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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-05
The Facts About 1t.
MN
Explaining 1t.

Some men can look at field of corn She
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-05

The world owes you a living
but you shouldn't be sitting
around talking about It on pay
day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-05

Some men are so patient they
will sit around waiting for
another mans riches to take
wings and fly their way.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 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 a 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 on
his glasses, wiped them, looked down
again and then finally turned 10 the
commander and exclaimed, why the
things hollowl"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17
GYaUe Of
George
Mason

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 Standardization.
Colonel George Mason, the first, was,
however, not a Warwaickshire man,
but was born in Staffordshire. One of
his fellow Royalist refugees to Amer
lea 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 Gift
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 commonwealth commander at
Worcester was General Fairfax, and it
was a strange fate that made descen-
ant of this man neighbor to the Wash
ingtons Of Mount Vernon and the
Masons of Gunston Hail. Belvoir, the
Fairfax estate, lay Immediately be-
tween GunstAn 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 home in
Maryland, which they called Gunston
Hall, in memory of the English Guns
ton. These people we're grandparents
of George Mason, the fourth, or George
Mason, one Of the republics founders.
In 1850 this man married Anne Eilbeck
of Mattawoman, Maryland, and socn
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 Staffordshlre.
Mason was one of the vestrymen Of
Pohick Church, four miles from Guns
ton. Washington and William Fairfax
were also vestrymen there.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17

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. He
spoke only to the wearers of the gray.
He spoke as the President of a re-
united country, His voice seemed as
the voice of nation speaking to the
followers oe Lee.
The veterans deyoured every vigor-
GUS syllable of the Presidents address.
They returned his earnest gaze with
looks of unmistakable good will and
loving friendship. Somewhat abruptly
the President stopped, waved his hat
1t was to them like the balm of Gilead.
and shouted, 'Good-by, and good
luck"
"Good-by, good-by," they shouted,
and moment later President Roose.
welt was out Of sight.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17
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 as 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
paradlng and speech-making, the Pres
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
dents visit which will probably be
remembered when all others have
faded into oblivion.
Surrounding the Lee monument IL
an IRON fence, inclosing a circle OF
lawn. The crowd was thicklv grouned
around this circle. Inside. Standing
upon the base of the monument aud
wandering about upon the lawn were
seventy-iye broken, totteaiTg Old men.
cad ID gray and carry g small Con-
ederate flags. Many hobbled upOn
'SiANNhSSt anu dn UDOu
canes. Here and there an arm or a
leg was missing. The voices of the old
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 d
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 ear
riage dashed up to the monument.
Before the old men realized it, the
President was facing them and shout I
ing, "Come closer" With confused ex-
the old men hobbled for |
ward, with small nretense of march
ing. They had almost forgotten the
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17
THE STRENGTH OF JAPAN.
GARDEN FARMS THE FOUYDA.
TON OF NLPPON'S POWER.
3o,ooo,Ooo People Sustained in Conn
fort on Only 10000 Square Miles
of Cultivated Land.

(From Chicago The Great Central Market
July, 1900.
"a hundred years hence, leaving
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 one had told Emile de La
veleye, when he made this prophecy.
some years ago, that within a few
years the power of Russia on the sea
would be annihilated, and her land
forces defeated again and again by the
pygmy nation OF Japan, would he
have believed it7
No, neither he nor any one else, at
that time, would h;.Ve credited it.
The Incredible, the unbelievable, has
actually happened. There is no result
without cause. What is the uaderly-
ing cause of this marvellous strength
of Japan?
1t is not in battle ships or siege guns
not In torpedo boats or field artillery
mot in arms or armor-not in NUM-
tons of war or equipment for battles
on land or sea. Russia had all these,
and yet she has suffered crushing, hui
initiating, and overwhelming defeat.
What, then, is the secret of Japan's
strength?
Efficiency of the Unit.
1t is in just one thing, and that is
meni
1t is in the efficiency of the unit.
It's In the physical and mental pow
gence of the Japanese people as a
whole, and as a consequence, of every
individual soldier and sailor.
And this physical and mental eff |
cheney of an entire peopie-of the en-
tire citizenship Of the Japanese nation
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17

