The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-24

her brothers. life Miss Gordon, d1ffident,
humble and retiring never expressed her
opinions publicly. But those who were
privileged to enjoy her friendship never
mistook her silence for Indifference.
Her majesty was a good friend to Miss
Gordon always. It was some consolation
to the queen, indignant at the betrayal of
her representative, to shower sympathy
upon his bereaved sister Miss Gordon
naturally priced each fresh token of her
sovereign's sympathy. and she was not less
proud of the superb album, containing the
signatures of all the notable women of
England, which was presented to her after
her brothers. death. Miss Gordon, how
ever, was too much of a Gordon to bemoan
her brother with unavailing tears. She
tended his memory with sedulous care, she
carefully treasured up all his letters, she
observed the anniversaries Of his death,
and she was ever grateful to those who, to
the best of their means, had served her
brother But she displayed always the
resignation of a Christian and the endur-
ance of Gordon.
The world was never the same world to
her after her brothers. death, but ii was
Gods world still, and she endeavored to
the best of her ability to walk in her broth
er's footsteps, to encourage all who had en-
deavored to carry on his work and to dis
play to the weakest and the poorest of her
friends the same OVERLOOKING sympathy
which ever animated General Gordon.
Whether it was in the establishment of the
Gordon Boys homes or In helping the
wretched outcast, she was always ready.
Once only l had the honor of receiving
her at my office at Mowbray House. She
came on a characteristic errand. Some poor
bedridden old women, inmates of the local
workhouse, were panic stricken by the re-
port that the guardians, after their death,
turned penny by selling their poor car
casses to university dissecting rooms Miss
Gordon, hearing of this dismal vista of the
dissecting room, which rose grim and ghast-
ly before the dying eyes of these poor souls,
came to see me to ascertain whether the
practice could not be stepped. The burning
indignation of the Gordons glowed in her
eyes as she told me the story, which, / con-
fessed, seemed to me utterly incredible, I'M
til, from subsequent correspondence with
the local government board, learned that
Miss Gordon's representation had finally al
layed the alarm.
Miss Gordon's dread was to be discovered
doing anything of a public nature, but
when necessary she did not hesitate to act,
even though action cost her many sore
searchings of the heart She never public
ly identified herself with political parties,
but she used to remark occasionally that
after parliament had enfranchised the il
literate plowman it might perhaps in its
wisdom see fit to give vote to his edu-
Gated mistress. There was the Gordon
CLEAN of humor in all her conversation.
She was Gordon through and through-in
her patriotism, in her endurance, in her
quaint humor and above all in her religion.
He did not seem to have quite gone from
among us while his sister lived.
Now that Miss Gordon is no longer at
Rockstone place, we begin to realize that
the generation which ennobled history with
the character of Gordon at Khartoom is
fast passing away, leaving to the coming
century proud inheritance in the memory
Of sanity life and heroic death.-W. 4.
Stead in Westminster Gazette.