The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-30
THE ThlkD TO SUICIDE.
Philadelphia Times.

| iHiduelpHld lines.
| Washington, December 25--It was dur
ing the administration OF Harrison that
| the two beautiful daughters of Congress-
man Herbert of Alabama made their de-
but at the capital and the two girls. with
| their delicate patrician air. their refined
| breeding and dainty appearance. we're much
admired by the young people OF the town.
Mr.. Herbert was not rich. but In a quiet
way the daughters went about. especially
| among the Southern SGT. and many were
their admirers among the sterner sex.
| In the fail of 1898. when the father had
| been appointed 10 position in the cabinet
/ 0. Mr.. Cleveland, the family removed to
| Washington and took a house at the cor
nsr OF Twentieth and + streets, N. w.
| The mother being dead. the duties OF the
| manson devolved on Miss Leila Mrs MI
| eou. the married daughter. and her family
| living with the secretary. rhefe wds only
| one son, a 10y who was put at school
down in Virginia at The theological semi
! nary near Alexandria So the family num-
| bered but the two daughters, Mr.. Micou
ana TWO pretty grandsons of that name.
| Tho house which the new secretary Of
| the navy rented was the huge old Raw
mansion, one of the ancient residences of
the olden days of the town and In its
| large chambers WITH It's old-fashonad fur
nishings the dainty maid from the South
fitted as daughter OF Dixie would into
appropriate SURROUNDINGS At the ,ecep-
lions at the White !louse she would seen.
nut child amoug ths other ladies. so timid
was her manner. vet the home OF the Sec
| rotary was a model OF comfort, and all
| found In It's cordial hospitality the real
| ldvcr OF a Southern home Popular among
| the iadies as we'll as among the men. Miss
| Herbert seems TO haze won all hearts by
her kindness OF manner though there was
nothing ever thought of as her having any
especial liking Tor any one in particular.
| In TACT, she seems to have been not at ell
susceptible 10 the attentions of gentlemen.
Tut liking all, 10 have been the gentle girl
to all. winning their regard and friendship
by her sweetness of character.
When the craze for bicycling struck town
about three years ago Miss Herbert was
among the last to take TO he wheel. but in
few months had completely mastered It,
and for the last year there have been few
Gays on which she was not seen riding
slowly about the quiet avenues )f the city,
gowned in sombre brown. Every fair day
she rode and 1t was but last summer while
! in he country at CaseIoyin, town in Nlr-
ginia, that her old fondnoss for horses re-
turned and she again mounted Tor II gallon
across country While riding the steed
threw her and from this fall resulted her
last illneAs. which ended in meancholia
on the return Of the family to the city
inns ial the big house vas given up and
a smaller home on New HanLshhe avenue
taken. The ex-seCretary and his son ill.,
law young Mr. Micou, opened law nffice
with success. and the family were hapnily
situated, Only the health OF Miss Herbert
w8s poor. Ever since the accident she had
lten sufferer. but She had hoped that
her injury, which was to the spine. was
not 10 be but a slight one Yet when time
wore on and the fear grew chat she might
he a cripple for life. hcr main ,f body and
mind became intense For some DAYS IL
had been feared that her mind was af-
fhcted with form of .nelancholia so that
on Monday wire was sent to her father
VINO was South. to return at once.
On Tuesday, during the absence OF her
trained nurse, she threv herself from the
rear third-story window, falling upon her
head, the result being the breaking Of her
neck and the fracture of her skull, from
which injuries she died within an hour ar
ter being borne into the house. a wire was
at once sent to Mr.. Herbert the first one
stating that his daughter was seriously i'll
willis another followed Immediately saving
that she was dead. AT % O'Clock on Tues
day night the hereaved man reached his
home, there to learn for the first time the
real facts OF the case On Wednesday the
funeral took place in a quiet way from tho
church OF which she vas Il member, and
then the remains OF what had once been
the beautiful daughter Of one of the South's
most distinguished soas was placal on the
tiain ard borne to its Last resting place
by the side OF the mother In the cemetery
~ Montgomery. Ala.
strange fatality seems to have fol-
lowed the families of some VI the ,ae,nbers
Of Cleyeland's cabinet officers. ihe denth
OF Miss Herbert being tho third OF the
daughters Of such officers to meet their
iate az their own hands. The first IVES
Mss hayard daughter of the then secre-
'ary OF state the second was Miss Garland.
daughter OF eN-Attorney General Garland
and now the child OF The cx-secroiary of
the navy comes ON the list Miss Bayard
was found dead in her bed one morninp
ner death heins the result OF an overdose
o, some medicine. In the late fall of 1883
MISS Garland blew her Grains o,t with
pistol while alone In her room in her Faith
sr mousse She was pretty rirl OF tile
brunette type and fond OF society. her sad
late being shock to those who knew her
merry temperament
- "ne" Hogg Was "a Printer.
washington Correspondence st. Louis Re-
public
nave not seen the Hon James s'ephen
iioSs' ex-governor of Texas. for twenty
NV years until We met face 10 face in
washington the other night" said "Gas"
ivey OF the Indian Territory. his evening.
lust twenty-five years ago he eon.i,ued
| Governor Hogg and we're hoys ,,,np;ns
q smsii newspaper in Wood county TeEas
called the Quitman News. On ce-,nin