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regret, the guests arrive, that two men
have thrown her over, and she admits that
she has been obliged hastily to fill their
places by two local guns. She does not fail
to see the look of disappointment on their
faces. She has no illusions. The raison
detre OF the party is gone TO some of the
best people,"
Then there is another and more humble
hostess whose trials lie In a different direc-
ton, but are equally severe. l had for aer
sincere pity, although 1 feel that she
brings her trouble upon herself. / have had
occasion very often to stay In the homes of
those who, not being wealthy, are able per-
haps to keep only one or, possibly, two SER
wants. AS a rule their food is placed on
the table before Them and in homely and
happy fashion they help themselves, but
with the advent of guest they think 1t is
necessary that Mary should wait at ia
BILE" Then the hostess pain amounts al
most to agony Mary has no idea of her
duties. Loud whispers take place between
herself and her mistress. Directions are
given in low hoarse voice on the most
elementary principles OF waiting. 1t is use
less to attempt to talk to the lady of the
house
Her terrified eyes follow the girl round
the table, and her whole thoughts are alb
sorbed in her delinquencies. The husband
has probably not grasped the situation. and
continues to chat affably. and then in
moment or absence OF MIND ne calls TO the
servant to put the dish upon the table. In
vain his wife signals to him to remind him
of his faux pas Mary will help 1t on the
sideboard, my DEAR she says, endeavoring
to appear accustomed to the situation. And
so through the desire to copy the customs
of class who can indulge in any number
of useless servants. the simple, happy meal
which could have been so congenial and so
pleasant is entirely spoilt, and my. pity is
divided between the mistress and the maid.
But this desire to appear what we are
not is confined to no class The woman
who keeps two servants, who Is anxious to
appear as though she had ten. is no more
to be blamed than the man who breeds 500
pheasants and desires his guests to believe
that he has bred 5000 and in order that he
may not be outdone by a neighboring land
owner who has just had big shoot. he viii
at the eleventh hour purchase live birds.
which are sent from a distance in time TO
turn them out in the coverts to make up
the deficiency.
1t is wonderful what an amount of anx-
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party is always severe trial. There Is
the terrible strain as to whether the COOK
will come up to the standard of what is
requisite for such a function. With great
difficulty, after writing innumerable notes,
she has gathered together some twenty
people, more or less harmonious to each
other. and endeavors to throw herself into
the conversation of her neighbor at dinner.
but her mind lis absorbed The sight of the
fish sauce, which is not all that could be
desired, Immediately distracts her thoughts
and when the roast is UNDERGONE she feels
that the Joy of her evening has gone. The
right people do not talk to each other Mr.
So-and-So, who is an undoubted bore, Is
monopoliZing the conversation of the lady
on his left, who was intended to devote
herself entirely to the gentleman on her
left, and she has no power TO prevent it,
In the drawing room, after dinner. her
troubles are not ended. 1t is extremely diff
fcult when the men come upstairs so to
dispense the women that they talk TO the
right people. Men have tiresome knack
OF standing together the hearth rug,
while the women sit in little groups, per-
ciety, but the tormented hostess imagines
that they are all of them consumed with
desire to talk to the man who shows pref
erence for male companions.
The entertainment of guests in country
houses causes even more vanity and vexa-
ton of spirit A shooting party is to be
arranged. The host and hostess begin
Inviting their guests months before the date
on which they are expected. The right
people accept with pleasure and the party
is completed entirely to their satisfaction.
1T could not be better" says the host,
rubbing his hands, and his wife is equally
delighted, knowing that she has secured
really good party. But as the time draws
nearer, letters begin TO arrive. Lady So
and-So has a bad attack of influenza and is
obliged to go south. and they deeply regret
therefore that they must throw over dear
Mrs. So-and-So,
After great deal of difficulty, the empty
PAGES are filled, but another disappoint-
ment occurs of the same sort. and the same
trouble has to be gone through. On the
morning of the arrival of her guests two
kilograms are brought In, one from the
rich young man on whose presence the
