El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-04

thes house can average up WIN "utuol
advantage. Being a great
seaman of the ultra modern type, the
admirals fret act before raising his
f1ag;was coaling his new abode.
Admiral Schley divided the honors
of the Dewey parade with his superior
officer. Being local man or nearly
so, he is great favorite with all that
part of Washington lying outside the
navys department building. He has
been made master mason, taking the
first three degrees of masonry at once
by special dispensation. 1t is said that
the department squabble of Sampson
". Schley will break out before con-
gress again this winter and in an
aggravated form. The Sampson
clique is provided with a lot Of new
ammunition. mostly mud. Whatever
the merits of the controversy may
is not Dewey, Nelson and st. Cecilia
rolled into one, Sampson could probab-
ly learn something from the old sea
story of the parrot that talked too
much on occasion. The army people
are not pleased with the new Shafter-
Chadwick embroglio he is diligently
fostering. This is not altogether be-
cause of affection for Shafter. but
more on account of general esprit-de-
corps. Asa colonel recently pointed
out, it is only fair to assume that the
infantry and artillery under Shsfter
at least cooperated with Chadwick in
compelling Torsl's surrender.
The delegates from the Intern ational
Commercial congress, now in session
in philadelphia, have been in town.
The congress represents 40 to so ma
lions, real and alleged, and the dele
nan is fiocking by himself mostly with
occasional assistance from the Ger
man aud French delegates. The scenic
member Is Muzafr-ed-dia from British
Beloochistan. Arrayed in q pink tur-
ban and kaleidoscope raiment,
he adds touch of gorgeous color to
an otherwise bald and unattractive de-
legation. He is so or Whereabouts,
copper colored and an Oxford man
with views of his own. One of these
is a deep.seated belief and pride in the
"Anelo-Saxon" and his des-
tiny. Being Eoglish speaking ard
a British subject, Muzafr-ed-din (spell-
ing not guaranteed) classes him
self as an "Iudian Anglo-Saxon" in
ontradistinction to the Irish and
Scotch Anglo Saxons. 1 have always
been a professional Anglo-Saxon my
self, but Muzafr-ed-din can give me
cards and spades and the rest of the
deck and bluff me out on bob-tail
flush. He has a curious taste in
"Americanisms' and regrets the cor
ruption of the language in the United
States. He believes the conflict with
Russia is to come soon over the push
ing of a branch railroad down through
Persia or Beloochistan to give Siberia
a deep water outlet on the Arabian sea |
or Persian Gulf, but expects India and
"brave little Beloochistan" to make +
mince meat of the Cossacks.
congressman are beginning to come |
TO town. All without exception are
on Philippine measures.
From present outlooks, the crop of
bills in that line, both OF the kind Sc
,reted by the repr esentatives and sem
ssors themselves and the introduced
BY request" variety, will be enormous
md record smashing. Years ago, out
n Ohio, we tried to amend the state
Everybody was agreed
hat changes should be made and there
vas unsnimity after q fashion as to the
changes. But every politician in Ohio
vas resolved to 60 down into history as
he author of some important section
# the state constitution, SO that future
might point with pride