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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1905)
I I 1 III M ACJAZ! N'K KWTIOJJ. LAKKVIKW. OKICOON, TIIUKSDAV NOVKM1JKK 23, 100.V PAGES 1 TO 4. HISTORIC CUNSTON HALL. INC I MA 1 10 MR OF THE FAMOUS GEORGE MA SOS I'LUCIIASED HY TOM WATSOS. American History Made Beneath It Uroad Verandas-Ma Iteen Ksstor cd to Its Original Beauty. Tom Wataon, of Georgia, author of a "Llfo of Tnoinas JrlTcrann," la re ported to Imve bought Uuuaton Hall, Virrlnla. 15 utiles from WanhiriKlon( mid which was fioiu 1750 to 17U2 the home of Uenrga Maiton, frlond and ad v liter of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Jnmoa Madison and rat rick Henry. Tho house ia proaerved nnd a few rods from It la the grave of Maaon. The pyramidal pi ore of gran ite ahown In the picture atauda above tiia gravo and ta Inscribed: . a CJKOItUK) mason, A alitor of tb lllll of Itlahts mm First Coaalltolloa of Mrglnla. 17241-1703. Gunston Hall la on a ridge command ing a liuo view of the Potomac river, a G unit on liatl mile distant It la about five ml'ea be ow Mount Vernon and three in I lea be iow the ruin of I lei voir, the home of .he tliht Fairfax Iti Virginia. Uunaton Hall waa probably without equal In that part of Virginia at tho time Of Ita building, and la aa well preacrved aa auy other colonial houHo In Virginia It la tlghty feet long and forty ft wide and la built of bricks twice the tilze of tlioHe nindo now. To the right of the north entrance ia the room which waa occupied y Jefferson on hla frequent vlttlta to Mutton. On the river portico la where Maaon and WuhIi lug ton played at draughts by the hour. Several years after the war Ounnton Hall In dilapidation was acquired by Colonel Kdward Daniels, a Northern man. The place wna partially restore 1 by him. Colonel Danluls In the days of recount riict Ion was tho editor of tbe Hlchinond Journal and was once a can didate for the IIoiiho of Representa tives, but was defeated. He was a cloao friend of President Crant, and Daniels really controlled the patronag" of the State of Virginia. A spry old gentleman who has porHOnnlly known a hundred celebrities of other genera tions, be lives on land adjoining Guns ton Hall and which was a part of the estate. Guimton Hall passed to Joseph Specht. of St. Louis, and by him wa completely restored and beautified. He died fhrce years ago and tho place con ' tlnued In possession of his helre and In charge of a colored overseer. Ealry Opposed to Slavery. George Mason was the Sage of Guna ton. It wus 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 llur gosses in 17G9. One of these resolu tions pledged tho signers to buy no slaves importod after November 1, 17CJ. Mason waa tbe author of a tract styled "Extracts from Virginia Char ters and Some Remarks upon Them," supporting the contention thut the Brit ish Parliament had no right to tax the American colonies. This tract had a wide vogue in pre-revolutlonary times. Mason and Washington attended the cltlzons' mooting 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 tbe Virginia convention at Williamsburg in August, 1774. It was that body which elected Peyton Ran dolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Rland, Iienjnmln Harrison and Edmund Pendleton delegates to the First Con tinental Congress, and that Congress substantially adopted tbe Mason reso lutions. Favored Election of Presidents by the People. Mason after once declining election, and once refusing to Berve after elec tion to the Continental Congress, Bat Jn the Constitutional Convention of 1787. In that great body he opposed slavery, saying it was a spuree of "na tional weakness and demoralization." lie advocated the direct election of the -- 1 : -ItliMkimiittim iiftM-1 t A H il? in ir-'l .ill Prosldunt by the people nnd for a term of seven year a with Ineligibility for re election. He opposed I ho requirement of a property qualification for voter and alao opposed the plan to make alavoa equal to freemen fcr purposes of rcpreaoniatlon In Congress, lie re fuaed to sign the Conatltutlon aa adopted, and fought against Ita rat lo cation by Virginia. In the Virginia convention to ratify the Conatltutlon Maaon led the oppoal lion and aUndlng with him were Pat rick. Henry, Jarnea Monroe, Kcnjamln Harrlaon and William Grayaon. The leaden for ratification were John Marahall, Edmund