The San Francisco call., 1906-08-31
Gives Up the World to Care
for the Lepers at KalaWao
ECR twenty years Brother Dutton devou Catholic has
aboed in the Of humanity and Christianity among
the lepers at the settlement Of kalawao.
Brother Dutton Works
Hard in the Cause
Of Humanity.


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world wherever his fame has
reached as martyr in the cause of
humanity and Chrlstianity Brother
Dutton has labored for twenty years at
the settlement Of Kaiawao, Island OF
MololSai, on behalf of the lepers. Not
once during that period has the de-
voted man left the settlement, and but
once has he looked back over the road
by which he vent there from the land
ing place at Kalaupa pa.
That one time when Brother Dutton
looked back toward Kalaupapa forms
a mysterious incident in his life at
Kalawac. According to a close. friend
Of Brother putton, this occurred when
he had been at Kalawae seventeen
years. Late one afternoon, when the
sun was sianting it's beams upon the
hillsides and bathing them In tropical
splendor, Brother Dutton walked slow
" out of Kalawao and. mounting the
slopes, arrived at a place from which
he could look back to Kalaupapa, sew
eral miles away. At Kalaupapa the
steamer makes It's landings, and all
who come to the settlement disembark
there. Betweaff Kalaupapa and Eala-
wac is a connecting road, and it was
over that read that Brother Dutton
travelled when he first arrived at the
settlement He remained on the hill
side until the sun went down and re-
turned to Kalawao after dark, never
more to leave his beaten track
CARES FOR THE LIVING DEAD.
1t may not be generally known that
Brother Button had short career in
the army, or at least that he was con-
nected with the United States. army
after the Civil War. His works then
and now form a strange contrast, yet
they are peculiarly linked. for then
he was in the corps to which was as
signed the ghastly task of reclaiming
the dead soldiers from the Southern
hattlefelds and conveying them to the
national cemeteries set aside for. their
interment, where they would be hon.
ored by all future generations Then
his work was to care for the heroic
dead of the battlefield. Now 1t is to
care for the living dead, those afflicted
with the dread disease of leprosy.
1t is little wonder, then, that one
day when Governor Carter entered
Brother buttons little house in which
he has his laboratory, treatment room,
library and living quarters, he found
an American flag draped across one
end of the sitting-room. The Gov
ernor had not noticed 1t on former
visit and asked why it happened to be
so displayed.
II was in the army after the Civil
War" said Brother Dutton .-and my
work of removing dead soldiers to the
National cemeteries gives me strong
reason for displaying the flag on Decor.
alton day. To me It has a real signif-
ieance. On Memorial day I have my
solitary little service here"
Some time ago Brother Dutton sat for
a picture and copies were sent TO vari-
Gus persons away from here. The auto
graph of Brother Dutton adorned each
one. He sent one TO President Roose-
yelt who, on learning the history of the
good man, desired to return his thanks
for the gift, and wished to attach some
sentiment to an autograph picture of
his own. He was at loss what to say
until Secretary Atkinson one day called
upon him and they had a conversation
about the matter. The result was that
the Presidents picture was adorned
with the following sentiment: with
my highest respect and esteem to
Brother Dutton. Theodore Roosevelt"
BELOVED BY THE LEPERs.
Kindliness beams from Brother Dut-
tons eyes and 1t is easy to see in the
benevolent expression upon his face
that he regards his task in the same
light that the Master did when he went
among similarly afflicted people in
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is no time in the whole twenty-four
hours that he is not ready to minister
to the wants of those with whom he
comes in contact. He is beloved by the
people in his charge. There is no sacri-
fee he would not make for them. He
is always to be found in the Enclosure
of the Baldwin Home for Boys and he
never steps out of 1t except to cross
the narrow road to enter the Catholic
church. 1t was this same church that
Father Damien of revered memory at
tended and in it's little yard the body
of the martyr priest now reposes in a
simple tomb.
Brother Dutton is a man of wide
learning. not only--in medicine, but his
literary attainments are high He has
a well l-equipped library and laboratory
He dresses in simple fashion. and al
most invariably wears a jumper instead
of coat His long beard gives him a
venerable appearance. 1t is understood
he came here from Cincinnati Al
though called Brother Dutton. he is not
in orders in the Catholic church. of
which he is a devoted communicant.