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Show ! PUT RELIGIOUS DUTY SECOND. I Stern Laws of Business Corns First, Says Austrian Court. An interesting caso at lair, which centered on tho observance of an old Jowlsh custom, was decided in Vienna recently. 'A merchant, says tho American Ameri-can Isracllto, discharged a clerk on account ac-count of neglect of duty. Among tho charges against him was that ho camo to tho Btoro lato In tho morning because; be-cause; ho attended sorvlco at tho syna-goguo syna-goguo In order to say Kaddlsh tho prayer for tho dead for his father. Tho clork argued that it was his privilege privi-lege and his duty to say tho prayer for his departed father, whllo tho merchant, mer-chant, who was also a religious man, maintained that "if Moses had known that a man had to pny 8,000 gulden a year rent ho would have mado differ-1 ent laws." Tho Judgo would not allow suck an argument, but docldod In favor fa-vor of tho merchant, "bocaus,o tho dally attendance nt tho synagogue could not bo considered tho right of tho clork without tho consent ot tho employer." |