The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-31
LOST LEGION IS MOVING ON.
GOOD.BY To PORTSMOUTH
--WHERE NEXT TO MEET:

GOOD.BI To PORTSMOUTH
-WHERE NEXT TO MEET'
At the Ccnter Of World Interest. whether
That May 10 With tho Troops Or With
the Peacemakers Correspondents
Hold Their Farewell eoNiai Session.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.. Aug. So.-It Is all
over but signing tho treaty, and the lost
legion V packing to leave. Weird. foreign
looking baggage, spotted with labels OF
hotels from Cape Town to Skagway. Is
going away by truokloads. There's q
babel OF fasswells Ia the lobblss-R Russian,
French. English and Japanese running in
streams. The palm garden Is nearly de-
serted. The show u over. This was the
greatest convention OF tho International
correspondence ever held In this country
ever held In any country under ono roof
for at tho Drsyfus trial and the like they
were scattered through many hotels.
Thsre was kind Of farewell meeting In
the palm garden last night. The regular
guests had gone to bed. Except for the
correspondents, only Gov. McLane, Score
tary Pelroe and few dignitaries were
about. Fifty men eat about In circle
making tho night cheerful.
Tho chairman by universal acclaim was
an American OF the Gridiron Club. He
was hanked BY a Russian whose business
card states that he u . gentleman Of the
Empcror's bedohamber and by Frsnchman
with the little rcd ribbon Of tho Legion In
his buttonhole. A the chairman passod
tho word down the line that every gentle
man must tell story, sing song or con-
tibute 80 cents to the pot, he had response
from ten nations, II you count Ireland az
nation. Ireland got full recognition In
this ssssmblage. At the foot Of the table
sat one small Jap who had recovered
from his depression enough to join the COM
pany. He slipped In with smile which was
an apology for his existence and Expressed
the hope when his turn came to. speak,
that America and Japan would meet again
with frequency"
A big EnglishmAn, . sailor OF many soss
and rider Of many steeds. sat at the loft OF
tho Jap. All Of . sudden be smote his
hand on the table and Dried: BY Jove.
that's rippin'.'
what's ripph'9' said the chairman.
win the human moving van kindly sluoi-
date2'
when are We going to meet againr
said the Englishman. think Of what will
be happening when We meet again
It set them thinking. when shall We
msst again. that's q commonplace OF
parting. But this II different far different.
Wherever these mon come together again
tho guns will be drumming In wars yet
unheard Of, kings will be dying. nations
torn asunder, some Dreyfus case whose
lnr
have broken the earth.
II set the ina gination buzzing. Some
anxious morning, when glory Is twenty
miles before and the wire 100 miles behind.
you viii b riding through the dust A
snsesing pack train will come out OF the
cloud, and behind II man in khaki and a
cap, with the field glasses, badge Of his
trade handing under his arm. He'll dis
mount a. you pass, throw back his cap and
show TACO that looks familiar somehow.
rsvives . faint and pleasant memory.
hello, Jones,' hen say. don't you
remember ms1 We were at Portsmouth
IN 1885,
why, Smith-do you remember Rosen
IN the palm gsrdeni'
And Sato's statements-'
'And tho Hollyhock girl2'
Perhaps It will be the Balkans. To most
Of them that seems the most likely choice
for tho next meeting place. But wberever
II Is things will b moving in the world
whom the lost legion meets again.
MSiE. RoJEsTvENsKT's DOG.
In appears that the peace announcement
OF yesterday was broken by one gonfalon
of war, wild war. Nina. Rojestvensky
was sitting on tho piazza, orocheting and
holding in her lap her duffy chow dog
That pup has been compared by the hu
lists Of the convention to . great many
things, including an earmuff. He Is an
amiable little dog. 1t Is believed that he
wags his tall whom . friend approaches.
At least, there Il . kind Of ripple along the
hair above the spot whore the tail must BE-.
| In the excitement Ct :he nor.en. Nine,
Rojestvensky forgot her dog for the first
time. she dropped him and rushed for
ward to confirm The news. Along the
piazza strolled Di, mother of tho Went
worth's family Of Boston terrier pups
Tho peaos convention ha' been signed
for Di. Her tooth just now b against
every dog who doesn't belong to her family
She found the chow dog sitting In an
armchair trying to find sounds to express
| ~ oOA8 oOcoiVON ~ AAAc AAAS0-
tress. Di swung into action. She got
only a bite Of brown hair. Surveying
tho situation critically, abe changed her
plan. She picked the chow up by the
brown scruh Of his woolly neck and started
to remove him to . place where she could
operate at her Ieisure.
Tho sound Of war brought Nine. 70 Jest.
vensky shriekins to the piazza. Two
chauiYeurs and coachmAn, the only people
who had not deserted the piaasa to acclaim
psace, PRED Die teeth apart with the butt
Of q buggy whip and rescued the chow
Only his sensibilities were hurt. Di hsdn',
found any solid place to bite.
One of the rapid hre humorists WA
waiting In the lobby Of the Russian gu arter
to-day when the chow dog happened along
and expressed himself in sound between
q Oh and yelr
@What gentleman Of the Russian suits
did you mention, sir, asked the humorist.
CAPT. HANK.
There being nothing more important thar
entertaining on hand. sato and Tskeshita
went fishing. Capt. Hank, who runs TIKI
! ko.k. Sc- <ha h,tA1 took thavo o,,k L., hi