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PHILADELPHIA TJ3IES. JANUARf .20, 1900. Tjhompson' fthompson' QUEER MOTIVES 'FOR SUICIDES SATUKDAY MOIllSTING. MISS HARRISON MAKES HER DEBUT Half The Neophyte a Daughter of the Provost of the University. THE BALL A FINE FUNCTION Some Absurd Reasoris Given by People Who Have Killed Themselves.

Overcoat Stock at Nearly Half Price $30 Overcoats for 1 5 $18 Overcoats for 1 0 $20 Overcoats for $12.50 Odds and Ends for $8.50 This is not a curtailed sale of a few hundred garments. Half of the store is occupied with overcoats that are from a third to a half less in price than they were a month ago. They are all wood overcoats and new this season. We can say that truthfully, because we did last season just what we are dolnf this season sold our surplus at a loss rather than carry it over. Here are some we have the most of: $30 Brown Elvsian silk lined Overcoats $15 $35 Black and" Blue Ulsterettes $15 $25 Oxford Paddocks $20 $30 Carr's Black Melton Overcoats $20 $20 Brown Kersey Overcoats $12.50 $20 Oxford Kersey Overcoats 1 5 1 5 Oxford silk lined Overcoats 1 0 $15 Oxford and black Frieze Overcoats $10 These arc all in liberal quantities.

All the broken sizes are at $8.50. $20 to $35 ones at that to those they'll fit. We are onen to-nicht till 10 P. dnlivrr everv imrrhasp. no desired, to-dav and mil ten nil alterations required, too.

Extra force for tills purpose. Thompson's Sons, OrEX TO DAY UNTIL 10 P. M. BASE BALL PLAYER KILLS HIS FAMILY Martin Bergen of the Boston Team Commits Murder and Suicide at His Home in Massachusetts. with Rheumatism offering Exhausts Strength Celery Compound H.

R. Perry, Freestone, writes: "I have been troubled with rheumatism for over twenty years and had tried the most skillful Dhvsicians in our State without anv rftliof wrmn began taking Paine's Celery Compound. Before 1 had used half a bottle, I was relieved. It cured my rheumatism permanently, and -I believe it will cure any case 01 rneumaiism. of Our 1338 Chestnut Street.

CAUSE OF CRIME lugs with the Boston club. The history of Bergen's career with the club Is too well known to need repetition. His repeated desertions during the last season and his seeming indlffernece to the efforts made by the Ilostou management to conciliate him wete peculiar enough in themselves, but taken in connection with his extraordinary conduct while with the team they were a significant Indication of the Impending mental lending up to the final tragedy. The members of the Boston teum tell many stories about his actions while on base ball trips which illustrate Bergen's peculiar mental make-up. Charlie Nichols said recently that Bergen was the most difficult man to get along with that he had ever met.

The great pitcher said there were times when Bergnu thought that every one was conspiring against him and would treat all the men with entire Indifference In spite of all that could be done to show him their good will. "tin one occasion," said "Nick," "when we ere lu St. Louis and Bergen had one of his freaks Chick Stnhl came Into the hotel and said: 'Good morning. whereupon Bergen struck him in the face, knocking hlui dow-n." Other Btorles told by the members of the team Inst summer give further proof of Ihe fact that Insanity was fast coming upon Bergen. The only man who could do anything with Bergen when he was In one of his moods wns the rector of the North Brookfleld Church, which Bergen attended.

Rev. Father James 11. Tnlte. Several times during Bergen's spasmodic career with the Huston club he was persuaded to return to the team through Father Tnlte's efforts. On one particular occasion during the trouble last summer Manager Selee made a special trip to North Brookfleld to confer with Father Tulte and as a result Bergen rejoined the Bostons.

"While Bergen was with the team." said Mr. Motion, "we were always fearful lest Bergen should commit some rash act. I have personally been of the opinion for some time that he was not of sane mind. He acted queerly while at home and when on the road he was worse. He was despondent and at times would stay away from his fellow members of the tenm.

While the team was playing last summer the thought flitted through my mind several times that some-thing fearful would happen. In fact I thought something would happen during the time he stayed away last summer. I am very sorry that his Insanity should have resulted In the murder of his family. It Is too terrible to Imagine." African slaves and the native question In general. This protest was followed by the migration of about (I.uiki colonists Into the desert, and this migration led to the founding of the Truusvaal and the Orange Free Slate.

