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THE FIRELKSHT She comest to me often and often. As I sit by the giate alone? My dear little lirelight sweetheart. With a face that is like your own. She's beckoning there in the embers, And saucily nodding her head. In a dickering frock of crimson And a tiny, wee tippet of red. Those quivering, scarlet streamers Are the ribbous she loves to wear; And that radiant, glowing corona; Is a poppy she put in her hair. Can't you si-e her daintily ni-ii*...n? That tossing, stray lock from her brow? Down there where the coals are the brightest, Where that reddest one fell just now? 1 'I'* ,! > -I1 -I' t 1 I j THE ARTIS i: I ' ?? . i ! * .r * 'M, * ! * i- !' * i' Doubtless, most uptown New Yorkers remember a distinguished looking man who used to ride in Central Park every morning last spring and summer on a magnificent cream-white Arabian stallion. Be that as it may, it is certain his advent caused quite a flutter of curiosity. I have known him since we were boys together? boys in a little North of England town. He's in South Africa now and will hardly resent what I am going to tell . the readers of the Pathfinder about him. His name is Ford?Charlraers Ford. It is a name not unknown among artists. If you have attended the exhibitions you have probably seen it at the bottom of more than one water color. I happened in at his cozy studio one * A ? dov or evening iasi August, umj ? ?v two before he sailed. The walls of the room were covered with the trophies of his travels. My attention was fixed by a sketch in water colors of a young girl of the dark-haired Eastern type. On it I read the name "Zuleika." "You world-rovers gather a good many barnacles in your wanderings," I remarked. "I suppose, too, many of these relics of yours have a history," I added, desirous of drawing him out. "Yes, that's so. That sketch, for instance could tell a story, and this old thing here could corroborate it," he answered, handing me a venerable pistol with a long barrel of large caliber. "That ancient piece of ordnance not only saved my own life, but was the v chief instrument in the rescue of one of her majesty's vessels oht in the Persian Gulf last December." Ford is a man singularly reticent about his own exploits, though he has had enough of them. But the cigar I .handed him made himj communicative. J only wish I might have taken his story down in shorthand, for he told it infinitely better than I can. However, this is about what he said: *1 had taken passage on the British India Company's steamer Kilwa at Bassorah, for Bombay. I was just reaching comparative civilization again after more than six months of privation and adventure in the interior of Asiatic Turkey. With much difficulty I had made my way overland all the way from Trebizond, on the Black sea. Part of the distance I had followed the route traversed by Xenophon and his devoted 10,000 in their disastrous "Ka tabasls." i naa visueu mc 04ua.n1 of Mosul?once renowned for its muslins and like fabrics, and whence, in fact, .the name 'muslin' is derived? to make some drawings in the excavated ruins of ancient Nineveh, near by. It is there, by the way that the royal palaces of Sennacherib and Sardanapalus, after twenty-six centuries of oh livion, have been laid bare. After stop * ping en route at now decayed and in4 glorious Bagdad, I had completed mj arduous journey at Hillah, a modern town built near the site and from tht Ancient brick of Babylon. Finallj having finished some further archaeological observations in the neighborhood, respecting some ancient irriga ing works, I had caught passage on ; small dhow loaded with dates anc ^floated down the lazily-flowing, mysti< Euphrates. At first, beyond the wil low and plane-lined banks of the grea river, stretched the once blossoming levels of Yrak, the very cradle of his tory; then came lagoons which merge* ultimately into a pestilential swamp Thus had I reached Bassorah, the mod ern Balsora of the Arabian Night tales?once, during the ascendency c the Caliphs, the port and entrepot c Bagdad, but now, like that city, dilapi dated and dwindled into insignificant "The Kilwa had sailed from Bassoi ah at midnight It was late in the a ternoon of the next day when, afte touching at Bushire, an importar town about 200 miles down the Persia coast, we headed for the small Ara port of Linga, where we were to lsa\ some cargo. "As the sun sank toward the water horizon and dissolved in the purplis vapors of the west, a Parsee merchan a so-called 'fire-worshipper,' first r< moving his odd-looking, shining oi cloth hat, paced the deck, repeating d voutly his adoration of the orb that 1 looked uppn, not as an intrinsic deit but as the highest manifestation < God. A crowd of Musselmans kneek on their praying carpets, with the faoes turned toward Mecca, and, wii swaying bodies and changing inton tion of voice, invoked the Proph( careless