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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-06
ANDREW JACKsoN's LIBRARY.
Autograph Letter of Byron at the
Hermitage.

Three members of the board of directors
OF the Ladies Hermitage Association
visited the Hermitage yesterday for the
purpose of consulting with Mrs. Rachel
jackson Lawrence concerning the reft-
ting of the library adjoining General
Jackson's bedroom. The books belonging
to the Jackson library comprise works of
notion, history, biography, travel poems,
and are, in fact, very interesting ana
w v@able collection Of IN m t5e Ts
book cases purchased. In looking over
the collection yesterday the ladies were
attracted to handsomely bound copy
OF Byron's poems, and, opening It, found
therein the following very interesting
genuine autograph letter from Lord By
ron himself. 1t is pasted by one edge IN
the front fly leaves of the book, and has
been carefully preserved all these many
years. The volume of poems has written
on the fly leaf the name of "R. e. W:
Earle, New Orleans, January s, 1923.
follows
Sir: In various numbers of your Jour
nal have seen mentioned a work entitled
The Vampire with the addition of my
name as that of the author, | am not the
question until now In a more recent
paper I perceive a formal annunciaton
of The Vampire with the addition of an
account of my residence in the Island or
Mitylene' an island which | have Occa-
sionally sailed by in the course of travel
ing some years ago through the LeYant,
and where | should have no objections TO
reside, but where l have never yet re-
sided. Neither OF these performances are
mine and L presume that it is neither
unjust nor ungraciouS to request that you
will favor me by contradicting the adver-
tisement to which / allude If the book is
clever, it would be hard to deprive the
real writer, whoever he may be, of his
honors and if stupid, desire the respon-
sibility of nobody's dullness but my own.
VIII excuse the trouble give you.
The imputatiOn is of no great Importance,
and as long as it was confined to surnlse
and reports, 1 should have received it as
| have received many others, in silence
but the formality of a public advertise
ment of book I never wrote, and a resi-
dence where I never resided, is a little too
much particularly as l have no notion OF
the contents of the one nor the incidents
of the other.
at have a personal dislike to vampires,
and the little acquaintance / have with
them would by no means induce me TO
dtv1llge their secrets. You did me much
less injury by your paragraph about my
devotion and abandonment of society 1or
the sake of religion which appeared IN
your Messenger during last Lent, all OF
which, are not founded on fact, but you
see l do not contradict them, because
they are merely personal; whereas, the
others, in some degree, confuse the read
er. You will oblige me by complying WIN
NV request of contradiction. l assure
YOU that I know nothing OF the WORK OF
works in question, and have the honor
TO be Gas the correspondents 70 magazines
saw your constant reader ana very o3SuI-
ent humble servant, d 1rNON'
Venice April q, 1919.
"a Monsieur Galignani. is Rue NlVlehne'
Paris Nashville Banner.
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England,s POSTAGE Stamps.

For the imperial penny postage to
come into operation on Christmas day it
is not intended to produce any special
stamp, and Somerset House can meet the
Increased demand out of it's large reserve.
The Controller is authorized by law to
keep a stock of e10O000 600 worth in the
various strong rooms on the Thames en-
bankment and lest the outbreak of a fire
should by any mischance destroy the
stock, they are divided among several
separate parts of the great building, just
as it is usual to separate stock of gun
powder into several small detachments.
The explosion of powder magazine
would create hardly more topsy-turvying
in the world around than a general flare
up of our whole stock of postage stamps
Postage stamps are not made at Somerset
House though at one time they were all
brought there to be perforated. De la
Rue & Co. are the contractors. Our pres
ent set of stamps were adopted in Janu-
airy. 1887, and no forgeries have ever yet
been known-LondOn News.
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TO IMPROVE THE
SACRAMENTO RIVER

