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the law, still there are no limitations in
the section itself; it is the latest ex-
preston of the legislative will upon
might often be easily overcome by gov
erning bodies
The purpose of the Act "to purchase
lease or construct water works and
electric plants, and all the machinery
conductors and appliances necessary
therefor is undoubtedly a most COM
mendable one, but the extent of the
cost should first be ascertained and the
question submitted to the people as to
whether they desire to SO build, or pur-
chase, or lease, and to assume the addi-
tfonal tax necessary for said purpose.
A limitation on this section by a provlso
that the water works, electric plants
and all machinery, conductors and ap-
pliances necessary therefor shall not
exceed in price the sum of from $4,000
to S1o, 900 would undoubtedly relieve
the bill of many of it's Objectionable
features. If a further provisO was add
ed that in all cases where the estimated
cost and expense necessary for the pur-
chase, lease or construction of such
plants or the erection of such works eX-
ceeded said sums, the proposition would
be submitted to the people for their
votes, the Act would be further i'm
proved. Without such safeguards it
can easily be seen what temptations
Will be offered persons or corporations
owning water works, electric plants or
similar property, to influence Trustees
or Councilmen to purchase or lease
said works or plants for the city at an
eXtraVagant cost, or upon conditions
which the taxpayers. who will have to
pay for them, would not sanction and
might vigorously oppose. To give the
power conferred by this bill to Boards
of Trustees or Councilmen without the
express sanction of a vote of the peo-
pie, who will have to meet the cost of
the contemplated purchase or lease, is
dangerous and would prove unsatisfac-
tory, and in many instances oppressive
With the amendment suggested l can
see no objection to the bill, and in such
amended form would be pleased to see
it become a law.
JAMES H. BUDD, Governor.
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SACRAMENTO MARKET.
Very Quiet Day in Local Produce
Circles.

t1rcleS.
Sacramento, Feb. 18th.
This was very quiet day in local pro-
duce circles, trade being light in all lines
Following are the retail prices for the
various articles mentioned:
FLOUR-Family Extras, 81 60 per 100
1bs; 81 80 for 30 lbs.
FRUIT-Apples, &c per 10: s1Q1 % per
box; Eastern Apples, sc per 10 Oranges
Mandarin, 25c per dozen: Nayels 50GI75c:
Seedlings. 20440c; Lines, 10c; Lemons, 10
023c per dozen; CocoanutS, 10c each.
Pineapples, 30QJ0c each; Bananas, 15Q25c
,NUTs-New walnuts, 12lse per ID; New
cans, Ice; Filberts, 15c; Chestnuts. 2oc:
Pine Nuts, 15c; Hickory Nuts I0c
DAIRY -Butter--Piekle. 200
1s@2oc Petaluma. 45c per roll; Creamery
SOC per roll Cheese-California, 1212c per
ib: Young America, 13c; Eastern Cream
Swiss, soc; Martins Creamery, zee; Sage
! Cheese, 20c; Neufchatel, 10c.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. u Squash, &c per
Peppers dry, i5c per lb; Caulifower, i05
each; Lettuce, three for &c; Bunch Vege
tables Goots), 121ac; per dozen
Celery, Sci Cabbage, 114c per 10: Onions, &c
Highland Potatoes, soc per sack: Sweet
Potatoes, &c per 1b:, Spinach, &c per 10:
punches for &c; Artichokes. G0c per dozen;
oyster Plant, 1212c per dozen; Green Peas,
Sc; New Potatoes, 4c; Asparagus 1Jc.
POULTRY-Hens, Coo each; Springs 50c
each; Broilers, 40c each; Tame Geese 81 80
each; Tame Ducks, 75c each; Young Tur
keys, 20c per ID.
EGGS-California, 2O622l%c per dozen
MEATS-Beef-Prim Rib Roast, 121zcGe
15c; Loin Steak, 12H01Jc; Rump Steak,
loc; Chuck Roast Toe; Rump, Sc: Brisket
SC; Chuck Steak, 10c. Veal-Loin and Rib
Chops, 15c; Roast Veal, 12c. Mutton-Leg
11dl2l2c; Loin and Rib Chops 121%c; Mutt
ton Stew, Sc; Shoulder Chops Sc. Pork
S012c per 10: COrned Beef, SQ12l2c; Saus-
age, 1212c; Vienna Sausage, 1Jc; Bacon
sQ13kc; Ham, 121201312c.
HAY AND GRAIN-Oat Hay. 50d55c
per cwt; Alfalfa. first cutting, 43050c; sec
ond and third cuttings, 50u5Jc; whole Bar
ley, 81; Ground Barley, 81 10; Feed Oats.
81 2001 so: Middlings, SOC: Bran, soc:
Straw, 30455c: Corn, 81 10 per ctl; Cracked
GRANITE MINING GCANDLES-CEhole
sale1; 10 OF, 6hc; II OF, &c; IA OF, nc; 16
ELECTRIC LIGHT TCANDLEs-(Whole-
salel; 10 OF, 5Ac; l. OF, &c; IA OF, 634c; Is
COAL IL-Wholesale-Pearl lie: Star.
1.c; Eocene, 19c; Elaine, 22c; Extra Star.
2lc; Water White (bulk), Ike.
GASOL1NE-Wholesa Gasoline.
cases, lie; Stove Gasoline. bulk, 11l2c; 81
degree Gasoline, cases, 25c; So degree Gas
oIine, bulk, 20c; 63 degree Benzine, cases,
l6!2c; 63 degree Benzin5, bulk, lie.
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SAN FRANCISCO STOCK MARKET
San Francisco. Feb. 1Gth.