of public gaze and laudab , courageous in the faith. One old in; in particular, a white-bearded pati archial personage, prolonged his t votions till late in the evening, fii reading half aloud from an aneie copy of the Koran, illuminated wi characters in colors and gold, th praying, then anointing his loins wi oil. then lighting his 4 bubble-bub I] SWEETHEART. w ir And now she Is archly smiling. And shp Koguishiy beckons again .. In the door of a little red cottage li At tlic turn of a little red laue, a And now she has come to the window Where a clambering flame vine clings; tl And the mvirunning croon of ll?e euibcrs ^ ib a iuvc iuui o?iv .. . , 1 1( And ever and ever she cheers me j As I sk b.v the grate, alone? My dpar little.firelight sweetheart a With a face thai like j our own, ^ As there in the dancing doorway She saucily nods iter head. t( In a flickering frock ?>C cirnson j; And n tiny, wee tijintt of red. ?Man rice* Smilcv in Ne w York Tribune, t t: rIltII1|I|;ItnI. TniI. fit T'S STORY. T* 4* O I % " r ! ?'M-M' W?M' ? !"! frl1 'H' ! ? fl * t 4* Jf J' or water pipe, aromatic of sandal and ? rose water, and puffing reflectively for * an interval, then finally praying again. ? It was much like a protracted meeting. ^ "Our cargo consisted mafnly of ? horses?noble Arabian animals?for s T% 1 a-./? <-h/\TT f\AQr_ ^ Ivurracaee ana JBumuay, tuiu mi; u^,~ ly monopolized the deck space. There were, as it proved, eleven Arab horse * dealers in charge of the drove, to a 1 man admirable fellows physically, with 1 the fierce, untamed look of a tiger ^ when pressed to bay by the elephants. ( A few Koords, dead-black Nubians. * dusky Hindoos and dignified Afghans, < an Armenian em migrant or two, and a J motley contingent of natives from the 1 Persian interior brought the number ' of deck passengers up to about twenty- ' five. These passengers lived entirely on deck. They boiled their rice them- i selves, which, with a few dates or other fruit and frequent potations of black '< coffee, furnished the simple diet of ? most of them. They slep in the open 1 air along the scuppers or on some convenient hatch. What with the horses and the bales of forage, the passengers and their always multifarious effects, 1 there was hardly an available inch of deck-space that was not occupied. "Besides the eight officers of the vessel I was the only English-speaking person on board. Among the deck passengers I had noted a handsome Arab girl. I longed to put her face on paper but I well know the stern antipathy the Moslems cherish against having their picture taken in any form. However I ran the risk of resentment and suiTeptiously made the sketch you are looking at. It was Zuieika, daughter of Sheik Abdul, the chief of the horse dealers. "I had grown sleepy listening to the third officer's yarns, and in preference to tossing away the night in a superheated stateroom I brought my mattress up on the windward side of the promenade deck, where I found the soft eastern breeze delightfully cooling. It was pleasant to be out where, when I happened to be roused momentarily, I could see the stars shining overhead and hear the soothing splash of the ' water against tne vessel's side, the so- ' porific, even pulsations of the engines, and at intervals the bell on the bridge giving the hour of the watch, repeated by the lookout in the bows with an accompanying 'all's well.' "At midnight the chief officer went below, and the second officer, Mr. Newhall, took his place on the bridge. We expected to make Linga shortly after daybreak, and as we had already come out of our course, Captain Sargent be, grudged any unnecessary delay and [ left orders to have everything put in . readiness for a quick discharge of the Linga consignment To get at the car go with a steam windlass it was neces sary to remove the forward hatch. This ' had been appropriated as a choice pot sition by the somewhat overbearing i Arab horse dealers, and it was covered r with their prostrate forms. One of the - watch unceremoniously wakened the - sleepers, and with an imshi ('get out - of the way') ordered them off. They I i resented being so rudely disturbed in 1 the middle of the night and refused to 2 move, glowering at the sailor with sul len anger. Thereupon the second officer t called Captain Sargent, who promptly I came forward and proceeded to clear - the hatch by force. By this time the 1 Arabs were thoroughly enraged. The i. sheik excitedly directed a few words - to his companions, and seizing a winch s lever advanced fiercely on the captain f before the latter could lay hold of any?f thing to defend himself with. The i- whole party rose en masse, and brandK ishing their murderous-looking crooked - knives frantically in the air drove the f- two officers before them into the sax loon and held them there in terror it of their lives. o "I was awakened by the uproar, and b without knowing just what the matter e was rushed below in quest of my revolver. But I found the way to my state* y room cut off by two sturdy guards, h Suddenly it occurred to me that the t; second engineer had shown me an ans cient pistol taken from the French in " 1 " T clinnoH Hnwn I- tne remnsuim no.i.