The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-10
HUMAN MIRACLES.
Some. Remarkable Recoverles That
Have BaffIed Science.

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It has been said often since Matthew
Arnold's day, that miracles do not hap
pen. Whether that is so or not in the
strict sense, it is certainly not so in the
popular sense. There are men and
women going about their work today
who are living miracles-men and wo-
men who seem to have been snatched
from death by providential hands. Ev-
cry day, somewhere, a miracle of the
kind happens. and if one took note of
them all, one could fill a book
Not so long ago a Surrey man was
picked up alive and well after rolling
hundreds of feet down the side of a
Welsh mountain, and there is school
master il Edinburgh still living to-
tell the story of a sudden descent of
LOCO feet down Ben Nevis. These are
miracles, indeed
But even more miraculous-if COM
parison in such cases be possible-was
the escape of a lad who was driving
horse and cart when the animal bolt
ed toward the Clifton suspension
bridge and jumped into gully 200 feet
deep. The horse was killed, and the
cart smashed to atoms: but the boy
dropped into the branches of a tree and
wes rescued the worse only for a few
scratches
Another remarkable. case is that of
man named Wells. The man has had
every rib broken and every finger bro
ken. He has been buried under a
heavy fall of gravel His skull has
been split open by blasting accident,
and he has been struck on the head
with a pick. He has fallen thirty
seven feet and fractured his skull, and
has been crushed between loaded
| trucks. He is now in a casualty ward
as the result of another accident, but
is happy, confident that he was born
for a long life and natural death.
Or consider the thrilling, vivid nara
tive of bayonetted Russian soldier, in
one of the Manchurian field hospitals.
Il should have had the little Jap done
for if | had not slipped and dropped
my rifle" he told the doctor. 1T
seemed hours before he prodded me,
and l watched the bayonet creeping
down to me inch by inch-down, down,
down. 1 remember noticing q birth
mark on the beasts chin. Then came
the prod, and L screamed. My whole
body from throat to hips felt sizzling
with molten metal. That lasted for
hours. Then the bayonet gave wrig-
gle, and l felt 1T was alive and biting
me on the other side of my body. Yet
| could not keep my eyes off that Jap'sI
birthmark. 1t suddenly seemed TO
swell out Of his face, and look like a
DdilOOn. II SetilltO years DeIOTe he
took the bayonet out of me. When he
did 1 could feel the blood gushing out
of me, and 1 knew 1 was a dead man."
But he was not a dead man. The
bayOnet had not touched a single vital
spot, and he recovered.
A fracture of the spine kills most peo-
pie; but here. as in other cases, mir
aeles sometimes happen, as in the case
of Whitby railway worker, who was
] x-o1 into N,1 of& -
| fall, his spine being so fractured that
the surgeons regarded his condition as
hopeless. A surgical operation was i'm
possible. Nature, however, did the mys-
ferrous work, which baffled science,
and a few months afterward the man
left the ward cured, the only sign Of
his calamity being that he carried his
head stiffly. and bent somewhat for
ward.
The heart is vital organ. A few
| years ago a stab or bullet in the heart
would have meant death. Today sur
gerry tells a different story. Some
months ago a young girl was accident
| ally shot in the heart DIR. Manteuffel
chloroformed his patient and after a
marvellous surgical operation he forced
out the bullet with his fingers and
sewed up the wound, and the girl left
the hospital cured.
to a man named Meyer, who is a mar
vel of vitality to most of the clinics of
| Europe. The bullet lodged in the
| mans heart, and he walks about Lon
| don with it there yet, after an inter-
was no bleeding after I was shot" he
was no bleeding after l was shot" he
tells his friends. ct is a riddle. The
doctors cannot tell why I did not die"
/ Another personified miracle makes
| his home at GuisbOrOugh, in Yorkshire,
| at the foot of the Cleveland hills. For
! upward of thirty years he has been the
victim of the terrible disease known as
| lupus.
| He has suffered eighty-four opera
| tions of one sort or another. and is still
| cheerful, tramping before O'Clock ev-
/ cry morning several miles to his work
/ in the ironstone mines, for which the
| Cleveland district is famous and TAX
/ ing an active part in his off hours in
the religious and political work Of the
town in which he lives. 'Tll never say
die he is fond of saying to his SYM
pathizers. while there's life there's
hope"
Children, too, have often an almost
miraculous power of recovery. The
! present writer has a vivid recollection
of seeing a child fall with a leg stretch
| ed out between the curb and the road
way like a bridge, of a cart coming by
and passing over the leg, and of the
child, after a poignant scream, running
off down the street as if nothing had
| happened. In similar circumstances
the leg Of a man would have browen
like a stick of firewood.
A QUESTION OF HONOR