Show HUMAN MIRACLES Some S ome Remarkable Recoveries Have Baffled Science nce Answers It has been said often since Matthew Arnolds A day that miracles do not hap happen happ pen p en n Whether Wh ther that is so 80 Or r not In the strict s sense it Is certainly cert not so In the popular p r sense There ThOre rh r are ard ar men mett and women omen w going about their work today who w ho are living miracles men and wo we women women men m en who seem to have been snatched sn from f rom death d ath by providential l hands Ev Er Every Ever Erry ery er e ry day d somewhere som where miracle al of ot the time kind ind k haD en and if one ne took note of them hem t all one could fill till a book Not so 50 long ago a Surrey man was picked p up alive and well after att r rolling hundreds h of feet f et down d h the side sl e of a I Welsh mountain and nd there 13 i a school schoolmaster i master aster m In Edinburgh still living ta to ell tell t the story tory of a sudden descent of IOCO 1 ff feet teet et down donn Ben Nevis These ThC are miracles indeed Ind e But even more miraculous if com corn comparison comp p parison arison in such Euch cases be b possible was w s he the t escape of a lad who ho was driving a horsE hors and cart when the animal bolt boit bolted ed e d toward the t e Clifton suspension bridge b and jumped into a gully feet fe t deep d The horse was killed and the theart cart art c smashed to atoms but the boy dropped d Into the branches of or a tree and andes 1 es rebelled re cUed the worse wor only for a few scratches s Another An ther remarkable case c Se is that thit of a aman aman aman man named Wells The man has h ha S had very every e rib broken and every finger bro broken broken broken ken He has been burled Under tinder a heavy eavy h fall C ll of ot gravel l His skull has been b een split open by a blasting accident and an a nd he has been struck on the head with a pick He has fallen thirty seven even s feet and his skull and andas has lias h as been crushed between loaded trucks rucks t He Is now in a casualty ward wards as a s the result of ot another accident but buts butIs butIs i Is s happy confident that he hO was born bornor for f or a long life and a natural death Or consider the thrilling vivid narra narrative narrative t tive ive of a n bayoneted ba Russian soldier In Inne one o ne of the Manchurian field hospitals 1 I should have had the time little Jap done for Cor f or if IC I had not slipped and dropped my rifle rile he told the doctor It seemed s hours he prodded me m mand and I watched the bayonet creeping I down to me inch by b inch down down down I remember noticing a birth birthmark birthmark birthmark mark on the time beasts chin Then came t the he prod and I screamed My lly whole body from Crom throat to hips felt Celt sizzling with Ith molten metal me tal That lasted for hours Then ThOn Th n the bayonet gave a wrig wriggle wriggle I gle gie and I felt it was alive and an biting me on the other side of my body Yet YetI YetI I could not keep my eyes off oC that Japs I birthmark It suddenly seemed to Swell out of his face Cace and look like a balloon It seemed years before he took the bayonet out of me When he did I could feel Ceel the blood gushing out of me m and I knew I was a dead d ad man But he was wIs not a dead man The bayonet had not touched a single vital I spot and he ho recovered A fracture of the spine kills most peo people people pIe but here as in other cases mir muir miracles acles a les sometimes happen as in the case of a Whitby railway worker who was wa received Into a hospital after a severe fall tall his spine being ao so fractured tra that thai the sUrgeons regarded his condition as a hopeless A surgical operation was Im irn Impossible Impossible possible Nature however did the mys mysterious mysterious mysterious work which baffled science and an a few months afterward att rard the man mar left the ward wara cured the only sign marr of If r his calamity being that he ho carried his hi I head stiffly and bent somewhat for forward forward forward ward The heart is a vital Ital organ A few e eyears ev years ago a stab or bullet in the heart hear would have meant death Today sur surgery surgery ur gery tells a different story Some Sam months ago a young girl was accident accidentally accidentally accidentally ally shot In the heart Dr Manteuffel l chloroformed his patient arid and after a marvelous surgical operation he forced forcee out the bullet with his fingers and am sewed up the wound and the girl left Ic the cured A similar shooting accident happened to a man named Meyer Me er who is a mar marvel marvel marvel vel of vitality to most of oC the clinics of ot o f Europe The Th bullet lodged in the th C mans heart and he walks about Lon Len London London Lendon don with It there yet after an Inter was no bleeding after atter I was shot he h 0 was no bleeding after I was wag shot he het h e t his hI friends It is a riddle The Th C doctors cannot tell why wh I did not die Another personified miracle makes make S his home at Guisborough 1 in Yorkshire at the foot of the Cleveland hills For Fo upward of thirty years he has been the th victim of the terrible t disease known wn as a aHe lupus He has suffered opera operations operations of ot one sort or another and is still st cheerful tromping tramping before 5 ev cv every every ery morning several miles to his wor ft In the Ironstone mines for Cor which the th Lh e Cleveland district is famous and tak tah taking takIng ing an active part In his off hours In Inthe Inthe i I Ithe the religious and political l work of f the th town in which he lives Ill never say saydie sa die dle he Is fond of saying to his sym sympathizers 1 While theres life liCe theres there 5 hope hODe Children too have hare often orten an almost t miraculous power of ot recovery The Th present pre writer has a vivid recollection of seeing a child fall with a leg stretch stretched ed out between the curb and the road roadway roadway roadway way like a bridge of a cart coming by b band and passing over the leg and of the th child after a poignant scream running off oct down the street as If nothing had ha happened In similar circumstances circumstance s the leg of a 11 man would have browen browe n i like a stick of firewood wood |