The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 02, 1905, Image 2
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?
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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 .. . ,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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, $3,000.
<s Resurveys of the Oconee and Ocmulie
fe'ee are also provided for.
IANAL ZONE LAWS I
enate Passes Panama Biir J
With Amendments.. I
un VIIC TCCTIMnMV cwns 1
i VV MI INC. ILOiniiuii i luu.W
ourt Sits Seven Hourc( including a !
Night Session, in Endeavor to
Wind Up Case Against the
Florida Jurist. 9
i
A Washington speciai says:" The ' J
ist of the testimony in the interest |1
f Judge Sway no In the impeachment ?
roceeding against him was presented *-11
o the senate Thursday. 9
The oase occupied seven hours el |?
ime, beginning at 4 o'clock and ck?- m
ng at 10 p. m., with an intermission .9
>f two hours from 6 to 8- Much of m
he time was spent in argument r?- M
ating to the admissibility of testl J9
nohy. The senate also adopted an V '?
xrder granting each side five hours m
n the closing argument JH
Panama Canal BUI Passed. M
The house bill providing a form of . 9
government for .the Panama caaal .9
no?BP.i PftriT in the day.?;
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Mr. Mlorgan offered an amendment J9
prohibiting the president from .filling ; j
vacancies in the canal commission ..J|
when congress is not in session, and ?
ipoke in support of it, saying that "jS
'there is no occasion for panic legte- M
lotion in connection with the carnal .
cone," the Spooner act and the treaty M
of acquisition being sufficient for that J
purpose. He said he hoped that Che Jg
present members of the committee m
would lire to hold their places until y$ 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,"
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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.
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