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Show GiVES UFE-TO ASSIST LEPERS Brother Dutton Hasn't Left Island of Afflicted In 36 Years I HONOLULU. T. H.. June 14 Brother Dutton. the ' hermit priest of Molokal, ' the leper island of the Hawaiian Ha-waiian group, celebrated his 7!Hh birthday and his 3Cth year of labor i among tho exiled Inhabitants of thel colony on the rock-bound peninsula Of Kalawao recently, according to messages to friends In Honolulu. ( "I am still happy and tho outsldo : world has no attraction for me." wrote the successor to the famous j martyr-prlesl. Father Damien. w ho died, a victim of leprosy after years j of devotion to the care of the Kalawao Kala-wao exile. "I find my duty and my pleasure in trying to ease tho sufferings suffer-ings of stricken humanity here," Brother Dutton added. The life story' of Brother Dutton is ! unique, according to Honolulu friends, j He has never set foot off the lonely Isle since his arrival there 36 yean ago to work with Father Damien. Once a soldier, he retired with the rank of captain after the civil war, He was "debonair, a lover of the pleas-ures pleas-ures of life, a Beau Brummcl and he sowed his wild oats until he was 35 years old." Then he conciuucci tnai r'hlrt life had been wasted and ho must saUago it through penance." As a convert to Catholicism, he was baptized at the Trapplst monastery at Gethsemane. Kentucky. He determln ed to bury himself from tho world and to spend the remainder of his days i In self-abnegation In the Redemptorlst monastery In1 ". n Orleans he read u magazine ar tlcle describing the llfo of Father Da-Damlen Da-Damlen on Molokal. Ho decldod thai hw life should be devoted to care of the opcr9. and he sailed from San Francisco in 18S6 When Father Damien Da-mien died, he took over all of hi-duties hi-duties . No mother nursed her children with more tender care .than Brother Dutton Dut-ton bestows on his charuos. visitors to tho colony have said. In life he comforts them in body and ministers ', to their spiritual needs. |