The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-02
WILAELMINA'S ANCESTRY.
BA ALTHAzAR, KING OF ARME-
 N41,

One of the Three Wise Men. Said to b
 tn the Long Line.
 When Queen Wilhemina looks back over her long family tree, there are l three figures that must strike her eye each that of a man marking an epoch. | Turning back three and one-half centuries she sees the name of William of Orange, William the Silent as he was called in Holland, when he was busy driving the Spaniards out, and when he was cutting the dkes to let in the water that flooded the land and drove back the armies of Louis XIV.
 William was not direct ancestor of hers, it is true, but a collateral. Yet it is his title of Prince of Orange which has descended upon her pretty head. For Orange Nassau is her name, as it was his, the houses having been merged in 1850 by the marriage of the Count Henry of Nassau with Claude de Cha Ions, upon whom the principality of Or ange has descended
 Turning back the pages of history another seven hundred years, Queen Wilhelmina reads another epoch -mak- ing name-a name celebrated in the an nas of the crusades and praised by the great chronicler. Villehardouin, beside of ioI ar r5 CnqI1r 5n ,ipJ1 md St Louis, whose companion he was-Guil- laume des Baux, first Count of Orange. Guillaume des Baux-or del Bauz, as he called himself in his Provencal tongue-was a great warrior, and his battle cry, "Au hazard Balthazar!" sounded high above the din of arms in many bloody fight in Palestine. The battle cry meansJ Take chance, Bal thazar!''
 To learn how he came by this cry Queen Wilhelmina must turn back the pages of history another eleven hum dred years, and the work of reference to which she must go is the Bible. She reads that three wise men came from the east to Jerusalem, guided by an ex- ceeding bright star Their astrological lore ndu lduBIl lHeifl tIiut Hclc W0o lo be born he who was to be king of the Jews Tradition relates that one of these wise men was Balthazar, king of Armenia.
 Balthazar, having laid his gold, frankncense and myrrh at the feet of the infant Savior and saved him and his blessed mother from the vengeance of Herod re turned to his Armenian home. A grandson of his went to the Ligurian Alps about the time that Christ died upon the cross, and there built him a castle and became what we to-day should call robber baron.
 For many hundred years his descend ants lived there, until the twelfth cen- tury, when the last of the line, Gull laume des Baux, left Liguria and built the castle of Orange, near Vaucluse, in what is now France. It was he whose .tAu hazard, Balthazar!" resounded in the battles against Saladin beside the "Montjoye. St. Denis!" of St. Louis.
 So if ancestry counts for anything, Queen Wilhelmina has blood in her veins that any queen might be proud of Duke Henry of Mecklenburg- -Schwertn can trace his ancestry to the twelfth century.
 About the time the first Count of Or ange was fighting in the holy land, Ni- clot Prince of the Obotrtes of the Chlz- Zini and the Circipani, became lord of Schwerin. He died in 1160, and his son was a prince of the holy Roman enl- pire. and was created Prince of Meek lenburg in 1179. Duke Henry is his lirf- cal descendant Boston Globe.