- * e- the engine-room hatchway unseen and le found it was loaded and primed. With y, it I mounted guard, leaving the senior of engineer free to watch the engines, id "Heantime the third and fourth offiir cers and one of the engineers had been tli discovered and added to the list of the a- captured in the saloon. The mutineers it, having thus become masters of the ]y ship, a posse of them invaded the m furnace room and scared the stokers :i- away. Next they set upon me with le- knives and sticks. But this time they st met with a repulse, for I discharged nt the pistol In self-defense and shot one th of my assailants in the leg. This seemed en to check the ardor and quell the imth petuosity of the ruffians, and they withe,' drew dragging their wounded comrade ith them, and remained quiet for as ( iterva]. ' Meantime the third and fourth offi- ' y kept up by the stokers and the man t the whegl had stuck to his post trough thick and thin, so that the ves:>i was still making some headway. At , sngth. however, the engines stopped, be fires having run very low. Fortuntelv, the season being favorable, there as little sea on. but as we drifted 'n *1? (V.o 1 riho )ior*r?n tr? rfUll- i I) llit UUUgU, HUT | se that they wore powerless to keep he machinery in motion or to navigate heir prize. Hie sheik poked bis head nder the skylight and began to pardv with the incarcerated Britons in he saloon below. Through the venilating funnel leading to the engine oom I could hear the soft voice of ! iuleika as she tried to pacify her ather. ."After protracted negotiations it was xranged that seine of the officers nould be liberated on condition that hat they take the ship into the Arab on of Binga and there abandon her. ."hough Captain Sargent i|ule some how oi' protestation to this condition le was secretly overjoyed to accept it, is he well knew thai Her Majesty's pin boat Redbreast was ahead of him, j he having left Bush ire for Linga j hortly before the arrival of the Kii- j va. "Steam therefore was soon gotten up mu the course resumed. Not long af? -3"nWr.-it lparmp.s oft* USiuican, Uiiv.n, 1,.V . Jnga, we sighted the Redbreast, and vben we bad nearly come up with her Captain Sargent ran up the signal for tssistance. Commander Scott, R. N., 3f the Redbreast, promptly manned i pinnace and boarded the Kilwa with i squad of marines, and the mutineers, much to their horror and disappointment, found themselves prisoners on board an English man-of-war. The injured man was taken care of, his would not having been fatal after all, and the rest of the party were deprived Df their coffee and tobacco?the worst punishment an Arab can conceive of. "You will naturally ask how it was that a handful of these barbarians managed not only to defy the whole crew of a British merchant vessel, but to drive the officers before them into the saloon like sheep into a pen. But the attack was made in the dead of night without the slightest warning, the officers were practically defenseless and the Lascar crew were intimidated into perfect submission at the first onset. It is a favorite ruse with Chinese, as well as Arab, pirates to take passage on a vessel in the guise of casual deck passengers, and then when once aboard, to watch their opportunity to murder the officers, loot the vessel, and make good their escape. For this reason, it; is usual for vessels trading coastwise in these Eastern waters to keep a stand of arms in the saloon against emergency, hut this time, as it often happens in such cases, the provision was lacking just when most a nictni handed down as a UCOU^U* A ww* j - _ relic of the Peninsular war, is hardly an adequate armament for a large vessel under such conditions. , "The Kilwa proceeded on her way down the gulf, and we arrived at Kur>rachee in safety three days later. The Reaoreast reached there a little time after us, and the culprits were handed over to the civil authorities of Kurrachee. It was represented at the hearing that the horse dealers were in reality a gang of freebooters. I was present, and being familiar with the Arabic language, volunteered to state their defense to the magistrate. They urged that they had not premeditated the assault, that they had been provoked to it, and that they did not appreciate at the time the seriousness of their offense. Still their action was piratical, according to the letter of the law, and an example has occasionally to be made of these restless, lawless gentry, else the gulf would become once more a runway for cut-throats and sea robbers, to the great hazard of trade and travel. I appealed to the mercy of the justice, and the sheik and three of the ringleaders were let off with a month's imprisonment, while the rest were not detained. "A week later, in Bombay, I was sauntering through the bazar when 1 felt a gentle pull at my sleeve. Turn' ing round, I saw Zuleika standing before me. She was holding by the bridh the most beautiful Arabian horse 1 ever saw?none other, in fact, than mj Yussef that you have seen so often. Zuleika placed the rein in my hand anc r mnr>hanirallv. 