Show < CURRENT TOPICS IX EUROPE ABIT Fowlers Mission Hoiranls L OenlcnnarT Pllmsolls Great r Work Englands 3Ji inp 5 aIK I ors Knssia and the Kotltsj childs Her Social ProgrcM Etc Ecnort January 27th Special I Correspondence of tho DESEIUTT > KWS The Cunard steamer JMItnia which left Liverpool Vanuafy I3th7TS90carried among her passengers one that deserves more titan a parsing notice This person is flu Amy towier a na tlverof Combo Down near Bath England who is going selfexiled to undertake one of the noblest works of devotion of which ecu this stories of martyrdom contain any record The world has looked with wonder and astonishment at selfsacrifice of Father Damleu I whon the glory of his youth dedicated his life to the cause of sutlering humanity and lived and toiled and died while striving to alleviate the sot ferinrscf Urn mar I tomm on the Is land of Jlolokat i Jibs Fowler toss volunteered to become hid successor but from tiro moment she sets foot on the leper IsLand robe v ill be known only as SIfter flow Gertrude When one reflects on the awful Isolation of such a life the repuMvenesj of Its dally association the horror of its scenes antI tint persona rIsk it involves in-volves one begins to appreciate something of the sublime faith and immeasurable tclfsacrlfice which have prompted a refinej and dell catelynurtured youug woman to voluntarily cast her lot amid such surroundings MIss Fowler docs not seem to be moro than twenty two years ot age and them Is some tiling interesting in this young fresh and beautiful l girl with large eyes deepen blue and a fair rosy complexion In every movement ether little figure activItyanJ energy ener-gy are exprcsied notwithstanding the occasional dreaminess whirL I WI J11 comes like a thin I veil over thu fair features as though she was looking into the beyond and saw tlliups that others did not see tn reply to those who questioned her flic taU I haTe studied medicine in Paris I not to take a medical degree bIt tot to-t an efflclent tIck tiiirw T have also I been at the Pasteur Institute Insti-tute where 1 have learned much that I hose will Ire or grunt use tome to-me It has always been my wish to devote my life to the good of others I shall have the entire charge of thu bo iiital and where It h necessary I will change the old order of nursing I am taking out a numberof articles beautifying the hospital and I intend to sing to the Jutienti to cheer them as well as I can and later on when I have fa veil eubugh I of my salary I shall buy a piano and brighten their lives with music Truly a strange picture tliii A I fair English girl ou the island where perpetual summer rcicns aiujlD with n roice the very tones of which are melody surrounded by those halfsavage lla walla ns aflllct 61 with the most loathsome disease The example of Damiens lifo has no doubt had its influence upon JIis I Fowler well as upon many I others She will follow in Tils foot steps with that nohledevotion which I i is often characteristic of fpsniueUn i I i women I Among the great cities of Europe I i there are many more prominent Ire I than t i-re little city of Bedford yet i there or near there in the mouth of September 1725 was born one of the worlds greatest benefactor I John Howard who afterwards bo i came known las the great Prism Reformer The story of his lifework life-work is more romantic than the fabled adventures of mediaeval Uulgbtr Scarcely n Jui E < on in the great capitals of Europe that he did not visit and from their dark and loathsome depths I I he rescued thousands whoso names I are mentioned In the history I cf i I men lielore emperors kiugsauJ potentates he plead the cause of suffering humanity and the hearts of tyrants were often touched by his sympathetic eloquence Who I has lt shuddered at the horrors of tho Basilic in the dungeons of which no ray of sunshine over penetrated whose walls were ever dripping with filth and alive with vermin ver-min Vell the Hostile was only a fair specimen of the loathsome prisons that existed in nearly every capital of Europe during the first half of the eighteenth century At this dittance of time and moving in anOtheratmosjihere of thought we can scarcely realize the condition of prlsoM when John Howard commenced com-menced his work The story of cruelty and outrage and wrong which he lililWieU in 1777 kindled a flame of indignation which swept through thu land and aroused the attention of lie rulers On the 20th of January 1799 John Howard died at Cher > on a little village in Southern Russia while attending the sick A hundred years later January 2Mb 1SW the people of Bedford have commemorated his memory and started the work of erecting a monument Those who have visit ed the Cathedral of St Paul In London will remember how Etranse itEeemcd to sec a cathedral dedicated dedi-cated to the worship of the meek and lowly Nazarene and yet used princijolly as the burial place of the slayers of IncH It Is well when society holds in remembrance her benefactors also It is every way fiUting that Howards tUbe I should ziu by tliu side of that other great citizen Bedford John I Bunyan the immortal tinker the I I author of the Pilgrims Progress But while I we recognize claims of these moral rind iuteJIwttil j f heroes upon us should not forget that there are others who at the present time are toiling with even power of mind and body for the benefit of their I fellowmen I The overloading of vessels is an evil < < of the first magnitude for a commercial commer-cial country like Great Britain During the last three years six thousand elght hundred 1 and five persons have perished lnll nitsIns i vessels alone This does not include I the many hundreds who has ete I ished where the vessel