Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-02-27

The school board of the District Of Co.
lumbia has been agitated for seyerah
months by protest from certain agnos-
tics and other citizens against the use Of
song book known as THE Students
Hymnal," which contains several famil-
lar religious hymns as well as patriotic
songs and choruses appropriate for chs
dren's voices. They object % the use 90
any book which contains religious hymns
After a long discussion in the newspa~
pers and elsewhere the board If edncG-
ton laid the protest upon the table sndt
adopted IN elaborate report in which IL,
agrees to the proposition of those who
contend that sectarian religion shOnid.
not be embraced in school exercises" bus
do not agree with those ''who insist up
on excluding every formal rect gnitiou OF
divine providence from the schools" 1t
quotes at length from the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in
the Warren case. which held that Chris
tianity was the religion Of this nation.
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The original copy of the muster roll of
President Lincoln's company in the
Blackhawk war has disappeared frein
the files of the treasury and all traces
of il have been lost. 1t was a part Of
the records of the Office of the auditor
for the War Department and has been ans
object of interest there for many years
While Secretary Carlisle was Secretary
of the Treasury he sent for il end had il
photographed. His receipt il in thae
pigeon hole where the original documens.
ought TO be. which proves that the latter
was never returned TO the files. The
treasury photographers remembf IS the in
cident and the negative is pre- served ala
right, but he does not recall who brought
the document to him or who took it away
and it is probably now in the hands of
some autograph collector, because it iss
one OF the most interesting relics of Lin
coin in existence.
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President Mckinley win take the oatlR
OF office when inaugurated FOR his second
tern upon a handsome Bible furnished
by local stationef. In size it is about
six and half inches by nine inches
from the Oxford University press, hand
somely printed in plea, bound in Leyant
| morocco, flexible cover, edges red undec
| gold. 1t is the custom of the clerk OF
| the United Stgtes Supreme Court to fur
nish the Bibles used or such occasions,
| but at President MeKinley's first iuaugu-
ra ion the AffS- Methodist bishops pre-
| scented large Bible in handsome case.
| The Bibles used are held by the clerk OF
ne Supreme Court until the official seal
az the court is affixed to a statement re-
citing the purpose for which the Bible
las been used, when it'll sent to tho
President.
There are now more than $4,000 claims
| Of veterans OF the Spanish and Philippine
wars awaiting action at the pension bu-
reau. At the close of the last fiscal year,
| June 80 1900. there were only 1913 pen
| sioners of these wars on the rolls of
| this number s73 were widows and SS2
| were inyalids These pensioners were
receiving $332.905, or an average Of over
1 $lI a mont, each. There were then.
pending thousands Of other applications.
| and the increase has lately been so heavy
that the force employed at the pension
bureau is unable to keep pace with 1t.
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| When Mr.. Roosevelt shall lave beeus
| installed as Vice President there viii bo.
| in the Senate tn survivors Of three
wars-the Mexican. the Civil and the
| Spanish Gen. Bate of Ten
nessee il the only Senator W 40 saw SER
vice during the Mexican war. Though
| Senator Pettus OF Alabama was in the
army during that period, he never got
| TO the front. There are twenty or moro
venerable Senators who were on one side
| or the other during the Civil War, but
| Mr.. Roosevelt s'il be the only veteran OF
| the SPANS American conflict.
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Senator Tillman always calls the Pearl
| OF the Antilles "t'uby." Mr.. Jones OF
Arkansas prononnces it 'Koobah,' and
other Statesmen have other prononneia-
| tions. Senator Cockreli insists upon call
| ing aur new possessions in the Pacific the
Fiji pans," and Senator Morgan always
| alludes to the Sandwich Islands as
''How-aye-ee." There ought to be a com
| mittce on pronunciation in Congress.
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The House committee on printing has
again reported 3 resolution for the pub
| Iication ~ government expense Of the re-
| ports az the committee ON awards of the
worlds Columbian exposition
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