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The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27
THE PARK CONCERTS.

As city pleasure ground Como park
maintains It's ascendancy. AS a place
of popular resort it is practically without
rival 1t has sprung from high de-
gree of wisdom and foresight which has
not been displayed with any great fire.
uuency among the official classes of st.
Paul. It compares fayorabiy with any
place of public recreation established in
any city which is not Of the first order
in point of population.
Today the summer concerts at Como
will be inaugurated. The popular love
of music usually goes with the peoples
appreciation of natural beauty. No
contribution which local public authority
may make to public enjoyment is more
heartily appreciated than are the open
air concerts which are a feature of sum-
mer life in most of the cities of the coun-
try.
1t is quite a few years since the people
of st. Paul had concerts given each after
noon and evening at the various local
parks. 1t will be remembered by many
that those concerts were effective, wher-
ever held. in bringing the mass of the
people of every rank and class to the
parks. and that eacn concert was at
same love of music an:mates the people
today that did then. 1t is from the
same spiIit of regard for the public well
fare that the requirement that these
daily afternoon and evening concerts
shall be held at Como has sprung The
people appreciate them. Their enjoyment
of them has been made plain for a sue
cession of years. The maintenance of
them is an incentive to good citizenship.
because it brings the citizen personally
IN touch with public authority under
such agreeable conditions as are per
haps never realized in any other relation
ship
These open-air concerts are designed
for the enjoyment of the mass of the
people, and the mass of the people are
expected to avail themselves of them to
the fullest. No person, young or old.
should be found who does not during the
summer attend those concerts with
some regularity. Aside from the public
bathing places, which were opened in the
city yesterday, there is no local institu-
ton capable of contributing more direct
ly or more generally 20 the well-being
and contentment. of the public and in
dividual alike, than the daily concerts
which open today at Como park
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27

shares under the federal law is graded
in two ways, according to the degree of
kinship of the legatee and according to
the value of the legacy. The initial rate
is determined by the degree of hnship.
A legacy to husband or wife is exempt.
Eegacies to others must pay tax. which
rises as the degree of kinship is more re-
mote, until property passing to strangers
in blood pays per cent. To this initial
rate, progressive rate, according to the
value of the legacy passing. is applied.
Property valued under $4,000 is exempt;
between $4,000 and $4,000 is regulated by
kinship. The rate rises with the amount
until property exceeding $1OOO,OOO is re-
quired to pay the rate fixed by hnship
multiplied by three.
The right of the federal government to
tax inheritances is thus established. and
to tax them along progressive lines. such
as are outlined above. The fact that the
state regulates the power to grant inher1-
tances and exercises the power to tax
the property represented by such proV1-
sions does not prevent the general gov
ernment from exercising similar power
and it can impose whatever tax it thinks
proper short of a confiscatory one on the
property left by deceased persons.
1t ought to be said that the construc-
ton put by the court on the language of
the act. whereby it declares only that
the several and separate devises exceed
ing $4,000 are affected by the provisions
of the tax law. is a very reasonable
and mercifuI one. 1t exempts from taxa
ton all provisions made for those who re-
ceive less than $4,000. Should a million
aire, for instance, devise his estate in
bequests of $4,000 or less each. no matter
TO whom, the whole estate would escape
taxation under the inheritance tax law.
Should he on the other hand. bequeath
his property in bulk to any one person,
it would be made to pay the largest al
lowance.
The decision in these cases will proba-
bly, have the effect of arousing public in
terest in this subject and bringing
forward legislation more or less radical
throughout the several states looking.
in certain states at least, to the imposi-
ton of the limit of taxation on large
estates descending by devise or inhert-
tance.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27
THE PRESBYTERIAN CREED AND
MODERN SCIENCE

