Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1888, Page 4

4 ' - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE L SAURSDAY OCTOBER 2. 1888 ' i g, THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Morning Edition) lacluding SUNDAY, Tiwk, One Year AT (] or 8ix Months For Three Months uxpAY BEE, mailed to any ear L V14 AND 916 FARNAM 10¥, ROOMR 14 AND 16 TR BUILDING, WASIINOTON OFFICE, NO. FOURTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating tonews lqll adl- torial matter should be addressed to the Epitonr OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS, Allbusiness letters and remittances should be nddressed to THE BEE PURLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to bemade payablé to the order of the compa e Beg Publisting Company, Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. @worn Statement ot Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, 'u.8. County of Douglas, { % Robort Hunter, clerk for The Bee Pub- 1ishing Company, does solemnly swear that the wsctual circulation of THE DAty Bee for the week ending October 20, 1834, was as follows Tuesday, Oct, Wednesday, Oc Thursday, Oct. Friday, Oct. 19 ... Baturday, Oct. 20. Average.........coeueues ; ROBER TE! Sworn 40 before me and subscribed in R my Ppresence this 20th day of October A. D, 1885, ‘Real. N b FRIL, Notary Fublic. Btate of Nebraska, ‘Gouaty of beugias, |5 George B, Trschuck, being duly sworn, he i secretary of The pany, that the actual avers daily circulation of Tk DAILY B for the montn_of October, 1887, 14,333 copies; vember, 187, 15,26 copies; for Decem 16,041 copies; for January, 1883, 16,206 copies: for February, 1888, 15,002 copies: for March, 1885, 1040 copies; for April, 1, 174 copte May, 1883, (8,181 copies; for Jiine, 1588, for July, 1884, 18,033 cop! or August, 83 copies; for Beptenber, {A8S, was 18, 16k coples. GEORGE B,'TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before and subscribed in my pres- ence, this 9th day of October, A. I, 1888, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. de- Bee THE pig lead trust turned out to be a very hoggish affair. E— Now that the board of public works s fully reorganized, the citizens will expect greater efficiency and vigilance from that bod, M. KIERSTEAD reads title clear now on the board of public works, and our amiable Douglas street contem- porary is gnawing a file. ma——— CLEVELAND is the rival of Chicago Just now. With all her boodlers, Chi- cago has had no city treasurer bold enough to default for half a million. THERE are sixty-five thousand young men in Indiana who will cast their maiden vote on November 6, and what is gratifying forty thousand of them are said to be republicans. MR. PARNELL, so far, has met every point raised by his detractors in court. He has parried every thrust and put the London 7imes on the defense. With the advantage that Mr. Parnell now holds, there can be little doubt but that single-handed he will down his huge adversary. THereE is another candidate for mayor of New York in the field. The wrohibitionists have nominated W. T. ‘Wardwell. This makes six candidates already. Itisfortunate that the elec- tion takes place within two weeks, else there might be more candidates than electors in that city. THE republicans of Nebraska have tried Governor Thayer and found him faithful to every trust and obedient to the public will. They renominated him because they felt that he merited such vecognition of honorable service and of fidelity to duty. The great body of the party will support him at the ballot box and continue him in office another term, THE favorable reception of the report of the special committee appointed to investigate garbage crematories indi- cates that the council 1s in earnest to dispose of the garbage nuisance for all time. It is to be hoped that immediate stops will be taken in the matter and that a crematory will be erected within afow months. With a proper garbage system and an enforcement of the street sweeping contracts, there is no reason why Omauha should not be the cleanest city in the country. THE latest dispatches from England indicate a deplorable condition in the coal mining districts, Nearly all the large colleriesin Yorkshire are idle, due to sprending of the miner’s strike. It is the old story of low wagesand increased cost of living, due to the enhanced price of bread. The fact that coal has advanced from thirty to seventy per cont in price only intensifies the suffer- ing which will affect the poor of the cities in Great Britain this winter. E—— EVERY voter who is not a hide-hound partisan will carvefully inform himself s to the charactor and qualifications of the candidates of the two parties in Douglas county, and will cast his vote for the men whom he believes will best represent the sentiment and most ac- ceptably serve the interests of the peo- pleof the county and state. As be- tweon men equally capable and trust- worthy we should desire the success of republican candidates, but we hold that every voter should put the question of county and state wellure above that of party suce: No coMMUNITY is more interested than Omaha in the Cattle Growers' con- vention which