San Francisco, Feb 10Th
Morning Sessions & b, 6SGt61c; Bullion
13c; Chollar SS0s1c: c c V, 81 10; II & y,
81 %; Occidental, DC; Ophir, 90c; Potosi
46M45c; Savage, 44c.
Afternoon Session-Ophir, S96SSc; Mex
lean, 3Sc: G q c, 44c: B & B, 65c; c V
81 10: Savage. 43c; Chollar, See Potosi, 43c,
Yellow Jacket 2Jc; S Nevada, 36c; Bul-
lion, 12c; Occidental, SC; Benton, 1Sc; See
Belcher Tc.
Closing Quotations-Alta. 4c: Alpha. &c
Andes, 14c; Belcher, 23c; r & b. 6ac; Bul-
lion. 12c: Caledonia, Sc; Challenge, sec
Chollar, Sc Confidence, Ole; c c Y, So o.
Con Imperial. 1c; c Point, 22c: EXchequer
&c; G d c, 42c; II & n, 81 20 Kentuck, 1c
Lady Washington, 1c; Mexican, SIC; Occi-
dental, SC; Ophir, Ssc; Overman, 1oc: Po-
tosi, 44c; Savage, 42c; Scorpion, &c; S Ne
vada, 36c; Union, 35c; Utah, &c; Yellow
Jacket 24c.
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COMMERCIAL.
SPOT WHEAT UNCHANGED AND
FUTURES WEAKER.
Ordinary Feed Barley Offering Freely,
While Choice Bright is in
Limited Supply.

San Francisco, Feb. 10th
Spot Wheat is unchanged; quotations are
nominal; futures are weaker and not as
active as yesterday. Barley is still un-
changed; ordinary feed is offering freely,
but choice bright is in limited supply;
brewing is lifeless. No further changes in
Oats; the market is easy; trading has been
OF u light nature: free arrival OF Eastern
oats. with ample supplies of California
To-days' receipts of Eastern Corn We're
heavy no native Corn arrived: market
quiet and easy. No demand for Rye and
prices are nominal
Apples are moving fairly well; few ex-
tras bring 81 30: none in to-day. Free ar
rivals of Oranges yesterday and two cars
in to-day. the market is steady, with
tendency toward higher prices. Another
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YET ANOTHER VETO.

JAMES H. BUDD, Governor
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To Cure Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money IL it
fails to cure. 25c.
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a. 30 for young
GAME-Hare, 81 per dozen: Gray Geese,
50 80; Rabbits, S1G1 80; White Geese. 81;
Brant, 81 80; Honkers, 81 per dozen:
English Snipe, 81 so; common, do, 81 25p
so
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Before wiring your house get my
prices; also inspect my electric fixtures.
Tom. Scott. plumber. 303 ].
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And your nerves are strained, take An
heuser- Busch's Malt -Nutrine-the food
drink Ii is soothing and strengthening
At all druggists.
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Meat Market.

Following are the rates for whole car
casses from slaughterers to Dealers:
BEEF-First quality, &c; second
quality 4I4Q5l2c: third quality. 4e per ~
VEAL-6a1c for large and I4Sc per ID for
small.
MUTTON-Wethers. 615c; Ewes, &c
per NJ.
LAMB--7GSc per fb for Yearlings and
10M1212c for Spring
PORK-Live Hogs, 33sG3l@c per ID for
5QJ12c per ID
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Eastern Grain ATarkest.