EFFECXS0F STARVATION It stimulates tlio Mind, lut With Bad licsnlts. Lasslgunrdle has Just made known the results of his researches on the subject of how hunger afreets the working of the mind. He wanted to discover what the menial state is under different degreed of starvation. There fire ilitToruii, 1.... noun.

nimnm-ucc, resorieu to by certain faslers, such as Sued: forced starvation In certain cases of sickness, like acute hysteria and acute bruin disorders; hunger, the result of poverty, shipwreck, advance In prices or such accidents as the miners stand In danger of; the lure causes of suicide by starvation, and fasting for religious reasons. A colleague of the author. Dr. Malre, was suipw recKen or the French steamship llle de St. Nuzalro.

and be vivos' an account of his own hunger deliriums and the rulings of those about him. When Die period of fasting Is not of a long duration, particularly when It is voluntary and entered Into gradually, the result Is Increased mental activity, uud an especially lively Imagination. When the period is Increased there is change In the character and deportment of the person, which expresses Itself In the excitability of his temperament, great selfishness and even cruelly. At the same time there appear strong mental disturbances, a partial loss of memory, will power, self control and on inclination to sudden, uncontrollable Im. pulses that arise Instinctively.

In serious cases the mental disorders are most Intense In the night, Inking the form of Insommla, nightmare, bad dreams, hallucinations and dangerous Impulses, Lasslgtiardle draws parallel between mental slates produced by hunger and those produced by drunkenness, and he finds In both the same cffeetB on flu, Intelligence, the morality and the behovlor WHAT THE STARS SAY JAXVAItY 80, 10OO. By tlieF.nt Indlnn AstroloartHt, Ziulkiel Mercury Is III henefle aspect with the mono. Favorable for writing Important letters, seeking literary employment, dealing with printer! publishers, editors and lawyers, seudliig rtilb dren to school anil binding apprentices. My the Knirllsh At colonist, llapliaei. Io not travel or remove.

Keep quiet. You will hare an active business year If this Is your birthday. Young widows will recite offers of marrlsire. child torn on this flsy will he clever and INSANITY MOST FREQUENT EXCUSE WHY DID the six hundred persons whose suieldea were chronicled by the York Herald last year kill themselves? inquires that paper. Strange as It may appear.

In a very Inrge majority of the cases where the causes are known the rensons appear to be absolutely trivial and not at all tniftU'lent to account for an act so against the prompting of nature. Yet the record stands and is most suggestive. Very frequently the suicides tell what prompted them to self-destruction, or their friends know the motive und make it public. We find that business troubles head lie list, and that real or Imaginative, failure In the struggle for existence is the reason for nearly one-third of the suicides; then come physical Ills accountable for one-fifth, domestic alllictlons for a little less, crime one-tenth, lovo uffuirs one-twentieth uud other causes one-tenth. Many of these come under the general hoafl of melancholia which is produced by them and may run into Insanity.

But when a man of normal mind, who can, lu certain extraordinary cases, see a justification even for suicide, examines the causes be is puzzled at the fact that the queer reasons stated should be sufficient, There was the case of Mrs. Ida Adams, who killed herself nt 172 East Thirty-third street on Januury 20 because her husband had complained of the corned beef she had provided for his dinner. Three days befure Mrs. Theodore Alcorn killed herself because her husband had stayed away from home and played pinochle, That wus the only complaint she made. On the first day of the year Charles W.

Cook, who lodged at 354 ISowery, killed himself because his brother refused to lend him money, and on February 20 Annie House, 17 years old, took her life bocause her parents upbraided her for going to theatre. In the same month Herman Kapff. of Pittsburg, took poison nnd died becatise he was scolded for playing truant. And Just the day before Augustiue Katx killed herself with poison, on her wedding day, because her husband didn't give her 100: Two days after the latter, miserly Jacob Mole, of 520 West Fifty-eighth street, shot himself to death because the roof of the house he lived in and owned leaked and needed repairs. Worse than that, on August 9.

(ilnrnno Morldo, confined In a Jersey City prison, hanged himself to escape a compulsory bath. On December 21 Ivan Denlozewloz. a Rus-fdnn Nihilist, killed himself in San Francisco because he had not killed the Czur of Russia. Lot had selected him for the assassination and he feared to make the attempt. Henry F.

Decker, of ISO West One Hundred and Third street, found himself unable to do a less thing nnd poisoned himself to death. He hnd not the money with which to buy Christinas presents. Y'et more strange was the given reason for the suicide of Maurice Strauss, who jumped from a Fall Ulcer boat on December 14. He wrote that he died so as to return and prove the truth of spiritualism. Suicides from bnsiuess worry present as many queer cases a those that have preceded.

