Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-13
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We lay the fiattering JUNCTION to our
souls that we are vastly superior to
the Spanish Americans because we
prohibit bullfghting, in which they
delight, but when was bull batting pro-
ductive of anything so horrible as the
death of young Edward Schmidt at
Staunton, ILL.,?
The Real Thing.
The tuft hunters and aristocrats of
America are all in a feverish futter
because the announcement is positively
made that Leopold, king of Belgium, is
to attend the Louisiana exposition at
st. Louis in 1904. Leopold rules over
buffer kingdom about as big as the
average congressional district in Mis-
souri,. He is merely a royal puppet, set
up by bigger potentates for their own
convenience and pleasure, and is per-
haps the greatest roue among the po-
tentates of Europe, which is saying a
great deal. His outrageous treatment
of his daughter should cause the door
of every decent house in America to be
shut in his face, but it will not be so.
He will be hailed as great parsonage.
and the bonton will tear the clothes
off each other in the insane desire to
bask in one brief, halcyon, feeting mo-
ment in the presence of this royal old
rake. o tempora! o mores!
En- Route.
When the Boer war closed, it was
given out that the British had COM
pletely won the hearts of their recent
foes by the peace terms granted and
that the Beers would settle down at
once into the most exemplary citizens
and rejoice in wearing the Chamber
lain yoke; but, mirabile dictu, it is
now rumored that sedition is openly
preached by certain stiff necked deni-
zens of those brave little republics
and that hatred of Englishmen and of
English dominion is part of the creed
of the conquered burghers So serious
has the situation become that Cham
berlain is going to South Africa him.
self to study conditions at short range.
Wonder if he ever reflects upon the
loss of life and property his ambition
cost the world?
Work For the Worker.
Mr.. Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora,
N. Y, is bit of a sage who looks like
William Jennings Bryan, wears a
bunch of untrammeled hair, blue
flannel shirt and a pair of corduroy
trousers. In this makeup there is moth
ing to keep healthy brain from doing
good work; his does it. He believes in
the efficacy of hard work. He thinks
that alleged curse through which man
was condemned to earn his bread in
the sweat of his brow to have been a
disguised blessing. One clause of his
''credo" declares that work is for the
worker" Mr.. Hubbard recently wrote
an article for the Cosmopolitan in
which he told bit of himself, his work
and something of that remarkable in
stitution built up by him, the Royeroft
bookshop. Here are some stray para
graphs from the article:
What have / done concerning which the
puDllC WISHES u kuOW olIupIy ltlISs
In one obscure country village / have
had something to do with stopping the
mad desire on the part of the young peo-
pie to get out of the country and flock to
the cities. In this town and vicinity the
tide has been turned from city to coun-
try. We have made one country village
an attractive place for growing youth by
supplying congenial employment, oppor-
tunity for education and healthful recrea-
tion, meeting places and an outlook into
the world of art and beauty.
All boys and girls want to make things
with their hands, and they want to make
beautiful things. They want to "get
along and I've simply given them a
chance to get along here instead of seek
ing their fortunes in Buffalo, New York
or Chicago. They have helped me and I
have helped them, and through this mu-
tual help we have thriven in mind, body
and estate.
BY myself 1 could have done nothing,
and if l have succeeded it is simply be-
cause I have had the aid and co-opera-
tion of cheerful, willing. loyal and loving
helpers. Even now as / am writing this
in my cabin in the woods four miles from
the village. they are down there at the
shop, quietly, patiently. cheerfully doing
my work, which work is also theirs. No
man liveth unto himself alone. Our in
terests are all bound up together, and
there is no such thing as a man going off
by himself and corralling good.
Hoodlumsm is born of idleness; it is
useful energy gone to seed. In small
towns hoodlumism is rife. and the hood
iums are usually the children of the best
..atizens. Hoodiumism is the first step in
the direction of crime. The hoodlum is
very often good boy who does not know
what to do, and so he does the wrong
thing. He bombards with tomatoes u
good man taking a bath, puts ticktacks
on windows, ties a tin can to the dog S
tail, takes the burs off your carriage
wheels, steals your chickens, annexes
your horse blankets and scares old ladies
into fits by appearing at windows wrap
walk in and demand the money in the
family ginger jar is the next and natural
evolution. The penitentiary yawns for
the hoodlum.
To a great degree the Roycroft shop has
done away with hoodlumism in this viii
lage, and stranger wearing silk hat
or an artist with a white umbrella is now
quite safe upon our streets. Very natural
ly the oldest inhabitant win deny what 1
have said about East Aurora. He will tell
you that the order, cleanliness and beauty
of the place have always existed. The
change has come about so naturally and
SO entirely without his assistance that he
knows nothing about it. Truth when first
presented is always denied, but later there
comes a stage when the man says. 81 al
ways believed it, And so the good old
citizens are induced to say that these
things have always been or else they
gently poohpooh them. However, the
truth remains that / introduced the first
heating furnace into the town, bought the
first lawn mower, was among the first to
use electricity for lights and natural gas
for fuel, and so far am the only one In
town to use natural gas for power.
Until the starting of the Roycroft shop
there were no Industries here aside from
the regulation country store, grocery,
tavern, blacksmith shop and sawmill,
none of which enterprises attempted to
supply more than local wants. There was
Hamlin's stock farm, devoted to raising
trotting horses, that gave employment to
some of the boys, but for the girls there
was nothing. They got married at the
first chance. Some became "hired girls, -
or II they had ambitions they fixed their
hearts on the Buffalo Normal school,
raised turkeys, picked berries and turned
every honest penny toward the desire to
get an education SO as to become teach
ers. Comparatively this class was small
in number. Most of the others simply fol-
lowed that underlined desire to get away
out of the dull, monotonous, gossiping
village and SO, craving excitement, they
went away to the cities and the cities
swallowed them. A wise man has said
that God made the country, man the city
and the devil the small towns.
The country supplies the cities its best
and worst. We hear of the few who sue
ceed, but of the many who are lost in the
maelstrom we know nothing Sometimes