Part 2. MAGAZINE » SECTION. he Centre Democrat. , NOVEMBER 23, 1906, BELLEFONTE, PA. T HURSDAY Farm Notes, Choice Fiction, Current Toorcs. HISTORIC GUNSTON HALL. |! VIRGINIA HOME OF THE FAMOUS GEORGE MASON PURCHASED BY TOM WATSON. American History Made Beneath Its Broad Yerandas—Has Been Restor- ed to its Original Beauty. Tom Watson, of Georgia, author of a “Life of Tnomas Jefferson,” is re of seven years with ineligibility for re- election, He opposed the requirement of a property qualification. for voters and also opposed the plan to make slaves equal to freemen for purposes of representation in Congress, He re fused to sign the Constitution as adopted, and fought against its rctifi- 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 ported to have bought Gunston Hall, Virginia, 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. 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 Constitution of Virginia, 1726-1702, Gunston Hall is on a ridge command. The house is preserved | and a few rods from it is the grave of | ing a fine view of the Potomac river, a leaders for ralification 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 Bas : : Rs a Fo i s 4 Py | 3g hb RR Gunston Hall mile distant. It is about five mi'es be- low Mount Vernon and three miles be- Jow 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 {ts building, and is as well preserved as any other colonial hot in Virginia It is eight g and forty feet wide and bricks twice the gize of hose 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 restorel 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. A spry oid gentleman who has personally known a hundred celebrities of other genera. tions, he lives on land adjoining Gune- ton Hall and which was a part of the estate. Gunston Hall passed to Joseph Specht, of St. Louls, and by him was completely restored and beautified. He died three years ago and the place con- tinued in possession of his heirs and in charge of a colored overseer, Eairy 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-dmportation resolu- tions offered by Washington and adopted by the Virginia House of Bur geases 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. | {sh Parliament had no right to tax the American colonies, This tract had a| wide vogue In prerevolutionary 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] Willlamsburg In August, 1774, It was that body which elected Peyton Ran- | dolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard | Bland, Benjamin Harrigon and Edmund Pendleton delegates to the First Con- tinental Congress, and that Congress substantially adosted 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 180 lon iit of v y is 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 Triaity at Stratford-on-Avon Colonel George Mason, the not N but was first, was man One of however, n Varwaickshire born in Staff his fellow Royalist refugees to Amer a was Gerard Fowke, of Gunston, a hamlet in Stafford The old Eng lish Gunston Hall was standing a few years ago, and was owned by the Gif fords, descendants of the same Gifford: who Royals with Fowke and Mason, and who owned Boscobel, near Gun , where Charles II. lay in con- cealment after the battle of Worcester The commonwealth commander at Worcester was General Fairfax, and it was a strange fate that made a descen- ant of this man a neighbor to the Was 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 Maryland. 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 Eilbeck 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. rdshire. hire were ts ton Mason was one of the vestrymen of | Pohick Church, four miles from Guns ton. Washington and William Fairfax were also vestrymen there, a UNCLE JOE CANNONS ADVICE. Never Keep Back thing, But Al- Ye vays Pelt the AA uth, 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 halftruth: A man rented a 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 stormed, “but you haven't told me the whole truth, There's that Jawn, for instance!” “Really, sir,” protested the agent, “I distinctly remember describing the lawn, and a very nice lawn it 1a.” “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 lawnmower lived two miles away! Where am | to borrow a lawnmower, sir? Answer me that!” ii —— Live Stock Matters. “Oh,” sald the falr summer boarder, ne a couple of enlves gamboled across the meadow, “what pretty little cow. lets,” “Yew alr mistaken, ma'am,” sald the old farmer. “Them's bullets” —-— Re — { fet, A NEW CABINET OFFICE. LIKELIHOOD OF CREATION OF DE- PARTMENT OF INSULAR AFFAIRS. Field Covered by Sccretary of War Considered Too Wide — President May Suggest Change to Congress. Since the war with Spain, the enor mous growth of the business of the War Department has given rise to an oft expressed opinion in high govern ment circles that