The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 30, 1905, Page 9

fH] : MAGAZINE SECTION. The Butler Weekly Times. PART: TWO. SS sree VOL, XXVIII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1905. HISTORIC GUNSTON HALL. VIRGINIA HOME OF THE FAMOUS GEORGE MASON PURCHASED BY T6M WATSON. American History Made Beneath Its Broad Verandas -Has Been Restor- ed to its Original Beauty. Tom Watson, of Georgia, author of a “Life of Tnomas Jefferson,” is re ebay to have bought Gunston Hall, irginia, 15 miles from Washington, and which was from 1750 to 1792 the home of George Mason, friend and ad- viser of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison and Pat- rick Henry, The house is preserved and a few rods from it is the grave of Mason. The pyramidal piece of gran- ite shown in the picture stands above his grave and is inscribed; GEORGE MASON, Author of the Bill of Rights and First Constitutien of Virginia, 1726-1792, Gunston Hall is on a ri.!je command. ing a fine view of the Puiomac river, a President by the people and for a term of seven years wilh ineligibility for re- election. He opposed the requirement ofa property qualification for voters and alse opposed the plan to make slaves equal to freemen for purposes of representation in Congress. He re fused to si¢u the Constitution as adopted, and fought against its ratifi- cation by Virginia. In the Virginia convention to ratify the Constitution Mason led the opposi- tion 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 Henry Lee, George Washington and James Madison, yet so great was Ma- son’s influence that in 168 votes, the majority for ratification was only ten 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 of John and Lawrence mile distant. It is about five miles be- low Mount Vernon and three miles be- low the ruins of Belvoir, the home of the first Fairfax in Virginia, Gunston Hall was probably without equal in that part of Virginia at the time of its building, and is as well preserved @s any other colonial house in Virginia. It is eighty feet long and forty feet wide and is built of bricks twice the size of those made now. To the right of 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 the days of reconstruction was the editor of the Richmond Journal and was once a can- didate for the House of Representa- tives, but was defeated. He was a close friend of President Grant, and Daniels really controlled the patronage of the State of Virginia. gentleman who has personally known a hundred celebrities of other genera- tions, he lives-on-land adjoining -Guns- ton Hall and which was a part of the estate. Gunston Hall passed to Joseph Specht, of St. Louis, and by him was completely restored and beautified. He died three years ago and the place cor- tinued in possession of his heirs and in charge of a colored overseer, Ealry Opposed to Slavery. George Mason was the Sage of Guns- ton. It was he who after conference and correspondence with Washington drew up the non-importation resolu- tions offered by Washington and adopted by the Virginia House of Bur- gesses in 1769. One of these resolu- tions pledged the signers to buy no slaves imported after November 1, 1769. Mason was the author of a tract styled “Extracts from Virginia Char- ters and Some Remarks upon Them,” supporting the contention that the Brit- ish Parliament had no right to tax the American colonies, This tract had a , wide vogue in pre-revolutionary times. Mason and Washington attended the citizens’ meeting at Fairfax Court House, Virginia, in July, 1774. Wash- . ington was moderator of the meeting. _ Mason presented twenty-four resolu- tions in advocacy of non-intercourse with the mother country. These res- Olutions were adopted, and were also adopted by the Virginia convention at ‘Williamsburg in August, 1774. It was that body which elected Peyton Ran- dolph, Richard Henry George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison and Edmund Pendleton delegates to the 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 demoralization.” He advocated the direct election of the A spry oid) ‘Washington, English Royalists and the original Washington immigrants, The Mason family was originally of Warwaickshire and there are many Mason memorials in the Church of the ;Holy Trinity at Stratford-on-Avon, ; Colonel George Mason, the first, was, |however, not a Warwaickshire man, | but was born in Staffordshire. One of | his fellow Royalist refugees to Amer- }ica was Gerard Fowke, of Gunston, a hamlet im Staffordshire. The old Eng: lish Gunston Hall was standing a few years ago, and was owned by the Gif- fords, descendants of 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 commoawealth commander at Worcester was General Fairfax, and it was a strange fate that made a descen- ant of this man a neighbor to the Wash. ingtons of Mount Vernon and the |Masons of Gunston Hall. Belvoir, the Fairfax estate, lay immediately be- tween Gunston and Mount Vernon The first American Mason and Fowke settled in the northern neck of Virginia, but Fowke later removed to. id, George Mason, the second, married Mary Fowke, daughter of Ger- ard