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Jan. 5-Both Assembly and Sen
ate this morning gave hearty approval to
the work that has been done in the two
years by the Sacramento River Commits
sioners by adopting an Assembly con-
current resolution calling upon congress
to use every means to bring about the
execution of the plans prepared by the
commission for the improvement OF the
river.
The commission as constituted at pres
ent was created in 1897 for the purpose OF
deciding upon the best way of preserving
the Sacramento as nayigable stream,
for the work. After two years or alnnost
constant labor plans nave been uraWn
which it is said solve the trouplesoIllaaSg
problem. The resolution OF approHa c
passed the Assembly without d1Ssentlns
voice and was Immediately sent 70 the
Senate, where it was called up py SuItg1
of Yuba, author of the original Dill II
passed the Senate as quickly as IN the
lower house, and is now in the hahus ol
the Governor.
It's provisions are as follows:
Whereas the Sacramento River Commission,
composed of Federal engineers appointed by tne
President of the United States, have, IN ac-
cordance with the duty deVolVed upon tneIn,
reported to the Congress of the United states states
a plan for the Improvement of the sacramento
River, which plan is now under eohslu tba
House of Representatives; and
Whereas the State of California mas aPpro-
prated the sum of $500 900, to be expended IN
the improvement and rectihcation of the naVl-
gable waterways of this State, and has thus
shown its willingness to assist in the work so
imperatively demanded by the needs OF COM
merce and which cannot with safety be longer
delayed. and which of right ought to be un-
dertaken and carried forward to completion
by the General Government; and
Whereas, the conditions of said river are
such that immediate action is necessary to
preserve it as a navigable stream for the pur-
pose of commerce.
Resolved, by the Senate and Assembly Of the
State Of California, jointly. That our Senators
in Congress be instructed and our Representa-
tives be requested to use all honorable means
at their disposal to secure the execution OF the
plans reported by the said Sacramento River
Commission, and to the appropriation
recommended by said commission for the pur-
pose of carrying said plans into effect; and
that we do further respectfully request the
said Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the
House of Representatives to make the apprO-
priation recommended by said Sacramento
River Commission. conformably to their report
on file with the chief engineer Of the United
States Corps of Engineers at Washington.
Resolved, That the Governor be and he is
this resolution to be mailed 10 each of our
Senators and Representatives in Congress and
send a copy thereof by telegram Immediately
after the passage of this resolution to Hon.
T. E. Burton chairman of the Committee on
Rivers and Harbors of the House Of Repre-
sentatiYes at Washington D. c.
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The latter was edited by Mr.. Churchill'
and as happened to be one ne Of the c9nt
of AaIi Pasha. the then Minister of For
eign Affairs, on finding an opinion opinion, e3 K
pressed about some political question -, OF
fhe day. IAN [ or Mr.. Churchill the
Minister of Turkey" exclaimed the
Pasha. and similar declarations had to be
To'dav there are many large daily pa
pers. and. although muzzled by rigid
censure they still 60 on faEy t and s2 Tbe
Teruirmani Hakikat fhe interpreter of
TRUTH and sabah (morning) have a aeon, con
siderable number of readers. Inc turks
have, besides, weekly and monthly pa,
pers. treating literary, philosophic ana
pathological topics, and, what is certain ,ia,I
ly most astonishing, they have got MUS
trated papers-pictures of living op)eets
were formerly looked upon as. a deadly
sin-and last, not least, ladies, paper
called Khanimlara Makhsus Gazeta, as
well as a juvenile paper called SibyaE
Bazetasi.-A. Vamberg in Literature.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-06
The Lady and the Lion.

It is without a doubt comforting re, re,
Election that we of the closing hneJeSiIIn
c fity Of an earlier stage, and that the
demoralizing gladiatoriai shows OF the
Roman arena, round which thronged I'M
emancipated mankind in its, thousands 10
witness bloody struggles between tive a man f5a
diving roars of rnangied beasts, are the all
but forgotten remnants of the various
Vet even now a. Danish lady has been
doing immense business" at EarPs
Court by thrusting her head within the
omen Jaws of a fierce lion, While others
of these terrible brutes are made by this
dauntless Amazon to leap over flaming
bars and to fire toy pistols. And one or
these DAYS the end will come. The lady
viii lose her nerve; one of the lions will
note the change; and there will be panic
of horror-Stricken spectators, who, II
they could but own it, came in the half
whispered hope of something sensational lss
of mind over matter promised in return
for their shekels.-The Saturday Review.
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should take this matter in hand, as
State Legislatures, he says, are power
less because the corporations would
simply be driven from one State to an
other by any attempt at legislation on
the part of the States. The Governor
finds fault with the present national ad-
ministration, saying:
The war was precipitated by the clamor
of an INSCRIPTIONS press, with the CO.
operation OF equally INSCRIPTIONS poll
titcians who hoped that the excitement
and hysteria of war would distract the
popular mind from the abuses of their
misgovernment and from the grievances
which our people suffered and still SUI
jects had to complain of.
Decided opposition is expressed to the
of the Philippines, the Gov
ernOr claiming that they are in no way
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-06
No More Work This Week

