The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

met month ago.
Perhaps there is also cause for rejoic-
ing in the increased activity of the min
listers of the several denominations do
ing business in the city" as one divine
was pleased to remark. At first this
activity was directed against crime and
guilty officials, but it has perceptibly
diminished III that direction. According
to the newspaper report of the last meet
ing of the Methodist ministers here, they
gave up the discussion of city affairs, to
enter upon a serious, almost violent con-
troversy concerning the accuracy of the
Bible account of the incarnation. What
threatened to prove serious division
was happily averted, however, by q COM
promise under which each member OF
the body was to enter Upon the twentieth
century pledged to assist in the work
'of winning 100000 souls to Christ-apd
to the Methodist church.
But the discoveries of the professor
of the Chicago university are assuredly
sufficient cause for great rejoicing. do
not refer, of course to discoveries in the
REALM of higher criticism" nor of ar
cheology, though now that the palace Of
Minos has been unearthed and identi-
fed We are not without hope that the
skeleton of the Minotaur will soon be
placed in the British museum. The dis
coveries that l speak of are practical
and some of them most closely related
to the affairs of daily life The astrono-
mers of the university have satisfied
themselves that the nebular hypothesis
is no longer tenable and the biologists,
that the glacial epoch is a myth.
OH! GLORIOUS DISCOVERY.
The latter discovery is particularly val
liable inasmuch as countless school chill
dren need not in the future be taken
upon field excursions to study glacial eff
&c m fbo+
teachers who wish to join the class
in. geology in an excursion to Shadow
falls should meet at $3.50 on next Saturday
at the corner of Seventh and Roberts
streets" l say it is no. necessary that
these things should not be done but I
would not on any account have it -un.
derstOod that | speak for the very capa-
BILE supervisor of nature study in ST
Paul schools. He may not agree with
these learned professors.
Again Prof. Starr has settled clearly
in his own mind that the inhabitants of
the United States are rapidly rcverting
TO the Indian type and that in COM
parauYely brief time the red man, civ
llized or uncivilized, will again fill these
borders as III days of yore. We have
all been interested in the many pictures
OF noted Indians and typical Pennsyl-
Vania Dutch that he has placed side by
side TO prove actual identity at the pres
ent time. The professor is now in Mexico
whittier he has gone to prove what he
already knows--that the tribes of Indians
In Mexico are homogeneous, and so he
goes on with his good work which, how
ever, III some essential points seems TO
contradict the infallible conclusions Of
genetic psychologists. Lest some
should think that ] am joking in respect
TO the next discovery I beg to quote from
the Chicago Tribune of this date: Ed
mund j. James, professor in the Univer-
s1ty of Chicago and president of the
American Academy of Political and So
ciaI science has been working for twenty
years in an effort to obtain a well au-
thentlcated instance of death from snake
bite in the United States and at last
etc.
The case that he had discovered was
that OF Edward Swanson, white. Amer
lean etc, bitten while giving an ex-
hfbition of snake charming at Fort Val
ley, Ga. This discovery shows how per-
seVerlng are men of science, and at
the same time proves that a snake bite
may be fatal. Who shall say that the
scientists are not deyoting to practical
matters?
STILL GREATER DISCOVERY.
But all of these discoveries are
as nothing when compared with the
Win VI L lO1SSSOES 11OGD ana IlD2iP. TO
discover the origin of life has been the
dream, the hope of all great scientists.
chemists have for ages sought on elixir
whereby life might be forever preserved
IheSe professors seem to be throwing
hSht upon these hitherto hidden sub
1ects, and are attracting q great deal of
attention. Last summer Prof Loeb
startled thoughtful people with the an
nouncement that he had discovered a
for fi,1rr Sc
eggs, and now he has satisfied himself
beyond all doubt as to what it is that
makes the heart beat viz the action of
sodium chloride common salO, which ex-
lists in the blood
The results of his experiments are
set forth in a recent number Of the
American Journal of Physiology, which
any OF your readers may consult The
claims of these distinguished professors
are set forth most modestly, and there
IS every reason for believing that they
nave made discovery of great value to
the human race although no one be-
lleves that the elixir of life has at last
been discovered, nor are we any nearer
an understanding of the origin of life.
with such record made during the past
year, there can be no doubt that the
University of Chicago is rapidly pressing
forward for first place among American
universities. 1t only remains to be
shown how many of these theories will
stand.
ANOTHER CAUSE TO REJOICE.
There is one other cause of rejoicing
in Chicago, the teachers were paid their
salaries due them. For weeks we have
been accustomed to seeing in all the
daily papers, headlines as follows: ''Wiu
the teachers be paid?' 1.-The teachers will
not be paid" President Harris. of the
school board says that the comptroller is
to blame for delay in paying teachers
Comptroller kerfoot says the school
board only is to blame The mayor
has plan for paying the teachers their
salary, etc, etc, etc" Really all this
discussion seemed to me to be but an
echo from the past. The money was in
the treasury, the payroll had been
made out, and was in the hands of the
comptroller, who refused to sign the war
rant because he said the board had not
ooeyed the law concerning the election
of secretary. The teachers were in
dignant, their friends were angry. the
public was disguised, the newspapers
called it an outrage, but the comptroller
would not do anything, and the board
could not, and so the merry war went
on. Then 1t was said that the mayor had
plan. but 1.-The watchdog of the treas
ury' only growled and deeply and
gruff1y inquired of those who smoke To
him if they knew the law" / know
how strange and inexplicable this stare
Of things must seem to st. Paul teach
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