will be held in Chieago on Monday, November 19, under the auspices of the Conmsolidated Cattle Growers’ association. Reduced rates will be given by all the railroads to those who attend the convention, and the date has purposely been made sim- ultaneous with the Chicago cattle show. The position of Omaha insures to its meat business a permanence which will warrant large investments. Itisonly a guostion of a few years when Omaha und Kansas City must be the two great besf canning pointe, It is therefore a mutter of business to take part in all such conventions and to interest our- selves in all discussions as to the best modes of using corn for fattening pur- poses. HE HAS TALKED ENOUGI, It is understood that General Harri- gon has wisely decided not to make any more speeches during the campaign. He has certainly done his full share of talking, and he is entitled to a rest for the few remaining days of the canvass, Moreover, he has so completely and so ably covered the ground of every ques- tion that is at all involved in the cam- paign that it is hardly possible that ho can add to the value of what he has said. Whatever may be the result of the election, the record which General Har- rison has made by his numer- ous speeches will long be re- membered to his honor. His utterances on all occasions, not a few of which have been uncommonly exacting, have shown him possessed of extensive and varied information regarding pub- lic affairs, of sound judgment and dis- cretion, and of an original and most happy faculty of presenting his views not surpassed in force and effectiveness by any man in either political party. He has not committed a single mistake of which the opposition could take an advantage, while he has furnished his own party many strong and sententious observations which have been widely used and have impressed thoughtful men everywhere. More than any other man in either party he has upheld the idea that thisis an educational cam- paign, and has contributed as much as any other man to make it so. Upon such a record, and the convic- tion he may warrantably feel that he has performed his whole duty to his party so far as the campaign is con- cerned, General Harrison may properly decline to make any more speeches, and he should be permitted the rest which his laborious and useful service has earned. PERSISTING IN A FALSE CLAIM. Democratic speakers still endeavor to justify the policy of the treasury under tho present adininistration in depositing a large part of the surplus with national banks by claiming that a precedent was made by Mr. Sherman when secretary of the treasury. This persistence in a false claim after it has been distinctly shown to be s0,and the difference in the conditions has been clearly pointed out on the floor of the senate and in a pri- vate letter, very well illustrates the small respect that the democratic cam- paigners have for the truth and for the popular intelligence. The author of this claim, we believe, was Speaker Carlisle, and so far as we are aware that distinguished democratic leader has never acknowledged his misrepre- sentation. As most of the other demo- oratic orators take their cue from the Kentucky statesman, it is but natural that they should repeat the false claim and stick to it. The charge was that while Sherman was secrotary of the treasury he had at one time in a single bank more money than the present administration has had at any time in all the banks of the coun- try. The time referred to was 1879, and the misleading character of the demo- cratic statement is clearly shown by the facts of the situation at that date. The refunding of bonds was in ac- tive operation, and, as Mr. Sher- man explains, the enormous sums deposited in national banks to the credit of the United States were placed there by private individuals or corporatious in the purchase of four per cent bonds. The six per cent could not be redeemed under the law in less than ninety days, and in order to prevent an enormous withdrawal of money from circulation before such redemption could take effect, buyers of the new four per cent bonds were allowed to deposit the purchase money in the banks in- stead of sending it to the treasury. When the time for redeeming the six per cent bonds arrived this money was rapidly withdrawn from the banks by the treasury, and within four months the deposits with the banks to the credit of the government were reduced to twelve million from over two hundred million dollars. No business man can fail to see the difference between the treasury allow- inge bond purchasers to deposit their money with banks of their choice while the refunding operations were in pro- gress, and the treasury itself placing on deposit with the banks a large part of the surplus from which the banks reaped all the benefit. The more the democratic orators agitate this subject the less justifiable appears the policy which the present administration has pursued. — SOMETHING MUST BE DONE. Mr. Louis Heimrod, late member of the board of public works, has called attention to systematic frauds on the part of paving contractors which seriously affoct the taxpayers and prop- érty owners of Omaha. The burden of