The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-03-17
GREAT FAMILIES FALL,
Degenerate Sons Sooner or Later
Ruin Them.

Degenerate Sons Sooner or Later
Ruin Them.
Lithuanian Prince Who Died Almost .
Have Been Dragged dDown-Descend-
ant OF King Becomes . Walter.
In the little village of Grodno, Lith-
uania, there died few weeks ago the
bearer Of one of the proudest names in
eastern European history, says the
New York Tribune. He was an ordi-
nary physician, and went his daily
rounds among the village sick, collect
ing with the greatest difficulty enough
money to support his aged wife. 1t
was Prince Ignaz Jagello, believed by
many to be the last scion of the royal
Jagello family, which once ruled in
Lithuania. BY the victory of Tam
menberg, in 1410, the founder of the
family broke the power of the Seer
man Order" The difference between
the simple life of this ''Dr. Rezio' and
the magnificence of his ancestors led a
German writer recently to collect a
number of instances of the degradation
of the descendants Of once famous and
powerful families.
''In Grosswarddein, Hungary" he
writes, died recently modest and in
dustrious clerk, Johnann Szabo, who
had passed his life in semi-poverty.
Few who followed him to the grave
knew that his real name was one of
the highest and greatest in French
history. The aged Szabo was a grand
son of Marquis Chabaud Rohan, who
immigrated into Hungary after the
French revolution. The old gentleman
taught languages in the Wenckheim
house, adjusted himself to his changed
condition. married and gave the name
Szabo to his descendants. When it was
learned that a Rohan had died in
France leaving an immense fortune,
they came forward and proved they
were genuine Rohans. But the recog-
milton of their claims was useless, as
they had not been remembered by the
testator. The old Szabo continued to
work as poor clerk to his death, and
no one can say that he ever dishonored
the famous noble family to which he
belonged. That was left for another
scion of the race, Prince BENJAMIN Ro-
han, who was sentenced to prison in
Paris two years ago and subjected to
fine of two thousand francs.
''The last Borgia came to his end
short time ago at Guigl, near Salzburg.
He was Baron Calisto Won Borgia,
whose father lost his fortune through
the Austrian government in 1887, and
lived later in Salzburg, as an employe
of a tobacco house. The younger
baron was employed for short time
in, the Office of a lawyer and became
later photographer, living for twenty
years in Germany. A long sickness
him, and his widow lives
from the aims of others.
son board of a steamer going from
to the Thames in 1880, just
as the vessel came in sight of the Eng
lish coast, an old man, apparently pow
erty stricken, ended his days. He
called himself Charles Edward Stuart,
count of Albany. He was, in fact, the
asst descendant of the pretender,
Charles Edward, and his wife, Princess
Louise Stolberg.
"Leon de Luzignana, prince of Kori-
loss, a descendant of the Armenian
Kings, died in Italy in 1876, in the most
lbject poverty. He had served in the
French army until 1859, and was wound
I'd at Solferino. Napoleon III. granted
him pension, which, however, was
not paid after the fall of the empire.
1.-The famous family of fMont-Morency,
related to the Lusignans," adds the
writer, "has sunk SO far that Mont
Morency is a farm servant in the
of Paris. A descendant
If the Valois family is a letter-carrier
n Saint-Chamas; Marquis de Fal-
ique is an omnibus guard, a Saint
Megrin is cab driver, Count Charles
lie Busserolle is floor cleaner in Ruff
'ec and De La Bourdarfere is wash
,rwoman.
''Only short time ago a minister in
he village of West Bromwick, York.
hire, discovered possibly the last
in small boy-of-all-
work.. His father was chimney
weep, and, despite the family tree in
lis possession, had shortened the name
nto Plant to escape being teased by
lis comrades. A Tudor died,in Wales
n the thirties as a poor coppersmith.
s'The fall of the great German noble
amily of Won Sickingen is also inter-
sting. In the churchyard of the little
'illage of Yorch, near Sauerthal, is
he grave of the last male descendant
# Franz Won Sickingen, who once
,ade defiance to German emperor
nd made France fear. He died, after
Wasting his property, in 1884, in the
nut of a peasant who had given him
heller from pity.
ssAs the Paris Figaro recently told its
eaders, a Princess Galitzin works as
stable girl in a French circus;
'rince Krapotchin is a cab driver in
Ioscow; Prince Soltikoff is laborer
n a St. Petersburg market; Princess
'ignatelli is q music hall singer and
COUNTESS Olosy is a. circus rider.
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