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Jan. 5.-Beyond the passage of
the Printing Office emergency bill moth
ing whatever in the way of legislation
will be accomplished during the first week
of the session. As the Capitol building will
be in the hands of the inaugural ball COM
mittee all day Monday the Legislature
will adjourn over from Saturday till Tues
day. 1t would adjourn from Friday to
Tuesday We're it not that it is prohibited
from adjourning over three days.
The majority caucus to-day decided
that no bills would be allowed to be intro
duced before p. m. next Tuesday con-
urday will amount to nothing more that
formal rollcalls with the possible adop-
ton or rejection of a few unimportant
resolutions
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necessary for our safety or even use
fulness, as are the Hawaiian Islands
or the Antilles. He says:
The scheme of annexation is simply a
weak imitation of the policy of European
ance or indifference respecting the vast
ly different conditions which have forced
those powers into distant colonization.
Relative to the public ownership of
railways Governor Pingree says:
I most earnestly recommend that this
Legislature inaugurate a policy looking
to the ultimate purchase by the State Of
all the railroads within its limits.
The Governor recommends that a
law be passed providing that all candi-
dates for each elective office from Gov
ernor down to ward officers be nomin-
ated by direct vote of the electors.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-06
Condition of Sick Statesmen

WASHINGTON, jan 5-Ex-Secretarv
of State John w. Foster was somewhat
worse to-day, a restless and nervous con-
dition during the night contributing to
make him weaker. The loss of strength.
however, is not so radical as to occasion
any immediate alarm, and his tempera-
ture is reported this forenoon not to have
been affected. To-day he is resting easily
and gained a little rest during the fore
noon.
Hon. Wayne MacVeagh is gaining
steadily and is convalescing.
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AGENTS OF CORRUPTION
AT WORK.
Continued from Third Page.

cused to-day on. the matter and after
conference between committees of eacn
to and will be adopted unanimously with
out debate tomorrow.
The Republicans, however, are not ike
ly to be content with simply declaring
for the ratification of the treaty. and be-
fore long they may be counted on to
bring up strong Endorsement of the ad-
ministration and a definite declaration as
event party lines will be strictly drawn.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-06
Gear Has an Amendment.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Gear
to-day gave notice of an amendment he
would offer to the Nicaragua canal bill.
authorizing the President to purchase
right of way for the canal from Costa
construction by the Government of the
United States. The amendment appro-
PIRATES Sl40, 900 for both PURPOSES.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-06
Drevfus Is Very Sick.

LONDON, Jan. 5.-The Daily Telegraph
this morning publishes a dispatch from
Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, South
America. saving that former Captain
Dreyfus, now on Devils Island, has had
serious attack of diarrhoea and a ply
stefan has been summoned from Cayenne
to attend him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-06
Tesla Culprits Sentenced

LIVERMORE, Jan. "A w. Lewis
Jack Dalton and j. Jones, who were
brought down from Tesla recently. were
sentenced to-day. Lewis to six months for
attempt al robbery. Dalton three months
for battery and Jones forty days for dis
turbing the peace.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-06
HOW BRESMES
ESCAPED FROM
THE AMERICANS
Many CuboDs Believe That He
Had HaDd in the De-
struction Of the
MuiDe.

HAVANA JAN 5Ineing revelations flight @
of
the Maine a
nay court having been appointed by Weye
Havana His
in
the
g punishment American realize
In the meantime
and Bmes then became
Judge Vaba Cuban who both able and honest
rendered him liable
Captain Sgsbee responsibility
Bresme
all
Vaba
the of
ing into the hands of the Yankees by allowing him
c.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-06
Brakeman Fuller Killed.

AUBURN, Jan. 5.-Jacob N. Fuller. a
brakeman over the long haul" was
thrown from train at Summit station
this morning He died on the train as it
reached Auburn.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-06
Turkish NEWSPAPERS.

Forty years ago there were only two
papers in Constantinople, viz, the official
Takvim-Vek Register of events). and
the Djeridei Vavadis (the list of news
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-18
GALVESTON.

Galveston, April 1.-THE A. ?. Norman
Live Stock company reports the market as
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-18
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
Bulls Succeeded in Putting Up the Price Of
All the Cereals.
CROP DAMAGE REPORTS WERE NUMEROUS
Decrease I'm visible HELPED Coarse
Gra,ps-FroviaionsL Lower.