New York. Feb. 10th.
WHEAT-May, 797sc July, 77Isc; Sep
tember, 74s.c.
Chicago. Feb. 10th
w WHEAT-February 72l2c; May, 74c;
July, 10Hc; September 6S%.c.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-02

honestly acknowledged them to be genuine
aud correctly reported; many who went to
scor nave remained 10 pray; others have
gone away thoughtful and hesltating; others,
like the brave boy passing a graveyard at
night, have kept up whistling or talking
aloud for fear of seeing ghosts: others
again have refused to go near the place,
and these are the loudest in ridiculing it;
a great multitude continue simply to ignore
it as If it were not in existence. Mr.. Hud-
son, in his Law of Psychical Phenomena"
classes it with the invocation of the gods
by the Egyptian priests, with mind cures,
Christian science, animal magnetism, etc.
Up 2). But then he explains the miracles
OF Christ and the apostles on the same pr.n-
ciplo as all these (cc., XXiii.. xXiv.). Those
who feel called upon to refute the lessons
that Lourdes pretends to teach, ignore the
cures that the court of inquiry has approved,
and fasten upon the multitude of rejected
cases, many of which are no doubt the
effects of an excited imagination.
CONCLUSION.
Let the Society for PsychicaI Research,
under the presidency of their worthy Prof.
Crookers, initiating the example of tho
Lourdos tribunal, draw the line distinctly
between reliable and unreliable data in
telepathy, and give us, not a hodge-podge
of truth and fiction, like Mr.. Hudson's book,
or like the yearly reports called 'Procecd-
ings of the Society for Psychical Research
but a series of demonstrated facts upon
which we can base our test of theories. Till
this shall have been done, | attach no i'm
to a mere distant point of analogy,
such as suggests the novel theory to the
learned professor. If this be accomplished,
and we get facts demonstrated along with
hypothesis, both plaleibiy connected to-
] for one will hail 1t as a precious
addition to the treasury Of science. Till
thea, l class telepathy among the fads.
V RAYS.
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NEW AND NOVEL.

In a newly painted hair brush for military
or travelling use the back is followed out
and fitted with a sliding cover 10 hold a
comb, soap, etc.
A recently designed chair can be changed
into a bed by dropping the back and rails
ing the %footrest, the sides opening out fiat
to make it wider II desired.
A handy music-holder that needs no stand
ard can be attached to a table by means
of a spring clamp and has steel arms to
hold the sheets of music in place,
Snare drums can be attached TO chairs
for orchestral playing by means Of n new
device, consisting OF a frame to hold the
drum fitted with clamps to fasten to the
chair.
Cradles and rocking chairs are to be
manufactured soon which are fitted with
pneumatic and cushion pads on the bottoms
of the rockers to make them noiseless and
comfortable.
To keep mucilage brushes from drying up
a new device has the brush placed inside a
metal frame, to spring downward when
wanted for use by pushing on a knob at
the top of the handle.
A new collar button has points placed in
side the hinged portion for the purpose OF
holding the band OF a necktie and preventing
IL from turning around on the neck or slip
ping out from under the button,
The combination of a dipper and funnel has
Just been patented, a short nozzle being
placed In the bottom OF the dipper, with a
valve operated by a spring level running par
allel to the handle of tho dipper.
One Of the newest designs for an oil can
has wooden casing of cylinder shape sur
a barrel-shaped tin or glass can.
which is piyoted in the casing at the ends
and tips downward to let the oil flow out.
Tips and ferrules for umbrellas and canes
can be changed for summer and win
ter use are composed OF rubber or steel
points, and are fitted with a screw to fit
in a metal socket In the end OF the cane.
Water bottles with small necks are so
difficult to clean that one recently patented
win be much appreciated, the neck being
and fitted to the bottle with
a glass collar holding a soft packing to pre-
vent all leakage.
Music leaves can be turned automatically
either backward or forward by a new device
consisting of two cylinders placed on oppo-
sides of the music rack and connected
with tubes running to two sets OF bellows
near the pedals. pressure on either set Of
bellows moving the piston rod on that side
10 operate the finger engaging the top sheet
Of music.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-02
CITIES LINKED BY STEEL
New Bridge to Bind the Principle Sections
Ct Greater New York.
REARING AN IMMENSE STRUCTURE
Description of the Great East River
Bridge from Foundation 10 SUI
perstructure-Hugc Tow
ers OF steel.

