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Show THE AGES OF MEN. T - The World of New York .tells of an interview between Cardinal Gibbons and John L. Sullivan. When the ex-fighter called, the cardinal received him courteously and finally asked him how old he was. John replied 48. "Forty-eight," replied the cardinal, "I should have thought you were older. I am nearly 73." "Ah," 6aid John, "You are a young fellow yet, you move around like a kid.' And the World moralizing thinks no one seeing the two men would think that there is twenty-five years difference in their ages. And there is not except ex-cept in the mere -matter of recorded time. In point of fact John L. has lived longer than the cardinal. We could prove this, could we have a record of the heart-beats of the two men. ' Think of the nights John L. has put in when the cardinal has been sleeping. Think of the minutes that seemed like hours while the referee has been counting the spaces between rounds! Think how time has vanished when John L. was receiving the applause of the toughs! The bruiser is really the older man. With the cardinal car-dinal time has often stopped while he has" been contemplating con-templating the work he was doing for the Master and dreaming of the rewards that are to come to those who are faithful to the end. Time is not measured by the length of a man's life, but by what he does. Alexander died at thirty years, but measured by deeds he was older than Methuselah. |