mothers had counted as the goal of their
pilgrimage, and the other from one of the
best guns of the party. What could be
more vexatious? In vain she reiterates her
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THE TROUBLES
OF A HOSTESS.
BY LADY HENRY SOMERSET.
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We frequently hear that the art Of enter
tanning is lost, that the gracious hospitality
OF the past is thing that is dead and that
nowadays unless people can afford to give
large dinners and spend immense sums OF
money upon rare wines and delicate viands,
Il is no use endeavOring to secure the So
clety OF their friends. II IS often matter
OF establishment TO me that people should
be willing to und ergo such terrible anxiety
and privation I'm the cause OF society, but
II is still more wonderful 10 know that they
actually have an Idea that their friends
would not care 10 come to their houses I'M
less they are put 20 this financial and social
strain The Miss Berrys. who as late as
the fifties were among the famous host
esses Of London. used to entertain Horace
walpole. Mines and Macaulay TO a cup OF
tea at 10 O'Clock: Lady Holland. whose re-
ceptiOns at Holland House were the pass
port to all cultured society gathered her
friends In that historic house, and their re-
freshment was the delight of one anothers
conversation, everyone in the assembly
knew each other; they were generally in
tsrested in the same subjects and the re-
suit was a delightful interchange of ideas,
and real gayety and mirth. Nowadays how
however. to be Eat home" means something
very different.
I wonder how many people have been
struck by the extraordinary sounds which
proceed from an upper floor. If you stand
for a moment at the bottom of the stair
case, waiting to go into a London drawing
room. The parrot house at the Geological
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the sides OF the stanch ship groaned with
its burden.
Several times It was feared by the Of
ficers and crew that their good craft would
be overturned in the grasp OF the waves
and they would be scattered helpless upon
the raging pillows. To add TO the dangers
of the situation the hold became filled with
water so that the crew, under the doubly
perilous conditions, had to bail It out with
buckets, the pumps not being able TO work
fast enough.
But the vessels sides held firm under the
tremendous strain, and after il had been
driven away out of its course and the Of
ficers and men were almost completely eN-
hausted with their desperate efforts to keep
the ship afioat. the storm gradually abated
and finally died away, permitting the tired
crew TO take a rest and get back TO their
proper course.
Three weeks were consumed by the
schooner on this occasion in making tho
round trip. But the captain, who, by the
way is an ardent Christian Scientist, said
he was willing to take month Tor the
voyage after escaping the storm He
thought for a time that he had sailed his
last voyage between New England and
Washington with an ice cargo.
When asked by The Star man If the sum
mer voyages along the coast were not peril
Gus at times, the captain said: ~.
well, it is usually pleasant; but or
course at times strike rough weather
and sometimes we may think We will never
get back But you know We don't make
the weather and we have to take the rough
with the smooth; all sailors do Yet. IL
don't strike me being perilous any more
than riding in one of those automobiles L
see on shore"
Especial care must be taken by the ships
crew to see that the water, which is caused
by the melting ice, is kept out of the hold.
The pumps are kept at work at regular IN
tervals during each day and night of the
voyage. The shrinkage OF an ice cargo. on
a trip under ordinary conditions, is about
10 per cent, but when the vessel is delayed
by fogs or storms. the loss is even more.
Occasionally these Ice schooners carry
several passengers either on the trip from
Maine to Washington or on the return voy-
age. The novelty of an ocean trip in sail
ing vessel appeals to many persons who
desire to spend their vacation on a trip
on one of these big boats. In the forward
cabin there are several extra sleeping
berths and the trip is declared to be "A de-
lightful one. The passengers usually pay
about 81 day each for their quarters and
meals while on board and a small sum in
addition for passage
The trip is not expensive one. but per-
sons of considerable means frequently get
the captains of the ice schooners to take
them on the sailing voyage, declaring that
they enjoy the freedom Of such a trip much
more than they enjoy a voyage on a
steamer.
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Immense hold the ice Is loaded 1900 tons

