Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HAVaN'T YCU FELT THAT WAY? ?Y MAVHICE SMILEY. Haven't yon often worn erodes of blue, And seeing life's sham and its shame, Felt it ail was a big Scramble, and you Mich: as well a<--t into the game? 3? :at nothing much mattered but a big bunch of cash, ' And tiie man who was good was a jay, And the whole blooming country was going ? to smash: Haven't you, haven't you felt that way? .Haven't you feit it was hardly worm wnue To try to live up to your best? And haven't you smiled a cynical smile? And something way down in your breast Whispered life had a prize that was higher than gold And sweeter than fame or display? And the faith that had slipped took a brand-new hold: Haven't you., haven't you felt that way? And didn't a peace come near that was far And urge you to strive toward it still? And didn't -ou turn your face to a star, And didn't you say: "I will!" And weren't you stronger, and didn't you find The world was better, and didn't it pay To be brave and patient and cheery and kind: Haven't you, haven't you felt that way? ?Collier's Weekly. ?.? An Uncrowned | Queen. * By Lucile Lovell. rv two women sat face to | j. face in the green shade of q q Mrs. Martin's side porch, C M JL * their feet on the same wooden footstool. They Were sewing on a long, straight gray p ... garment. "Somebody's always had to bring up Jane Anne Leach's sewing," Mrs. Thomas remarked, a smile broadening her face. "You couldn't expect a woman to K&V . sew on her own shroud," Mary Martin observed, pensively. "Not afterwards," Mrs. Thomas returned, dryly. "Still, there ain't many that wouldn't have had something laid by besides a magenta barege and a flowered muslin. But not Jane Anne!" ,"She spoke to me about it that last . v> afternoon," said Mrs. Martin, mildly. V. \ "Said she'd been meaning for some time to sort of plan it out; that she bad a plenty to do with, only hadn't 'i\- got about it." Mrs. Thomas smiled again, underI standingly, but not disagreeably. "Oh, yes," she said. "Jane Anne always had 'a plenty'?plenty of everything." "After all, what we're making up was her own cloth!" -Mrs. Martin spoke with gentle heat. "You needn't snap me up so," Mrs. Thomas said, coolly. "I had a soft spot for Jane Anne, same's you had. But you know as well as you want to that she was all airs?on nothing." "I don't know as I'd call it airy," Mrs. Martin said, with wavering defiance. "That's what I call it," retorted Mrs. Thomas. "Now take that night ten years ago, when I went over to Jane Anne's and found her rocking and looking on while Louisa Morse was putting her poor old duds into a trunk. "'Louisa,' she says, 'I wouldn't put that light delaine on the bottom; it musses awful easy. It's seen its best days, but it looks nice by lamplight, and I may want to dress up some evenings.' ? ^ " 'You spea^ 's if you were going away,' I says. " T am,' s'she, but didn't tell where. | "I kind o' wondered, same's anybody .' would, for I knew she'd no money for traveling, and that none of her folks had any to give her, so finally I asked her. She didn't answer right off, and her head went down. Then she perked up. " 'My medical adviser has been "tell* ing me for a long ,time that I needed a change, and I've decided to take one,' ? . . s*she. . ' " 'Where are you going?' I asked. "She sort o' hesitated. 'I'm going to the poorhouse to-morrow,' she says, then brightened up. 'I do hope you'll come and see me soon,' she says. 'You'll most always find me, and I'd be so glad to see you, Lucy.' "If that wasn't airy!" challenged Mrs. Thomas. "Do you suppose anybody else would call going to the poor| - house 'a change?' " "Jane Anne could have gone to her Cousin Heman's;" Mrs. Martin said, quickly, "but." with unconscious irony, "she preferred the poorhouse." / N "I don't blame her; Heman's wife always was a terror," Mrs. Thomas hastened to say. "I never felt above Jane \ . Anne. We went to school together, \ and her folks were as good as anybody \ once. It wasn't that. But somehow \ she always hit my funny-bone." \ "She didn't hit mine," said Mrs. Martiuweddening. "What!" Mrs. Thomas' lively countenance expressed amusement and surprise. "Not when we called at- the poorhouse to see her, and she asked if we wouldn't like 'to meet' Mrs. Peterson, who had 'just arrived?' " "No." N . "Nor that time when she said she thought a little music would be pleasant, and had in old Joe Jennings to play 'Ye Banks and Braes' on his mouth organ?" " "No." "Nor that afternoon when Louisa took over the blanc mange, and Jane Anne sent some up to that weak mindoln-orc Imnt in ru OLUll ^111, Iliac cue; un?ut*c iu tbe garrec when there was visitors, with Miss Leach's compliments?' Miss Scott was not feeling quite as well as usual, she said. Now, don't you call that a little mite airy?" "I call it fine