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"A Correction Corrected.
) ,rho fI,jn1os-I1ispatch,

Editor Of The Tjmos Dispatch:
sir,.-Your printers made such sad
havoc OF my corrections In General
Wright's Roster of Confederate generals
several OF the moro glar!ng errors.
/, The quotation from the New Eng
land (nut "Englisi''j historical and gen.
ealoEical Register. IN $50 bOtched that It
Is made to mean exactly the opposite OF
what It was intended, and us i made the
quotation from meHnUry, giving the sub
stance. u beg now to quote the exact
language on the original, which was as
follows: IA y 1
"Wo hope that their Northern sub.
scriptlon fist viii be extended. for these
are volumes that no library. public or
private, that nretcnds to historical full
ness, can afford TO be without them"
p OF course there was no Such Cons
Tolerate general rs ''Easley.' and this
is typographical error for that stern
did patriot and able soldier. Jttbal A.
Early. ,i 5@4
8. General Wright has furnished me
evidence chat while General -. ~. hll1
commanded a corps for some time he
never received q commission as ltsttten-
ant general.
Hs, also. assures me that others Of
the errors pointed ont were typo
graphical. and not inShis ORIGINAL paper.
! corrections Which may be merely ty-
geographical errors In the Roster.
Thomas 2 !. Jackson Is put down With
nut any rank attached to his naln0, ~
tourse General Wright knows that OLD
stoncwall was ii lieutenant general, ant!
i had 1t from President Davis himself
that he would have heen made full gem
erai II lie had lived short whlle longer.
p. #. Cheatham ought 70 pe Z. 4.
f,hea tham NJ d, Evans ought to be
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Jesse Ja1nss's Slayer.

Editor OF The Times pIapRtct:
Sir,--P Please allow ME. In Cue rles and
Answers to answer A! +. BIS question,
Bob Ford was killed about twelve years
ago in hisH own dive or gambling den IN
Creed, a mining town In Mineral county,
in Southwestern Colorado. by one Edward
y Okelly. Ford had charged O'Kelly with
stealing q ring. O Kelly denied the charge
and gayes Ford q charge OF buckshot IN
the neck. which almost severed his head
from his body. o}Keily WIS sent to the
Colorado penitentiary for life, and was
pardoned by the Governor about tive
years ago a little over q year ago
4 O'Kally was killeu In Arizona or Nv
Mexico while resisting an oft,cer. VINO
had him: under arrest. 4z5 sfa
Resrectfu ally. l. "A. ROE 4
Oceana. Princess AIMS County. Va
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\ Drama Like Shakespeare.

Editor OF The Tlmes~D.spatch S
Fl sir,-1 will thank you 10 answer in your
query column (week day Or mex next sunday
spua s,,sh az s -
"a accantahlc to an,,bl,shera AZ an excel
leu. historical romance, and whether such
a drama would likely be ~ re'nunerattvo
70 us author as sucn -, f .,'ns nar y
10 a : n - Z go = . 4 =" 4s
! Kindly state what in money some Of
tho dramatists have gotten for their
work ana wnetheT .ney ars usua ~ p az
dranao ~ ~ 4 A., l8 a = 4 d
Your attention will DO highly appre-
ciated. (. 3
very Truly Wy 4 = Ut
=, ,,,,,,o IA scnten,ber, 1909 A
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Old Postage Stamps.

Editor OF This Tlmes-Ay4spatcll:
Z 6ir.--Plsaxe give me, through pour
Query column In next sundays number.
tho name and address OF q rella BILE dealer
IN Or buyer Of old postage stamps and
CONS And oblige a constant reader OF
your papsr. g. NJ. y. 81
TAAs II not an advertising department,
ana We eannot advertise any mans BUSH
ness Ia 5it, s.
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General Brevard.
Editor Of ,Fhe T1mos-D lspatcA:S

EdltpF OF Fhe I1m0a-DRNatcA'5l5 4l5 81
Gir,~-In the Sunday edition pf the a1th
September noticed the nan1e OF "Rer-
l,ard, Theo. W." OF Florida. brlgadior-
general. died at Tallahassee June 2Oth,
1892. As incorrect. At should he Brevard,
Thcp, w. We have been friends since
We first met at tho University Of Vlr-
ginia. session 1875 1919 \
Very respectfully yours. Il
a.. s: EpEs
Nottoway. Va. September ssth
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On Surveying.