Fowke, and they built a home in Maryland, which they called Gunston Hall, in memory of the English Guns- ton. These people were grandparents of George Mason, the fourth, or George Mason, one of ‘the republic’s founders. In 1750 this man married Anne E:lbeck |of Mattawoman, Maryland, and soon after his marriage began the erection of Gunston Hall, Virginia, which he | named after his grandparents’ place in | Maryland and the ancestral home of the Fowkes in Staffordshire. | Mason was one of the vestrymen of | Pohick Church, four miles from Guns- ton. Washington and William Fairfax were also vestrymen there, UNCLE JOE CANNON’S ADVICE, ie" Back Anything, B: I. “ vee Fes ‘ell the Whole Veuthe . Speaker Cannon, whom everybody calls “Uncle Joe,” told the following story one day when he wished to em- Phasize the necessity for telling the whole truth, and farther how a man may be deceived by half-truth: A man rented & house, but after look- ing at it went back to the real estate agent With a complaint. “You profess to have told me the truth,” he stermed, “but you haven't told me the whole truth. There’s that lawn, for instance!” “Really, sir,” protested the agent, “I distinctly remember describing the lawn, and a very nice lawn jit is.” “Oh, yes,” went on the kicker. “You 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, sir?’ Answer me that!” ecinaenetifinaenmtiiere Live Stock Matters, “Oh,” said the fair summer boarder, as a couple of calves gamboled across the meadow, “what pretty little cow- “Yew air mistaken, ma’am,.” said the old farmer. “Them’s bullets.” ~ ANEW CABINET OFFICE, LIKELIHOOD OF CREATION OF DE- PARTMENT OF INSULAR AFFAIRS, Field Covered by Secretary of War Considered Too Wide — President 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 Jixie. La May Suggest Change to Congress. fact his visit has been heralded as ve- Since the war with Spain, the enor- mous growth of the business of the War Department has given rise to an oft exp xd opinion in high govern ment circ! $ that the time is fully ripe | ¥@8 unusually cordial, ing as triumphant as tie return of apy Koman emperor, Dixie was cap- ured by the Rough Rider President. At Richmond, the okt Contederate Capital, the greeting extended to him After much for the creation of another executive | P&rading and speech-making, We res department to handle the control of the island affairs of the government It is predicted that the President will make some such suggestion in his forthcoming message to Congress. Following the ainish War, the War Department naturally took control of essions that came to the is a result of that con ands, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phillippines, fell to the care of twa. ‘The crowd was thick: the War Department as long as they were under military rule, but when civil government took the place of | ide Was taken for a drive thr ugh | the residence section, -In the center of this section is the great equest stitue of General Robert BE. Lee 4 this point occurred a scene of the Pres- jident’s visit which will probably be remembered when all others bave faded into oblivion, Surrounding the Lee monument ts an iron fence, inclosing a cirele of ‘ouped {around this circle, Inside, standing | upon the base of the monument an wandering about upon the lawn were martial law they were still left with | Seventy-live broken, tottering old men, the War Departiuent, Kept From State Department. , It would seem natural for them to belong to the Department of State, but they have been purposely kept from the province of that department in or- der that foreign powers might not have a chance to say anything about them, Was created to attend to affecting our island possessions, but this bureau has been u diate control of the Se and out of reach of foreign atives, y represent- With the turning of Cuba over to passing of Porto and Navy De- partinent, niattters became even more the Cubans and the Rico to the tate Department Guam and Tutuilla to the involved. Burden Too Great. Almost of greater importance, at present, than the Philippines, is the canal zone, shunt this burden to the shoulders of Secretary Root, but failed in his at- tempt, He is now preparing to make a visit to the isthmus to see how the work on the big diteh is progressing. Mr. Root declared that the bureau of i affairs was better equipped ‘ fairs than any other department of the government, However, when left for the Phillippines and “it was understood that Mr. Root would be- come Secretary of State, it was said to be Secretary Taft's wish that the canal matter be transferred to Mr. Root and there has 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 has had a great deal more than his proportionate share of government work and responsibility, and again it was understood that one of the arguments used by the 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. ance of the 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 questions, together with ques- tions relating to the general staff, the reorganizaion of the army, and other internal affairs, have made the Secre- tary by far the hardest worked mau in the