Randolph, Hlrlinrd Henry Lee, Goorgo Washington and Jamca Madison, yet ao great was Ma aon'a Influence that In ICS votes, the majority for ratification wna only ten and thla majority was obtained only after the required number of States bad already adopted tho Conatltutlon. Of a Famous Family. Tho flrat American Maon wna OeorK Maaon, great grandfather of Mason of Uunaton. He wua a commander of a troop of horse nt the battle of Wor cester, where be foiiKht In t Ktuart cause, aa did Colonel John Washington, a near relative of John and Lawrence r f Grave cf George Mason .Washington. English Royalists and the orlKinil WuHhlriKtou InimlKrants. Tho Maaon family waa originally of W arwab kslilre and there are many Mason memorials In tbe Church of the Holy Trluiiy at Stratford-on-Avon. Colonel George Mason, tho first, waa however, not a Warwalckshlre ninu. but was born In Staffordshire. One of his follow RoyallHt refugees to Amer ica was Gerard Fowke, of Gunston, a hamlet In Staffordshire. Tho old EtiK llsh Gunston Hall was standing a f-v ; years ago, nnd was owned by the Gif fords, descendants of the same (Jlffords who were Royalists with Fowke nnd Mason, and who owned Uoscohel, neai Gunston, where Charles 11. lay in con cealment after tho battle of Worcester, i Tho commonwealth commander at Worcester was General Fairfax, and it was a strange fato that made a descen ant of this man a neighbor to tho VYn.sh Ingtons of Mount Vernon and the Masons Of Gunston Hall. Rolvolr, the Fairfax estate, lay immediately be , tween Gunston and Mount Vernon i The first American Mason and Fowke settled In the northern neck of Virginia, but Fowke later removed to Maryland. George Mason, the Bocond. 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 17D0 this man married Anne Eilbeck of Mattawoman, Maryland, and soon after his marriage began the erection ol Gunston Hall, Virginia, which h named after his grandparents' place in Maryland and the ancestral home of the Fowkes in Staffordshire. Mason was one of tbe vestrymen of Pohlck Church, four miles from Guns ton. Washington and William Fairfax were also vestrymen there. UNCLE JOE CAS SOX S ADVICE. Never Keep Back Anything, But AN ways fell the Vvliole truth. Speaker Cannon, whom everybody calls "Uncle Joe," told the following story one day when he wished to em phasize the necessity for tolling" the whole truth, and farther how a man may be deceived by half-truth: 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," be stormed, "but you haven't told me the whole truth. There's that lawn, for instance!" "Really, sir," protested the agent, "I distinctly remembor describing the lawn, and a very nice lawn it ia." "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, r'rf Answer me that!" Live Stock Mullers. "Oh," anid the fnlr summer boarder, ns a couple of calves gamboled across tbe meaxiow, "what pretty little cow lets." "Yew air mistaken, ma'am," said the old farmer. "Them's bullets." A HEW CABINET OFFICE. LlKEUUOOIt OF CUEA TIOS OF IE. I'A H TMEST OF ISSVLAK A FFA 1US. Field Covered by Secretary of War Considered Too Wloe - President May 5uggeat Change to Cong res. Hlnce the war with Spiiln, tho enor mous growth of I he buMlneaa of the War Depiiriiiieiit baa given rlac to an oft cxpri'HMfil opinion In high govern ment circles that Hie time la fully rlM for the crenllon of another executive department to handle the control of the Ihhilnl nflaliM tit the government. It In predicted that the President will make some such suggestion In bis forthcoming ineHXiige to Congress. Following the Hpanlsli War, the War Department naturally took control of the Island )hhscshIods that came to the l ulled Man s as a result of that coil Old. These islands, Culm. I'orto Rico and the Phllllpplncs, fell to the care of the War I icp.ii lini iit as long as they were under military rule, ut when civil government temk iliirtac,e of martial law they wcruUU,KXt'Wlth the War Department. Kept From State Department. It would seem natural for them to belong to the Di'parttiM'i.t ol Male, hut they have tweu purpowly kept from l In- province of that di-iartiiient In or der that foreign powers might not have a I'haiiiv to say anything nlioiit them. The bureau of Insular nffairs A.l created to llltelid to IcIiiiih iiicctlng our Island possessions, but l his bureau has Is-en under the Imme diate control of the Secretary of War, and