of friends in Redwood on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Cade, Misses
Netty Broadwater and Emily Cade spent
Wednesday at Pitman az the guests Of their
son and wife.
James Carson and wife entertained their
niece, Mrs. Hannah E. Scott. OF Mickleton
on Sunday.
Henry Harris OF Bridgeton was a guest
in the home Of J. W. Richards on Sunday.
Henry Kean and family were guests Of
Louis Cade and wife on Sunday.
David Applebee is cutting some fine as.
paragus and Hanson Cade is selling it at
pitman without any trouble, only that he
wants more OF it,
James Carson is carpentering near Cam.
den, going back and forth daily to his work.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
GOV. cummins Announces candidac,

GOV. cummins Announces Candidacy.
Lake Forest, H., Aug. 5.-Governor
Albert 3. Cummins, of Iowa, announc-
ed himself as a candidate to succeed
United States Senator Allison. The
governor paid a glowing tribute to his
late political adversary's services to
Iowa and the country at large, then
frankly declared his ambition to be
elected to the senate by the legisla-
ture of his state. He also announced
that some one will be appointed at
once to occupy Senator Allison's seat
for the remaining months of his IN
expired term"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
Sketch of Senator AIlison's Life.


Senator Allison was born at Perry,
and Mary Allison. His boyhood days
he spent on the farm which was his
birthplace. Reaching young manhood,
he secured his education in Allegheny
college, in Pennsylvania, and the West
ern Reserve college, of Ohio, in both OF
which schools he distinguished him
self at winning high honors in all the
branches which he studied.
Senator Allison was admitted to the
bar in 1850. He was married to Miss
Anna Carter of Wooster, o., at Ash
land, O.. in February, 1854. From 1850
until 1857 he practiced law in Ohio In
1857 he removed to Dubuque, where he
took up the practice of law.
Senator Allison was delegate to
the national Republican convention in
Chicago in 1860. He was a member of
the governors staff during the Civil
War. and raised troops to fight for the
integrity Of the nation in 1861. In
1863 he was elected to congress and
served continuously until 1871. In
1873 he was elected United States sem
ator from Iowa and represented his
state in this capacity until the time OF
his death
In 1881 he was offered the position
of secretary of the treasury of the
United States by President Garfield.
but declined to accept the office In
1889 he again refused this Office when
offered him by President Harrison For
the third time he refused the office
when it was offered him by President
Mckinley in 1897
His aid in the nomination of Abra-
ham Lincoln as Republican candidate
for president in 1860 was perhaps Sem
ator Allison's first great service for
mis- country AS an Iowa. delegate to
the Republican conventio in Chicago
in that year he joined the other party
leaders who had determined upon the
nomination of Lincoln, and by their
united efforts their objects were at
tanned
On the ways and means committee
Of the national house he began the
career which made him one of the best
authorities in the country upon the
revenues and expenditures of the gov
eminent. For more than forty years he
has been assigned by the judgment of
his colleagues in the house and SEN
ate TO the responsible task of planning
the revenues and supervising the ex-
uenditures, and no man who ever had
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

The publie statements OF the Prosecutor
and County Judge, of Atlantic County, and
the Mayor and officials OF Atlantic City,
that it is impossible to enforce the Bishop
Law in Atlantic City, is a serious reflection
on she character Of the people who patron
ize that resort. Millions of the best people in
the world make Atlantic City place OF
recreation, and to assert that they
leave law behind them when they cross the
thorofare bridge is a reflection on Their moral
character not warranted by the facts. 1t
is mos that these people must have booze
on Sunday that the bar rooms are all kept
open, bus it is the greed of the saloon
keepers for every quarter IN sight that has
taken possession Of Atlantic City and cre-
ated a sentiment that has completely over
awed the legal machinery Of the county.
Il isn't the vlsitors-the men who with
wife and children spends from one to four
weeks at the resort-who creates the senti-
ment that Overaws the courts-s is she
permanent resident-the two hundred aud
sixty-five bar rooms-and those who reap
profits from them that holds the law in de-
iance and tells she State Commission in so
many words that Atlantic City favors a
Continental Sunday, and Is going to have
it,
II Atlantic City can thus defy the law,
any other communities in the State can do
likewise, then anarchy will rule in New
Jersey.
We have no idea that shis condition will
continue. because if that be the case the
City-by-the-Sea will lose more in patron
age that is derived from all its saloon licen-
ses combined
It will be more profitable for Atlantic
City to be law abiding than law defying.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