The Rev. DR.. John H. Boyd. a Presbyte-
rian minister, of Evanston, H.. in a re-
cent sermon, made the statement as part
of his defense of the Presbyterian creed
that predestination is evolution, and orig
inal sin is heTedity. He contended that
the doctrines of Calyinism are upheld by
science, and the difference is only one Of
terms. He might have alleged that the
! atomic theory is simply a restatement of
the doctrine of Brahminism by the mod
err scientist.
But Mr.. Boyd overloolzs one of the chief
factors profoundly affecting both evolu-
ton and heredity, and that is environ
ment. The influence of heredity can be
greatly modified by environment, and ev-
olution is, in the opinion OF many sci
entists, largely dependent on environ
ment.
1t has never been advanced that envi-
ronment could have the slightest possible
effect uDCn predestination or original sin.
or that it could in anv way have any
effect. To be predestined is to be beyond
the effects of environment. No change
or modification Is possible for the pre-
destined, for if there was, then there
would be no such thing as predestina-
ton for them. 1t would be something e.sa
The statement that predestination and ev-
olution are synonymous terms is MT
sound and will not hold water.
Original sin implies that the child is
born with an evil taint derived from Its
original parents, and the doctrine holds
that every child born is so afflicted But
the theory of heredity differs Ia this vital
particular from the doctrine of original
sin-that heredity does not necessarily
mean the transmission of evil. 1t teaches
that both good and evil traits or tenden-
cies may be transmitted from parents to
children, and that they are tendencies
only. which may be eradicated or cu.ti-
waited by culture or environment. Original
sin cannot be said to be tendency It
is an accomplished fact. and has reach
ed It's full development at the birth of the
N~NOAASN
way, but cannot be eradicattd and will
certainly fall upon the chlldren's children
according to the doctrine, and 50 on with
out end. There is no escape from 1t. AMI
it is persistently and essentially of evil
From the evils of heredity there is an es-
cape, because they are physical and su.-
ceptible of change by external Influences
Predestination and original sin are spir-
itual propositions only. While evolution
and heredity are purely physical Just
as the atomic theory deals only with ma
terial and the doctrines of Brahminism
with the purely spiritual. Dr. Boyd's
statement cannot be accepted other than
as an ingenious attempt to reconcile the
PRESBYTERIAN creed with modern ideas
and thought, in which attempt he is not
over successful.
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SUNDAY. MAY q, 1900.
TAXING LEGACIES.

A very important decision was rendered
some days ago by the United States su-
preme court. 1t relates to the validity Of
the taxation of inheritances under exist
ing laws. There We're a number of cases
decided of the same general purport, one
of them arising under the provisions of
the war revenue act. They all involved
the question whether such Form of taxa
ton. being direct, is constitutional. The
court in every case upheld the constitu-
tionaliY of that form of taxation, both
under the state and federal laws. 1t also
decided that government bonds were not
exempt from such taxation The great
distinction established by the decision is,
in effect. that the legacy tax provided for
under the federal law operates on each
such legacy, rather than en- the entire
estates Of the deceased persons.
The federal Inheritance tax provides for
a progressive tax, according to the
amount of the inheritance. exempting all
legacies below $4,000. The court holds
that while individual Iegacies above that
amount are taxable according to the
rates laid down In the law, the entire sum
of the estate in the disposition of which
they are made is not subject to taxation.
Justice White it was who delivered the
opinion of the court In the progress of
the opinion the following principles are
laid down:
The review which we have made ex-
hiDits the fact that taxes imposed with
reference to the ability of the person
upon whom the burden is placed to bear
the same have been levied from the
formation of the government. So also
some authoritative thinkers and a num-
Der Of economic writers contend that
progressive tax is more just and equal
than q proportional one In the absence
or constitutional limitation the ques-
ton whether 1t is or is not is legislati
and not judicial.
The grave consequences which 1t is
asserted must arise in the future If the
right TO levy progressive tax be rec
ognized involves in its ultimate aspect
the mere assertion that free and repre-
sentative government is a failure. and
that the grosSest abuses of power are
foreShadOwed unless thu courts usurp
purely legislative function. If case
Shonid ever arise where an arbitrary
and confiscatory eXaction is imposed
bearing the guise of q progressive or
e'tS DtiSi 10TH Oh Id8Y 1t VIII De llIn6
enough TO consider whether the judicial
power can afford a remedy by applying
inherent and fundamental principles for
the protection of the individual. even
though there be no express authority in
the constitution to do so. That the law
which we have construed affords no
ground for the contention that the tax
imposed Is arbitrary and cnnfiscatoTy is
Obvious
This decision represents a far-reachins
public policy with reference to taxation
The tax on legacies and distributive
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27