out of reach of foreign represent atives. W ith the turning of Cuba over to the I uli. in jt i I L.e passing of I'orlo Itlei, to the Stale 1 eia rt luent and Una mi and Tutulllu to the Navy Dc parluieiit, mailers became even more lll olved. Burden Too Great. Almost of greater Importance, at present, than the l'hlli!liilies. Is the canal zone. Secretary Tuft tried to Mitiiit I. il txi i i 1 1 to the .milliner oi Secretary Root, but fulled In bis at tempt, id- is now preparing to maUe a visit to the Isthmus to see bow tin work on the big ditch Is progressing. Mr. Risit declared that the bureau or insular affairs was better equipped to handle canal a II a Irs than any other department of the government. However, when Secretary Taft left for the Philippines nud 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 tall as to who would eventually oversee this big Job. On on hand It has been realized that Sicretary Taft has had a great deal more than iis proportionate share ol government work and resiionsibllity, and again it was understood that one of the arguments used by the President 10 induce Mr. Root to re-enter the Cab met was the President's personal lv lire that ho should undertake the di rection of the ran work. His accept ince of the trust would have enabled, Secretary Taft to devote more of hi. tlmo to Important Philippine govern merit questions ami the business of tin 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 reorgaulzalon of the nrmy, nnd other Internal affairs, have made the Secre tary by far the hardest worked man In the Cabinet. Taft Travels Far. This Is proved. If In no other way. bv the Immense amount of travel. ng done by Secretary Taft in the past .vent lie una been to l'anama, to the rump ti , w ' 'uv.M tmi COL. CLArtENCE R. EltWAItnS, Chief of Ptirenu of Insular Affairs and Pos sible Aw Cabinet Ollk or. pines, to Hawaii, to China and Japan. He has just left Washington for hi second trip to tho Isthmus. Through bis connection with tue a flairs of the Philippines, ho has become Involved lit questions wholly outside the regular line of the War Department. These are some of the reasons which lead tho President and bis advisers to consider tho creation of another de partment to take complete control of island and colonial a flairs. Whether Congress will consent to this at the coming session, or will move postpone ment, cannot bo foretold, but the chances are that, within n reasonable time, the War Department will bo re lieved of some of its heavy burdens. There Is no pie or pudding, father. Hut I will give you this; And upou the, blacksmith's toll-worn brow, Shu printed a childish kiss. r M . ,. i i Is II a 5 VJ ROOSEVELT IS DIXIE. President Speaks to the Followers of Lee. President Roosevelt's recent tour through the South was ono continuous ovation from tbe people of Dixie, in fact his visit has been heralded us lie lug ss triumphant as the return of any Roman emperor. Dixie waa tap ured by the Rough Rider President At Richmond, the old Confederate Capital, the greeting extended to him wna unusually cordial. After much parading and sps-ech-uiaklng, the 1 'res ilient waa taken for a drive through the residence section. In the center of thla section Is tho great equestrian Maine of l.enernl Robert K. l-e. At tbla jxjliit occurred a scene of tin; Pres ident's visit which will probably le reuiemliercd when all others have luded into oblivion. , Surrounding the Leo monument Is an Iron fi.nx. ltntl..ulH . i - j ..v.. uicivniiiK IX l-JICltf OI ' luwn. The crowd was th.'k." groiqied I around this circle. Inside, ' standing ! upon the base of the monument and ! wandering about upon t lie lawn were wvcnty-liw hrokeu, tottering old men. I clad In gray and carry g small Con- eqernte nags. Many hobbled up n ' crutches, and nearly all leaned upon cnties. Here and there nn arm or a i leg waa missing. Tbe voices of the old I : men were low, and they tab no ln-el J ! to the crowd around theta. They! 1 wen- waiting for ihe President of tin I'nlted States, he was to drive past the monument. From time to time a i little, old man cllmU-d upon a pedi ment and stood, like the very iuenr I nation of the Lost Cause, shading his i eyes and gazing toward the coming or the great, tin- power. ul. the world renowned successor of Lincoln and Grant. It was such a sight as this which greeted the I'resldent when hi car riage dashed tip