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editor to cut oat so many ot the little
box's sayings. (In this day ot child
study, such surgery is barbarous.) Lit
tle Peninl was "a lion's cub" and his
"letters" are of no less interest than his
mother's and father's.
Mrs. Browning was not an ardent
patriot. She writes to an English
friend: "Patriotism in the narrow
sense, is a virtue which will wear out,
sooner or later, everywhere. Jew and
Greek must drop their antagonism,
and if Christianity is ever to develop
it w.111 not respectfrontiers." Con
sidering, our violent Spanish antagon
ism it is well for Mrs. Browning that
she did. not say this in America in the
spring of our Lord 1898.
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The members of the City Improve
ment association are occasionally crit
icised by the expert, long distance ex
pectorators stationed on the corners
of O and Eleventh and O and Twelfth,
as Interfering with the duties of the
street commissioner and health oEcer.
Two men cannot possibly regulate a
citv as lanre as Lincoln unless rein
forced by assistants who are willing
to keep their own premises as neat as
possible and also, which Is much more
difficult, report offensive law-breakers
in their neighborhood. The women
who have joined the City Improve
ment association did so in despera
tion. The ordinances framed to keep
the. city in good condition, and the
officers whose business it is to enforce
them, do not accomplish suoh a re
sult. By pointing out to the street
commissioner and health officer spe
cific instances of the violation of the
laws, concerning alleys and streets the
members of the association hope that
the nuisances complained of may be
removed. The association abhors the
unsanitary and unhealthy condition
of the city, and is only attempting to
aid, .not to interfere with, officers ap
pointed to see that the laws are en
forced' A
The sewer insisted upon by Mr.
Mockett is only for the purpose of car
rying ol surface water which collects
in. ease of a heavy rain storm and is
only of temporary inconvenience Its
estimated cost ia $3,500, length, 2,065
feet,' width 38 inches. Mr. Mockett
proposes that it shall start at the in
teraction of Twenty-seventh and
Viae, be built thence west on Vine to
Twenty-third, thence south on Twen-ty-thisd
to the alley between N and
Tine, thence west on the alley, to the
creek.- At the present time there is
no need for this sewer. Mr. Mockett
has made a point of putting in sewers.
Ia the fall of 1895 he induced the
coaacil to put one inErb's addition at
a eoat ol tl 328. It is constructed of 8
inek pipe, is 3,470 feet in length,
and ha jtut one connection. An
other of the Mockett sewers
built in the fall of '96 has three
couMtcHona. . It is 3,283 feet long and
cost 41,279.76, and is made of 8-inch
pipe. It begins at the alley west of
Twenty-first and Fulton, thence east
on Fulton to the alley between Twenty-fifth
and Twenty-sixth, where it
breaches, one section running to the
alley north of Vine, and the other
section running east to the alley be
tween Twenty-sixth and Twenty
seventh, thence south to Viae.
As to Mr. Mockett's disinterested
work for the people of his ward, it
was proposed to make Mr. Cameron,
Mr. Mockett's next door neighbor,
street commissioner, in place of the
present incumbent, but Mr. Mockett
opposed the proposition and voted for
Bud Lindsey, although Mr. Mockett
was a member of the committee which
listened to testimony from George
Bradeen and other gamblers to the
elect that the present street commis
nteatr was the emissary between the
mayor and the gamblers, that he went
to South Omaha and told certain
gamblers there that it was safe for
them to come to Lincoln, and that ho
could promise them immunity from
arrest. Mr. Mockett heard this testi
mony and yet when his vote will
make a majority vote in the council
for a representative street commis
sioner, that vote is traded off to the
administration group for an affirma
tive vote on this ridiculous sewer.
On inspecting the locality said to be
flooded by surface water on Friday
morning after the heavy rain of
Thursday night, it was found to be
perfectly drained. There are parts of
the city which, if there were money
to do it, ought to be drained by a
sewer, localities where water has been
standing all summer, which cannot
be said of the locality favored by
Councilman Mockett.
SECOND REGIMENT NEBRASKA
VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
Charles J. Bills, colonel.
The colonel's staff consists of Emil
.Olaen, lieutenant; William S. Mapee,
major; Ernest H. Tracy, major, and
Frank H. Meyers, regimental quarter
master.
General Charles J. Bills, who has been
brigade commander of the Nebraska
national guard, and who has just been
appointed by Governor Holcomb colonel
of the second regiment ot the Nebraska
volunteers, is a stalwart specimen of Ne
braska manhood and has a wide ac
quaintance both in military and civil
life. He was born at Belvidere, Boone
county, Illinois, September 13, 1859,
where he lived with his parents. He
went to the state university at Cham
paign and graduated with honors iu
1879. He read law in that ctty under a
famous lawyer of -Illinois, Bon. George
W. Gere, and was admitted to the bar in
1881. In the same year he moved to
Nebraska and located at Fairbury,
where he engaged in the banking busi
ness. There he has lived ever since.