multiplication tables midOudt LOGGING id
ub, bud dey couldt dell you ven NaboleOn
dit not lick der Chermans, Ven king
Chorge uf Inkland Yos crowned or "a
tress you in Won of dose deadt lankvidg
so useful in efery day life. nit nod, or
dell you how many feets on a pumbls
bee, or Grass hobber. VOnce in a vie
you will run across der pOy vot kin say
der muldiblication table midOudt sthOb-
bing, tell you how many inches in
feet vat We haf der Fourdt of Chu-
ly celebradings for. Vich Won of dose
poys will mage his own way besdt drOugh
dis world midoudt his Fotter TO helb him
along or his wife dak in washing?
Efery new SUPERINTENDENT has his own
IDEAS Vlch are yust backwards uf der
man Vot hat der chob in frondt uf him
Now We shouldt kevit dis yuseless Oxberi-
mentlng und especially nit oudtsite men
Dose men always haf droubIes Of dere
.own in some odder cidy we're de beoples
drop on to dem und are fickuring to bend
dem der Mikado's choice vich uf l re-
memper right, VCs polling oil or der
meadt axes, una der nexdt ding We hear
uf dey haf a goot chob as suberindendent
Of schools in st. Paul.
Id is nod ride. Der boobies should
chump ub or town, elder Won, una Ge-
mandt dot We recognition some up der
combetent men Yot We hat ride here in
our own cidy. We haf a numper of goot
men in der profession right here who
could menchiOn. bud for fear dot some
Won would dink l hat an axes to grindt I
VIII nod complication meinselluf. We haf
der material, men dot know deir bitZness
und exbeeially how to run school house
bitzness, und our honOraple poardt OF
school Inspector chenerals should gif Won
Of dem chance. Uf he is unaple to de-
ifer der gcots. sthOp his pay und dry
Won of der Onder poys. Id iss cerdainIy
nod supcheckt foP St Paul to con-
graduation herself abOudt. besides 1t re-
Elections on our present staff of principals
und teachers Dere are seferal oddeT
tings vot Is der matter NIT our schools
Vich id is nod for me to say much abOudt.
as i'd Is not use, SO long as 1 am only
maging sugchestnuts. and vich our local
men know all aboudt und could
remedy id. Let efery man vot dinks he
has any influence nit der school bOardt
so ub und reChister nit emphatcs Wy il
should be dot dey should nod mage littlH
uf deir own town by saying We haf mo-
pody vot knows Something's here In s..
Paul. We must go Outsite for a man dc6
does. Id iss a shamefUlness dot day
should diddid It, -BudVeiser,
Per E. Weisenburger.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27
BNdQveiser faz 9S Seb0J Question.

I haf bin reading in der Glope vot id
SUPERINTENDENT. Der Iadest repords seem
to Indication dot We haf nopody vot
knows Something's in St. Paul and We
must go oudtsite uf st. Paul, maype to
MINNEAPOLIS. Vinona. Oshkosh, Browns
Valley or amy oldt blaze yust so she is
fon der oudtside. Wy is it, der reason
yet dot our fnsphector chenerals uf der
shule boardt should diddid it? Yust may
pc because dey haf always diddid i'd und
are afraidt dot dey would establishment
a precedences did dey take some uf der
blenty schmardt men. vOt We haf blenty
uf ad home. We haf bin oxberimending
for nine odder ten years yet und vot
hat We got to show for it? Efery new
SUPERINTENDENT has some ideas vich he
dinks shouldt bin introductioned nit our
shule houses und insteadt uf teaching
der leedle childrens A c und how to
read und mage wridings after dey got
oudt uf der kindergarten. vot do dey did?
Dey chase dem oudt in der Green fieldts
to ketchet botato buks, budder flyers,
beedles and bick Wild flowers water cres-
ses. spinnaches and dings like dot to
back in der shule room, dey gif dem
EXAMPLES vich dey pring home ad nide
und rack deir weary leedle prains, vich
go like dis, "Uf man can puy dree
horses for feefty tollars each Won, how
many cows can he puy for Won hundred
tollars ven milk iss ten cents a kevart'
or How many shinkles will Id dake to
shinkle a house vich she is 16 feet high
and Is feet skevare" or ''If der DIFFER uf
der ice wagon Weighs 200 pounds yot does
DER man in der back pard uf der wagon
Veigh?' Desc are yust SAMPLES uf yot
habbens efery tay.
Each new SUPERINTENDENT musdt hat
new books. Der oldt books are nod goot
enuff, and der parents uf der childrens
musdt tear ub dere coin and puy new
vons all aroundt. efery year or two.
haf me a susDiciousness dot dere is a
leedle rake off some we're vich l am nod
breparadioned to say yust we're she is
Annoder administrations vich We all haf
rememperings uf is der scandalousness
nit Vich id hat ids surroundings, und
V1ch played SO many favOrites und
threatened to Generalization der whole
bitzness. HOwefer who geds der worst of
it? Wy der childrens efery time. You
can bick dem ub, Won by Won und Id Is
tollars to centses dot dey candt say dere
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.