paying for pavements does not merely fall upon the owners of property abutting paved strects, but upon every owner of property within the corpovate limits of this city. 1If it is true, as Mr. Heimrod charges over his own name, that a single firm of paving contractors, who have been awarded contracts for one hundred and eighty thousand yards of cedar block pavement, have by evading the specifi- cations, pocketed sixty-five thousand dollars of the taxpayers’ money, the enormity of public improvement frauds can hardly be computed. Mr. Heimrod’s charges are too ex- plicit and specific to be ignored by the city’s authorities. It is bad enough that greedy and dishonest contractors have palmed hundreds of thousands of yards of worthless cedar block pavement upon our short-sighted and gullible property owners. Most of this wooden mush-pavement will rot out and have to be replaced within five years. Butif, on top of this imposture the concrete bed, which costs a greater sum than the blocks, is short in the quantity of cement and thickness prescribed, as charged by Mr. Heimrod, the taxpayers have been literally swindled and robbed, Mr. Heimrod has confined his investi- gations ana exposure to one set of con- tractors, but the manifest duty of the mayor and city authorities is to make a " very thorough inves- tigation of pavements and pav- fng operations, regardless of whom may be affected. Nothing less will sat- isfy the taxpayers. Up to within the last year Omaha has heen comparatively freo from jobbery and swindling in our public works, but contractors have combined, and it is an open ret that they exercise a most pernicious influence upon the council by bulldozing and corrupt methods. It is notorious that the ring-masters of the contractors' combine have dragged members of the council to whisky mills and other resorts; have audaciously spirited away members to de- feat measures that were of- fensive, and dragooned some of the weak-backed city fathers into supporting their claims and bills that were, on their face, extravagant atd dishonest. In other words, Omaha has become the center of rottenness and boodling through the 1nfamous conspir- acies set on foot by contractors’ rings which will bankrupt the city unless they are broken up and brought to an ac- countability for their flagrant violations of contracts. E—— THE movement started less than a year ago to induce British subjects to become American citizens has been notably successful. Itis said that nearly fifty thousand of her majesty’s subjects have taken the necessary steps to change their allegiance, and British- American associations have been formed in a number of states whose patriotic object it is to reduce the num- ber of unnaturalized natives of Great Britain resident in this coantry. Dele- gates from nine states met in Chicago on Monday to form a national associa- tion of British-American citizens with the design of furthering this very proper work, and the fact is es- pecially noteworthy as being the first time any foreign nationality has made a united effort to make American citi- zens of its members. The movement was started in Boston, and grew out of some strictures, induced by the celebra- tion of the queen’s jubilee, upon the fact that very generaily Englishmen 1n this country remained British subjects while enjoying all the advantages and opportunities of American citizenship, except the right to vote. Some of the English residents of Boston took a ser- ious and sensible view of the matter and applied to be naturalized. Their ex- ample was contagious, and the gratify- ing result noted has followed. — THE republicans of-¢he First con- gressional district of Nebraska will do their duty in November, and will elect their candidate by an old-time major- ity, if they do not do even better than that. The indications are that Mr. Connell will get the votesof a great many democrats, to whom the peculiar- ities of the sage of Arbor Lodge are not altogether pleasing. A Possibility. Philadelphia Ledger. There are arithmeticians who would have figured the surplus into the general deficiency if congress had held together a week or two longer. — They're Not Built That Way. Toledo Blade. Have you ever noted the fact that no dem- ocratic legislature n any state ever passed a law to aid in securing honest elections and a fair count. Pernicious Activity. New York World. President Cleveland is coming to New York to review the democratic parade next Saturday afternoon. That looks just a little bit like pernicious activity, —_—— Should Order 1ts Tombstoune. Ploneer Press. “Long John” Wentworth, far-sighted and forehanded to the end, ordered some time be- fore his demisc a #0,000 monument for his grave. But the democratic party, with but little more than two weeks of life re- maming, has not even provided a simple headboard, unless Grover's check for $10,000, seut to the committee on interment, was in- tended for that purpose. —— An Unpopular Man. Globe-Democrat. Personally President Cleveland Is even more unpopular with his party than John Qui Adams had been, while lacking the ability, broad knowledge of public affairs and the robust honesty which won Adams the respect even of