Chicago, April lion recall Of crop dam
asc reports May wheat closed today WITH
gain OF ic Corn advanced sc and oats "a
hc. Pork declined i2isc, lard 80 and ribs 2isc
resrs OF blight on account Of the prevalence
o. warm. dry weather started wheat Arm
Pr vste crop reports were generally discour-
sging. but there we're numerous dispatches OF
tie opposite sort, which raised the hopes OF
the bears and caused heavy selling on All the
hard spots May opened %aisc higher at 70
10 75isd73H. touched 7aA. then declined IL
regularly to 1874
On report from a prominent crop stats
titan conflrmatory OF previous damage re-
ports in the principal winter wheat states. the
mGtket recovered 10 1894 Renewed iounstion
Ip May holdings quichly forced a deciine 10
~. Following tdem came gloomy reports
!. ON Michigan ana lndiana. anu recovery 20
isl4 resulteu
Chicago received Co cars. Minneapolis ana
Euutn got 5oo cars me visible supply IN
ci eosen ~ UQV bushels.
In the iast nalf hour the market tended
steadily upward. with snorts covering freely
May rose 10 HssdioA4 ana CLOSED at i3s2 Juiy
cloGeu at ~, cne premium over May being
Increased 10 ,sc.
Corn was slrong on a decrease OF 2,16o 900
guoo shipping demand several large shorts
were persistent buyers, but offerings were
Moderate, consequently the price advanced,
Receipts iSJ cars.
bdtE were talrly strong in sympathy with tine
leading cereals. Increase OF s33 100 nushei &
MAS SHOWN IN the visible supply. The trading
consisted chiefly of buying ui may and selling
NJ Juiy by commission hopaes. Receipts loo
cars
SLOW cash demand and selling by packers
MtFkCBcd provisions.
hstimatcd receipts for tomorrow--W Wheat ~
cars, corn 900 cans. oats l9t ears. hogs 1900
| head,
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" Continental Tobacco Federal stssl, Colo.
rado Fuel aud Iron ann American Steel and
Mire.
An advance In wheat gave encouragement 10
the bears who construed II as confrmetory
OF crop damage gossip.
The strength In the call money market,
which ranged from ~ TO s per cent, was 10
a measure due 10 the financing Of another
ctop ~ Industrial combinations, including
Ityments incidental TO the organization OF the
American Hoop company.
There was considerable selling for Western
account IN the afternoon trading which gave
encouragement TO large interest which ope-
r9ied apparently on the short side. London
was purchaser OF number Of dividend pay
lnE uterrsiionsls and seller Of speculative
low grade shares Expectation that the de
o.sion Of the rapid transit committee would he
rendered this afternoon was source Of
strength to Metropolitan and weakness TO
Manhattan, on the possibility that II might
fsvo' the former. The general market left on
rather weak
Business In railroad mortgages was well dis
u lbuted today and generally high range
CT prices established. Total sales ss.os5,ooo.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-18

Flour is Arm in sympathy with the strength
III wheat,
Early shipments OF poultry viii command
toy prices.
All lines Of business are quiet There Ia
slow movement in everything.
Eggs are firm at i0diic Stocks are light
ind there Is slump In receipts,
Strawberry receipts were HIGHT. and priees
ragged from 81 TO si.2S per crate,
Texas City reports shipments OF 1000 balcs of
cotton last week, leaving 1918 on hand
Reports from truck gardeners are to tho II.
feet that the rain has been Of enormous hone
Mt. There will be plenty Of late strawberries
Late advices from California express the
opinion that spricots and cherries will he
comparatively short crop hut that all other
varieties viii Weld more literally than ever
tetore.
q dispatch from PASSPORT Mama said most
81 the Sl,oOOo on for the purchase of tho sar-
oine paoking interests had been paid over TO
N, factory ownNs by representatives. 81 tho
continental Packing company
!, Is ssid that New York sugar in Denver
cfrth on the basis Of m net cash n is said
70 be the policy of Western rshnsrs 10 keep
rrloes lust enough under New York TO prevent
hrysrs 10 their territory going East for their
sugar
letter from London. dated April s. saws
that orders have been received there from
Trance for the return OF prunes held on con
signmsnt 10 Bordeaux the requisition being
riede on the strength Of the great DANA ge 70
tht growing crop by the recent frosts.
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Inn1an&R Read

SIS Iberia, Jacobsen, Bocas del Tore.
Sch Jennie S. Butler, Pensacola.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-18
GRAIN AND Ray.

