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Show A TRUE NOBLEMAN. The lately deceased. Marquise of Ripon was a true nobleman as well in his actual life as by rank in the British peerage. Before his conversion to Catholicity Ca-tholicity many years ago he held high office in the Freemason order, which, of course, he withdrew from on or before his reception into the church. At his funeral service the eloquent Father Bernard Vaughan, S. J.. pronounced the eulogy, in the eourseof which he noted as follows the earnest and simple piety that marked the character of the man: was so ardent a politician, so keen a sportsman, and so ready a conversationalist conversa-tionalist upon a wide range of subjects, a "cabinet minister and a foreign viceroy, vice-roy, was in his spiritual life as simple as the child put before us by Our Lord In the gospel. He loved such pious practices as putting up a penny candle before Our Lady's statue, placing a flower from his buttonhole at her feet, and telling her beads, and singing her hymns with a heart brimful of joy. Hid crucifix he liked to hold in the hollow of his hand, pressing It with piou3 ejaculations to his liy.. Was he not a Catholic to his fingertips? Characteristic Charac-teristic of him was the incident which I must tell you. Shortlv before he 1 breathed his last, his chaplain at-! j tempted to draw from his nand a cruci-: ' fix that he might bless him with it s but our dying friend looked up, smiled! and with both his hands clutched his croas, as though he meant to say, T j cannot part with it for a moment.' j When the end came, like a child fall- ing asle'ep, he closed his eyes forever i to this world, but he opened them to see tne smile of the Master he served so loyally. May we not believe he heard' the words: 'Well done, well done, enter i ! Into the joy of thy Lord?' ' ( "Truly a nobleman in the best sense.'4 I ' . j |