4He if 1 reuGiTcu ??. ? ? yours,' she said. 'Sheik Abdul neve: forgets his friend.' Before I could re cover from my surprise she had van ished, lost in the great current of hu manity that floods the native quarter.' ?Archibald Hobson, in The Pathfinder American Shoes in France. Among the features of 1904 ha been the general appearance of shoe closely resembling in form and styl those made in the United States. The clumsy, ungainly and heav; French shapes are gradually disappeai ing. In their stead are coming gract fully cut and finely finished shoes c a decided American appearance. Th fact is, however, that it is rather ou shOe-making machines than the shoe themselves that have come to Frane< In any event, the American-appearin shoes which are now quite genera'.i seen in this city and elsewhere * the provinces are made principally i Paris with machinery imported froi the United States. This does not alter the fact th? some bona-fide American shoes are o sale here, but they are much dean than the French-made articles, and i ;s not likely that they will make heai way against the strong combinatic ' which is represented by cheap Frenc labor and prolific American machi: ery.?From United States Consi Ridgely. Nantes. France. CMfMCMr^rMrsjfsirj. .' < 2 SOUTH CAROLINA ? < 2 STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ \ if\ic\3iNjr\jrocNjrsi Nj!l Prisoner Escapes from Car. Gus Deford, who is wanted in the city of Charleston on the charge of robbing postofiices in the vic.nity, escaped from the custody of a United States marshal, near Cades, by jump ins through the window of a train en i-rtnta Ptiorlfict'/Yn lvu,v 1 * A * Kept Flag Until Death. James P. Eison, a Confederate soldier, died at his home in Union, after having been ill only three days with grip. Mr. Eison was G8 years old last month. He served the entire four years of "the war in the fifth regiment under Lee, and had carefully preserved a precious- relic in a part of the flag which Lee surrendered at Appomattox. * * ? Mill Engineer Killed. As the result of the bursting of a safety valve in the knitting mills of the Jonesville Manufacturing company, Mi. B. Ames, engineer, was frightfully scalded, and his assistant received a bad scalp Wound from the flying iron. After-'lingering a short while in terrible agony, Mr. Amos died and bis remains were taken to Gaffney, for interment. He was 28 years old and leaves a wife and one child. * J > Death Claims coi. urr. Colonei James L. Orr, president of the Piedmont Manufacturing Company and the Orr Cotton Mills, died the past week at his home in Greenville, in his 53rd year. He was one of the south's most successful cotton manufacturers. Colonel Orr was a son of the late Governor Orr, who was at one time ambassador to Russia. Colonel Orr, as a young man, served as legislator and later as ' solicitor of the eighth district His greatest success was in" cotton manufacturing. * * * Columbia Helps Cotton Movement. After addresses by E. D. Smith, j : president of the South Carolina Branch ; I of the Southern Cotton Association and | others, the Columbia chamber of com; merce unanimously agreed to give $1,I 000 to aid in the cotton farmers' movement. President Smith telegraphed cotton factories, oil mills and banks in all parts of the state for contributions to the fund, and received many liberal responses by wire. "We have got this fight won," said ! Mr. Smith, "if the people will hold their cotton sixty days longer." . * * Sea Island Planters Meet. A meeting was held in Charleston the past week composed of the Sea ! Island planters to take steps to pre| vent their seed being cultivated in j Cuba and.other places, thus shutting j out this competition, which has prov en a factor of some moment this sea*son. Cuba has raised about 5,000 bales of this fine cotton, which sells i for sixty to seventy cents a pound and ' tiie effect of tb*s cotton on the marker i has hurt the South Carolina farmers i considerably. 