Evening star., 1905-08-25
PIE At PORTSMOUTH
Blueberry Article staff Of Life
for Young and Old.
ISLE OF SHOALS MARE
THE JAPANESE SMILE THAT
WON'T COME OFF.
Kittery Citizens Aghast Over Drinking
and Dancing-Police Reserves Home
sick-Thrilling News.
ISLE OF SHOALS MARE



Special Dispatch to The Star.
PORTSMOUTH. N. H., August 25.-In
these parts the blueberry pie is the staff
of life, prop of old age and strengthener
of the youthful. Go into Portsmouth's s
leading cafe and ask for pie. You get
wedge of blueberry pie. If you desire some
other kind of pie mince or custard or
SQUASH, say, you must call for 1t by its
Christian name. Pie without prefix means
b.ueberry pie. The blueberry grows wild
on every New Hampshire hill, being so
called because it is purple before you cook
1t and black afterwards.
favorite combination of the Portsmouth
epicure is cold boiled lobster and hot blue
berry pie 1t is said that after one dimes
on this he goes to sleep and dreams OF see
ing the doctor. One wakes up to find the
dream coming true. Nevertheless, the ma
tives eat cold boiled lobster and hot pie
regularly, and many survive.
There must be something in the climate.
At Hams restaurant, which Portsmouth
people aver is the best in New England out
side of Boston, cold boiled lobster and pie
are nearly always ordered together. The
ruddy claw and the pallid crust mingle on
half the plates.
They tell here of an automobile smashup
on the Newcastle road in which a woman
was pretty badly bruised. One of the men
in the party limped to the nearest house
and asked for whisky.
Did Not Keep Rum, but Had Pie.
we don't keep rum in the house." said
the elderly person who answered his knock,
but IL the lady really needs something l
can give her a piece of pie
Madge, the official mare of the Isle of
Shoals, has just had terrible time. Madge
was taken to the island as a colt. and she
has ripened to mature age there, pulling
the baggage wagon between the boat land
Ing and the hotel 1t is nine miles from
the mainland out there, and she never saw
of her own kind until yesterday. The hotel
people decided that Madge was getting too
far along in years to do al 1.-The work
alone, and they imported a young horse.
Inc youngster arrived yesterday. When
Madge's usually calm eye fell on the new
conner she had convulsion of terror, never
haVlng seen anything Of the sort since
she was old enough to remember she went
INTO MT over the apparition. She almost
kicked the stall down in her efforts to get
away from the young horse, and news came
today that she absolutely refused to 20
within hundred yards of it,
The Smile That sato Taught.
Not even when summer girl breaks the
udlngs to him that he bears family 70.
senoiance to the widow of the late Sitting
Bun does your Japaneses diplomat show
surprise or chagrin. He just keeps on smil-
ing the smile that Sato taught him.
Today a legation secretary was treating
Hilnseil 10 chat with a young woman on
the piazza. The talk Jagged. All of a
sudden an idea took her. .'Oh. Mr. So
and-so Ishi.' she said, do you know yo,,
nave a remarkable likeness to one of onr
North American Indians?"
And the little Japanese who b.s 20,
lures of real beauty considered from ~
oriental standard, and complexion like a
yellow rose leaf, never turned a hair. hut
ne Veereo the subject round to the weather.
The Hutchinson-Everest Wedding.
iooays portsmouth papers will saw that
nuch excitement was had yesterday after
noon Inc lead on with the Hutchinson
Everest wedding took place at the citv
nan. HIS honor. the mayor, officiated.
wearing II the local dailies are to be he
heved the conventional black. The bride
groom, John w. Hutchinson of the Hutch-
lnson @ taml!y. who used to sing patriotic
songs Tor New England in the civil war
gave his residence as Boston, his age as
elgnty-four and his profession as reform
er. His bride, Mrs. Agnes B. Everest. Is
only fifty Is
After the ceremony tae pair rendered a
song composed by NJ Hutchinson ana
dedicated to the peace conference. This
wedding hymn is unique in many respects
IL m makes motto" rhyme with ought to-"
Ihere were other things besides the mar
rage TO quicken the pulses of our people.
Hardy Citizens Aghast.
party from the Wentworth visited a
rum mole. remaining some time and chant
ing rouhoelays against the peace and dig
hily OF The commonwealth of New Hamp-
shlre- dancing was also said to have been
indulged in. Hardy citizens peeped in at
nd tha,
Some strongly counseled removing the wo-
men and children to a place of safety. but
calmer advice prevailed. the people mainly
contenting themselves with staying on the
opposite side of the street and repea ting
the shorter catechism
There was talk of calling out the noIica
reserves until IL was learned that he was
at home sick. Notwithstanding these
things. the Portsmouth papers find time
and space for doings of lesser moment
The Herald today says:
Letter Carrier Foote has been temporar-
lly taken of his city route in order to carry
the voluminous mail Of the Russian en-
voys from the local post office to the Went
worth, Newcastle. This selection was
wise one, for Harry Is one of the most
efficient and courteous Of our carriers"
New Hampshire Newsy Bits.
Todays number of the New Hampshire
Gazette is also full of just such newsy bits
as this. The Gazette has never missed a
weekly issue since 1t first appeared, In 1856
The present subscription is less than 1000,
but 1t covers a considerable territory It
goes regularly to former residents of Ports
mouth living in Europe, South America and
Australia
Persons doubling this may see the cir
culation books at the business Office any
time.
Portsmouth people always tell the stranger
about the Gazette. They point out its pub
lication place along with the house where
Ben Franklin put up his lightning rod.
They feel that the Gazette is here to stay.
Walk Tptoe Through Kittery.
Faint rumors of the carvings on In the
Rum Hole yesterday afternoon reached
kittery, across the river. but they failed
to agitate that village. If such was the
object. Even the sailors and soldiers and
marines walk tiptoe through kit,ery going
to and from Portsmouth. If one of them
brings into Maine a New Hampshire bun
he gets fined $3.50 for the first offense
The constable will snatch him up in a
minute.
The sage OF Kittery. Uncle Hiram Patch
came over TO Portsmouth today to inyesti-