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THOMASVILLE. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1905. .
PAGES 1 TO 4.
HISTORIC 6DNST0N HALL
VIRGINIA BOMB OF IBB FAMOUS
GEORGE MASON PURCBASED
by tom watson; *
American History Made Beneath Its
Broad Verandas-Haa Been Restor
ed to its Original Beauty.
Tom Watson, ot Georgia, author of
a "Life of Tnomas Jefferson," is re
ported to bare bought Gunston Hall,
Virginia, 16 miles from Washington,
and which was from 1760 to 1792 the
home ot George Mason, friend and ad
viser ot Thomas Jefferson, George
Washington, James Madison and Pat
rick Henry. The house is preserved
and a tew rods from it is the grave of
Mason. The pyramidal piece ot gran
ite shown In the picture stands above
his grave and >* inscribed:
GEORGE MASON, -
Author of the Blit of Rights and
First Constitution of Virginia.
1T2S-1TSS.
Gunston Hall Is on a ridge command
ing a fine view of the Potomac river, a
President by the people and for a term
of seven years with ineligibility for re-
election. He opposed the requirement
of a property qualification tor voters
and also opposed the plan to make
representation in Congress. ___
fused to sign the Constitution aa
adopted, and fought against its ratifi
cation by Virginia.
In the Virginia convention to ratin'
the Constitution Mason*led the oppost-'
tlon and standing-with him were Pat
rick Henry, James Monroe, Benjamin
Harrison and William Grayson. The'
leaders for ratification were John
Marshall, Edmund Randolph, Richard
majority for ratification was only ton
and this majority was obtained only
after the required number of States
had already adopted the Constitution.
Of a Famous Family.
The first American Mason was George
Mason, great-grandfather of Mason of
Gunston. He was a commander of a
troop of horse at the battle of Wor
cester, where he fought in the Stuart
cause, as did Colonel John Washington,
a near relative ot John and Lawrence
Gunston
mile distant It is about five miles be- Washington, English Royalists and the
nal Washington Immigrants.
low Mount Vernon and three miles be- origin
low the ruins of Belvolr, the home ot : The Mason family was originally of
the first Fairfax In Virginia. Gunston Warwalckshire and there, are many
Hall was probably without equal in Mason memorials in the Church of the
that part of Virginia at the time ot Holy Trinity at' Stratford-on-Avon.
Its building, and is as well preserved Colonel George Mason, the first, was,
as any other colonial house in Virginia.
It is eighty feet long and forty feet
wide and is built of bricks twice the
size ot those made now. To the right
ot the north entrance is the room
which was occupied by Jefferson on his
frequent visits to Mason. On the river
portico is where Mason and Washing
ton played at draughts by the hour.
• Several years after the war Gunston
Hall in dilapidation was acquired by
Colonel Edward Daniels, a Northern
man. The place was partially restored
by him. Colonel Daniels in thi
he days of
however, not a Warwalckshire man,
but was born in Staffordshire. One of
bis fellow Royalist refugees to Amer
ica was Gerard Fowke, of Gunston, a
hamlet in Staffordshire. The old Eng
lish Gunston Hall was standing a few
years ago, and was owned by the Gif
fords, descendants ot the same Giffords
who were Royalists with Fowke and
Mason, and who owned Boscobel, near
Gunston, where Charles II. lay in con
cealment after the battle of Worcester.
The commonwealth commander at
Worcester was General Fairfax, and it
reconstruction was the editor of the was a strange fate that made a descen-
Rlchmond Jour&al and was once a can- »nt of this man a neighbor to the Wash-
dldats for the Houae ot Represents- Ingtons of Mount Vernon and the
tives, but was defeated. He was a Muons of Gunston Hall. Belvolr, toe
close friend ot President Grant. and £»*rfax estate, lay Immediately be-
Danlels really controlled the patrons*- tween Gunston and Mount Vernon
ot the 8Ute of Virginia. A spry old Tbs first American Mason and
gentleman who has personally known Fowke settled in the northern neck of
a hundred celebrities of other genera- Virginia, but Fowke later removed to
tions. be lives on land adjoining Guns- Maryland. George Mason, the second,
ton Hall and which was a part or toe married Mary Fowke, daughter of Ger-
estate. Gunston Hail passed to Joseph ard Fowke, and they built a home in
Brecht, of St. Louis, and by him was Maryland, which they called Gunston
completely restored and beautified. He Hall, in memory ot the Epgllsh Guns-
died three years ago and toe place con- ton. sTheso people were grandparents
tlnued In possession ot his heirs and of GAirge Mason, the fourth, or George
ln.charge ot a colored overseer. | Mason, one ot the republic’s founders.