the time is fully ripe for the creation of another executive department to handle the control of the island affairs of the government It is predicted that the President will make some such in forthcoming message 10 Congress, Following the Spanish War, the War Department naturally control of the island possessions that came to the United States as a result of that con These islands, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phillippines, fell to the care of the War Depa it as ke they were under iry rule, but when vil governmer took the place martial law they were still left with the War Departinent 0 ition his SUZ took ONE Os it of It would seem nat belong to the Depa ent of > eo, 1 they have been purposely the province of wart depart thin fore i iar y them, Wis ereate Kept From State Department. tural for them to Ww t cha 71 | affect this bures diate control and out of read With the tum the h i Ie to the “tate Depat ia to the Navy Guam and Tutu Burden Too Great. Als $ ’ > $ » i wv ’ ri present, canal zone, Secretary Root, upt, Hh visit to but failed in his i i to be Secretary Taft h that 5 canal matter be transferred to Mr. Root | and there during the summer and 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 shar { government work and ag of the arg inet was ire that ont i : canal build reached at a 1 These is tions relat i. nternal afl tary by far in the Cabinet rganizaios Taft Travels Far. This Is proved, If no other way, by the mms ‘ : 4 ] done by Secretary’ He has been (Si pe ROOSEVELT IN DIXIE, President Speaks to the Followers of Lee. President Roosevelt's recent tour through the South was one continuo is | fact his visit has been heralded as be any Roman emperor. Dixie was cap ured by the Rough Rider President, At Richmond, the old Capital, the greeting extended to him wis unusually cordial. After much parading and speech-making, the I'res Ident was taken for a drive through the residence section, In the center of this section is the great equestrian statue of General Robert E, Lee. At this point occurred a scene of the Pres ident’'s visit which will probably be remembered when all others bave faded into oblivion, Surrounding the Lee monument an iron fence, Inclosing a lawn. The crowd was thick: - around t circle, Inside, upon the base of the monument and wandering about upon the lawn were r and « Is circle of grouped standing His mY clad ederate ferutches, an nts tottering old mer wirry” g small Con- Many hobbled upon nearly all leaned upon there an arm or a ng BIT i in gre wd Here and CRNeS, Vrs § 3 pied men were low, and they pald no hee | to the crowd ground then, I'l were waiting the President of od States, he was drive past monument me to time Hite, old pon a ment na LA pit has been much speculation | fall as to who | old marching orders in their confusion. They simply huddled forward to the fence, The line was not reformed ‘hen the President spoke to the South, ignoring the crowd behind him He spoke only to the wearers of the gray He spoke as the President of a re united country. His voice seemed as the volee of a nation speaking to the followers of Lee. The veterans devoured every vigor | ons syllable of the President's address, COL. CLARENCE R. EDWARDS, Chief of Bureau of Insular A Talrs and Pos sible New Cabinet Officer, “* pines, to Hawall, to China and Japan He has just left Washington for his} second trip to the isthmus, Through Nis 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 ereation of another de partment to take complete control of Island and colonial affairs. Whether Congress will consent to this at the coming session, or will move postpone ment, eannot be foretold, but the chances are that, within a reasonable time, the War Department will be re Heved of some of its heavy burdens. —— There 18 no ple or pudding, father, But I will give you this; And upon the blacksmith's toll-worn {loving friendship. connection with the affairs of the | brow, She printed a childish kiss, They returned his earnest gaze with looks of unmistakable good will and the President stopped, waved his hat, It was to them like the balm of Gilead. and shouted, *“Good-by, and luck.” “Goodby, good-Ly” they shouted, | home 1% in a and a moment Inter 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 sald that he had never even been on a large vessel. One of hisecarliost 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 officer, took off his glasses, wiped them, looked down again and then finally turned to the commander and exclaimed, “Why the thing's hollow!" | GARDEN FARMS THE | ovation from the people of Dixie. In | ing as triumphant as the return of | Confederate STATUE OF GENERAL LEE AT RICHMOND, Group of Confederate Veterans Waiting to See the President. |= fig a plain and distinet result of their Somewhat abruptly | good | THE STRENGTH OF JAPAN, FOUNDA~ TION OF NIPPON’S POWER. 