Show CURRENT TOPICS IX EUROPE Celebration of Joans Uirtinlar Mme Carnofs Benevolence Russias llnbenstcin irilliams 1 Wanderings u1r1s Aclnoirl 1 cdirment etc EUIWM December 18th 1S50 Special Correspondence of flue DEEm Xrrvvs History and politics are always at war In France The glories of the old monarchy seem like a reproach to the Ilerolu tion and the daring genius of Nape leon who entered as victor nearly every capital continental Europe seems to taunt Republican France nilh weakness In fact there I fh s e are very feW historical personages in France of whom I may not b said that public sentiment is divided one party claiming that they were personification of all that is good and noble and the other asserting that they were the very embodiment of evil One personage however seems to have escaped this destiny For more thaulW years Joanof Arc has remained a unique and heroic figure in tho memories of tho pe pie Time has Ils consecrated her con5ted carr ca-rr and lifted her above the parties of the present day And now that he anniversary of her birth i ap ap proaching a more than usual Inter est is manifest from the fact that the greatest French actress of the nrent ql H J UCfUIS about to quit theround of her qui rund usual characters in order to appear as the app Maid Orleans In M Jules Bar biers drama In some respects it may seem strange that a Joan a girl so deeply imbued with the faitband e8 superstitions of the age should be an object of heroworship to the freethinking artistic France nrtlUc FruC of the nineteenth century Yetthere is something flattering to the repub licans in the boast that when kings nobles ana priests failed to kIng France a peasant girl rushed to the rescue and became the Liberator of her native 1ind Had prince or priest noble or heroi prnc pellet thin Germans from France in 1871 the people would have ppo lao bowed in homage for the time tme However estrayed France may be from monarchy nobility orreliglon she reveres Joan for the stainless te patriotism of her career But Joan of Arc Ar innocent and good was something more than a mere coun try maid She had couragecarjacity and lofty thought she heard voices j she saw Ti Ions I would be puer lie to le inquire whether they were real or not they were real to here her-e must remember that Jean was remarkable for her personal purity r an age when the socalled Chris than church was steeped in worldliness worldli-ness and drunk wit sensuality An actress who would rightly represent rellnt the Maid of Orleans must realize j rlz tho heroic resolvetho calm purpose the pure soul and perfect dislntenil j J ness and simplicity of one of the lOt matchless figures mall history I 11 j Thc who have seen Madame ii Bernhardt in the tragedy of Her mini presenting first the new made wife supremely sweet in her crowninghaurof loveand then the woman desperate In her passion and I her grief as her young husband I 3 summoned by the fatal horn and I tome to die or those who have shuddered with her thrill of agony in tile torture scene of La Testa 1 will admit that she is at lea > t one of r flue greatest if not the very greatest tragic actress in the nineteenth century cen-tury IfStra Ikruihuariltean proper ly 1 delineate tha character of the historical Virgin of France she will greatly add to her own laureL and teach Parisians a lesson that should redound to the welrcof the French Hcpubllc One can well understand why Madame CameO the wife of the resident la so well loved when we cam of her numerous acts of kind ness Several hospitals she ha rihly endowed under her patron age several schools especially for ounc ladies have been established and indigent aspiring genius eve finds in her a sympathizing friend hOer latest proposition is not only t < encourage public Christina dinners to the poor and unfortunate hut sin has also hpn caused n to b selected fran P Fa Is two hundred little boys am two hundred little girls who 1 lave the pleasure of spemling Christmas day ut the JataUdJZitcc enjoying a good substantial dinner and going home In the evening ach with a brand new suit oi cloth The destinies of France Sm at last to b iu the hands of a truly Rood man and noble woman I Franco Is the country of revolution and Spain the land of pronunciamentos 1a political pru I unations surely Jtussia I may Just lie termed Ohio home of ubllees How few among the lasses have known the nationality of Kubenstcin Of thoso tvcn who have been delighted with his uistlrring music how few hoe been aware that in December 1S39 tubenstcin then a little boy of ten I years of ag gave his first public concert in Moscow and his heart beat quicker at the deafening ap plause of an enraptured multitude since then the timid debutant has become Hie worHrenowncd master killed iu and skll discovering euibody ng in heavenly tones the hidden soul of harmony What Ituben itelu has done since then to merit met he Ute of the Michael Angelo of Music Is well known among the hovers of that noble ar What he has done for Russians an nrtbt and anosu will never be be adequately known and the nation does well to honor her noble ion Net only did Ilabeasteln establish the Imperial Academy of Mu ic at ou i viersuurc uui iiKewise branch establishment iii all the principal cities of Russia and sue ceded in dlffuinga sincere love of music In all ranks csi clally among flue poorer classes titus putting it in L their power to raise their souls on I the wingsof diviuuharmonles high loc the fearful storm iu which their miserabu lives ther II are mcstly passed Rubensteiua virtues