The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-15
THE coLoNEL,s TRIUMPH.

The Colonel had a great time with
tho Kaiser. and the Kaiser paid the
Colonel the full honors due his rank.
Indeed. some of the old fellows in Ger
many think that he went little fur
Their than the proprjsties actually re-
quired. The Waterbury American is
almost inclined to believe that the
Kaiser has a sense of huinor. because
In his impetuous way he presented his
distinguished guest TO an array of 800
field marshals, generals, lieuteuaft-
generals. generals and briga-
diers, not as President of the United
States, nor yet as former President, or
distinguished Colonel of the Rough
Riders" a sort of Buffalo Bill, as 1t
were, in khaki breeches and sombrero
or wool hat, the sign in which brave
old Ben Tillman conquered all the 'rls-
tocrats. That is all right. The Col
onel was the only private citizen who
ever reviewed the Imperial troops.
Colonel Bryan has been to Germany,
to this country as Colonel Roosevelt
but he did not review the troops; we
"disremember" exactly whether or not
he even saw the Kaiser, so that the
demonstration on the field of Doeberit2
was the real thing, and anybody who
says that 1t was not is a liar.
If the New York Sun is to be believed
even by accident when it comes to the
Colonel. the military performance wa:
the best part of the show in Berlin. 1
says that the Coloners lecture at the
university cannot be called even 9
modified success The Colonel was
unhappy in the choice of his subject
because the learned people to whom he
tell them. and it "transgressed every
unwritten law as regards length" 1t
hogan at 1901 o'clock and ended at
1928 o'clock-eighty-seve minutes by
the Waterbury watch which the report
err carried in his pocket. 1t was. be-
sides, as dull as dishwater, and no.
body seemed to care about what the
Colonel was talking about. Most OF
the red-hooded, black gowned savants
frankly abandoned themselves to re.
Election or sleep during the lecture
They either had to do that or so home
and they could not go home, because
the Kaiser was sitting right there with
his family all the time. Two or three
re -, ~
platform looked as if they were ready
to faint, but owing TO the presence OF
the Kaiser" they couldn't do that.
MANY of the elderly professors in
dulged in peaceful maps"
The Colonel got two hands" how
ever, in the eighty-seven minutes he
was at it--once when he told his phleg-
matte audience TO have all the children
they could, and again when he spoke
with enthusiasm of. ;hew tho German
troops behaved VIXEN .thcy We're under
his eagle eye the day before. THE
address itself" we are told. 'is only
treated here as a well meaning at
tempt of a man of action TO please men
OIL STUDY.
We do not care anything about that;
the fact is the Colonel delivered the
longest lecture that has ever been made
at the University of Berlin, 1t boots
nothing that the doctors went to sleep
while he was at it; he kept them all in
their seats until he was through, and
when he got through there was no
Formally observed over the departure
of the Colonel" 1t was not necessary,
4 He had proved to the German savants
that he could be Just as heavy and dull
as they, and that entitled him to great
respect in their eyes and in The eyes
OF all who happened 10 be there when
he got through. That. in itself, was u
great triumph.
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