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Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
THE HOSPITAL ROOF.
How 1t and the Bricklayers' Strike
Have Caused Delay.


1t seems that the firm which Is building the
roof for the new county hospital, besides
writing 10 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. MIR.
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 q week. To some 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 so short a time how comes it that 1t
has not already been weeks in positionl Be
cause of its absence the structure remains
Incomplete, and IL is now problematical
whether or not the building will be ready for
O'Keefe was asked when, according to con.
| tract, the building should be finished and
said he thought about the Goth of this month,
SIS there not a forfeit of $40 for every day
the building remains unfinished after that
dateln
ayes, 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 delayedl"
about five weeks, l think. They had
| some men at work, l think, nearly all the
time. but they were delayed"
allowance will be made, then, for this
delay"
"Yes, I think it will"
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25

Cassell's Magazine: Since the publ
cation of 1.-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 Caesar, not to praise him." has
involved the matter in a cloud of mis-
and his wife, which, however, has been
to a great degree blown away by Pro-
lessor Norton, the editor of Carlyle's
early correspondence. In reading Mrs.
Carlyle's letters about the irritability
and negative unkindness of her husband
we must bear in mind hat she, like
him, spoke direct from her nerves, and
had a Titanesque power OF making
mountains out of mOle-hillS. There
we're, as in most cases, faults on both
sides. She was no more easy to live
with thar was he, as even her own
mother had discovered. Charming,
witty, brilliant, a~tfectionately playful
as she naturally was, she had a hot
temper and a tongue, when she was
angry, like a cats, which would take
the skin off at a touch"
Carlyle's faults (which in his late re-
morse he exaggerated las men OF noblest
natures are apt to do), his Impotence,
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 organizations; and, secondly,
of absorption in his work, and OF his
determination to 10 that work as we'll as
it could possibly be done. Mrs. Carlyle
suffered perhaps more than her hus-
| band from cold and pains, and sleepless-
| ness; when he was dilating upon his
SORROWS, he often forgot hers, or made
them worse by worry. 1t was her eX-
| perieace that when the wife has in
f~iuenza, it is a slight cold-when the
man has it, it is" ETC., etc. 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 ways, were often hurt by his
| apparent Indifference.
All this is true, but If Carlyle, In
spite of his good resolutions, was &C.
~casionally "a little lll-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 of consideration towards
his wife, for which he blamed himself.
''For many years after she left him."
writes Mr.. Froude, when he PASSED
| 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, III l could but see her for
| five minutes, to assure her that | had
really cared for her throug hout all
thatI But she never knew it, she never
knew III"
Whatever may be thought Of Carlyle
as a husband, there is no doubt that the
next celebrated man about whose love
affairs we shall speak was deficient in
\ domestic virtues. How Sterne, whose
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
TIE OMAHA DAILY BEE:, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2a. 1888
may be affected. Nothing less will sat
isfy the t%axpavers.

may be affected. Nothing less will sat
isfy the taxpayers.
Up to within the last year Omaha has
been comparatively free from jobbery
and s~windling in our public works, but
contractors have combined, and it Is al
open secret that they exercise a most
pernicious influence upon the council by
b~ulldozing and corrupt methods. 1t 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 and
dishonest. In other words, Omaha has
become the center OF rottenness and
boodling through the Infamous 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 fragrant violations
OF contracts.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska JOttin9 s.

The citizens Of Crete have at last raised
S15, 600 to endow q 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 Nc
Shane's Doodle is being distributed in
Buffalo county where 1t will do the most in
dividual good.
The ladies of Wahoo have organized a Harri-
son and Morton club and will make their
Wahoo Flambeau club
The Kearney Daily Hub, a new paper ed
tied by Mr.. M. A. Brown, late Of the Beat
rice Express, has made its bow to the public.
1t is neatly gotten up.
The Salvation army opened in a vacant
thusiasm mingled with a shower Of ancient
eggs that was neither pleasant nor desirable.
Charles S. Jones, an old resident Of Juni-
alta, dieu there recently aged seventy years.
He was q distant relative of the late Samuel
j. Tilden, and during the war was a member
of the Twenty-seventh Michigan infantry.
The general utility man of o Kenesaw
| paper went on a high lonesome the other
day at Hastings and was arrested: His plea
that the paper could not be issued II he was
sentenced to Jail caused the police Judge to
turn him loose.
At q mass convention of the republicans OF
the Sixty-seventh representative district
held at Wauceta, it was decided that those
opposed to G. 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 getting in
their fine work at Plattsmouth. Will Sy-
mons, a Simple Simon of that town, is the
latest victim. He had saved enough money,
working on a farm, to take him home to De
| Kalb, H., but allowed some friends to
give him u dose of drugged whisky aud then
clean him out Of his boarded wealth amount
ing to $lS.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
The Pacific Islands.