Ealry Opposed to Slavery.
George Mason was the Sage of Guns- ‘after his marriage began the erection
ton. It was he who after conference of Gunston Hall, Virginia, which he
and correspondence with Washington named after his grandparents’ place in
drew np toe non-importation resolu- Maryland and toe ancestral home ot
tions offered by Washington and the Fowkes In' Staffordshire,
adopted by the Virginia House of Bur-j Mason was one of the vestrymen of
genes in 1769. One of these resolu- Fohlck Church, four miles from Guns-
tlons pledged the signers to buy no ton. Washington and William Fairfax
Slaves imported after November 1,1769,
Mason was the author ot a tract
styled "Extracts from Virginia Char
ters and Some Remark* upon Them,’*
supporting toe contention that the Brit
ish Parliament bad no right to tax toe
American colonies. This tract had a
wide vogue in pre-revolutionary times.
Mason and Washington attended toe
cltlxens* meeting at Fairfax Court
House, Virginia, in July, 1774. Wash
ington was moderator of toe meeting.
Mason presented twenty-four resolu
tions in advocacy of non-intercourt*
with the mother country. These
elutions were adopted, and were also
Virginia
adopted by the Virginia convention at
rattans' ‘
Williamsburg In August 1774.
; body which elected :
dolph. Rid
that 1
, which elected Peyton Ran-
„ Jtlchard Henry Lee, George
Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard
Bland, Benjamin Harrison and Edmund
Pendleton delegates to toe First Con
tinental Congress, and that Congress
substantially adopted the Mason reso
lutions.
Favored Election of Presidents by
• the People.
Mason after once declining election,
and once refusing to serve after elec
tion to the Continental Congress, sat
In the Constitutional Convention of
1787. In that great body he opposed
slavery, saying it was a source of “na
tional weakness and demoralisation.”
Bo ^vocated the direct election of the
ware also vestrymen there.
UNCLE JOE CANNON’S ADVICE.
Truth.
Speaker Cannon, whom everybody
alls “Unde Joe,” told the following
' when he wished to em-
ealla “Uncle Ji
story one day
phaslze the necessity for telling the
whole truth, and farther how a man
may be deceived by half-truth:
A man rented a bouse, but after look-
i real c
Jng at it want back to the
agent with a complaint
“Ton profess to have told me the
truth,” he stormed, “but yon haven't
told me toe whole truth. There’s that
lawn, for instance!”
“Really, sir,” protested the agent “I
distinctly remember describing the
lawn, and a very nice lawn it is.”
“Oh, yes,” went on the kicker. “Ton
told me there was a lawn, but you
didn’t tell me that the nearest owner
of a lawn-mower lived two miles away!
Where am I to borrow a lawn-mower,
sir7 Answer ms that!”
the
lire Stock Mailers.
“Ob," said toe fair summer boarder,
as a couple of calves gamboled across-
meadow, “what pretty little cow
"Tew air
too old tanner.
HEW CABINET OFFICE.
IIKELIBOOD OF CREATION OF DE
PARTMENT OF INSULAR AFFAIRS.
Considered Too Wide
May Suggest Change to Congress.
Since the war with Spain, the enor
mous growth of the business of toe
War Department has given rise to an
ment circles that the time Is fully ripe
for toe creation oLauother executive
department to liandlo the control of
the island affairs of the government.
It IS predicted that too President,will
make some such suggestion in bis
forthcoming message-to-Congress.
Following the Spanish War, toe War
Department naturally took control of
toe island possessions that came to toe
United States ns u result of that con
flict These Islands, Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Pblllipplnes, fell to toe care of
the War Department as long as they
were under military rule, but when
-civil government took the.place of
martial law they were Still left with
the War Department
Kept From State Department.
