Show GORDONS POWER what was the secret of his wonderful success much of it lay in his fearlessness much in his hia swiftness of thought and action and much in what the yankee would call his capability in all things small as well as great says a writer in ners he could ride and shoot and tinker and conduct campaigns pal no and negotiate treaties all ditl with unhesitating self reliance As a matters matter or course such a man takes command commard gordon never lacked opportunities to show these q qualities when steaming quietly up the nile a monkey with which he was playing fell overboard in a twinkling gordon was in the water after him by good luck the crocodiles got neither governor general nor monkey when a was being hauled up the rapids some way south of lado the cable got away from the men on the bank and the vessel was swept on the rocks no one would volunteer to go out and pick up the cable and gordon jumped into a skiff and went alone to be sure the skiff upset and the governor gen eral sat some hours dripping on a rock but his men had a lesson on another occasion the garrison of one of the stations was thrown into much anxiety by seeing gordon alone rowing across the river to the c e east as t bank which in that region wa was occupied by intensely hostile ne groes he landed made his bis boat fast and tried by a display of beads and wire to induce the savages to 4 come and talk with him they simply sat on the hillside and scowled finally gordon shot a hippopotamus and paddled back leaving le vang the beads on the shore and a fine feast of hippopotamus meat in the rushes another man would have been killed I 1 was amused to i see on his table at khartoum hand i some spoons and forks with his crest half effaced by rough scratches I 1 could fancy gordon vexed by some unusual flummery seizing a cattail cat tail tall file and proceeding to put out of his sight one more vanity it was wag 4 not that he was not proud of his hie f family on the contrary he could pay a man no greater compliment than to say I 1 you are like a gordon ll but all the marks and signs of rank sometimes became intolerable to him |