Youths Companions: A rivalry be-
tween three great European powers
England, france md Germany-has
been going on for some years, in taking
possession OF the islands in the Pacific
ocean.
These islands are desired by the mari
time nations, mainly, for two reasons.
One is, that each nation desires, there
by, to increase the area of its commerce;
and the other. that it wishes to obtain
naval stations in case of the outbre ak OF
a war. France has a third reason for
holding New Caledonia, which she has
victed criminals.
Every little while we hear that one
or other of the powers has ''anneXed"
an island, or a group Of islands, in tho
eastern seas; and sometimes these an
nexations, made by II 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 As 900 square miles, which are
occupied by a barbaric population of
800 1000. This is exclusive of Austral-
asia, New Guinea and the Malay
islands.
England holds the lions share of the
uoiho loiuhu pOoocooiOuo' I1cFS are
the great island of Australia, which
may be called a continent by itse If;
Tasmania, New Zealand, the Fiji Is
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 colonies in the Pa
cifc; although Germany began her Pa
citic a~nnexations at a much more recent
period than France. She now holds a
part Of New Guinea, New Britain, the
Solomon and the Marshall ISLANDS; her
possessions cover al area Of something
like 100 900 square miles.
Germany also made an attempt a year
or two ago to annex the Caroline islands,
which have long been claimed by Spain
but as yet has not definitely occupied
the group. 1t is probable that Germany
will in no long time make an attempt to
annex the two important groups OF
Samoa and Tonga, which have n de.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25

own journey through life was a truly
sentimental one, wooed and won his
wife was related by himself to his
daughter in the following words: AT
York L became acquainted with your
mother. and courted her for two years.
She owned she liked me, but thought
herself not rich enough, or me too poor
to be joined together. She went to her
sister in Staffordshire, and | wrote to
her often. | believe that she was partly
determined to have me, but would not
say so. At her return she fell into a
consumption, and one evening that |
was sitting by her, with an almost bro
ken heart to see her so i'll, she said:
My dear Laury, | never can be yours,
for | verify believe 1 have not long to
live! but l have left you every shilling
OF my fortune Upon that she showed
me her will. This generosity overpow-
cred me. II pleased God that she re-
covered, and we were married in l74l.'
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
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 affect the taxpayers and prop
erty owners Of Omaha.
The burden Of paying for pavements
does not merely fall upon the owners of
property abutting paved streets, but
upon every n of property within
the corporate limits OF this city.
If 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-fve 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-pavemcnt will rot out and have To
be replaced within five years.
But il, on top Of this imposture the
concrete bed, which costs a greater SUI
than the blocks, is short in the quantity
OF cement and thickness prescribed, as
charged by Mr.. Heimrod, the taxpayer:
have been literally swindled and
robbed.
Mr.. Heimrod has confined his ~investi'
cations n exposure to one set Of con-
tractors, but the manifest duty Of the
mayor and city authorities il
to make a very thorough inves
tigation Of pavements and paw
Ing operations, regardless Of whom
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
Omaha Turner's,

Henry Kummerow, the director of the
Omaha %turnverein, intends to lead a class to
the national funniest, which is to be held in
Cincinnati. In this fest there will be repre-
sentatives of all the leading vereins in the
country. in some Of 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.
Tn verein of this city has a number of ex.
cellent turner's and Mr.. Kummerow is proud
Of them, claiming that they will be sure to
bring back some prizes with them. The class
selected for the competition consists of the
following men: Robert Rosenzweig, AL
Heintze, c. Buechner, John Nehrbas, Charles
Standisch, William Bloedel, Gottl. Blattert
and +. G. Elsasser.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
fruit trees at one time in his career. This
fall he will vather tho fruit.

fruit trees at one lime In his career. This
fall he will gather the fruit, .
Revivslist Sam Small is sore all over. a
brandy-and-soda patriot thrashed him at the
polls in Atlanta the other day. Small was
trying TO tease the unchristlan Cracker" 70
go over into the prohibition camp.
The Iowa state temperance alliance 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 thr,is party movement.
Ex-senator Jones' Of Florida, the erratic
gentleman who has been spending several
years in Detroit, Is making democratic
speeches in Michigan, and, singularly enough,
this fact is taken as an indication that his
mental balance has been restored. That
doesn't follow, by any means.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25

TIE movement started less than a
year ago to induce British subjects to
become American citizens has been
notably successful. 1t is 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-
Der of unn%aturalized natives of Great
Britain resident in this country. Dele
gates from nine states met in Chicago
on Monday to form a national associa-
ton 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 structures, induced by the celebra-
ton of the queens jubilee, upon the
fact that very generally Englishmen In
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 vas contagious, and the crafty
ing result noted has followed.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
POINTS.

