. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . hey had lost in Khartoum wives, families, and all they possessed. Kasm elMous sank into a corner of the turrte with his mantle wrapped round his CHARLES G. GORDON, 211 head, and even the brave gunner-captain forsook his gun. What is the useof firing? said he; I have lost all. As Tennyson wrote: Warrior of God! Mans friend! not laid belowBut somewhere dead, far in the vast Soudan, Thou livest in mens hearts, for all men knowThis earth has borne no simpler, nobler man.
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . hey had lost in Khartoum wives, families, and all they possessed. Kasm elMous sank into a corner of the turrte with his mantle wrapped round his CHARLES G. GORDON, 211 head, and even the brave gunner-captain forsook his gun. What is the useof firing? said he; I have lost all. As Tennyson wrote: Warrior of God! Mans friend! not laid belowBut somewhere dead, far in the vast Soudan, Thou livest in mens hearts, for all men knowThis earth has borne no simpler, nobler man. His name,Graven on memorial columns, is a songHeard in the future. His example reaches handFar thro all years, and everywhere it meetsAnd kindles generous purpose, and the strengthTo mould it into action, pure as his. He was a man, says General Sir William Butler, as unselfish asSidney, of courage as dauntless as Wolfe, of honour stainless as Outram,of faith as steadfast as More. . With Gordon the harmony of life anddeath was complete. Authorities ; Sir Charles Wilsons Narrative ; A. E. Hake ; Newspapers FKiinEKic tRowN Pkince of Prussia. No. 97 The Death of Frederick III of Prussia. Born i8thOaober 1831. Died 15th June 1888. IN November 1887 the Emperor Frederick, at that time Crown Princeof Prussia, lay between Hfe and death at San Remo; he was sufferingfrom an affection of the throat which was pronounced by the Germandoctors to be cancer, but this was strenuously denied by the English specialist,Morell Mackenzie, who had been brought over from England at the urgentwish of the Crown Princess, to attend upon her husband. Prince Williamof Prussia (afterwards the Emperor William) travelled from Berlin to SanRemo to see his father, hoping to combat his mothers influence and obtainthe dismissal of the English doctor. Bismarck, he said, * never makes amistake, and he considers our German scientists far in advance of the Englishin matters of diagnosis. He was u
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