1 The plan has been .proposed .and ' It will probably be put into effect that the farmers should all sign an iron! clad agreement to sell no seed at all, [ thus restricting the competition. ) [ Displayed His Roll. r A recent issue of the Atlanta Con J f ^.itutiOD contained the following nc?v< , il? m: r With a roll of greenbacks in his - hand, J. C. Barton, a merchant Iron - Westminster, 3. C., was taken ii " custody by Patrolman Pearson lasnight on Decatur street. The roll con tained nearly $500. Barton held th< money in his hand where everyhod: s 1 In the streets could see it, and as h< s walked along the street he waved tin e money aDd exclaimed: "I hav^ money to burn." I Barton was taken to the barracks where his money was placed in th< ?f j vault subject to his order when he go e j tober. r j Barton said he had come to Atlant 3 to buy a bill of goods. He took a fet v j drinks and started out to see th y town. He struck Decctur street nea ?i j the tenderloin, where there were plei - ~ Vnook him l n ly 01 luuga x cduj 34 ( the head and rob hirn. J * tr | No Time for Primary. ^ i According to a Charleston net* d-! Item, Governor Heyward seems 1 -n j have acted hastily in appointing Apr :h j 21srt as the t?me for the general ele Q"; tion. in compliance with the new la^ j] es the holding of the election on th ' date does not allow sufficient tin tor the holding of a primary in the /I ninth district, on account. of the spe- U cial law governing the primary hi Charleston county, a parr, of the ninth district. The special primary law pro- S rides for the publication of the polling lists and the lapse of sixty day;.- i before holding of the general election, and this is Impossible, with the date fixed at April 21. It would probably * be Illegal for the governor to change the time to a later date, and the pri- j mary law cannot be modified, so ii looks like the election will have tc take place without a democratic pri- I mary, all the candidates entering into the general election, with the republican vote having a part in the selection of the candidate. In the tenth district, j, it will be possible to have a primary for the nomination, but the special law in Charleston will probably prevent this form of nomination. * I 1 Men Slated for Office. 1 A Charleston dispatch says: United mates Marshal J". Duncan Adams, t who has just returned from Washing- 1 ton, states thai there is no doubt of 1 the appointment of either District At- c torney John G. Capers or Assistant * District Attorney Ernest F, Cochran in the event of the passage of the bill | in congress providing for another ju- * dieial district for the western part ci 1 South Carolina. He says thai on account of Capers' services, tho infliien 1 tial administration pe-opie believe that lie is entitled to the office, but if the 1 president does not. appoint him. the 1 office will certainly go to 3?Tr. Cochran, whc resides at Anderson, wlCT.n ' the proposed new district. The point 3 has been made against Captain Ca- ' pers that, his official residence in Charleston should debar him from the judgeship, but Capers' # friends cia'.m that Capers' former residence in Greenville, before coming to the seat of the court in Charleston, entitles hiia to be considered eligible for the office. Adams says that there is no chance for a democrat to get the office, and the half dozen applicants in the field are wasting their time. He also states that if the act is passed, the amendments of the senate for the appointment of a marshal and district attor ney will be Wiled and the bill will provide only for a judge. CONCESSION TO RENTERS. A Feasible Plan to Assist Small Farmers In Reduction of Acreage. One of the greatest problems concerning the reduction of cotton acreage has been that of large land owners who do not actually farm themselves. To have a large number of tenants and expect of them so much rent In the fall, afcd then expect them to reduce Ihe acreage and ht the same tim pay rent and make a living for themselves was a question that wa? causing those in favor of reducing the acreage much concern, but Hon. n?rtieT M. Hughes, president of the Georgia Agricultural Society, has come forward with a plan, which, if adopted, will be a great help to the reduction of acreage movement. M*. Hughes, who owns several thousand acres of land in middle Georgia, and whose tenants operate about two hundred plows, has agreed to accept corn, peas, oats, fodder, cane or any , other farm product at its market val- I ; ue in lieu of cotton for rent, provided i each tenant will cut his cotton acre- : i age to fifteen acres to the plow. i Mt. Hughes made this announce ment several days ago, and as it seems a very feasible idea there is no doubt but that it will be carried out to a large extent In speaking of the matter Mr. Hughes said: "All of my tenants have agreed to JI the plan. Last year they had on an ; average abont twenty-five acres to the J; plow. This year they will have only 1 flften. The amount of fertilizer puri' chased has also been reduced onet. half. I hope that every land owner - j in the cotton belt who does not actu3! ally farm himself, but who has a large f j number of tenants can adopt this plan b j &r one similar." e MONEY GIVEN GEORGIA RIVERS. 