his political foes, Not a single one of the 5,000,000 men who will cast their ballots for the democratic na- tional ticket on November 6 will put crape on his hat if Cleveland is defeated. —_—— Management to Blame. Philadelphia Record. Railway fatalities have been of daily oc- currence since the Mud Run disaster last week. Two trains collided on the Cumber- land Valley railroad, one man being killed and several mnore or less injured, disobedi- ence of orders being assigned as the cause. Of what use are rules and regulations and modern appliances for safety if thoy are to be thus persistently unheeded or rendered useless! The fault lies somewhere i the management of the railways, and it ought not to be adifficult matter to locate it and apply a remedy. —~~—— A Solemn Farce, Chicago Tribune, The solemn farce of negotiations between the United States and a lot of blanketed, breech-clout savages has become tiresome. It is too much like efforts at treaty-making between a bad six-year-old boy and his father. In the older days, when the authori- ties were less serupulous than they are now, it was customary to manufacture some chiefs and insist on it that their signatures were binding on the whole tribe, or to buy up with rum or beads the necessary X" autographs. Those arts seem disreputable now, but the use of them has extinguished the Indian hunting title to millions of acres in this coun- try. With the Indians who are in the terri- tories, where the federal government has absolute control, the latter can do just what it pleases, and the simplest way to settle the matter is to give up all this nonsense about “treaties,” and when satisfled that a certain policy is better both for the whites and the Indians to enforce it, regardless of the wishes of the chiefs who want to keep the tribal relations, prevent the bucks from farming for a living, and continue drawing unearned ration: ———— POLITICAL POINTS. Oune of the democratic legislative candi- dates in Charleston, S. C., is a prominent col- ored man. Flag raising seems to be a very iness just now 1 New York s achusetts. The first Harrison and Morton flag and the first snow storm appeared together at Block- stone, Mass. Lante’s in for no great honors these days. He is running for the assembly in Otsego county, New York. W. D. Hoard, the republican candidate for governor of Wisconsin, was & peddler vof active bus- and Mass- fruit troes at one time in his carcér. This fall he will gather the fruit. Rovivalist Sam Small s sore all over. A brandy-and-soda patriot thrashed bim at the polls in Atlanta the other day. Small was trying to tease the unchristian “Cracker' to &0 over into the prohiibition camp. The Towa state temporance alliauce has been pressed into the republican service. It has recently issued an address to the prohi bitionists of the state urging them to keep away from the thinlcparty movement. Senator_Jonos* of Florida. the erratic gentleman who has been spending several years in_Dotroit, is making demooratic speechos in Michigan, and, singularly enough, this fact is taken as an indication tnat his mental balance has been restorod. That doesn't follow, by any means. ————— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The citizens of Crete have at last raised 815,000 to endow a Crete professorship in Doane college. The greatest curiosity In Kearney is a man with thirty-six chattel mortgages against him. Life will be too short to make the fore- closures. The Kearney Hub announces that Me- Shane's boodie is being distributed in Buffalo county where it will do the most in- dividual good. The 1adies of Wahoo have organized a Harri- son and Morton club and will make their first appearance at Ashland escorted by the ‘Wahoo Flambeau club The Kearnay Daily Hub, a new paper ed- ited by Mr. M. A. Brown, late of the Beat- rice Express, has made its bow to the public. It is neatly gotten up. The Salvation army opened in a vacant store room at Kearney in the midst of an en- thusiasm mihgled with a shower of ancient eggs that was neither pleasant nor desirable. Charles S. Jones, an old resident of Juni- ata, dieq there recently aged seventy years. He was a distant relative of thie late Samuel J. Tilden, and during the war was a member of the Twenty-seventh Michigan infantry. The general utility man of a Kenesaw paper went on a hizh lonesome the other day at Hastings and was arrested, is plea that the paper could not be issued if he was sentenced to jail caused the police judge to turn him loose. At & mass convention of the republicans of the Sixty-seventh representative district held at Waucota, it was decided that those opposed to C. W. Meeker, the republican nominee, would work for the election of Thompson, the candidate nominated by the democrats. Considerable bad feeling has been stirred up. The druggist and_ robbist are wltlng in their fine work at Plattsmouth. il Sy- mons, a Simple Simon of that town, is the latest victim. He bad saved enough money, working on a farm, to take him home to De- Kalb, I, but allowed some ‘‘friends’ to give him dose of drugged whisky and then clean him out of his hoarded wealth amount- ing to $18, fowa. Anamosa has a ladies’ glee club. The