Editor of The Times Dispatch: 81 I
III 6ir,-Will some ono give rule and ex-
ample fnr measuring land 4.
Glasgow, Va.
We VIII have to refer our queriest 70
any work on surveying. unless some
reader Gun furnish simple rule through
this column. 3S XII {54 h ,1$S i
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Beats the Auto.

Scientific men have been exami ping q
learned horse In Berlin and nave found
That he cdanpreheMds hnndwrltlng, has
do Mathematical work. al this Is some.
thing that no automobile u equal to.-
spokuno Spokesman
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On the tMarct-1861-'6s
,ee TINT long limo OF soldiers In sober

On the Marcf-1861-
sec that long limo Of soldiers In sober
stro,lkIn 1s'i along r il their Own lazy way; .
Hear the booming Of guns, and FattlIn1
Forw ard men. close up there. trot. trot,
- 1ha Heat OF the day.
Te tho front ot.the !, trih aSSia,ng am
tFaslinnsg ~ ma hoping we will be there in
II aa ,H time they come. that long line Of
Rightf rs e The front, then the blue fades
Our b bma sounas rest, sweet rest for the
4 lord asa lone r.ss. Tor the blue in that
fray. /. fy5
The years II tho past are counting two
no jonssr In haste they rush TO the
For hat thaf long gray line II done march
All. Save ss pl tho, stragglers. are resting at
september. 1904. e, a. R.g
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M. q. Evans. ,1arry II Mays ought to-
be Harry 4. Hays,
N I repeat that General Wright has addr5
ed t. Ills other valuable services In pubs
fishing this Roster, and he assures ms
that he would be glad to receive any
further corrections ~ he ID anxious to
perfect 1T .u..,,
taic,,,,ond VA Seh 20. 1904. ts4
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II Can't be- Done.

Editor OF Tha Times. Dispatch:
r.--FleAse >answer tia following ques-
tlons for ms and ol,llGe: r. the United
ueship. ssy. ii tho Massachusetts, to
Chicago, by what route would II 20?
Yours very truly,
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King Edwards Address.

Editor Of Tie TInles-Dlspatch;
air.--Plense answer In your query coll
uinn Of tbs weekly Times Dispatch The
following questionss and oblige. |. AO"
would you address letter to the Kine
OF England no that he, would receive II
promptly7 g. What would the postage BEL
.s .',DNQU1RBR..
A Finneywood, Va, September 3oth.
!. Marlboro House, London. or Windsor
Castle. either.
s% 3. Two cents.
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Confederate; Memorial Associa-
ti0n.

| r. II . Il 4uE ~
b5sEAt the recent meeting Of the Grand
Camp, ~. &C. v.&of Virginia, the Follow
Ing was unanimously passed: 4
s,tWhereaa this Grand Camp has upon
several occasions heartily approved 1850
5lutions commencing the work Of the
Cont derate Memorial Association. and
whereas we have learned with great
pleasure that the association has secured
over 100000. the minimum sum named
as necessary to complete their work.
therefore,
! st'Resolved. first. That we oongratnlate5
the association that they are at last in
sight. OF the contamination OF their plans.
f''second That we urge upon the trus-
tees Ito proceed at tho earlicst possible
moment to the erection OF their hill
"1,he Battle Abbey Of the Confed racy'
without waiting for further contribu-
lions.
"Third. That we urge our camps and
individuals to make lilooral contrib tons
to this fund that we may have in he
old capital of the Co1federacy II memo-'
rial han worthy OF the great cause " ich
1t win represent--n monument alike to
our leaders, our private soldiers wllo fol-
lowed those leaders to an immortality
or fame, our noble wotnan who were,
such an inspiration ard help to our sol
dierg, and tie great cause Of constltu-
t,onal freedom for which We fought. /"
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It would have to be tnken#to pieces ana
shipped by rail-. 3i.AE v n " "a q
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Colonel Munford.
The Times Ispatcll;

