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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
SEE,FRFE)AY, NUVEMBE
ROOSEVELT IN DIXIE,
President Speaks to the Followers
of Lee.

President Roosevelts recent tour
through the South was one continuous
ovation from the people Of Dixie. In
fact his visit has been heralded us be-
ing as triumphant as the return of
any Roman emperor. Dixie was cap
ured by the Rough Rider President.
At Richmond, the old Confederate
Capital, the greeting extended to him
was unusually cordial. After much
parading and speech-making, the Pres
ident was taken for drive through
the residence section. In the center of
this section is the great equestrian
statue of General Robert Il. Lee. AT
this point occurred scene Of the Pres.
ident's visit which will probably be
remembered when all others have
faded into oblivion.
Surrounding the Lee monument is
an iron fence, inclosing a circle of
lawn. The crowd was thlcklv grouped
around this circle. Inside, standing
upon the base Of the monument and
wandering about upon the lawn Were
seventy-hVe broken, lettering old men
clad in gray and carry G small Con-
ederate flags. Many hobbled upon
crutches, and nearly all leaned upon
.canes. Here and there an arm or a
leg was missing. The voices of the ole
men were low, and they paid no heed
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 q
little, old man climbed upon a pedi
ment and stood, like the very incar.
nation of the Lost Cause, shading his
eyes and gazing toward the coming
of the great, the powerful, the world
renowned successor of Lincoln and
Grant.
1t was such a sight as this which
greeted the President when his car
riage dashed up to the monument
Before the old men realized it, the
President was facing them and shout
ing, Come closer" With confused eX
carnations the old men hobbled for
ward, with small pretense of march
ing. They had almost forgotten the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
Expert Naval 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 large vessel. One
of his earliest visits was made to an
informal inspection on large man.
of-war, lying at the Navy Yard. He
climbed up on the deck, was escorted
around the vessel, admired and ~com-
plimentei the beauty and cleanliness Of
1t 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
things hollow!"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17

mill aistant 1t is about five 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
as any other colonial house in Virginia.
1t 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, 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 can
didate for the House of Representa-
tives, but was defeated. He was q
close friend of President Grant, and
Daniels really controlled the patronage
of the State of Virginia. A spry old
gentleman who has personally known
a hundred celebrities Of other genera.
tons. 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 con.
tinued in possession of his heirs and
in charge Of a colored overseer.
Fairy Opposed to Slavery.
George Massn was the Sage of Guns.
ION. 1t was he who after conference
and correspondence with Washington
drew up the non-importation resolu-
tions offered by Washington ana
adopted by the Virginia House Of Bur-
gesses in 1869. One Of these resolu-
lions pledged the signers to buy no
slaves imported after November l, 1863.
Mason was the author Of a tract
styled Extracts from Virginia Char
tiers 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, liza. Wash
ington was moderator of the meeting.
Mason presented twenty-four resolu-
lions 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, TIA. 1t was
that body which elected Peyton Ran
dolph, Richard Henry Lee, 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 cleo
ton to the Continental Congress, sat
in the Constitutional Convention OF
1887. In that great body he opposed
slavery, saying it was a source Of ma
tional weakness and Generalization.
lie advocated the direct election of the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
UNCLE JOE CANNON'S ADVICE.
Never Keep Back Anything, But Al
ways Tell the Whole Truth.

Speaker Cannon, whom everybody
calls Uncle Joe," told the following
story one day when he wished to en-
phasize the necessity for telling the
whole truth, and farther how 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 complaint.
"You profess to have told me the
truth" he stormed. "but you haven't
told me the whole truth. There's that
lawn, for instance!"
Really, sir" protested the agent, 81
distinctly remember describing the
lawn and very nice lawn it is"
ooh, yes" went on the kicker. "You
told me there was lawn. but you
didn't tell me that the nearest owner
of a lawn-mower lived two miles away!
Where am to borrow a lawn-mower,
sir? Answer me that!"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
VUEUFFEXXH.
HISTORIC GUNSTON HALL.
VIRGINIA HOME OF THE FAMOUS
GEORGE MASON PURCHASED
BY TOM WATSON.
American History Made Beneath Its
Broad Verandas-Has Been Restor-
ed to it's Original Beauty.

Tom Watson, of Georgia, author of
a Life of Thomas Jefferson" is re-
ported to have bought Gunston Hall,
Virginia. Is miles from Washington,
and which was from 1850 to 1892 the
home of George Mason, friend and ad-
wiser Of Thomas Jefferson, George
Washington, James Madison and Pat
rick Henry. The house is preserved
and few rods from it is the grave Of
Mason. The pyramidal piece of gran
lite shown in the picture stands above
his grave and is inscribed: 4
GEORGE MASON,
Author of the Bill of Rights and
First Constitution of Virginia.
172G-1702.
Gunston Hall is on a ridge command
Ing fine view Of the Potomac river, a
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
Live Stock Matters,

"Oh," said the fair summer boarder,
as couple of calves gamboled across
the meadow, "what pretty little cow
let's"
"Yew air mistaken, ma'am," said
the old farmer. "Them's bullets"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
The White Plague Unknown.

