The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-22
ATTACHES PLAN DEPARTURE.
SIGNS THAT THEY EXPECT SHORT
STAY AT PEACE CONFERENCE.
Paying Social Obligations and Taking
Souvenir Pictures-witte Pays IN Yin.
expected Visit to tho Palm Garden -
Charm OF the New Hampshire woods

Charm OF the New Hampshire woods
PORTSMOUTH. N. Fl. Aug. 2i.-This has
been very much Of an of day. There was
no conference. Whatever work there Is
to do about the protocol was finished.
The summer people Of the hotel were mainly
on the golf links. Watching the first rounds
OF tournament with Rye Beach.
It was Just little cool out Of tho sun.
but there was Q pleasant football tang In
the air. It invited out Of doors, to country
rambles. Most OF tho Russian attaches
were of early In tho morning swinging
through the New Hampshire lanes. Tho
Japanese and the baokst airs attaches
followed.
Tho favorite walk u to the town Of New
castle, hamlet about mile away. The
Wentworth, by the way, Is not In Ports
mouth at all. A stone pillar about quarter
Of mile doyn the road shows whore Ports
mouth ends and Newcastle begins. II
there Is to Be q peace here. In spite Of tho
general opinion Of the backstairs con-
ference, It should b known by right as
the peace OF Newcastle or the peace Of
not In the game at all. ...,. -
Newcastle Is hamlet. and It nestles as
hamlets always nestle. The town consists
Of about fifty houses, a general store or
two and Fort Constitution. The fort con-
sists Of a revolutionary relic. modern
equipment OF artillery and the thirstiest
garrison in the United States.
This leads to the consideration Of the
liquor laws In this district. It Ia ram
bling country all mixed up with State lines.
You never know when you're in Maine
and when you're In New Hampshire, when
you're on local option or country hotel
SOIL New Castle Ii local option and dry.
The gisfisoii -lh-Foft' CONSTITUTION han nut
even a canteen. The Wentworth has a
country hotel license. In q New Harnp-
shire country hotel you can't take drink
without imperiling the license.
In Portsmouth they have city hotel IL
censes. There you mustn't take drink
up. In the best dispensaries OF
mixed ale they dare not have even chair
for fear that some customer will be seen
sitting down to his -pizen.' There are
other rules even more complicated. but
these will do for a starter.
New England is at its prettiest in August
and that walk to New Castle through the
woods is a continual JOY. The sweet hos
pitable forests OF New Hampshire run
over the hills to either hand. They are
pine woods mainly, with here and there
birch just sloughing of It's white bark
1t is a woods OF distant shadows, OF in
finitely varied underbrush, Of cool inviting
shades. Green meadows break 1t here
and there. and they are dotted all day
with sleek Jersies. A stone fence Of vener-
able age runs the whole distance. Sumac.
golden rod and pine have overgrown 1t
these fifty years until 1t is more a hedge
than a wall.
A little distance from the hotel an apple
tree has grown in the cleft Of big rock
which breaks through q meadow. It is a
wild tree. unpruned and intended, left to
take its own shape as 1t willed. It has
grown, therefore, into . gnarled shape.
which Is all CURVES Of beauty. just now
its little, red fruit is npening. It Is a pio-
ture all by itself, that tree. Takahira on
his morning walks always stops and re-
CARDS It with Japanese eye TO the pic
turesque effect in nature. :.
Half way to Newcastle there Is q little
store which sells candy, ice cream and soda,
and has a laundry agency. 1t Is we'll
scrubbed little store, kept by lame veteran
Of the civil war. Its only decoration Is q
stuffed seal, which the proprietor tells you
he Knocked over IN the saug,s River A.
teen years ago. He had It stuffed because
he thought it would be kind Of nice to keep
around the place He keeps open three
months OF the year when there are sum-
mer people around
Quite lot Of Japs and furriners here
he adds. They nearly always ask for
rum. but they take good soda, which Is
better for them In this weather Been
great thing for business. Sales are most
81 a day better than last month ..
He then proceeds to mix a raspberry
phosphate on a system Of his own, which
he says Is the only scientific way to mix
phosphate He dashes In the phosphate.
squirts in the soda and pours the strip
on top. With every purchase he
adds cheerful bits Of gossip and bouquet Of
sweet peas. picked from a garden "a prim
and proper a. the shop. Nearly all Of the
foreigners are wearing his sweet peas to-
day.
SIGNS OF EARLY DEPARTURE. '-
About the hotel there we're many little
6lRnb WiliCu SuO" Sikut VIC NioNOib hIC
for an early departure. The
Japanese have sent back the safe which
they rented in Portsmouth. Col. Roepo-
koiI. Col. Yermaloff and several others
among the Russian attaches gave q dinner
In the main dining room tonight to the
junior officers Of the Mayfower. This
was taken az sign that the Russians were
their social obligations before
leaving
All day farewell photographs have been
a-taking. The japanese plenipotentiaries
were photographed to-day In a group
With the wearers Of the white and yellow
ribbons Of that mysterious order which Mr..
Witte calls the "Order Of the Republic.
Tomorrow the Russian ENJOYS will favor.
Lin, Pokotilon's indispensable Manohu.
the decorations Of the dinner to
The Mayhower men. All tho afternoon he
gathered immortelles and dahlias in the
gardens of the Wentworth.
These be built up In two big vases In rows
Of alternate color until they looked like
he headdresses Of the Chinese theater.
That Oriental love Of flowers shows
even in the precise businesslike Japanese.
Every day their servants come in with
bundles Of fresh cut flowers and tree
branches. The bureau Of every attache
bears a little vase with fresh flower or