Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-03-01

The school board of the District of Co
iumbia has been agitated for several
months by protest from certain agnOs-
tics and other citizens against the use of
Il song book known ns "1rlfe Students
Hymnal, which contains several famil.
lar religious hymns as well as patriotic
songs nnd choruseH appropriate for chill
drcn's voices. They object to the use OF
any book which contains religious hymns.
After long discussion in the newspa.
pers and elsewhere the board of educa-
ton laid the protest upon the table and
adopted an elaborate report in which it
agrees to the proposition of those who
contend that sectarian religion should
not be embraced in school exercises" but
do not agree with those who insist up
on excluding every formal recognition 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,
tfanity 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 from
the files of the treasury and all traces
of it have been lost. 1t was part of
the records of the office of the auditor
for the War Department and has been an
object of interest there for many years.
While Secretary Carlisle was Secretary
OF the Treasury he sent for it and had it
photographed. His receipt is in the
pigeon hole where the original document
ought to be. which proves that the latter
was never returned to the files. The
treasury photographer remembers the in
cident and the negative is preserved all
right, but he does not recall who brought
:he document to him or who took it away,
and it is probably now in the hands of
some autograph collector, because it is
one of the most interesting relics of Lin
coin in existence.
President Mckinley will take the oath
OF office when inuugurated for his second
term upon Il handsome Bible furnished
by n local stationer. In size it is about
six and a half inches by nine inches,
from the Oxford University press hand
somcly printed in plea, bound in Levant
morocco, flexible cover, edges red under
gold. 1t is the custom of the clerk of
the United States Supreme Court to fur
nish the Bibles used on such occasions.
but at President MclNinley's first inaugu-
ration the Afro Methodist bishops pre-
scnted large Bible in handsome case.
The Bibles used are held by the clerk of
the Supreme Court until the official seal
of the court is affixed to a statement re-
citing the purpose for which the Bible
has been used, when it is sent to the
President
There are now more than $4,000 claims
of veterans of the Spanish and Philippine
wars awaiting action at the pension b,l-
reau. AT the close of the last fiscal year,
June 80, 1900, there We're only 1855 pen
sloners of these wars on the rolls. or
this number SI3 were widows and So
were invalids. These pensioners We're
receiving 32,9O5. or an average of over
$lo month 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 it,
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When MIR. Roosevelt shall have been
installed as Vice-Presidcnt there will be
in the Senate tn survivors of three
wars-the Mexican, the Civil and the
Spanish-American. Gen. Bate of Ten
nessee is the only Senator who 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 more
venerable Senators who were on one side
or the other during the Civil War, but
Mr.. Roosevelt will be the only veteran of
the Spanish-American conflict.
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Senator Tillman always calls the Pearl
Of the Antilles "Cuby." Mr.. Jones of
Arkansas pronounces it "Koobah," and
other statesmen have other pronouncia-
tions. Senator Cockrell insists upon call
ing our new possessions in the Pacific the
'Filipians," and Senator Morgan always
alludes to the Sandwich Islands as
"How-aye-ee." There ought to be a com.
mittee on pronunciation in Congress.
If the Supreme Court decides that the
constitution follows the flag the inhabit-
ants of the Philippine Islands will have
the same relations to the government as
the white people and Indians of Arizona
and New Mexico. They cannot vote for
President until the islands are admitted
to the Union.
Representative Babcock's bill to repeal
the protective duties imposed upon arti-
cles manufactured by the new billion-dol-
lar steel trust on the ground that it is a
monopoly, is the subject of hot discussion
among his colleagues, but many of them
agree with him that sooner or later Con
gress must adopt some such measure.
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The House committee on printing has
again reported resolution for the pub.
lication at government expense of the re-
ports of the committee on awards of the
worlds Columbian exposition.
Rife Safe and Rurn Store.
Burg, qrs forced an entrance into "a
store at Rocky Hill n. j.. and wrecked
the safe with dynamite. The men then
set fire to the store and escaped amidst
the excitement. There WAS several hun,
dretl dollars in the safe