On January 22 Charles Adams, uf Philllpshurg. X. hanged himself because a dance for his benefit had been poorly attended. Charles W. Mryun, of Springfield, weathered the vicissitudes of more than fifty years of active business life and then killed himself on January 2.1 because trade was not what he wanted It to be.

Charles A. Holdcrer was promoted from police sergeant to captain In Jersey City, aud then killed himself on January 1 because he feared something would go wrong In his command. On the lHth of the saum month Frits T. B. Koemcr shot himself at 4) East Twenty-eighth street because creditors dunned him.

Seldom does a Mohammedan commit suicide, for he accepts nil things as Hod's will and hows to fate. But Miliemed Effendl jumped Into the water and drowned, near Constantinople, on February S. simply he-cause he thought he had lost some money. The duv before Jacob J. Wolford, of 14H East Ninetv-seeond street, iuhaled gas and died because he had actually lost a sum of money.

Charles Ekbon. a tailor, of 324 avenue he hod a good excuse when he took gns nnd (lied on May IS, because he had crushed the Index finger of his right hand and bad to have it amputated. (Mi August 25, Mover Lapctus, of 1K1 Stanton street, was so depressed by a threatened strike of his employes that he hanged himself. Christmas wasn't merry for Charles II. Schiller, a jeweler, of I'tlca, who shot himself to U-uth on that day because of poisr holiday trade.

On December 0, Frederick B. Uussiil. of New Itochelle, couldn't raise itio to balance his account with the (Jolt Club, so he killed himself with a pistol. Melancholy makes many suicides, but It seems that trifles often produce Ihe melancholy. Mrs.

Catherine Murry, of 214 West Twenty-seventh street, died from self-ad-ml'ilstered poison on Murch 6 because she wns not pleased with her daughter's marriage. Axtell Berg, of Port Jervis, N. killed himself becuuse his son, who had been In the Puerto Hhro campaign, had re-enllsied. Jacob Als, of Brooklyn, killed himself with gas on May 5 because his motherless son had left home and married. Mrs.

Emma L. French, of Cleveland, killed herself on May ifit because she fcored she might become insane. Edwin Atkins, of Wnterbury. said he hnd committed the unpardonable sin, nnd. feeling that his soul was lost, shot himself on June 2d.

Oeorge Kendal became melancholy brooding over the loss of a faithful dog. and killed himself at 5 Delnncey street with gas on May 27. Naval Lieutenant Boissninn, of the Russian Court, shot himself on July 20 because the Cxnr upbraided him for allowing the Csarwlts to go cycling alone. Sirs. Celia Biirnhnrt, of 1071 Forrest avenue, became lonely because her children left her and died from poison on July 21.

There are many cases In which persons have rushed to death to escape an apparently small evil. On January 5, James J. Leo, of Brooklyn, killed himself with poison to evade arrest for non-support of his wife. Ten dnys afterward Lulgl Lunro, also of Brooklyn, killed himself with poison to avoid arrest for a petty crime. Another Brooklyn man was Russell Nlbbs.

who killed himself with poison April 20 rather than submit to arrest for assaulting his wife. On July 8 Henry M. (TiamberlUi. or ew iiavcu, Hanged himself becuuse his wife sued him for nou-si'piMirt. August Xi Michael Hrennen.

of JO Ui'iiuick street, died from poison when he beard his wife had sworn out warrant for bis arrest. "Despised love" has made many suicides, and frequently when a word would have set matters right. Winston Smith, of Brooklyn, poisoned himself on February 6 on account of a few sharp words from his flntieee. (irace Summer felt she had a good excuse for dying on February 24. at Mowenqua, when her sister married her old sweetheart.

Oil Murch 30 Rmueyu Olds of Erie, 17 years old. shot himself to denlh on account of a boyish love affair. Example Is sometimes dangerous. On January Robert T. Rink, of Philadelphia, closed himself In a trunk and swallowed poison.

Just because he had read of a woman doing the same thing. On March Emma Hnrtlg took poison In "Suicide Hall," on the Bowery, because another girl had done so. There are a number of cases of suicide for insurance money. One of them wns that of Horace Wall, at the Putnam House, who shot himself on March 8 so his family would get the proceeds from an Insurance policy. But the strangest case of nil was the sulfide of Mrs.