Cabinet. Taft Travels Far. This is proved, if in no other way, by the immense amount of tra H The bureau of insular affairs questions Secretary Taft tried to ecretary Taft His accept: } clad in gray id carry’ g small Con- ederate fla Many hobbled upon crutches, and nearly all leaned upon canes, Were and there an arm or a leg was missing. The voices of the old men were low, and they paid no heel to the crowd: around them, They were waiting for the l'resident of the | United States, he was to drive past the monument. From time to time a little, old man climbed upon a pedl- / ment and stood, like the very incar- nation of the Lost Cause, shading his yes and gazing toward the coming of the great, the powerrul, the world- renowned successor of Lincoln and Grant. It was such a sight as this which greeted the President when bis evr jviage dashed up to the monument. Before the old men realized it, the President was facing them and shout- ing, “Come closer.” With confused ox- clamations the old men hobbled for- ward, with small pretense of march- jug. They had almost forgotten the THE STRENGTH OF JAPAN, GARDEN FARMS THE FOUNDA-+ TION OF NIPPON’S POWER, 30,000,000, People Sustained in Com- | fort on Only 19,000 Square Miles of Cultivated Land. (From “Chicago,” The Great Central Market July, 190d), “A hundred years hence, leaving China out of: the question, there will be two colossal j owers in the world, beside which Germany, Englund, France, and Italy will be as pygwies— 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 the power of sia on the sea would be annihilated, aud ber laud forces defeated aga pygmy nation of Japan, have believed it? No, neither he nor any one else, at that time, would h:.ve credited it. The jneredible, the unbelievable, has ‘actually happened, There is no result without a cause, What is the underly. Ang ause of this marvelous strength of | It is not in battle ships or stege guns 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 sea, Russia had all these, and yet she has suffered crushing, hu- miliating, and overwhelming defeat, What, then, is the secret of Japan's strength? ain and again by the would be Eificiency of the Unit. It is in just one thing, and that Is| men! | It is in the efficieney of the unit. It is in the physieal and mental pow- er—in the health, strength, and intell gence of the Nese preap Whole, and as q | Individual sold And this phy | clen ‘tive citizenship of the Japanese nation | ff ' msequence, of every d sailor, and mental ef. y of an entire people—of the en- if | done by Secretary Taft in the past year He has been to Panama, to the Philip COL, CLARENCE R. EDWARDS, Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs and Pos- sible New Cabinet Officer. pines, to Hawaii, to China and Japan. He has just left Washington for his second trip to the isthmus. Through his connection with tne affairs of the 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 his advisers to consider the creation of another de- STATUE OF GE» Group of Confederate V old marching orders in their confusion. They simply huddled forward to the fence, The line was not reformed. Then the President spoke to the South, He ignoring the crowd behind him. spoke only to the wearers of the ¢ He spoke as the President of a re. united country. His voice seemed a3 the voice of h 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 loving friendship. Somewhat abruptly the President stopped, waved his hat, It was to them like the balm of Gilead. and shouted, “Good-by, and good- luck.” “Good-by, good-by,” they shouted, and a moment later President Roose- velt was out of sight. ——_— Expert Naval Testimony. When Dick Thompson, of Indiana, was called to the Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy it is said that he had partment to take complete control of| never even been on a large vessel. One island and colonial affairs. Whether Congress will consent to this at the coming session, or will move postpone- ment, cannot be foretold, but the chances are that, within a reasonable time. the War Department will be re- lieved of some of its heavy burdens, eS There is no ple or pudding, father, ~ But I will give you this; 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 the deck, was escorted around the vessel, admired and com- plimented the beauty and cleanliness of it all and finally peered down the hold. He looked back at the offtcer, took off his glasses, wiped them, looked down And upon the blacksmith’s tofl-worn|again and then finally turned to the brow, She printed a childish kiss, commander and exclaimed, “Why the thing’s hollow!” } would farntsh” comportable vin measures everything by a money wage —a totally false and 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 being auntally destroyed by the great white plague, tuberculosis. In Japan the disease is unknown, Why? Because the Japanese breathe fresh air. What would the Japanese think if they were told that their people could not have fresh air because they did not have more money? Or could not have exercise because practically they could not afford to belong to athletic clubs? Or must go