The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-22
GOES QUEEN 0NE BETTER
WILHELMINAS LONG ANCESTRY
LAID IN SHADE
\ Pennsylvania Preacher Goes Back
Within Hailing Distance of Daddy
Adam-His Fad.

Queen Wilhelmnas much heralded
ancestry of 1000 years and her reputed
descent from Balthazar, King OF Ar
menia, who some maintain was one Of
the three wise men who made presents
to the infant Savior, is put to blush BY
an unassuming Delaware county pa
pastor, who can trace his descent over
1900 years to the days when Adam and
Eve began the history of the human
race in the garden Of Eden.
Indeed, those who have the pride OF
ancestry should look with envious eye
on the Rev. MATHEW +. O'Brien, rector
of st. Charles Roman Catholic church
i'm the little hamlet of KellyVille.
Through a long line of kings and no.
BILE ancestry Father OBrien can trace
his descent clear back to Brian Baru
who early IN the eleventh century was
supreme rulers Of all Ireland, and who
died April %, 1914.
This, however is only the beginning
Starting with Brian, who is twenty
six generations removed, he goes back
tWenty-one more till he reaches Oliol
Olum King Of Munster; a jump of for
ty-seven generations more reaches Mi
lestus, who was King of Spain thirteen
centuries before Christ from Milestus
to Adam is thirty-siX generations, so
that Father O'Bren is 100 generation
from Adam, or 1905 years from the
creation of the world.
From the information Of those who
are wont TO twiddle their fingers at
pedigrees and to make faces when
crowned heads are turned away from
them. and who affect to despise rather
than dearly love a lord" it may be
stated right here that Father OBrien
can put his finger, figuratively speaking
of course, on one and all Of his long line
of progenitors can call them by name,
and is thoroughly posted on their do
ings, good, bad, and Indifferent
Yet, despite the fact that he can keep
tab on his ancestors away back Of
Solomon the Wise, the Queen of Sheba
and David and Lots wife, Abraham
himself, the father of the faithful, to
say nothing of Moses and his little
tramp of forty years i'm the wilderness
Father O'Brien is democratic in his
tastes and bearing, and as faithful a
pastor as he is democratic.
For the benefit of the unbelievers who
perhaps have but little data or accurate
information regarding their great
grandfathers Father O'Brien stated the
other day that he thought it might be
as We'll although he was perfectly able
to go back 5,905 years, for him to rest
his claims of ancestry on the broad
shoulders of the giant Brian Boroimhe,
who was monarch of Ireland ten odd
centuries ago, and chased his enemies
dNIbHS lilt DOES Oh the tliltIdIu Isle a
good long while before William the
Conquerer subjugated England with his
Norman hosts
Father O'Brien has traced his long
ancestral tree only after many years
Of the most careful and painstaking
research, and he is positively sure that
he has not made one mistake.
Ancestry has always been a fad with
him, but he Is frank To acknowledge
that he had no idea when he started
10 investigate the subject Of his own
that he could go back without a break,
TO Adam, the original progenitor Of
mankind
Think Of a man being able to tell who
his ancestor was when Helen Of Troy
was sweet l6 when the hanging gar
dens Of Babylon We're in full bloom and
glory, when Achilles was n school boy,
or when Romulus was stil I'm the care
Of his she-wolf r-mother.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.