manners." x MSo do I; too fine!" , Mary Martin raised her fine, womanI iy eyes to lier companion's face, then dropped them frightened. "I admired Jane Anne?and envied her," she said, softly. "Envied her? With all you've got!" "I've got things, but I ain't ? endowed. Jane Anne wfls. I'd give everything I possess if I could stand out on my front steps and ask people in the way she could!" "She did make you feel kind of pleased with yourself and everybody else," Mrs. Thomas admitted. They stitched on silently for a while, then Mary Martin spoke with the authority of a shy woman roused. "If Jane Anne seemed airy to you." she said, "it was because you couldn't c.vn. li<iv mn surround ins*. I could." "I never claimed to have a fancy imagination!" Mrs. Thomas retorted. "And I never knew you had." "Jane Anne was never where she'd ought to have been." Mary continued. "I've always thought that like as not her rightful place in the world was filled by some woman without a single pretty way or lively thought. And she must have known all her life how much better she could have done than that other?for a woman isn't gifted with agreeableness like hers without realizing it and longing to have it well set off. Yet she wasn't bitter or envious, but just went on as if the poorhouse was her own home and those feeble, wretched creatures the pick of the country!" $ Mary's voice died away in a sobbing whisper, but presently she said, "There!" in an even tone, and relinquished her hold on the gray garment. Lucy Thomas drew all its soft length into her lap and folded her hands across it. "I don't see Jane Anne in just your colors." she said, "but I know now why she never touched your funnybone. And if it is as you think, and she couldn't find her way here, it's all ! straightened out by this time, and Jane Anne's stepped into the place she was meant to fill." "Oh, I hope so!" said Mary Martin, with tender fervor.?Youth's Compan* ion. Mr. Mear*' Bull Pap. j On one particular topic a great and lasting silence has come over W. A. in nuoctinn ts hts 1 aUCcU JL UC OUVJVVb iu ?? jjbull terrier. There was a time, not so very long ago, when Mr. Mears thought his particular terrier was the most perfect specimen of canine in existence. He may think so yet. You can never tell what one is thinking when he is silent The terrier had taken a number of prizes at dog shows. It had also taken various and sundry vagrants by the bosom of the trousers and ushered them from Mr. Mears' premises. For 'alertness the dog seemed absolutely without parallel. This fact was appreciated by Mr. Mears, who had the terrier sleep at the foot of his bed to watch for unscrupulous prowlers who might chance into the house in search of plunder. One night recently a prowler came. He got in through a window. Cautiously he stepped through the dark hallways and rooms, ransacking bureaus, nooks and crannies. Finally he came to Mr. Mears' sleeping room. Little thought he of the danger, of the alert and ferocious terrier guarding its master and ready to sink its fangs in ant one who might seek to trespass upon the sacred domain. Cautiously the burglar crept into the room and flashed his dark lantern about in the darkness until he located a pair of ample trousers, and not wishing to disturb the sleeping dog, which looked so deliciously comfortable on its master's feet, went into a near-by bathroom and extracted Mr. Mears' coin therefrom. After which the intruder left the place by the way he had entered. Thus Mr. Mears lost his confidence in his dog and his pocketbook at one fell swoop. And while lie still thinks it is a pretty tolerable sort of a pup be is not in tbe least averse to nailing down tbe windows, bolting tbe doors and taking other precautions against burglars.?Portland Oregonian. "Welcome, Xoj-a, Jr. 'Miss Nora Lake, Jr., arrived in the home of the editor of tbe News last Saturday morning at 2.40 o'clock. Her mother's name is Nora, and we have wanted to name one of the girls after their mother, but she has objected. For fear that we might not have another chance^ we this time insisted and now we have Nora Lake, Jr., and W. F. Lake, Jr.. one named after the head of the house and one after the mother. And the new arrival is one of the prettiest little girl babies that one ever saw in a week's travel, and she resembles her mother very much. Well, how time flies. If this little speck of humanity that has come into our home shall live to be twenty years old the editor of the News will be a little over sixty years of age?an old man?and she wiil be the one to remain with the old folks and take care of them as they sit in the chimney corner and contemplate the years that shall have made up their lives. If the new girl is as good as our other girls we shall have no regrets and will come down to the end of life with no complaints as far as our family