The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-01-09

The One Vote Which Placed Bri
tain's Crown ON the Head of tia,
Hanovers-The MortgRge-CIosing An.
eestor of the Kaiser-The Fair Max.
ers of the Hapsburg Fortune-Ro-
nance of the RomanoHs.
IL three generations unsoiled by trade
are requisite to the caking of a gentle
man, what are the qualifications for a
KING MonarchS claim to reign by the
grace of God and their right of birth
but an inquiry into their first elevation
to the royal state, in many cases re-
veals as startling and piquant results as
the proverbial examination of the dem
tai equipment of a gift horse, or the
age of lady in the parish register.
Both courses are impertinent-and in
terestins. There is not royal house
IN Europe that has held its throne for
more than seven centuries, or that can
be compared with the imperial house of
Japan, founded by female Goddess of
the Sun, The Mikado is the one hun
dred and twenty-seeond in unbroken
descent of his line, his family having
sat on the throne of Japan since the
time of Northumberland, 666 B. G..
King Edward VII can claim descent
through fifteen of the thirty-five mon
archs who have preceded him on the
English throne, from Alfred the Great
and Egbert, first king of England, and
further back still from the Hebrew
house of David. Nevertheless it is
fact that King Edward owes his crown
to horses shoe. The act of settle
ment, by which in 101 parliament elect
ed the House of Hanover to the British
throne, was passed by only one vote
And this winning vote was cast by Sir
Arthur Owen, M. p, for Pembrokeshire,
who rode post-haste from Wales for the
purpose. He had relays of fresh horses
all along the route, but arrived dusty
and travel-worn, at Westminster only
just in time to enter the Aye lobby. If
one of his horses had gone lame or cast
a shoe he would have been too late.
Great Britain would have had no Geor-
gian era and hence no Victoria or Ed
ward VII
THE RISE OF THE HOHENZOL-
LERNS.
The declarations of the German en-
peror on the divine right of kings in
general and himself in particular are
very picturesque in this age of prose.
But, as a matter of history, the right of
William IT, to the Prussian crown and
the German oyer lordship is merely the
right of a pawnbroker to an unre-
deemed pledge Five centuries ago
Frederick Hohenzollern was the Bur-
grave Of a small city of Nuremberg
The. Emperor Sigismund was in state
of impecuniosity. He applied to the
Burgrave for the loan of one hundred
thousand guiden. Frederick lent this
sum (about ten thousand pounds, and
as security for it took the state of
Brandenburg. After five years, as Sig
ismund did not repay the money, Fred
erck Hohenzollern foreclosed the mort
gage and established himself as Fred
erick !. Of Brandenburg and an elector
of the empire. This was the first adj
vance of the Hohenzollerns. Gradual
ly increasing their domains, they be-
came dukes of Prussia, and in 101 pro-
noted themselves to the rank of king.
And now William Hohenzollern, de-
scendant of the money-1ending Bur-
grave of Nuremberg, is the third Ger
man emperor.
Not cash, but children, formed the
stepping -stone of the imperial house of
Austria. The Hapsburgs are the most
illustrious family in Europe; but they
were only petty counts until the thir-
tenth century. The raiser of the fam
lily was Rodolph. After serving the
usual apprenticeship to knighthood in
the court of Emperor FrederiekII., he
enlisted under the banner of the king
of Bohemia Winning honor and re-
nown as warrior and ruler, his claims
for election to the imperial throne were
pushed forward, But his county of
was deemed too insignificant
for the position Rodolph, however,
was blessed with seven daughters, six
Of them unmarried, and by wedding
these to the kings and mobiles of the
empire he secured his election. One
daughter became queen of Bohemia,
another queen of Hungary, two of them
duchesses, one a marchioness, and the
sixth a countess. And so by the votes
If his sons-in-law did Rodelph Haps-
burg ascend the imperial throne
KOBYLA, THE CRAR'S PAGAN AN
CESTOR
Religion, and that Paganism, consti-
tuted the stepping stone of the Roman
offs. The Russian imperial family is
descended from heather freebooter, a |
fact which contrasts curiously with the |
Cars title as Defender of Ortho-
loxy," In the fourteenth century the
Christian knights of Lithuania rose I
against lordling called Kobyla and &
or his worship of the sun drove him |
nut of his domain. kobyla fled to Rus :
ia, where he was received by Gear Ivan t
/ of the ruling house of Moscow. t
Though he had suffered exile for his I
Pagan faith, Kobyla was persuaded to
lccept Christianity by Ivan, and bap- c
lied by the name of Andrew. q
Serving as a soldier, he won honor +
md position, and established himself i
Lmong the mobiles of Muscovy Ivan {
V. married granddaughter of this ex- I
led chieftan and successful adventur c
r. whose family was thus allied to the e
oval house. In 1898 Ivan " died, and C