number of black bass in the Buffalo excites surprise among the angling notables. Unknown thieves secured $40instamps and $060 in cash from the Sperry postoffice re- cently. Boys stole the ton; Rockford school an irate pedagogue. A Des Moines druy, eight charges of «#) each case being $100. The street car company at Burlington is taking preliminary sieps towards using elec- tricity for the motive power. An Ottumwa milkman's team ran away and a stranger who happened to be passing through town shortly afterward thought he had struck Caanan, The “oldest inhabitant” of Creston arises to state that he sl led snow from his side- walk on the 27th of-April and the 22d of Oc- tober in the year I} Two gontlemen in Codar Rapids made an agroement with the presidential election for an issue, by which the loser is to shovel paths for the winner all winter. The glucose works at Marshalltown shut down Saturday for the first time, day or night, since the Mcssrs. Firmenich started them ‘up one year ago last March. On November 13 and 14 the grand camp of ‘Woodmen will be held in the club rooms at Des Moines. Woodmen will be present from this and all the neighboring states, and will participate in a grand paradeon the 14th. The state pharmacy commission has se- cured the conviction of Leonard Miller, of Hartley, O'Hrien county, for running a drug store without a certificate from the state board. He was fined 856, and his place of business closed. W. Klinker, of Union Mills, Mahaska county, has inveuted and secured a patent on a “life-saving passenger car.” The patent is secured-upon a sectional top, the movable sections being held in place by powerful spring which in a case of a wreck, whether the car strikes on end or on side, are thro'wn, and openings made large enough for passen’ gers to use as means of escape. e from the bell of the had the laugh on the ist pleaded guilty to g liquor, the fine in Dakota. New corn brings 20 cents a bushel at Yank- ton. The track of the Duluth railroad has reached Sioux Falls. “The telephone in the Hills is to extend its arms to the town of Vale, The Sioux Falls browery has already over 40,000 bushels of barley on hand. The Vilas Farmer says that a fow good teachers could find employment in Miner county. The citizens of Yaukton are gencrally in favor of the proposed pontoon bridge across the Missouri. “Ihe first case of hog cholera ever in Brulo county was developed on Dr. Henry’s stoclk ranch at Pukwana a few days ago. A farmer named Brown, living near Plankinton, moans the loss of his right hand, which he aceidentally fed intola threshing machine. While hunting geese near Cooperstown Sunday Melvin Miller, aged sixteen, acci- dentally shot his seven-year:old brother in the stomach. The little fellow expired almost in- stantly. — RAILROAD NEWS, Gossip About the Various Depots and Offices. Now that the Milwaukee and St. Paul have fallen into line, there will in future bo a through sleeper both morning and evening each way between Chicago and Denver. The arrangement with the Milwaukee goes into effect Sunday, Oct. 23th, when a sleeper will leave Chicago at 11:55 p. m., reachinz Coun- cil Bluffs at 6:50 p. m. the following day, in time to connect with the U, P. for Denver the same evening aud reaching Denver at 5 n.m. the day after. = Returning, it leaves Denver at 7 a. m. and arvives at_ Omaha the next morning in_ time to connect with the Milwaukee morning train for the east. The Milwaukee now has sleepers on all trains ar- riving at or leaving the city. Harvest Home excurgions delayed all oast- ern connections yesarday, and trains for the west were late in leaving Omaha, The body of the late John McCanu arrived over the U.P. yesterdsy and will be buried to-day at 8i30a. m. The funeral will take place place from 1517 South Six- teenth street, and not North Sixteenth as er- roneously stated. “The Union Pacific had to run a special yes- terday to accommodate bassengers from the east. The Burlington was also busy and their N t west intwo sections with while their No. 1 on the main line had twelve, Three extra coaches were put on here, and as one official said, “I'll bet there's not an idle coachi on the system to- day.” ‘Hhoak thieves are taking advautage of the crowds at the depot, and quite a number of well known characters were spotted. Oue of them nipped an overcoat be- longing to a Montana mau last night, but was caught shortly afterward, and a granger ro- ported the loss of & watch while eating sup- per at a Tenth street restaurant near by. e Among the guileless aborigines of t! western plains it is & common custom when a babe is born to give it a name suggested by some objeot that presents iu«h to the eye of the doting father as he steps outside the door of his tent and looks about him. This will explain why it is that no Indians have ever been named ‘‘Honest-Goverameot-Agent." THE HOSPITAL ROOF, How It and the Bricklayers' Strike Have Caused Delay. It soems that the firm which is building the roof for the new county hospital, besides writing to the architect for permission to use lighter iron than is called for in the contract, wrote a similar letter to the superintendent also. This fact was discovered