immense hold the ice Is loaded. 1900 tons
of It.
Imagine a refrigerator containing more
than a thousand tons of ice, and one can
form an idea as to how chilly 1t would be
to loiter around in this hold on day when
the sun is beating straight down on the
earth and sea, and the thermometer regis
tering 1O5 Fahrenheit.
1t usually takes about three days to un-
load the cargo of a big schooner after it
arrives at one of the large ice houses To-
Gated on the river front here. The cakes of
ice weigh between $50 and 400 pounds each.
The heavy blocks are drawn up from the
hold by means of pulleys operated by en-
gines on shore, the cakes are released into
chute reaching from the vessel to the
ice house and thence they slide rapidly
down to the men who are waiting to re-
ceive them and see to their storage in the
ice houses.
When the ice has been unloaded the
schooners take on a cargo of coal, loading
either in this city, in Baltimore or Newport
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The costs of treating sick seamen and in
terring dead ones is paid by the government
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merchant seamen are entitled free treat
ment and burial Daring the fiscal year
1904 a total of $3.50 seamen were treats
at the various relief stations II 1903 being
in regular hospitals of the government and
44.253 as contract patients. The mainte-
nance Of the various stations. not including
salaries, rents. light, fuel, etc, was $685.
600, the total expense of the marine hos
pital service for the year being 81 16S, 253.
Competition on the Pacific coast for
burials seems to be the order of the day
as Seattle has no monopoly OF the bargain
figures in this line. At San Diego, Cal,
Davis & Anderson put away deceased sea-
men at $4.91 each. while Los Angeles, Cal,
is not so bad at the somewhat alluring fig
ure of $3.50 each. the work 10 be done by
Pierce Bros. & Co.
Next TO Seattle, however, a man can best
afford In these bargain days TO die in Ash
tabula, Ohio, where Gregory. Burwell &
Co. do the interment work at $40 each. II
few cents does not make much difference
to him, and he prefers some other climate,
there is Cairo, Ill, the figures being 1915;
Dubuque, Iowa, $3.50: Key West, Fla, S.25
each, or Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, at SO. Ex-
cept for Jacksonville and Key West. there
does not appear to be any real bargain day
enterprise in most places in the south In
catering TO the putting away OF dead sea-
men, the JackSOnNllie DcinS ds lOW
as 81 At Savannah. Ga, they do better
than at most other places, John A. Goette
making the proper excavations, refilling.
etc. for 50. At st. Louis they give a fell
low a pretty good funeral for $40, and at
Wilmington, N. c., the prices have been re-
duced to 1896 each.
In New England, Portsmouth. n. H., leads
in the low prices. the burials there being
for 50 EACH Bangor following with $40,
New Haven with SIS. and New London
with $3.50.
The prices for the treatment of patients
range from 30 cents per day to 81, quarters.
subsistence nursing, medicines and medical
attention being furnished. This does not
include contagious diseases, where the rates
are much higher. The prevailing figures
for treatment are 125 per day. In the
contract hospitals the treatment is limited
to twenty days, unless absolutely necessary,
and patients needing treatment longer than
that time must be moved to the nearest
marine hospital, IL the medical officer In
charge will permit.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-08-14
BRAVE TEST OF A SPECIALIST
WITH YELLOW FEVER MOSQUITO