1 e Additions Made to Appropriations for ^ j State in Bill Before Senate. The commerce committee of the ' senate has, at the instance of Senator Oiay, who is a member of the committee, made a number of additions to the appropriations for Georgia on tfca j. rivers and harbors bill. These all, in a addit'on to tbe -house provisions, are: j For the Coosa river at Rome, $10.t 000; Ocmulgee river $10,000; Oconee $20,000; Savannah river at Augusta, $10 000; Skidaway Narrows, near Sars v^nnah, $30,000; eurvey of Savannah o river and harbor, with view to secur11 ins: un'form depth of 30 feet to sea, o $50,000; clearing out Oconee in Green v, county, $3,000. <s Resurveys of the Oconee and Ocmulie fe'ee are also provided for. IANAL ZONE LAWS I enate Passes Panama Biir J With Amendments.. I un VIIC TCCTIMnMV cwns 1 i VV MI INC. ILOiniiuii i luu.W ourt Sits Seven Hourc( including a ! Night Session, in Endeavor to Wind Up Case Against the Florida Jurist. 9 i A Washington speciai says:" The ' J ist of the testimony in the interest |1 f Judge Sway no In the impeachment ? roceeding against him was presented *-11 o the senate Thursday. 9 The oase occupied seven hours el |? ime, beginning at 4 o'clock and ck?- m ng at 10 p. m., with an intermission .9 >f two hours from 6 to 8- Much of m he time was spent in argument r?- M ating to the admissibility of testl J9 nohy. The senate also adopted an V '? xrder granting each side five hours m n the closing argument JH Panama Canal BUI Passed. M The house bill providing a form of . 9 government for .the Panama caaal .9 no?BP.i PftriT in the day.?; SUUO WCbO uuu?.u . - w Mr. Mlorgan offered an amendment J9 prohibiting the president from .filling ; j vacancies in the canal commission ..J| when congress is not in session, and ? ipoke in support of it, saying that "jS 'there is no occasion for panic legte- M lotion in connection with the carnal . cone," the Spooner act and the treaty M of acquisition being sufficient for that J purpose. He said he hoped that Che Jg present members of the committee m would lire to hold their places until y$ jj the canal should be completed, which would ensure their remaining for at -jfl least fifty years. 'S Mr. Morgan discussed the salaries jj and emoluments paid to the present jfj commissioners, referring especially the provision giving them $15 per day . r|fl for expenses on the Isthmus In addi -M tlon to their salaries. 1 "Considering their aptitude for tafcing by compensation as instanced in the case of railroad directors' meet- 'Jfl Ings, I wonder that they haven't taken , 'M their lives in their hands and remained&jH on the isthmus all the time Inorddr to secure the extra $15 per day," \ - -wwm Mr. Morgan declared Ma belief thai M the canal never would be built. His :w amendment was rejected and after some further debate the canal bin was 8 passed. '? The measure was amended In eevfd^H ral Important respects by theseaste, | notably in' eliminating the provision for abolishing the canal 'commission. ;j| The bill will now go to conference J] If the amendments are not accepted by the house. The bill Is temporary I is character, its provisions eiplrlng at '..^ the end of the first regular cession v| of the next congress. .1 It vests in the president, authority to appoint a person or persons td | govern the canal zone, and the pre*- T! Ident Is given further authority red the manner of such control. Ab- 'jJ nual or more frequent reports fiiwc'pi the governor of the zone and also p| from those In charge of the canal urawj provided for. as are also estimates ofJM expenditures and appropriations for an. work on the canal, and it Is pro-3jS vided that after the present fiscal year IB no money shall be expended except by direct appropriation. All rentals and other Income from the Panama rail- j road are to be credited to the treasury canal fund, and the president Is to-9 thorized to deposit $1,500,000 In an j American bank having a, fiscal agent <"1 on the isthmus of Panama fo/ M purpose of facilitating business. > i Authority is given to acquire ? purchase or condemnation' the re-.* maining 1.036 shares of the stock of 1 the Panama Railroad Company, for jthe ''J benefit of the government ^ JEWELS WILL Db 3Ulm ^ Mr?. CHadwick's Confiscated ErfeeCtlda ->j Declared to Be Asset Collector of Customs C. P. Leach of Cleveland was at the treasury dapartment In Washington Thursday and |g reported that the emeralds; which once ^ belonged to Mrs. Chadwick and aear in the possession of the comptrbitair *|| of the currency were not smuggled..-^ as was suspected. It Is unddrstobfr J* that the jewels ultimately will be, sold* as an asset of the failed bank, wheiV:|| they were pledged for a loan. NO BAIL ALLOWED HOCH. .' |1 Alleged "Bluebeard" Must Stand THa^l on Murder Charge. Johann Hoch was held to the granilj|| jury at Chicago Thursday without haO. The coroner's Jury which iniestigatedf >p the death of Mrs. Marie Wekker- 'K Hoch found that the deceased came to her death from the effects of a|seirie-v$j poisoning, and it was the expressed^ belief of the jury that Hoch adxninla^:^ tered the poison. K