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Show Comes of Fighting Race. Haren Kersen. captain of tho Russian Rus-sian cnilsei Immrud who reported to the czar having blown up his vessel rather than hove her fall Into the hands of tho Japanese has Just that sort of blood In his veins. For ho Is one of that famll) of Highland Mac-phcrsons Mac-phcrsons who settled In Sweden, where they dropped tho "Mac," called themselves Kersen, and afterward overtlowed Into Russia, wheic they rose to high position The most Illustrious Illus-trious of tho line was that Field Marshal Mar-shal Count von Ferben, who entered tho French service and played a considerable con-siderable role In the life of Marie Antoinette An-toinette It wns he who, disguised ns a coachman, drove tho French royal couple In the flight to Varenne He was aflerwnid murdcicd by a Stockholm Stock-holm mob on suspicion of hnlug poisoned poi-soned tho crown prlnco of Sweden. |