New Orleans. Aug. IA Thorough
test of arsenic as a preventive of yell
low fever will he given by DIR. Regin
aid r. Leach. St. Paul specialist. The
doctor, who for some time has been
taking arsenic pills. will tonight invade
the most infected district of the city
and allow himself TO be bitten by the
Stegomyia fasciata. the pest-bearing
mosquito and will then return to his
hotel to await results. DR.. Leach will
make the experiment on his own re
sponsibihty. He came here some days
ago and tried TO interest the New Or
leans medical society in the treatment,
asking that committee of that body
be appointed to conduct the expert
ment and watch the test day by day.
Risk IL DisapprOved.
The members. however. voted against
allowing their countenance To the af-
fair. declaring their disbelief in DR..
Leach's theory.
Il wanted a physician or committee
of physicians to conduct this expert
ment" said DIR. Leach last night.
Prominent citizens would gladly serve.
bur the public would not have the same
faith in the result as it would IL the
committee was made up of prominent
physicians of the city. However, as
they will not act. it is urged that
proceed With the test and have laymen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-08-14
Celebrate THEIR
GOLDEN WEDDING
Anniversary Observed in Company
With Friends-Mr. and Mrs. Ohrt
Married so Years.

The golden wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Ohrt was
celebrated yesterday afternoon at the
home, 210 Third avenue. There was a
gathering Of relatives of the aged eou1
pie at the home, and Mr. and Mrs. Ohrt
were made the recipients of many
beautiful and appropriate gifts in gold.
The home had been astefuIlx decorat-
ed7in flowers liable Tor the occasion.
The afternoon was spent in sociability,
and the guests were served an elabo-
rate wedding Tepast.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ohrt were married in
Davenport, Aug. 13, 1855, and at that
time he was but 10 years of age, and
she only Il. Both are natives OF Ger
many. and came to Davenport when
children. They have lived in this COM
munity over half century; making
their home in Rock IslSe-d since their
marriage. Eight children are living,
seven daughters, and one son. While
Mr.. Ohrt is now 60 years of age, he is
in good health. and Is employed regu-
larry as a teamster at Rock Island ar
senaI. a position he has held about
years. His wife, whose maiden name
was Miss Marie Kulper, is 81 years OF
age. and is in the best of health. Mr..
Ohrt is an active member of Camp No.
800, NJ. w A. and takes an active part
in the affairs of the camp.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-08-14

San Juan. Aug. 14.-Openly avow
ing. while pretending TO deplore, the
fact that anti-Americanism is rampant
in Porto Rico delegates from all but
one or two of the SO municipalities of
the island have united in passing a
memorial to congress praying that
American power be checked and that
natives be given control of their own
affairs. The convention called by
Mayor Todd to meet in San Juan on
Occupation day was seized upon as an
opportunity to Insult Americans and
the administration. The convention ap-
plauded when a councilman from the
city of San Juan. Mr. RiverO, one time
a captain of artillery in the Spanish
army. and the mayor ArecibO, Mr.. AV
lies, took the floor and attacked the
administration, denouncing the Ameri-
can method of governing the island, in
Weighing against the various heads of
departments and in other ways dis
playing their ill-feeling toward the
American in charge of insular affairs.
The memorial to congress attacks
the Foraker act and asks congress to
amend the same as follows:
l. That the house of delegates shall
continue as at present elected by pop
ular suffrage and composed of 35 mem
beTS.
. That instead of the executive
council there be constituted an elective
insular senate composed of II senators,
two to each of the seven districts of
the island.
3. That these two bodies shall pos
sess the Legislative power granted by
the law of April u. 1900, to the legis
latiye assembly of Porto Rico.
4. That the departments now exist
ent shall cOntinue-those of the attor
ney general, the treasurer. the auditor.
the commissioners of education and of
the interior
5. That the heads of these depart
ments shall be appointed by the gov
ernor of Porto Rico. with the consent
of the insular senate.
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fill their places. / am surprised that
this reception should have been given
me by the medical fraternity of New
Orleans. | had expected a cordial re-
Ception and at least friendly coopera-
ton. This act of the medical society
was wholly unexpected and am more
than surprised. Citizens who called
upon me last night express the same
opinion. | cannot account for it."
People Favor Experiment.
NLate yesterday afternoon Mayor Mar
tin Behman, Col. John p. Sullivan and
Edward II. Fighter called on DR.. Leach.
They want to see the experiment car
ried out A third or more of the New
Orleans people are taking Leach's ar
senic pills and they would like to have
a practical test to show the virtue OF
the pellets. If they will ward off the
fever the drug stores will not be able
TO supply the demand for them Dur
ing the evening many prominent resi-
dents visited the doctor to express their
sympathy at his rejection by the med
icaI society and to assure him that the
people were greatly interested in his
theory.
The fever experts. however. almost
TO man. reject the arsenic theory and
tell their patients that DR.. Leach's
pills are no more eficacious than so
much -four ana water.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-08-14
OBITUARY RECORD.
Muhleman.

