Show r i TERSE UNS UNSON ON PERSONS the Philadelphia Just now says Record of that city has a distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- visitor in the person of a a. thir thir- year teen-year-old boy named Gilbert Holdsworth Holdsworth Holds- Holds worth who arrived ved from England on the Campa Campania l Y last st week eek By reason of the fact that he is the treble soloist in inthe inthe inthe the vest vested d choir choir-at Westminster Abbey where the best music of its kind In the world is to be he heard rd he has been chosen to sing a a. so soo o at the coronation of King Edward Edward VIL VII which honor carries with it the title of Kings King's Chor Chor- ister Master i Holdsworth Is paying a brief brier visit to relatives in this city DurIng During During Dur Dur- ing the trip across on the Campania he sang at the usual ships ship's concert in aid of disabled seamen and scored a great success It may have hav been due to his efforts that the Campania on this occasion occasion occa occa- sion broke all her previous records In iJ-be iJ he matter of receipts Uncle Thorn Isom cadi Gamble ble an old negro of Marlin Tex is a member of Willis L. L Lang camp U. U c V. V of that city He is a. a t native native- of South Carolina and says that when that State Stale seceded from the Union his master now de deceased deceased deceased de- de ceased who was Di Dx Joe James told him he intended to go to t the e war and asked his then yoUng yoOng slave if if he wished to go with him He replied Yes master master mas mas- ter I will go w with Uh th you and stay till one or both of us are aie killed All duning durIng during dur dun ing the war Dr Joe James was a division surgeon having having- enlisted with the Fifteenth South Carolina Isom hs his hs young slave was his trusted serVant servant ser ser- vant during all that time and returned home with him at the close Uncle I Isom om says the Confederate cause is still a live cause and is is yet dear dean to his heart He was then observed Sir Reid In Inthe Inthe inthe the fullness of ot his career as the most popular novelist of ot the day and was able to command command his own wn terms from the publishers but lut he voluntarily undertook undertook undertook un un- un- un to do Barrys Barry's work as correspondent correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent of the Leeds Mercury on condition that the latter continued to receive his salary It Itis Is only the man who has to earn his living JIving by his pen who can fully tully appreciate the magnitude magnitude magnitude magni magni- tude of such a service Among many pleasant incidents noted by Sir Wemyss Reid In his biographical biographical bio bio- I graphical study of the late William Black are exam examples les of that novelists novelist's I chivalrous kindness to his friend Mr Barry The he latter was London correSpondent correspondent correspondent corre corre- of ot the Leeds Mercury and Black undertook to supplement his work By and by Barry Darry grew ill and then Black came forward to bear his load United States Consul Ayme who sent the first news of the St St. Pierre disaster to Washington Is a Chicago newspaper newspaperman man who has done considerable magazine magazine maga maga- zine zinc writing and has made translations from froIn the F Fen French en h and Sp Spanish |