Evening star., 1901-06-01

| greatest families NV
The address-which I am at liberty 10
| give-is No. II Rue Bleu. Paris, third floor
to the left. The genealogi.t is a stylIsnIy
dressed young man, highly cultivated ana
distinguished. He receives visitors In an
office-library. whose walls are covered with
| finely bound books framed narchnsr,s
charts and family trees. Two Immense
| Ming cases, with hundreds Of drawers ana
pgeonhoies. attest the volume of his busi-
ness and the depth OF his researches
Monsieur" said the caller Il have heard
IN confidence that You can obtain for those
VINO desire them, authentic titles of hered-
Yes, replied the swell Young rs,.aro-
gist, L can at Will change any man no
matter who, into baron, a vicomte. a
count or marquis. All that is n.cssss-,r
is to have his family and given name ana
MS birth and baptismal certificates"
The caller smiled
1ou are wrong to smile al the nobIi,,.
SAID the other. 1T is eternal since IN "a
founded on human vanity IL is the so,,-cs
OF mnumerabe social ADVANTAGES PsnnIe
na,:ars hs, lnat II does not count any more:
ieNertheiess, there is nothing that tfrkI,s
the PRIDE OF man more agreeahly tba,, -
near near himself addressed by his servants sS
sav Uiisieur .Ru le comte. or to hear his friends
say. 10 You think So marquis?' DO -,
want TO get on IN society? Do Won wani =,
inter the diplomacy? Yo you want TO maxi
q prlhlant marriage? Prove that You are
nopIe and the affair is in the sack a.
sure You It's entirely differant tb;-
rom Gazing yourself Durand." (The M
France 70 he S,,,;.
ana EnglandD VA NAietIca
suppose You couldn't do much with a
ourand'. .a1s.'. said the visitor. to test him.
so,t 10 JUST where you are mistaken"
Durands sgneaiogist; of ,be There are lots II
m p neu 10 MS alphabetical listsD Here 10
plrahd de Falcimagne Durand de GO
Ourandai.'' i'u bNrdhd de
bound to Find Mobility somevb.r.
eli' no" could You go about it To en-
uoo'e me?' asked the visitor whose p,,,,
L am not at liberty to give-you VIII ha,.t,,
TO guess why now
IL is simple. You have two narar,s ,,,-
grandparents. eight great-grandparents ana
50 on. III you make the calculation or ,-,,,
eeicestors, you Will find at the end of
" cehturies you are directly descended
rroni IN, hunoreds OF thousands of persons. II
Mouid De strange, wouldn't II ~ anor,
thein all-if you knew their narnas ,
uouid ,tI not ind any quantity of autbenttc
sl''ss Ihe only difference between nohie
!dHilnes and the families of commonars 10
that the former have kent tab nn .L As
SeNes' oelleVe me. On the other hand there
- I'll am immense number of extinct noble
carr -, now you see the combination L
go your FAMILY back to a certain pro- .
H. uate, and then slip you into one of
nose extinct families. / can draw nm a
herald tree for you or any one ~
~ % Ut now do you legalize all that7,,
me Young genealogist turned 10 ono n,
the big filing cases From one OF H. o,,e az oi
.. sIs ne took out a handsome volume hound
arms in the middle
rms. he said, lis the latest royal br.,.a,
oi =. count count have received for delivery. Read
The volume, composed of tbir.,- ,,
li.elI s pages, was full of illuminations. coats
oi-af ms ana genealogical mans In a cor
pel-plate handwriting 1t traced hack six
hundred years the family of the most i1Ii,s
trlous tlet US say) Senor Juan Rarhior al
Noluopa ana his official recognition as ii
naaad rec. heir OF the Cordoba Mendoza cam
Take note he said. that every nac,
OF this geneaiogy is written on siamned
paper, with the arms of the Queen Regent
oil Spain. Do you see-'por desnaTcbo
real-'by royal decree Look ana - -,
many other OSCILLATIONS attest for futurs
generations that Monsieur Barber det us
sayp-who between you and me is nothing
more llan retired druggist. alt though
Barber is not his name-descands diroctI,,
from the great old Cordoba family allied
TO the kings of CASTLE 600 years ago.
sure enough, at the end of the yolrme
constituting the brevet of count was 10 he
seen the signature of the king of arms of
me Queen Regent IL Senior Luiz Vilar v
Nllar, and framed in blue circles the
stamps of three notaries of the court BE-
meath were the seals OF the German Aus
trian and French embassies, with the un-
mlStakabie signature OF the French ann
bassador among them. 1t was this sigma
ture that upset my French friend and
transformed him from laughing curios-
lty seeker to a candidate for nobility No
wonder he does not want his name mem
toned and regrets that he told us the ad-
venture.
Certainly n Superior Method.
The young genealogist noticed how the
French ambassadors signature struck his
visitor
You see the superiority of our method"
he continued confidentially The Vati-
a count marquis on the payment Of
so many thousand francs droits de chan
cellerie. Everybody laughs ut the new
count or marquis. l don't create any
thing. L obtain from the king of arms
of the Queen Regent of Spain a brevet
certifying that Monsieur Jones Is the le-
gitimate descendant of one Of the most
ancient families of Andalusia or Estra-
madura. Ny man is exactly in the situa-~
ton of one who has been lucky enough to
recover his family papers titles of nobi-
ty. etc, lost or scattered during the great
revolution. He takes up the title again,
the lambrequins, the blaZUn. the crown
and ALL and no one-you near me? no one
mot even the president IF the French re-
public-has the right to oppose him. Don't
you see. | connect directly with the king
of arms of the queen regent and our man
is inscribed on the book of gold of the
Spanish nobility"
And it, costs?'
Ten thousand francs (s2 9oO) to be a
baron, 10000 francs to be a ricomte and
10000 francs to be count.
You ought to make lots Of money
Yes and no. Yes, because | am doing
a big business No, because my commits
sion is so small. L get scarcely 10 per
cent"
He could that my friend was hesi-
tatfng as he took his hat to so.
Remember. he said, that all this is
perfectly serious, no one will dare guy you
and the parchments | give 20 you may be
presented boldly to any and all tribunals
and Jurisdictions in virtue of the Spanish
constitution and international cDnvcn-
tions."
My informant bade him goodbye pom
Sively. To be or not to be is now the
question with him. He even has infected
others. who like him, began by scoffing
If you therefore ever should see a letter
signed Sterlingo, Marchese di Bellablagua
Heiligenberg, you will know who wrote
it. STERLING HEILIG
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