30,000,000 People Sustained in Come fort on Only 19,000 Square Miles of Cultivated Land. | (From “Chicago,” The Great Central Market July, 19056). “A hundred years hence, China out of the question, there will 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 had told Emile de La- veleye, when he made this prophecy, gome years ago, that within a few years the power of Russia on ihe sea would be annihilated, and ber land forces defeated again and again by the pygmy nation of Japan, would be have believed it? one No, neither he nor any one else, at | that time, would b The inered actually ve credited t ble, the unbelievable, has happened. There Is no result cause, What is the underly- of this marvelous strength withou Ng cause Japan? t is not in battle ships or siege guns «lo boats or fleld artillery r armor--not in muni- julp for batties { had all these, sUssia FUE ¢ru of went 18 suffered overwhelming the secret of Japan's hing, hu- nd defeat, ficiency of the Unit, and that Is 4 ot th gt one ne 181 ne ning, of the unit 1 mental pe th, and ey PW nese nation mode of life I'he Japanese people are strong be- cause they live as the human animal must live to be mentally and physi cally strong-—next to nature, They breathe the fresh air. They eat plain food. They neither starve nor They are mentally and active, They are an “out of door” people. They uncerstand the laws of Leaith, and obey them, Their children draw thelr strength from the bosom of mother earth, And above and hevond all, they are a nation of homes and home owners. Each family is in a home and sach garden where health and strength are gained hy the labor of cnltivating that garden for a living, And in these garden homes the peo ple of Japan bave far more of real pleasure and happiness and the genu- ine enjoyments of life than the aver age wage worker In our country, Je, physically The White Plague Unknown. We have fallen Into a smug and self-complacent and wretchedly super. ficinl habit of thought which loses sight of the life that a pesple lead and leaving | | not | not have more money? measures everything by a money wage a totally false and deceptive stand ard of measurement of the best that human life affords In the United States and fifty thousand being annually destroyed by the great white plague, tuberculosis. In Japan the disease ls practically unkown, Why? Because the Japanese breathe fresh alr. What would the Japanese think If they were told that thelr people could have fresh because they did thing two hundred of our people are air have exercise hecause afford Or could not they could not athletic clubs? Or must go Jonge belong £4) without because { they rand A 55 50 food lacked money to buy it ata butcher or every Japanese garde } from which he knows how w own labor to get all the food he 1 for the abundant npourisihme:s himself and family. a groce The Garden Farm, Of the 45,000,000 populat 1 ) | Japan 30,000,000 are farmers correctly Japan« g¢ TAT fertilized, tilled. intensively And ar ocent life of the Jap “Measured ia hE » gliores ussiar A Nation of Home Acres. It 18 an old saying that a man will not fight for a boarding u but the it they will $ stricken dead tomorro Lae would be filled and Japan tinue to pros tory. The the fact that in and physical initiative in patriot to n up a ng Japanese soldier nd = Oyma or a Togo in embryo. You might Japan POSROSROS, destroy and munitions of war, 1 their back RCT gireng 1 ke destroy « the clothes on port avery soldier every sailor in her navy back shores of Japan as naked as the day he were horn, and leave to own devices, and In a few years they would completely re produce thelr naval and military power and be stronger than ever. ut destroy the men of Japan and substitute for them the dull-witted peasantry of Russia or the enaem factory operatives of England, and you have destroyed Japan. the nation 18 © ! Men Before Battleships, True to his warlike impulses and In- stincts, President Roosevelt eatehes np the echo from the great naval battle which bas 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 bave the men, And be couldn't get them Russian Institutions could not produce them. Now, would it not be wise for the people of this country to wake up to the fact that the foundation of our strength as a nation i= not in an army or a navy, but in our citizenship, And also wake up to the appalling fact, powerfully portrayed by Robert Hunter in “Poverty,” his recent book that we are deliberately following In the footsteps of England and degener ating our citizenship by crowding our working people Into cities where they live in an unhealthful environ. ment and are weakened hy poor food and inadequate nourishment, The lesson to be learned hy this na. f VES & nev Pog Be?
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