Show I GORDONS GORDON'S TREE S The Tho only thing leff left of General Gener l Gordons Gordon's 8 work at is a rose tree he planted there After Alter his death the fanatics cut it down but the next season season it sprang into new life and now it is a tree free It stands in in n a royal garden that is filled with beautiful plants of all kinds and all colors but it is distinct by itself itself itself- Gordons Gordon's s 's tree It docs does not take much imagination t to believe that Gordons Gordon's spirit is over that spot yet and that hat it is watching that tree S It is emblematic too It It stands alone its blooms are all strange to that climate and place it stands as Gordon himself stood 1 there awaiting death deaUl but unafraid for he lie lived until he knew that the slothful government at home would bring him no re i-c- lief Still he bore himself like a soldier his daily walk among men lost none of its stateliness he was a soldier there on the tho border intent only on serving his I country which he did up to the moment of his death A great Gordon in some soine some respects he be was not was not all lIe He was brave and competent but of unsteady judgment judgment judg judg- judg-I judg ment hard to get along with yet mean meaning well and so indifferent to danger that he lie did dill things thins which were not an evidence of a cautious cautions soldier but of a recklessly recklessly reck reek lessly brave man roan one of those who tl IS trust too much to the fact that he knows no fear An old sergeant who was under tinder him takes care of that rose tree with a sacred solicitude and we hope the tree will ill outlive the sergeant and long be pointed out as Gordons Gordon's tree cause whatever er he planned to todo todo todo do whatever he lie hoped to accomplish ish had llad no fruition there save in that one tree |