= is 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 physi-
cally strong-next to nature.
They breathe the fresh air.
They eat plain food.
They neither starve nor sc .se.
They are mentally and physically
active.
They are an "out of door" people.
They understand 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 u garden where health and
strength are gained by the labor Of
cHltiyating that garden for a living,
And in these garden homes the peo-
pie of Japan have far more of real
pleasure and happiness and the genu-
Inc enjoyments Of life than the aver
age wage worker in our country.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17

mile distant. 1t 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
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 cam
dldate 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 old
gentleman who has personally known
a hundred celebrities of other genera
lions, ne 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 beautifed. He
died three years ago and the place con-
tinued IN possession or his heirs and
in charge Of a colored overseer.
Fairy 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 1869. One Of these resolu-
lions pledged the signers to buy no
slaves imported after November /, 1859.
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 q
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-
lions in advocacy Of non-intercourse
with the mother country. These res
olutions were adopted, and we're also
adopted by the Virginia convention at
Williamsburg in August, 1774. 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 adovted the Mason reso-
fuGions.
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 1t was source of ma
tlonal weakness and decentralization"
He advocated the direct election Of the
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17
UNCLE JOE CANNONS 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 ne wished to EN-.
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 1t 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 instancel"
Really, sir" protested the agent, II
distinctly remember describing the
lawn, and a very nice lawn it Is.
ooh, yes" went on the kicker. "You
told me there was a lawn. but you
didn't tell me that the nearest owner
of lawn-mower lived two miles awayl
Where am to borrow lawn-mower,
sir? Answer me thati
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17

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
hdme OF George Mason, friend and adj
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:
GEORGE MASON,
Author of the Bill of Rights and
First Constitution OF Virginia.
1Z26-1702.
Gunston Hall is on a ridge command
ing fine view Of the Potomac river, a
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17

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- win consent to this at the
coming session, or win 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.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17
LfYc SEock Marfers.

"Oh," said the fair summer boarder,
as q 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"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17

President by the people and for term
OK seven years with ineligibility for re,
election. He opposed the requirement
OF 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 it's ratif.
cation by Virginia.
In the Virginia convention to Tatify
the Constitution Mascn led the opposi-
ton 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
sons influence that in 1853 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
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17
The White Plague Unknown.

We have fallen into SNUG and
self-complacent and wretchedly super
ficiaf habit Of thought which loses
sight of the life that a people lead and
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17

There is no pie or pudding, father.
But / will give you this;
And upon the blacksmith's toil-worn
brow,
She printed a childish kiss.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17
HISTORIC GUNCTON HALL.
VIRGINIA HOME OF THE FAMOUS
GEORGE MASON PURCHASED
BY TOM WATSON.

American History Made Beneath It's
Broad Verandas-ias Been RestOr-
ed to its Original Beauty.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 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 year
He has been to Panama, to the Philip
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 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 1t was source of ina
tlonal weakness and Generalization"
He advocated the direct election Of the
New-York tribune., 1905-02-01
GOLF.
AnnuaJ Meeting of Women's Net
ropolitan association.

