Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-18

surf7riding IN canoes, bathing, etc The
Kaai Glee; Club 8in beBin attendance
l,Wsdne saay March III vi
~ The STEAMER WilhsImiariia will sail for
San Francisco at 10 o'clock a. M, when
all mobiles of Aloha Temple, with their
ladies, Will be expected to be on the
wharf to give the visitors fitting
| arewell-ALOHA NUI OE
JAMES S. McCANDLESS,
Illustrious Potentate;
CHAs. F. MURRAY,
+ $t Recorder.
! Story OF the Shrine.
| 1t has repeatedly been brought to
the attention of Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine that there is a popular i'm
preston quite prevalent among out
slders that Is to say, the profane,
as to our work. This impression is
! that we are a sort of rough house
in dress suits and silken robes and
jewels and that our only object in
life is to swat the life out of can
didate after taking his money; that
we roast him and toast him and abuse
him generally, and that this is all there
is to 1t. Some eligibles have put off
the day of joining our Order just on
this account, and while we have in
previous issues of notices of Ceremo-
NAL Sessions, tried our best to show
that this impression is salls wrong,
there can be no doubt that it still ex-
lists, rank injustice to our Noble
Order. ,@y 81 s& Il ~ Z,
I Now, we ATE going to, the limit; we
are going to expose the whole ritual
and after careful persual it cannot
be possible that anyone. can longer
hold the opinion that we, are not what
| we are, and that it Is one of the
Grandest, Noblest, Beautifulest socie-
ties of Kind Hearted Gentlemen ever
banded together for the enfranchise-
ment of humanity and the general
good of mankind.
Prologue.
The Ancient Arabic Order Mobiles
OF the Mystic Shrine to give its full
name gives its work in three sec
tons according to a ritual prepared
solely with an eye single to the good,
the true and the beautiful We will
give in these pages what has been
said by some of the greatest poets
who have ever lived, men who have
been through it and have lived and
loved to write of it in passionate,
soulful strains. You cannot help be-
. lleve them even If you wouldn't trust
the Shriner who lives in the next
: block to you, ar works in the same
office, when he tells you that he will
not do. a thing to you.
First Section.
Let us take the following beautiful
/ description OF the first section, writ
ten by Richard Henry Stoddard:
"A pillard avenue of stately palms,
SLEPT in the sun; fountain rose and
fell,
ffBreaking, the silver, surface ut its
base;
| Goldfish like sunken ingots lay in
heaps
Beneath the fountains rain besides
its rim
Dipping his long bill in a lotus cup,
black crane stopped beneath the
silent palms
A length of silken carpet was un-
rolled;
A white gazelle dangled a silver
chain,
Picking its way through tufts of
ST brpidered flowers. r s.45,
Flowers of all hues and odors strew-
ed the ground;
Roses. tire-red; large tulips, cups IF
flame;;
Banks of snow-lillies, turning dew to
pearls,
And rolling rivers of anemones,
Broad meadows STITCHED afar, where
=. " in, dim seen
Through winking haze
and so on Say there Is some STYLE
to Richard Henry, is there not? And
he must have been profoundly i'm
pressed with the first section to exude
poetry from his system as classy as
that. And he tells you right out that
there is no rough house about it: lust
goldfish and flowers and silken car
pets and things like that found only
In the most ladylike limitations. It
is well worth all the money Just to
see the swell furnishings Richard tells
about. You do not see cups of flame
and black cranes and things like that
ever day in Arizona.
Second Section.
Thls section is not so famous In
song and story as the others perhaps
because 1t Is not so striking, and the
impression on the novice is not SO
lasting. This section is in charge of
Frank Thomas, and this is assnlL
ance that nothing is done, in 1t to
injure the feelings of the most SEN
sitiyei and delicate. Frank is so ten.
der hearted that when he runs over
a chicken or duck with his automo-
blle he always takes the fowl home
to he dressed. He pilots the novice
around in the gentlest manner and
always provides them with good
strong piece of MANILA, so that they