1t has become the fashion to denounce
indiscriminately that peculiar belief
termed Christian Science and those who
believe in or practice it; and the many
intelligent persons who attack or ridicule
it are uhsparing in their criticism of both
the faith, if it Is a faith, and the be-
levers That inimitatbIe humorist. Mark
Twain, devoted an exceedingly facetious
article to It IN the recent issue of a month
ly magazine. in which he held up Chris
tian Science, Its teachers and believers to
scorn and contempt.
Other individuals of smaller caIiber and
not gifted with Mr.. Twain's sense of hu
NOR have seriously and energeticaliy de-
neunced Christian Science as an unmiti-
gated and dangerous fraud. its teachers
as arrant humbugs and it's believers as
poor. .defuded crea lures. These critics have
had no good word to say Of this singular
phase of mental disturbance, nor one
charitable word to spare for those who
have accepted It, In fact their criticism
has degenerated into bitter and injudicious
attack devoid of fairness or argument.
The opponents of Christian Science have
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27
DOES MAN ONLY REASON AND
WOMAN ONLY LOVE-.

Tom Smith. of Harlan. To-. has achieved
fame. much to his own surprise and to
achieve it he climbed upon the unwilling
shoulders of Prof Oscar Chrisman, of
Emporia, Kan.
1t was at the Mothers convention at
a weedy, wordS essay on men and women
and love, in which he made the idiotic
remark that iiweman alone loves; man
reasons.r The audience of 5000 fe-
males, nine-tenths Of whom were mothers
more or less. promptly hissed the profess
sor at this stage of his remarks, and they
hissed at him 9at intervals until the con-
clusion of his essay; when he retired in
some confusion, astounaed to perceive
that he had not reasoned out the effect
of his remarks before he delivered them
to such an audience.
Then Tom Spith, Of Harlan. To-. who up
to that time had been sitting peacefully
and subdued beside his much better half,
cast reason to the winds, and, amid en-
strative tugs at his coat tails by his more
reasonable wife, he delivered an impas-
stoned roast of the professor and gushed
ever the tovable disposition of the male
sex and the reasonableness of females
generally Three thousand motheriy faces
beamed upon Tom Smith. of Harlan. To-.
when he sat down. breathless and slightly
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27

NEW YORK-Arrived: Lucania. Liver
pool. Sailed: State of Nebraska. Glas-
3 gov; ANS terdam, Rotterdam, via Bo-
logne; Archoria, Glasgow; Minneap-
2hs, London; Ivernia, Liverpool, Phoeni-
oft4; ca; = HambuTg, I!l,i,,EIg,. Via Cherb9urg.
idverpoo.. New York.
ANI.W ERP-Satled: Friesland, New York.
PHILADELPHIA - Steamer Waesland
sailed for Liverpool $50 a m.
H9kOHAMA-Arrived Braemer, Port
iaRd, Or Previously, City of Rio de
Janeiro, San Francisco. for Hong Kong.
LiiNERPOOL~Arrived: Campania, New
York.
GENOA Arrived: Bolivia. New York.
BRt.M i N-Arrived: August Korff, from
Philadelphia.
HONG KONG-Arrived: Previously, Nip
pom Maru. San Francisco, via Honolulu
and Yokohama. Sailed 25th: Queen
Adelaide, from Hong Kong, Tacoma.
HAY kt-Sailed: La Bretagne, New York
SQl III \ ION-Sailed: st. Paul New
York. yia Cherbourg.
southampton, New York
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27

pink about the gills, after his chivalrous
outburst. Three thousand inquisitive
mothers demanded his name and three
thousand maternal hearts beat the faster
for sympathy with his noble sentiments.
The result Of 1t all was that Prof.
Chrisman's statement, that man alone
reasons and does not love, and woman
loves but does not reason. was disproved
on the spot. The professor was convicted
of having failed to exercise his reason
when he ventured to make such a state
ment before three thousand mothers in
convention assembled, and Tom Smith, of
Harlan, To-, demonstrated perfectly that
man is an unreasoning animal; otherwise
he would never have given way to his
feelings as he did
And, incidentally, it is highly probable
that Mrs Tom Smith, of Harlan, To-, dem
onstrated that woman is reasoning crea-
ture by informing Tom Smith, of Harlan,
To-, when she got him home, that he had
made perfect fool of himself
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27

es the hope that Mr.. strouse may soen
return to us in renewed health. and.
continue to enjoy all the blessings and
advantages which the public identified
with charming personality during his
long residence in the city.
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Olte St 5tu1&l Q5lnhe
BRANCH OFFICES.

New York. 10 Spruce ST.. Chas. H. Eddy
in Charge
Chicago No 81 Washington St. Harry
FraliCk. Mgr. Williams & Lawrence IN
Charge.
Paris Office. No. II Rue Scribe. Readers
of the Globe. When Attending the Ex-
position, Are Invited to Call at the
Globe Office.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27
More Loot.

