Show s t f InU if O 2tN3I ef t hQ 1iim fitcat t1GUUll i Vb On 10 U M28t Monsignor CapoT tie distinguished ecclesiastic is oxpected to arrive In Salt date and Lake City tonight and the title of his lecture may early be looked for Perhaps the most complete sketch of his career and his personal appearance is that given by the New York Tribune which says Monsignor Capel is an Englishman and was born in 1835 Ho is of Irish extraction Without social distinctiou of wealth or family ho entered the Roman Catholic priesthood the age of 24 receiving ordination from Cardinal Wiseman The opening of his professional profes-sional career was modest and unpromising unpromis-ing I was in a training school I college organized wa for the education of coll orlanizet teachers And vet not unlikely much of his subsequent success may be owing to the special drudgery and rudimental severity of this early work After a few health to years lie was driven by failing seek rcgt in the south of France and in 1 the place of his sojourn among the leisurely visitors from his own country he opened his first mission as a knight errant of Catholicity directing his efforts to the idle indifferent world of fashion in which he found himself and with such vigorous and unexpected results that he was soon summoned to Rome where under tle auspices of the Propaganda Propa-ganda he established a mission with conferences among residents resi-dents and visitors who always constitute an important element in Roman society made up as it largely is of artists scholars and families of wealth elegant leisure or of hereditary distinction Honors fell thick and fast upon him for he seemed the mantle bearer of the great Wiseman himself and in 1867 he was made Monsignor and private chamberlain cham-berlain to the Pope and in 1872 he received re-ceived the appointment of domestic prelate pre-late an honor accompanied with the titular and ecclesiastical rank of the episcopate Thus in thirteen years the young priest found himself crowned with dignities which the Vatican usually confers con-fers with provoking deliberation Here he developed and matured his proverbial prover-bial fondness for work among titled and influential circles and at the same time was acquired that highbred lordly presence pres-ence which was by no means to the manor born together with that unerring irresistible tact and intuition which const tute the consummate influence and fasci nation among the cultivated and privileged privil-eged classes the world over It was this signal mastery of social opportunities op-portunities that drew the admiration of Disraeli and led him to draw his > portrait with such brilliancy and painstaking as Catesby in Lothair Indeed in the world of English letters Monsignor Capel is better and more widely known as Mon sianor Capri In his fortyeighth year he is yet in his prime and physically and intellectually at his best Standing in a group of ecclesiastics eccle-siastics he is at once a central and commanding com-manding figumrea little taller than the average with an erect graceful figure a bearing and presence full of courtliness and unstudied eloquence a wellmodeled head solid and symmetrical with a broad forehead and boldlyarched brows eyes of steel gray that kindle and glow in the heat of delivery a face marked with sensibility and refinement with mobile features eager flexible lips meant for the finer purposes of oratory a healthy English complexion indicating fine physical phys-ical endurance and constitution his un thinned hair freaked with gray worn rather short these are the personal traits that immediately arrest and command attention It is not often that we look upon such a graceful finelymannered presence either in the pulpit or on the stage He is not unlike George Van derhoff twenty years ago in personal appearance and indeed in his voice and elocution He uses no notesreads possibly a verse or two a text from a small Bible indicating his line of thought and with absolute composure beirins his work Ail personality seems laid aside all timidities self consciousness indeed all on as to what the a1 concern people may think or sav of the speaker Its a curious cur ous example of spontaneous self abnegation i abnega-tion a self surrender to the supreme urgency of official duty Not that the speaker estranges himself from the congregation con-gregation or is wanting in sympathy or is buried in his own intellectuality and II bewitched with his own grace of speech and felicities of thinking He seems overmuch over-much lost in the people as if in a trance of determined effort during which he hides himself in their thought and spiritual spirit-ual purposes |