The morning news., 1899-12-31

already bravely filled it. and it must be
comforting for all to know that before
they went away again Inc old folks Ar
nome and their friends and neighbors were
alIoWed to JOIN with them in that right
good time"
The Gordon Family.
Il would be hard to find any other Scot
sh family 10 excel, even equal, the Cor
Eons IN all that goes to make up romance
ueVouon, fealty TO sovereign and country
proWess, religious sentiment even TO fan
alic zeal and also its antithesis-light
hearted esprit de corps. The Mad Cor
cons they have oft been truly called. for
wat Gordon desired, that a Gordon ac-
comphshed! Brains in plenty, too, have
peeh showered upon them such as We
nave IN Byron and many another Their
coat ot arms-Uhree boars' heads-tells its
traditional story of a brave ancestor who
5oied down fierce boar which ravageed
berWle k or Merse, on the Southern Scot
tlsh border, much as did the dragon of ira
dition.
Then there was the noted Bertran de
Gourdon, whose arrow wourded Richard
Noeur de Lion at Chalons in 1199 and who
IN spite of Richards dying order that his
lie seould be spared was hayed alive by
he iniuriated soldiers
Ihe Earl of Aberdeen. second chief, uses
as crest in memory of that event, a
"ihsed arrow, with motto, Fortuna Sc
quatur."
The Record.
The Gordons in story is rich field. otter
ourn and Flodden and the ScoLs Guard
IN France, notably in the reign of Louis
A1Il' tell of their deeds; Lady Katharine
O. Irdon, wife of Perkin Warbeck, the Eng
ish pIetender, softened even the hard and
mar ow heart of Henry VII, and her pa
thetic dignity and faith in her husband
earned for her in the English Court the
tie which the Duchess of Burgundy had
siyen 10 her-"The White Rose"
Ihere were, as in all noble families,
several ignoble and cruel memb RS over
whom R. l. P. may well be written, be-
cause redeemed by such as Bonnie LOWE
Gordon of song and story. They were
chivalrous defenders of Mary Suarts
cause, loyal, as We're all the best of he
clans. TO Bonnie Prince Charlie, ana the
religious zeal which made the leader of
the Gordon riots a fanatic becomes in
Gordon of Khartoum an example to the
world.
Gordon of khartOun.
A dukedom, marquisate, earldom and ten
Baronetcies are the titles of the clan, but
Chinese Gordon, gentleman and Christian,
is the hero of modern times
Or, as Lord Wolseley declares, his two
heroes of the nineteenth century are Gen.
Robert Lee and Gordon of Khartoum.
In Gordon we find at zenith all the de-
votion, loyalty, chivalry and re,ig on of
the centuries; to him every pure and noble
minded man and women can point as ex-
ample; through him the standard of mod
ern morality has been raised.
When we look for the highest fel ow
creatures We receive in proportion.
Charles Gordon never doubted the posi-
bility of mems goodness of intention, and
SO every one in daily contact with him
strove to live up to his standard, and
thereby rose:
"Out of their dead selves TO higher
things"
In him the pride and anger of the fam
lily, for the Scottish Litany said:
From the ire of the Gordons,
Good Lord! deliver us!"
became the righteous anger permissible
to every true hearted Christian. the goo1
cause to him was ever the spread of a
liberal and beneficent civilization.
His personal adaptation of "nob,es e
oblige" became, through his influence, the
notices, too, of many who might Sc m to
represent the file rather than the rank.
Birth and tradition and long story of
brave deeds, loyal men, quietly brave wo-
men are not worthless In clan life.
ITO die game may sound harsh, but is
in reality noble.
When the Gordons return to their homes
in the North no murmur of hardship or
misfortune will be heard, only in unison,
subdued, but none the less proud voices
will ring out the record-Once more for
our clan and country we have had our
chance.