Scon after coming to Nebraska his mili
tant spirit rose when the state was
threatened by the bloodthirsty Sioux,
and from that time on he took a very
prominent part in the organization and
development of the Nebraska national
guard. He was elected captain of com
pany D, of the second regiment, at the
first encampment at Wahoo, Neb., and
at the next encampment his company
took the governor's challenge cup, as
well as all other prizes offered. For hip
proficiency he was appointed colonel on
Governor Thayer's staff and at the en
campment at Beatrice was elected on
the field lieutenant-colonel of the regi
ment; and was afterwards elected colonel
ot the regiment. In this position he
served for six years and on April 8, 1896,
was unanimously elected brigadier
general ot the Nebraska- national guard.
During the Indian campaign of 1889
and 1890, General Bills was in command
ot the second, and served all through
that campaign with distinction. By
his indefatigable efforts in behalf of the
comfort and safety of his men he greatly
endeared himself to them. For his skill
and bravery in the management of that
campaign he was presented with a medal
by the state.
When it became known that Colonel
Bischof failed to pass the medical exam
ination, the officers, many of whom
ssrved under General Bills, at once peti
tioned the governor to appoint him as
their colonel. They thereby, everyone
ot them, lost their opportunity of mov
ing up a step in rank.
When the order was received here to
go to Cbicamauga it was so arranged
that the Omaha battalion would not go
via Omaha but Colonel Bills had the
order changed that the boys might say
good-bye to their friends.
Every military man in Nebraska, and
in fact every citizen who is acquainted
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with him, feels confident that should op
portunity present the general will full
sustain the honor and reputation of his
state.
Captain Jacob H. Culver is one of the
best known union veterans in Nebr ska.
He was born in Mercer county, Ohio, in
1815 and came with his family to Wis
consin when a child. He received his
early training in the neighborhood
schools and euli&ted when only sixteen
in Company K, First Wisconsin infan
try. When the color-bearer of his regi
ment was shot down at the battle of
Perryville the drummer boy grasped the
flag and bore it to the close of the en
gagement and continued to carry it
through the entire service.
He was in the battles of Chaplain
Hills, Chickainauga, Mission Ridge,
Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga and in
the Atlanta campaign.
After the war he took a course in the
university of Wisconsin. In 1870 he
married Mies Ada Davidson and located
at Milford, Neb. Mr. and Mrs. Culver
have five children, four of whom are
boys.
Captain Culver has now returned to
the old battle ground, taking his four
sons with him; the youngest of whom is
just the age his father was when he en
listed as drummer boy.
The oldest son, Clarence C, a graduate
of the electrical department of the uni
versity of Nebraska, is quartermaster
sergeant of the Third United States cav
alry. Elwin, the second son, is second
lieutenant, and Harry third sergeant.
Fifteen Hours to (shicago.
Is all it takes, if you leave Lincoln on
the Burlington's new fast train at 11:19
p. m., any day. No change of cars. En
tire train of Pullman sleepers and free
reclining chair cars runs solid to Chi
cago union depot. Call at B & M depot
or city office, cor. O and 10th streets for
berths, tickets and full information.
Geo. W. BosjfEii, C.P. 4 T. A.
A Bad ltreak.
Jones A man In Boston In his hurry
to assist a fainting lady got a bottle ot
mucilage instead of camphor and
bathed her face with It,
Smith He did. eh. Well he must
have been a good deal stuck up with
his attention.
Corrobcratlag Hl Tlawa.
Jagway I heard a lecture In bac
teria last night.
Castleton Did you learn anything?
Jagway I should say. It taught me
the evil effects of drinking water.
Pen9mith (a callow bard), "My potaa
is returned with the editor's thanks.
Huh ! I don't see what he has to thank
me for! "
Grimshaw "For what you didn't Bead
him, probably."
Mr. Wiggins was so worked up over
the news from Manila last week that he
spent four hours trying to locate the
Philippine, islands on his wife's Basse
pattern, under the impression that ha
had a map of the Pacific ocean before
him.
There was a youag maid of Klaajl
ho asked for a ghat of vaaila,
BotUKclcxkiatk stoic
Was to rattled by war
That be gave her a muff of rBinrfcjfli,
Dorothy and Marjory were ou with
their nurse when they met a negro mas,
and Marjory said:
"Obi see ! there goes a nigger-! "
"Why, Marjory ! " exclaimed Dorothy,
"you must not say 'nigger.' It's dread
ful rude. You should say 'coon.'
"Harry," Baid Mrs. Tredvay. to her
husband at the breakfast table, " an
quit3 out of money and I waat to spend
the day shopping. Let me have sixty
cents."
"What do ou want sixty cents forf "
"Ten cents for car fare and fifty cents
for luncheon." Harper's Bazar.
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