El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-02
WASHINGTON

The Shriners Rival the Rainbow In
Display OF Colors-Boer Dele
oates Show Their Sore Toe And
Limp Along While Mr.. Hoar
Roars a Bit-TiIlman, pettigreW
And Allen Retire Before the
Guns OF Spooner-Mr. Hale Also
Does Some Retirin0-Morgan
Answers Spooner.-Then Comes
aCalm.
special Correspondence OF the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, May 26.-Washing.
ton has been a sea of seething, SHIN
mering color this week. And all be-
cause OF the Mystic Shrine which
caravaned to this oasis with a horde OF
gorgeous Sir Mobiles. They cay there
were only q few thousand Shriners
here, but the man who took the census
was color blind. He's wrong anyhow
there were millions of them-I saw
them. Pennsylvania avenue ia long
avenue and q broad avenue and big
avenue, but when the shrine parade
struck 1t there wasn't a sober hued
spot, not a feck of sombreness on It
from one end to the other. And to say
. few thousand men could produce
that effect! Go to! there were bill
lions.
tive Is not modest and retiring about
It. Severe effects in black and white
or aesthetic "cobwebby gray velvet
with tender bloom like cold gravy"
are not for him. Not any. he leans
to silks and sstins and Turkish rugs
and fabrics that women haunt dry
goods stores to find ard yearn to see on
the bargain counter-but never do.
And he wants q color that 10 q color,
som ething that comes up and hits you
in the eye and compels your immedi-
ate attention. And visiting Arabs
found it-every man of them found it
before he would consent to come a-pil-
Rriming. Our local mobiles were
beautifully arrayed in crimson bodices
an d blue legs with red Turkish slip
pers, but they were almost eclipsed by
some of the chromatio, sointillant, pris-
matte visitors. And as for the whole
aggregation In the grand parade, 1
can't think of q comp arison that fife,
except maybe that of q flock of birds
of-psrsdise dining off a salad Of sunsets
sprinkled with minced rsinbows. Even
that sounds pallid and anaemic along
side the Shriners.
They were good crowd and they
had good time. They climbed the
monument and hefsed the million dol
lar package at the treasury and Oh-ed
at the library, as is proper for visitors
to Washington. That is they did when
the programme left them time. The
man who mapped hat out was a
breathless Chicagoan and he arranged
events with shaved schedule. I,tried
to follow it out little bit but I'm
not indefatigable and gave it up. Be-
sides 1 was afraid the speeches
wouldn't do me much good as I'm bit
rusty On my Arabic.
The Boer ENJOYS have been In town
too. But they were tame and hum
drum compared with the Shriners and
nobody bothered much with them ex-
cept the "holier-than-thou'' crowd
" hich has q natural tendency towards
buying gold bricks. The Trsnsvaalers
have 8 sore toe which they think
should command the pity and sym
pathy of all mankind. Maybe it
sho uld and maybe IL shouldn't-there |
Is room for q difference of opinion, 1
suppose. Anyhow they went In to see |
Secretary Hay and solemnly undid the |
wrappings and showed it to him. hay
ayr eed with them-he 10 very polite
man Ia Mr.. Hsy-that considered az q
sore toe it YVES a very fine sore toe.
But he didn't see his way clear to do
ing anything for 1t except to recon.
mend purity of life hereafter. This
rather took the Beers back. They
have read up on the Cuban war and
also the history of MIR. Tom Sawyer
aud somehow arrived at the conclusion
shat as nation we followed the ex-
am pie of the other boys who used to
do Toms chores for the privilege of
looking at his sore places. However,
b efore giving the matter up as bad
JOB they went around to the white
house. Singularly enough the opin-
ions of Mr.. Mckinley seemed to coin-
eide with those OF Mr.. Hay, although |
he was even potter. But there are |
simes when Mckinley can cay no and
this was one Of them. So the ENJOYS |
retired In good order. Now they pro.
pose to inject themselves into our |