1 It would seem natural for them to
belong to the Department of State, but
nave been purposely kept from
they
the province of that department in or
der that foreign powers might not
have a chance to say anything about
them. The bureau of insular affairs
was created to attend to questions
affecting our island possessions, but
this bureau has been under the imme
diate control of the Secretary of War,
and out of reach of foreign represent
atives.
With the turning of Cuba over to
the Cubans and lue passing of Porto
Ittco to the State Department and
Guam and Tutuilla to toe Navy De
partment, mutters became even more
involved.
Burden Too Great.
Almost of greater Importance, at
canal tone. Secretary _
shunt this burden to the shoulders of
Secret - - -
tern:
a vi _
work on the big ditch is progressing.
Mr. Root declared that the bureau of
Insular affairs was better equipped
to handle canal affairs than any other
department ot the government.
However, when Secretary Taft
left for the Pblllipplnes and it was
understood that Mr. Hoot would be
come Secretary of-State, it was said
to be Secretary Tafts wish that the
canal matter be transferred to Mr. Root
and there ha* been much speculation
during the summer and fall .as to who
would eventually oversee this big job.
On one hand it has been realized that
Secretary Taft ha* had a great deal
more than his proportionate share of
government work and responsibility,
and again it was understood that one
of the arguments usod by toe President
to induce Mr. Root to re-enter the Cab
inet was the President's personal de
sire that he should undertake the di
rection of the can work. His accept
ance ot tbs trust would have enabled
Secretary Taft to devote more of his
time to. Important Philippine govern
ment questions and the business of the
army generally. It seems to have been
decided, however, that Mr. Taft is to
continue permanently as the Panama
canal builder, this decision having been
reached at a recent Cabinet meeting.
These qucstlous, together with ques
tions relating to the general staff, the
ROOSEVELT IN DIXIE.
President Speaks to the Followers
of Lee.
President Roosevelt’s recent tour
through the South was one continuous
ovation from the people of Dixie. In
fact his visit has been heralded as be
ing as triumphant as the return of
any Roman emperor. Dixie was cap-
ured by the Rough Rider Presides*.
At Richmond, the old Confederate
Capital, the greeting extended to him
was unusually cordial. After much
was taken for a drive through
the residence section.- In the center of
this section Is the great equestrian
statue of Ueneral Robert E. Lee. At
this point occurred a scene of the Pres
ident’s visit which will probably be
remembered when ail others have
faded Into oblivion.
Surrounding too Lee monument'll
an iron fence, inclosing a circle of
lawn. The crowd was thickly grouped
around this circle. Inside, standing
upon the base ot the monument and
wandering about upon thd lawn-were
seventy-five broken, tottering old men.
dad in gray and entry g small Con-
ederate flags. Many hobbled upon
canes. Here and there an arm or a
leg was missing. The voices of the old
to the crowd around them. They
were waiting for the President of the
United States, he -was to drive past
the monument From time to time a
little, old man climbed upon a pedi
ment and stood, like the very incar
nation of the Lost Cause, shading bis
eyes and gazing toward the coming
of the great, the powerful, the world-
renowned successor ot Lincoln and
Grant
It was such a sight as this'which
greeted the President when Ills car
riage dashed up to the monument
Before the old men realized it the
ing, "Come closer.” With confused ex
clamations the old men hobbled for-
dth small pretense of march-
ward, wll _ _
ing. They had almost forgotten toe
THE STRENGTH OF JAPAN.
GARDEN FARMS TBB FOUNDA
TION OF NIPPON’S POWER.
30,000,000 People Sustained In Com
fort on Only 19,000 Square Miles
ot Cultivated Land.
(Item “Chicago.” The Orest Central Market
July, 1U0C).
“A hundred years hence, leuving
China out ot the question, there wlU
be two colossal powers In the world,
beside which Germany, England,
France, and Italy will be as pygmies-
the United States and Russia.”
If any one had told Emile de La-
veleye, when he made this prophecy,
some years ago, that within a few
years toe power of Russia on the sea
would be annihilated, aud her laud
forces defeated again and again by the
loved it?
No, neither ho nor any one else, at
that time, would h.-.ve credited it
The Incredible, the unbelievable, has
actually happened. There is no result
without a cause. What Is toe underly
ing cause of this marvelous strength
of Japan?