yesterday. Mr. Shane says that he returned an answer in effect, that he could in no way absolve the contractors from complying with the re quirements of the contract. Yesterday word was received that the roof would be here in about a week. To somo people it is strange that a roof of the same size required by the county hospital should be in readiness two weeks after its builders asked for permission to use lighter iron than that called for in the specifications, They ask if the roof can be made in 80 short a time how comes it that it has not alreadv been wecks in position? Bi cause of 1ts absence the structure remai incomplete, and it is now problematical whether or not the building will be ready for occupancy the present year. Commissioner O'Keefe was asked when, according to con- tract, the building should be finished and said he thought about the 20th of this month. “Is there not a forfeit of §10 for every day l.lhe building remains unfinished after that date?” “‘Yes, there is, but the contractors were delayed by the strike, and there is a proviso in the contract which refers to such a delay." “How long were they delayed?"’ “About five weeks, I think. They had some men at work, 1 think, nearly all the time, but they wero delayed." “Allowance will be made, then, for this delay.” “Yes, I think it will." o — PRECINCT OFFIOERS. The Democrats Take the Initiative in Selecting Election Judges. The county commissioners were yesterday notified by John A. McShane that it weuld be their duty soon to select the judges and clerks for the forthcoming election, aud that only the best men that could be found were wanted for the purpose. He requested that the commissioners go carefully through the residents of each voting precinct, and from them select men who they thought would be acceptable to both parties. Speaking on this subject a member of the board said that they had anticipated the request and had already canvassed the precincts. ‘‘How will you a'stribute the positions with respect to politics?” “Every precinct will have five men, three judges and two clerks. In the county pre- cincts these men are generally elected by the peovle, and some of them havo already been selected. Where they haven't been, 'we will so arrange it that there will be at least two republicans and two democrats on each voard.” “Will you have three democrats on any of the boards?” “Well, you know how our own board is constituted; vhat may give the democrats the third man in some places. POLITICAL ENTS. Papillion to Have a Big Blowout Saturday Night. The largest political gathering which ever took place in Papillion will be held next Sat- urday night. Ten cars have been chartered on the Union Pacific road and will leave here ck. There will be no fare charged aud every club in the will be represented. There will also be several bands in attend- ance, and nearly all the republican candi- dates, including Hon. J. W. Connell, W, I, Gurley and Henry Estabrook, will be present and deliver speeches. The train will stop at South Omaha going and returning. The ex- cursion will leave Papillion at 11 o'clock, after the rally. Omaha Turners. Henry Kummerow, tho director of the Omaha turnvercin, mtends to lead a class to the national turn-fest, which is to be held in Cincinnati. In this fest there will be repre- sentatives of all the leading vereins in the country, insomecof which are athletes of great skill and reputation. This will _be Omaha's first appearance among them. She has been impelled to the move by her recent successes in the fest of the Missouri Valley turner bund, in which she has repeatedly worsted St. Joe, Atchison, and Kansas City. The verein of this city has a number of ex- cellent turners and Mr. Kummerow is proud of them, claiming that they will be sure to bring back some prizes with them. The class solected for the competition consists of the following men: Robert Rosenzweiz, Al Heintze, C. Buechner, John Nehrbas,Charles Standi William Bloedel, Gottl. Blattert and F. G. Elsasser. Thomas and Jane Oarlyle. Cassell’s Magazine: Since the publi- cation of *“The Life of Carlyle” and of the letters and memorials of his wife. the public has been much concerned about the domestic affairs of these re- markable people. Mr. Froude,**coming to bury Cwsar, not to praise him,” has involved the matter in a cloud of mis- representation prejudicial to Carlylo and his wife, which, however, has been to u great degree blown away by Pro- fessor Norton, the editor of Carlyle’s early correspondence. Carlyle’s letters about the irritability and negative unkindness of her husband we must bear in mind that she, like him, spoke direct from her nerves, and had’ a Titanesque power of making mountains out of mole-hills, There were, as in most cases, faults on both sides. She was not more easy to live with than was he, as even her own mother had discovered. Charming, witty, brilliant, affectionately playful as she naturally was, she had a hot temper and a tongue, when she was angry, like a cat’s, which would take the skin off ut a touch.” Carlyle's faults (which in his late re- morse he exaggorated,as men of noblest natures are apt to do), his impatience, his irritibility, his