One of the democratic legislative candi-
dates in Charleston, 5. c., is a prominent col
ored man.
Flag raising seems to be a very active bus,
mess Just now In New York state and Mass
achusetts.
The first Harrison and Morton flag and the
first snow storm appeared together at Block
stone, Mass.
Dante's in for no great honors these days.
He Is running for the assembly in Otsego
county, New York.
w. ID. Hoard, the republican candidate for
governor. of Wisconsin, was 4 peddler oof
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25

No COMMUNITY is more interested
than Omaha in the Cattle Growers con-
vention which will be held in Chicago
on Monday, November 10, under the
auspices of the Consolidated 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. 1t is only
a question Of a few years when. Omaha
and Kansas City must be the W great
beef canning points. 1t is therefore a
matter 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.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25

The republicans of-the First con-
gressional district OF Nebraska will do
their duty in November. and will elect
their candidate by IN old-time major
ity, if they do not do even better than
that. The indications are that Mr..
Cornell will get the votes OF a great
many democrats, to whom the peculiar
tiles of the sage of Arbor Lodge are not
altogether pleasing.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
Management to Blame.
phiL1dsIDhia Record.

Railway fatalities have been of daily &C.
currence since the Mud Run disaster last
week. Two trains collided on the Cumber-
land Valley railroad, one man being killed
and several more 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 they are to
be thus persistently UNDECIDED or rendered
useless, The fault lies somewhere IN the
management of the railways, and it ought
not to be a difficult matter to locate it and
apply n remedy.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25

The Democrats Take the Initiative In
Selecting Election Judges.

SeleCt1hg EieCtiOn JuuGes
The county commissioners were yesterday
notified by John A.. McShane that it would 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 distribute 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 people. and some of them have 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 board"
"Will you have three democrats on any
of the boards"
"Well, you know how our W board is
constituted; that may give the democrats
the third man in some places.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25

EVERY voter who is not a hide-bound
partisan will carefully inform himself
as to the character 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-
pie of the county and state. AS be-
tween 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 welfare above that Of
party success.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25

TIE latest dispatches from England
indicate a deplorable condition in the
coal mining districts. Nearly all the
large colleriesi in Yorkshire are idle, due
to spreading Of the MINERS strike. 1t is
the old story OF low wages and increased
cost of living, due to the enhanced
price of bread. The fact that coal has
advanced from thirty to seventy per
cent In price only intensifies the suffer
ing which will affect the poor of the
cities in Great Britain this winter.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
PERSISTING IN A FALSE CLAIM

PERSISTING IN A FALSE CLAIM.
Democratic speakers still eudeavor to
justify the policy of the treasury under
the present administratio in depositing
a large part Of the surplus with national
banks by claiming that q 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 so, and the difference in the
conditions has been clearly pointed out
on the floor Of the senate and in a pri-
vate letter, very we'll illustrates the
small respect hat 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 m%isrepre-
s~entation. AS most of the other demo-
cratic 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 secretary of the treasury he had at
one time in a single bank more money
thar 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 &C
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
corporations 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 mar can fail to see the
difference between the treasury allow
ing. 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 justifable appears the policy
which the present administration has
pursued.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25

THE favorable reception Of the report
OF the special committee appointed to
investigate garbage crematories indi-
Gates that the council Is in earnest to
dispose OF the garbage nuisance for all
time. 1t is to be hoped that immediate
steps will be taken in the matter and
that a crematory will be erected within
n few months. With a proper garbage
system and an enforcement of the street
sweeping contracts, there is no reason
why Omaha should not be the cleanest
city in the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
Should Order Its Tombstone.

FIUNET FTSS8.
"Long john Wentworth, far-sighted and
forehanded to the end, ordered some time be-
fore his demise a $4,000 monument for
his grave. But the democratic party, with
but little more than two weeks Of life re.
naming, has not even provided a simple
headboard, unless Growers check for &c., OO,
sent to the committee on Interment, was in
tended for that purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-25
An Unpopular Man.
Globe Democrat,

Personally President Cleveland Is even
more unpopular with his party than John
Quincy 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 5000, 900 men who will
cast their ballots for the democratic ma
tional ticket on November 6 will put Grape
on his hat if Cleveland is defeated.