The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-25
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least. he has decided he does not need
these formerly Indispensable articles of
mis- outfit. OF course he will want the
breeches when the Rough Riders as
semble to meet him and to shoot up
Wall street, and the derrnger Will
probably come in handy when he be-
gins to use his short, ugly words about
those who have forgotten him on this
side the Atlantic. In Paris he had
other clothes to wear. He put on his
.plug hat and his long coat, and at
once proceeded to have the time of his
life.
1t is a little hard to tell what the
Colonel did in Paris or to comment
ON what lie said. for he was doing
something from the time he began
breakfast by biting ten-penny nan
In half until he took a nightcap win
Briand and went upstairs to sleep OIL
the excitement and he was talking
from the moment he ordered his valet
70 get out his frocl coat until he told
Kermit. snoring on the other side Of
tho room. what a bully time he had
had Still. in all the whirligig of ac-
ton and in the hodge-podge of speech
making, there was much at which the
Faithful will rejoice.
AS one of those who cherish his
every movement and hang on his every
utterance. we We're especially impress
ed by the lecture at the Sorbonne He
began to preach as soon as the APP
pIause ceased, and he told the French
man what he thought about things IN
general. There was not much in the
speech that enlightened the savants of
the sorbonne, and all that he said then
he had said many times before; but
what pleased the doctors of the sor-
horne was the way he said it, BE
did not rnince a word, and he spoke
his New York French as readily as
If he had just left his teacher 1t was
fine. and when he praised the com
mon man. and said that republican
government had still to prove itself
and concluded with a final fling al
race suicide, the Frenchmen Just got
up on the seats and cheered for Theo'
dore. They would have elected hin
Frefect of Paris in fifteen minbtes il
he had just said the word.
still. there was refined cruelty in
the joke somebody played on the Colo
mel about the bust they gave him at
the sorbonne. They had intended. Of
course, to present him with bust Of
Lincoln. knowing that Roosevelt had
said. in effect. that Lincoln and wash
.ngton were the only two great men
that tad lived in America before him
When the bu&t cama however, and
was about to be presented by Vice
Rector Laird. it proved to be bust
OF Jefferson. Now. if there was one
thing in the world the Colonel did not
want that one thing was bust of
Jefferson Who was Jefferson anyway,
and what right had he to put his nose
into the celebration2 Had not Je,ser-
son been guilty of declaring that gov
eminent should not go to extremes
and had he not said many other sensi-
BILE things which were denounced q:
1eresv in the days of the Great Admin
istration? NJ. Jusserand, who used
play tennisswith the Colonel, and wh'
Knows what the letter likes, has prom
Used TO correct the mistake, but 1t
400 late The ghost OF law-lovinI
fBanquo, Jefferson drove Macbeth Roose
Sclt from the banquet
The reception at the Academy wa
fairly good. and some of it was en-
icyed by the Colonel, especially TIA
part of it in which NJ. Boptroux, presi
dcrt Of the Academy. said that 3oose
Welt was the great living eNponen
of American character ana life. III
rest of II was rather nat because Their
were so few people in the hall an
because they did not applaud enous(
If he had it 20 do over again, III
Colonel would have them express hh
his diploma as member of the -Acad
envy and would spend the time in rid
in:, about the boulevards where All III
people could see him.
What Will be the next move in tn
most modest homecoming of the da,
pie Swedes do to make the Colon
happy after his days in Paris? W
hone for the best. and shall not /
cast down until we arc positive u
King does not make himsan honorar
duke, but the other countries win hay
10 start early If they want TO cla
The attention Of the simple. priya
citizen, VINO is so anxious L" get bac
10 his desk and write editorial art
Giles with Brother Abbott.
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An esteemed correspondent, who!
7etter appears in another column,
# Very much interested IN the tarl
question He has read what We ht
10 say on this subject recently in dea
ing with Congressman Mckinlay's fl
predictions Of the growth Of the pr
.eetionist aoctrine.irl the southap
shsnks thai cur statement Of the ca
scnlses like trumpet blast from y