Show CURRENT TOPICS IX EUROPE I Gladstones mrthebJIotls of tie People KfliIous Fiction J Spread of the EplJercir Heath of JJraills Enpresf Lie < OrE January 6 ItO Special Spe-cial CorrtJpondcnce of the DESERCT Xjrivs0n December ELla at his houienUIawarden Mr GtuWoac cdebmted his eightieth birthday So numerous were the messages or congratulation that It n ulnda fJILCW staff St the telegraph ofllce to receive them Sot merely from Great Urllaln and Italitui but I ilkexvlfofrom France and Italyand from Jatids cyond lUeUblnc carcc ccoawthesauJ testlmoulab orre j J g vor was uiia all Amee j I Crd sent her con0ratulatlous and faroff Auslmlla and the Isles of the sea took up the refrain and echoed thtIr beat wishes the Graud Old Man I ha often been remarked that the mouth of December b uxercked a dominant influence influ-ence on the destiny of the great orator and ltate niflu over whose vigorous mind and frame fourscorejears have posed wlfhout Impairing their singular powers Thus on December 2Jth 1S09 a dillJ iiaAborn of ScotU h parent i 1t LivertOol Whir has Elncellvedto I t share with Pitt Pecl ralmereton and Be con Seld the honor of being I be-ing one of the live great liritkh ttsne ofhe uincteenlli century Itwain December ISSJtLat Ghd stone was tent to Parliament fir the fIrst time as member for ewuk In J > eccujLtrlSC lieuosapiwlnted Secretary of Slate for the colonIes and iu Okcember IfcoS hq became Cliancellor of the ExcliKiuer I was alco In December 156s that Mr Gloilftoue reached tire rlnnnele of LIs fame by becoming Prime Miukter of the Untlsh Empire blxtv eixhtycnrs have eUjwed mice ho began life as an LIon schoolboy and from that day to this 1m lus aIl weI no particle of tines to go to waste The superIority cfGlad oue over P many of his cotempurarKs ecb t lie In his wonderful health and untiring energy dAle mau oilier light and rImreey mel without an ounce of unnecessary llesli Mr Gladstone despIte his unomious load o work ont puuMbllityi has IiaJ Vera few ruslUl lekrmeee Progressive by temptrament he broke away from tile TOnwrrctini offiu early yenta Urn became tit advocate of all measures whMi scorned to him for tl Ie good of his felovrmeu No sooner is one advance ad-vance gained than his vigoiois mind immediate make anothr ttep in the liighuaj of reform In power or out lf it huis one of the aloft per I teiit and energetic of uorbers JTtnat thIns moment It would 0 difficult t name dnrariofanyagew1roiacoprbler of lolhg a ntaount of iutcllcv tuii < rk mIne but great public speech delivered at Manchevter a few weeks ago his voice rang ont till w ondrrful c arui > n and atthe lose he Deemed ireily wore I wearied than when In 13 he held neilDUao oC lAjmmous vpell uuunu bJ his eloquence for nearly live boursandalialf In his mind there are but few symptoms of decay His thirst for kuoA Ivdge jeems as gnat nun formeryiir writing are as Bgicalafld tCI iasthvy were tlrhrty years ago lie Is a grand example of what the brain lnu frame of man a cajiable doing Djnngtliu past three mouths have passed away four of Englands literary liter-ary irerumascsEhlm Cook Martin Topper lWilkle Collins and Robert Rob-ert BrownIng Many are asking who are going to bIke their InhaLes In the tliiintloii oC Iio upptr elates Temoson aul Irun ulng oceupy the first rank indeed Carlyle Itustcin Tennysoi i I and Browning are often spoken of a > the four great teacher of the I nIneteenth qenturj hener their works havelMvii lobllshLli 0 I few thousand aristocratic famihtf t I and persons of a literary turn have I bbl ul the edition but f we po Into the PublIc libraries and ask the uarnco theauthorsof Uiebooks hlch the People moody ask for we need not lw turjirwd to hear the names of Dickens and Irving Hum and Charles Mackar Ixin fellow and Uhlttier William Morris and AT11 I Carlon Crlon Kxcijt among gi glin girl and senseless fop th6 hJfin art KIIUOUS fiction Is paiing away Even among the socalled ChrMiaii sects it k Perceived that the piiljlt hu lost ltd Influence over the mind of the jitofle The tJri oji JEer H7 The Clirutian World Tie Chnan G vbe Me lord Ji nand n-and Iu fact nearly every rdlglcui journal now employs lictlon for the disemlnatlun of IU doetriiies I This earnest active huntIng nge demands a religion that ha fifa and power in It > Qt a religion of cold formality and narrow sectansnlm but n religion that will satiety the intellect with its truth touch the heart with its loc tire Still with its r iiwlveneis gratify the tajto tI its Itautics ngntUJf the I tniagluatlon with IU sublimities sblnilf A religion is wanted that will culb upon IU ifclde i the whole nature oC man and command his willing ant d devoted home There quahfica ton the rtlgiotis of the