The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-11


bipartisan met in the war" Charles
4 Russell Lowell, whose regiment was
4 In daily conflict with Mosby's men fol
more than a year, wrote to his Wife
4 s"Mosby Is an honorable foe ana snoult
be treated as SUCH FInc praise that
too, which General Lee accorded t.
Mosby, for General j. u. b. stuart
wrote to Mosby that when the lntter's
announcement OF his victory at Chan.
lilly was received, General Lee ex.
claimed: "Hurrah for N1osby! ! wisl
L had hundred like him.
Mosby8 deserves we'll at the hands Of
the Government to which he has givet
faithful service. North, South, East
and West, his dismissal has been de.
plored. and we feel sure that his re-
linstaten1ent in the Federal service
would meet with national approval.
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THINGS THE COLONEL. CAN'T DO.
When he was down in the coal
mines last week, the ColoneI confessed
that he could not play a plano. and
the Christian Herald, which belongs
to Mr.. Taft's church. now digs UP the
old story about still another deficiency
of the Colonel, who.-is reported to
years ago out in North Dakota he got
tired Of the milk he was taking from
q herd OF Jersey tin cans and deter
mined to get the real thing from
one of his own cows. After chasing
her for two miles and roplng her. the
Colonel, as the story goes In Mr.. Tafts
Church paper, turned 1t upside down,
and tried to milk IT. but. says he,
sadly, I got precious little milk
| In justice to the Colonel, however,
| industriously milking the great Amer
lean COW and with great success for
the last twelve years, and that she has
given down Drodigious quantity OF
milk for him. 1t is almost time for
her to 'go dry" surely, she has not
been sparng in her contributions so
his comfort and enrichment.
There are two things that the Coll
onel has confessed that he cannot do
play a piano and milk a real COW.
There are some other things, IL wilt
be found, also, that he cannot do. He
may not realize 1t, and there will he
hundreds of thousands to swear that
1t is not so, but he is growingj the
least bit stale. The country has be-
gun new era of construction; his
genius is the genius of destruction.
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MRS. LONGWOETH AND THE CIGAR
CITE.
There has been nothing more OUT
rageous than the publicity given to the
personal habits of Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth. She is said to smoke cigarettes
and lot of old women belonging to
the National Anti-Cisarette League
and to other organizations OF the same
sort. we believe. have advertised their
own virtue. as they think, at her ex-
pense. 1t is said that committee
from the League Will call on her to
urge that she deny that she smokes
cigarettes, or, II she have contracted
the habit that she will promise to quiz
1t is hoped that she will sick the
dog on them Not only should she ae-
cline to recaive them. but If Nick Is
about the house she should
request him to express in the mos,
unparliamentary language he can
command the family opinion of the
busy bodies who are behind this move
lment" He might tell them. for exam
pie, that IL they would stay ut home
and take care OF their husbands anu
or sweethearts, look after the
secret faults in their own hearts, stop
thinking that they are the anointed
of the Lord. quit talking about their
they would come nearer
doing the right thing by themselves
and their own households. We do NOT
know whether Mrs. Long worth smokes
or not, ana we do not care.
We would suggest, However. II she be
given to this haoit, that she give 1T
up and take to the old briar-wood
pipe or even to cigars; but that is her
affair and she can do as she please.
aIHc Ease Oh MISS lin 70 thtAotAASiE
matter in which the newspapers and
gossips Of the country are doing a
gentlewoman a great wrong by the
publicity they nave given her and her
relation to the Duke de Abruzzi. This
sort of thing is little short Of infa-5
nous; but 1t comes from the habit into
which the American people have fallen
OF poking their noses into other peo e-5
pies business. We wish there was
some way to stop t short OF personal nj
violence. The press frequently con-
verts its liberty into license.
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Conference at tho University OF Viz:
ginia Summer School was by MIS-
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rian of the Virginia State II brary. "
was on the Relation Of the library
to the School" Itadealt with the rrtos II
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