Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-11-14

atnletlc sports tolerates-not only toll
crates, but encoura ges-football... Per-
haps there Is not an authentic case on
record where dancing produced a
death, and perhaps no healthy man
was ever killed in a prizefght, certain
ly not In boxing bout for points, but
fatalisms In football are not unusual.
Just why punching fellow mortal
with n padded glove is mortal sin
and kicking him to death justihable
pastime 1t would be difficult to ex-
plain on any rule Of common sense.
We lay the fattering JUNCTION to our
souls that We are vastly superior to
the Spanish Americans because we
prohibit bull6ghting, in which they
delight, but when was bull batting pro-
ductive Of anything so horrible us the
death Of young Edward Schmidt at
Staunton, Ill?
The Real Thing.
The tuft hunters and aristocrats of
America are all in "a feyerish 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 q 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
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 thissroyal old
rake. o Temporal! o mores!
En- Route.
When the Boer war closed, 1t 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. 1t 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.
4 Wonder If he ever reflects upon the
loss Of life and property his ambition
cost the world?
Work For the Worker.
Mr.. Ebert Hubbard Of East Aurora,
N. Y, is bit Of q sage who looks like
William Jennings Bryan, wears o
bunch Of untrammeled hair, blue
flannel shirt and 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 a bit of himself, his work
and something Of that remarkable in
stitutiop built up by him, the Roycroft
bookshop. Here are some stray para
graphs from the article:
What have done concerning which the
| public wishes to know? Simply this:
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 baen turned from city to coun-
| try We have made one country village
supplying congenial employment. oRpor-
tunity for education and healthful reerea.
| ton, 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
| along" and rye 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 ena
have helped them. and through this mu.
| tual help we have thriven in mind. body
| and estate.
| BY myself could have done nothing.
and II have succeeded 1t is simply be-
4 cause I have had 1.-The aid and co-opera-
ton Of cheerful. willing. loyal and loving
! helpers. Even now as I 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 of
by himself and corralling good.
Hoodlumism is born of idieness; It is
useful energy gone to seed. In small
towns hoodlumism Is rife and the hood
lums are usually the children Of the best
citizens. Hoodlumism 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 q
good ran taking a bath. puts ticktacks
on windows. ties tin can to the dogs
| 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
ped In white sheet. To wear mask,
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 white umbrella is now
quite safe upon our streets. Very natural-
ly the oldest inhabtant will deny what
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 1t. Truth when first