world well wel know Uiev ilo not tmtuto lTrn hrysetkfortberomancestodreama pctuxBof what 1c they wish they were that aad then the dreaa the preachers Is real Arnc try to cress fancy wtr telclupharan Thu art weighed in uparnuThGu weghe the balance and TOULI wanting U WItt wrltteu over tlie portals of l churches but the wise men of this age cannot decipher the iuscrjitlon IlerjUol though written Ja the plainest of chsraeteiv The terrible epiilcmlo known ns the Russian Inlluenn still con I D tl ru Jnues to eprssth > tlU pre ever K far as history records has there becnsj much lcknefcsjn almost all the countries of Luropeas at t present time Coming events cast thtir shadows before There arc many who look ujion this pestilential 1 visit ation and sudden cominioiror nmcfjhere ss n prcrnonitery fnre haiiowlng of tho lrmonl9ry with which predicted pestilences < Ir dll will come ujxm the pUlences the latter day nnd that the voles dap oC 1t GoJ speaks by this Influenza I e stI lence ira dMIuctlylathe t distinctly t mtlonsas IttJlteor < r by the paguesof n Egypt 11 i the davs of Pliaraah lint the greaterhnmbtr by far ray ro I heed to the divine off of warn lug ami war n attribute this std < out break of pestilence to natural causes In every capital of Continental fcurope there is an amount re rca sickness of prostrated strength 1 and prtre of business which J InterrhrtcJ whieh PW at a dktance can but p li The progress of the efiiiltm Ic has been unusually elpm j dit fell almot eImultnnreousl upon s Perwr and Carla bay Ping Vlurna l Berlin Pw Belgrade lla Copenhagen Frankfort IrusaeIo Madrfimid LIsbon to be ovenakei I a few days bter Compared with cholera inn Jrnza Is ns I wii Ilhe tortoise la t le Uity of Its pro rii A lP lug physlciau of Iaris n saj that lo alf alr1nXejjtnnJ purposes Uiis nW boa new dUcan and that It iitsenta such a Ment of i dint lt Is difficult variety to syrup sIetrj mine wuatremudles to ewI1frmuIC mnpjny In jpntao cases there are fever headache ala Jearh severegastncand feg8tc lombarpaino Whep quinine I I b lompln tire I patledt gets nolxder but oiten ie elops typhoid symptoms or Inflam mation of the Jung V4jrn tire nflueuci takes that turn fatal re atl fruits followvery rapidly In r cases where the patients already itnls nJrr super from some organic etkese sin diabetes or liver xTmiplalnt the lowering of the vital power which seems the one indubitable featareof epidemic makes them an tasypreytothelroi anic anasspreylotheIrorgenhcmalady tfpreyelrornlc malady The ParHjournalststfajKitelhaiover ltthsor twelve hundred thousand n thoU5ld permns aw now uflenng tram this JJNns aufferng Cm thlenryoteri oUs and undefined disease France > o such epidemic has ever visited Paris tt1 Pri Even in the worst TiIb tions of chole although the mor ton was social life In tality WI greater W lfe Pars was never aOected to the extent ex-tent tliat I now i The average mortality Paris at this ftH m of the year is ono hundred and twenty but ym in tIre OlO last two weeks cf the month Jut passed the average wns nearly four huudred dnilyantl one d 2J th death roll dayvlL runsunted Dectnuber to tie Ices than lIve hundred and eightysis In ronru scie4it1C circleS tire cx IlUU sc b attni1rett t cording mortal atribult cing the crowding together of s runny nniillons at the lt eeol ITbe0wonderful the 01mm The wonderful how on JCball too du onle a iatu 1 millions of human morn than thirtymlllions huln wings When wo consIder that ilg Iiit srrd uTelhet or tbe past yrr n 1 > IIbtlon nearly equal to one half of the population of the UnIted States encamped there for I average time of one week on a ernrseenrrwlv carnal to four mile snunre It needs not the genius 01 a Fun engineer to perceive that I tire city of Paris is well lifted to he come thehotbeJ pestilence Ln less I steps are taken to cleans the city before the warm weather romes I is mu It to L feared that a wore epidemic tan Influenza may set In There something peculiarly earl intho clrcumslaucts attending the death of the ex 1 mpress of Brazil Whose deiulc toot place on Dec stir Al first the csImjieroreould not believe the news of her death I Ho Immediately hastened to her bedside and seemed unable t comprehend com-prehend the extent of the calamity I that lu befallen him falnce then he ha had frequent altackof hysterical hys-terical weeping and hU deplorable condition serious cndion inspires IOUB anxiety His trial aru indeed great and cannot tail to tell upon a man aged and ill ml regret that my children and r grandchildren ore nut around me that I might bless them for tho last time AM Brazil Brazil that beautiful country I csunot return turn there Tireso were the last I words of the exKmprcS J I WARD t 1 |