The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-15
,RENcH ROYAL BLUE BLOOD
New York World.

Modern democracy has reversed in one entuy the opinions. manners and GUS .oms of thousands of years. Freedom s ;o-sin, sounded in America little over
 aandred years ago, Is still re-eehoing .aid the hills and valleys of Europe. and 10 uncertain tones, Tn the ears of the evfs. the helots. the villains, the peasants md ,he wages-slaves of the transatlantic
 aar,er of the globe. It ding-dongs in a.emn peals to them that we have here ger ilfty millions of sovcreigns of labor .ad queens of industry that every man and woman of American citizenship is a aonareh. and that every child of United
 .a.es parentage will weigh heavier in ae scales of morality, virtue and good ness than any prince or princess of blue o!ood royal stock.
 france learnt tha; lesson in Sc and ;aaght il in clarion tones to its sister Eu- opean nations, bu, only to have its noble aission betrayed by. Bonapartian thugs and Bourbon scoundrels. Yet to-day Liberty, unloosed in France by the un- aappy though for,uitous days of Septem-
 er ,welve years ago. is able to boldly .ook Europe in the face and defy the sac 7!egious attempts being made against her 2 ihe escurial by the wife-beaten crown 9.!nce !" Fritz and the soldiers bastard. N,ng Alfonso. The tyrani's web may z woven in Germany and Spain for the
 rieanist succession. but the French re- public will have none of II and will crush ae royal rascais who at;emp; Il. as the aen of os did the others less than one .tndred years ago. And should the eount of Paris be pu, upon ,he throne of rance as Louis XVIII. was, by monarch al intervention in 1874. he will be there oi, little time, and then only to be ,Gocked down again like some puppet in [ punch and judy show
 All the Bourbon scoundrels of the las, hree centuries in rance descend from ne pronigate liber,inc. King Henry lN.. Sho divorced his iirst wife. Narsare, ot alois, for her hcen,iousaess t599. and whose second. the vindicilve Mary de slediei, had him assassinated the day 4i;er she was crowned queen. The pop lar estimate of Henry of Navarro has seen based upon few jingling rhymes srsten by that fiunkeyish historian and .dmlrer of kingly villainies. the late T. ;. Macaulay. who received a coronet as ae price of his literary falsehoods. The 'esrh Henry, whom another historian aas summed up as restless, bad, un- sra,eful and self-indulgent," was even zore than that. He was thief and a .ypocritical theological turncoat. His
 ;e was one long confined carnival of de- archery. His ancestor. Louis XI., had .I executioner and a hangman as his .lfEr .Aekates, but his descendant Henry's 'oon friend was his procUreur, the noble
 a Varenne, who obtained new mistresses or him, as the chivalric Lebel did for louis NV. and as the knighiiy Chattinch I'd for the regal blackguaid his grand n, Charles of England
 Among the mistresses of this absolute aonarch-whose grandmother. Queen largaret. wrote the salacious .. Heptam- ;fon was his dead bro,hef-ln-taw's par -nour, Diana of io.ct.eis. Another was .abrielle d'Es,rees, whom Henry l.. luke of Lougueville, very considerably oaned to the king when he was tired of aer. Other members of his seFaslio were Henrietta of Entraigues. ane of Bucli, snd Charlotte of Essais-an noble ladies
 
 ooked after his bastard progeny as well as his own legitimate brother Charles had oeee, who was made Archbishop of Souen. He gave them all titles, and as rule made dukes of them. The bes, Snown in history of his hasiards were -csar, Duke of endome, who suggested ne assassination of Richelieu. and who vas the father of another noble duke, 'fancis of Beaufort, against whom murder sas also hinted Alexander of Bourbon, -hevalier of Nendome and Grand Prior q France: Henry, Duke oi Vermeuil :: Anthony, Count of Morel: Catherine, ne wife of the Duke of Elbruf Gabri- |ela, married to ;he Duke of Epernon ane, Abbess of Fonteyrault. and Maria aenriefta, Abbess of Chelles-
 The Countess de Ia Motte-k alcis, who sssisted the prince of kohan in stealing ae celebrated - diamond necklace was ne of his direct descendants on the szong side of the blanket She doubt ess inherited her burglArious propensi- faes from her regal ancestor, King Henry