Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-16
"soUL" UNPOPULAR IN SCIENCE.

Professor Joseph Peterson, of the University of Utah, discussing
EocEefsleSr's University Of Chicago the other day, gave expression
10 some startling Notwithstanding from the standpoint of the
The idea of soul, he said in effect, is decidedly unpopular in
science seen e. ,skep p regarding the soul. says a report, was
The learned gentleman from Utah declared that there is no.
a man. Such mental differences as exist, or perhaps we should say
seeming differences as exist, he declared to be differences in degree
TheologiansI may not agree with the professor-in fact, we are
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to compare whose inteIlects with that Of some dogs we have had the
pleasure OF meeting would be ad ecided reflection upon the dog.
But perhaps this is diving too deep into the theological sea. At
any rate, we fancy that the great body Of %worshipers Of the lowly
Nazarene vii take issue with the professors views.
Mr. Wilson y some driver when il comes to driving congress.
The question arises, what will have been accomplished after the
president shall have forced b. legislative program through
II tn those democrats don't get 3 hustle On thsnsslvss, the presi
Iaign.
nominee, for United States senator. Mr.. shober, we believe, was
for Taft in 1912, when nearly all the other republicans were against
him Now that nearly all Of the republicans appear to be for Byrne
and Burke, il Is but natural that shober, in view Of past perform
ances, should be for some one else.
Asked as to- how long alfalfa seed will retain its vitality, Pro-
lsssor q 3. Hume of the agricultural college i quoted As saying
that while the vitality Of alfalfa seed is not definitely known, two
Hume adds: Prime seed lost only 25 per cent 0f its vitality IL ten
Years: Dead seeds instead ct remaining green, turn brown
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in its columns, and we Invariably feel, upon spreading it before u.s.
like grabbing the shears and Sslashing right and left for reproduction
||on our own pages. One could hardly miss getting an interesting
item, slash where he might.
Congressman Hammond, democratic candidate for governor IN
Minnesota, has excited the commentator of some Of the republican,
newspapers by coming out strongly for the program of economy and
efficiency instituted BY the commission appointed by Governor Eber-
hart, present incumbent. II apepars that there are some democrats
who DO not believe that everything republican may have done IS
necessarily wrong
The ST Paul Dispatch with pride calls the attention Of the dele
gates ~ the national educational meeting to the fact that Mime
fSOtA has been having some genuine SummerW weather. which EhonfdI
Isuit the most fastidious among the N. E.A. delegates \, It appears
that there has been plentysof Summer weather to go around, not
understanding some pf MS had been laboring under the delusion that
South Dakota had corraled ala chat was loose.
The sionx Falls ArgnsLeader il frsauently referred to al te
|statea leading daily The appellation 81 assuredly not misleading,
ibarTfngso f course, present company, which iii Our ownlocal daily, tol
whose enterprise wa treaty bear testimony One need not necessarily
lagrees with heSionx Falls publication as To either politics rr ehgonl
l5raternlty d. South. Dakota. but aIso. Id the. baaness Interests al TIE