to the monument. I Wore the old men realized it. the President was facing them and shout ing. "Come closer." With confused ex clamations the old men hobbled for ward, with small pretense of march ing. They bad almost forgotten the 8TATCE OF GENERAL Group of Confederate Vvtmtua 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, Ignoring the crowd behind him. Ha spoke only to tho wearers of the gray, lie spoke ns the President of a re united country. His voice seemed n3 the voice of n nation speaking to the followers of Loe. The veterans devoured every Tlior ous syllable of the President's address. They returned his enrnest gaze with looks of unmistakable good will and loving friendship. Somewhat abruptly the President stopped, waved ids hat. It was to them like the balm of Gllead. and shouted, "Good-by, and good luck." "flood -by, good-by," they shouted, and a moment later President Roose velt was out of sight Expert Sarul Testimony. When Dick Thompson, of Indiana, was called to the Cabinet as Secretary of 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 the deck, was escorted around the vessel, admired and com pliments! 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 t" e IHE STRENGTH OF JAPAN. GARDES FARMS THE I0CSDA TI S OF Ml'I'OS'S 1VIVER. 30.000,000 People Sustained In Com lort on Only 10,000 Square Miles of Cultivated Land. (From 'Chicago," The iTM Central Market July, wvu). "A hundred years henco, leaving China out of the question, there will be two colossal lowers in the world, beside which Germany, England, France, and Italy will be as pygmies the United States and Ursula." If any one bad told Emile de La veleye, when be mado this prophecy, some years ago, that witbln a few years the power of Russia on tbe sea would be annihilated, and ber laud forces defented again and t.galn by the pygmy nation of Japan, would bo Lave believed it? t No, neither be 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 the underly ing cause of this marvelous strength of Japan? It is not In battle ships or siege 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 jet she baa Buffered crushing, hu miliating, nnd overwhelming defeat What, then, is the secret of Japan's strength ? E ficiency of the Unit. It Is in just one thing, and that Is men! It is In tho efficiency of the nnlt It is In the physical and mental pow erIn the health, eTength, and intelli gence of the Japanese pi-ople as a whole, and ns a consequence, of every Individual soldier nnd sailor. And this physical and mental effi ciency of nn entire people of the en tire citizenship of the Japanese nation LEE AT RICHMOND. Waiting to Sw the President. -is a plain and distinct result of their mode of life. The Japanese people are strong be cause they live ns ttie human animal must live to lie mentally and physi cally strong next to nature. They breathe the fresh air. They eat plain food. They neither starve nor z je. They are mt-atally and physically active. They are nn "out of door" people They uui.erstnud the laws of iieaith, nnd obey them. Their children draw their strength from the bosom of mother earth. And above nnd beyond all, they are a nation of homes and home owners. Each family is in a borne and each home is in a garden where health aud 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 und bap. iiicRs and the genu ine enjoyments of life than the aver age wage worker lu our country. The White Plague Unknown. - We have fallen Into a smug nnd self-complacent and wretchedly super ficial habit of thought which loses sight of the life that a people lead and i ; U : . fa ti t i-A nv .& Via" ' . . l y i -ir i sv h JV i . - t IXb 1 1 1 i i i 1 . . ' . ' -. , w I jm measures everything by n money wage a totally false and deceptive stand ard of measurement of the beat thing that human life affords. In the United States two hundred nnd fifty thousand of our people are being annually destroyed by the great white plague, tuberculosis. In Japan the disease Is practically unknown. Why? Itecnuse the Japanese breathe fresh air. What would the1 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 they could not afford to belong to athletic clubs? . Or must go without food because they lacked money to buy it nt a butcher or a grocery store, when every Japanese gardener has the land from which he knows bow with bis own labor to get all the food he needs for the abundant