Carload lots. T. b. cars from millers deal.
ers charge from store 50l0c more nsr 100 lbs
on bran 2gSC per bushel on oats and corn,
and l0Gtlbc per 100 lbs on hay.
BRAN-Pef 100 lbs. Csc; corn bran 67Ac.
CHOPPED SoRN-Per 100 lbs, 1sc.
CORNING. ,. sucked iOc per bu.
oATS-TeNas S0iaN34o pei bu.
MllLET SEED--7bc.
SORGHUM--S5c per bushsl,
WHEAT SHORTS Sjc per 100 lbs.
WHEAT SCREENtNGS-70 IS0c per bu
hay Alfalfa, $40 00d1ioo per tom timothy
81 50Giioo; Sorth Texas prairie hay S O0p
soc. North Texas $e.00Gl000
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-18
A GENERAL FINANCIAL REVIEW
STOCKS OPENED ACTIVE, HUT
LATER WERE WEAK.
Rate of Call Money Advanced aud n
Discrimination in Loans Against
IpdustrinIs the Cause.

New York, April ia rise in call money
aud recurrence Of the discrimination In
lotns against the industrials caused prices 10
reeede below Saturdays close in the after
noon trading. The market. as usual on Mon
day after strong Saturday closing, opened
active aud strong on an accumulation OF out
side orders. Except for squirt OF strength
In the srangers with Burlington ieadng--al-
though they subsequently lost about all or
their earlier gdin-the dealings were largely
confined to the industrials and speciaitles.
Prominent ia the early strength were thu To-
bacco, Iron and Steel shares. Cotton OIL and
General Electric. The latter was influenced
tstfan, Sugar and BROOKLYN RAND Transit
we're consistently weak although BROOKLYN
Rtpd Transit recovered somewhat from the
a6ysre.a mos, resd,,y rs.,ss re,, ,o,s,,y
conspicuous IN the afternoon decline, especial.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-18
knrr-rnire..

Flatonis Texas. April is.-Mr rsschai
Kerr and Miss Katie Fairies were united in
marriage at the BAPTIST church last Wednes-
day evening. April ~, az $50 O'Clock rev.
Rowland officiating
The church had been simply vet testefullY.
decorated and the seasons beautiful Movers
everywhere IN evidence we're NJ compliment
Miss Fairy FARES and Mics Msrgare, Kerr
looking lovely in evening dresses. ushered THE
immense concourse 81 relatives ana trlenn ;
10 their seats that assembled 70 see ms pos
ular Young couple Joined In the holy bonds
our home orchestra furnished the music
and at the, appointed hour, as ne sMest
the ushers proceeded up .he aisle, followed
Nv the little flower girls. Misses Fsy Arnim
and.Etoo Routh ard the weda,ns marty IN t ne
Eva Brown OF La Grange tainhiy eoNned In
white organdy ever green ss tn, sIip Mr.
Frank NJ stanford and MISS kena Futile OF
crrandv gown over blue tsTeta The bride,
e. uuisitcly gcwned n white orsandy over
white satin en- demi-traln. VIM ,eii. ,. came u
who wore white orEandy over ctrise, aud met
the groom, who came in with his hest man,
lir ] l.. Hudson. az the altar where the
beautiful ceremony was uttered that made
The brides bouquet VAS Of dainty rosebuds
which We're cmblematio Of her Youth BEAUTY
aud innoccuce. The bridesmalds carried
lunches OF sweet peas.
Tho groom and groomsn'en wore the cou-
yCntional black
immediately after the ceremony the bridal
rnrty repaired to the brides fathers. Mr.. c.
IL. Fairies. aud received their friends, who
rendered most hearty and sincere congratuls-
tons. In the course Of the vsnirg. dainty re-
n esbments were served. consisting OF salad
course. cake. ices and bon hons. The favofs
were Fortunes" tied M in peanut shells with
ribbons. This was quite uni1ue feature and
on hetnE fesd produced much sntrrinent
Mr. and Mrs Kerr viii make their home
here ard Il Is safe 20 say that NC more non
hiur Nnunk rouple ever lsuneas thsir hns,
srors ristorIans, or undss mere faye.ss.e
leircumstances
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