writer in Country Life In America
disappoint is that we do not pay land
scape gardeners sufficient salaries As
a result we get inferior workmen and
the gardens show it. We pay fabu-
lousy for yachts, automobiles. horses,
dogs and houses; we buy foreign no.
bIemen for our daughters. but we re-
fuse TO pay for the identifying of viii
lage. city, park and landscape. To be
perfectly candid, there is something in
this criticism, but 1t is only half the
truth 1t is fact that we hire high
priced chefs and cheap gardeners,
which shows that we rate food for our
stomachs higher than we do that for
our souls. But the chief trouble with
our landscape gardening is that we do
not know what We want We are SC
used to the formal mathematical.
straight line, artificial school that we
do not know what real landscape gar
dening is II we really desired the
genuine thing we should not have SO
much trouble in finding gardeners to
carry out our ideas. What we should
do is to take hold of the matter now in
earnest and rear up a generation Of
such. What Is needed is an education
of the public taste. Another necessary
factor Is time 1t requires from a
quarter Of q century TO century to
get the best effects In a landscape
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
Shakespeare's Last Illness.

According to tradition handed
down by Ward. the vicar of Stratford.
Shakespeare's last illness was fever
brought on by merry meeting with
Drayton and Ben Jonson. Another au-
thority. Halliwell- Phillips, says that
the great poet died of typhoid. caused
by the filth and bad drainage about
New Place. Like nearly everything
else about Shakespeare. the question
of the character of his last illness can
be answered only conjecturaly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

When Harry sent it out that he'was
to be Chairman of the Republican National
Congressional Committee, ne counted mis-
chickens befofore they were Matched A
man named Mr. Kinley, also famous stand
patter, came along and took the plum.
Harry, however, will remain Secretary Of
the Committee.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
part in this work had the confidence

part in this work had the confidence
Of both houses more completely.
To Senator Allison more especially
than to any other man who ever oc-
cupied a seat in that body belongs the
title of Father of the Senate He
was not only one of the Oldest men in
that body, but he held the record be-
yond all others for length of service
there. Senator Allison was, at the time
of his death, and had been for third
Ct a century, a leader in fact as well
as in name
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

The pile of horse manure in the
barnyard is the common and fayorite
breeding place Of the house hy. If
you haven't garden on which the
manure can be spread as fast as it ac-
cumulates, plan to scatter enough lime
on the pile from time to time SO that
the fies viii shun it as breeding
place.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

The Camden County machine has de-
olared for Congressman Loudenslager for
another term. In view Of that declaration
it is not necessary for Gloucester and Salem
Counties to do anything about that matter.
Camden has done it all
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

The extra cultivation Of the field Of
corn. even if the job has TO be done
with a single horse cultivator, often
results in an increased yield Of from
eight to twelve bushels per acre. Add
ed to this IS the fur fact that the
same stirring of the sa,i which makes
available increased moisture for the
rapidly developing corn also extermi-
mates myriads Of weeds that would
otherwise draw heavily not only upon
the moisture, but the fertility of the
soil
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

If your lawn comes up poorly reseed
1t. For seed use a mixture If Ken
tricky blue grass is employed add
wlsste clover.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

The pumpkin is not beautiful thing,
but there is not a Ioyelier flower that
blossoms than the pumpkin pie.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

Put vines over uasightly outbuild-
ings. If you can do no better, take
wild vines from the woods. Anything
IS better than bald, bare ugliness.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
At the Winds Mercy.