We have fallen into a SNUG and
self-complacent and wretchedly super
fetal habit of thought which loses
sight of the life that a people lead and
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17

Cnlet OF Bureau OF lnsular AffalrS 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 the 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-
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, cannot be foretold, but the
chances are that, within reasonable
time, the War Department will be re:
lieved of some of its heavy burdens.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
Taft Travels Far.

This is proved, if in no other way,
by the immense amount of travelling
done by Secretary Taft in the past veal
He has been to Panama, to the Philip
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17
Favored Election of Presidents by
the People.

Mason after once declining election,
and once refusing to serve after cleo
ton to the Continental Congress, sat
in the Constitutional Convention OF
1887. In that great body he opposed
slavery, saying it was source Of ma
tional weakness and Generalization"
lie advocated the direct election of the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-11-17

There is no pie or pudding, father,
But l will give you this;
And upon the blacksmith's toil-worn
brow,
She printed q childish kiss.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-09-25
Personal Notes.

DIR. +. w. Gunsaulus. pastor of the
Central Church of Chicago. will ex-
change pu'pits next January with Rev
Reginald c. Campbell, pastor of the
City Temple, London.
Miss Padding daughter of the late
illustrious admiral. has for ten years
conducted trade school at Hunting
ton. l. l., and hundreds of children
have been helped to learn trades.
Most of the time that Prof. Starr, of
the University of Chicago. will spend
in Africa will be devoted TO investigat-
ing three different types of races, panr
ticulariy the Batwa pygmias.
DR.. w. ]. MCGEE, of Washington, d.
c.. scientist and anthropologist Of
international eminence. has been una
rimouslv elected managing director for
the st. Louis Public Museum.
Prof. George Atkinson. professor of
botany at Cornell, will return this
week from his trip abroad studying
European fungi. He has shipped to
America about 1000 specimens collected
10y him this summer representing 800
species studied and photographed.
Harold S. Vanderbilt, a son of Will
liam K. Vanderbilt, is so ambitious, SO
greedy for work that he is determined
to take his degree of bachelor of arts
at Harvard next June instead of June,
1907. He is crowding four years study
into three years.
Owing to the fact that her husband
has just been appointed by the Kaiser
as head of the Colonial Department of
Berlin, the Countess Adolf Won Goet-
zen. an American woman. will become
a leading figure in German cour, cir
cles. Her husband. during the Span
sh-AlEerioan War, accompanied Pres
ident Roosevelt and his Rough Riders
throughout tie Cuban campaign.
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The Time Will Come.

When it will b.. u disgrace nos to work
when one is able.
When everybody will know that selfish
ness always defeats itself
When the churches Will not be closed as
long as The saloons are open.
When to get rich by making others
poorer will be considered d disgrace.
When the golden rule will be regarded
as the soundest business philosophy.
When the same standard of morality
will be demanded of men as of women.
When all true happiness will be found
in doing the right, and only the good will
be found to be real.
his best interests will be the best inter
ests of the man at the other end OF the
bargain.
When all hatred, revenge and jealousy
will be regarded AS bOOmerangs which
intiict upon the thrower the injury in
tended for others.
When a man who seeks amusement by
causing pain or taking the life of inno-
cent. dumb cre atureS will be considered a
barbarian.
When every man will be his own ply
stefan. and will carry his own remedy
with him,-when mind not medicine. will
be the great panacea.
When men will realize that there can be
no real pleasure in wrongdoing because
the sting and pain that follow more than
outweigh the apparent pleasure.
When the world will have everything to
sell and nothing to give. and the price it
demands will be the best service the pur-
chaser can render the race.
When it will be found that repression
and punishment are not reformative. and
our prisons will be transformed into great
educative and character building insttu-
tons
When it will be found that physical and
chemical forces were intended to releAs"
man from all physical drudgery, and so
free his mind from the burden of living
getting that he can make life.
When no man will be allowed to say
that the world owes him a living. since.
the world owes him nothing that he
should rot pay for; it owes a living only
to cripples. invalidS. and all others who
can not through some misfortune. help
themselves
When the CRATER who fattens upon
an unsuSpecting public. wears purple and
fine liner and lives in luxury, will be
meted out the same measure of justice as
the vulgar footpad receives who knocks
a man down and picks his pockets.
When the best society" will consist Of
men and women of brains. culture and
achievement. rather than those whose
chief merit and distinction lie in the pos
session of unearned fortunes which they
make it the business of their lives to
squander.-Orson SWEET Marden in Sue
cess.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-09-25
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Good Times in Maine.
portland ArguS.D


