Show CURRENT TOPICS IX EUROPE I Cardinal LaTigcrif His Noble Efforts Ef-forts Balzac ana hIs mfe Austrian Unlfirnl < A Gift to LouJon Gronth of feminism The Fabian Fracas tc ECIIIE Nov 25lh issa Sp cial correspondence of tie DESERET NsttsThe cnuado against the African slave trado which Cardinal LaTicric lint been so eloquently preaching throughout Europe and In connection with which he visited London last year has created an interest in his Int personality that can hardly fail to secure a hearty welcome wel-come to his biography which has Just been published Lavigerie born at Bayonne France October t 122 dud I therefore a little illume than wor Sixtyfour years of ae From early youth he has been a careful student but he hn gained still greater distinction for Ills kindness kind-ness and humanity Many an orphanage or-phanage can tell the story of his goodness but it I the wippression of the slave trade that his mostly occupied copied his thought and caused the lamoof his name t b lent forth t tho four corners of the world for Having been requested by the French IarshaI McMahon t take charge of tlie missions In AIgerialie A4Ihe rn formerly appointed the Arch bishop I of Algeria in 1657 While I busy looking I after time missions un tier hU care he was le observe the terrible traffic in human beings I which existed not merely in I Algeria Al-geria but likewise throughout the length and breadth of the Dark Continent During twentytwo years Cardinal Lavigerie has devot ej his energies tohlscrcat lifework I S 1 Sometimes I no was to be found at the head of a company of missionaries trying to Penetrate the dark jungles ofcenmlAfticaat I othueriinus he was pleading the cause of the blackman black-man before the courts of Europe In July 1SSS Cardinal Cardi-nal Jjvigerie came to London t arouse the attention of thu Brit ish people in his humanitarian pro jects On one occasion Lord Granville I Gran-ville acted as chairman and Mr eSt Edmund Sturge r wellknown I Quaker spoke in Mialf of the Cardinal scheme I was rather droll to see a Cardinal of Home and a Quaker occupying the came platform How nobly how eloquently elo-quently the Cardinal hn pleaded for freedom all Uioso Ilede watched his career are fully aware Iit one tit tlie greatest men of genius that France has ever given to the world has lately been It ell ht remembrance by the erection of lib statue on the bank of the Seine Balzac seems to have been one of tlioso very few literary men who have wielded 1 vast influence influ-ence acquired n > and enc aClin cotlloitencymuid cDIlenc nt likes ise waS ole Of the happiest of mortals The story of his marriage Is as ronuntic as the rest of his career One morning in 151 shortly after the publication of ulJe Mcdicin de Campagne the county doctor Bal sc received a present and a letter let-ter by the post The letter wad grave wa-d and tender and exj preaed regret tliat distance and circumstances cir-cumstances prevented an interview possible t permit thc writer to thank tho author who had written such admirable pages Balzac did thc JI this I letter with the scores of epistles he was daily receiving ceiving from those who appreciated his writings He felt that the tender of this ciiUtle was 110 ordinary woman He trcla presentiment I I that this person was one who was enable ef brightening the shadows of his catly lfe and at the first opportunity op-portunity 1 rated ort Xeufchate where the writer of the letter Evel ins de Hauskawas then residing But what was Balzacs delight t find Shunt Madame de Hauska was not merely most charming woman but likewise I Ion of vast acquirements I and singular Intelligence In-telligence ntsTfbd first interview was the beginning or an attachment attach-ment which had the n > tIn profound t-In on Balzacs life and writings writ-ings Henceforward none of his important works raw the light without with-out having passed through the hands Madame dellauskn Her advice purified enriched and corrected cor-rected hs illustrious dramas ftl luHrlous dll many episodes of which arc undoubtedly el6ls ar uldonlcl t l attributed t her pen The French drama owes more to Balzac than t any other man I Is well that Franco creels a statue to her gifted son I is proposed that n IrOp statue shall also lie erected to the eUJ i memory of his wife Madame de Haukn whoso nobly aided him Twinty thousand francs have already al-ready been subscribed What moro fitting than that their statues should stand side by side An lni > erial decree vhich has been recently promulgated from I Vienna directs Unit every Austrian receiving pay 1 of the government I shall always wear a unlfinn Whether he ha of high or low Ink his uniform I In every case to consist con-sist I of a green frock coat gray trousers trous-ers mil cape sword nud doeskin Lr skin glovewith military overcoat for col J or wet weather The number num-ber of new uniforms will bo thus increased in-creased at commencement of the year about seven hundred and fifty thousand The civil servants of Austria arc divided into five ranks anti these are to l distinguished from each other by the color of the facings on their coats These colors are of alt the various hue of the rainbow from the falnlett canary yellow to the richest violet Surely the tailors of Austria should do well tills winter The condition of the London poor seems nt last to l arousing pr attention of philanthropists Sir Edmund Guinness I has just made a princely gift of a million dollars to build suitable home for tho working classes WIt WI-t disparaging the noble gift of Mr Peabody the American banker who did 6 much to build homes for the London poor i may be safely asserted that in lot instances In-stances his bequest