is concerned. Children are the greatest blessings given to men and women, and we do not know what we should have done in every way? financially as well as otherwise?had this blessing been withheld from us. The mother and babj are doing nicely under the care of Mrs. Boyer, and the little boys are just beginning to come, too. Dr. Mc-Dannell attended.?Arlington (la.) News. Alway* Room and "Welcome. There are 230.000.00U copies of newspapers sold every month, and yet occasionally a new paper is started to supply a "long felt want." this according' to the Boston Commercial Bulletin. \ "POPULAR^VC"^ ^ ft Science > M Tlie largest search light, of 310,000.000 candle power, has been constructed at Nuremberg, Germany. If sufficient elevation could be obtained it would be visible eighty miles. Self-propelled electric motor cars carrying fuel and water for a full day, and making twenty miles an hour, are installed on a part of the Northern Railway between Scarborough and Filey, England. Nearly 12.000.000 tons of coal pei | year are now saved, according to the j estimates of Mr. A. A. Campbell Swinton, by the use of water power for the production of electricity. Statistics collected by him show that up to last August about 1,500.000 horse power for electrical work was being generated from water power, and of this total nearly one-third belonged to the United States; In England only 12.000 horse power is thus developed. The Engineering and Mining Journal says that a firm of Ualtimore architects lias drawn plans for a building without any wood in its construction. It will be six stories in height, the entire structure to be of reinforced concrete and steel. Even the doors, trims, window sashes and door Jambs will be of metal?a new departure in building which might become of importance if there were a better prospect that the experiment would invite imitation. i "Lead pipe will keen your razoi sharp," confided the garrulous barber. "Get a short piece of the smallest, softest lead pipe your plumber has in stock, and keep it handy when you are stropping the razor. The scheme is to rub the strop witlr the pipe. It works best with a plain leather strop. Apply the pipe, just as you would strop the razor, to the unfinished side of the leather. Strop your razor 011 that side, wind up with a few passes on the finished side of the strop and you will have a fifst-class edge on the tool. I never took the trouble to get a scientific explanation of the virtues of the lead pipe as an aid to whetting, but it is all to the good in that respect."? Philadelphia Record. """? I The increasing demand for platinum, particularly for use in the manufacture of gas mantles, has led to the invention of a process of saving the fine powdery grains of this metal found in the gold placer deposits of Southern Oregon and elsewhere. The platinum, being in a state of very fine division, almost in the form of dust.* will not settle in a placer sluice so long as the water is briskly stirred. After the metal bearing water has passed over a riffle table, on which nearly all the gold settles, it is drawn more slowly over a coco-mat riffle, on which the platinum settles, and is then collected by rinsing the coco-mats over tanks. Formerly the platinum was all wasted, at first beIff idantlfr TVOB riftt TPf>n?Tli7ft(l. l-ttuor lid lUCUUiJ ituw MW and afterward because no process was then known for saving it. A CLEVER ROMAN THIEF tosed a* a Police Officer and at Leisure Kansacked a Plat. A clever robbery has just taken place In Rome. One day a spruce young man presented himself to the portress of a house asking for one of the tenants. On hearing that she had been absent for some days, he replied: "Yes, 1 know. .She was taken ill in the street and was sent to the hospital. I am a police officer sent to take an inventory of the contents of the flat. Just come up with me/' and he showed her what he called his authorization. On the way up he said that he must have two other witnesses, and when these came the four of them went carefully over everything, taking a minute inventory, forcing open drawers and cupboards, nothing being sacred from them. When this was done the three witnesses signed the inventory and the "police officer" went off, carrying with him titles and bonds to the value of several thousands of francs, to be deposited in safety at the police headquarters. That same night the tenant returned, to be greeted with great surprise by the portress, who exclaimed:' "What! Back so soon! And how are you? Did they treat you well?" "Treat me well," exclaimed the other, "what do you mean? Do you think I have been in a lunatic asylum?" "Well, a hospital is just as bad, isn't it?" "It may be," said the tenant, "but I know nothing of either." "Why, were you unconscious all the time?" And so on until tne suuauuu ??? made clear. She had been