El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-27

III. S's''-The Volunteer Boys no,
Too Young For War-Incidents of
Leave Taking-S'ns of Famous
Men-Richard Har ing Davis
What the War Means to s hOOl
Childreu-The Aiger Wedding
The WOmen's Boycott of French
Goods.
WASHINGTON, May 22.-WashinR-
ton is Q delight In May, for it is more
like a great p'"asure garden than like
q city. The streets and parks are al
green, roses nod fragrance and color
from every doorysrd and over garden
walls, and blue sky, sunshine, and
green grass are everywhere. AS one
looks over the city from the west
front of the Capitol the prospect is one
of great beauty. All south of the
Avenue from the Capitol to the
Monument-a distance of some eight
cen blocks-stretches q great park,
well-~ooded and green now with all
she shades from the shadowy darkness
of the pines and hemlocks to the vivid
tints in the new oak leaves. Rising
from among the trees are the quaint
to wers of the Smithsonian building, re-
miuding one of glimpses of English
csthedrsls, and beyond, in a grassy
stretch, is the great shaft of the Monu-
ment, dazzling white where the light
strikes and full of color and shadows on
the side away from the light. Away,
aud away of, beyond the city, against
the distant hill sides one sees TT e
white domes and walls of the national
observatory, whose round lines
remind one of Oriental architecture.
To the south of the city is the Poto-
mac, sometimes misty, sometimes
shining, and with bright grass and
sedges growing along the banks of it's
little bays and branches on this side.
Across are the green hills of Virgiois
softened by blue shadows that veil the
distance everywhere in these spring
days. Looking straight down Penn
sylvsnia avenue from the Capitol one
sees the beautiful pillars aud roof
of the Treasury; beyond In q thick
grove of trees is the White House and
beyond that one can seen the frowning
roof of the War, State, aud Navy de-
pArtment.
The War, State, and Navy depart
ment 10 one of the busiest parts of town
just now, but in these days when it
keeps all of its news to itself, aud
neither the messenger boys who swarm
about its steps, nor the men who wear
shoulder straps and continually 60 in
and out, will tell what they know, one
Is obliged to content himself with
other news while waiting for the an
nouncements of more and greater VIC
tories than ever.
The War, State, and Navy department
is an immense pile of grsni'e with q
6ne sky line and q bewildering array
Of windows, but it is of the gardener
in charge of the parking about it, of
whom would speak, for he has a par
ticulsr devotion to tea roses and he'll
iotropes. Every year these dainty and
sentimental flowers blossom all about
the great building, and below the ST. ne
illustrates are wide beds of them, and
the streets around the building are
sweet with their scent One is re-
N nded of old-fashioned gardens and
oossgsys, for these little roses are so
differe 1t from their fashionable strong
stemmed, heavy-headed sisters of the
one looks across the flower beds and
grass to the road; beyond that is
deld, and in the midst of it, hiding the
low brick buildings where the White
House horses are kept, is q great
clump of Willows, now in bright green
frinRes. The sight is a pretty one.
Washington is having 1.-THE blues"
for today the District boys have gone
70 Chickamauga. For q week they
have had jolly time at Camp Aleer
across the river only eight or ten
miles away. They have collected
mascot pigs and dogs, have elept in
'ragant pine boughs, have had the
gi-ls over every day or so to admire
them at dress parade, and everything
has been very happy and brave. To-
lay they passed in review before the
president and then marched away to
The trains. AS the lines came into
Town the boys looked young, brown,
Justly, and brave; and as line after line
If brown-hatted boys passed by with
hat mOnotonous waving motion that
nen marching have. the little black
u. s. %" on the canvas bags at their
ides seemed to dance .in the sunshine
ike queer black flies. There seemed
% be millions of them and one won
Tered il the Spaniards will not grow
weary and sick of those let
ers and wish them out of the alpha
BET.
There were many who complained