The report of Secretary Blanding Of
the Maine State Board of Trade, sub
mitted at the annual meeting of the
Board yesterday at Rumford Falls, is
very encouraging exhibit of the BUSH
ness conditions of the State. In all the
leading lines of industry Secretary
Banding is able to rercrt progress and
varying degrees of prosperity, the eX-
pansion of the pulp and raper industry
being notable feature. AGricultura:ly
the State has prospeced and crop con-
ditions have generally been suspicious.
The hey, sweet corn and berry crops
have been exceptionally large, while
the fruit harvest, especially of apples,
has been below the ave: IGe and ARGOS :
looks potato crop affected by the
drouth in Northern Marie. The sum-
mer resort business fo~ lie season has
broken the record, while II volume and
magnitude the building operations COR
1905 surpass those OF any PREVIOUS year
in the history Of Maine, and these opec-
atoms have been general throughout
the State.
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Eqgs in a New Style.

He was a sad-faced American tourist
and as he seated himself in d London
restaurant he WAS Immediately attended
by an obseauious waiter.
Il want two eggs" said the American
"one fried on one side and one Oh tn.
other"
low is that sir?' asked the astound-
ed waiter
Two cggs-one fried on one side and
one on the other"
Very well. Sir
The waiter was gone several minutes.
and when he returned his face was Il
study.
Would you please repeat your horder.
SIR
II said very distinctly. two egss-One
fried on one side and one on the other"
Oppressive silence. and then L dazcd
VERY well, sir"
This time he was gone longer and
when he returned. he said anXiouSIy:
Would it be awslting too much sir.
to ave YOU repeat your horder, sir
cawn't think | ave it right, sir. y
know"
Two eggs" said the American. sadly
and patiently: one fried on one side and
one on the other"
More, oppressive silence. and another
and fainter. Very WILL sir
This time he gon- longer. When
ha returned his collar was unbuttoned
his hair dishevelled ana his face
scratched and bleeding. Leaning over the
waiting patron he whispered beseeching
ly
Would you mind taking boiled heggs,
sir? I've 'ad some words with the cook =
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American In New York the Southern
Colonel, who is the central command.
Ing figure In the nar.rtiyc replies:
Because Madam, I have lived nearly
all over America. ana this Is the only
town that puts me IN mind Of a country
have never seen. Why, the other day
was near the mountain range where
saw an American nag floating from tia
top OF an ancient building. | have heard
men say how the old flag, seen suddenly
in foreign ports, made them feel. and IL
wasn't hard TO persuade myself that / frIi
just that way. SO In i goes 10 offer my
congratulations. and ! asked II the
American consul was in. The fellow that
spoke 10 pretended not 10 understand
The American consult Said hc Why
we have no American consul here III
that fact J replied. Then igad I'm
farther away from home than thought I
was"
Again the Colonel is seen at his char
acteristic point OF vi=w ia his opinion
Of grand opera.
There u.s." he declares. too much pre-
tence in 1T. You've got to work yourself
up to a. supposed understanding of it, IT
it wereta pocrtsOr n real art ii would
mean Practically the same to All it,
vota:ifs. But it doesn't. They tell
YOU Of the theme. A villain has murdered
girl, princess or peasant. one or the 9th
er-for in art there must be middle
class-and is telling himself about It, And
when this is given out by, the man 1ho L.
accepted as the one who knows. All accept
his explanation. They hear the shrieks u
the girl. tire bark of the watchdog on the
hill. and they listen with sweet shudders
to the regret of the murderer Bur before
l was told what it meant ! thought that
| heard a saw striking an occasional
KNIT. The fact is. that sort of music ISM
American"
Along with the keenness Of observ-
Stion. the shrewd ensiysIs, and IN
affected genuineness of the Colonel;
life in fae metropolis, runs the gentIa
current Of two love storIcs-one his own
the other that of his adopted son. II
is no drawback to this charming book
that bJfh of these stories have happy
climaxepermitting the reader the salts
faction Of laying aside the volume with
the assurance that lie characters ~
has learned TO admire and love sre ID
live happily ever after
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Forty Years Aq0.s