Beyond the election of officers for the ensuing
year and the adoption of amendment to the
constitution, the annual meeting of the WOmen's
Metropolitan Golf Association in this city yester
day developed into informal gathering for the
discussion of next seasons golhng plans Delegates
were present from most of the leading clubs in the
district by the association. they evnced
desire TO leave the details regarding the indvid-
uaI and team championships to the executive COM
mittee. From the expressions of those who spoke
II is considered probable that much the same plan
as last year will be followed in the matches
and that the individual championship will be held
in June. The and date viii be announced
later by the executive committee.
The meeting held at No. % East 9oth-st
Mrs w. Feliowes Morgan, who has held the place
of president for several years declined a
nomination, and Mrs. Edward F Sanford, of the
Essex County Country Club. elected In her
stead The other officers chosen were: Vice-presi-
dent, Miss Cornelia G. Willis Morris County Golf
Club; secretary. Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany. Apawamis
Club: treasurer. Miss Georgianna NJ. Bishop
Brooklawn County Club: additional member of the
wood Golf Club. An amendment to the constitu-
passed, as follows:
Nominations for officers and members of the ex-
ecutiVe committee may pe made in writing signed
by not less than five delegates. Such nominations
shall be made at least two weeks prior election
and addressed to the secretary. The secretary
sItch nominations without their 1t shall
be the duty Of the secretary to inclose list OF
which such election shall be made. Nothing in
this article shall be construed inValidate any
ballots cast at an election for any member of the
association not nominated as hereinbefore pro-
New-York tribune., 1905-02-01
EMPEROR OF INDIA IN FRONT.

Los Angeles, CaI Jan. S1.-Emperor of India ran
in his best form at Ascot Park to-day winning the
mile and seventy yards race in la from Waswift
and ARABIC There were only three starters. First
and second choices divided honors to-day, and the
public had much the best OF the play. The sum-
mary:
Fozeman l53 . Dscmo, $50 (Eiughes)
10 O. second; May Holiday. lso tMGbride) u to J.
Jack Habert also ran
Second race (hve one-haf furlongs)- King thorpe
100 1Mler5 to !. Chalk Hedrick. 81 (5mh), to
second: Sinicado (bIoriaTity) third. Time
1OsK Pearl Danzador Brookdale. Fer de Lance
Bailey Auro Banera also ran.
Third (handicap one mile and seventy yards)-Em-
peror of India. ia (Mier), even, won; Waswift 40
uller) to second; ARABIC. Jos Dugan). to third
Fourth race (,wo-year-ods; onehalf nilelwee Girl.
ll5 (AIcDanieD won Sandstorm 10I walsh, TO
Expressing, 110 Quler). to 5, third. Time
04Sh Honest Boy Astral That's What. Pirates Dance,
Tick Wilson and Rancloud also
Fifth race (one milelPadua. 1o3 ynch). s, won;
I1el Coronado eyor). 10 second: bod Anderson
10 Culier) g. third Time. 1:4112. Patsy Brown.
Respirator Natal and Dissipation also
sixth race Csix fur!ongs).Doctor C.. 100 NicDaneD 7
10 won Sportsman 81 (Kent to !, second; Seasick
SO csiorarityl to 8; third. Time l:l4t CloyeEton.
Palmfst Aunt Polly Nanon. Our Pride. Rose OF to,
Hard nndW WhlteStone also
New-York tribune., 1905-02-01
POLICE PERSECUTE NEWSB0Y.
Hold Him on Groundless Charge, Says Lodg-
ing House Superintendent

Superintendent Heg of the Newsboys' Lodging
House in New-Chambers-st.. said yesterday that
he afraid the police had scared into the country
George Mauser. a newsboy, eighteen years old, who
was victim CT peculiar police persecution. He
disappeared mysteriously Mauser slept in the
lodging house on the night OF January g. and was
called at o'clock the following morning to go te
a place in East HoUston-st where he had obtained
employment. AS he was his way to that place
about a. m. he was arrested by Detective Wag-
OF the Union Market precinct on the charge Of
committing burglary in a liquor store in East
Houston-st. at o'clock the same morning
The hoy said he innocent of the charge and
referred the police to the lodging house. Detective
Wagner went TO the lodging house and talked with
Mr.. Hes and several employees who knew that
the boy was in bed at the time of the burglary.
Wagner it is declared, said he would the boy
free, hut, instead OF doing that had the boy held
for trial the burglary charge. on January %
Mr.. Heigh was called 10 the District Attorney
office as witness against the boy and learned
that Mauser had been prisoner In the Tombs for
IL fortnight.
AS soon of Mr.. Jerome's assistants dis
covered the truth about the he had the boy
discharged. MauSer said he going to see IL he
had lost his place. ana would report TO Mr., Heig
that evening. but he did to the lodging house
again, and Mr. Heig had not been able 10 get any
trace OF him up to yesterday
New-York tribune., 1905-02-01
We Paid 100000