It is not in battle ships or siege gui
" * ---
not in torpedo boats or field artillery
—not in arms or armor—not in muni
tions of war or equipment for battles
on land or Bea. Russia bad all these,
and yet she has suffered crushing, hu
miliating, and overwhelming defeat
What, then, is the secret of Japan’s
strength?
Eiflclency of the Unit.
It Is in just one thing, and that is
menl
It is In too efficiency of the unit
It is in the physical and mental pow
er—in the health, s’rengto, and intelli
gence of tile .Inpniicsc people ns a
whole, and as a consequence, of every
individual soldier and sailor.
And this physical and mental effi
ciency of nn entire people—of toe en
tire citizenship of the Japanese nation
measures everything by a money wage
—a totally false aud deceptive stand
ard of measurement of the best thing
that human life affords.
In the United States two hundred
and fifty thousand of our people are
plague, tuberculosis.
In Japan the disease is practically
unknown. C
Why? *
Because the Japanese breathe fresh
air.
What would the Japanese think it
they were told that tbelr people could
not have fresh air because they did
not have more money?
Or could not have exercise because
letlc clubs?
Or must go without food because
they lacked money to buy it at a
butcher or a grocery store, when
every Japanese gardener has the land
' *- ’“ knows.how with bis
from which he
own labor to get all the food he needs
for the abundant 'nourishment for
himself and family.'
The Garden Farm.'
Of the 40,000,000 population of
Japan 30,000,000 are farmers, or more
correctly speaking, gardeners. The
Japanese farm is a garden, irrigated
and fertilised, and scientifically and
Internal affairs, have made the 8ecro-
e Cabinet.
Taft Travels Far.
This Is proved, if in no other way,
by'tlie immense amount of'traveling
anama, to tbo Philip-
n
n
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COL. CLARENCE B. EDWARDS,
Chief of Bursal of Insular Affairs and Pos
sible New Cabinet Officer. -
fines, to Hawaii, torching and Japan.
has just left Washington for hit
bis connection with toe affairs
Philippines, he has become Involved
In questions wholly outside the regular
line of the War Department
These are some of the reasons which
lead the President and bis advisers to
consider the creation of another da
ta rtment to take complete control of
stand and colonial affairs. Whether
Congress will consent to this at toe
coming session, or will move postpone
ment, cabnot be foretold, - but toe
chances are that within a reasonable
time, the War Department will be re
lieved of some of its heavy burdens.
There Is no pie or pudding; father.
But I will give you this:
And upon thq blacksmith’s toO-wom
brow.
She printed a childish kiss.
uiiu luniiucu. ui
intensively tilled.
And a recent writer, describing the
life of too Japanese farmer, says:—
"Measured in money, he is not rich.
But be dwells in a comfortable and in
viting home, purged of every taint of
dirt and dust. The transparent paper
walls of bis house, made of bark from
Ills mltsumnta shrubs, flood his dwell
ing with light and keep out the wind.
He enjoys good food served in dainty,
but Inexpensive dishes made ot native
woods. Even in the homes of the
poorest, there are no visible signs of
poverty. There is no squalor In agri
cultural Japan. The humblest peas
ant farmer Is clean, industrious and
Comfortable. The area of fence corners
abandoned on many American farms
to wild mustard, feuncl, and pig weed,
would furnish comfortable living to a
whole family in rural Japan. Some
idea of the trifling cost of living in
agricultural Japan was given bj
at “
nn American who has spent fifteen
kes a vacation In the farming re
gions. He has good food, sleeps on
clean and comfortablequllts in impec
cable bouses is carried about to coun
try carts,and at toe end of two weeks
finds that his total expenses bave not
exceeded ten yen, or five dollars.”
And from the garden farms—the.
have come the soldiers who bave.i
death to drive the Russians from Man
churia and leaped into eternity in or-
wasli the shores or their Home Land.
/A Nation of Home Acres.
not light for a 1
Japanese have proved" that they win
fight ir ' ’ "
like demons to defend the insti
tutions of a nation of Homo Acres.
We Instinctively think of toe victo
ries of Japan as the victories of her
leaders.
We are naturally hero-worshippers.
But there, again, we are superficial.
Our military men were loud in tbelr
raises of the masterly way to which
luropatkln played the game of war.
And Rojestvensky must have the
credit due him for sailing bis fleet four
thousand miles and planning so effi
ciently to provide It with coal si
STATUE OF GENERAL LEE AT RICHMOND.
