El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-06
WASHINGTON
The Chinese situation Clearing up.
The Foolish Talk About Hay
and Adee.-Jokes In High Life
thirty Years OF Work Com
p;eteo, In Measuring the Earth


WASHINGTON. Sept. %. 19OO-Th'
Chinese situation is clearing up uh
der the heavy masculine hand OF MT
I,av Germany having receded from
her uutenabIe position of demanding
nunishment of about everybody In MIS-
Tsi-an's court in advance OF lnVesti
cation With a characteristic deslr'
To save her face" (that is about tine
hest phrase that's come out OF Chihs
in ali her history Berlin now pro
claims that all the friction arose from
stupid misunderstanding of her note
i'm Washington. Tonight's dispatches
announce the degradation OF Prince
'Tuan- which indicates that China
means to meet MS half way or more
and. all in all, apparently we VIII
again resume the leading position IN
negotiations which was ours from the
first until lately. All the powers. ex-
cept Austria and Italy. who don't count
much one way or another. have lined
M behind us in opposition 10 Ter
many's propositions
Hay and Adee.
The stories that have been going
the rounds about the matters having
been taken out of Hays hands on ac-
count of his alleged pro-Briticism and
put in the hands of assistant secretary
Adee-accuSed of pro-Russian ten
the men. Hay is not young and the
worry through July and August about
used him up. Wilhelm connection
with a minor surgical operation-led
10 his retirement to cooler place
than Washington but he has been in
constant touch with the department
over the telephone. Adee is an excess
sively modest. excessively deaf little
man. very able in his way. but not at
all inclined to obtrude his views in OPP
position to his chief. Our policy has
been consistent from the first We
want to save China as much as posi-
BILE out of the wreck in the interests OF
orr own trade. which is better on
with China in Chinese hands, and we
are not at all inclined to lend hand
to the territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
Germany or any other power We
ahev commercial interests OF our own
Waldersee in China.
General Waldersee is finding himself
lonesome in China already. We have
officially ordered the withdrawal of all
our troops. except a legation guard
which as such will not be under his
orders 1t is good sized guard
regiment of infantry. some
troops of cavalry and a battery OF ar
tiIIery. Advices received at the state
indicate that the Chinese
are quite tired of fighting. All the
heat and burden of operations fall
upon the merchants and laborers OF
course and they are not inclined to
assist the anti-foreign mandarins-
Senator Wellington's Change OF Ma
tionality.
The democratic committee has, wise
" enough. decided to withdraw Sena-
tor Wellington as a speaker around
Washington where he is we'll known.
and use HIM out west where ne is not,
as a prominent sample of the pro-Bry-
an fioppers Like Pettigrew OF Dako-
Ia he is always aggrieved about some
thing. but he differs in that he has
paramount grievance. Pettigrew is
soured about the whole solar system
and anyone of his buttons is as likely
TO uncork the Walls of wrath on pres
sure as is any other. But Wellington
connects everything he doesn't like
in some obscure way with the Balti-
more postoffice. since which he has
been a dismal misanthrope.
There is some mystery about Well
ingtop's antecedentS. In the biography
he furnished your esteemed contempor-
airy the Congressional Directory. he
himself as being born in
Maryland, of German
but Germans here say that
he was born in the fatherland and that
his name was originally Schwartz
kopf." Which. if true does better cred
il to his ear in changing names. than
to his sense of the fitness OF things
He has one of Wellington'S character
istics in the prominent nose. but no
more His face Is a weak one other
wise. there being an almost total lack
Of chin. Also he differs from his name
sake. the saturnine duke. in having the
gift of the CAB wonderful galloping"
as Sam Weller said.
By the way the Iron Duke also
changed his name. 1t was originally
Wesley like that OF the preacher.
but this was not aristocratic sounding
and he made is Wellesley"
The Letters and Washington.
Mrs. Letter and Miss Letter have
come home from their stay in India
with the American Queen" Mrs.
Curzon. Viceroy CurZon's wife former
" Miss Letter. and gone to the big
Letter house out on Dupont circle. Mrs.
.eiter is the heroine of more Washing
ION stories. mostly about twisted En-
ylish. than any other woman who ever
lived here. Some of them are classical
ike the one about hearing the hos
Tess at a dinner dismiss the accidental
dropping of a plate of tongue at a din
ner as a mere 'lapsus linguae." and
promptly arranging a similar accident
al her own dinner in order to say the
same thing. Unfortunately IL was
dish of ham and the joke was not so
However IL met with ap-
plause just the same-but for other
reasons. Other gems frequently
quoted are the spinal staircase" with
which her house is fitted. and the
bust of my daughters hand" she once
ordered from local sculptor. Joe
Letter. former wheat plunger in the
Chicago grain market is also here.
He has become the owner of patent
process for converting the soft Goals of
the Mississippi valley into coke suit
able for blast furnaces. a thing here