lEdlt0rf OF LIS t}llIISS~LlSIlta LEA.
sir,-The history OF the struggle OF the
Southern people in their efforts to estab-
fish their independence is a history Of
their armies and their leaders and any
published statement concerning them
should be examined In the Interest of
history and II found to be wrong, should
Be corrected In the list OF Confederate
generals recently published In your " de-
" read paper. the name Of 7. II Mum,
ford was among the brigadicr generals,
and as i commanded nay own division, and
the most OF the time during Q UT retreat
from Petersburg to Appomattox, General
ritz Lees as well. and with these two
divisions won the fight at the High
Bridge on the 9th OF April and in the
fight early on the morning OF the 9th
OF April with these two divisions. drove,
the enemy's cavalry from my front, cap
turcd the Lynchburg Road and escaped
surrender, am in position to state posi-
lively, that r. II. A1unford served under
me the whole time to the end as colonel.
and was never commissioned brigadier-
general and i suppose that he will COR
rect your mistake II his attention Is CALI
cd to It. 4 Colonel Munford was frequently
Y for promotion, and as he
begun the war as lieutenant-coionel, II
seemed hard that he was NOT allowed to
rise more than one file In = long and
hard fought war.
Very truly yours,
THOMAS L. ROSSER.
a y
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Editor Of Tknea- Dispatch: $$$
Sir,-Will you kindly form me through
your Query Column how lime benefits
land VIII ther II Is bsst TO put 1t on
ground. or III lump, and II ground.
whether 1t should be drilled in the ground
or on lop7 Would II bo desirable for
rain just after sowing or NOT :? Would
IL not hs wine before lining to have tho
roll analysed and Il analysed wha would
he the expense Of same?
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In the meantime Woods Brigade pushed
forward upon the southern angle at the
breastworks IN Its front, but. having to
cross an open field swept by IN obliluc
fire. was repulsed with fearful loss. lefsv-
ing over GOO killed and wounded In ten
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perate courage Slocumb faced the Fed
era line unsupported until the brigade
was rallied in his rear. Sloculnb was Sc
vercly cut up, but continued to work MS
guns Until the crisis was over. Ills bat
terry had to be refltted before he could
move. HI 5E
The Nineteenth Louisiana Regiment
performed valiant services. and lost q
large number OF gallant officers and men,
Among thu. killed was the gallant and ak
ways to be lamented Major London But
Ter.
In the meantime Woods Brigade pushed
4 forward upon the southern angle at the
hleas tworks m Its front, but, having to
cross an open field swept by an obilQuc
fire, was rcpulsed with fearful loss. lefsv-
ing over GOO killed and wounded In ten
minutes time.
I'M the gap left by the repulsc Of WOOD,
and before hc had fairly begun his charge
IL three-inch shell passed through his
body. Z
Cleburne, finding that he was CONFRONTED
by an enormous force. withdrew and re-
formed. In the meant me Helms Bril-
sade had been equally cut up, nnd the
situation seemed critical.
breckenridge WAC being hard ressed.
!iill sent Coluuitt's Brigade to relieve the
pressure but the noble Georgian's came
quickly under Il most destructive fire
from the front and llank that killed or
wounded more than ID third OF the mart al
fellows. while c'oiluitt fell mortally
wounded. Every fold officer In the hli-
gade was killed or wounded. save one,
Ecr0r's. Wilson'S aud Wnlthal!'N Brigades
were sent to the support OF General Polk,
and encountered an overwhelming forge,
before which they had TO Give way with
heavy loss. II will therefore, be seen
that after an i,our's gallant hghting,
y,r i,.Af E1.atA n c1 mn
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so numerous that 1t was necessary to add some dis
tinguishing word. The natural thing to do was to
combine the name of son and father. John, the son
of Peter. became known as John. Peters son, and
Petersen" naturally followed as a family name when
a surname came to be adopted. In Russian the
patronymic was formed in a similar manner. Ivan
Petrovitch may be freely translated as John Peter
son. though "ovitch" is the form of a possessive adj
