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Show V VOLUME IV, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER GOOD ADVICE. Xever bo idle. Aever gamble. .Make lew promise?. Always ieak the truth He silent when a lool talks. Ijive up to your engagements. Drink uo intoxicating liquors. Keep good company or none. Xever speak lightly of religion. Caution is the athtr 61 security. He just before jou are generous. Jlxchaugi . 1, tunate hearing brothers. The important part which the deaf have taken and still take in the work of deaf-mut- e education was evidenced by the fact that a full halfdozen of the members are connected in some capacity with institutions for the deaf. Another prominet member is a regularly ordained minister of the Episcopal church, whose work for the spiritual elevation of his 1892. NUMBER at ion for their deafness, but on account of their skill as workmen, and these in most instances command salaries which would make many men in "bur lar:e cities men in full possesion of their senses envious. At JohnsIron town, in the Cambria Works, several deaf men are employed, and these receive wauvs that enable them to support their families in comparative comfort, Mlwi in many instances to own their own homes. At Carlisle the extensive shoe factories give employment to a number of deaf men who are doing well. furnishes as unusually large number of instances of deaf men occupying positions where skill, faithfulness ami intelligence are necessary. It would be tedious to go through the Ion': list of other occupations in whi h the deaf of this state are engaged. especially as we do not desire to mention mimes but from the evidence piescnted bv the late convention there was no room for doubt that so far as education aims to render the deaf independent and it has been successful to a most encour-gindegree. The Siknt Worhf. class has been most successful, recent meeting of the and yet another member is the Pennsylvania Society for the ad- leading photographer in an eastern vancement of the Deaf afforded city, and who has obtained more an excellent opportunity to judge than a local reputation in his vocation. Still another is an enof the results of deaf-mut- e educagraver on wood, who has been in tion in Pennsylvania. the business a quarter of a cenwas a representative one, tury and has met with gratifying in the sense that nearly everv nait success. Hut the success of education of the state, was represented, and that it consisted of people of all can not be judged solely by t brilliant examples. It is classes and conditions of life. what education does for the maThere was an almost universal jority, not for the favored few, air of intelligence and material that determines its value. Iut prospei itv about the members,and even from this point of view the it was evident that whatever may testimony of the recent meeting have been the character of the was wholly in support of the education, judged from a peda- value of the educational work of gogic' standpoint, it was amply the past half century. sufficient to enable the deaf to Pennsylvania is a manufactur-in-g take an intelligent part in the afstate, and naturally we find fairs of the world and to enjoy a large number of deaf people the pleasurse of life, while at the employed in its mills and facsame time it enabled them to add tories. In the great iron mills t SUIJSCKIHK FOKTILE to the wealth of the state and to at Stcc-Itoabout a dozen deaf EAGLE. hold themselves independent of men are cimdoved who hold their ! . . ....... tJ . ' I II I.N lil. '?.'fl A VI.'.AK. if. the assistance of their more for . positions not out. of any consider-i Tin-- I : 1 Phil.i-delphi- a The-iratli-crin- he-mor- e J -' 'i self-supporti- .- I 1 - - 1 M, ng . i g ifc jk |