The early days Of May will see an actual
beginning in the construction of the new
East river bridge, which is to Join the two
principal sections Of Greater New York and
and become the twin OF the present Brooklyn
bridge. Within the next few days the fret
of the huge caissons which are to be used in
building the foundations Of the bridge piers
will be towed into position and the work Of
erecting the piers will begin. 1t has taken a
long time for the work to reach even this
preliminary stage. 1t was in 1892 that a
charter was first granted for the building of
q bridge across the East river at the point
where the new structure will stand. Prac-
tically no progress was made until 1895,
when the task OF building the bridge was
undertaken by the cities of New York and
Brooklyn and by them turned over to a board
OF commissioners A year and a half was
required for the completion OF plans and the
clearing away of legal difficulties, and it was
only last fall that the contract for the first
OF the work, that Of building the pier founda-
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description, It is in reality a most stupen
dous and difficult undertaking.
THOUSANDS OF MILES OF WIRE.

description, It is in reality a most stupen-
dous and difficult undertaking.
THOUSANDS OF MILES OF WIRE.
Perhaps an idea OF it's extent may be OBJ
tained from the statement that the masonry
In the piers would build a large church,
that the steel In the tow ers of the new
bridge would build three miles OF elevated
railroad, and that the wire in the great
cables, IL stretched out in a single straight
line, would reach almost around the globe.
In the actual work Of construction the
order followed by the engineer is reversed.
The foundations and anchorages are first
built. The work Of building the foundations
is in itself highly interesting, since the work
must be carried on many feet under water.
To tunnel to bedrock beneath the mud OF
sand at the bottom Of a river seems a diff
cult matter, but in reality 1t is comparatively
safe and simple, 1t is done by means of
caissons. which, IL not originally designed
by Americans, have been so greatly i'm
proved by our engineers that they may be
called an American invention. In appear
ance a caisson is simply a huge inverted
dry goods box Of steel or wood. Those which
are to be used in the East river bridge
will be built OF timbers, stoutly braccd to
Withstand high pressure. The one that has
already been built is 76X60 feet and nineteen
feet high. In its construction something
like 100000 feet of pine have been used and
some acres of Georgia timber land have been
denuded to form these temporary structures
for work on the new bridge. On Its lower
side, as It rests in the water, the caisson
has a working chamber eight feet high,
which VIII accommodate some forty or fifty
workmen.
The completed caisson is to be towed
to the foot of Delaney street. New York,
and when it is located on the exact site
where the pier foundation is to stand work
men will begin erecting the masonry foun-
dation on its top, the weight causing it to
sink in the water. At this spot the water
is only twenty feet deep, so that the Gals
son will rest on the ground as soon as 1t
is submerged. But the bedrock on which
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the great stifening truss, which will extend
from pier to pier and will be OF steel, forty
five feet high. Their object is to make the
bridge rigid and TO keep IL from swaying, as
1t would IN left entirely to the cables. The
superstructure Of the bridge will be united
to these trusses by a double system of brac-
ing from above and below, and will make the
whole structure very firm. The floor itself,
on which will rest the two elevated tracks,
the four surface car tracks. the carriage
ways and the footpaths, which altogether
make the bridge lis feet wide, will, Of
course, be made OF steel girders and plates.
To show the attention required by seem
ingly unimportant details it may be well to
note the precautions taken against damage
by the wind. What is called wind pressure
Is to be resisted by joining the cables in the
center and by a double system Of lateral
bracing. An allowance of several hundred
pounds is made also for the wind load" of
the bridge. The great width OF the new
bridge will be a considerable protection
against wind, but some other suspension
bridges have been greatly injured and even
wrecked by great wind storms. Changing at
mospheric conditions, temperature, etc.-in
fact, everything that could possibly affect
the bridge in any way-is provided for with
equal care.
A MODEL BRIDGE.
When the new bridge is completed, it
will be the model of it's kind. 1t will not
be so long as the Great Forth bridge in Scot
land, in fact its length will be nearly the
same as that of the present Brooklyn bridge,
but it will have certain improvements on
both of these. The abrupt DETECTION of the
cables, the greater height of the towers and
the fact that they are to be of steel instead
of stone, have already been mentioned, and
there are various other new features. For
example. the new bridge will be unlike the
earlier one in that only its main span will
be supported by the cables. The approaches
will be separate deck bridges and will rest
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-02
POEM py JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