jective and does not mean literally son" 1t is a
popularity of Russian adjectives that they have a
long and a short form. Thus for Peters" We also
have "Petrov' or "Petrof."
This method of forming surnames seems to have
been much more common in Russian than in English,
and that simple fact is chiefly responsible for the
foreign impression of the Russian language. SINH
larry we find the Gelc Mac" in Scotch patronymics.
20" in Irish family names. Fit" in Norman and
English names. "Ap" in Welsh, Ben" in Hebrew,
"Ibn" in Arabic, sen" in Norwegian and ''sohn' in
German, all answering the same purpose as "ovitch'
and "off" in Russian.
What is there funny about any of them, Macaulay
saws:
THE Fitzes sometimes permitted themselves to
speak with scorn OF the Os and Macs. and the Os and
Macs sometimes repaid the scorn with aversion"
The Russian written language is we'll worth study
ing as a curiosity. and it has had a peculiarly interesting
history. Its present alphabet is one of the youngest
in the world, having been devised barely two hundred
years ago by that meddlesome autocrat. Peter the
Great. But this alphabet is only a modification of
another that was furnished to the Russians ready-made
about nine hundred years ago.
OF course a woman was at the bottom of it. Vladi-
mir the Great, after capturing Chersonesus in he
Crimea. demanded the daughter Of the Byzantine
emperor at Constantinople for a wife. After some
hesitation this demand of the barbarian was granted
on condition that he be baptized as a Christian. Ac-
cordingly Vladimir was received into the Eastern or
Greek branch of the Catholic church in oSS. and Prin-
cess Ann became his wife. On his return to Kieff he
destroyed his pagan image and commanded his people
to gather at the river TO be baptized as Christians.
1t became necessary for the MuScovites to have
instructors in the new religion, and two missionaries,
Cyril and Methodius, were sent TO them from Con-
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awkward, arbitrary combination, but IN Russian there
is a special letter for that sound. In translating that
Russian letter into English shall we Use "ch" as in
which" or Itch" as in witch . or shall we use the
German equivalent of tsch",
There is another common sound in Russian that is
we'll represented by stitch" in the words "sInasht-
china" 1t is not a difficult sound. and in Russian has
its own particular letter. The Russian smiles at the
struggles of foreigners to indicate the sound in poor.
inefficient English. Some writers have used this COM
bination of English letters: "schtsch." That is bad
enough. but suppose that two of these Russian letters
should happen to come together and be translated into
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stantinople. One of the first things that the mis-
sionaries had to do was to provide the Russians with Il
written language in order to facilitate the Use of the
Bible and the church liturgy. Cyril had already
invented an alphabet for the Old Slavic language of
Rostislav's kingdom in Moravia, and this he adopted
for the Russians. y comparison of the Russian alpha
bet even of today with the Greek alphabet will show
that Cyril used the Greek as the basis of his new
A-B-C. but as the Greek has only twenty-four letters.
while the Russian language needed t~hirty-six. Cyril bor-
rowed additional letters from the Coptic. Armenian
and Hebrew. These letters. with notifications. are
still used by Russians. Servians and Bulgarians.
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Oleson, Nels Nelson and Lars Larson, and by telling
of how "Yon Yonson jumped his yob" he is hardly
to be blamed for making such easy money
Some Russian wit, blissfully ignorant of English,
but with a lively sense of the humor lurking in the
tails of such names as Johnson, Stephenson. Peterson
and Jacobson, which he occasionally encounters in
his native periodicals.. may be earning his salt with
Muscovite witticisms seasoned with a liberal s~prinkling
of the syllable ''son." \ Russian pun with 'son"
attached to each word must be uproariously funny
to a Russian-if he thinks so.
In the days before the general adoption of sur
names, the Johns, Peters. Jacobs and Stephens were
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By frederic BemZimger

