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Show Panacea of All Ills. Chicago. The request in the will of Moses Harman of Chicago, who died Sunday in Los Angeles, Cal., that his body be kept at least three elays after death, anel that a dagger should then be driven through his heart to prevent the possibility of his being buried alive, will not be carried out. "If father made any such request in his will I know nothing of it." said his daughter, Lillian Harman, at his residence resi-dence here. "At any rate, I have telegraphed tele-graphed to Los Angeles to have the body embalmed and will start for that city." "Will he be buried without a coffin, as he requested?" she was asked. "I think the body will be cremated. His only opposition to a coffln was his desire to have his body return to its original elements as soon as possible. He believed in cremation, and his will wna written Inn tr hpfnrp promattnti ho came common." "And the dagger?" "Oh. I am sure father had too much regard for the feelings of others to make such a request." Harman was a persistent advocate of the abolition of Institutional marriage, mar-riage, which he contended made slaves, of women. He established a free thought paper in Valley Falls, Kan., thirty years aso. and later published a papr fca.-m? the same lines in Chicago. His . fidelity to what he regarded as the sacred right of free expression caused him to be sent to the federal prison twice on conviction of sending improper literature through the mails. He was 80 years old. St. Blase. St. Blase devoted the earlier years of his life to the study of philosophy, and afterwards became a physician. In the practice of his profession he aw so much of the miseries of life and the hollo wness of worldly pleasures, that he resolved to spend the rest of. his days in the service of God, and from being a healer of bodily aliments to become a physician of souls. The bishop of Se-baste, Se-baste, in Armenia, having died, our Saint, much to the gratification of the inhabitants of that city, waa appointed to succeed him. St. Blase at once began to instruct hla people as much by his example as by his words, and the great virtues and sanctity of this servant of God were attested by many miracles. From all parts the people came flocking flock-ing to him for the cure of bodily and spiritual Ills. Agriocolaus, governor of Cappadocia and the Lesser Armenia, having begun a persecution by order of the Emperor Licinius, our Saint was seized and hurried off to prison. While on his way there, a distracted mother, whose only child waa dylriff of a tjy&aj disease, threw herself at the feet of St. Blase and implored his intercession. Touched at her grief, the Saint offered up his prayers, and the child was cured; and since that time his aid has often been effectually solicited in casts of a similar disease. Refusing to worship the false gods of the heathen, St. Blas was first scourged, his body was then torn with hooks, and finally he was beheaded be-headed in the year 316. |