Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-12

a cately-nurtured young woman TO
voluntarily cast her lot amid such
a surroundings. Miss Fowler does
;. not seem TO be more than twenty
: two years Of age, and there is some
, thing interesting in this young,
fresh and beautiful girl, with large
eyes Of deepest blue, and fair, rosy
e complexion. In every movement
a Of her little figure activity ami ensr-
r gy are expressed, Notwithstanding
the occasional dreaminess which
comes like n thin veil over the fair
E features as though she was looking
: into the beyond and saw things
that Others did not see. In reply TO
those who questioned her, she said:
Z 81 have studied medicine in Paris.
E not to take medical degree, but 10
: become an efficient sick nurse. |
have also been at the Pasteur Insti-
tute where l have learned much
that l hope will be Of great use TO
me. 1t has always been my wish 10
devote my life to the good of others.
| shall have the entire charge Of the
hospital, and where it is necessary /
will change the old order Of nursing.
am taking out number OF articles
FOR identifying the hospital, and |
Intend 10 sing to the patients 10
cheer them as well as | can: and
later on, when | have saved enough
of my salary, l shall buy n piano
and brighten their lives with music
Truly strange picture this. q
fair English girl on the island where
perpetual summer reigns, singing
with n voice the very tones OF
which are melody, surrounded by
those half-savage Hawaiians afiIict- |
ell with the most loathsome DISEASE.
The example Of Damien's life has, |
no doubt had its influence upon 4
Miss Fowler as well as upon many |
Others. She will follow in his foot |
steps with that noble devotion which /
is often characteristic of sDsituelle
women.
Among the great cities of Europe
there are many more prominent
than the little city of Bedford, vet
there or near there, in the month of
September, 1928, was born one Of
the worlds greatest benefaciors,
John Howard, who afterwards be-
came known ..as the great Prison
Reformer. The story OF his life
work is more romantic than the
tabled adventures OF medieval
knights. Scarcely n Dungeon in
the great capitals of Europe that
he did not visit, and from
their dark and loathsome depths
he rescued thousands whose names
are not mentioned in the history Of
men. Before emperOrs, kings and
potentates he plead the cause OF
suffering humanity and the hearts
of tyrants We're often touched by
bis sympathetic eloquence. Who
has not shuddered at the horrors Of
the Bastile in the Dungeons of which
no ray of sunshine ever penetrated,
whose walls We're ever dripping
with filth and alive with YER
min? Well, the BGstile 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 distance Of time and moving in 7
another atmosphere of thought we 1
can scarcely realize the condition OF
prisons when John Howard COM
menced his work. The story Of
cruelty and outrage and wrong,
which he published in l77T kindled >
a flame Of Indignation which
swept through the land, and
aroused the attention of the rulers.
On the 10th Of January, 1899, John
Howard died at Cherson, a little 4
village in Southern Russia, while
attending the sick. a hundred
years later-January 2Gth, 1890
the people of Bedford have
eommemorated his memory and "a,
started the work Of erecting a
monument Those who have visit
ID the Cathedral of st. Paul in
London will remember how strange al
I seemed to see n cathedral de,ii- tr
'ated TO the worship Of the meel, W
Ind Iowiy Nazarene and yet used to
principally as the burial place Of the
layers OF men. II is well when sp
ociety holds in remembrance ar
Ter benefactOrs also. 1t is every lo
Fay hitting that HOwari's statue Oh
hould stand by the side Of that ca
ther great citizen Of Bedford, John d,
'unyan, the immortal tinker. the 70,
uthor of the s'Pilgrim's Progress. ;,
But while we recognize the claims tn,
I these moral and intellectual eN
eroes upon US We should not forget FIR
lat there are Others who at the did
resent time are toiling with every DO
over Of mind and body for the fat
.nefit OF their fellowRen. The fai
of vessels is an evil of ent
lie first magnitude for a CONNER my
urlng the last three years six my
iousand eight hundred and five am
-rsons have persisted in missing I
assels alone. This does not include ma
e many hundreds who have per- few
aed where the vessels are known iail
nave been wrecked. OF the six nri,
inbred and thirty-one vessels that ity
lied out upon the broad ocean and I The
en- heard OF no more. il has been
owed in two hundred and ninety
e cases that the loss has been due the
Overlooking. In all these cases len
one has beel punished. Nearly exll
700 men in the full activity of life resi-
We thus gone down TO a watery zen
ave. Nearly fourteen thousand an
dows and orphans have mourned ~
2 untimely fate Of these husbands Tort
d fathers. The better ciass of CO. sery
ty demands that tins n,.,..,lsSv had
'rifiee OF human lives shall cease. OF !
d the cruel, inhaman greed OF robi
sc shipping merchants shall be Srci
dealt with. For many Dus
ars Mr.. Samuel PlimsoII. one Of witt
members of Parliament. has the
m indefatigable in denouncin1 live
5 wrong. Pamphlet after pamph. Wen
he has published, and numerous ter
iresses given in ali the PRINCIPAL time
piping tows OF Great Britain. statt
is now pending before Parlia- and
nj that VIII provide severe nun whe
nent for those who are guilty. Of i've
rioading vessels. All honor TO sym
persevering efforts Of Mr.. PJim- 10
and 10 the ''GFand Old Man. >, oppo
Gladstone, who has seconded five
efforts. May their shadows never
v less. NJ
t this present time there seems NJ
e increased activity in the Irish niue
alton. Although Mr.. BaIfour the l
ares that the policy of coercion the ,
success and that there is a per- Schu
freedom Of the press in Ire pion
!, still it cannot be denied that Com
lin the past two or three weeks was
raj proprietOrs and editors Of ing
spapers have been sent to prison falls.
omnlon criminals for the terri skill
y crime Of publishing items of Conr
; not favorable 70 the adminis- after
on OF Dir. Balfour. No editorial of tn,
ment vas needed: no exures-
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