nourishment for himself and family. The Carden Farm. Of the 4",000.000 population of Japan 30,00),0iO are farmers, or more , correctly speaking, gardeners. Tbe Japanese farm is a garuen. lrngaiea and fertilized, and scientifically and Intensively tilled. And a recent writer, describing the life of tbe Japanese farmer, says: "Measured in money, ne la not ncn. R1it be dwells in a comfortable and In viting home, pureed of every taint of dirt and dust. The transparent paper walls of bis bouse, made of bark from his mltsumata shrubs, flood his dwell ing with light nnd keep ont the wind. He enjoys good food served In dainty, tiut Inexpensive dishes made of native woods. Even In the homes of tbe poorest there are no visible signs of poverty. There Is no squalor lu agri cultural Japan. The humblest peas ant farmer is clean, industrious nnd comfortable. The area of fence corners abandoned on many American farms to wild mustard, fennel, 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 by an American who has sjient Ufteen yenrs in the Empire. Frequently be takes a vacation in the farming re gions, lie has good food, sleeps on clean nnd comfortablequllts in impec cable houses is carried about In coun try carts. and at the end of two weeks finds that bis total expenses have not exceeded ten yen, or five dollars. And from the garden farms the Home Acres of agricultural Japan have come tbe soldiers who have faced death to drive the Russians from Man churia and leaped into eternity in or der that they might wipe the menace of tbe Russian Navy from the seas that wash the shores of their Home Land, A Nation of Home Acres. ' It is an old saying that a man will rot tifc'ht for a boarding house, but the Japanese have proved that they will tight like demons to defend the insti tutioiis of a nation of Home Acres. We instinctively think of the victo ries of Japan as the victories of ber leaders. We are naturally hero-worshippers. l!ut there, again, we are superficial. Our military men were loud in their praises of the masterly way in which Kuropatkin played the game of war. Ana Kojestvensky must Have the credit due him for sailing his fleet four thousand miles and planning so tJl- ciently to provide It with coal and pro visions. But Oyama and Tczo had the men. and every Japanese soldier and sailor is not only a hero but a leader. If every officer in the Japanese army and navy above the rank of Captain were stricken dead tomorrow, their places would be filled aud 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 and physical strength, in individual initiative In patriotism. in all that eoes to make up a fiirhtinn unit, everv Japanese soldier nnd sailor Is an Oyma or a Togo In embryo. You might destroy every ship that Japan possesses, destroy all ber arms and munitions of war, take away even the clothes on their backs .and trans port every soldier in her army aud every sailor In her navy back to the shores of Japan as naked as the day he 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 be stronger than ever. Hut destroy the men of Japan nnd substitute for tbem the dull-witted peasantry of Russia or the enaemlc factory operatives of England, and you have destroyed Japan. Men Before Battleships. True to his warlike Impulses and In stincts, President Roosevelt catches up the echo from the great naval battle which has just been fought, and calls on the country for more battle ships. Rojestvensky bad battle ships. He had more of them than Toga But he didn't have the men. And be couldn't get them. Russian Institutions could not produce them. Now, would it not be wise for tho people of this country to wake up to the fact that the foundation of our 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 Robert Iluuter in "Poverty," bis 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 by poor food and Inadequate nourishment. The lesson to be learned by this na BULLDOG SUSPENDERS ftt muU vwywhor. WlU Ouiww&r Thru Ordinary IUaiU. Mailt) tu Uflit aud y H'ttu, tut Uau aud a'ouiU. kiti Uiuf th aiua pnc. With mr it last Ic, warrautetl noiwusuug mul pan, a&ia hanlutrlv unhrvaktble, toft, HaM Hull ! leather nta, ihwy ar POSITIVELY THI BEST SUSPENDER MADE II v.'U tlliT l-,llllil - 1 1 1 1 1 uu, W Will, MMlid, uf iO.:,lfc H EWES A POTTER, u,e" ipiij.iiii u.uiiui llt.M, (1 LINCOLN ST., BOHTO, Mill. " w'w Vtlubte SoukUl, " Viw ul Siuywlw ttfUt," tMnfia