Henry Charles Muhleman, infant son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Muhleman, of
Rural. died yesterday morning from the
effects of scalds received at the home
Saturday morning.. The child. who was,
2 years and % days Old. sat down ii d
pan of boiling water Saturday fore
noon, and the skin was badly scald-
ed. The little one suffered terribly. and
died yesterday from the shock of the
accident.
The fu.eral will be held tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock from the home
at Rural. Burial will be made at the
Lutheran cemetery in Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-08-14

fer easy solutions of the problems the
plenipotentiaries have come here to
solve, but the majority, so Tar as nego-
citations are concerned, express the
hopes of the world for peace.
Numerous are the letters from pas
tors of churches telling of prayers for
peace. Then there are the usual crank
letters, same of them of threatening
intent. Mr.. White has received much
advice as to what should be done to
relieve the internal situation in Russia,
but no threat of serious nature has
been received by either Komura or
White.
-. Made White Laugh.
/ White got a letter yesterday which
made him laugh heartily. 1t was dated
from little town in Indiana, and in it
was written this question: IF you
did not come here prepared to pay
Japan an indemnity and give her SAX
hahn, what did you come for? You
knew you would have TO do it,
Jacob Scheff, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co..
Oscar Straus and Isaac Seligman, will
arrive this afternoon for an interview,
already arranged with White on the
Jewish question in Russia. White is
prepared to explain to them the atti-
tude of the Russian government, the
present situation, and the contemplated
conditions regarding the Jews
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-08-14
PORTO R|CANS ARE D|SPLEASEDi
TAFT'S FILIPINO PLAN AGAIN

These amendments of course would
secure absolute native control and
make the governor figurehead and
his appointing power joke. . The
memerialists then proceed to- thus slap
the present governmental system:
I'VE can not consent that official
agents be sent to Porto Rico who. as
a general rule, are ignorant of the lam
guage, the customs, and the needs of
the country and that 24 hours after
landing they occupy their seats in the
executive council and decide by their
votes complex and intricate problems.
Dissatisfaction Over Taft. "a p.
New York, Aug. IA New York
Herald special dispatch from Manila
says there is deep dissatisfaction
among the Filipinos over Secretary
Taft's recent speech at the banquet in
his honor, but the Americans will now
be firmer Throughout their belief has
been that the Filipinos want selfgOv
ernmept, regardless of the cOnse.
quences. Mr.. Taft said President
Roosevelt and legislators generally
wanted TO give the Filipinos self-gOv-
eminent, but the people must know
that this cannot be until they are ca
pable of it. Nine-tenths of the popula-
ton is totally incompetent for self-gov-
eminent
The secretary stated that if the gov
eminent of the country were transfer
red now il would soon be controlled
by those who held mortgages. Many
other powerful points were made
which prove that Filipino self-govern-
ment is extremely remote.
Secretary Taft, Miss Alice Roose-
welt and party sailed at 1 O'Clock to-
day on the United States army
transport Logan for IloilO. Governor
General Wright, Maj. Gen. COrbin and
all the insular commissioners except
Commissioner Ide accompanied them
Mrs. Dubois, wife of Senator Dubois,
of Idaho, who was injured in a run
away. is very nervous and restless, but
her condition is not considered serious
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-08-14
JAPANESE ARMY
BEGINS ANOTHER
FORWARD MOVEMENT

Godzyandni, Aug. 14.-(Delayed in
1.-The Japanese began
an advance against the Russians at
Zoumoshou, in the Ouitsgou district at
$50 this morning. Their forces are
not very numerous, there being only
two battalions in each column.
The movement has every appearance
Of a demonstration.
The Russian outpOsts fell back in
good order. The Chinese in this vicin-
ity are again significantly leaving for
the southwark.
Another Russian Loan.
St Petersburg, Aug. IA new in
ternal loan of a hundred million dol
lars will be issued Aug. Is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-08-14
SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD;
REVIVES DURING AUTOPSY
Des moines Surgeon Pinehes Heart of
a Corpse, and II Returns
TO Life.

Des MOines, Iowa. Aug. I4.-Louis
Viel SURPRISED several physicians and
nurses at Mercy hospital by suddenly
regaining life. Shortly after post NOR
TEN on him began DR.. ConkIin happen
ed to take hold Of the supposedly dead
mans heart and pinched it slightly.
Almost instantly the organ began to
throb at natural rate. The incisions
made were quickly closed Wei re-
gained consciousness few hours later