never reached the class for whom i was intended The class of houses which T Peabody Pea-body lulL were too expensive for the tailoring class Clerks mal tradesmen teachers ec availed themselves of thC dwellings but tlie extreme poor who are most in need were prevented cither through want of means or inclination from occupying these houses Mr Guinness Guin-ness with nJmlrable forethought has specified the dimensions and arrangement of tlie houses ho proposes pro-poses to have built so that they may bo niece suitable to the class for which they are Intended I is noteworthy that while the Protestant clergy have been Prllltnt cer holding u I their hands in holy horror and bewailing the condition of the London poor it is I the Catholics who are coming forward as their practical practi-cal benefactor Tills was apparent during the great dockers strike when Cardinal Manning brought about a compromise between the employers and employed ti is l also manifest In the bequest cf Sir Edmund c mund Guinness who I a Catholic and resident of Dublin There in I without doubt a revolution lure religious thought going on in E rp In society at large a careless indiflereuce is terribly prevalent In religious ciicles the view I scarcely more hopeful I Is true niuch of the bigotry of a postage logan fl In 1 its stead we tJ doubting atheism which lacks toubtng tbtm lcks earnestness ear-nestness in anything The battle of I the sects certainly j rages less fiercely but there are also signs that the earnest 1r teiantism of the fathers is gradually losing ground Xot only I the Roman Catholic church itself increasing in numbers ant influence influ-ence but the principal errors of Catholicism Ca-tholicism are largely represented In the called Protestant Church of Engliud Her most influential and active section I the High Church party a party which repudiates the very name of Protestant Indeed putting aside the recognition of the Pope as Use head of flue church I there li little to choow between the ave age Roman Catholic and hue average churchman I n a word hue Church of England Is rapidly becoming I WI coming Romanized With con summate skill ant patience the Roman Church is steadily extend ing its influence and a the ten dency of the time corns to b strangely worklnz in its favor That the Romish religion hag a most insidious fascination for mot Indous finton some minds has certainly been s n proven true Besides 1 If the Roman Church has without doubt the best prtente claim t Divine authority author-ity As a Catholic bishop lately said If the Catholic Church sin right why did the Protestants right lt te Prtetnt come out of her Iou the other hand the Catholic Church ii I a corrupt a the Protestants claim then where their valid claim i to apostolic succession succes-sion or Divine authority That the Roman Church I prs lyting among the cultured classes of Britainwith success I well known The biding of the new Catholic cathedral Cambridge is an example ex-ample Cambridge as is well known is one of the strongholds of the Eng lish Church It i the place where fullyonehalfof her clergy arecilu rated and spend the mOt impressionable impres-sionable years of their lives And this is the spot above all other chosen by the tIf 1 Catholics in which t erect a magnificent cathedral destined to become a con tre of proselyting work among the members and especially the undergraduates under-graduates university Many other examples might be given lo show lust the Roml h advance Li going surely ant steadily Cardinal Cardi-nal Manning wiio I a ttatesman a well as a churchman has done much towards tills remit His Into rlIil 1 n1 hi Immfn abilities have all been devoted tc the advancement of flue church ol his adoption Another > ccullar phase cf social life has just been brought prominently promi-nently before public attention For some time put there ba existed in I London an institution known a the Fabian society one of the i principal leaders of which I is the llev Mr Hackle For some time past he lusts isosoti as the special i defender and protector of the ballet Of course he is of the ititcnsely Oscar Wilde persuasion and proclaims pro-claims that tho ballet girls have been grievously mlsundcrsood that in fact they are the great moral teachers of the age Associated In this same Fabian society is a person per-son named In lent She has been in the habit cutting her hair shert wearing a peculiar costume n wellas a felt hat of flue Boulan gcr style and in short has fairly outdone all the peculiarities of the American bloomer costume As Ir Besaut hasjut been elected a I member of the London School Board it was a good occasion for her adversaries to make accusations against her Among theeo latter Rev i Hoshlns also appeared I appre and declared that he writ nnt wrt ings of Mr Bcsaut w r of such a character as to show that I she was a person totally unfit for the I position of school director lr Besaut concluded to cUe the whole matter by bringing I Into court For several dnya past there has rbor witnessed the revolting spectacle of a number of females who would be intuited if they were not rUc ladies listening to e tracts from 1n Betants writings in order tat the Judge might decide upon the case At length the Solicitor Soli-citor General asked that the Indies mIght le permitted to leave the courtroom while the foulest of the filth was icing stirred up This was sufficient to upset even the chronic composure of Mr Justice Uuddleston who looking around the room replied 11 think rm tIll you may take it that all ladles hate left tin room Ucl Is thoutcme of on of the socalled esthetic societies who are continually prating about the Bible as an immoral book J 1 Vni |