New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-27
THE GORDONS.
A NOBLE FAMILY.

NJ W IT Stead IN The Westminster Gazette.
The news published by '"rhe Westminster "a.
zette" this evening august 81 brought back hooo
of memories. sorrowful and stern FOR MISS uor-
don OF Southampton was one OF the rev refla'hiis
links which united the world of to-day with the
,roublous mast time when her brother died IN the
far Soudan" 1t seems but as yesterday when' IN
reply to the telegram from southampton tnat ne
had nothing to say. left Northumberland-s ,t te
hold that interview with Gtnera or b spatch to
Khartoum. Yet nine years ana more ndNe pasai.
and the nathos which abound In our Imperial an
nails and now the simple announcement Vi ,h,
Gordons death recalls win paihiui '"iu"e'S ~
Miss Gordon Charles G9rdons elder s sister
Her house at No. Rockstone Place. s0uthainpuom,
was his only home when he was in England. IL Wa
there that interviewed him and at me prtsen y;
roment although the familiar rooms are empty ~
their mistress they are fun OF the associations o oa
her brothers presence Never was sister er more 9rS
brother trust more absolutely his innerlnost
thoughts a sister than Gordon She %aI t te e 70
her and shr treasured as precious relics the rev
Of uniform ana Oh her oh hand The FIRST
things a visitor entering her draWhs-i .
were osih ,bs next thing was the skin OF Loop
ard which he had shot in the Soudan In ner pea
as o r. was when last il was occupied by General
Gordon her favorite texts were stili on the W'
Miss Gordon dolized her broher-not without cause
The world knew him. when too late as ths peer.
esJ from of old time but she knew him also as
the merry laughing brother who never ceased
njngs OF a governor general. Small reason Is mere
FOR surprise that Miss Gordon regarded WIN h oas
sranfv svn1Dathy the Minister the latenesS OF WHOSE
awakening to the dictates of patriotism ana 90. OF
honor cost her brothers life. Miss Gordon d,t III
opinions publicly but those who were privileged to
enjoy her friendship never mstook ner Silence io'
Her Majesty good friend to Miss Gordon ,m,
he bet
shower sympathy upon his bereaved SISTER. ' hss
s"vereign's sympathy and she was not less proud
OF the superb album containing the sSn.ares nr ..
seneI to her after her brothers death Miss Cor:
don howe was too much Of Gordon TO pem1 IAN
her brother with unavailing tears She tended l ns
memory with sedulous care she carefully treasured
up all his letters, she observed the % ,hnss
Who TO the best OF their means, had served her
brother. But she displayed always the sim
The world was never the world TO her ai, u
her brothers death but it was Gods w4ra sun ~
and she endeavored to the best OF her ability 10
walk in her brothers footsteps. 10 encourage an
who had endeavored to carry on his work ana e 20
display to the weakest and the poorest 9, ne
friends the same Overlooking sympathy winch eve, VT
animated General Gordon Whether y was II, ~ 'd H.
heping the wretched outcast, she was always ready:
once only had the honor OF receiving nsr cSs s
terstic errand Some poor bedridden oid Wone,I, a
mates Of the local after their death
turned a penny by selling their poor sarcasses 20
University dssecing-rooms MISS ,roruoh, heasins
rose grim and CHASTITY before the dying eyes OF these
poor souls came to me 10 ascertain whether the
iignation OF the (;orions gowed i'm her eye as she
told me the story, which, ! confessed seemed to me
utteriv Incredible until from a subsequent corre-
spondence with the Local Government Board, l
learned that Miss Gordon,s representation mad
10 be discovered doing anything OF public nature.
but when necessary she did not hesitate to act even
though action cost her many sore searchngs OF the
heart She never publicly identified herself with po-
itcal parties but she used to remark occasionally
ate ploughman, it might perhaps in its wisdom see
ar 70 give n vote his educated mistress. There
was the Gordon CLEAN OF humor in all her con-
versation She was Gordon through and through,
I'm her patriotism, in her endurance. In her quaint
humor and above all I'm her religion He did not
seem TO have quite gone from among while his
sister lived Now that Miss Gordon is no longer at
Rockstone Place. begin To realize that the gen.
Grafton which ennobled history with the character
OF Gordon OF Khartoum Is fast passing away,
leaving to the coming century proud inheritance
in the memory of sanity life and heroic death.