| wandered to the college. Tom, where
YOU and I were mates
And crammed our heads with learning till
we nearly split our pdteS
The tutors thought that quite the thing IN
these old times. but, Oh.
They don't do now the way they did some
forty years ago.
| sough: the lonely campus, Tom, and
asked cripple, Where
Are all the Students?-"Well, says ne,
they're scattered here and there;
The ball mines in Chicago. and the crews
We couldn't get away like that some
forty years ago. ,
THE tennis team" continued he. lis do
ing Brown today;
Our golfers are at Princeton. and the Slee
club, TOO, S away;
Our gun club and our archery team are
laying Harvard low: =
We missed lot of fun. dear Tom, some
forty years ago.
Our football men are in New York ar
ranging dates" said he.
For this years games" And then he
sighed: I'm here at home. you see,
Because my back and legs are broke
rough housed me. don't you know
We didn't have such sport, dear Tom.
some forty years ago.
1 said to him: well. anyhow. the facul-
~ IS mere.
You're wrong" says he. they've gone
along to help the rooters cheer.
But you might find the janitOr." l said
to him. 20 no.'
And hurried from these scenes, dear Tom.
of forty years ago.
In those old days of grind. dear Tom. our
tutors were perversc;
Although we'd telegraph ourselves;
Come home: your mothers WORSE
The sly old ''profs" would wink wink
which meant it wasn't so
And keep us Srubbing the books, some
forty years gao.
Things may be better now. dear Tom,
than in those days of yorc,
When every fellow had to get OF bookish
stuff a store
hope the boys are happy now. but this
one truth. 1 know.
| wish we could re-live those days OF
forty years ago
Nixon Waterman in Saturday Evening
Post
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Virginia. 8; Minnesota. 2. California,
2: District of Columbia. 2; Alabama,
Arkansas, Colorado, Nebraska and
Oregon, each. Names SIX represent
tatives have been H anry Knox, Nathan
Clifford, VIM. Pitt Fesserden, Lot VI.
Morrill,, Horatio King ard James G.
Blaine.
1t is interesting 20 note that Rhode
Island, one of the original thirteen
states, has never had a cabinet officer.
The same is true of Texas. which has
been in the union for more than hall
Nevada, Idaho, Montana, North
Dakota. South Dakota, Utah, Washing
| ton and Wyoming.
1t is interesting furthermore to note
| that the West has produced all the
| secretaries of the interior, with the ex-
| ception of Cornelius y. Piss, and all of
| the secretaries of agriculture, While
| Secretary Shaw has been the first
| secretary of the treasury to be CHOSEN
| from the trans Mississippi west. Iowa
| is likely soon to break another record,
| Secretary Wilson having but to serve
out his present term to surpass in
| length of continuous service the record
nov held by Albert Gallatin. secretary
or tho +raacury for Presidents Iaffar
son and Madison.
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The States and the Cabinet

y" interesting tabI';:t.on is given uy
Washington CORRESPONDENT who has
gone over the list of ca binet officers
from Westinghouse administration in
III" present time and shows how mans,
nave been contributed by each state.
New York leads all the states in t,is
matter of cabinet "epre snntation ius-
rs II leads i'll the matter OF population.
PENNSYLVANIA is second and Massachu-
setts third. The states which have had
cabinet representation and the numbers
Of each are as follows: New York. 80.
Pennsylvania 80: massachusetts,. %:
Virginia, Il; ohio. ~ Maryland. Il:
kentucky. IA: Indiana. 10: Connect
cut. 3: Georgia. 2; Tennessee. s: Iowa,
4: Illinois, {; Maine. c; Michigan. 6;
Missouri. 6; South Carolina. s: wiscon-
sin. 6: Delaware. 5; New Jersey. S:
Mississ ippi. 4; North Carolina. !:
Louisiana, 3; New Hampshire, 8; West
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An Immediate Call,

II have here" said the great man
my autobiography, which | desire you
to publish after my death"
Il hope" sad the great publisher that
it is nothing You are proud of. Business
you know, is still business and we mus:
always consider our public
Nothing, | assure you said the great
man Indeed, l am secretly ashamed
Good" exclaimed the publisher at
is L infer full of trivial and wholly in
consequential Details
"Ah. yes
And. doubtless relates a lot of gossip.
with anecdotes of others, so arranged
that they can be clipped out by exchange
EDITORS and published with credit to US
nhat has been my aim
~ our picture. of course every wear.
from the cradle to date, will be inter-
spersHd throughout the book: alsO rio
lures OF your pet cat. dog. chickens. if
you Keep them. and other animals To-
sether with lot of family groups?"
Yes. l have arranged for that"
lnen there is but one thing more
Have You been indiscreet?"
on very; that is my strong point
enthusiastically.
My dear sir" he exclaimed. don't
wait. don't wait, beg of you. until after
you are dead. Publish this hook AT
once. and get the benefit of all the row.
alties and added fame that will surely he
yours Smart Set "e