visiting friends. She hurried upstairs alarmed, to find all her little savings gone, and no trace of the thief, except tfie confusion which he had left behind ?Pall Mall Gazette. Tree* Which Cause Headache. A curious member of the vegetable kingdom has been discovered in the Far East. It is a species of acacia which grows to a height of about eight feet and when full grown closes its leaves together in curls each day at sunset and curls its twigs in the form I of a pig-tail. After the tree has set tied itself in this way for a night's sleep, like most sleepers, it objects to being disturbed. If touched it will flutter as if agitated and impatient at the interruption of its slumbers.' The oftener the foliage is molested the more violent becomes the shaking of the branches, and at length the tree emits a nauseating odor, which, inhaled for a few moments, will cause a violent headache.?Presbyterian Banner. \ T 2' SOLTH CAROLINA I S STATP NPWS ITPSK S IT U AX 141UW* ^ | CMCNJCNJfM rOfNJCXICNIi Killed by Falling Tree. Thomas J. Jackson, a young white man, was instantly killed near Bowman, Orangeburg county, by a tree falling upon him. Jackson was driving a wagon loaded with fertilizers when a tree was blown down upon him. * * Dastardly Work of Ghouls. The grave of Colonel Provienve, at Rock Creek church, in Fairfield county, was dug up and the casket broken open a few nights ago by unknown parties. Colonel Provienve was buried about thirty-one years ago. It is not known for what purpose the dead was disturbed. * Three "YeggmerT Convicted. In the United States court at , Charleston, Monday, John 'King, ! James Johnson and Rudolph Rabens were convicted of conspiracy to rob and robbery of the postoffice at Latta, about a year ago. Evidence at the trial indicated they belonged to a band of "Yeggmen," which infested the state for some time. * Mistrial in Peonage Case. After being out all night the Federal court jury at Charleston reported inability to reach a verdict in the peonage case involving Italian labor contractors who are charged witn holding employes in involuntary servitude. Judge Brawley ordered a mistrial recorded and dismissed the jury. This is the first case In the south in which it was charged that white men were held as peons. 9 9 9 Woman Meets Tragic Fate. Mrs. Ida McGee, who lives in the westernvj>art of Anderson county, was so badly burned that she died during the night After dinner she lay down upon a pallet before the fire to take a nap. Her clothing caught fire. She ran about the house trying to extinguish the flames. There being no one in the house old enough to render her assistance, in her efforts to put out the fire the cradle in which her infant was sleeping was set on fire, and before assistance reached the house the child was probably fatally burned. 9 9 9 Deserted to Die in Woods. J. P. Shealey, a farmer who lives near Irmo, says a Columbia dispatch, found the badly decomposed body of a negro near the roadside. The body is supposed to be that of a negro named Crowbars, who was found in the same place about two weeks ago by some of his own race. At that time he was dying and without shelter or food. He had been afflicted with smallpox and had been run away from Irmo by spme of his acquaintances. Crowbars has not been in the same place since he was first found. It is thought that he dragged himself in search of food and shelter. * * Citizens Don't Want Dispensary. A Newberry news Item is as follows: The little town of Chapin, in Lexington county, this state, seems to be providentially hindered from having within its confines a branch of that great moral institution, a, state dispensary. Some time ago, the state board of directors endeavored to rent a vacant store in which to open a dispensary, but so averse were the people of the little town to the proposition a building could not be secured. Recently the friends of the institution discovered that there was a vacant lot in the town that belonged to a Mr. Schott, who resides in New York. They bought it, hauled the lumber, and were about to build when Charles P. Robinson went to Lexington courthouse and examined the title to the lot. He found that the original deed from the late Martin Chapin, after whom the town was named, made it a condition that no liquor should ever be sold on the premises. About the only thing left for the dispensary board to do with regard t9 Ohapin is to build air castles. "What will be done remains to be seen'. * * * Accused of Robbing Railroad. A Savannah news item says: W. N. Scott, deputy sheriff of Anderson county, South Carolina, arrived this morning, and through some clever work on his part succeeded in arresting Drewry M. Bedenbaugh, formerly agent of the Southern railway at Belton, S. C., on a requisition issued by Governor Heyward and approved by Governor Terrell on the affidavit