Gr&ap ot Confederate Veterans Waiting to Seethe Preeilent
old marching orders in tbelr confusion.
fence. The line was not reformed.
Then the President spoke to the South,
ignoring the crowd behind hint. He
1* only to the wearers of the gray.
>ke as the President of a re
country. His voice seemed as
toe voice of a nation speaking to the
followers of Lee.
The veterans devoured every vigor
ous syllable of the President’s address.
They returned his earnest gaze with
looks of unmistakable good will and
toe* Kesidentdltop^lI'waved^bta'fiaC
It was to them like the balm of Gilead,
and shouted, "Good-by, and good-
luck.”
“Good-by, good-by," they shouted.
President Boose-
and a moment later
velt was out of sight
Expert Naval Testimony.
When Dick Thompson, of Indiana,
was called to toe Cabinet as Secretary
ot the Navy It is said that , he had
never even been on a large vessel. One
of his earliest visits was made to an
informal inspection on a large man-
of-war, lying at the Navy Yard. He
climbed up on toe deck, was escorted
around the vessel, admired and com
plimented the beauty and cleanliness of
t all and finally peered down the hold.
He looked back at the officer, took off
his glasses, wiped them, looked down
again and then finally turned to the
commander and exclaimed, “Why the
thing’s hoUowl”
-is a plain and distinct result of their
mode of life.
The Japanese people are strong be
cause they live as toe human animal
must live to be mentally and physi
cally strong-next to nature.
They 1
_ breathe the fresh air.
They eat plain food.
They neither starve nor gf:pe. .
They are mentally and physically
active.
"They are an lout of door" people.
— ‘ tot health.
ey ui
and obey then.
Their children draw their strength
from the bosom of mother earth.
And above ond beyond all, they are
a nation ot homes and home owners.
Each family is to a home and each
home is in a garden where health and
strength are gained by the labor of
cultivating that garden tat a living,
And in these garden homes toe peo-
ple of Japan bave far more ot real
R leasure and bapplncss and the genu-
te enjoyments or life than the aver
age wage worker to our country.
The White Plague Unknown.
We'-have fallen into a smug and
self-complacent and wretchedly super
ficial habit of thought which loses
sight of the life that a people lead and
and pro
visions.
But Oyama and Togo bad too men,
and every Japanese soldier nnd sailor
is not only a hero but a leader. If
evary officer in toe Japanese army and
navy above the rank of Captain were
stricken dead tomorrow, their places
would be filled and Japan would con
tinue to prosecute the war to final vic
tory. The secret of her power lies in
the fact that in Intelligence, In mental
nml physical strength. In individual
initiative in patriotism, in all that goes
to make up a fighting unit, every
Japanese soldier nnd sailor Is
Oyma or a Togo In embryo.
Oymn or a Togo In embryo.
Yon might destroy every sbip that
Japan possesses, destroy all her arms
and munitions of war, take away even'
toe clothes on their backs And trans
port evenr soldier In her army nnd
every sailor In ber navy back to too
shores of Japan as naked as toe day be
were born, and leave the nation to Its
own devices, and. in a few years they
would completely reproduce their
naval and military power and bo
stronger than ever.
But destroy toe men of Japan nnd
substitute for them toe dull-witted
peasantry of Russia or the enaemlc
factory operatives ot I
II I H En gin ml. and
yon have destroyed Japan.
Men Before Battleships.
True to bis warlike Impulses and in
stincts, President Roosevelt catches up
toe echo from toe greet naval battle
which has just been fongbt, nnd calls
on the country for more battle ships.
Rojestvensky hqd battle ships. .Ho
bad more of them than Togo. But he
didn’t have the men. AndTio <
I’t have the men. AndTio couldn’t
ger them. Russian Institutions could
not produce them.
Now, would it not be wise for toe
people of this country to wake up to
the fact that the foundation ot our
strength ss a nation is not In an armv ,
or n navy, but in our citizenship.
And also wake up to the api»"t'
fact, powerfully portrayed by
nunter in “Poverty,” his recent
that we are deliberately folio
the footsteps of England and < ___
nting onr citizenship by crowding <
working people Into 'cities —'“
they live in an unbonlthful
ment and are weakened by p
and inadequate nourishment
The lesson to be learned by
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