singular melancholy (which made him at times distressing as a companion), were the effects of temperament first, and of a peculiarly sensitive organization; and, secondly, of absorption in his work, and of his determination to do that work as well as it could possibly be done. Mrs. Carlyle suffered perhups more than her hus- band from cold and pains, and sleepless- : when he was dilating upon his 5, he often forgot hers, or made > by worry. It was her that “when the wife has in- fluenza, it is & slight cold—when the man has ," ete., ete. Even when at heart he was really grateful for the thoughtful care of his wife, Carlyle’s acknowledgements were limited; he was shy of showing feeling, and even those who knew him best, and under- stood his wu?'s‘ were often hurt by his apparent indifference. All this is true, but if Carlyle, in spite of his good resolutions, was oc- casionally *‘a little 1ll-haired,” we must remember that he was engaged in work into which he was throwing his entire hearttand soul. His wife, instead of al- lowing her mind to be ‘“churned to froth,” might, understanding all as she did, have been more ready to pardon, and might have seen in the deliberate expression of his feeling the affection- ate loyalty of his heart. Very touching was Carlyle’s remorse for the want o}' consideration towards his wife, for which he blamed himself. “For many years after she left him,” writes Mr.” Froude, “‘when he passod the spot where she was last seen alive, he would bare his grey head in the wind and rain—his features wrung with unavailing sorrow. ‘O!" he often said to me, ‘if T could butsee her for five minutes, to assure her that [ had really cared for her throughout all that!” But she never knew it, she never knew it!” ‘Whatever may be thought of Carlyle as & husband, there is no doubt. that the next celebrated man about whose love affalrs we shall speak was deficient in domestic virtues. How Sterne, whose In reading Mrs. own journey through lifo wasa truly sentimental one, wooed and won his wife was related by himself to his daughter in the following words: **At York I became acquainted with your mother, and courted her for two yours, She owned she liked me, but thought horself not rich enough, or me too poor to be joined together. She went to her | sister in Staff shire, and I wroto to her often. I believe that she was partly determined to haye me, but would not say so. At her return she fell into a consumption, and one evening that 1 was sitting by her, with an _almost bro- ken heart to sce her so ill, she said: ‘My dear Laury, I never can be yours, for [ verily believe I have not long to live! but [ have left you every shilling of my fortune.’ Upon that she showed mo her will. This generosity overpow- ered me. It plensed God that she re- covered, and wo were married in 1741, ——— The Pacific Islands. Youth's Companion: A rivalry be- tween three great Buropoan powers— England, France and Germany—has been going on for some years, in taking possession of the islands in the Pacific ocean. These islands are desired by the mar time nations, mainly, for two reason: One is, that each nation desires, there- by, to increase the areaof its commerce; and the other, thav it wishes to obtain naval stations in case of the outbreak of a war. ce has a third reason for holding New Caledonia, which she has long used as a settlement for her con- victed criminals. Every little while we hear that one or other of the powers has “‘annexed” an island,or a group of islands, in the eastern seas; and sometimes these an- nexations, made by one of the powers, give rise to jealousy and protest on tho part of the others. The total area of all the smaller groups of the Pacific islands is stated to be about 45,000 square miles, which are occupled by a barbaric population of 800,000. This is exclusive of Austral- asia, New Guinea and the Malay islands. England holds the lion's share of the Pacific Island possessions. Hers are the great island of Australia, which may be called a continent by itse Tasmania, New Zealand, the Fiji I lands, and a large part of New Guinea. She also controls many of the little is- lands scattered in the seas near these large ones; and there are other islands which England claims, but of which she has not yet taken actual possession. Next to England, Germany possesses the most important colonics in the Pa- citie; although Germany began her Pa- cific annexations at a much more recent period than France. She now holds a part of New Guinea, New Britain, the Solomon and the Marshall islanas; her possessions cover an aren of something ike 100,000 square miles. Germany also made an attempt a year or two ago to annex the Caroline islands, which have long been cluimed by Spain, but as yet has not definitely occupied the group. It is probable that Germany will in no long time make an attempt to annex the two important groups of Samoa and Tonga, which have a de- cided eommercinl as well as naval valus, The French have boen busy among the Pacific islands for nearly half a century. Their prineipal possessions there are the largo island of New Cale« donia, usod mainly as a penal sottle- ment, and the group of Loyalty islands, lying