Freeborn County Standard.
If loot Is the main business of the Han
ma officeholders in Havana, what may We
expect is going on at Manila and in Porto
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27
WEATHER FOR TODAY.

Mlnnesota-Fair and warmer Sunday;
Monday fair. probably cooler; fresh to
nostheriy winds. becoming variable
lcwa-PartlN cloudy Sunday: probably
thunder storms and colder in southeast
portion: Monday fair: variable winds.
North DakOta-Fair Sunday; cooler in
western portion; Monday showers and
cooler: south to west winds
South DakOta-Fair and warm Sunday;
Monday cooler with fair in eastern; Mon
daV west winds.
Montana-Showers Sunday; cooler in
western portion: Monday fair in western
portion: cooler and probably showers In
eastern portion; westerly winds.
Wlscons.n-Fair Sunday and Monday;
cooler in western portions; variable
winds.
ST. PAUL.
Yesterdays observations, taken by the
United States weather bureau, st. Paul.
z f. Lyons observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at o'clock last night.
barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation.
highest temperature Observation-Disclosures. So
Lowest temperature Observation-Disclosures. 50
Average temp nature Observation-Disclosures. n
ICdliS range ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. II
DdtOlIIctet -...........- ~. 95
Humidity .................... ....... "a
Precipitation ...-....-........ ............ o
u. m. temperature Observation-Disclosures. 81
wind nT~~3a west. VvRaf her
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The army buildings at Fort Hays, Kan
sas, have been given by congress to the
state for a normal school and expert
ment station. Fort Hays is close to the
Indian country and yet the government
finds no need for it. Des Moines, Iowa,
is clamoring for a military post, how
ever. for protection from what? Per-
haps from the inmates of the reform
school for girls at Mitchellville. No, the
whole thing is merely job for Congress-
man Hulrs friends
The national Republican platforms of
1888 and 1892 declared most emphaticaIly
against trusts and monopolies. In 1895
when Hanna took control of the party
the question of rapacious combinations
was neglected. Now watch for a strad-
die in the platform of 1900. Hanna is
still boss, but he sees handwriting on
the wall
Harper's Weekly recently described the
method used in taking the census, and
with it printed a portrait of Director
Merriam at His Desk" The historical
value of the portarit was impaired by
the fact that the picture was that of Mr.
Langley. a census office subordinate, and
now the Weekly regrets that it was i'm
posed upon.
Harvard university is to entertain 1900
Cuban school teachers for six weeks
this summer They are to be brought
over and taken back by the war depart
ment on government vessels There are
states south Of the Ohio river where
government money and public sentiment
could be used to better advantage. milne
own people" first.
Since the passage of the Porto Rican
bill in the teeth of so strong a popular
opposition. says Harper's Weekly, 1t has
seemed to the profanely disposed a. little
as though the Republicans. on a pub
lic-be id platform, might dispute
with the Democrats on a platform of
wot tell.
Commissioner Peck says the sl5O,GOO gold
statue of Maud Adams is not artistic
and cannot be exhibited at Paris. They
say Maud is mad about It, and so Is
the designer, as well as the owners of
the gold. Mr., Peck, is a Chicago man.
Nearly all the British generals In South
Africa have crossed the half century
mark. Roberts is 68, White is 60, Clery
Oz' @Bliler- 81, and French 60.
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ST. PAUL.
RIVER BULLETIN.
TEMPERATURES

River forecast till a. M Monday: The
Mlssissippi will remain stationary or fail
slightly in HE vicinity of St Paul
YfTSTIFPn A VIC ,1,E,Nh1oU,r, n,rrrorrc,
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: Nearly all the British generals In south
Africa have crossed the half century
mark, Roberts is 68, White is 60, Clery
b. Butler 81, and French CO.
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Commissioner Peck says the $l5O.0OO gold
statue of Maud Adams is not artistic
and cannot be exhibited at Paris They
say Maud is mad about 1t. and so Is
the designer, as well as the owners of
the gold. Mr., Peck is a Chicago man.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27
*SnnnIIiot
OCEAN LINERS.

washington time q p. m. St. PauD.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-27

kind-hearted clergyman was lately
compelled to dismiss gardener. who
used to purloin his fruit and vegetables,
For the sake of his wife and family, he
gave them letter of Recommendation.
and this is how he worded it: 81 hereby
certify that A. B. has been my gardener
Ior over two years, and that during that
tme he got more out of my garden than
any man L ever employed