Miss Mary Thompson of Terre Haute,
Ind. eldest daughter Of ex-Secretary of the
Navy Thompson, has an autograph poem
dedicated to her by John Quincy Adams,
She recalls the writing CT 1t when she, as a
child, stood at his side and curiously OBJ
served the movement Of his palsied hand
while he wrote the poem. A quill pen was
used, and, although the lines are tremulous,
each letter is well defined. Miss Thompson
has the distinction of having been the first
female child ever taken on the foov OF the
house of representatives, where her father
sat at the side of Mr.. Adams, and where he
wrote this poem):
TO MISS MARY GARDINER THOMPSON.
oh! had /, lovely maiden, but the power.
Here, on this page, thy destiny to write,
With lavish hand what blessings would l
To fiji Thy future days with keen delight.
Spring, summer, autumn, winter, each in
To thee the tribute of his joys should
bring;
For thee stern winters social fires should
burn,
For thee should Flora shed her soft per-
fume,
For thee her luscious fruits should sum
For thee should autumn's waving harvest
loom,
For thee Pomona's vintage crown the
field.
And all the rolling seasons should be thine,
And thine they shall be, for thy soul is
pure,
And virtue shields. with energy divine,
From all the Ills that mortals must en-
dure.
Thus as through life thy tickle fortunes
fly,
Should winters frosts with pain thy
bosom wiring,
Turn thee to virtues sunshine in the sky
And bloom afresh In never-fading spring.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
Washington, 2lth August, 1912.
There Is not a headache In a dozen Of
Cooks Imperial Champagne. It's extra dry,
kan,Ant GnA Ranarl Lall a nAnlnrN
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The priest and priestess of one of the
minor religions contemplated the votive Of
ferings of edibles of the highest grade
which had been placed before the idol.
Pretty good layout today said the
priest.
And just to think" said the priestess,
with the light that can come only in the
eyes of woman illuming her orbs, eve
got them at a sacrificed"
The Independence 0owa) Herald tells a
story of a country merchant who visited
that city and purchased from a dollar store
him, and after putting a tag on it, re-
marked $14, made a present of it to a
Methodist preacher, whose church his fam
lily attended. The reverend gentleman took
the package home, opened it and examined
the contents. The next day he took the
caster with the tag attached back to the
| groceryman. and said to him: II am too
poor in this worlds goods to afford to dis
| play so valuable a caster on my table, and
if you have no objections, | should like to
return 1t and take $l4 worth of groceries
instead. The merchant could do nothing but
acquiesce.
There was a written examination on the
Book of the Acts the other day in a London
Sunday school, and one scholar turned in
| the following: 'Wnen lney saw stephen lHey
were in such a temper that they knashed
him with, their teeth, and charged him to
be taken out of the city and stoned. Ste
| phen said: 'Ye stiff-necked things, why
speak we so?' The second supernatural event
was the striking down dead of Ananias and
| Sapphire his wife for telling lies to Peter.
This was supernatural, because 1t is. not
natural to have persons struck down dead
for telling lies! Ananias and Sapphire
were two great prophets. Ananias prayed
to God to take him to heaven, and it came
to pass that as he was on his horse he was
carried up to heaven
Why is it that church stories are always
funny? Here is really a very good one:
| Not many years ago, in a country church,
the rector, preaching with great earnest
| ness for home missions, took for his text
Feed me with food convenient for me.
| AS he came down from the pulpit well con-
| tent with the effect his eloquence had pro-
| duced on the congregation, the disturbing
| thought struck him that he had made no
| arrangement for the collection (sure to be
a liberal one on this occasion). As he passed
| through the chancel he whispered hurriedly
to an intelligent choir boy, go into the
vestry, take the plate you will find on the
table, hand it round to the congregation,
and then bring it to me- The boy de-
parted on his errand, and the rector took
his place within the communion rails and
gave out the offertory hymn:
The last words Of this had scarcely died
away when the boy stood before him, a
plate of biscuits in his hand and an apollo
getic expression on his chubby face. Please
sir" he exclaimed, in an audible voice, I've
handed them all around to everybody, and
nobody won't take none!'
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-02

There Is not a headache In a dozen OF
Cooks Imperial Champagne. It's extra dry,
boquet fine. Record. half a century.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-02
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IMpfETIES.

The priest and priestess of one of the
minor religions contemplated the votive of
ferings of edibles of the highest grade
which had been placed before the idol.
Pretty good layout today said the
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24

tial to their fruitfulness. We know
of trees that have borne heavy crops
for years-except when cut short by
an untimely frost-and they stood
more neglect than any tree belonging
to the list of cultivated fruits.
1t seems as though the Northern
markets are only now learning of the
reliability of the pear crop of Florida,
as the demand for this crop and the
prices realized therefrom were unusu.
ally good the past season. Of the va
rieties proving most fruitful, the Lee
Conte and Keifer stand at the head OF
the list, and we believe them to be
safe and profitable bearers, and well
adapted to the Gulf region, reaching
from Florida to Texas. Suitable trees
may be had of any good nurseryman
for from 81 to $40 per 100. Now is the
time to order. The sooner they are
put out now the better.-Ex.