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eardinal Gibbons at 78 1,OVES
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THE SIMPLE LIFE.
"I think," said the Cardinal "that It is given to comparatively few men (says the "Baltimore Sun") to the great mass of voters are more intent upon principles than they are live to seventy-eight years of age, to respond upon men. They are learning to with mind and body think for themselves. They are breakto important duties, to still fewer of blindly to look back upon a career of great ing away from the habit usefulness and honour, and to fewer following leaders, no matter where such leaders would lead them. They Yet to feel and know that after so long a period of public work they are more concerned with what a man says than with who says it." face only a world of friends, without The Cardinal discussed,. too, the a single personal enemy. congratulation, high cost of living, and said that he A fit subject for therefore, is our good Cardinal, believed that the reason why the James Gibbons, whose serene and People of years ago lived more cheapsimple, but wise and pure life has ly than do their children of to -day endeared him to men of all was because of the fact that they had creed at not many of the luxuries enjoyed by no of creeds and celebration in the people of to -day, and because, The civic all. too, they were more thrifty. He honour of his golden jubilee gave him public assurance of the general said : good will and esteem, and passing BLAME PRESENT-DAY LUXURyears can only strengthen that senIES. whole whose one toward timent live luxuriously cannot "People the to devoted strength has been without paying for it. In making a cause of humanity and religion. The common tie that has hound so many different sorts of people to the Cardinal has been .his broad sympathy, which knows no distinction of race or class ; the kindly heart, which has always been open to every human approach and the genuine spirituality that has made him as one who, walking the common paths of life, dwells even in the flesh upon the celestial mountains. We instinctively feel of him as was written of ano-
needed to make us happy and contented. If we make use of these few things in a sensible way we shall live wisely and well."
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CATHOLIC PRIEST WAS THE FATHER OF THE SIGN LANA
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the The month of July witnessed celebration in .Paris of the 20,,th anniversary of the birth of Abbe de l'Epee, the father of the sic,n language and founder of the first school for the education of the deaf. Church and State dignitaries participated in the celebration, one in shish all Catholics should rejoice, since it honoured a modest son of Holy Mother Church whose chief aim was to bring the knowledge of God to the most neglected of the Church's children the deaf. Charles Michael de l'Epee, who was among the great men of the last Century-among the illustrious benefactors of mankind-whose memory will
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ther "His life's low chime :
Keeps cheerful time
To songs the poor are singing ; But in his soul The anthems roll That in high heaven are ringing."
From the "Baltimore Sun," July 2 As happy as a boy out of school and beaming with the spirit of optimism, Cardinal Gibbons yesterday celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday at the home of Mr. T. Herbert Shriver, near Union Mills, Carroll county. There The Cardinal was happy. was no doubt about that. As he handled the messages of congratulation received from friends throughout the country he spoke of bow much such manifestations of affection meant to him. The Cardinal loves work, even on his birthday. That is why a good Part of yesterday was spent by him in study and reading and in answering the well wishes of his friends. His birthday was spent as he wanted to spend it, free from all formal celebration. He arose early and said his daily Mass at 8 o'clock in the chapel of the Shriver home. His morning was spent in reading and in answering his correspondence. After lunch he took a short rest and later in the afternoon went on an automobile trip with his host through the hills of Carroll. His evening was spent much the same as his evenings in the city, in reading, in study, and in a chat with members of the Shriver family. REPEATS HIS OPTIMISM IN THE WORLD. As the Cardinal looked down yesterday upon his lone life, he repeated his ontimism in the world about him and viewed with ceeidence the
future.
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For a brief moment in conversation he touched upon the awakening of his fellow-countrymen on political conditions, expressing his belief that the men of to -day are guided in the exercise of the ballot more by the voice (4 what is conducive to the country's interest than has been the case in the past.
1733. But such was not his vacation, so he resumed theological studies and was ordained a priest by the Bishop of Troyes, April 3, 1738. A few years later he determined to consecrate his life to the intellectual and moral regeneration of deaf mutes. The incident that led him to this step is known to all-hie n.eeting with two girls deprived of speech and hearing, and shortly after the death of Father Vanin, a priest whose sympathy for these poor girls caused him to attempt to educate them. On his first visit to their house De l'Epee meets them in the absence of their mother, not knowing they are deaf and dumb. On the return of the ith mother he mingles his tears
hers, and, full of compassion, determines to replace Father Vanin. From that day a new career openand ed before him-one unknown bristling with difficulties-but no obstacle was able to hold him hack. With disinterested and generous spirit and with a will full of energy and perseverance with unrelenting patience, rare disinterestedness, sacrifice of his fortune, etc., he net out in his new field of labour. Previous to the eighteenth century it was the general beli.'f that the deaf were incapable of instruction. But the Abbe de l'Epee's boundless charity embraced in his mind nod heart the education of all the deafof all nations of his day and of ti e future, and his object owns to restore them all to God and to society. He had national schools established in many land.. For this perpossz he learned several languages and propagated the sign language as a universal language. He appealed to all the sovereigns in Europe in behalf of the deaf, and he and his successor, the Ahhe Sicard, trained teachers from Italy, Germany, Spain and our own country.
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forts. "I do think, however, that some of the people of to -day could follow the example of thrift set them by their forefathers. Thrift is not incompatible with real enioyment. The spendthrift is not the happiest of men. Nature, content with a little, teaches us a lesson : " 'Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.' "Thrift and economy give the best hope of a green old age. There are not many things in life which are
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