Louisa Fischer, of 221 West Twentieth street. Her husband hnd killed himself In December so she could get Insurance money, and she promised to follow him as soon as the money was gone. She provided fur her funeral, spent the last cent of the money remaining and then suffocated herself wa gas on Ma; i. Nerve and CHICAGO'S NEW OrmWJ KSADT TO LOWE TH BXAft TftAJP OURE.S It is often said, in speaking of hall decorated tor a great function, that jit was "completely transformed." The remark can be applied to the arrangement of Horticultural Hall last night, for the handsome ball which Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Cufi-tls Harrison gave there to Introduce their daughter, Miss Esther White Harrison to society, with the perfect assurance Ihijt Its application Is not a misnomer. I As suggested exclusively In Tub Timhs the bail was changed to simulate a splendid ball room In private house. It was richly decorated and hung with crimson and tilled with beautiful paintings and vases of flow-era, not profuse, but sufficient to accentuate tho rich hangings. Arrangement of the Room. An Interior temporary wall was unlit Inside the room, reducing It considerably iq.

sine. At the east end It ran straight across the hull and was pierced by three arched entrances into the ball room proper. At the other end it was curved to meet the stage upon which, concealed by a hedge of plants, the orchestra was pluced. The space between the false wall and the gallery at the east end was converted Into a drawing room, very beautifully carpeted with rugii and furnished with rich carved furniture from Mr. Harrison's house.

The ball room was hung with scarlet, In panels divided by Ionic pillars, which were Joined by arches studded with electric lights. In the panels were placed paintings, family portraits mostly, though In the central panel of the upper side Thomas Hovenden's innsi terplece, "Breaking Home Ties," showed to great advantage, and above the musicians' stand, In a setting of verdant palms, was John Lambert's portrait of little Dorothy Harrison. Arched doorways led from the tipper end of the room, into six small anterooms, hung with tapestries and tilled with sofas, for conversation rooms. There were no chairs at all In the ball room, the floor being entirely free from obstruction, save where the columns Jutted out, or where a pedestnl supporting a vase of roses, stood. The columns were trimmed with feathery asparagus vines mixed with flowers, niiil arches which connected them were studded with electric lights.

The fnlse wall was of a height Just reaching the central chandelier. It wns deled over with white bunting over which wns stretched long ropes of nspnrnguc vine, Mdlutlng from the chandelier. Its shape wus defined by a Hue of electric lights among viues and flowers. In the Corridors. The corridors and grand stairway were decorated much in the usual way, but the color was entirely scarlet.

Scarlet hangings were at the windows; the floor and stairs were caryetcd In scarlet, and everywhere there was a profusion of scarlet flowers, carnations, azaleas and roses, relieved occasionally by dash of white. The guests begun arriving nbout 10 o'clock and were received by Mrs. Harrison In the upper corridor and presented by her to Miss Harrison. The matron was dressed In a rich gown of black satin and wore no Jewels, nnd the maid was dressed in white satin, and likewise hnd no Koch gown was severely 1 Supper was served at 12 o'clock, the supper tables being decked In pink and white cu motions. Those Present.

Among the guests were several from abroad. They Included Mr. nnd Mrs. George Orsy and Miss Gray and Miss Dul'out, of Wilmington; Cecil Calvert, Austin Lowe Jenkins, George Snowden Andrews and Mr. nnd Mrs.

Gibson, of Baltimore; George H. I'rentlce, of Sew York; the Misses Ffoulkes, the Misses Hay and E. Crosby Klndleberger, of Washington. Among the others present were: Mr. and Mrs.

Itlchard Lewis Ashhurst. the Mioses Ashhurst, John Ashhurst, 3d, linger Ashhurxt, Mr. ond Mrs. George M. Abbot, lr.

Alfred Reginald Alleu, John Ernest Allen, Francis tilcott Allen. J. H. Dulles Allen, Elisabeth Sergeant Abbot, Miss Molly Alison, Miss Nina It. Archer, Boljcrt Adams.

Miss Fanny Balrd, Mr. and Mrs. Edward r.ldille, Charles B. A. Hrlnley, Miss Mnrv Frothlnghnni Brluley, Miss Anna Scott Blckley, Miss Brownson, Mr.

anil Mrs. George Boker, the Messrs. Brengle, Mr. and Mrs. Itobert c.

II. Brock, Mr. and Mrs. It. 11.

Bayard Bowie, and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Iliddle. Rev. and Mrs.

Leveret't Bradley. Miss Fanuy Brock, the Mltwtn Bid-die, Miss Brinton, John Cadwalndcr, jr Captain and Mrs. Brownson, Mr. Bnrtol, Mrs. Trnxtuii Beale, Miss Beale, E.

Spencer Blight. Miss Eleanor I'nge Butcher, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bell, Miss Henrietta Arinllt Brown, Mr. and Mrs.

fhuiiea iliddle, the Messrs. Benson, Jasper entes Brlutnu, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bullitt.