For the American rights to LiQuozone We
did this after testing the product for two
years, through physicians and hospitals after
proving in thousands of difficult cases, that
Liquozone destroys the cause of any germ dis
ease.
Liquozone has, for more than 20 years been
the constant subject of scientific and chemical
research. 1t is not made by compounding drugs,
nor with alcohol Its virtues are derived solely
from gas-largely oxygen gas-by d process re-
quiring immense apparatus and IA days time
The result is liquid that does what oxygen
does. 1T is a nerve food and blood food-the
most helpful thing in the world to you. Its ef-
tects are exhilarating. vtalizng, purifying Yet
it is germicide so certain that we publish OH
New-York tribune., 1905-02-01
CHARLIE DICKSON, 60 TO !
Song and Wine Runs Third an His
First Race of Year.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TR1BUNE.I

New Orleans, Jan. 31.--The days programme at
the Fair Grounds given to the selling
paters in majority OF the races, four of which
were distances less than mile Interest centred
in the debut as a three-year old of Song and Wine,
a candidate for the Crescent City Derby He ran
third in the third race, a dash of five furlongs
for three -year-olds and over. Mayor Johnson won,
and Viperne, poorly handled was second
haywood, which OutbrOke his field and made a
runaway race or the nrst race the card, and
and won pulled up, were the only successful
favorites FaVonius took the second race solely
through Dominiek's careful handling. The fifth
race fell TO Charlie Dickson, at 70 to l. He in
company with the faVorite, Arch Oldham, from the
start, caught him firing at the end and clev-
erly. The weather cloudy and the track heavy.
Captain j. Williams will ship Rams Horn to Hot
Springs tomorrow to run in the Kentucky Club
Handicap. Twelve horses, the property of E. E.
Smathers, arrived to-day from Memphis and were
taken in charge by Sam Hildretn. The summary
of the days races:
TO won; over Again. ll2 q. Martini to l. second;
Chambee, lol di JohnIon Z Z to l. third Time. lis
Whorer. Conundrun Hellowhamfner and Fitzbrar also
Second race (mle)-Favonius 1876 (DominiclO, 3 to l.
won; Rachel Ward 12o (shing) 10 to SECOND: Frank
Boy Sea Shark Admettus. Glendon and Male Hanlon
third race give furlongs)Nayor Johnson OF MEADE
to 2 won; Vperre S. q. Hennessy). to s. second
song and Wine 95 (Cs!mmins) to l. third Time, l:04.
Court Crier signal H. Lady in Black Roya! Whitefoot
and Antitrust also ran. ,,-.- 200 &c.,, .
to l. won Belle OF Portland 80 Qdurphyl TO second;
Miss Gomez 1o4 5Au6uchon} ~ to l. third Tine Tine
knowledge. Floral Wreath and Hakim ran.
Fiftn race five furongs)Chariie Dickson 30 (Aubu-
es9n eeeoDa: = saRaina ak ii wq S5 g. H Hennessy
I:04f5 Dance Music Miss schapb Harry stevens Airs
Frank Foster. N3rman Holt. John Nolan Flyer sehor
a' Sixth race niie)-Rapid Water o5 Ccrimmins to 5.
won: Belle indian 90 Baird) to l. second Barkemors
1O2 (Robbins 40 to l, third Time la. hiitss 80, sws
Cochran also ran.