OF III NelS1 lHdI IS lIt u IdSuclH
question" according to SOM of the American news
paper wits. The funny fellows" OF the press have
found a mine of humor in the Russian names scat
tered through the war news from the far East. and
they would have the Yankee world believe that the
Russian language is barbarous, unpronounceable and
full of terrors for all but the brave wits of the pen.
Sometimes the comic writers are wrong, and this is
one of them. Here is the proof from one of the most
recent Slavonic writers on the Russian literature, VINO
describes the beauties of the language in this convinc-
ing sentence:
"A most wonderful instrument it is, the most wOn-
dertul certainly in the Slavonic circle-one of the most
melodious languages in the universe, flexible. sonorous,
graceful"
These are strong assertions, but WahSzewSki goes on
to clinch them after this fashion:
This tongue finds soft and caressing words even
for the things which partake the least of such a charac-
ter. Foiud stands for war, JOire for warrior. But
should the warrior be called to defend his country
threatened by an invader, he becomes kirdbyi sanhf-
oiiohtchaiouchtcheiyi Can we not hear the hoarSe,
whistling yell of barbarians,'
After this naive evidence of the soft and caressing"
character of Russian. one need not be surprised to learn
that such words as Bezstrashni. Bezposhtchadni, Raj
yaschtchi and Stereguschtchi merely stand for the
gentle. diminutive torpedo-boatS OF the Russian navy,
whose commanders furnish joy to the rest of the world
with such names as that OF Lieut.. kusmenkaravayeff
of the Stereguschtchl.
And yet. in spite of all the typographical evidence
to the contrary, | am willing to endorse Waliszewski to
the extent of saving that Russian doesn't sound nearly
so badly as it looks-in English. When one sees such
a combination of letters as "schtch' 1t looks barbar-
Gus. and if one attacks it with an affectation Of sueez-
ing and retching he will find that he has caught a
Tartar: but as a matter of fact the sound is not diff
cult. and in Russian it is represented by a single letter.
In the mouth OF an educated Russian. especially a
refined woman. the language is soft and agreeable.
There are several so-called kissing" consonants much
used in Russian. and these give a syblant character to
the spoken language that is very noticeable, but not
necessarily harsh.
Most Americans have gained their impression of
Russian solely from the names they find in their news
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paper reading.
1t happens that
a large percent
age of Russian
names end in
''ovitch." off
or - 5 XII" In
what easier way
can a newspaper
paragrapher or
stage comedian
raise a laugh
than by splicing
one of h sc
Russianisms to
the tail of each
word in his skit,
This is cheap
wit, but it will
continue to do
business as long
as it can be
transmitted into
bread and but
ter. When a man
can c~onvulse an
audience by
ringing the
changes on Ole
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CHALL one sneeze when saying
- "Tsarevitch." and sputter while
- struggling with Roshbestvenski."
or vice versa5 That Is the real Eastern
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oVerT1tch - M
eski RuSsianoff
lame go right
ahead and enjoy
yourself, for the
Russians think
the joke is on
you. They pity
YOU because you
have to struggle
along through
life with such a
ooverty-s stricken
language as Eng
ish. which has
only twenty-six
letters to express
+orty or more
sounds. The
sound in the
word church
that is repre-
scented by the
letters ''ch" has
no relation to the
sound of the let
tiers taken sepa-
rately. The use
of a. CHI is an
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SOUND NAME
II II (mute)
d ..(hard sign)
bl BIalmOs' ' in pity
b b half- NUT, rn,
Is By in yet ..yaht
y 3 e in met "a
10 Du in tube you
IL 81 va in yard yah
u @ fin fine feetah
V in sick ee,b5,s,
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"HNh "NlC SdSiSi Ni lHC SIHThS people 10 read
When Russia began to have a literature. naturally the
Cyrilic alphabet was used in writing it, especially as
the literature was fostered by the ecclesiastics. Thus
for seven hundred years the books of Russia were
written in Old Slavic, while the CON mon people con-
tinued to speak their various dialects, b~issfully
ignorant of the language of their lite 1ature.
Peter the Great was the father of the written Rus
sian of today. He not only devised the alphabet,
but substituted the use of the Great Russian dialect
Tor Old Slavic in the literature of his country. Dur
ing his sojourn in Amsterdam this au-ocrat worked as
a ship-carpenter and dabbled in many other arts. He
studied dentistry and bCcd-letting, and practised
these arts on his servants. He tried his hand at
etching, and ma de notes of the dress of the
people in order to issue edicts to his own subjects to
regulate the cut of their clothing. He cultivated
a family of printers named Thessing. 1t is not
strange that this refo rmer should have been struck
with the incongruities of his own language.
He set out to make a sweeping reform in the written
Russian language. He modified he old Cyrillic
letters along the roun ded, clean-cut lines of the Latin
letters Peter saw to the casting of the first font of
the new Russian type while at Amsterdam. and gave
the Dutch printers a license to print books in the new
type and introduce them into Russia for a period OF
fifteen years.
But Peter went further. On returning to his king
dom he issued a decree abolishing tn, use of the Old
Slavic language in the government ser-ice, and ordered
that all its records and transactions should be carried
on in the dialect known as Great Russian. The first
RUSSIAN DOCK 10 De printed IN Oreat Russian Win the
new type appeared in 1909. The first newspaper at
Moscow in Great Russian appeared in 1904, and at ST.
Petersburg in 1908. The change to the new written
language was gradual, however, and its final success
was due largely to the example of Lomonossov. a
volumrnous writer. He published the first analytical
grammar of Great Russian in 1855, so that the Rus
sian language as it is known to the world today has
not been established much longer than the American
republic. The Old Slavic is still used in the service of
the Russian church. and the church books are printed
in the ancient Cyrillic alphabet. although the language
and the letters are as Greek 20 the masses of the faithful
When you amuse your friends with a merry sputter
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Cyril first provided e. cursive system
of writing with small (minuscule) let
tiers. but this in time was displaced
by an alphabet of large (unciaD letters.