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bullion. V. Kcrhan Brown, Mr.

and Mm. Itobert Murray Bohlen, Mr. and Mrs. John Hampton Barnes Mlsn Margaret Buckley, John C. Bullitt, Miss Emily Butler Bldille, Mr.

and Mm. Edwin N. Benson, Itlchard Vaux Buckley, Daniel Buckley. Mr. nnd Mrs.

A. J. Cnssatt, the Misses f'assott. the Misses Cochran, Miss Ssrali Sklpwlth Cannell, Charles H. ('ramp, MUs Ciirtin, Miss Campbell.

Percy II. Clark. William Dorr Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. C.

Howard Clark. Miss Cuthcrwood, George C. Carson, the Misses Coxe. George J. Cooke, Miss Clementine Brooke Heiirv W.

Cranio. George C. Carson Mi ami Mrs. T. I'.

Chandler, the Messrs. Che-tou, Mr. and Mrs. David S. B.

Chew. Mrs. Mason Campbell, the Messrs. Cainplieli. Arthur C.

Deimlston, Ileiillcy ('. Dulles, Philemon Dickinson, Mr. mid W. H. Drayton, Henry Dlsston.

Ms Darlington, Mr. and Mrs. ltumell Duanc.ihe Messrs. Drayton, Mr. and Mrs.

Hubert C. Drayton. E. Waterman Dwight. Miss Dnnii.

Mr. nnd mi. HenrgH Dnuas imxoii. Franklin Dunne, Mr. and Mrs.

Dickson, John M. Dickson. Mr. and Mrs. L.

Harrison Dulles, Edward C. Dale, the Misses Devereox. Air. and Mrs. Theodore N.

Ely. Newbold F.tting. Mr. nnd Mm. Lincoln L.

Evre. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Ellis.

Henrv i'. E.irn-shaw, John Kenton Elsenbroy. Miss Mary Allen Evans, the Misses Ewlng. Mr. anil Mrs.

Mnakell Ewlng, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. El-licott, Itlchard McCall Eliot, M.

Stevensou En shy. 8. Wynne Ffoulkes, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Howard Furness, Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Rogers Fiirness. Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison Fisher, Theodore F.

Furness. the Messrs. Fniley, Miss Rita Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Win.

Went Frur.ler, Henry W. Fnrnnin, Mr. and Mrs. Freedlcy, Mis. John Horace Fnssltt, Miss Helen X.

Mr.nnd Mrs. Grevllle E. Fryer. Miss Fryer, Mr. and Mrs.

Artliington Gilpin. Mr. and Mrs. Clement A. Orlsfoin.

Miss Grls William Gerhard. George Glbbs, Arthur H. Gerhard, Mr. and Mrs. W.

II. Gsw, Miss (law, Albert Gerhard, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Grant, Mr.

and John c. Groome. Miss Grain, Frederick Goddard, the Misses Howe, the Messrs. Hodge, Miss Mildred A. Hodge, Miss Margarettn Willing Hutchinson, the Misses Hays.

Miss Ethel Heberton, the Misses Harrison. Charles Hnnlehiiret, Mrs. George L. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs.

A null a H. Heckscher, Mr. ond Mrs. Alfred C. Harrison, Mr.

and Mrs. W. Barklie Henrv, the Messrs. Holsmun, Miss Howell, Mr. anil Mm.

Edward Haslehurst, Miss Geralillne l. Harrison. Mr. anil Mrs. John W.Hulf innii, Frank llaseltlne, Mr.

and Mrs. Henry J. Hancock, the Messrs, Hare, Edmund Y. Hamersley, Miss Hamersley, Harry M. Harl.

F. Wharton Hippie. Dr. and Mrs. Russell Johnson, Miss Anna Price Johnson, Mr.

and Mrs. Jastrow, Mls Beulnh It. Junks. Miss Jordan, Mr. nnd Mrs.

Charles Penrose Keith Mr. and Mrs. Sidney W. Keith, Francis Fisher Kane, Edward 0. Knight, Mr and Mrs.

Jay B. Lipplncntt. j. Diindaa Up-plueott, Mr. and Mrs.Thnmaa Learning, Miss Lemolne, John Lnmbert, Mr.

and Mrs. Ernest Law. the Mlssea Lurge. Miss Emily G. Llpplncott, Miss Lesley, Miss Anus 1 Lloyd, the Messrs.

