El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08


Fort Davis, up at the mouth Of the
Nome river in Alaska. A tour Of duty
there means four years. isolation from
every body and everything and 10 equi-
vslent tossing Sing without the chance
of society the latter offers. There
will be eight months of night and four
months of unsettled weather, nominal.
ly day time. Guard duty a. temper
asures of minus anything you please
will be a feature. Communication
with Nome city will not be possible for
the bulk of the time, and altogether
most OF the militant gentlemen would
prefer an assignment to Paris
ONE CRITIC OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
Ex-senator Henderson, formerly OF
Missouri, Is much exercised on
"whither are We drifting" lines and lie
voicing his forebodings In the Wash
iugson papers. To his mind Conger
and the rect owe their peril in Pekin
to the insolent conduct of the Ameri-
can marines who were sent there at
the first whisper OF trouble and roam
ed over the city with the insolence and
arrogance of superior beings" IL
wonder II they really did?) Further,
he thinks that "Conger and
his family would have been
better protected outside the
British legation" and now that they are
rescued, wsnts - know "why does the
army remain there?" Alec he Inquiries
II the president hss the power to wage
war upon . friendly nation either TO
protect or svenge she representatives
Of other powers?" Henderson did
world of good service 20 and 40 years
ago-but that was 20 TO 40 years ago.
OF late years he has been trying to
grandma Their the universe. like others
In the "snti-imperialist" crowd.
A RECORD AND SEED TIME.
He was one of the stiff necked, obsti-
nate knot of abolitionists who saved
Missouri to the union before aud dur
ing the war. Afterwards for many
years be was q prominent repu blican
politician. When the whiskey scan
dals were being cleaned up In the
seventies, he played . leading part, as
sissing the government in the prosecu-
ton. That was the time when Dol.
Joyce-who wrote Beautiful Snow"
or Sheridan Shall not Ride Tonight"
or something of that sort and then
rowed with Ellis Wheeler Wilcox
about twas jailed along with . lot
OF other major and minor defendants,
and It was to Heuderson's eff
forts that conviction WAS due.
For a mum Der OF ears the ex-senator
has been living In Washington in q
big browpstone house of the feudsl
style, on the heights at the head OF 10Th
street. overlooking the city, which
Is uni vers ally known rs the 'Hepder-
son castle" Like Hoar and John
8 herman and many another, his day
has passed, and he Is chuck full OF .
conviction that the rising generation |
Is SO per cent iniquity and the rest
weakness.
A FAMILIAR WASHINGTON CHARACTER |
John A Joyce is familiar figure on |
the street. here also. Be is short 1
chunky venerable looking man, with
10 wing white hair, a black SLOUGH hat,
, sensitive poetical button which
at the slightest pressure,
aud = general tendency TO monoloRue
with "G!lhooley,' the same being tn
name to which the audience 10 always
supposed to respond, without regard
70 age, sex or color. AS the colon'
explains, it saves mental wear ART
ear TO call the man sitting oppositr
~ uniform title. Men may COM
Ind men may 60, but there is alwsN o
|oyoe sitting on one side OF the table
md "Mr. Gilhooley" on the other.
vas Gilhooley myself, once a
While back, ard thers was q
Iilhooley mum Der two. with us-a Dane
lie was, L think-wbo ventured on q
pet theory o! his that Lopgfel'ow was
! Scandinavian poet: owed his inspira-l
ion. to Morse models. That opened
10 the colonel's great deeps and for
Iorry minutes It rsined quotations. from
Lnngfellow and Joyce, submerging the
harmless man from the Lorth under
sea of poetry. He looked distinctly
irsggled afterwards.
MARRIAGE FOR CONVENIENCE
There Is q young lady here who
wants q divorce She Is Ruileless bLt
being In Office decided
hat sne waoJed 10 be sent TO Pari.
She went around to see the United
States commissioner to abe exposition
about 1t I'D he n 4turslly pulled the frs
D oiection that came handy; told her