of the local agent of the American Surety company of New York, alleging that Bedenbaugh appropriated to his own use $2,086, with intent to defraud tne said soutnern naiiway ^omyauy, thereby committing a breach of trust with fraudulent intent, etc. Bedenbaugh is said to have lived beyond his means, having had a salary of only $60 per month for the maintenance of his wife and three children. It seems from the statement of an official of the American Surety Company, that Bedenbaugh's peculations f ? cover^a period of one year, during j which time he succeeded in hoodwinking the auditor's office of the Soutii- J | ern railway in Washington 'city by j skillfully "doctoring" his accounts. Scott proceeded at once with his prisoners to Anderson, S- C., where J. E. Boggs, the solicitor general.will cause a speedy trial to be given the ] defendant, who is well connected in 1 that community. 1 * i * * nf P*?r+iliy*?r Tans Pvnlain#d. " w" " - ?i -g- ?T ? Hon. E. D. Smith, president of the South Carolina state division of the Southern Cotton Association and financial agent of the Southern Cotton Association, eastern division, has given feut the following statement: "As there has been/so much comment as to the increased sale of fertilizers in South Carolina, the following Is probably an explanation: "Previous to June, 1904, all cotton seed meal sold in South Carolina for other purposes than fertilizer was exempt from the privilege tax, under the act passed in 1903. All meal after June, 1904, was subject to the privilege tax. Therefore, this year there has been sold for feed purposes 40,000 tons 0$ cotton seed meal, which is 10 per cent of all the tags used this year, which, deducted from the aggregate sale of tags In the state of South Carolina leaves something less than last year. "Again, the tags in South Carolina bought by the fertilizer companies and not used, are redeemable after November 1 at the price paid for the same. The guano companies, anticipating a rush in March of orders, in view of the fact that practically no guano was snipped out in January and February, bought heaviiy of these tags. H. ML Stackhouse of Clemson college, who has charge of this department, writes me that he la convinced the sale of fAtilizers in the state of South Carolina this year is reduced considerably in spite of the enormous amount of tags bought" EARTHQUAKE KILLS HUNDREDS. Frightful Disaster Caused by Great Seismic Wave in India. A cable dispatch from Calcutta, India, states that it now appears that 400 of the Seventh Gurkhas were killed at the Dharmspla cantonment by the collapse of a stone barrack building in consequence of the recetft earthquake. In addition, twenty members of the First battalion and fifty members of the Second battalilon of the First Gurkhas were killed, while it is roughly calculated that from 20 to 30 per cent of the native population of the surrounding * villages were killed. v / NQ MONEY, NO PEACE. Thjs is Slogan of Japan, Says an ExMinister of the Interior. Baron Suyematsu, formerly Japanese minister of the interior, has written an interesting and significant ar tide for The Outlook, a London magazine, under the heading, "\taar and Indemnity?the Japanese Claim." The whole trend of the article is intended to show that Japan will carry on the war until Russia consents to pay indemnity. SAME AS "BLIND TIGER." Governor of Maine Charged with Sellih a Concoction of Booze. A wholesale grocery store of Rockland, Maine, owned by Governor William T. Cofto and others, was raided Wednesday by the sheriff and his deputies, and a large stock of patent medicine, said to contain a high percentage of alcohol, was seized, on tlie ground that offering the preparation for sale is in violation of the Maine prohibitory law. BAGGAGE MASTER ARRESTED, i Emanuel Charged with Stealing Valuable* from Passenger*. Gas Emanuel, baggage master 6t the Florida East Coast railway, who was arrested Wednesday- at Miami, charged with robbing the baggage of diamonds and other valuables, arrived in Jacksonville Thursday morning, and was lodged in the county Jail. There are thought to bfe others implicated, and warrants have been issued. SLOP \gOULD DO AS WELL. 8t Louis Brewers Ask That Beer be Used at Christening. Announcement that Miayor Wells of St Louis has selected Miss Gladys Bryant Smith, to christen the United States -cruiser St Louis to be launched at Philadelphia May 6, was followed by expressions generally from St. Loftis brewers that the cruiser be christened with beer, instead of the customary champagne. FOREIGNERS RESIST OFFICERS. Fierce Sunday Riot Occurs ta Little Town in Pennsylvania. Three men were shot, one probably fatally, and one woman was in - - -??ill-. TV jured in a noi at ocuueuvma, x-?., Sunday. The rioting was the result of a clash between detectives, and about twelve hundred foreign