Lloyd, Miss Bertha 11, Llpplncott. Miss Josephine Mather, the Messrs. Miller Miss Josephine B. Mcllvnlue. Miss Mil.

hell' Dr. I'niil D. Mills. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles II' i Xli'a ir iinnr-c mill ing. Miss Anna M. Hells McCrenry, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison H.

Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Martin, Miss Elsie Whelen Miller, the Messrs. MacLeod, Miss Isabella F. G.

Morton. Mr. and Mrs. George II McKitddcn, Mr, Mild Mrs. Alfred Paul Morris, Mr, Mlllett, INSANITY THE Special Telegram to The Times.

North Brookfiei.d, Jnnuary Martin Bergen, catcher with the Boston League Rase Ball Club, killed his wife nnd two children and committed suicide at his home here to-day. An axe was used In taking the life of Mrs. Hereon and one of the children, a boy, while a razor was employed to cut the throat of the other child, a little girl, and of the man himself. It la thought Bergen was Insane. Some of his actions in connection with hi bpse ball managers last season led to the supposition that time that he wns demented.

The first anybody knew of the awful deed done by Bergen was when neighbors found the body of Bergen ami the gill on the kitchen floor. Further Investigation tdiowed that Mrs. Hergen and the little boy had been killed, Their bodies were upon a bed in the bed room. There was an axe near the bed on the floor. Itergeu was twenty-nine years of age, his wife was about the same age, the girl was eight or nine years old and the boy a little younger.

It was about 12.30 this afternoon when the bodies were found. It Is thought that the crime wits committed early this morning. Bergen was In his stocking feet and the kitchen fire had been made ready for lighting. It Is thought that tlc man had risen and started to perform the usual duties when the mania seized him, and he went back to the chamber where his -wife and children were still In bed. Dr.

E. W. Norwood, after examination of the bodies, said that death had been almost instantaneous with each. Bergen's home Is about two miles from this place, lie hail a prosperous farm and considerable live stock. His father, Michael Hergen, lives not faraway.

PECULIAR MAKE-UP Berpron's Queer Actions tlio Cnuse of Comment by His Fellow-I'liiyorw. Special Telegram to THE TlMKS. Boston, January Martin Bergen, base ball player, murderer and suicide, was one of the most peculiar characters that the National League has ever known. His idosynenisies on the base ball field were only equaled by his peculiar deal- FRENCH IS SOUTH AFRICA Why so Many (Jnlllc Names Are Found In the Boer Iiepubllo. We are accustomed to look upon the Boers being entirely of Dutch extraction, 6uys the New Yolk Hornlil, lint in reality there Is a leaven of French blood among them, and.

Indeed, there are French names among them still, nich us Joubert, De Vllllers, Du-plessls. Imtoit, Iioux and many others, l'rohahly there are few Africandct without it mixture of French blond In their veins. How did this French blood mix with that of Holland? Through colony at Freuch Huguenot who settled In South Africa long uiro. The acton! did not begin until when il small eu.cti on tame nay ami at ape Town. I'his colony was founded by an officer of the Mitch East India Company.

Tlin population of the young colony In-ircased but slnniv. nml wm more thtin 44HI In lov. 1 1. a ...1.1..1. Louis XIV.

Issued a decree revoking the edict of Nantes, under which the Huguenots had enjoyed freedom and toleration. A cruel aipt vigorous persecution followed, and many of the Huguenots escaped to Hul-laud. A proposal was made to send some of these to South Africa, but the Dutch East India Company feared It nilghl be dangerous lo their interests to harbor a lurge number of French subjects in their South African colony, so only a select few of the Huguenots, uud such as were sklllled In such branches of agriculture and other Industries as the Dutch seitlers were Ignorant of were scut over, In all about three hundred souls. Before leaving Holland the heads of the Huguenot families were required to take au oath of fidelity to the Dutch East India Company and to promise iforni to nil regulations which might subsequently be made for the South African settlement. These Huguenots were undoubtedly the best settlers the colony hod received, and In point of numbers they were uunrly equal to the original Dutch settler.

They were superior to tho latter In Industrial attainments and the amenities of life and soon made their Influence felt In the colony. The rule of the Dutch East India Compnnv was tyrannical sad corrupt and the result was that difficulties soon arose between the Governor and the French settlers, who on several occasions made a bold and more or lesrt successful Htniid for their rights. Whenever In the subsequent history of the colony principles hnd to be asserted, the descendants of Huguenots have been well lo the front. In the bite thirties it was a man with a French name, IVter Hetlef, who raised his voice In protest against the action of the British authorities In connection with the emancipation of the Mouth ABE YOU CONVALESCING? Regain your health quickly by taking Baker's Cap-aulci cf Pure Cod Liver Oil. J.

