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Show HAS THE HUMAN BODY GOT A SOUL? We nre living In nn age of progress when science sfeins to be taking the most prominent part In bringing man closer to that primitive substance and power which Is at the back of all life. An age when the telephone and telegraph has been so perfected that one can converse for thousands of miles; where wireless telegrnphy has been discovered and put to uses that are simply astounding, and where electricity and Its kindred and allied powers are marching hand In hnnd to some great climax whlph the tinman tinm-an race wots not of. It Is nn age when transportation has become so perfected that the possibilities of the submarine boat, the motor car and the flying machine nre only to be conjectured. con-jectured. Hut now comes the latest and most startling product of sclenco which proves conclusively that 'tho human body has a soul or some substance, as yet undefined, that quickens 'the human fabric Into living, throbbing nctlve life. A learned scientist, by moans ot tho X or radium rays, projected upon the body of a dying man tp watch tho processes of disintegration, found that when the vital spark was leaving the body, that a bright fight of unrecognized un-recognized form, commenced to leavo the earthy tabernacle, aid Unit as soon as the vital chord had snapped, tho light formed Into some shape, hovered for a few seconds over the cold, silent clay, and then vanished into space. Knowing that the radium and X-rays X-rays will discover tho mpst perfect pnrtB of tho human system, penetrating penetrat-ing clothes and other substances In which tho body Is encased, ononis left to wonder what was this substance that seemed, greater than tho rays themselves, ns It showed 'up with such plulnnqss. . ... Was-It the soul of the body? Ah, .who can tell? One thing Is sure, it was ot such m superior matter that tho rays directed upon it could not penetrate It. The scientist Is now to direct his energies on the animal kfngdom to see whether thoy, too, havo souls. The questions as now presented opens up nn avenue for great thought and It may bo that we are on tho verge of some great discovery that will ustonUh tho human race. I :o: ' The "man with the gimlet" who writes editorial dope in tho Hlchmoud department of our local contemporary, reminds us of tho follow who tried tot "Job" n bunch of farmers, with the result that he lost his Job in tho melee, me-lee, and his hide Is so thick that even ev-en with tho uso of his own gimlet he cannot p'robu deep' enough to ascertain ascer-tain why he lost his Job. Sea tho point dour btoth'jr?'? " . " .1 ' |