are known to have been wrecked Of the six hundred and thirtyoue vessels that railed out upon the broad ocean and been heard of no more it has been proved In two hundred nnd ninety one cotes that the loss has been due overloading In all these caws no one has been punIshed Nearly 7000 men in the full activity of lift have thus gone down to a watery grave Nearly fourteen thousand widows and orphans have mourned the untimely late ef these hubanda and fathers The better class of so I n M uU sacrifice ot human lives shall cease and the cruel inhuman tif greet of these shipping merchants shall be summarily dealt with IV many years Jlr Samuel lUml Piirawil one of the members of Parliament has been indefatigable in denouncing this wrong Pamphlet after pamph let he has published anti numerous addresses given In all the principal shipping tows of Great Britain A bill is now pending Infers Parlia ment that will provide ssvcro pun ishment for thoo who am gulll of overloading vessel All honor to the persevering efforts of Jlr 1llm solland to the Grand Old Man > I Gladstone who has seconded his efforts May their shadows never grow less At this present time there seems to be increased activity in tho Irish agitation Although Jlr Balfour declares that the policy of coercion Is a success and that there Is a per eel freedom of the press In Ire hand Ill U cannot be denied that within the past two or three weeks several proprietors and editors of newspapers have been cent to prison as common criminals for the terri ble 7 crime of publishing items of j news not favorable to the adminU tralion of Mr Ualfour Xoeditorial comment was needed uo csires siouof nympathy the Jut of Um proprietoreditor or subeditor was required Tlii mayer of Vejford < apperu to his misfortune to be the proprietor of a paper called OTh ireronl 1eoplc That paper Inserts nu ordinary Item of the news of the day which item dIJ not reflect credit on cht c t bctJ law and therefore air hal four would rather have bad that article suppressed The consequence Is thai toe Mayor is thrown into the prison of Dublin Castle Jlr McIIugh the editor of gat SiiffO Champion has just C condemned to fix months imprison ment for publishing an leD of news which vas fearlessly I published by the Kngll I bpar8 Jlr OCon nor cubeditor of the Jjeintlcr JJcadtr gets two months fern situ lIst crime There are tloeln Eng land who claim that this malad ministration ofjuttice I only in crcasiu the strength of tho Littoral party and liattentiii the triumph of Jlr Gladstones policy Time RuKian Budget for IS50 has just lk published and attention has bccu attcoartetl l to the extraordinary extraor-dinary amount that Itufcla expects to exjiend upon her forts and mlli Loony tiuinient during the com lug year Nicety millions of dollars f the amount the Czar requires in Lois firm resolution to maintain peace I is somcwluit remarkable that while the government govern-ment of Russia Is persecuting Jews if I is nlao to the JewIsh tanking house 01 Rothschild that n > siais iudcbtetl for the negotiation of her laW Tho amount of interest that Russia toys l to thin Rothseiilliis of dollars Paris U annually more than fifteen million d01 i Mcauwhilu Jerusalem the capital nf tho Jewish nation the much laved city of the bllII S ls arising aris-ing from the ruin of the ages The IsrncliUsIi immigrants during the ijat threv years have numbered fully twenty Uiousand I is now estimated that more than half the inhabitants of tho ely n J OWl and the same may be said of the rural districts fh fa in gnat part due to the efforts of the Rothschilds I r I I a remarkable Illustration in the provldenceof that Russia which 1 hiss 8 cruelly persecuted the Jews is also the hearer that I most de iicndeiit upon them and further I I the wealth Russia that la greatly great-ly I aiding the gathering of that ancient IKrtc flits social development of Russia is uieautthllu prugruIug more rapidly than the western nations of Europe Stem to apprehend Jlr Charles Edward Turner the IN fessor of English la lhe UnIversity of St Petersburg has just completed a work on TliB Modern JCovelties of Jtutiia which throws a lined of j light on Russian affairs The I thought nnd eentimeutfi of that mighty people ran only be understood I under-stood through her oet nndronmuc lr The Journalists are obliged to chooso thtlr ul er with grentdr cuinspectou or eoniu Hue morning they will Jiud th > msclvcs escorted by soldier and on their way to Si borIs l the novelists on the other hand dealing in fuble have 1 1 Himcuhat freer hand It is a peculiarity I pe-culiarity Ruteinn literature that lit deals but little with their own past history No Russian Scott has I arisen to tell in glowing words the ad ventures her mcdiicval knights Fifty years ago her poets mostly cangofttalian and Turkish theme 1 JiUt ono llz dux Ihv ntrntntn I realize that the mottttirring of sub IjtctH was to h fount In their own national life To Gogol belongs the merit of this great change His first work Dead Souls depicted the miseries of the Italian peasantry In i such a way that it has been styled Thu Uuhslan Uncle Toms Cabin > Within Rn years there was fpicndld outburst almost In pplred writing on this great Uierne and the Czar Alexander I was moved to complete the emancipation of the Kris Goucliamff took up the theme from the Mdeof theinatters dnl and showed that the serfowner In i his indolence his nKialityauJt his waut of Ideas I only one degree less pitiable than thu lerf Bazaroffand Tolstoi arc thu nauits of the meii who ha vc labored mot for tlie ben eXit or younjjitussta cfpeclaliy Uioso that are freeh from the schools of science tho class from f Russian despoti m has the mot to dread J J I WAUD A |