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Mr. nnd Mrs. John McIIenry, Mr. and Mrs. J.

Franklin McFudilen, Arthur V. Morton, Edward Miles, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Melt en u. Mr.

and Mrs. Clement B. Newbold C. C. Plnckney Norris.

Miss Ethel Newbold, Mr. and Mrs. G. Ilelde Norris, Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred E. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Nell-Bon, John S. Newbold, Trenchard E.

New-bold. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Potter, the Misses Miss Ellen Drexel Paul.

W. It. iiilllps. Miss Parsons, Lewis II. Parsons, the Misses Page, George Itlspbam Page, Mrs.

Wolter Elliot Penrose, Miss Penrose, Lewis Slntler Preston, Alfred Pardee, Mr. und Mrs. tobert E. Puttlson, Mr. anil Mrs.

Phlllcr. Ir. nnd Mrs. William K. l'hlller.

Miss Pan-coast. Miss Frances Itawle Peuiberton. Mr. and Mrs. David Pepper, Miss Adallne Coleman Potter, Lawrence G.

Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Prime, the Prime, the Misses Pepper, the Misses Peters. Miss Mary Ueukirt, the Misses Rhodes, Miss Julia Rush, the Moral. Kosengarteii.

J'houias ltidgwny. Miss Mary Rlvlniis. Miss tenshnw, Thomas Huberts, Mr. and Mrs. umes M.

Rhodes, John C. Rowland, the Minxes Irfmnlg, the Misses Rawle, Mist Violet Rlilgway, Miss Annie W. Russell. Mr. and Mrs.

II. E. Strawbrldge. Mr. and Mrs.

William Ellis Scull, the Missus Sumlx. the Misses Slnnlckson, Harrison Smith, Mirs: I.lsie Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Scott. Miss fcophlii Starr.

Reginald Shober, Mi so I.ydla Leanilng Smith, Mr. and Mrs. John ('lark Sims. Miss Katharine Dutilh Smith, Mr. and Mrs.

G. Souiers Smith, the Messrs. Stewart. Miss Hope islnncy Tyler. William G.

Thomson, Dr. Archibald G. Thomson. Miss argaretta Bonsall Taylor. Mr.

and Mrs. J. lionsnii Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan rotter.

Miss Margaret Tiiouron. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Frederick Tyler, the Messrs. Trotter, Miss Emily Thorn, I he Messrs.

Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer, Mr. and Mrs.

Theodore Voorhoes, the Misses Voorhees. the Messrs. Voorhoes. Mr. nnd Mrs.

John R. Valentine, the Misses Willing. Mr. nnd Mrs. John S.

Watts. Frank M. Wlrgniuii. Henry M. Watts, Miss Sarah Logan Wlster.

Mrs. C. S. Whelen, the Misses Winser, Miss Louisa Welghtnian. Miss Elbel Wlster.

the Misses Wurts. Mrs. Samuel Welsh. Miss Kntharvii L. Wain.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Welsh. Mr. nnd Mrs.

Jacob H.I Wain. Mr. nnd Mrs. Wllilmn T. Wright.

Miss Wlster, Miss Rosn Neilson Wharton, Miss Ellen C. Wharton. Frauds It. Wharton, Mf. and Mrs.

Jiihu Wlster, Mr. nnd Mrs. Charles Wurts, Miss Agnes E. Whelen, Miss Kathleen Wntsou. Miss Ellen X.

Wa'n, Miss Williams. Miss Augusta T. S. West, Charles William West. Miss Violet Whelen.

Ml. and Mrs. John Lewis Wilson, Mr. and Mils. Henry Whelen, the Messrs.

Wilson, Mil. Willbnnk. John Lawrence Wetherlll, Mr. null Mrs. Robert Kennedy Wurts.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Morris Williams. J.

Itundall Williams. Bernard 11. Wood, Miss Julia wning Wood. A BL0NDINED MINIATURE There Is a wealthy Washington woman who has recently married for the second i time. During the lifetime of her first husband, sa.vjs the Washington Post, she was generally considered rather plain-looking woman.

Her complexion was a trltle sillow pud 'her hair was of no particular color at nil. It was at this period that the arthst painted a miniature of her. A few months later her husband died. Inside of a year a good nngel In the shape of a hair dresser and suggested to the widow the s-liuple ex-pedlleut of shampooing her dull tresses with ordinary laundry nap. which.

ns nearly every mnuogdiiy uaireti woman knows, never i inns to bring out the iii.m delightful of Til an tints. The widow went from red browu hair to red gold hair, and Anally to a color very nearly flaxen. She patronized mysterious persouH who gave her a roses-n ml i iMi in complexion, and then just last summer slin bestowed her blonde and bountiful self on a second husband. A fori night ago she came to the artist with the miniature. wish you'd touch till up a llltle for me, she said.