'Scroggins is always Boosting about
his new balloon"
That's all it's good for"
whats all it's good for?"
ITO blow about" Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
Use For Them All.

sYou have three pairs of glasses. pro-
fsssor.''
Eyes; use one to read with, one to
see at q distance and the third to find
the other two"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

If a. large and richly eolored flower
is desired, try the japanese iris. The
blooms are often from six to nine
inches across and are brilliant in tints.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

Grapes and strawberries may be set
out in the fall as we'll as the spring
With proper care there are few fruits
that pay better and none that are more
delicious.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

There is nothing worse for mortals
than vagabond life Homer
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

Mr.. Taft is talking into monographs, SO
be can meet Bryan at all the cross roads.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

A Jersey militiaman plugged bis captain
in the eye last week and was drnmmed out
Of camp, clothed in blue jeans.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

Whenever possible it is well to let
poultry have the run of the orchard.
In proof of this statement one may cite
experiments conducted by the horticul-
tural department at Cornell university.
in which it was demonstrated conclu-
siyely that better results were secured
from having poultry run under the
orchard trees than from all other pro-
tective measures combined for the
holding in check or destruction of in
sect pests. 1t Is on this account that
orcharding and poultry raising even
on large scale go so well together
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

1t is at best but crocodile and inef
fective tears that a mother sheds over
the downfall of daughter whom she
thoughtlessly allows TO CAD about
town or country with questionable com
pany until II or y O'Clock at night
1t would seem that these girls. tl,;i:i
whom in their sweetness and purity i
wise and good God made nothing finer
are entitled to as much protection from
those who have it in their power to
rob them of their crown of woman
hood as the little chicks are from the
marauding and bloodthirsty mink or
the lambs in the fold from the raids
of sheep killing dogs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

Dubuque, Ia, Aug. 5.-United States
Senator w. B. Allison, seyenty-nine
years of age, ! at his home in this
city. The immediate cause OF his death
was heart failure. The end came as a
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

Grapes and Strawberries may be set
out in the fall as we'll as the spring.
With proper care there are few fruits
| that pay better and none that are more
delicious.
SCOT water and soapsuds are excel
lent fertilizers in flower culture. The
SCOT water gives added color, and the
soapsuds are especially good for dab
las.
Sweet alyssun remains a prime IA
yorite for edgings. fiowerpots and win
dow boxes It blooms all summer and
by cutting back and potting will bloom
all winter
For the average small city lawn
vines and shrubs are the best invest
ment; towering ANNALS also. If you
can afford them, but these are lux
uries, while the shrubs and vines are
necessaries.
A plant of the onion family little
known in America, but preferred over
the onion by many because of its mild
ness and tenderness, is chiyes. 1t is
used much in soups and salads. the
leaves being cut frequently like let
tuce. Once planted, 1t will grow for
years.
A few tall posts with rustic arches
overhead cost little or nothing but la
Dor. Climbing roses or other vines are
also inexpensive. Yet a combination
Of the two into covered walk mates
a thing of beauty that is a jog forever.
4 high arch covered with crimson
ramblers is more charming than the
arch of Titus or of Constantine
In New Jersey and Pennsylvania the
law requires the appointment OF shade
tree commissioner IN villages and elf
les above a certain size The result
has been for the most part satisfac-
tory The trees have been better trim
med and protected from the ravages OF
insects The abomnaDie habit OF
been STONED. lis commission in East
Orange las been most successful In
trimming. all limbs are cut even with
the trunk Of the tree and the sears
painted
Perhaps the reader has heard the In
dian legend concerning bloolroot, but
II will 10 NJ, f.x3r,a ~, Safi II sgs1 n, "A
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

There has recently been established
at Yale university professorship that
is significant of marked change Of
sentiment in the United States touch
ing a preservation of our forest areas
This is the endowing with $4,000
worth of lumber company bonds 4
chair of applied forestry and practical
numbering The innovation seems to
have a special significance in view Of
the fact that the endowment for the
new chair is furnished by class who
in the past more than all others com
bined have been responsible for the
deplorable and almost complete denud-
ing of the forest areas of the country
Much good should come from the es-
adjustment of such a professorshlp
and other colleges should follow the
lead of the Yale school
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

See adyer Of Buoknell University.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

The enemies of the corn plant, among
which are the corn root worm, corn
root louise and wireworm, work the
most damage in fields which have been
devoted to cultivation of corn year
after year without rest or rotation Of
any kind The damage which these
pests do is simply protest of nature
at wrong way of filling the soil and
of growing crops. When a fellows
corn crop begins to suffer from one OF
all of the above pests 1t is about time
for him TO make confession of his agri
cultural offenses and experience prac
teal conversion
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06

SCOT water and soapsuds are excel
lent fertilizers in flower culture. The
SCOT water gives added color, and the
soapsuds are especially good for dab
las.