The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-01
proud Of hor Achievements and the Nhols
nation has roason to be proud OF, St.
The Ethics Of Cowh;ding.

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The Ethics Of Cowhiding.
Mary man has asked himself the
question what he would do IL a woman
should attempt to cowhide him. This
form Of revenge is unique. rho man who
has been cowh,ded Is "a cowhided man"
and no matter how injustifiable the an
Fiction, there Is certain disgrace at
teaching to it from which, the Victim rare-
~ RECEIVERS. The disgrace Is all the great
or when the punishment Is inflicted by a
woman, and 1t is hard for man to de-
eide in advance what he would do N
case lie should be THUS assaulted. But
William Allen White, editor Of the EN-
por1a uxansas) Gazette, made up his mind
IN short order, when lie was recently call
eel upon to aot A woman horsewhipped
him, and In the next issue OF his paper
l,c gave the following account OF the In
cidert:
Here A. an Item that you Thought
wouldn't be In tho paper Last evening
at dusk. as the editor Of tho Gazette
was starting for home. q few yards from
the office door he met Mrs Delta Mef-
fert, divorced wife OF William N1effert
OF whom mention was made In these col
umns recently. She was accompanied by
q lady friend, and as tho Gazette man
started to pass Mrs. Nteffert pulled from
her cloak Il small, but effective looking,
whip. The editor Of this paper side
stopped and, what every true gentleman
would do. ran forty yards pike a White
head back to the office by tho back door.
'vrhat cnln, lispussionnto communion
which a. mali holds With situation IN
the sixteenth part Of q second convinced
the man in question ftllat When lady
challenges a gentleman to an athletic
contest OF any kind lie cnnnot win Il
sparring ln;utch with any grace, nor be
tho yicAr ii, n wrestling match with {.
lady wlt', any credit ut all, but a foot
race is one event in tile sporting calen-
dar IN which any gent may VIC Ibis
prowess with any lady. And how he did
run! Shooting the chutes, leaping the
ga D or looping the loop are clumsy dila.-
tory tactics compared with the way that
fat old codger lliked he like around to
the back door OF this office.
But that settles tho matter. only SO Tar
as Editor White is concerned. il is still
an opon question and every clllyalrous
man devoutly prays that he may never
find himself in Mr.. Whites .predicane11t.
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One Of tho Austrian commissioners 70
the Worlds Fair tells a reporterso OF the
Boston Herald that European exhibitors i''l'
cannot be induced TO take part in any
more cSpositions in, the interior Of Tho
United States. 1t costs them 4 good deal
to come here, and they cannot afford TO
como at all unless they can sell US some
thing. This Austrian reclkons tho invest
ment by European exhibitors at St Louis
at 100000, and lie says Of the re-
suits:
The Austrian display, tor instance, was
almost entirely OF an artistic nature, as
there is no attempt made to extend our
trade In our industrial products, on
which America places Il; prohibitivo tariff
But our arts products, although known
everywhere as tho finest In the wo1td,
found no purchasers among Tho great
tllrongs from the West and Middle West.
Not only do they spend very Little money
at the exposition. but they do not buy
articles of this kind. Tho real features
OF the fair TO them are 1.-THE Pike and
sporting events These are pntronized in
Immense numbers. They gaze at the for
eign exhibits with n PASSIVE casual in
tercst, enjoying them as Il spectacle, but
their money is all expended in other di-3
rections Practically every sale among
tho highest class of foreign exhibits was
made to visitors from tho Eastern States
There is doubtless much truth. III what
this Austrian says, and lie Is hereby re-
minded that tho next great exposition in
this country will DO geogra phlcally located
to his liking not.sin tho interior, but
on tho border nearest TO his country-at
jamestown iii Virginia that expo
sltion he will probably find thousands OF
Eastern people who Will be more inter-
ested i'll art products than in the Wild
west doings on 1.-The Pike
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AS q bride and groom, took a. ira In in |
New York tho other day for ST. Louis, |
somebody threw at them a handful >6f
rice. Throughout the entire trip tho bride
suffered intensely with pain in the right
ear, and when she left tho train at the st.
Louis station she tainted. She was taken
to a hospital and upon examination it
q grain Of rice.
This Is we'll meaning custom and
brides and grooms have to submit to it,
but it Is annoying and embarrassing, not
to say dangerous. and 1T is time for SEN
siblc people to abandon it.
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A large number. of Federal office, hold
ers in Virginia are rathcy 2dlspleased at
tho announcement that the President has
engaged the services OF Il professional |
boxer. 1t may. mean that somebody is
going to set knocked out.
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Spain has accepted an invitation to send
duly authorized representatives to the
peace congress We suppose mat means
that she does not want to fight tho United
States any moro.
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