"I want It to be a snlendld likeness, fur I'm going to have It reset and give It to my husband as a Christ mas It used to look so much like me, but It doesn't now. Don't yon llilnk doesn't It seeia to you Hint the color you used on niv hair there has failed or turned dark, or nomelhlhg? Couldn't you well" and a gleam of frankness came Into her happy cyesi "woni. you Just simply blondlne that nflnlutiire to mntjii ineV 1 don't want my liiislnnd to know inv hair wna ever any other color that It Is right now. Won't you, So the miniature bus been duly and prop- erly son inosi ueuimn uy hum lied to uiuuh the lady, DRAINAGE CANAL DAM Jin It START OAKAAv AT LOCK POUT THERE IS HO "BLUE DANUBE Though It Ih Almost Every Other olor nt Times. A German gentleman, of an Inquisitive turn of nilnil has hecu watching the waters of the Duiiube for several months with, the object of determining their exact He says.

Indeed, that he studied them for a year, nnd with the following result: Inning 11 days they were brown, during 4ll yellow, during IB of a dirty green hue, during 45 bright green, during (III dark greeu, during i 4tt uf an emerald color, during (14 of a gray-! Ish yellow and during some other days of no distinct color. He Insists, however. Unit they were never blue a statement which will seem Strang- to the niuny who remem ber that the most celebruted dance uf "Wnltx King" derives Its title from jthe "bine" waters of the Danube. of fnct people will say that this Is only another proof of the carelessness of pools and o)ni- I posers In regard to fact. On the other IuiihI.

as the tternian investigator's own figures show that he only spent days studying the Iiuiiuhe, and. as then' nro davs In a year, il was rather premature of filuii to I nuike such bold statement, for how dbes he kuow that the wavts were not blue on some, ir not on an, of the remaining thirty four days'; Cramp Claims HcU-rrod, Washington. January 10 The House cflm-uilttee on claims has favorably reported a bill referring the claims of WHIInni Crujnp A- Co, for extra compensation on the wiir-shlps Massachusetts. Indiana. Coliiuiliiu aim ion; to tne oart ot luliiis adjudication.

Bookbinding is cn art; we have tha facilities and skill to do artistic work. PAWS0N 4 NICHOLSON. 139 5. 7th Street THE WATERWAY CONNECTING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WITH THE GREAT LAKES. TYPHOID OYSTERS SelentlMts Invent luru'te and Sny I'oIhoiisi the lllvnlvuM.

A scare was caused In England some years oco by the statement that oysters were active disseminators of typhoid fever. The coiisumptiuu lu London of what are Invariably referred to lu the euuutry papers as "ltiMious bivalves" thereupon fell off 50 per says the New York Journal. The cockney, alive to his opportunities, refused to buy oysters for bis sweetheart, on the ground that they were dangerous. As oysters are very expeiibive lu Great Britain anyhow, people were easily convinced of their unwholesoineness. The reduction In consumption caused a rapid fall In prices.

It also Injured the American exportation of blue points to Knglnnd. Professors llerdmnu and Itoyce went to live among the oysters of Lancashire, to And out If they are really dangerous. They looked Into the cause of the color of greeu oysters. 'rliie green hue," Ihcy ploturestUH ly say In their report, equally familiar to the man who raise them for file market, to the one who raises tlieui from 1 heir bed with a piilr of rakes, anil also to him who raises them out of their own Juices from the half shell by ineaim of a silver trident. This coloring has lieen attributed variously to metals, vegetable coloring matter, bile pigment nnd the plumcut of diatoms." Tiie of the learned oyster sharps, however, yield the fact that the greeu color Is not always due to Hie same cause, (hie variety Is caused by copper.

This appears line of the American green oyster. In oilier varieties Iron Is found, while a tllnfom. or moss, to suspected sn a cause In still others. The American green oysters are frequently thin and have shrunken livers. Tae contamiiiutlon of oyster beds bv sewage and the results of experimental feeding of oystera with matter laden with tvphoij fever germs in taken up.

Oysters from the vicinity of sewers contain bacteria. Those that have tmhlhed typhoid bacilli have In them germs which can he cultivated from theui fourteen duys after iufectluu. "yTJ. w..