as n man and I citizen are fully equal t Ills fame as au srUst Wealth came to him In abundance but he has exchanged ex-changed it for the opportunity of making his felio better ahd hi felo 1 hap pier Hundreds ct hap roubles have pascd through his liands into those of Indigent artists pcJ trckelstudelts and strug gling musicians to whom his ln iclals encouragement en-couragement has been as the suns warm rays In spring to the leaHesa oak He now occupies the post of I president of the Imperial Academy and receives a considerable salary all of which goes to the relief of young men rich in nothiug but rare genius The Emperor has just al lowed him a pension of three Ut thousand thou-sand roubles which will be sufficient 10 supply mum wants Ths enthusiasm with which Rubcusleins Jubilee Is being cele brutes is positively indescribable It borders on religious frenzy and certainly realizes the highest form of Carlyles ideal of heroworship Ladies of cultivated tastes and ample means hava subscribed thousands ands OX roubles to JeOX defray Ohio expenses ex-penses of the celebration which will last six days The vast hull and I galleries of the Academyare clothed I Iu a wilderness of flowers many of which came from the sunny vales of Southern France and Italy Grand dukes and grand duchesses cabinet ministers and ambassadors occupy the stalls and boxes lud SJOo tliusicstically applaud the great musician while telegrams pour in I upon him from all l > arts of the world and monarchs and celebrities wish him life and happiness for many years to come The reception of thu German Em lror by the city of Frankfort on the al Sth instant terminates in InstUt tlnnlltc a significant signific-ant manner tile round of hit I which the German Emperor has made during the year I is difficult to ray whether his excursions to distant capitals such as Rome Athens and Constantinople or to the Important cities of the German Faderland euch ns Worm on Darmitadt aud Frankfort are the more mor suggestive Partly no doubt in consequence of the joiverful and responsible I position Iiu occupies but still more because of Id5 i strong and sharply defined cliaracteritlcs the movements of the German Eiajieror are followed by the public gaze with extreme Interest and curiosity t There Is pcrlBtps no city in the world co rich iu propor thou to its size and Iropr tou It I nld imputation a Frankfort the former capital c111 of the old GermanicConfederation GenlicCnfetelton I Is the home of thus Rothschild Hothshll the Mum the Erlangcrs anrf others who in reality control ant atones nur ets cf the wnrM A ni when we read that these great ift money princes lent their richest tapestries ami finest tJlre 311 JII1et plate to adorn tIle banqueting hall we may form scmuconcci > tiou of the brilliancy of the reception But t understand thepolitical significanceof this poltcl slglc1cof visit we should cal to uilud that Berlin the present capital Is thu city that ciy hiss at Ilntl deprived Frankfort of the proud losltlun i held fora thousand thou-sand year Ever since the days of Frederick Barbarcssa it vrstliL spot where tIle Election of the emperors tle of Germany took place emprrs stands the Wahlzimmer or hall In which the electors met to lul liberate and the Kalsrrsnal where flue newmade emperors gave their i first banqutt len too ic ISiS and 1SG3 met the Constituent assembly as-sembly to reorganize the ancient aucent Confederation and strange as it may now appear at that assembly both the grandfather of this present Emperor and Prince Bismarck voted against German Unity Here also the old > ol Emperor William I vas crowned in ls7i and the treaty of fcace was signeu between France and Germany which gave the pro vinces of Afcace and Lorraine toe to-e u I should not to forgot ecu mat or ages Frankfort and Berlin were hostile to each other Xeitiier is it tiuu that the tlat present Empettirs ancestors were favorable t German Unity until it became evident that Prussia ct uld become the controllingfactor In the German Confederation Possibly William II docs well to seek to conciliate I IKiwerful cities as Frankfort and turn his attention to the consolida tion of the Empire onLldn The return of Stanley J the one great topic of the present hour the mOt remarkable leaturo is his reverent acknowledgment of a higher power which has guided his footsteps in Central Africa He 5Ys I am In perfect health and feel like a laborer of a Saturday evening returning wIth lib weeks work done his weeks wages In his pocket and glad that tomorrow is LheSabbath Then he proceeds ThIs has certainly been the most extraordinary expedition that I have led into Africa A veritable ertabla divinity seems to haTe hedged us while journeyed Isayltwithall reverence After describing some marvelous interpositions of Intellon Provl deuce MrStanley concludes The vulgar will call it luck unbelievers unlJlers will i cal It chance but leI down in each heart remains a feeling that of a verity there are more things in heaven and earth mor than are dreamed of iu common philosophy I began to see thai 1 was only carrylLg out higher plans tliaa mine I endeavored t steer ruy course as direct I cour a as possible but I havo been conscious that the Is cues of every eflort were in other hands cel thus find In the hear 1 of man who has constantly faced I death by day and by night fIr thn i yeans adeep conviction of theomn Jl r ru lOIs the outpour ingsofa spirit tried in the houro I peril and adversity grand witness wit-ness for God In the days of < elt clam and materialism J I Wvni |