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Show SPIRIT OF THt PRESS, Should Pull Down the Rtiad. Denver Sun. When the old Scotch covenanters had Charles Stuart, afterwards Charles the Second, in their country trying to brace him up and supply him the force to recover re-cover his ancestral throne from the indomitable in-domitable Cromwell, they were greatly pained and horrified by his wild, irregular irreg-ular ways. A council of tho Kernest of them one day solemnly admonished him that if he was to succeed to the throne I of Kngiand and occupy it with honorand diguity, he must tuber mend his ways or keep his window curtains down. So the recent trial of Sir William Gordon Cummingfor cheating at cards is an impressive admonition to thoso of the exulted English ranks that tiiey must either stop gambling or be exceeding carelul reiraruiug those with whom they gamble. If all those who made up the co.ehrated Tranby Croft card party bad been persons of thu strict honor that governs in . "a gentlemon's game," there would have been nothing of the present painful and threatening scandal scan-dal which touches even the roles of royalty. |