just eastward of New Calodonin. Those posessions cover an aren of about five thousand square miles, and have a population of n\mut sixty thousand, of whom a considerable part are conviots, Of smaller groups, the French olaim the Marquesas, the Tuamotu Archi- pelago, the Society islands and the Austral, though their hold on some of these numerous, but rather unimport- ant, islands, is not very strong. It may be said generally of the great general divisions of the Pacific islanda that the English mainly rule in Aus- tralasia, the Spanish in Micronesia, the French in Polynesia and the Germans in Malanesia. Some of the Pacific islands are set down on European maps as belonging to the United States. For tho most part, these are lonely islands lying in open sea, southward of the Sandwich or Hawiiaa group. The reason why these islands are allotted to the United States probably is that their guano deposits are worked by American companies. It soems, however, to be taken for granted in Europe that the Sandwich islands will, at no distant day, become an American possession, as the Amer- ican residents in them already hold po- litical and commercial control}‘ The annexations of the Pacific islands are made by the European powers, of course, without reference to the wishes of the natives. They are accomplished by the simple application of superior physical force. Yet it may be said that, porhaps in a majority of instances, the natives sub- mit to their conquerors with good grace, and, though slow to bocomo themselves civilized, do not deny them- selves the boons of civilization which their conquerors bring to them. The Panama Canal Hospitals. The Panama canal hospitals, says a correspondent, are the most extensive and best equipped of any seen by one within the tropics. Iinclude Mexico, Central and a part of South America and the West Indies. The system of hospitals, their fittings, medical staff, etc., are of the highest order. Thelir Panama system alone ocost over 83, 000,000, The company’s hospitals, sanitarium, etc., with attendance, etc.,, up to last year cost over $12,000,000. This seems incredible, but it is quite true. The isthmus of Panama is and always will be pestilontial and death-dealing center, constantly added to by the systematic unburial of the dead year by year, and the liberating of untold millions of germs of smallpox and yellow fever, Remember, Panama is the gate to the Pacific. She ships disease up and down the coast as rogu- larly as she ships goods. I state what I know, not what I think. Epidemio after epidemic already have resulted from this more than criminal disturb- ing of its dead in such a climate. In our English islands such vile practices are unknown. Goesright to the heart of Dirt and Filth Pearline makes everything as clean as possible, in less time, with less labor, with less wear and tear on yourself or the objects cleaned, and at less expense than anythin known, else nd this accounts for its ====a=——= wonderful growth and popularity. Used all over the United States. Every woman who does her own work will appreciate its wonderful aid by %:vin it one fair trial. 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The pictures he gives of the struggle are as vivid as his position for observing it wasunusual, The frontispicce of this number is engraved by Kruell from tho last portrait taken of the author. There are ulso five full-page engray ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S Nl'l\_’\' lantrae,” begun in this issuc, is th author for an American magazine. ngs accompanying the artiole. RIAL novel, entitled *“Tho Master first serial story ever writton by its It is a tale of adventure and romance; tho action ovens in Scotland and moves from there to the United ates, thence to Scotland again, to India, back to Scotland, and finaily to the United States,tho last of the he trated by M, among the most widel series. Mr. Adams w last with the employ really adcguate account of SMEMORIES OF THE LAST FIFTY tinued by asecond instalment of the veteran actor’s reminiscence he touches upon his careor both in England anl America, »'s adventures happening here in America. William Hole, who was selected by the author to do the work. THE EVERY-DAY LIFE OF RAILROAD MEN, by Mr. B. B. Adams, J popular of the Railway articles, it bein %, from a standpoint of one who is famil ife, its duties, its dangers, and its pl » practical work of railway men. has furnished 20 drawings to m'n-mu‘lz;ln y the The novel is illus- ill b sixth in tho from first to asures—the first Mr. A. B. Frost paper. t WALLACK is con- In this paper With 20 portraits. MR. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL contributesa short paper on MATTHEW ARNOLD, one of his bright critical avvicles, with a full-page portrait taken from a late photo- aph. Gfi;‘llglz:\L A. W. GREELY, chief signal officer, writes “‘Whero shall we spend our Winter?” a companion to his s we spend our Summer?” the h '] one *“The Port of Missing travaganza,”’ by Arlo Bates; F. J. Stimson; I’0ems, by Mrs. J hips,” by ing date December, 1855, which will be more n a timely topic— ticle W hereshall MR. 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