resident? of Schoenville, and was the climax of a series of smaller riots and fights , which have taken place in Schoenville , during the last two weeks. i \ NO SHORT WORK-DAY. Full Time Must Be Made by Laborers in Digging the Great Panama Ditch. i Chief Engineer Wallace of the isthmian canal commission had an interview with Secretary Taft at Washing ton Monday in which conditions on the canal were discussed. Afterwards Mr. Wallace met with members of the commission who are in the city. Members of the commission are anxiously awaiting the decision of Attorney General Moody on different subjects. It is the belief that the eight-hour law does not apply to the canal zone. Chief Engineer Wallace says that it would very seriously impede work to have the eight-hour law in effect in the construction of the canal. It would be impossible to make uniform hours for all the labor, because some labor must be employed twelve hours, while ten hours is the regular rule for most of the workingmen. The train crews that haul the men to and from the work must work an extra hour, morning and night, after the other men have concluded their labor. If it is decided that eight hours constitute the day's work thesd J men would necessarily work ten hours in order to perform their duty and ac cumynou icsune. MANY HURT IN TRAIN CRASH. J Terriffic Collision in Which Not a V Solitary Life Was Lost A dispatch from Klnglsley, Ark* M says: Twenty or more passengers ^ were injured, but none killed, by a ^ collision of the Chicago Express and . California Limited train on the Atch% | ison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, at 10 o'clock Monday night Both . % trains were east bound. No. .8, the JJ|jj Chicago Express, was standing at the station when No. 4, the limited, crash* ed into it at high speed. The engine of the second train _ '& plowed into the last Pullman sleeper M of the other train, demolishing It fJjB The cars in front also were badly - S damaged and the Iimlted's locomotiye and part of that train wrecked. The names of the injured cannot be learn-^ v| ed as yet The railroad officials put them all in a car and took them te ; |p the west end of the yard. The rear car of No. 8 was a dead-head car. v|f This was cut through from mid te M end * by the heavy engine, and the . ,-fi Pullman ahead of this was thrown off the track. Both immediately ? took fire and, with the chair and mail cars, .. ^ were entirely consumed. The engineer of No. 4 is uninjured, but the fireman is seriously hurt, as ;^| is also a porter on No. 8, and a cook on the limited. The collision was caused, it is said by the rear brakeman of No. 8 not going back to flag 3S No. 4. ENTITLED TO CARNEGIE MEDAL. Citizen of Winder, Ga., Jumps Info ^ Well and Saves Child's Life. While playing %In an old lot near ' her home in Winder, Ga., Monday ') afternoon, Mary Dottery, three years old, fell through the rotten planking ^ of a disused well filled with water. The mother and several ladies %itnessed the occurrence and their frenzied screams attracted the attention of Colonel H. T. Btheridge, a promt- % nent citizen, passing on the^ street. He ran to the scene and, without v waiting to divest his clothing, jumped ' down into the well, caught the child's sinking body and managed to keep it afloat until the assistance of near- v\ by workmen was brought. The child was unconscious when rescued, but heroic methods of resjscitation prevailed and she is now ^ welL * MWORSE THAN THE GOAT. Man Killed by Accident While Being If Initiated in Pythian Lodge. While Ebenezer Runyon was being initiated by the local lodge, Knights $ of Pythias, at Felsenthal, Ark., he ^ was shot and instantly killed. Charles 51 Filler, an officer of the lodge, was '% officiating at the initiation and it. Is J said used a revolver, which in some 'fgjM mysterious way had been loaded, al- \ though it was supposed to contain blank cartridges. i CANNOT NATURALIZE JAP8. Immigration Agent in^Texaa to Cancel Papers Hitherto Issued. Federal District Attorney McLemore % at Houston, Texas, has been Instructed by Agent VanDusen of the lmhni- ', J. gration bureau to take such steps as may be necessary to cancel the nat- 4 uralization Daoers hitherto issued to % Japanese at Hotiston and Galveston. VanDusen specifically declares that the Japanese may not be naturalized. Attorney McLemore has referred the ^ matter to the attorney general for a ruling before taking any steps. TWO RECEIVERS BOUNCED. j Judge Speer Places Affairs of Lumber 1 Company in New Hands. A Macon, Ga., dispatch says: Alfred Short.and Sylvester J. Tinthoff, ooreceivers of the Erie Lumber Com- ^ pany in bankruptcy, have been re % moved, by order of Judge Emory jj Speer, and E. P. Willingham of Ma- . :on appointed to succeed them. Rot ^ijj reason is given by the United States j court for the order of removal. 1 ;| * I