without food because they ae n y to buy it ata butcher or store, when every dapat hia al from whieh wit 3 own labor to ‘ood he needs for the abundant nourishment for himself and family. The Garden Farm, Of the 45,000,000 population — of Japan 20,000,000 are farmers, or more And a recent writer, life of the Jnpanese farn “Measured in money, he is not rich, says But he dwells in a comfortable and ine Viting home, purged of every taint of dirt and dust. The transparent paper Walls of his house, made of bark from his mitsumata shrubs, flood his dwell ing with light and keep ‘out the wind, He enjoys good food served in dainty, Dut inexpensive dishes made of mative woods, Even in the homes of the Poorest, t are no visible poverty, There is no squalor cultural Japan. The humblest ant tf ris clean, indust » ‘The area of fence corners Ahandened on many American farms to wild mustard, fennel, and pig weed, whole family ino rural dapaa idex of the trifling cost of 1 PF agricultural Japan was given by an American whe las spent fifteen years in the Empire Prequently he takes a ovacation in the farming re. gions, Tle has good food, on clean and comfortible quilts: in impees cable houses is earried about in couns irtsind at the end of two weeks that lis totat expenses have not ‘ded ten yen, or tive de i And from the rden farms—the T : ‘ ricultural Japan ho have faced from Mane ‘ternity in or- hd t wipe the menace of the Russian? yfrom the seas that Wash ihe shores of their Home Land, A Nation of Home Acres. It 1s an old saying that a man will not fight fora boarding house, but the Japanese have proved that they will light like mons to defend the iusti- tutions of a nation of Home A : We instinctively think ef th 0- ries of Japan as the victories of her leaders, We are naturally hero-worshippers. But there, again, we are superticial, Our milit men were loud in their j praises of the masterly way in whieh Kuropatkin played the 4 of war. And Rojestvensky \ the credit due him for sail t four thousand miles and phi so cil ciently to provide it with coal and pro- visions, But Oy and Togo had the men, and every these soldier and. sailor is not only a hero but a leader. If every officer in the Japanese my and tatvy above the rank of Ca were stricken dead tomorrow, t places would be filled and Japan would eon- tinue to prosecute the war to final vie tory. The seeret of her power lies in the fact that in i AT RICHMOND, ing to See the President. '-is a plain and distinct result of their mode of life. The Japanese people are strong be- cause they live as the human animal must live to be mentally and phyal- cally strong—next to nature. They breathe the fresh air, They eat plain food, They neither starve nor ~~. Je | They are mentally and physically | active. They are an “out of door” people. They uncerstand the laws of health, and obey them. Their children draw their strength } from the bosom of mother earth. And above and beyond all, they are a nation of homes and home owners. Each family is in a home and each home is in a garden where health and strength are gained by the labor of cultivating that garden for a living, And in these garden homes the peo- ple of Japan have far more of real pleasure and happiness and the genu- ine enjoyments of life than the aver- age wage worker in our ceuatry. The White Plague Unknown, We have failen into a smug and self-complacent and wretchedly super- | tieial habit of thought which loses sight of the life that a people lead and in and Hi and physieu! strene ida initiative in patriotism, in : ait goes to make up oa tight it, every Japanese soldier ar r is an Oyma or a Togo in embryo. You might destroy every ship that JAPA Possesses, destroy all her arms and munitions of y i Q the clothes on ti port every soldier { nd trans- army and ‘ lor in her navy baek to the shores of Japan as naked as the day he Were born, and leave the nation to its own devices, und ina f years they would completely — reproduce their naval and military power and be stronger than ever, But destroy the men of Japan and substitute for them the dull-witted peasantry of Russia or the enaemic factory operatives of England, and you have destroyed Japan. Men Before Battleships.! True to his warlike impulses and fn. stincts, President Roosevelt catches ur the echo from the great naval battle which has just been fought, and ealls on the country for more battle ships Rojestvensky had battle ships. He had more of them than Togo. But he didn’t have the men. And he couldn't get them. Russian institutions coulc not produce them, Now, would it not be wise for the People of this country to wake up tc the fact that the foundation of ow strength as a nation is not in an army or a navy, but in our citizenship, And also wake up to the appalling fact, powerfully portrayed by Rober: Huater in “Poverty,” his recent book that we are deliberately following ir the feetsteps of Engtand and degener ating our citizenship by crowding ow working people into cities when they live in an unhealthful environ ment and are weakened by Poor foot and inadequate nvurishment. 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